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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. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24942 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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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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The law’s major provisions established 

a new pay system for VHA physicians 

and dentists consisting of base pay, 

market pay and performance pay. These 

three components create a system of pay 

that is driven by both market indicators 

and employee performance, while 

recognizing employee tenure in VHA. 

While the base pay component is set by 

statute, market pay is intended to reflect 

the recruitment and retention needs for 

the specialty or assignment of a 

particular physician or dentist at a 

facility. Further, performance pay is 

intended to recognize the achievement 

of specific goals and performance 

objectives prescribed annually. On April 8, 2019, the President signed 

Public Law 116–12, which amended 38 

U.S.C. 7431 to include podiatrists 

within the physician and dentist pay 

system, authorizing podiatrists to 

receive base pay, market pay and 

performance pay. With the amendment, 

podiatrists are also subject to the same 

limitations and requirements as 

physicians and dentists under section 

7431. 

VA will consolidate pay table 1 and 

2, resulting in the elimination of a pay 

table. Changes to the minimum and 

maximum amounts for the revised pay 

tables 1 and 2 have been made. The 

maximum amount for the former pay 

table 3 (now pay table 2) remains 

unchanged since the 2016 publication 

in the Federal Register. Pay tables 1 and 

2 will cover the clinical specialties, with 

pay tables 3 and 4 covering the 

executive assignments. 

Discussion 

VA identified and utilized salary 

survey data sources which most closely 

represent VA comparability in the areas 

of practice setting, employment 

environment and hospital/health care 

systems. The Association of American 

Medical Colleges, Sullivan Cotter and 

Associates, Medical Group Management 

Association, Korn Ferry Healthcare 

National and Executive Report, Mercer 

Integrated Health Networks and the 

Survey of Dental Practice published by 

the American Dental Association were 

collectively utilized as benchmarks to 

prescribe annual pay ranges across the 

scope of assignments/specialties within 

the Department. While aggregating the 

data, a preponderance of weight was 

given to those surveys which most 

directly resembled the environment of 

the Department. VA continued the practice of grouping 

specialties into consolidated pay ranges 

to accommodate the more than 40 

specialties that currently exist in the VA 

system. This allows VA to use multiple 

salary survey data sources to minimize 

disparities and aberrations that may 

surface from data involving smaller 

samples that change from year to year. 

Aggregating multiple survey sources 

into like groupings results in greater 

confidence that the average 

compensation reported is truly 

representative. The aggregation of data 

provides for a large enough sample size 

to provide maximum flexibility for pay 

setting for VHA physicians, dentists and 

podiatrists. In developing the annual pay ranges, 

distinctive principles were factored into 

the compensation analysis of the data. 

The first principle is to ensure that the 

minimum and maximum salaries are at 

a level that accommodates special 

employment situations from fellowships 

and medical research career 

development awards to Nobel Laureates; 

high-cost areas; and internationally 

renowned clinicians. The second 

principle provides ranges large enough 

to accommodate career progression, 

geographic differences, subspecialization and other special factors. Clinical specialties were reviewed 

against available, relevant private sector 

data. The specialties are grouped into 

two (formerly three) clinical pay ranges 

that reflect comparable complexity in 

salary, recruitment and retention 

considerations. The Steering Committee 

recommendations included 

consolidating the former pay tables 1 

and 2, designating two clinical pay 

ranges (pay tables 1 and 2) for the 

varying clinical specialties and 

designating pay tables 3 and 4 for 

executive assignments. The Steering 

Committee also made recommendations 

to add new and realign existing 

specialties to different clinical pay 

ranges, as well as changes to the 

minimum and maximum pay ranges. 

Tier level Minimum Maximum 

Pay Table 1—Clinical Specialty 

Tier 1 ........................ $115,587 $300,000 

Tier 2 ........................ 145,000 320,000 

Tier 3 ........................ 165,000 336,000 

Pay Table 1—Covered Clinical Specialties 

Allergy and Immunology, Endocrinology, 

Endodontics, Family Medicine, General 

Practice—Dentistry, Geriatrics, Health 

Informatics, Hospitalist, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Neurology, 

Nocturnist, Palliative Care, Periodontics, 

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Spinal 

Cord Injury, Podiatry (General), Preventive 

Medicine, Primary Care, Prosthodontics, 

Psychiatry, Rheumatology, Sleep Medicine, 

All other specialties or assignments. 

