Agency Information Collection Activity: VA Enrollment Certification, 45939-45940 [2024-11471]

Download as PDF ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 102 / Friday, May 24, 2024 / Notices to any comment listed at the bottom of the screen. • For assistance in navigating www.reginfo.gov, please contact the Regulatory Information Service Center at (202) 482–7340. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shaquita Merritt, Clearance Officer, (202) 649–5490, Chief Counsel’s Office, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20219. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access telecommunications relay services. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the OMB for each collection of information that they conduct or sponsor. ‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) to include agency requests or requirements that members of the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of title 44 generally requires Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, the OCC is publishing notice of the renewal/ revision of this collection. Title: Fair Credit Reporting: Affiliate Marketing. OMB Control No.: 1557–0230. Type of Review: Regular. Description: Section 214 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act),1 which added section 624 to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA),2 generally prohibits a person from using certain information received from an affiliate to solicit a consumer for marketing purposes, unless the consumer is given notice and an opportunity and simple method to opt out of such solicitations. Twelve CFR 1022.20–1022.27 require financial institutions to issue notices informing consumers about their rights under section 214 of the FACT Act. Consumers use the notices to decide if they want to receive solicitations for marketing purposes or opt out. Financial institutions use consumers’ opt-out responses to determine the permissibility of making a solicitation for marketing purposes. If a person receives certain consumer eligibility information from an affiliate, 1 Public Law 108–159, 117 Stat. 1952 (December 4, 2003). 2 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:40 May 23, 2024 Jkt 262001 the person may not use that information to solicit the consumer about its products or services, unless the consumer is given notice and a simple method to opt out of such use of the information, and the consumer does not opt out. Exceptions include a person using eligibility information: (1) to make solicitations to a consumer with whom the person has a pre-existing business relationship; (2) to perform services for another affiliate subject to certain conditions; (3) in response to a communication initiated by the consumer; or (4) to make a solicitation that has been authorized or requested by the consumer. A consumer’s affiliate marketing opt-out election must be effective for a period of at least five years. Upon expiration of the opt-out period, the consumer must be given a renewal notice and an opportunity to renew the opt-out before information received from an affiliate may be used to make solicitations to the consumer. Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit. Estimated Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Number of Respondents: 97,723. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 10,281 hours. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of public record. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the OCC, including whether the information has practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the OCC’s estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) Estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Patrick T. Tierney, Assistant Director, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. [FR Doc. 2024–11445 Filed 5–23–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4810–33–P PO 00000 Frm 00121 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 45939 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS [OMB Control No. 2900–0073] Agency Information Collection Activity: VA Enrollment Certification Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed revision of a currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 23, 2024. ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted through www.Regulations.gov. Instead of a physical address. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Program-Specific information: [Nancy Kessinger], 202–632–8924, nancy.kessinger@va.gov. VA PRA information: Maribel Aponte, 202–461–8900, vacopaperworkreduact@ va.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA of 1995, Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. This request for comment is being made pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA. With respect to the following collection of information, VBA invites comments on: (1) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of VBA’s functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of VBA’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or the use of other forms of information technology. Title: VA Enrollment Certification, VA Form 22–1999. SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\24MYN1.SGM 24MYN1 45940 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 102 / Friday, May 24, 2024 / Notices OMB Control Number: 2900–0073. https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ PRASearch (Once at this link, you can enter the OMB Control Number to find the historical versions of this Information Collection). Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection. Abstract: VA uses the information collected on VA Form 22–1999 to determine the amount of educational benefits payable to the student during the period of enrollment or training. Additionally, with the exception of chapter 33, VA also uses these forms to determine whether the student has requested an advance payment or accelerated payment of benefits. Without this information, VA would not have a basis upon which to make payment or to know if a person was requesting an advance or accelerated payment. Affected Public: Individuals and Households. Estimated Annual Burden: 633,307 hours. Estimated Average Burden Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes. Frequency of Response: On Occasion. Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,799,847. Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.; 38 U.S.C. 3034, 3241, 3323, 3680; and 3684, 10 U.S.C. 16136; title 38 CFR 21.4203, 21.5200(d), 21.7152, 21.7652, and 21.9720. Maribel Aponte, VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of Enterprise and Integration/Data Governance Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. [FR Doc. 2024–11471 Filed 5–23–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8320–01–P DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Notice of Request for Information on the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Technologist Standard of Practice Department of Veterans Affairs. Request for information. AGENCY: ACTION: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is requesting information to assist in developing a national standard of practice for VA Medical Technologists. VA seeks comments on various topics to help inform VA’s development of this national standard of practice. DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 23, 2024. ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted through https:// www.regulations.gov/. Except as ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:40 May 23, 2024 Jkt 262001 provided below, comments received before the close of the comment period will be available at https:// www.regulations.gov/ for public viewing, inspection, copying, including any personally identifiable or confidential business information that is included in a comment. We post the comments received before the close of the comment period on the following website as soon as possible after they have been received: https:// www.regulations.gov/. VA will not post on https://www.regulations.gov/ public comments that make threats to individuals or institutions or suggest that the commenter will take actions to harm the individual. VA encourages individuals not to submit duplicative comments. We will post acceptable comments from multiple unique commenters even if the content is identical or nearly identical to other comments. Any public comment received after the comment period’s closing date will not be accepted. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ethan Kalett, Office of Regulations, Appeals and Policy (10BRAP), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, 202–461– 0500. This is not a toll-free number. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Authority Chapters 73 and 74 of 38 U.S.C. and 38 U.S.C. 303 authorize the Secretary to regulate VA health care professions to make certain that VA’s health care system provides safe and effective health care by qualified health care professionals to ensure the well-being of those Veterans who have borne the battle. On November 12, 2020, VA published an interim final rule confirming that VA health care professionals may practice their health care profession consistent with the scope and requirements of their VA employment, notwithstanding any State license, registration, certification, or other State requirements that unduly interfere with their practice. 38 CFR 17.419; 85 FR 71838. Specifically, this rulemaking confirmed VA’s current practice of allowing VA health care professionals to deliver health care services in a State other than the health care professional’s State of licensure, registration, certification, or other State requirement, thereby enhancing beneficiaries’ access to critical VA health care services. The rulemaking also confirmed VA’s authority to establish national standards of practice for its health care professionals which would standardize a health care PO 00000 Frm 00122 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 professional’s practice in all VA medical facilities, regardless of conflicting state laws, rules, regulations, or other state requirements. The rulemaking explained that a national standard of practice describes the tasks and duties that a VA health care professional practicing in the health care profession may perform and may be permitted to undertake. Having a national standard of practice means that individuals from the same VA health care profession may provide the same type of tasks and duties regardless of the State where they are located or the State license, registration, certification, or other State requirement they hold. We emphasized in the rulemaking and reiterate here that VA will determine, on an individual basis, that a health care professional has the proper education, training, and skills to perform the tasks and duties detailed in the national standard of practice, and that they will only be able to perform such tasks and duties after they have been incorporated into the individual’s privileges, scope of practice, or functional statement. The rulemaking explicitly did not create any such national standards and directed that all national standards of practice would be subsequently created via policy. Preemption of State Requirements The national standard of practice will preempt any State laws, rules, regulations, or requirements that both are and are not listed in the national standard as conflicting, but that do in fact conflict with the tasks and duties as authorized in VA’s national standard of practice. In the event that a State changes their requirements and places new limitations on the tasks and duties it allows in a manner that would be inconsistent with what is authorized under the national standard of practice, the national standard of practice will preempt such limitations and authorize the VA health care professional to continue to practice consistently with the tasks and duties outlined in the national standard of practice. In cases where a VA health care professional’s license, registration, certification, or other State requirement allows a practice that is not included in a national standard of practice, the individual may continue that practice so long as it is permissible by Federal law and VA policy, is not explicitly prohibited by the national standard of practice, and is approved by the VA medical facility. Need for National Standards of Practice It is critical that VA, the Nation’s largest integrated health care system, E:\FR\FM\24MYN1.SGM 24MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45939-45940]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11471]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

