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the incentive tier of the Section 5307 

formula apportionment. 

Under this proposal, FTA would 

continue to automatically grant a Full 

Reporting waiver for agencies that 

report that they operate in a primary or 

secondary UZA and report 30 or fewer 

VOMS in the NTD annual report 

(assuming all figures have been 

validated). Agencies that neither operate 

in a UZA nor receive or benefit from 

Section 5307 funding would not need to 

apply for this waiver. 

FTA proposes that this waiver would 

be available beginning in NTD Report 

Year (RY) 2025. 

H. Voluntary Reporter Tag 

Recipients and beneficiaries of FTA 

funding under either the Urbanized 

Area Formula Program (49 U.S.C. 5307) 

or Rural Area Formula Program (49 

U.S.C. 5311) are required by law to 

report to the NTD. FTA funding 

recipients that own, operate, or manage 

public transportation capital assets are 

required to provide more limited reports 

to the NTD regarding Transit Asset 

Management. However, while most 

transit agencies report to the NTD 

because they are required to do so by 

Federal statute, some transit agencies do 

not receive or benefit from FTA funds 

but submit NTD reports on a voluntary 

basis. The service reported by these 

agencies generate funding for the state 

or urbanized area(s) where they report 

their service. The term ‘‘transit agency’’ 

refers to an entity providing public 

transportation as defined in 49 U.S.C. 

5302. 

The term ‘‘Voluntary Reporter’’ refers 

to public or private transit agencies that 

are not obligated by Federal statute to 

report to the NTD, but voluntarily 

comply with all NTD reporting 

requirements under the NTD regulation 

(49 CFR part 630) and the Uniform 

System of Accounts (USOA). Voluntary 

Reporters might report data to the NTD 

with the intention of future inclusion in 

FTA’s Federal funding awards. 

Currently, FTA does not collect data 

that specifically designates an agency’s 

‘‘required’’ versus ‘‘voluntary’’ reporting 

status in the NTD reporting system. 

While an agency’s reported financial 

and revenue vehicle inventory data can 

indicate their reporting obligations, FTA 

does not require agencies to directly 

attest to their reporting status each 

report year. 

To improve data collection from 

transit agencies, FTA proposes an 

update to the annual reporting system 

that would require agencies to identify 

whether they are Voluntary Reporters. 

Adding this signifier to the NTD 

platform would streamline and simplify 

the process of identifying required 

versus Voluntary Reporters through a 

single question, which agencies would 

answer each report year. 

Under this proposal, each unique, 

active NTD ID would answer a question 

on the ‘‘Identification’’ (B–10) form in 

their annual NTD report packages that 

would ask them to attest to their 

Voluntary Reporter status. Agencies 

would respond to the question by 

selecting ‘‘Yes’’ or ‘‘No’’ in the report 

form. Agencies that are Section 5307 or 

5311 recipients or beneficiaries, or that 

have continuing grant requirements 

under either of these programs, would 

select ‘‘No’’ to indicate they are not 

Voluntary Reporters and are required to 

report to the NTD. Agencies who have 

no Federal requirement to report to the 

NTD, including not being held to the 

continuing grant requirements described 

above, would select ‘‘Yes’’ to indicate 

that they are Voluntary Reporters. 

FTA is proposing that this 

requirement apply to all reporter types, 

including Full and Reduced Urban 

Reporters, Tribes, State DOTs, Rural 

General Public Transit Reporters, and 

Capital Asset Reporters. In cases where 

it is evident and uncontestable that the 

reporter is a recipient of FTA funding— 

for instance, a rural subrecipient of a 

State—this field could be automatically 

populated for them. 

Under this proposal, transit agencies 

must recertify their voluntary reporting 

status each report year. This would 

allow agencies to either verify that their 

previous reporting status is accurate in 

the current reporting period or update 

their reporting status if it has changed. 

The question would reset at the 

beginning of each report year so that 

agencies could select their responses for 

that particular year. For example, if an 

agency was a Voluntary Reporter in 

Report Year (RY) 2024, but received 

Section 5307 funds in RY 2025, the 

agency would no longer be considered 

a Voluntary Reporter, and must answer 

‘‘No’’ to the Voluntary Reporter question 

in the B–10 form in RY 2025. 

FTA would verify reporters’ responses 

in the B–10 form through the NTD data 

validation process. For example, if an 

agency answers that they are voluntarily 

reporting in a given report year, FTA 

would not expect that agency to report 

Section 5307 or 5311 funds expended 

on operations or capital in their annual 

NTD report. FTA also would not expect 

the agency to report revenue vehicles 

with the Urbanized Area Formula 

Program or Rural Area Formula Program 

funding codes on the Revenue Vehicle 

Inventory (A–30) forms; if an agency has 

existing revenue vehicles with either of 

these funding types already in their 

report, the agency’s validation analyst 

would ask the agency to confirm 

whether the vehicle(s) are still within 

their useful life periods. This 

verification ensures that the Voluntary 

Reporter status is consistent with the 

rest of the report and accurate in the 

NTD annual data publications. 

Please note that this change would 

not affect existing reporting 

requirements for mandatory reporters, 

nor affect the timing of when agencies 

become subject to mandatory reporting 

requirements. Agencies are required to 

report to the National Transit Database 

if they receive Federal funding, are 

applying for Federal funding in the 

coming year, or maintain capital assets 

purchased with Federal funds. This is 

unchanged from prior policy. For more 

information, please consult the NTD 

Reporting Manuals at https://

www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/manuals. 

FTA proposes that this change would 

take effect beginning in NTD Report 

Year (RY) 2025. 

