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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.

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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.
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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:

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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.
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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 http://
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provided below, comments received
before the close of the comment period
will be available at http://
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: http://
www.regulations.gov/. VA will not post
on http://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
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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,

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