88826 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 217 / Friday, November 8, 2024 / Notices 

POSTAL SERVICE 

International Product Change—Priority 

Mail Express International, Priority Mail 

International & First-Class Package 

International Service Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives 

notice of filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add a Priority 

Mail Express International, Priority Mail 

International & First-Class Package 

International Service contract to the list 

of Negotiated Service Agreements in the 

Competitive Product List in the Mail 

Classification Schedule. 

DATES: Date of notice: November 8, 

2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher C. Meyerson, (202) 268– 

7820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on November 4, 

2024, it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail Express International, 

Priority Mail International & First-Class 

Package International Service Contract 

49 to Competitive Product List. 

Documents are available at 

www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025–265 

and K2025–263. 

Colleen Hibbert-Kapler, 

Attorney, Ethics and Legal Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25939 Filed 11–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

In accordance with the requirement of 

section 3506 (c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 which provides 

opportunity for public comment on new 

or revised data collections, the Railroad 

Retirement Board (RRB) will publish 

periodic summaries of proposed data 

collections. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed information collection is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information has practical 

utility; (b) the accuracy of the RRB’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of the information; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden related to 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

1. Title and purpose of information 

collection: Application for Employee 

Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement 

Act; OMB 3220–0002. 

Section 2(a) of the Railroad 

Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C. 231a) 

provides for payments of age and 

service, disability, and supplemental 

annuities to qualified employees. An 

annuity cannot be paid until the 

employee stops working for a railroad 

employer. In addition, the age and 

service employee must relinquish any 

rights held to such jobs. A disabled 

employee does not need to relinquish 

employee rights until attaining Full 

Retirement Age, or if earlier, when their 

spouse is awarded a spouse annuity. 

Benefits become payable after the 

employee meets certain other 

requirements, which depend on the type 

of annuity payable. The requirements 

for obtaining the annuities are 

prescribed in 20 CFR parts 216 and 220. 

To collect the information needed to 

help determine an applicant’s 

entitlement to, and the amount of, an 

employee retirement annuity the RRB 

uses Forms AA–1, Application for 

Employee Annuity; AA–1d, Application 

for Determination of Employee 

Disability; G–204, Verification of 

Workers Compensation/Public Disability 

Benefit Information, and electronic 

Forms AA–1cert, Application Summary 

and Certification, AA–1sum, 

Application Summary, and AA–1 

(internet), Application for Employee 

Annuity. 

The AA–1 application process obtains 

information from an applicant about 

their marital history, work history, 

military service, benefits from other 

governmental agencies, railroad 

pensions and Medicare entitlement for 

either an age and service or disability 

annuity. An RRB representative 

interviews the applicant either at a field 

office, an itinerant point, or by 

telephone. During the interview, the 

RRB representative enters the 

information obtained into an on-line 

information system. Upon completion of 

the interview, the on-line information 

system generates Form AA–1cert, 

Application Summary and Certification, 

or Form AA–1sum, Application 

Summary, a summary of the information 

that was provided for the applicant to 

review and approve. Form AA–1cert 

documents approval using the 

traditional pen and ink ‘‘wet’’ signature, 

and Form AA–1sum documents 

approval using the alternative signature 

method called Attestation. When the 

RRB representative is unable to contact 

the applicant in person or by telephone, 

for example, the applicant lives in 

another country, a manual version of 

Form AA–1 is used. 

Form AA–1d, Application for 

Determination of Employee’s Disability, 

is completed by an employee who is 

filing for a disability annuity under the 

RRA, or a disability freeze under the 

Social Security Act, for early Medicare 

based on a disability. Form G–204, 

Verification of Worker’s Compensation/ 

Public Disability Benefit Information, is 

used to obtain and verify information 

concerning a worker’s compensation or 

a public disability benefit that is or will 

be paid by a public agency to a disabled 

railroad employee. Form AA–1 

(internet) can be completed by the 

applicant and submitted through the 

RRB’s website at www.rrb.gov. One 

response is requested of each 

respondent. Completion of the forms is 

required to obtain/retain a benefit. The 

RRB proposes no changes to Form AA– 

1, Form AA–1 (internet), Form AA– 

1cert, AA–1sum and Form G–204. 

The RRB proposes the following 

changes to Form AA–1d: 

• Section 1, General Instructions, the 

date is being updated to 06/06/24, 

• Section 6, Information About Your 

Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the 

activity list for question 34, 

• Section 6, Information about Your 

Daily Activities, add a question 35b, 

‘‘Describe and explain if your condition 

affects your memory, concentration, or 

ability to understand and follow 

instructions. (Include when this change 

began.)’’, 

• Section 7, Information About Your 

Work and Earnings, question 43, update 

to 12–2024 in example, 

• Section 11, Certification, question 

63, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from 

the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am 

receiving a disability annuity and fail to 

report work and earnings promptly, I am 

committing a crime punishable by 

Federal law that may result in 

prosecution and/or penalty deductions 

in my annuity payments’’, 

• Corrected the abbreviation word 

‘‘Cont.’’ to ‘‘Continued’’ throughout 

form, and 

• Correct grammar, spacing, heading 

and other issues within the form for 

consistency. 


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