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be made to Dwight Wolkow at (202) 

622–1276, or email: comments2TIC@

do.treas.gov. 

When To Report: Data must be 

submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank 

of New York, acting as fiscal agent for 

the Department of the Treasury, by 

March 1, 2024. 

Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This 

data collection has been approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned 

control number 1505–0146. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a valid control number 

assigned by OMB. The estimated 

average annual burden associated with 

this collection of information is 49 

hours per respondent for end-investors 

and custodians that file Schedule 3 

reports covering their foreign securities 

entrusted to U.S. resident custodians, 

146 hours per respondent for large endinvestors filing Schedule 2 reports, and 

546 hours per respondent for large 

custodians of securities filing Schedule 

2 reports. Comments concerning the 

accuracy of this burden estimate and 

suggestions for reducing this burden 

should be directed to the Department of 

the Treasury, Attention: Administrator, 

International Portfolio Investment Data 

Reporting Systems, Room 1050, 

Washington, DC 20220, and to OMB, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Treasury, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Washington, DC 20503. Please also 

email your comments to Dwight 

Wolkow at: comments2TIC@

do.treas.gov. 

Dwight Wolkow, 

Administrator, International Portfolio 

Investment Data Reporting Systems. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0636] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

under OMB Review: Accelerated 

Payment Verification of Completion 

Letter 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Veterans Benefits Administration 

(VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

will submit the collection of 

information abstracted below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

PRA submission describes the nature of 

the information collection and its 

expected cost and burden, and it 

includes the actual data collection 

instrument. 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice by clicking on the following link 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, 

select ‘‘Currently under Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’, then search the 

list for the information collection by 

Title or ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0636.’’ 

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. 2900–0636’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Public Law 107–103 and Public 

Law 110–181; 10 U.S.C. 16131a and 38 CFR 

21.7154(d)(1). 

Title: Accelerated Payment 

Verification of Completion Letter, VA 

Form 22–0840. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0636. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: Eligible Veterans, Service 

members, and beneficiaries electing to 

receive an accelerated payment for 

educational assistance payments must 

certify they received such payment and 

how the payment was used, and the 

data collected from the VA Form 22– 

0840 is used to determine the 

entitlement to the accelerated payment. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published at 88 FR 

63674 on Friday, September 15, 2023, 

Page 63674. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 1 hour. 

Estimated Average Burden Time per 

Respondent: 5 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: One Time. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

10. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Dorothy Glasgow, 

VA PRA Clearance Officer, (Alt.) Office of 

Enterprise and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25503 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Scoping Notice for Preparation of a 

Programmatic Environmental 

Assessment for the Build-to-Suit Lease 

Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) is preparing a 

programmatic environmental 

assessment (PEA) in accordance with 

the regulations implementing the 

procedural provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), as implemented by the Council 

on Environmental Quality regulations, 

and VA’s NEPA Implementing 

Regulations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 18, 2023. VA 

anticipates releasing the draft PEA for a 

30-day public review and comment 

period in the first quarter of fiscal year 

2024. VA will notify stakeholders via 

email/mail, publish a notice of 

availability of the draft PEA in the 

Federal Register and solicit comments 

at that time. The draft PEA will be 

available for review via the VA website: 

www.cfm.va.gov/environmental/. 

ADDRESSES: Comments must be 

submitted through www.regulations.gov. 

Except as provided below, comments 

received before the close of the 

comment period will be available at 

www.regulations.gov for public viewing, 

inspection, or 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 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 

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period’s closing date is considered late 

and will not be considered. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jason Sturm, Environmental Engineer, 

Office of Construction & Facilities 

Management (003C2), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue 

NW, Washington DC 20420, (224) 628– 

1946 (this is not a toll-free number), 

Jason.Sturm@va.gov. Reference ‘‘Buildto-Suit Lease PEA’’ in your 

correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The VA 

Office of Construction and Facilities 

Management, Office of Real Property 

supports VA’s mission by, among other 

functions, leasing space for the 

construction of medical and medically 

related facilities to care for the Nation’s 

Veterans. 

The PEA will analyze the proposed 

construction, renovation, repair and 

operation of community-based 

outpatient clinics, community living 

centers and other similar leased medical 

facilities identified under the VA Office 

of Construction & Facilities 

Management, Office of Real Property 

build-to-suit program. The geographic 

scope of the PEA is all 50 states, the 

District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin 

Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto 

Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 

Northern Mariana Islands, American 

Samoa and Tribal Lands. The PEA aims 

to provide a streamlined NEPA 

compliance process for those recurring, 

predictable, and low-impact 

construction, renovation or repair 

projects that would result in less than 

significant impacts. 

This notice initiates the scoping 

process for the PEA and invites the 

public, government agencies and other 

interested persons and organizations to 

provide comments on the scope of 

issues for analysis, input on potential 

alternatives, or information/analyses 

relevant to the proposed action. 

Use of the PEA would decrease the 

time and cost associated with having to 

prepare stand-alone NEPA 

documentation for those future build-tosuit lease projects that would meet the 

conditions of the PEA. VA would 

complete additional NEPA compliance 

as required on projects outside the 

parameters of the PEA. 

The purpose of the proposed action is 

to provide eligible Veterans common 

medical services, assisted living care 

and related services. The proposed 

action is needed to address current and 

future projected health care gaps and 

operational inefficiencies, especially in 

rural areas where access to common 

medical services offered by Veterans 

Affairs Medical Centers is not an easily 

accessible option. 

The PEA will evaluate the potential 

direct and indirect impacts on the 

human environment from the proposed 

action and alternatives. VA will make 

the Draft PEA available for a public 

comment period following its 

completion. 

Signing Authority 

Denis McDonough, Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs, approved and signed 

this document on November 13, 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. 

Jeffrey M. Martin, 

Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy 

& Management, Office of General Counsel, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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