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providing equal access to this meeting 

for all participants. If you need 

alternative formats or services because 

of a disability, such as sign language, 

interpretation, or other ancillary aids, 

please contact the person listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

Any member of the public is 

permitted to file a written statement 

with the Board. Written statements 

should be sent to the Designated Federal 

Officer listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section no later 

than December 4, 2023. 

Only written statements will be 

considered by the Board; no member of 

the public will be allowed to present 

questions or speak during the meeting 

unless requested to do so by a member 

of the Board. 

(Authority: 46 U.S.C. 51312; 5 U.S.C. 552b; 

5 U.S.C. App. 2; 41 CFR parts 102–3.140 

through 102–3.165) 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24883 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID Number: DOT–OST–2018–0068] 

Notice of Submission of Proposed 

Information Collection to OMB Agency 

Request for Reinstatement of 

Previously Approved Collections: 

Traveling by Air With Service 

Animals—U.S. Department of 

Transportation Service Animal Air 

Transportation Form and U.S. 

Department of Transportation Service 

Animal Relief Attestation Form 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), 

Department of Transportation 

(Department or DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces DOT’s intention to 

reinstate an Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Control Number 2105– 

0576, ‘‘U.S. Department of 

Transportation Service Animal Air 

Transportation Form,’’ and to seek 

comment on formatting and clarifying 

amendments to this form. The 

Department also seeks to reinstate its 

‘‘U.S. Department of Transportation 

Service Animal Relief Attestation 

Form’’; no amendments have been made 

to this form. The subject information 

collections are related to a requirement 

in the Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) that permits airlines to collect 

service animal documentation from 

passengers with a disability traveling by 

air with a service animal. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments regarding this 

proposal. Written comments should be 

submitted by January 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may file comments 

identified by the docket number DOT– 

OST–2018–0068 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. (You may access comments 

received for this notice at https://

www.regulations.gov by searching 

docket DOT–OST–2018–0068.) 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, West Building 

Ground Floor Room, W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001; 

• Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name and docket number DOT– 

OST–2010–0054 at the beginning of 

your comment. All comments received 

will be posted without change to 

https://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received in any of DOT’s dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maegan Johnson or Livaughn Chapman, 

Jr., Office of Aviation Consumer 

Protection, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, 

Telephone Number (202) 366–9342 

(voice), (202) 366–7152 (fax); 

maegan.johnson@dot.gov or 

livaughn.chapman@dot.gov (email). 

Arrangements to receive this document 

in an alternative format may be made by 

contacting the above-named 

individuals. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 2105–0576. 

Title: Traveling by Air with Service 

Animals. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement of 

information collections. 

Background: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (Department or DOT) 

published a final rule to amend the 

Department’s Air Carrier Access Act 

(ACAA) regulation on the transport of 

service animals by air in the Federal 

Register on December 10, 2020 (85 FR 

79742). 14 CFR 382.75 allows airlines to 

require passengers traveling with 

service animals to provide carriers with 

the following two forms of 

documentation developed by the 

Department as a condition of travel. The 

first form published in the rule, the U.S. 

Department of Transportation Service 

Animal Air Transportation Form 

(‘‘Behavior and Health Attestation 

Form’’), is designed to ensure and 

inform airlines of the service animal’s 

good health, disability-related training, 

and good behavior; to educate 

passengers traveling with service 

animals on how service animals in air 

transportation are expected to behave; 

and to inform passengers traveling with 

service animals of the consequences of 

service animal misbehavior. The second 

form published in the rule, the U.S. 

Department of Transportation Service 

Animal Relief Attestation Form (‘‘Relief 

Attestation Form’’), may only be 

required by the airlines when a 

passenger is traveling with service 

animals on a flight segment scheduled 

to take 8 hours or more. The purpose of 

this form is to provide assurances to 

airlines that the service animal will not 

need to relieve itself on the flight or that 

the animal can relieve itself in a way 

that does not create a health or 

sanitation issue, and to educate 

passengers of the consequences should 

an animal relieve itself on the aircraft in 

an unsanitary way. 

