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previously granted by letter dated
September 18, 2020, related to the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19)
public health emergency. See https://
www.regulations.gov/document/FRA2020-0060-0005.
In support of its petition, APTA notes
that the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention guidance on social
distancing, as well as avoiding crowds
and poorly ventilated spaces are
expected to remain in place for the
foreseeable future and that commuter
railroads are still operating with muchreduced workforces as a result of
COVID–19 (over 12,000 commuter rail
employees have tested positive and/or
self-quarantined over the last 17
months).
APTA requests that FRA extend the
existing relief previously granted in
FRA’s September 18, 2020, letter for one
year.
A copy of the petition, as well as any
written communications concerning the
petition, is available for review online at
www.regulations.gov (Docket Number
FRA–2020–0060).
Interested parties are invited to
participate in these proceedings by
submitting written views, data, or
comments. If any interested parties
desire an opportunity for oral comment
and a public hearing, they should notify
FRA, in writing, before the end of the
comment period and specify the basis
for their request.
All communications concerning these
proceedings should identify the
appropriate docket number and may be
submitted at http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Communications received by
September 9, 2021 will be considered by
FRA before final action is taken.
Comments received after that date will
be considered if practicable. Anyone
can search the electronic form of any
written communications and comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the document, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). Under 5
U.S.C. 553(c), the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
processes. DOT posts these comments,
without edit, including any personal
information the commenter provides, to
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
See also https://www.regulations.gov/
privacy-notice for the privacy notice of
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Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety,
Chief Safety Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2021–0027]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; National 911 Profile
Database
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a request for extension of
a currently-approved information
collection.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below will be submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its expected burden.
NHTSA is requesting an extension of its
information collection to continue to
collect and aggregate information from
State-level reporting entities that can be
used to measure the progress of 911
authorities across the country in
upgrading and enhancing their existing
operations. A Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments on the following information
collection was published on April 19,
2021. No comments were received.
DATES: Comments to this notice must be
submitted on or before September 24,
2021.
SUMMARY:

Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing burden, should
be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
To find this particular information
collection, select ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or
use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Ms.
Laurie Flaherty, Coordinator, National
911 Program, Office of Emergency
ADDRESSES:

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Medical Services, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, NPD–400, Room
W44–322, Washington, DC 20590. Ms.
Flaherty’s phone number is (202) 366–
2705 and her email address is
laurie.flaherty@dot.gov. Please identify
the relevant collection of information by
referring to its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request will be
submitted OMB.
Title: National 911 Profile Database.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0679.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Request: Request for
extension of a currently-approved
information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The National 911 Program
is housed within NHTSA’s Office of
Emergency Medical Services, which has
a mission to provide coordination in
assessing, planning, developing, and
promoting comprehensive, evidencebased emergency medical services and
911 systems. Pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 942,
Coordination of 911, E911, and Next
Generation 911 implementation, the
National 911 Program exists to
coordinate 911 efforts, collect and create
resources for State and local 911
agencies, and to oversee a grant
program, specifically to upgrade the
nation’s outdated 911 infrastructure.
NHTSA is requesting an extension of
its information collection, carried out
under 47 U.S.C. 942(a)(3)(B), to
continue to collect and aggregate
information from State-level reporting
entities that can be used to measure the
progress of 911 authorities across the
country in upgrading and enhancing
their existing operations and migrating
to more advanced—digital, internetProtocol-enabled—emergency networks.
The data will be maintained in a
‘‘National 911 Profile Database.’’ The
National 911 Profile Database maintains
State-specific and benchmarking data,
which is later analyzed by the 911
Program for trends and findings.
Collecting and sharing nationwide 911

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statistics helps the 911 community
better understand the state of the
industry. The National 911 Profile
Database enables voluntary submission
of data by State and territorial 911
agencies via annual data submission.
The information to be collected includes
data useful for evaluating the status of
911 programs across the country, along
with their progress in implementing
upgraded and advanced systems and
capabilities. The data elements involved
will fall within two major categories:
Baseline and progress benchmarks.
• ‘‘Baseline’’ data elements reflect the
current status and nature of 911
operations from State to State. These
elements are largely descriptive in
nature, are intended to provide a general
view of existing 911 services across the
country, and are grouped within five
categories: Total 911 Calls and Call
Type, Number of Public Safety
Answering Points (PSAPs) and
Equipment Positions, Emergency
Medical Dispatch and Operations, CallHandling Quality Assurance, and
Minimum Training Requirements.
• ‘‘Progress benchmarks’’ reflect the
status of State efforts to implement
advanced next generation 911 systems
and capabilities. As titled, these data
elements are largely implementation or
deployment benchmarks against which
progress can be measured, and include:
Planning, Procurement, Transition,
Operations, and Maturity Level.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: To support NHTSA’s
mission to save lives, the National 911
Program develops, collects, and
disseminates information concerning
practices, procedures, and technology
used in the provision of 911 services;
and to support 911 Public Safety
Answering Points (PSAPs) and related
State and local public safety agencies’
911 technological and operational
upgrades.
The technology impacting 911
services continues to evolve
substantially. Both public and private
sectors have increasingly focused on
addressing the need to upgrade and
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Number of
respondents

Annual
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Average hourly
compensation
98