Veronica Vanterpool, 

Deputy Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Recruitment Notice for the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice of open season for 

recruitment of IRS Taxpayer Advocacy 

Panel (TAP) Members. 

DATES: October 24, 2024, through 

November 14, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

N. Smith, Jr. at 202–317–3087 (not a 

toll-free call). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the Department of the 

Treasury and the Internal Revenue 

Service (IRS) are inviting individuals to 

help improve the nation’s tax agency by 

applying to be members of the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel (TAP). The mission of 

the TAP is to listen to taxpayers, 

identify issues that affect taxpayers, and 

make suggestions for improving IRS 

service and customer satisfaction. The 

TAP serves as an advisory body to the 

Secretary of the Treasury, the 

Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and 

the National Taxpayer Advocate. TAP 

members will participate in 

subcommittees that channel their 


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feedback to the IRS through the Panel’s 

parent committee. 

The IRS is seeking applicants who 

have an interest in good government, a 

personal commitment to volunteer 

approximately 200 to 300 hours a year, 

and a desire to help improve IRS 

customer service. As a Federal advisory 

committee, TAP is required to have a 

fairly balanced membership in terms of 

the points of view represented. Thus, 

TAP membership represents a crosssection of the taxpaying public with at 

least one member from Arkansas, Iowa, 

Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, 

Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, 

Nebraska, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, 

Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 

Potential candidates must be U.S. 

citizens, not a current employee of any 

Bureau of the Treasury Department or 

have worked for any Bureau of the 

Treasury Department within the three 

years of December 1 of the current year 

and must pass a Federal tax compliance 

check and a Federal Bureau of 

Investigation criminal background 

investigation. Applicants who practice 

before the IRS must be in good standing 

with the IRS (meaning not currently 

under suspension or disbarment). 

Federally-registered lobbyists cannot be 

members of the TAP. The IRS is seeking 

members or alternates in the following 

locations: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, 

Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, 

North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, 

Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Vermont, 

Wisconsin, Wyoming. TAP members are 

a diverse group of citizens who 

represent the interests of taxpayers, 

from their respective geographic 

locations as well as taxpayers overall. 

Members provide feedback from a 

taxpayer’s perspective on ways to 

improve IRS customer service and 

administration of the Federal tax 

system, by identifying grassroots 

taxpayer issues. Members should have 

good communication skills and be able 

to speak to taxpayers about TAP and its 

activities, while clearly distinguishing 

between TAP positions and their 

personal viewpoints. 

Interested applicants should visit the 

TAP website at www.improveirs.org for 

more information about TAP. 

Applications may be submitted online 

at www.usajobs.gov. For questions about 

TAP membership, call the TAP toll-free 

number, 1–888–912–1227 and select 

prompt 5. Callers who are outside of the 

U.S. should call 202–317–3087 (not a 

toll-free call). 

The opening date for submitting 

applications is October 24, 2024, and 

the deadline for submitting applications 

is November 14, 2024. Interviews will 

be held. The Department of the Treasury 

will review the recommended 

candidates and make final selections. 

New TAP members will serve a threeyear term starting in December 2024. 

(Note: highly ranked applicants not 

selected as members may be placed on 

a roster of alternates who will be eligible 

to fill future vacancies that may occur 

on the Panel.) 

Questions regarding the selection of 

TAP members may be directed to Fred 

N. Smith, Jr., Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, 

Internal Revenue Service, 1111 

Constitution Avenue NW, TA:TAP 

Room 1509, Washington, DC 20224, or 

202–317–3087 (not a toll-free call). 

Dated: October 25, 2024. 

Shawn Collins, 

Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25245 Filed 10–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

ETAAC Notice of Public Meeting: 

Correction 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Correction notice. 

SUMMARY: This document contains a 

correction to a meeting announcement 

for a Public Meeting of the Electronic 

Tax Administration Advisory 

Committee (ETAAC). The meeting will 

be held Thursday, November 14, at 

12:30. The prior notice, that was 

published in the Federal Register was 

published on October 24, 2024, 

incorrectly stated November 14 was a 

Wednesday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alec 

S. Johnston at 202–307–4299 (not a tollfree number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

ETAAC is a federal advisory 

committee operating pursuant to the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA). As a FACA Committee, the 

ETAAC is required to hold public 

meetings to inform the public of the 

committee’s activities. This notice is an 

announcement of one of the committee’s 

public meetings. 

Correction of Publication 

Accordingly, FR Doc. 2024–24718, 

Notice of Meeting of the ETAAC, 

appearing on page 85009 in the Federal 

Register on Thursday, October 24, 2024, 

is corrected to reflect the correct 

meeting day to be ‘‘Thursday, November 

14, at 12:30 p.m. EDT’’ and not 

‘‘Wednesday, November 14, at 12:30 

p.m. EDT’’. 

Dated: October 25, 2024. 

John A. Lipold, 

Designated Federal Official, Office of 

National Public Liaison, Internal Revenue 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25270 Filed 10–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Capital 

Magnet Fund Performance Report and 

Environmental Review Form 

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, 

Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury will submit the following 

information collection request to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the 

date of publication of this notice. The 

public is invited to submit comments on 

this request. 

DATES: Comments should be received on 

or before December 2, 2024 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the submissions may be 

obtained from Spencer W. Clark by 

emailing PRA@treasury.gov, calling 

(202) 927–5331, or viewing the entire 

information collection request at 

www.reginfo.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Community Development Financial 

Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) 

Title: Capital Magnet Fund 

Performance Report and Environmental 

Review Form. 

OMB Control Number: 1559–NEW. 

Type of Review: Request for a New 

OMB Control Number. 

Description: The Capital Magnet Fund 

(CMF) was established through the 

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 

2008 (HERA; Pub. L. 110–289), as a 


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