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section 3 of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 but for section 3(c)(1) or 

3(c)(7) of . . . [that] Act.’’ In 

cooperation with the Bureau of 

Economic Analysis (BEA), effective for 

TIC reports beginning as of January 1, 

2017 and afterwards, reporters of 

investments in private funds that meet 

the definition of direct investment (that 

is, ownership by one person of 10 

percent or more of the voting interest of 

a business enterprise) but display 

characteristics of portfolio investment 

(specifically, investors who do not 

intend to control or influence the 

management of an operating company) 

are required to report through the 

Treasury International Capital (TIC) 

reporting system, where other related 

portfolio investments are already being 

reported, and not to report on BEA’s 

direct investment surveys. Specifically, 

cross-border investments by or into 

private funds are included in TIC 

reports regardless of ownership share if 

they meet BOTH of the following 

criteria: (i) The private fund does not 

own, directly or indirectly through 

another business enterprise, an 

‘‘operating company’’—i.e., a business 

enterprise that is not a private fund or 

a holding company—in which the U.S. 

or foreign parent owns at least 10 

percent of the voting interest, and (ii) If 

the private fund is owned indirectly 

(through one or more other business 

enterprises), there are no ‘‘operating 

companies’’ between the U.S. or foreign 

parent and the indirectly-owned private 

fund. Direct investment in operating 

companies, including investment by 

and through private funds, will 

continue to be reported to BEA. 

Guidance on the decision to report 

investments in certain private funds or 

between entities of certain private funds 

in the TIC system or in BEA surveys can 

be found at: https://www.bea.gov/ 

privatefunds; use the tools labeled ‘‘U.S. 

Investments in Foreign Private Funds’’ 

and ‘‘Foreign Investments in U.S. 

Private Funds.’’ This change aligns the 

U.S. direct investment and portfolio 

investment data more closely with the 

intent of the investment with respect to 

management control. In addition, it 

reduces the burden for respondents, 

many of whom previously reported both 

to the TIC reporting system and to 

BEA’s direct investment reporting 

system. This change in reporting was 

effective January 1, 2017; this update 

will formalize the reporting 

requirements. Note: This change applies 

also to these other TIC forms if the 

reporting requirements of the form are 

met: BC, BL–1, BL–2, BQ–1, BQ–2, BQ– 

3, D, S, SHC(A) and SHL(A). 

(2) The section II.A ‘‘Who Must 

Report’’ of the instructions is updated to 

list out separately ‘‘principal trading 

firms’’ and ’’fund administrators.’’ 

(3) The section II.A ‘‘Who Must 

Report’’ and section II.B ‘‘Consolidation 

Rules’’ of the instructions are updated to 

list out separately Intermediate Holding 

Companies (IHCs), as defined by 

Regulation YY, 12 CFR 252, and to 

clarify that IHCs should follow the same 

consolidation rules that are applicable 

to Bank Holding Companies (BHCs), 

Financial Holding Companies (FHCs), 

and Savings and Loan Holding 

Companies. Regulation YY was effective 

by January 1, 2015, and IHCs are filing 

TIC reports; this update will formalize 

their reporting requirements. 

(4) The section II.F.2 ‘‘What Must Be 

Reported’’ of the instructions is updated 

to clarify that, regarding securities 

involved in security lending agreements 

and repurchase/resale (reverse 

repurchase) agreements, sales of the 

underlying security collateral to other 

parties and the purchases of such 

securities from other parties, undertaken 

in order to return the security collateral 

to the lenders, must be reported. 

(5) The section IV.C.1 columns 1 & 2 

‘‘Column by Column Instructions’’ of 

the instructions is updated to clarify 

that the stripped securities ‘‘teddy 

bears’’ (TBRs), ‘‘tigers’’ (TIGRs), ‘‘cats’’ 

(CATS) and ‘‘cougars’’ (COUGRs) 

should also be classified as U.S. 

Treasury securities. 

(6) The section II.F.2 ‘‘What Must Be 

Reported’’ clarifies that long-term 

Treasury securities are 

Bonds, Notes, TIPS, FRNs and 

Savings Bonds. 

(7) Some other clarifications and 

format changes may be made to improve 

the instructions. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. Form SLT (1505– 

0235). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

408. 

Estimated Average Time per 

Respondent: Average 8.8 hours per 

respondent per filing. The estimated 

average burden per respondent varies 

widely, from about 17 hours per filing 

for a U.S.-resident custodian filing Part 

A and Part B to about 6.5 hours for a 

U.S.-resident issuer or U.S.-resident 

end-investor filing Part B. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 42,912 hours, based on 12 

reporting periods per year. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget approval. All comments will 

become a matter of public record. The 

public is invited to submit written 

comments concerning: (a) Whether 

Form SLT is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Office, including whether the 

information will have practical uses; (b) 

the accuracy of the above estimate of the 

burdens; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, usefulness and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the reporting and/or record 

keeping burdens on respondents, 

including the use of information 

technologies to automate the collection 

of the data; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs of operation, 

maintenance and purchase of services to 

provide information. 

Dwight Wolkow, 

Administrator, International Portfolio 

Investment Data Reporting Systems. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00674 Filed 1–16–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–25–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Health Services Research and 

Development Service, Scientific Merit 

Review Board; Notice of Meetings 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act the Health 

Services Research and Development 

Service Scientific Merit Review Board 

will conduct in-person and 

teleconference meetings of its eleven 

Health Services Research (HSR) 

subcommittees on the dates below from 

8:00 a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. 

