8324 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 17 / Tuesday, January 28, 2025 / Notices 

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

Melody Braswell, 

Treasury PRA Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01786 Filed 1–27–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0764] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

Under OMB Review: Survey of 

Healthcare Experiences of Patients— 

Dental Care Patient Satisfaction 

Survey (DPSS) 

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 (VHA), 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 

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 and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent by 

February 27, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: To submit comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, please type the 

following link into your browser: 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, 

select ‘‘Currently under Review—Open 

for Public Comments,’’ then search the 

list for the information collection by 

Title or ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0764.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: VA 

PRA information: Maribel Aponte, 202– 

461–8900, vacopaperworkreduact@

va.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Survey of Healthcare 

Experiences of Patients—Dental Care 

Patient Satisfaction Survey (DPSS) (VA 

Form 10–10070). 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0764. 

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRASearch. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The mission of the Veterans 

Health Administration (VHA) is to 

provide high quality medical and dental 

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.’’ The overall purpose of the 

Dental Care Patient Satisfaction Survey 

(DPSS) is to systematically obtain 

information from patients, which can be 

used to identify problems or complaints 

that need attention and to improve the 

quality of dental health care services. 

This information will be collected 

through the DPSS, VA Form 10–10070, 

and may be submitted either on paper 

or electronically by Veterans. The DPSS 

questions have minor changes, to 

include updates to the Race and 

Ethnicity data collection fields to reflect 

current requirements. VHA also is 

prepared to implement an additional 

mode of collecting the information 

utilizing a web-based access system for 

Veterans to submit the survey 

responses. Information obtained from 

this dental survey will be made readily 

available to VA Central Office (VACO), 

Veterans Integrated Service Network 

(VISN), VHA field staff, and 

stakeholders as part of the Network 

Performance Report and via the VA 

Intranet. This data will be used to 

demonstrate that VA is providing 

timely, high quality dental health care 

services to patients and to measure 

improvement toward performance goals. 

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 89 FR 

92740, November 22, 2024. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 12,600 

hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 15 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: Once 

annually. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50,400. 

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

Maribel Aponte, 

VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

Enterprise and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01805 Filed 1–27–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Rehabilitation Research and 

Development Service Scientific Merit 

Review Board; Federal Register Notice 

of Meeting 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. ch. 

10, that a meeting of the Rehabilitation 

Research and Development Service 

(RR&D) Scientific Merit Review Board 

(hereinafter, ‘‘the Board’’) will be held 

on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, via 

Webex from 1–1:30 p.m. EST. The 

meeting will be partially closed to the 

public, with an open portion from 1– 

1:10. The closed portion, from 1:10– 

1:30, will be used for discussion, 

examination of and reference to the 

research applications and scientific 

review. Discussions will involve 

reference to staff and consultant 

critiques of research proposals. 

Discussions will also cover the scientific 

merit of each proposal and the 

qualifications of personnel conducting 

the studies, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Additionally, premature disclosure of 

research information could significantly 

obstruct implementation of proposed 

agency action regarding the research 

proposals. As provided by Public Law 

92–463 subsection 10(d), and amended 

by Public Law 94–409, closing the 

committee meeting is in accordance 

with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B). 

The objective of the Board is to 

provide for the fair and equitable 

selection of the most meritorious 

research projects for support by VA 

research funds and to offer advice for 

research program officials on program 

priorities and policies. The ultimate 

objective of the Board is to ensure that 

the VA RR&D program promotes 

functional independence and improves 

the quality of life for impaired and 

disabled Veterans. 

Board members will advise the 

Deputy Chief Research and 

Development Officer for Investigators, 

Scientific Review and Management 

(ISRM) and the Chief Research and 

Development Officer on the scientific 

and technical merit, mission relevance 

and protection of human and animal 

subjects of the proposals submitted to 

RR&D. The Board does not consider 

grants, contracts or other forms of 

extramural research. 

Members of the public may attend the 

open portion of the meeting via Webex, 

from 1–1:10 p.m., in listen-only mode, 

as the time-limited open agenda does 


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