[OMB Control No. 2900-0073]


Agency Information Collection Activity: VA Enrollment 
Certification

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans 
Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans 
Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the 
proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to 
publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed 
collection of information, including each proposed revision of a 
currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in 
response to the notice.

DATES:  Comments must be received on or before July 23, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted through www.Regulations.gov. 
Instead of a physical address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Program-Specific information: [Nancy 
Kessinger], 202-632-8924, [email protected].
    VA PRA information: Maribel Aponte, 202-461-8900, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA of 1995, Federal agencies must 
obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each 
collection of information they conduct or sponsor. This request for 
comment is being made pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA.
    With respect to the following collection of information, VBA 
invites comments on: (1) whether the proposed collection of information 
is necessary for the proper performance of VBA's functions, including 
whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy 
of VBA's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of 
the collection of information on respondents, including through the use 
of automated collection techniques or the use of other forms of 
information technology.
    Title: VA Enrollment Certification, VA Form 22-1999.

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    OMB Control Number: 2900-0073. https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRASearch (Once at this link, you can enter the OMB Control Number to 
find the historical versions of this Information Collection).
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: VA uses the information collected on VA Form 22-1999 to 
determine the amount of educational benefits payable to the student 
during the period of enrollment or training. Additionally, with the 
exception of chapter 33, VA also uses these forms to determine whether 
the student has requested an advance payment or accelerated payment of 
benefits. Without this information, VA would not have a basis upon 
which to make payment or to know if a person was requesting an advance 
or accelerated payment.
    Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 633,307 hours.
    Estimated Average Burden Time Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,799,847.
    Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.; 38 U.S.C. 3034, 3241, 3323, 
3680; and 3684, 10 U.S.C. 16136; title 38 CFR 21.4203, 21.5200(d), 
21.7152, 21.7652, and 21.9720.

    Maribel Aponte,
VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of Enterprise and Integration/Data 
Governance Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2024-11471 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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