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appropriateness, it remains a year-byyear determination.
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no change to locations where TRICARE
Prime will be offered. TRICARE Prime
locations are a year-to-year
determination and will be announced
prior to the annual Open Season
enrollment period.
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Allotment: TRICARE retirees and their
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fees by allotment, where feasible.
Payment by allotment is not required if
a beneficiary does not receive retired
pay (e.g., unremarried former spouses,
survivors) or the retired pay does not
cover the monthly enrollment fee
amount.
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of Podiatric Medicine or Podiatrists may
prescribe physical therapy (PT) and
occupational therapy (OT).
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fractional laser treatment for
symptomatic scars resulting from burns
and other trauma is covered for up to
five-years.
Added coverage of remote physiologic
monitoring for chronic and acute
conditions, including but not limited to
weight, blood pressure, pulse oximetry,
and respiratory flow monitoring.
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Appendix A
Certain beneficiary out-of-pocket costs
(enrollment fees, premiums, catastrophic
caps, deductibles, and copayments) are
annually adjusted based on federal law and
regulations, most notably by the annual
retiree cost of living adjustment, or Cost of
Living Adjustment (COLA). Currently, there
is a difference in copayments between those
who joined the military before January 1,
2018, (Group A), and those who joined after
that date (Group B). The retiree COLA will
not be announced until mid-October 2021.
As of June 2021, the projected COLA increase
is 5.1 percent. Beneficiary out-of-pocket
expenses impacted by the 2022 COLA will be
posted to the tricare.mil/changes web page
before the start of TRICARE Open Season,
November 8, 2021 to December 13, 2021.
Pharmacy Out-of-Pocket Expenses for CY
2022
TRICARE Pharmacy out-of-pocket
expenses are listed in the table below that
take effect on January 1, 2022.
TABLE 1—PHARMACY COPAYMENTS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2022
Year
Copayment
amount for a
30-day supply
of a retail
generic is:
Copayment
amount for a
30-day supply
of a retail
formulary is:
Copayment
amount for a
90-day supply
of a mail order
generic is:
Copayment
amount for a
90-day supply
of a mail order
formulary is:
Copayment
amount for a
90-day supply
of a mail order
non-formulary is:
2022 .............................................
$14
$38
$12
$34
$68
Dated: September 13, 2021.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
‘‘Department of Education’’ under
‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then check
‘‘Only Show ICR for Public Comment’’
checkbox. Comments may also be sent
to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Carrie Clarady,
202–245–6347.
[Docket No.: ED–2021–SCC–0136]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP) 2022 Materials
Update #2
Institute of Educational Science
(IES), Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a revision of a currently
approved collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
21, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should
be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Find this information
collection request by selecting
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The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
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the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: National
Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) 2022 Materials Update #2.
OMB Control Number: 1850–0928.
Type of Review: A revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 690,917.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 422,683.
Abstract: The National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP),
conducted by the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES), is a
federally authorized survey of student
achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in
various subject areas, such as
mathematics, reading, writing, science,
U.S. history, civics, geography,
economics, technology and engineering
literacy (TEL), and the arts. The
National Assessment of Educational
Progress Authorization Act (Pub. L.
107–279 Title III, section 303) requires
the assessment to collect data on
specified student groups and
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characteristics, including information
organized by race/ethnicity, gender,
socio-economic status, disability, and
limited English proficiency. It requires
fair and accurate presentation of
achievement data and permits the
collection of background, noncognitive,
or descriptive information that is related
to academic achievement and aids in
fair reporting of results. The intent of
the law is to provide representative
sample data on student achievement for
the nation, the states, and
subpopulations of students and to
monitor progress over time. NAEP
consists of two assessment programs:
The NAEP long-term trend (LTT)
assessment and the main NAEP
assessment. The LTT assessments are
given at the national level only and are
administered to students at ages 9, 13,
and 17 in a manner that is very different
from that used for the main NAEP
assessments. LTT reports mathematics
and reading results that present trend
data since the 1970s.
The request to conduct NAEP 2021,
including operational assessments and
pilot tests: Operational national/state/
TUDA Digitally Based Assessments
(DBA) in mathematics and reading at
grades 4 and 8, and Puerto Rico in
mathematics at grades 4 and 8; and
operational national DBA in U.S. history
and civics at grade 8 was approved in
April 2020, with further updates to the
materials approved in July and
November 2020. Throughout 2020 NCES
worked with its contractors and with
OMB to find the best way to plan for a
data collection in schools in 2021, and
as the coronavirus pandemic progressed
over the course of the year, plans for
NAEP 2020 data collection changed
multiple times. In November 2020, the
NCES Commissioner announced the
delay of NAEP 2021 by one year to early
2022.
Since then, NAEP has continued to
work to salvage any pieces of their data
collection plans for 2021 and begin
planning for NAEP 2022. NCES has
used the drawn and notified sample
from 2021 for two data collections that
don’t include the student assessment
that is central to the NAEP program,
instead using that sample to collect
information about basic school
operations during the coronavirus
pandemic (NAEP 2021 School Survey;
OMB# 1850–0957) and the experiences
of teachers and school staff over the
2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years
(NAEP 2021 School and Teacher
Questionnaire Special Study; OMB#
1850–0956).
