Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 54506-54508 [2022-19115]

Download as PDF 54506 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 171 / Tuesday, September 6, 2022 / Notices Visit the FTC website at https:// www.ftc.gov to read this document and the news release describing the proposed settlement. The FTC Act and other laws the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding, as appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that it receives on or before October 6, 2022. For information on the Commission’s privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/ privacy-policy. jspears on DSK121TN23PROD with NOTICES Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To Aid Public Comment The Federal Trade Commission (‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) has accepted, subject to final approval, an agreement containing a consent order from Credit Karma, LLC (‘‘Respondent’’). The proposed consent order has been placed on the public record for 30 days for receipt of comments from interested persons. Comments received during this period will become part of the public record. After 30 days, the Commission will again review the agreement and the comments received and will decide whether it should withdraw from the agreement or make final the agreement’s proposed order. This matter involves Respondent’s advertisements and recommendations for third-party financial products. According to the complaint, between February 2018 and April 2021, through its website, mobile app, and email marketing campaigns, Respondent has represented in advertisements and recommendations that consumers have been ‘‘pre-approved’’ for third-party financial products, such as credit cards. Despite these preapproval claims, financial product companies have not already approved these consumers. In fact, as alleged in the complaint, for many of these offers, almost a third of consumers who received and applied for ‘‘pre-approved’’ offers were subsequently denied based on the financial product companies’ underwriting review. The complaint further alleges that Respondent knew that its prominent pre-approval claims conveyed false ‘‘certainty’’ to consumers and employed it deliberately to influence consumers’ behavior. To the extent Respondent revealed that consumers’ likelihood of getting approval was anything less than certain, it has done so by making additional false claims that consumers’ likelihood of approval is 90%, or by using buried disclaimers. VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:04 Sep 02, 2022 Jkt 256001 The proposed consent order contains provisions designed to prevent Respondent from making deceptive claims about approval, pre-approval, or consumers’ approval likelihood or odds in the future. Part I prohibits misleading or unsubstantiated claims about approval, including pre-approval, as well as a consumer’s odds or likelihood of being approved. Part II requires Respondent to pay $3,000,000 in monetary relief. Part III contains additional requirements regarding the monetary relief. Part IV requires Respondent to provide sufficient customer information to enable the Commission to administer consumer redress. Parts V through VI are reporting and compliance provisions. Part V requires Respondent to acknowledge receipt of the order, to provide a copy of the order to certain current and future principals, officers, directors, and employees, and to obtain an acknowledgement from each such person that they have received a copy of the order. Part VI requires Respondents to file a compliance report within one year after the order becomes final and to notify the Commission within 14 days of certain changes that would affect compliance with the order. Part VII requires Respondent to maintain certain records, including records necessary to demonstrate compliance with the order. Part VIII requires Respondents to submit additional compliance reports when requested by the Commission and to permit the Commission or its representatives to interview Respondents’ personnel. Finally, Part IX is a ‘‘sunset’’ provision, terminating the order after twenty (20) years, with certain exceptions. The purpose of this analysis is to aid public comment on the proposed order. It is not intended to constitute an official interpretation of the proposed order or to modify its terms in any way. By direction of the Commission. Joel Christie, Acting Secretary. [FR Doc. 2022–19108 Filed 9–2–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750–01–P PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project ‘‘Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) Survey Database.’’ This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on June 3rd, 2022, and allowed 60 days for public comment. AHRQ did not receive comments from members of the public during this period. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by October 6, 2022. ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: Proposed Project Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (Child HCAHPS) Survey Database The Child Hospital CAHPS Survey (Child HCAHPS) assesses the experiences of pediatric patients (less than 18 years old) and their parents or guardians with inpatient care. It complements the Adult Hospital CAHPS Survey (Adult HCAHPS), which asks adult inpatients about their experiences. The Child HCAHPS Database is a voluntary database available to all Child HCAHPS users to support both quality improvement and research to enhance the patientcenteredness of care delivered to pediatric hospital patients. E:\FR\FM\06SEN1.SGM 06SEN1 54507 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 171 / Tuesday, September 6, 2022 / Notices Rationale for the information collection. Like the survey instrument itself and related toolkit materials to support survey implementation, aggregated Child HCAHPS Database results are made publicly available on AHRQ’s CAHPS website. Technical assistance is provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to hospitals to facilitate the access and use of these materials for quality improvement and research. Technical assistance is also provided to support Child HCAHPS data submission. The Child HCAHPS Database supports AHRQ’s goals of promoting improvements in the quality and patient-centeredness of health care in pediatric hospital settings. This research has the following goals: 1. Improve care provided by individual hospitals and hospital systems. 2. Offer several products and services, including providing survey results presented through an Online Reporting System, summary chartbooks, custom analyses, private reports and data for research purposes. 3. Provides information to help identify strengths and areas with potential for improvement in patient care. Survey data from the Child HCAHPS Database will be used to produce three types of reporting products: • Hospital Feedback Reports. Hospitals that submit data will have access to a customized report that presents findings for their individual submission along with results from the database overall. These ‘‘private’’ hospital feedback reports will display sortable results for each of the Child HCAHPS core composite measures and for each individual survey item that forms the composite measure. • Child HCAHPS Chartbook. A summary-level Chartbook will be compiled to display top box and other proportional scores for the Child HCAHPS items and composite measures broken out by selected hospital characteristics (e.g., region, hospital size, ownership and affiliation, etc.). • AHRQ Data Tools website. Aggregate results also will be made publicly available through an interactive, web-based system that allows users to view survey items and composite results in a variety of formats. The OMB Control Number for the Child HCAHPS Survey Database is 0935–0243, which was last approved by OMB on July 24, 2019, and will expire on July 30, 2022. This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor, Westat, pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority to conduct and support research on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to: the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and value of healthcare services; quality measurement and improvement; and health surveys and database development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2), and (8). Method of Collection To achieve the goals of this project, the following activities and data collections that constitute information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act will be implemented: • Registration with the submission website to obtain an account with a secure username and password. The point-of-contact (POC), often the hospital, completes a number of data submission steps and forms, beginning with the completion of the online registration form. The purpose of this form is to collect basic contact information about the organization and initiate the registration process; • Submission of signed Data Use Agreements (DUAs) and survey questionnaires. The purpose of the data use agreement, completed by the participating hospital, is to state how data submitted by or on behalf of hospitals will be used and provides confidentiality assurances; • Submission of hospital information form. The purpose of this form completed by the participating organization, is to collect background characteristics of the hospital; and • Follow-up with submitters in the event of a rejected file, to assist in making corrections and resubmitting the file. Estimated Annual Respondent Burden Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden hours for the respondent to participate in the database. The 302 POCs in Exhibit 1 are a combination of an estimated 300 hospitals that currently administer the Child HCAHPS survey and the two survey vendors assisting them. Each hospital will register online for submission. The online Registration form will require about 5 minutes to complete. Each submitter will also complete a hospital information form. The online hospital information form takes on average 5 minutes to complete. The DUA will be completed by each of the 300 participating hospitals. Survey vendors do not sign or submit DUAs. The DUA requires about 3 minutes to sign and upload to the online submission system. Each submitter, which in most cases will be the survey vendor performing the data collection, will provide a copy of their questionnaire and the survey data file in the required file format. Survey data files must conform to the data file layout specifications provided by the Child HCAHPS Database. Since the unit of analysis is at the hospital level, submitters will upload one data file per hospital. Once a data file is uploaded, the file will be automatically checked to ensure it conforms to the specifications and a data file status report will be produced and made available to the submitter. Submitters will review each report and will be expected to correct any errors in their data file and resubmit if necessary. It will take about one hour to submit the data for each hospital. The total burden is estimated to be 365 hours annually. EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents/ POCs jspears on DSK121TN23PROD with NOTICES Form name Number of responses per POC Hours per response Total burden hours Registration Form ............................................................................................ Hospital Information Form ............................................................................... Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... Data Files Submission ..................................................................................... 300 300 300 2 1 1 1 150 5/60 5/60 3/60 1 25 25 15 300 Total .......................................................................................................... NA NA NA 365 VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:04 Sep 02, 2022 Jkt 256001 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06SEN1.SGM 06SEN1 54508 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 171 / Tuesday, September 6, 2022 / Notices Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the respondents’ time to complete one submission process. The cost burden is estimated to be $18,076 annually. EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN Number of respondents Form name Total burden hours Average hourly wage rate * Total cost burden Registration Form ............................................................................................ Hospital Information Form ............................................................................... Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... Data Files Submission ..................................................................................... 300 300 300 2 25 25 15 300 a 57.12 c 45.98 $1,428 1,428 1,426 13,794 Total .......................................................................................................... ** 302 365 NA 18,076 a 57.12 b 95.12 * National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2020, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’ (a) Based on the mean hourly wage for Medical and Health Services Managers (11–9111). (b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives (11–1011). (c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15–1131). ** The 300 POC listed for the registration form, hospital information form and the data use agreement are the estimated POC’s from the estimated participating hospitals. Request for Comments In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, comments on AHRQ’s information collection are requested with regard to any of the following: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of AHRQ’s health care research and health care information dissemination functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including hours and costs) of the proposed collection(s) of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information upon the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and included in the Agency’s subsequent request for OMB approval of the proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of public record. Dated: August 30, 2022. Marquita Cullom, Associate Director. [FR Doc. 2022–19115 Filed 9–2–22; 8:45 am] jspears on DSK121TN23PROD with NOTICES BILLING CODE 4160–90–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reapprove the proposed information collection project: ‘‘Medical Expenditure Panel Survey—Insurance Component.’’ SUMMARY: Comments on this notice must be received by November 7, 2022. ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DATES: Proposed Project Medical Expenditure Panel Survey— Insurance Component In 2021 employer-sponsored health insurance was the source of coverage for 90.5 million current and former workers, plus many of their family VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:04 Sep 02, 2022 Jkt 256001 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 members, and is a cornerstone of the U.S. health care system. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey—Insurance Component (MEPS–IC) measures the extent, cost, and coverage of employersponsored health insurance on an annual basis. These statistics are produced at the National, State, and sub-State (metropolitan area) level for private industry. Statistics are also produced for State and Local governments. This research has the following goals: (1) to provide data for Federal policymakers evaluating the effects of National and State health care reforms. (2) to provide descriptive data on the current employer-sponsored health insurance system and data for modeling the differential impacts of proposed health policy initiatives. (3) to supply critical State and National estimates of health insurance spending for the National Health Accounts and Gross Domestic Product. This study is being conducted by AHRQ through the Bureau of the Census, pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority to conduct and support research on healthcare and on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to the cost and use of health care services and with respect to health statistics and surveys. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(3) and (8); 42 U.S.C. 299b–2. Method of Collection To achieve the goals of this project the following data collections for both private sector and state and local government employers will be implemented: (1) Prescreener Questionnaire—The purpose of the Prescreener Questionnaire, which is collected via telephone, varies depending on the E:\FR\FM\06SEN1.SGM 06SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 171 (Tuesday, September 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54506-54508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19115]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection 
project ``Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers 
and Systems (Child HCAHPS) Survey Database.'' This proposed information 
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on June 
3rd, 2022, and allowed 60 days for public comment. AHRQ did not receive 
comments from members of the public during this period. The purpose of 
this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by October 6, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Proposed Project

Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems 
(Child HCAHPS) Survey Database

    The Child Hospital CAHPS Survey (Child HCAHPS) assesses the 
experiences of pediatric patients (less than 18 years old) and their 
parents or guardians with inpatient care. It complements the Adult 
Hospital CAHPS Survey (Adult HCAHPS), which asks adult inpatients about 
their experiences. The Child HCAHPS Database is a voluntary database 
available to all Child HCAHPS users to support both quality improvement 
and research to enhance the patient-centeredness of care delivered to 
pediatric hospital patients.

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    Rationale for the information collection. Like the survey 
instrument itself and related toolkit materials to support survey 
implementation, aggregated Child HCAHPS Database results are made 
publicly available on AHRQ's CAHPS website. Technical assistance is 
provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to hospitals to 
facilitate the access and use of these materials for quality 
improvement and research. Technical assistance is also provided to 
support Child HCAHPS data submission.
    The Child HCAHPS Database supports AHRQ's goals of promoting 
improvements in the quality and patient-centeredness of health care in 
pediatric hospital settings. This research has the following goals:
    1. Improve care provided by individual hospitals and hospital 
systems.
    2. Offer several products and services, including providing survey 
results presented through an Online Reporting System, summary 
chartbooks, custom analyses, private reports and data for research 
purposes.
    3. Provides information to help identify strengths and areas with 
potential for improvement in patient care.
    Survey data from the Child HCAHPS Database will be used to produce 
three types of reporting products:
     Hospital Feedback Reports. Hospitals that submit data will 
have access to a customized report that presents findings for their 
individual submission along with results from the database overall. 
These ``private'' hospital feedback reports will display sortable 
results for each of the Child HCAHPS core composite measures and for 
each individual survey item that forms the composite measure.
     Child HCAHPS Chartbook. A summary-level Chartbook will be 
compiled to display top box and other proportional scores for the Child 
HCAHPS items and composite measures broken out by selected hospital 
characteristics (e.g., region, hospital size, ownership and 
affiliation, etc.).
     AHRQ Data Tools website. Aggregate results also will be 
made publicly available through an interactive, web-based system that 
allows users to view survey items and composite results in a variety of 
formats.
    The OMB Control Number for the Child HCAHPS Survey Database is 
0935-0243, which was last approved by OMB on July 24, 2019, and will 
expire on July 30, 2022.
    This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor, 
Westat, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and support 
research on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care, 
including activities with respect to: the quality, effectiveness, 
efficiency, appropriateness and value of healthcare services; quality 
measurement and improvement; and health surveys and database 
development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2), and (8).

