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Description: The information in this 

collection is needed to process an 

individual’s claim for non-receipt of 

proceeds from a U.S. Treasury check or 

electronic benefit payments. Once the 

information is analyzed, a 

determination is made, and a 

recommendation is submitted to the 

program agency to either settle or deny 

the claim. 

Form: FS 1133. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

81,000. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 81,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 13,500. 

2. Title: Disclaimer and Consent with 

Respect to United States Savings Bond/ 

Notes. 

OMB Control Number: 1530–0059. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Description: Used to obtain a 

disclaimer and consent as the result of 

an error in registration or otherwise the 

payment, refund of the purchase price, 

or reissue as requested by one person 

would appear to affect the right, title or 

interest of some other person. 

Form: FS 1849. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

450. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 450. 

Estimated Time per Response: 6 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 45. 

3. Title: Checklists of Filings for 

Certified Surety and/or Certified 

Reinsuring Companies and for Admitted 

Reinsurer Companies. 

OMB Control Number: 1530–0061. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Description: This information is 

collected from insurance companies to 

provide Treasury a basis to determine 

acceptability of companies applying for 

a Certificate of Authority to write or 

reinsure Federal surety bonds or as an 

Admitted Reinsurer (not on excess risks 

to U.S.). 

Form: None. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

30. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 30. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 150. 

4. Title: Subscription For Purchase 

and Issue of U.S. Treasury Securities— 

State and Local Government Series. 

OMB Control Number: 1530–0065. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Description: The information is 

necessary to establish and maintain the 

accounts for owners of securities of 

State and Local Government Series. 

Form: FS Form 4144, FS Form 4144– 

1, FS Form 4144–2, FS Form 4144–5, FS 

Form 4144–6, FS Form 4144–7, FS Form 

5237, FS Form 5238, FS Form 5377. 

Affected Public: State, Local and 

Tribal Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

7,105. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 7,105. 

Estimated Time per Response: 23 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,706. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Spencer W. Clark, 

Treasury PRA Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31068 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–AS–P 

UNITED STATES SENTENCING 

COMMISSION 

Sentencing Guidelines for United 

States Courts 

AGENCY: United States Sentencing 

Commission. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The United States Sentencing 

Commission intends to examine the 

criteria it considers in selecting 

guideline amendments that may be 

applied retroactively under the 

Guidelines Manual. As part of its 

statutory authority and responsibility to 

analyze sentencing issues, including 

operation of the federal sentencing 

guidelines, the Commission is 

publishing these issues for comment to 

inform the Commission’s consideration 

of the issues related to this topic. The 

issues for comment are set forth in the 

Supplementary Information portion of 

this notice. 

DATES: Public comment regarding the 

issues for comment set forth in this 

notice should be received by the 

Commission not later than April 18, 

2025. Any public comment received 

after the close of the comment period 

may not be considered. 

ADDRESSES: There are two methods for 

submitting public comment. 

Electronic Submission of Comments. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Public Comment Submission Portal at 

https://comment.ussc.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the following address: United States 

Sentencing Commission, One Columbus 

Circle NE, Suite 2–500, Washington, DC 

20002–8002, Attention: Public Affairs— 

Retroactivity Criteria. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Dukes, Senior Public Affairs 

Specialist, (202) 502–4597. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Sentencing Commission is 

an independent agency in the judicial 

branch of the United States 

Government. The Commission 

promulgates sentencing guidelines and 

policy statements for federal courts 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 994(a). The 

Commission also periodically reviews 

and revises previously promulgated 

guidelines pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 994(o) 

and submits guideline amendments to 

the Congress not later than the first day 

of May each year pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

994(p). 

The Background Commentary to 

§ 1B1.10 (Reduction in Term of 

Imprisonment as a Result of Amended 

Guideline Range (Policy Statement)) 

provides a non-exhaustive list of criteria 

the Commission typically considers in 

selecting the amendments to be 

included in § 1B1.10(d) for retroactive 

application: ‘‘the purpose of the 

amendment, the magnitude of the 

change in the guideline range made by 

the amendment, and the difficulty of 

applying the amendment retroactively 

to determine an amended guideline 

range under subsection (b)(1).’’ USSG 

§ 1B1.10, comment. (backg’d). This nonexhaustive list of criteria has remained 

substantively unchanged since the 

Commission originally promulgated the 

policy statement at § 1B1.10 in 1989. 

Issues for Comment: 

1. The Commission seeks comment on 

whether it should provide further 

guidance on how the existing criteria for 

determining whether an amendment 

should apply retroactively are applied. 

If so, what should that guidance be? 

Should it revise or expand the criteria? 