The Behavior and Health Attestation 

Form and the Relief Attestation Form 

are the only forms that airlines are 

permitted to require from passengers 

traveling with service animals as a 

condition of transport, except in rare 

circumstances when additional 

documentation may be necessary to 

comply with requirements on transport 

of animals by a Federal agency, a U.S. 

territory, or a foreign jurisdiction. DOT 

is publishing this notice to announce its 

intent to seek reinstatement of the 

previously approved information 

collections for these forms, OMB 

Control Number 2015–0576, and receive 

comments on the formatting and 

clarifying amendments made to its 

Behavior and Health Attestation Form. 

Currently, OMB authorization of the 

information collections expire on 

December 31, 2023. 


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1Comment from A4A, https://

www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOT-OST-2018- 

0068-4288. A4A estimates that 281,000 service 

animals were transported on U.S. airlines in 2017. 

DOT estimates that 38,000 service animals were 

transported by foreign airlines on flights to and 

from the U.S. in 2017 based on air carrier passenger 

data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 

available at https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017- 

traffic-data-us-airlines-andforeign-airlines-usflights. 

2See, Traveling by Air with Service Animals 

(FR)—Regulatory Impact Analysis (November 

2020); Regulations.gov. 

3Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2022). 

‘‘2022 Traffic Data for U.S. Airlines and Foreign 

Airlines U.S. Flights.’’ https://

www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=4. 

The number of passengers on foreign carriers (84.5 

million) was 9.9 percent of the number on domestic 

carriers (852.8 million). 

4For a discussion of estimating the value of 

uncompensated activities, see ‘‘Valuing Time in 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

Regulatory Impact Analyses: Conceptual 

Framework and Best Practices’’ from the 

Department of Health and Human Services, 

available at https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/ 

257746/VOT.pdf. 

5Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022). ‘‘May 2022 

National Occupational Employment and Wage 

Estimates: United States.’’ May 2022 National 

Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates 

(bls.gov). 

The Department has not made 

amendments to its Relief Attestation 

Form as part of this renewal; however, 

the Department invites comments on the 

Relief Attestation Form renewal and on 

the formatting and clarifying 

amendments to its Behavior and Health 

Attestation Form. Although the 

amended Behavior and Health 

Attestation Form accompanying this 

Notice only addresses the formatting 

and clarity issues that have been raised 

about the form, the Department is aware 

that there are additional substantive 

issues raised about the current Behavior 

and Health attestation form, such as 

whether to include a question asking 

passengers to state the task or work their 

service animal performs, whether to ask 

passengers to affirm that they have a 

disability, and whether to clarify on the 

form that the carrier must assist the 

passenger with completing the form. 

The Department plans to explore these, 

and other related substantive issues that 

fall within the bounds of the service 

animal rule, with its next Air Carrier 

Access Act Advisory Committee. 

The amended Behavior and Health 

Attestation Form accompanying this 

Notice has been reformatted as follows: 

(1) the DOT seal and the disclaimer 

language at the top of the form has been 

adjusted, (2) DOT has added subject 

headers throughout the form to better 

define the individual sections of the 

form, (3) DOT revised the form to 

include two separate training sections 

so that the service animal user can 

indicate both the task training and 

behavior training that the service animal 

received, (4) DOT added footnotes at the 

bottom of the form to clarify that the 

service animal user may be listed as the 

service animal’s behavior and/or task 

trainer if the animal was self-trained, 

and (5) DOT reduced the number of 

times that the animal’s name must be 

provided on the form. 

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA) and its implementing regulations, 

5 CFR part 1320, require Federal 

agencies to issue two notices seeking 

public comment on information 

collection activities before OMB may 

approve paperwork packages. A Federal 

agency generally cannot conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information, and 

the public is generally not required to 

respond to an information collection, 

unless it is approved by the OMB under 

the PRA and displays a currently valid 

OMB Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to monetary penalty for failing to 

comply with a collection of information 

if the collection of information does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

For each of these information 

collections, the title, a description of the 

respondents, and an estimate of the 

annual recordkeeping and periodic 

reporting burden are set forth below. 