Pay Table 2—Clinical Specialty 

Tier level Minimum Maximum 

Tier 1 ........................ $115,587 $400,000 

Tier 2 ........................ 200,000 400,000 

Pay Table 2—Covered Clinical Specialties 

Anatomic Pathology, Anesthesiology, Cardiology (Invasive/Non-Interventional), Cardiology (Non-Invasive), Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Critical Care, Dermatology, Dermatology (Mohs), Emergency Medicine, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Gynecology, Hematology—Oncology, Interventional Cardiology, Interventional Radiology, Nephrology, Neurosurgery, Nuclear 

Medicine, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery, 

Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pain 

Management (Interventional & Non-Operating Room Anesthesiology), Pain Management (PM&R), Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Podiatry (Surgery-Forefoot, Rearfoot/ 

Ankle, Advanced Rearfoot/Ankle), Pulmonary, Radiology (Diagnostic), Radiation 

Oncology, Urology, Vascular Surgery. 

Pay Table 3—Chief Medical Officer 

Assignments 

Tier level Minimum Maximum 

Tier 1 ........................ $150,000 $400,000 

Tier 2 ........................ 147,000 375,000 

Tier 3 ........................ 145,000 350,000 

Tier 4 ........................ 140,000 325,000 

Pay Table 3—Covered Assignments 

The recommendation is to decouple VHA 

Chiefs of Staff and Network Chief Medical 

Officers Tier assignments for Chiefs of 

Staff from their complexity levels to address recruitment and retention issues. By 

decoupling the provider from their facility, 

this allows individual qualifications to be 

acknowledged. 

Tier 1—Network Chief Medical Officer. 

Tier 2—Chief of Staff. 

Tier 3—Deputy Network Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Chief of Staff. 

Tier 4—Associate Chief of Staff. 

Pay Table 4—Executive Assignments 

No discussions took place regarding pay 

table 4 (formerly pay table 5) other than 

the pay table number changing due to 

combining of other pay tables. 

Tier level Minimum Maximum 

Tier 1 ........................ $145,000 $310,000 

Tier 2 ........................ 145,000 295,000 

Tier 3 ........................ 145,000 285,000 


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Tier level 

Pay Table 4—Covered Assignments 

Deputy Under Secretary for Health; Assistant 

Under Secretaries for Health; Associate 

Deputy Under Secretary for Health; Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health; 

Chief Officers (VHA Central Office (CO)); 

Network Directors; Medical Center Directors; Executive Directors (VHA CO); Deputy to the Assistant Under Secretaries for 

Health; Chief Consultants (VHA CO); Deputy Chief Officers (VHA CO); Deputy Network Directors; Deputy Medical Center Directors; Deputy Chief Consultants (VHA 

CO); Deputy to the Executive Directors 

(VHA CO); VHA CO physicians, dentists or 

podiatrists (non-Senior Executive Service 

equivalents) with an administrative/executive role for more than 50% of their fulltime equivalent. 

Signing Authority 

Denis McDonough, Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs, approved and signed 

this document on October 24, 2023, and 

authorized the undersigned to sign and 

submit the document to the Office of the 

Federal Register for publication 

electronically as an official document of 

the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Luvenia Potts, 

Regulation Development Coordinator, Office 

of Regulation Policy & Management, Office 

of General Counsel, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24893 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity: Monthly Progress ReportVeteran Readiness and Employment 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 

new 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 January 12, 2024. 

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–NEW’’ 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), 810 Vermont Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20420, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–NEW’’ 

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: 38 U.S.C 3116 and 3117. 

Title: Monthly Progress ReportVeteran Readiness and Employment. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–NEW. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Abstract: VA Form 28–10289 is 

primarily used to gather information to 

determine the Veteran’s monthly 

employment progress as outlined in his 

or her Individualized Employment 

Assistance Plan. Without this 

information, VR&E service is unable to 

ensure that program participants are 

receiving the necessary employment 

services to ensure the successful 

completion of their rehabilitation 

program. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 3,897 

hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 15 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: Monthly. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

15,586. 

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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