Method of Collection

    To achieve the goals of this project, the following activities and 
data collections that constitute information collection under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act will be implemented:
     Registration with the submission website to obtain an 
account with a secure username and password. The point-of-contact 
(POC), often the hospital, completes a number of data submission steps 
and forms, beginning with the completion of the online registration 
form. The purpose of this form is to collect basic contact information 
about the organization and initiate the registration process;
     Submission of signed Data Use Agreements (DUAs) and survey 
questionnaires. The purpose of the data use agreement, completed by the 
participating hospital, is to state how data submitted by or on behalf 
of hospitals will be used and provides confidentiality assurances;
     Submission of hospital information form. The purpose of 
this form completed by the participating organization, is to collect 
background characteristics of the hospital; and
     Follow-up with submitters in the event of a rejected file, 
to assist in making corrections and resubmitting the file.

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden

    Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden hours for the respondent to 
participate in the database. The 302 POCs in Exhibit 1 are a 
combination of an estimated 300 hospitals that currently administer the 
Child HCAHPS survey and the two survey vendors assisting them.
    Each hospital will register online for submission. The online 
Registration form will require about 5 minutes to complete. Each 
submitter will also complete a hospital information form. The online 
hospital information form takes on average 5 minutes to complete. The 
DUA will be completed by each of the 300 participating hospitals. 
Survey vendors do not sign or submit DUAs. The DUA requires about 3 
minutes to sign and upload to the online submission system. Each 
submitter, which in most cases will be the survey vendor performing the 
data collection, will provide a copy of their questionnaire and the 
survey data file in the required file format. Survey data files must 
conform to the data file layout specifications provided by the Child 
HCAHPS Database. Since the unit of analysis is at the hospital level, 
submitters will upload one data file per hospital. Once a data file is 
uploaded, the file will be automatically checked to ensure it conforms 
to the specifications and a data file status report will be produced 
and made available to the submitter. Submitters will review each report 
and will be expected to correct any errors in their data file and 
resubmit if necessary. It will take about one hour to submit the data 
for each hospital. The total burden is estimated to be 365 hours 
annually.


                                  Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                     Number of       Number of
                    Form name                      respondents/    responses per     Hours per     Total burden
                                                       POCs             POC          response          hours
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Registration Form...............................             300               1            5/60              25
Hospital Information Form.......................             300               1            5/60              25
Data Use Agreement..............................             300               1            3/60              15
Data Files Submission...........................               2             150               1             300
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................              NA              NA              NA             365
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    Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the 
respondents' time to complete one submission process. The cost burden 
is estimated to be $18,076 annually.

                                   Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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                                                     Number of     Total burden   Average hourly    Total cost
                    Form name                       respondents        hours        wage rate *       burden
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Registration Form...............................             300              25       \a\ 57.12          $1,428
Hospital Information Form.......................             300              25       \a\ 57.12           1,428
Data Use Agreement..............................             300              15       \b\ 95.12           1,426
Data Files Submission...........................               2             300       \c\ 45.98          13,794
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................          ** 302             365              NA          18,076
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2020, ``U.S. Department of Labor,
  Bureau of Labor Statistics.''
(a) Based on the mean hourly wage for Medical and Health Services Managers (11-9111).
(b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives (11-1011).
(c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15-1131).
** The 300 POC listed for the registration form, hospital information form and the data use agreement are the
  estimated POC's from the estimated participating hospitals.

Request for Comments

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested with 
regard to any of the following: (a) whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of AHRQ's health 
care research and health care information dissemination functions, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the 
accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours and costs) of 
the proposed collection(s) of information; (c) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information upon 
the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques 
or other forms of information technology.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the 
proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of 
public record.

    Dated: August 30, 2022.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2022-19115 Filed 9-2-22; 8:45 am]
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