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Mail: Docket Services: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Fax: 202–366–3383. 

Instructions: Identify docket number, 

DOT–OST–2014–0031, at the beginning 

of your comments, and send two copies. 

To receive confirmation that DOT 

received your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet 

users may access all comments received 

by DOT at http://www.regulations.gov. 

All comments are posted electronically 

without charge or edits, including any 

personal information provided. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our 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). 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. or the street 

address listed above. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

Electronic Access 

You may access comments received 

for this notice at http://

www.regulations.gov, by searching 

docket DOT–OST–2014–0031. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeff.gorham@dot.gov, Office of Airline 

Information, RTS–42, Room E34, Bureau 

of Transportation Statistics, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590–0001 or by phone at 202 366– 

4406. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Approval No.: 2138–0004. 

Title: Submission of Audit Reports— 

Part 248. 

Form No.: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Large certificated air 

carriers. 

Number of Respondents: 71. 

Number of Responses: 71. 

Total Annual Burden: 36 hours. 

Needs and Uses: BTS collects 

independent audited financial reports 

from U.S. certificated air carriers. 

Carriers not having an annual audit 

must file a statement that no such audit 

has been performed. In lieu of the audit 

report, BTS will accept the annual 

report submitted to the stockholders. 

The audited reports are needed by the 

Department of Transportation as (1) a 

means to monitor an air carrier’s 

continuing fitness to operate, (2) 

reference material used by analysts in 

examining foreign route cases (3) 

reference material used by analyst in 

examining proposed mergers, 

acquisitions and consolidations, (4) a 

means whereby BTS sends a copy of the 

report to the International Civil Aviation 

Organization (ICAO) in fulfillment of a 

United States treaty obligation, and (5) 

corroboration of a carrier’s Form 41 

filings. 

The Confidential Information 

Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act 

of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires 

a statistical agency to clearly identify 

information it collects for non-statistical 

purposes. BTS hereby notifies the 

respondents and the public that BTS 

uses the information it collects under 

this OMB approval for non-statistical 

purposes including, but not limited to, 

publication of both Respondent’s 

identity and its data, submission of the 

information to agencies outside BTS for 

review, analysis and possible use in 

regulatory and other administrative 

matters. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 9, 

2024. 

William Chadwick, Jr., 

Director, Office of Airline Information, 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00567 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Scoping Notice for Preparation of a 

Programmatic Environmental 

Assessment for the State Veterans 

Homes Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs is preparing a programmatic 

environmental assessment (PEA) in 

accordance with the regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations, and VA’s NEPA 

Implementing Regulations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments must be 

submitted through www.regulations.gov. 

Except as noted in this section, 

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 

www.regulations.gov as soon as possible 

after they have been received. 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; however, 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 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 ‘‘State 

Veterans Homes PEA’’ in your 

correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The VA 

State Veterans Homes Construction 

Grant Program is a partnership between 

VA and the states by which VA provides 

full or partial grants to a state for 

construction, renovation, or repair of 

state-owned and operated nursing 

homes, domiciliaries, and/or adult day 

health care facilities. The PEA will 

evaluate VA’s proposed Action to issue 

grants through the VA State Veterans 

Homes Construction Grant Program to 

its state partners for construction, 

renovation, or repair of State Veterans 

Homes facilities in 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 future VA State 

Veterans Homes Construction Grant 

Program grants involving construction, 

renovation, and repair projects that 

would result in less than significant 

environmental 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 


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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 VA State 

Veterans Homes Construction Grant 

Program 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 grant program assists in 

providing eligible Veterans and their 

families high- quality, long-term 

domiciliary, nursing, adult day health, 

and hospital care services in a 

comfortable setting. The proposed 

action is needed to provide sufficient 

capacity to meet the increasing health 

care needs of eligible Veterans. 

The PEA will evaluate the potential 

direct and indirect impacts on the 

human environment from the proposed 

action and alternatives. VA anticipates 

releasing the Draft PEA for a 30-day 

public review and comment period later 

in CY 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. Once the Draft PEA is 

released it will be available for review 

via the VA website: www.cfm.va.gov/ 

environmental/. 

Signing Authority 

Denis McDonough, Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs, approved and signed 

this document on January 4, 2024, 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 the Secretary, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00576 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0856] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity: Authorization To Disclose 

Personal Information to a Third Party 

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 

extension 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 March 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. 2900–0856’’ 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 20006, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0856’’ 

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 104–13; 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3521. 

Title: Authorization to Disclose 

Personal Information to a Third Party 

VA Form 29–0975 and Authorization to 

Disclose Personal Information to a Third 

Party VA Form 29–0975e (DocuSign 

Version). 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0856. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: This form will be used by 

the Department of Veterans Affairs 

Insurance Center (VAIC) to enable a 

third party to act on behalf of the 

insured Veteran/beneficiary. Many of 

our customers are of advanced age or 

suffer from limiting disabilities and 

need assistance from a third party to 

conduct their affairs. The information 

collected provides an optional service 

and is not required to receive insurance 

benefits. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 100 hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 5 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,200. 

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. 2024–00494 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

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