1. Requirement to prepare and submit 

to airlines the DOT Air Transportation 

Service Animal Behavior and Health 

Attestation Form. 

Respondents: Passengers with 

disabilities traveling on aircraft with 

service animals. 

Number of Respondents: The 

Department estimates that 310,145 

respondents will complete the Service 

Animal Health and Attestation form. 

This estimate was calculated by using 

the same analysis used by the 

Department in its 2021 Service Animal 

Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), 

where the Department estimated that 

319,000 respondents would use the 

Service Animal Health and Attestation 

Form. 

In the RIA, the Department relied on 

2017 passenger data and estimates 

provided from Airlines for America on 

the number of service animals 

transported by U.S. air carriers in 2017 1

to estimate the number of respondents 

that would use the Service Animal 

Health and Attestation form. DOT 

estimated that in 2017, 281,000 service 

animals were transported by U.S. 

carriers on flights to, within, and from 

the United States, and 38,000 were 

transported by foreign air carriers on 

flights to and from the United States.2

Assuming that only one passenger with 

a disability travels with a service 

animal, the Department determined in 

2021 that 319,000 respondents (281,000 

+ 38,000) would use the service animal 

form. 

For the purposes of this renewal, the 

Department relied on 2022 enplanement 

data to estimate the number of 

respondents that would complete the 

service animal forms. In 2022, U.S. 

passenger enplanements increased by .5 

percent and foreign carrier 

enplanements decreased by 27 percent.3

Thus, DOT estimates that 282,405 

service animals were transported by 

U.S. carriers to, from, or within the U.S. 

in 2022 and, if foreign carriers had a 

similar proportion of passengers 

traveling with service animals, foreign 

carriers transported 27,740 service 

animals to or from the U.S. in 2022. 

Assuming that only one passenger with 

a disability travels with a service 

animal, 310,145 respondents (282,405 + 

27,740) would complete the service 

animal behavior and health attestation 

form. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: We estimate that 

completing the form would require 15 

minutes (.25 hours) per response, 

including the time it takes to retrieve an 

electronic or paper version of the form 

from the carrier’s website, reviewing the 

instructions, and completing the 

questions. Passengers would spend a 

total of 77,536 hours annually (0.25 

hours × 310,145 passengers) to retrieve 

and complete an accessible version of 

the form. Passengers would fill out the 

forms on their own time without pay. 

To estimate the value of this 

uncompensated activity, we use median 

wage data from the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics.4 We use a post-tax wage 

estimate of $18.48 ($22.26 median for 

all occupations minus a 17% percent 

estimated tax rate). The estimated 

annual value of this time is $1,432,865 

($18.48 × 77,536 hours).5

2. Requirement to prepare and submit 

to airlines the DOT Service Animal 

Relief Attestation Form. 

Respondents: Passengers with 

disabilities traveling on aircraft with 

service animals on flight segments 

scheduled to take 8 hours or more. 

Number of Respondents: The 

Department estimates that 5 percent of 

service animal users would be on flight 

segments scheduled to take 8 hours or 

more and would also have to complete 

the Relief Attestation Form, for a total 

of 15,507 respondents (310,145 × 0.05). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: We estimate that 

completing the form would require 15 


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minutes (.25 hours) per response, 

including the time it takes to retrieve an 

electronic or paper version of the form 

from the carrier’s website, reviewing the 

instructions, and completing the 

questions. Passengers would spend a 

total of 3,877 hours annually (0.25 hours 

× 15,507 passengers) to retrieve an 

accessible version of the form and 

complete the form. Passengers would 

fill out the forms on their own time 

without pay, as they would with the 

Animal Behavior and Health Attestation 

Form. The estimated annual value of 

this time is $71,647 ($18.48 × 3,877 

hours). 

Comments Invited 

We invite comments on the Relief 

Attestation Form renewal and on the 

formatting and clarity amendments 

made to the Behavior and Health 

Attestation Form. We also invite 

comments on: (a) Whether the collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the Department, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Department’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

information collection; (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. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record on 

the docket. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 59 CFR 1.48. 