The request to conduct NAEP
operational assessments in 2022, which
will follow the traditional NAEP design
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which assesses each student in 60minutes for one cognitive subject, was
approved in May 2021, and the first
update to the NAEP 2022 materials was
approved in August 2021. The 2022 data
collection will consist of operational
national/state/TUDA DBA in
mathematics and reading at grades 4
and 8, and Puerto Rico in mathematics
at grades 4 and 8; and operational
national DBA in U.S. history and civics
at grade 8. In addition to the regular
NAEP operational assessments delayed
from 2021, this submission also
contains materials for the LTT, which
will be administered to 9-year-olds in
2022. This package finalizes all
materials in time for the data collection
in early 2022.
Dated: September 16, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2021–SCC–0135]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; William
D. Ford Direct Loan Program General
Forbearance Request
Federal Student Aid (FSA),
Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing an extension without change
of a currently approved collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
November 22, 2021.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the
documents related to the information
collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2021–SCC–0135. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
If the regulations.gov site is not
available to the public for any reason,
ED will temporarily accept comments at
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the
docket ID number and the title of the
information collection request when
requesting documents or submitting
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comments. Please note that comments
submitted by fax or email and those
submitted after the comment period will
not be accepted. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the PRA Coordinator of the
Strategic Collections and Clearance
Governance and Strategy Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W208D,
Washington, DC 20202–8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Beth
Grebeldinger, 202–377–4018.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: William D. Ford
Direct Loan Program General
Forbearance Request.
OMB Control Number: 1845–0031.
Type of Review: An extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 2,188,770.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 175,102.
Abstract: Due to the effects of the
COVID–19 pandemic and the
suspension of the collection of loans,
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2021-SCC-0136]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2022
Materials Update #2
AGENCY: Institute of Educational Science (IES), Department of Education
(ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a revision of a currently approved collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
October 21, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should be sent within 30 days of
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find
this information collection request by selecting ``Department of
Education'' under ``Currently Under Review,'' then check ``Only Show
ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox. Comments may also be sent to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in
the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The
Department of Education is especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to
the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden
accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents,
including through the use of information technology. Please note that
written comments received in response to this notice will be considered
public records.
Title of Collection: National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP) 2022 Materials Update #2.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0928.
Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 690,917.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 422,683.
Abstract: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP),
conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is a
federally authorized survey of student achievement at grades 4, 8, and
12 in various subject areas, such as mathematics, reading, writing,
science, U.S. history, civics, geography, economics, technology and
engineering literacy (TEL), and the arts. The National Assessment of
Educational Progress Authorization Act (Pub. L. 107-279 Title III,
section 303) requires the assessment to collect data on specified
student groups and
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characteristics, including information organized by race/ethnicity,
gender, socio-economic status, disability, and limited English
proficiency. It requires fair and accurate presentation of achievement
data and permits the collection of background, noncognitive, or
descriptive information that is related to academic achievement and
aids in fair reporting of results. The intent of the law is to provide
representative sample data on student achievement for the nation, the
states, and subpopulations of students and to monitor progress over
time. NAEP consists of two assessment programs: The NAEP long-term
trend (LTT) assessment and the main NAEP assessment. The LTT
assessments are given at the national level only and are administered
to students at ages 9, 13, and 17 in a manner that is very different
from that used for the main NAEP assessments. LTT reports mathematics
and reading results that present trend data since the 1970s.
The request to conduct NAEP 2021, including operational assessments
and pilot tests: Operational national/state/TUDA Digitally Based
Assessments (DBA) in mathematics and reading at grades 4 and 8, and
Puerto Rico in mathematics at grades 4 and 8; and operational national
DBA in U.S. history and civics at grade 8 was approved in April 2020,
with further updates to the materials approved in July and November
2020. Throughout 2020 NCES worked with its contractors and with OMB to
find the best way to plan for a data collection in schools in 2021, and
as the coronavirus pandemic progressed over the course of the year,
plans for NAEP 2020 data collection changed multiple times. In November
2020, the NCES Commissioner announced the delay of NAEP 2021 by one
year to early 2022.
Since then, NAEP has continued to work to salvage any pieces of
their data collection plans for 2021 and begin planning for NAEP 2022.
NCES has used the drawn and notified sample from 2021 for two data
collections that don't include the student assessment that is central
to the NAEP program, instead using that sample to collect information
about basic school operations during the coronavirus pandemic (NAEP
2021 School Survey; OMB# 1850-0957) and the experiences of teachers and
school staff over the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years (NAEP 2021
School and Teacher Questionnaire Special Study; OMB# 1850-0956).
The request to conduct NAEP operational assessments in 2022, which
will follow the traditional NAEP design which assesses each student in
60-minutes for one cognitive subject, was approved in May 2021, and the
first update to the NAEP 2022 materials was approved in August 2021.
The 2022 data collection will consist of operational national/state/
TUDA DBA in mathematics and reading at grades 4 and 8, and Puerto Rico
in mathematics at grades 4 and 8; and operational national DBA in U.S.
history and civics at grade 8. In addition to the regular NAEP
operational assessments delayed from 2021, this submission also
contains materials for the LTT, which will be administered to 9-year-
olds in 2022. This package finalizes all materials in time for the data
collection in early 2022.
Dated: September 16, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2021-20367 Filed 9-20-21; 8:45 am]
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