(unless otherwise listed) at the FHI 360, 

1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20009 (unless 

otherwise listed): 

• HSR 0—Community Care on March 

13, 2018; 

• HSR 1—Health Care and Clinical 

Management on March 13–14, 2018; 

• HSR 2—Behavioral, Social, and 

Cultural Determinants of Health and 

Care on March 13–14, 2018; 

• HSR 3—Healthcare Informatics on 

March 16, 2018; 

• HSR 4—Mental and Behavioral 

Health on March 15–16, 2018; 

• HSR 5—Health Care System 

Organization and Delivery on March 

15–16, 2018; 

• HSR 6—Post-acute and Long-term 

Care on March 14, 2018; 

• MRA 0—Mentored Research on 

March 16, 2018; 

• HSR 8—Implementation Research 

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• HS8 A—Randomized Program 

Evaluations on March 13, 2018; and 

• HSR 9—Learning Health Initiative 

on March 15, 2018. 

The purpose of the Board is to review 

health services research and 

development applications involving: 

The measurement and evaluation of 

health care services; the testing of new 

methods of health care delivery and 

management; and mentored research. 

Applications are reviewed for scientific 

and technical merit, mission relevance, 

and the protection of human and animal 

subjects. Recommendations regarding 

funding are submitted to the Chief 

Research and Development Officer. 

Each subcommittee meeting of the 

Board will be open to the public the first 

day for approximately one half-hour 

from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at the start 

of the meeting on March 13 (HSR 0, 1, 

2, 8, and HS8A), March 14 (HSR 1, 2, 

6), March 15 (HSR 4, 5, 9), and March 

16 (HSR 3, 4, 5, and MRA 0) to cover 

administrative matters and to discuss 

the general status of the program. 

Members of the public who wish to 

attend the open portion of the 

subcommittee meetings may dial 1 (800) 

767–1750, participant code 10443#. 

The remaining portion of each 

subcommittee meeting will be closed for 

the discussion, examination, reference 

to, and oral review of the intramural 

research proposals and critiques. During 

the closed portion of each subcommittee 

meeting, discussion and 

recommendations will include 

qualifications of the personnel 

conducting the studies (the disclosure of 

which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy), as well as research information 

(the premature disclosure of which 

would likely compromise significantly 

the implementation of proposed agency 

action regarding such research projects). 

As provided by subsection 10(d) of 

Public Law 92–463, as amended by 

Public Law 94–409, closing the meeting 

is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(6) and (9)(B). 

No oral or written comments will be 

accepted from the public for either 

portion of the meetings. Those who plan 

to participate during the open portion of 

a subcommittee meeting should contact 

Ms. Liza Catucci, Administrative 

Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, 

Health Services Research and 

Development Service (10P9H), 810 

Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 

20420, or by email at Liza.Catucci@

va.gov. For further information, please 

call Ms. Catucci at (202) 443–5797. 

Dated: January 11, 2018. 

LaTonya L. Small, 

Federal Advisory Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00650 Filed 1–16–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0712] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity: Survey of Healthcare 

Experiences of Patients (SHEP) 

AGENCY: Veterans Health 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Veterans Health Administration, 

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: Comments must be submitted on 

or before February 16, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the collection of information through 

www.Regulations.gov, or to Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, Attn: 

VA Desk Officer; 725 17th St. NW, 

Washington, DC 20503 or sent through 

electronic mail to oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov. Please refer to ‘‘OMB 

Control No. 2900–0712’’ in any 

correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cynthia Harvey-Pryor, Office of Quality, 

Privacy and Risk (OQPR), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461– 

5870 or email cynthia.harvey-pryor@

va.gov. Please refer to ‘‘OMB Control 

No. 2900–0712’’ in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: E.O. 12862—Setting 

Customer Service Standards. 

Title: Survey of Healthcare 

Experiences of Patients (SHEP). 

SHEP Inpatient Long Form: 10–1465–1 

SHEP Inpatient Short Form: 10–1465–2 

Ambulatory Care Long Form: 

10–1465–3 

Ambulatory Care Short Form: 

10–1465–4 

Clinician and Group CAHPS 3.0 Patient 

Centered Medical Home Short Form: 

10–1465–5 

Clinician and Group CAHPS 3.0 Patient 

Centered Medical Home Long Form: 

10–1465–6 

Home Healthcare CAHPS Long Form: 

10–1465–7 

In-Center Hemodialysis CAHPS Long 

Form: 10–1465–8 

Clinician & Group CAHPS 3.0: 10– 

1465–9 

SHEP Community Care survey: 10– 

1465–10 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0712. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Survey of Health 

Experience of Patients (SHEP) has been 

developed to measure patient 

satisfaction in the Veterans Health 

Administration, and has been in use in 

its present form since 2008. The mission 

of the Veterans Health Administration 

(VHA) is to provide high quality 

medical care to eligible veterans. 

Executive Order 12862, dated 

September 11, 1993, calls for the 

establishment and implementation of 

customer service standards, and for 

agencies to ‘‘survey customers to 

determine the kind and quality of 

services they want and their level of 

satisfaction with current services’’. 

Further emphasized by the Executive 

Order 13571, on ‘‘Streamlining Service 

Delivery and Improving Customer 

Service,’’ issued on April 27, 2011, VA 

must work continuously to ensure that 

their programs are effective and meet 

their customers’ needs. To this end, VA 

is always seeking new and innovative 

ways to ensure the highest levels of 

customer satisfaction. 

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 82 FR 

50488 on October 31, 2017, pages 

50488. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 

10–1465–1—160 hours. 

10–1465–2—18,000 hours. 

10–1465–3—160 hours. 

10–1465–4—120 hours. 

10–1465–5—48,000 hours. 

10–1465–6—8,000 hours. 

10–1465–7—80 hours. 

10–1465–8—120 hours. 

10–1465–9—30,000 hours. 

10–1465–10—72,000 hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 


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