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U.S. Department of Transportation Service Animal Air Transportation Form 

Warning: It is a Federal crime to make materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements, entries, or representations knowingly 

and willfully on this form to secure disability accommodations provided under regulations of the United States Department of 

Transportation (18 U.S,C. § 1001). 

Individual with a Di~ability 

Animal Health 

My Animal's Name: ________ My Animal's Description (including weight): ______________ _ 

D My animal is vaccinated for rabies. Date of last vaccination: _____ Date vaccination expires in the dog: _______ _ 

D To my knowledge, my animal does not have fleas or ticks or a disease that would endanger people or other animals. 

Veterinarian's Name (signature not required): ___________________ Phone: _________ _ 

Work or Task Training of Animal 

D My animal has been individually trained to do worlc or perform tasks to assist me with my disability. 

Name of Task Trainer or Training Organization:1 __________________ Phone: _________ _ 

Behavior Training of Animal 

D My animal has also been trained to behave in a public setting. 

Name of Behavior Trainer or Training Organization:2 _________________ Phone: ________ _ 

D I understand that my animal must be under my control at all times. 

D I understand that a properly trained dog does not act aggressively by biting, barking, jumping, lunging, or injuring people or animals, 

and does not urinate or defecate on the aircraft or in the gate area. 

D I understand that if my animal shows that it has not been properly trained to behave in public, then the airline may treat the 

animal as a pet by charging a pet fee and requiring that the animal be transported in a pet carrier. 

D To the best of my knowledge, my animal has not behaved aggressively or caused serious injuzy to another person or animal. 

If you cannot check the box above, please explain: ____________________________ _ 

Other Assurances 

D I understand that my animal must be harnessed, leashed, or tethered at all times in the airport and on the aircraft. 

D I understand that if my animal causes damage, then the airline may charge me for the cost to repair it, as long as the airline 

would also charge passengers without disabilities to repair similar kinds of damage. 

D I understand that I am signing an official document of the U.S. Deparbnent of Transportation, and if I knowingly make false statements 

on this document, I can be subject to fines and other penalties. 

Signature: _________________ _ Date: -------------

1 If the service animal user self-trained the animal to do work or perform a task, the service animal user should be listed as the task trainer. 

2 If the service animal user self-trained the animal to behave, the service animal user should be listed as the behavior trainer. 
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1 In accordance with title IX, section 906 of the 

‘‘Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our 

Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) 

Act of 2022’’ (Pub. L. 117–168, dated August 10, 

2022), recruitment, relocation and retention 

incentives, along with performance awards, shall 

not be considered in calculating the limitation 

under 38 U.S.C. 7431(e)(4). 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Livaughn Chapman Jr., 

Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Office of 

Aviation Consumer Protection. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24885 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Community Development Financial 

Institutions Fund 

Open Meeting: Community 

Development Advisory Board 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces an 

open meeting of the Community 

Development Advisory Board (the 

Advisory Board), which provides advice 

to the Director of the Community 

Development Financial Institutions 

Fund (CDFI Fund). This meeting will be 

conducted virtually. A link to view the 

meeting will be posted under the date 

of the meeting at www.cdfifund.gov/ 

cdab. 

DATES: The meeting will be held from 2 

p.m. to 4 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday, 

November 28, 2023. 

Submission of Written Statements: 

Participation in the discussions at the 

meeting will be limited to Advisory 

Board members, Department of the 

Treasury staff, and certain invited 

guests. Anyone who would like to have 

the Advisory Board consider a written 

statement must submit it by 5 p.m. 

eastern time on Monday, November 20, 

2023. Send electronic statements to 

AdvisoryBoard@cdfi.treas.gov. 

