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Housing Program, Oscar.Hines@va.gov, 

202–461–8316 (not a toll-free number). 

Mailed correspondence, which should 

not include application material, should 

be sent to the following address: Loan 

Guaranty Service, VA Central Office, 

Attn: Oscar Hines (262), 810 Vermont 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420. 

All correspondence with VA 

concerning this announcement should 

reference the funding opportunity title 

and funding opportunity number listed 

at the top of this solicitation. Once the 

announcement deadline has passed, VA 

staff may not discuss this competition 

with applicants until the application 

review process has been completed. 

VIII. Other Information 

Section 2108 authorizes VA to 

provide grants for the development of 

new assistive technologies through 

September 30, 2022. Additional 

information related to the SAHAT Grant 

Program administered by LGY is 

available at: http://www.benefits.va.gov/ 

homeloans/adaptedhousing.asp. 

The SAHAT Grant is not a Veterans’ 

benefit. As such, the decisions of the 

Secretary are final and not subject to the 

same appeal rights as decisions related 

to Veterans’ benefits. The Secretary does 

not have a duty to assist technology 

grant applicants in obtaining a grant. 

Grantees will receive payments 

electronically through the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services Payment Management System 

(PMS). All grant recipients should 

adhere to PMS user policies. 

IX. Notices of Funding Opportunity 

In accordance with the Office of 

Management and Budget’s guidance 

located at 2 CFR part 200, all applicable 

Federal laws and relevant Executive 

guidance, the Federal awarding agency 

will review and consider applications 

for funding pursuant to this notice of 

funding opportunity in accordance with 

the Guidance for Grants and Agreements 

in title 2 CFR 

Signing Authority: Denis McDonough, 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved 

this document on January 18, 2022, 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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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0674] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

Under OMB Review: Notice of 

Disagreement: Appeal to the Board of 

Veterans’ Appeals 

AGENCY: Board of Veterans’ Appeals, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA), 

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 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. Refer to ‘‘OMB Control 

No. 2900–0674.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise 

and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics (008), 1717 H Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20006, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0674’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Public Law 115–55; 38 

U.S.C. 5104B, 5108, 5701, 5901, 7103, 

7104, 7105, 7107. 

Title: Decision Review Request: Board 

Appeal (Notice of Disagreement) and 

Appeal to the Board of Veterans’ 

Appeals, VA Form 10182 and VA Form 

9. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0674. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: Appellate review of the 

denial of VA benefits may only be 

initiated by the filing of a Notice of 

Disagreement with the Board. 38 U.S.C. 

7105(a). VA Form 10182 Decision 

Review Request: Board Appeal (Notice 

of Disagreement) is required to initiate 

Board review of an appeal in the 

modernized review system as 

implemented by the Veterans Appeals 

Improvement and Modernization Act of 

2017 (AMA). The VA Form 9 Appeal to 

Board of Veterans’ Appeals may be used 

to complete a legacy appeal to the 

Board. The completed form becomes the 

‘‘substantive appeal’’ (or ‘‘formal 

appeal’’), which is required by the preAMA version of 38 U.S.C. 7105(a) and 

(d)(3) to complete an appeal to the 

Board. Additionally, the proposed 

information collections allow for 

withdrawal of services by a 

representative, requests for changes in 

hearing dates and methods under 38 

U.S.C. 7107, and motions for 

reconsideration pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 

7103(a). 

The Board is requesting to revise the 

currently approved OMB Control No. 

2900–0674 to include an updated VA 

Form 10182 Notice of Disagreement. 

Proposed revisions to the VA Form 

10182 Notice of Disagreement include: 

(1) Removal of the requirement to 

provide a social security number; (2) 

inclusion of checkboxes to indicate a 

preferred method of hearing; (3) 

inclusion of a checkbox to indicate 

whether the decision for which appeal 

is being sought was issued by the 

Veterans Health Administration (VHA); 

(4) provision of a list of examples of 

common issues a claimant may disagree 

with including service connection, 

disability evaluation, or and effective 

date of award; (5) inclusion of a 

checkbox to request an extension of the 

deadline to file a Notice of 

Disagreement; (6) removal of the 

checkbox used to indicate whether the 

Notice of Disagreement has been filed in 

response to a Statement of the Case or 

Supplemental Statement of the Case 

issued under the legacy appeals process; 

(7) replacement of the checkbox for 

indicating the claimant ‘‘is homeless’’ to 

indicate whether the claimant is 

‘‘experiencing homelessness’’; (8) a 

clarified description of the window of 

time within which to submit evidence 

on the Evidence Submission docket; and 

(9) adding a subpart to Part III for issues 

the appellant wishes to include in the 

VA Form 10182 that need to be listed 

on additional sheets. Proposed revisions 

also include updated instructions for 

completing the Notice of Disagreement. 

There is a decrease in the respondent 

burden because the associated control 

number originally included the 

nonstandard legacy Notice of 

Disagreement. Consistent with the 

wind-down of legacy appeals following 

implementation of the AMA, the Board 

is not seeking renewal of the 

nonstandard legacy Notice of 

Disagreement under this control 

number. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 


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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 86 FR 

217 on November 15, 2021, pages 63107 

and 63108. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 64,805 

hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 37 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

126,000. 

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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