Are there additional criteria that the 


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Commission should consider beyond 

those listed in the existing Background 

Commentary to § 1B1.10? Are there 

identifiable sources that the 

Commission should consult that 

highlight retroactivity criteria relied 

upon by other legislative or rulemaking 

bodies? 

If the Commission continues to list 

criteria relevant to determining whether 

an amendment should apply 

retroactively, should it adopt any brightline rules? Is there a different approach 

that the Commission should consider 

for these purposes? 

2. The Commission seeks comment on 

whether any listed criteria are more 

appropriately addressed in the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure rather than the Background 

Commentary to § 1B1.10. 

3. Rule 4.1A (Retroactive Application 

of Amendments) of the Commission’s 

Rules of Practice and Procedure 

provides ‘‘[g]enerally, promulgated 

amendments will be given prospective 

application only.’’ The Commission 

seeks comment on whether it should 

retain this provision. If so, how should 

the Commission ensure that any listed 

criteria reflect this provision? 

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 994(a), (o), (p), 

(x); USSC Rules of Practice and 

Procedure 2.2, 4.3, 4.4. 

Carlton W. Reeves, 

Chair. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31278 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 2210–40–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Enhanced-Use Lease of Department of 

Veterans Affairs Real Property for the 

Development of Permanent Supportive 

Housing at the Charlie Norwood 

Uptown Veterans Affairs Medical 

Center, Augusta, Georgia Campus 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to enter into an 

enhanced-use lease. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this Federal 

Register notice is to provide the public 

with notice that the Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs (VA) intends to enter 

into an Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of 

Buildings 19 and 20 on approximately 

2.46 acres of underutilized land on the 

campus of the Charlie Norwood Uptown 

VA Medical Center. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: C. 

Brett Simms, Executive Director, Office 

of Asset Enterprise Management, Office 

of Management, 810 Vermont Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202) 502– 

0262. This is not a toll-free number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 38 U.S.C. 8161, et seq. as amended by 

Public Law 117–168, the Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs is authorized to enter 

into an EUL, for a term of up to 99 years, 

that (a) provides supportive housing for 

Veterans and their families, or (b) 

enhances the use of the leased property 

by directly or indirectly benefitting 

Veterans. In addition, the EUL must not 

be inconsistent with and not adversely 

affect VA’s mission or the operation of 

VA’s facilities, programs, and services 

in the area of the leased property. 

Consistent with this authority, the 

Secretary intends to enter into an EUL 

for the purpose of outleasing Buildings 

19 and 20 on approximately 2.46 acres 

of underutilized land on the campus of 

the Charlie Norwood Uptown VA 

Medical Center, to develop 

approximately 77 units of permanent 

supportive housing for Veterans and 

their families. The competitively 

selected EUL lessee/developer, 

Freedom’s Path Augusta III, LP will 

finance, design, develop, renovate, 

construct, manage, maintain, and 

operate housing for eligible homeless 

Veterans or Veterans at risk of 

homelessness on a priority placement 

basis. In addition, the lessee/developer 

will be required to provide supportive 

services that guide Veteran residents 

towards long-term independence and 

self-sufficiency. 

Signing Authority 

Denis McDonough, Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs, approved and signed 

this document on December 19, 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 General Counsel, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30961 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Notice of Request for Information on 

the Department of Veterans Affairs 

Rehabilitation Counselor Standard of 

Practice 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Request for Information. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs is requesting information to 

assist in developing a national standard 

of practice for VA Rehabilitation 

Counselors. VA seeks comments on 

various topics to help inform VA’s 

development of this national standard of 

practice. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 28, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Comments must be 

submitted through https://

www.regulations.gov/ Except as 

provided below, comments received 

before the close of the comment period 

will be available at https://

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 the following 

website as soon as possible after they 

have been received: https://

www.regulations.gov/. VA will not post 

on https://www.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. 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 will not be considered. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ethan Kalett, Office of Regulations, 

Appeals and Policy (10BRAP), Veterans 

Health Administration, Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20420, 202–461– 

0500. This is not a toll-free number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority 

Chapters 73 and 74 of 38 U.S.C. and 

38 U.S.C. 303 authorize the Secretary to 

regulate VA health care professions to 

make certain that VA’s health care 

system provides safe and effective 

health care by qualified health care 

professionals to ensure the well-being of 

those Veterans who have borne the 

battle. 

On November 12, 2020, VA published 

an interim final rule confirming that VA 

health care professionals may practice 

their health care profession consistent 

with the scope and requirements of their 

VA employment, notwithstanding any 

state license, registration, certification, 

or other requirements that unduly 

interfere with their practice. 38 CFR 

17.419; 85 FR 71838. Specifically, this 

rulemaking confirmed VA’s current 

practice of permitting VA health care 

professionals to deliver health care 


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