In general, the CDFI Fund will make 

all statements available in their original 

format, including any business or 

personal information provided such as 

names, addresses, email addresses, or 

telephone numbers, for virtual public 

inspection and copying. The CDFI Fund 

is open on official business days 

between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

eastern time. You can make 

arrangements to virtually inspect 

statements by emailing AdvisoryBoard@

cdfi.treas.gov. All statements received, 

including attachments and other 

supporting materials, are part of the 

public record and subject to public 

disclosure. You should only submit 

information that you wish to make 

publicly available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill 

Luecht, Senior Advisor, Office of 

Legislative and External Affairs, CDFI 

Fund; (202) 653–0322 (this is not a tollfree number); or AdvisoryBoard@

cdfi.treas.gov. Other information 

regarding the CDFI Fund and its 

programs may be obtained through the 

CDFI Fund’s website at https://

www.cdfifund.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

104(d) of the Riegle Community 

Development and Regulatory 

Improvement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103– 

325), which created the CDFI Fund, 

established the Advisory Board. The 

charter for the Advisory Board has been 

filed in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 

U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and with the 

approval of the Secretary of the 

Treasury. 

The function of the Advisory Board is 

to advise the Director of the CDFI Fund 

(who has been delegated the authority to 

administer the CDFI Fund) on the 

policies regarding the activities of the 

CDFI Fund. The Advisory Board is not 

a governing board, and it does not 

advise the CDFI Fund on approving or 

declining any particular application for 

monetary or non-monetary awards. 

In accordance with section 10(a) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. 1009 and the regulations 

thereunder, Bill Luecht, Designated 

Federal Officer of the Advisory Board, 

has ordered publication of this notice 

that the Advisory Board will convene an 

open meeting, which will be conducted 

virtually, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. eastern 

time on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. 

Members of the public who wish to 

view the virtual meeting will be 

required to register upon entering into 

the virtual meeting, which can be 

accessed 30 minutes prior to its 

scheduled start time. The link to view 

the meeting will be posted under the 

date of the meeting at https://

www.cdfifund.gov/cdab. 

The Advisory Board meeting will 

include an update from Acting Director 

Sigal on the CDFI Fund’s programs and 

CDFI Certification. 

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 4703. 

Marcia Sigal, 

Acting Director, Community Development 

Financial Institutions Fund. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Annual Pay Ranges for Physicians, 

Dentists and Podiatrists of the 

Veterans Health Administration 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: VA is hereby giving notice of 

annual pay ranges, which is the sum of 

the base pay rate and market pay for 

VHA physicians, dentists and 

podiatrists as prescribed by the 

Secretary for Department-wide 

applicability. These annual pay ranges 

are intended to enhance the flexibility 

of the Department to recruit, develop 

and retain the most highly qualified 

providers to serve the Nation’s Veterans 

and maintain a standard of excellence in 

the VA health care system. 

DATES: Annual pay ranges are applicable 

on January 14, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leah Brady, Supervisory Human 

Resources (HR) Specialist, Human 

Resources Center of Expertise, VHA 

Workforce Management and Consulting 

(10A2A), Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20420, 842–288–7894. 

This is not a toll-free number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 38 

U.S.C. 7431(e)(1)(A), not less often than 

once every 2 years, the Secretary must 

prescribe for Department-wide 

applicability the minimum and 

maximum amounts of annual pay that 

may be paid to VHA physicians, 

dentists and podiatrists. 38 U.S.C. 

7431(e)(1)(B) allows the Secretary to 

prescribe separate minimum and 

maximum amounts of annual pay for a 

specialty or assignment. Pursuant to 38 

U.S.C. 7431(e)(1)(C), amounts 

prescribed under section 7431(e) shall 

be published in the Federal Register 

and shall not take effect until at least 60 

days after the date of publication. 

In addition, under 38 U.S.C. 

7431(e)(4), the total amount of 

compensation paid to a physician, 

dentist or podiatrist under title 38 of the 

United States Code cannot exceed, in 

any year, the amount of annual 

compensation (excluding expenses) of 

the President. For the purposes of 

section 7431(e)(4), ‘‘the total amount of 

compensation’’ includes base pay, 

market pay, performance pay, and fee 

basis earnings, but excludes 

recruitment, relocation, retention 

incentives,1 awards for performance and 

special contributions from total 

compensation calculations. 

Background 

The ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs 

Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act 

of 2004’’ (Pub. L. 108–445) was signed 

by the President on December 3, 2004. 


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