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services across the Nation. In addition,
it is essential that emergency responders
are able to coordinate and collaborate
with 911 agencies via comprehensive
and seamless emergency
communication systems as they update
their own part of the emergency
communications network. This
information collection supports efforts
to upgrade 911 services by providing
up-to-date information to State and local
public safety entities to allow them to
adequately gauge progress toward
implementing more current and
advanced 911 systems in a comparative
fashion. While the National 911
Program will benefit from this
information, it is anticipated that the
greatest benefit will accrue to the State
and local public safety community faced
with the challenge of migrating to the
next generation of 911 services and
technology as they strive to respond to
emergencies.
The National 911 Profile Database is
used to follow the progress of 911
authorities in enhancing their existing
systems and implementing nextgeneration networks to more current
functionality. The data in this national
profile has been used and will continue
to be used to accurately measure and
depict the current status and
capabilities of 911 systems across the
United States, as well as progress made
in implementing advanced technologies
and operations—known as Next
Generation (NG) 911. Assessments,
based upon the data collected, will help
draw attention to key roadblocks as well
as solutions in NG911 implementation
processes. Analysis of the data will also
help target possible future activities and
resources consistent with the goals of
the program. The information collected
will be available in aggregated form to
national, Federal, State and local
stakeholders in the public safety
community. This information collection
supports NHTSA’s mission to save lives,
prevent injuries and reduce economic
costs due to road traffic crashes by
ensuring emergency responses to
crashes of all nature (e.g. planes, trains,
and automobiles) and maximizing the
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A Federal Register notice with a 60day comment period soliciting public
comments on the following information
collection was published on April 19,
2021(86 FR 20431). No comments were
received.
Affected Public: State 911 agency
administrators.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
56.
Frequency: Annual.
Number of Responses: 56.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: NHTSA estimates that
submitting responses to the questions
included in the proposed survey
instrument utilizing the Web-based tool
would require an average of 98 hours
per State entity to collect, aggregate and
submit. Estimating the maximum
number of respondents at 56 (the fifty
States, the District of Columbia, and five
U.S. Territories), this would result in a
total burden of 5,488 hours (98 hours ×
56 respondents).
The total labor costs associated with
the burden hours are estimated by
finding the average hourly wage and
multiplying by the number of burden
hours. Respondents will be State,
territory, and tribal government
management personnel. To estimate
reasonable staff expenses to respond to
this information collection, the
Agencies reviewed the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) Occupational Outlook
Handbook and determined that the
Administrative Services Manager
description closely aligns with the
positions of recipient staff responsible
for completing this request. BLS lists the
average hourly wage as $46.45.1 Further,
BLS estimates that State and local
government wages represent 61.8% of
total labor compensation costs.2
Therefore, NHTSA estimates the hourly
labor costs to be $75.16 (46.45 ÷ 0.618).
The total labor cost based on the
estimated burden hours is estimated at
$412,478. The table below provides a
summary of the estimated burden hours
and the labor costs associated with
those burden hours.
Total
estimated annual
burden
hours

$7,365.68

owned schools and hospitals and the U.S. Postal
Service, at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
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5,488

Total estimated
annual labor costs
$412,478.08 or $412,478.

2 Table 1 at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
There are no capital, start-up, or annual
operation and maintenance costs
involved in the collection of
information. The respondents would not
incur any reporting costs from the
information collection beyond the labor
costs associated with the burden hours
to gather the information, prepare it for
reporting and then populate the Webbased data collection tool. The
respondents also would not incur any
recordkeeping burden or recordkeeping
costs from the information collection.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(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
on respondents, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2021–18251 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
[OMB Control No. 2900–0178]

Agency Information Collection
Activity: Monthly Certification of Onthe-Job and Apprenticeship Training
Veterans Benefits
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.

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AGENCY:

Veterans Benefits
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on the
revised collection of certain information

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by the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal
agencies are required to publish notice
in the Federal Register concerning each
revised 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: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
collection of information should be
received on or before October 25, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the collection of information through
Federal Docket Management System
(FDMS) at www.Regulations.gov or to
Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits
Administration (20M33), Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20420 or email to
nancy.kessinger@va.gov. Please refer to
‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0178’’ in any
correspondence. During the comment
period, comments may be viewed online
through FDMS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise
and Integration, Data Governance
Analytics (008), 1717 H Street NW,
Washington, DC 20006, (202) 266–4688
or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please
refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0178’’
in any correspondence.
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.
Authority: Public Law 115–89
‘‘Veterans Apprenticeship and Labor
Opportunity Reform Act’’, 38 U.S.C.
3002(3)(C), 3032(c), 3233, 3313(g), 3484,
3534(a), 3680(c), 3687, and 10 U.S.C.
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21.4135(e)(3)(iii), 21.4203(f)(3), 21.4262,
21.5130, 21.5138, 21.7139(g), and
21.7639(f), 21.9561(c), 21.9641(g).
Title: Monthly Certification of OnThe-Job and Apprenticeship Training.
OMB Control Number: 2900–0178.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: Benefits are authorized
monthly based on the number of hours
worked by the trainee as verified by the
training establishment. Unscheduled
terminations result in the termination of
benefits. If hours are reduced to less
than a full-time work schedule, a
reduction of benefits will occur. Public
Law 115–89 ‘‘Veterans Apprenticeship
and Labor Opportunity Reform Act’’
(VALOR Act) was signed into law on
November 21, 2017. Section 3 of this
law amended 38 U.S.C. 3680(c) to
eliminate the trainee’s certification
requirement. As a result, this form is
only completed, signed, and certified by
the training establishment to report the
trainee’s number of hours worked and/
or to report the trainee’s date of
termination. The form no longer
requires the signature of the trainee. The
form is then sent to the Regional
Processing Office (RPO) for processing.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households.
Estimated Annual Burden: 214,794
hours.
Estimated Average Burden per
Respondent: 10 minutes.
Frequency of Response: Twelve (12)
Annually per Respondent.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
107,397.
By direction of the Secretary.
Maribel Aponte,
VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
Enterprise and Integration/Data Governance
Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee on Disability
Compensation, Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) gives notice under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.
2, that a virtual meeting of the Advisory
Committee on Disability Compensation
(Committee) will begin and end as
follows:

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