83_FR_17297 83 FR 17222 - Veterans' Research and Health Advisory Committee, Notice of Meeting

83 FR 17222 - Veterans' Research and Health Advisory Committee, Notice of Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 75 (April 18, 2018)

Page Range17222-17223
FR Document2018-08112

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17222-17223]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08112]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Veterans' Research and Health Advisory Committee, Notice of 
Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act that the Veterans' Rural Health Advisory 
Committee will meet on May 23-24, 2017. The meeting will be held at 400 
Veterans Avenue, Rec Hall in Bldg. 17, Biloxi, Mississippi 39531 on May 
23-24 the meeting sessions will begin at 8:30

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a.m. (EST) each day and adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (EST). The meetings are 
open to the public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs on rural health care issues affecting Veterans. The Committee 
examines Programs and policies that impact the delivery of VA rural 
health care to Veterans and discusses ways to improve and enhance VA 
access to rural health care services for Veterans.
    The agenda will include updates from Department leadership, Network 
Director South Central VA Health Care Network, Director Gulf Coast 
Veterans Health Care System and the Director Office of Rural Health and 
Committee Chairman, as well as presentations on general health care 
access.
    Public comments will be received at 4:30 p.m. on May 24, 2018. 
Interested parties should contact Ms. Judy Bowie, via email at 
VRHAC@va.gov, via fax at (202) 632-8615, or by mail at 810 Vermont 
Avenue NW (10P1R), Washington, DC 20420. Individuals wishing to speak 
are invited to submit a 1-2 page summary of their comment for inclusion 
in the official meeting record. Any member of the public seeking 
additional information should contact Ms. Bowie at the phone number or 
email address noted above.

    Dated: April 13, 2018.
LaTonya L. Small,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-08112 Filed 4-17-18; 8:45 am]
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17222 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 75 / Wednesday, April 18, 2018 / Notices Department estimates that each year the Department expects all to have room 542, 1800 G Street NW, there will be 3 new respondent carriers. achieved compliance with the Washington DC 20006. The meeting will Estimated Annual Burden on requirement in a prior year. The begin at 8:30 a.m. (EST) on May 7th and Respondents: 0 hours per carrier Department estimates that each year begin at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on May 8th and compliant in a prior year, unless the there will be 3 new respondent carriers. adjourn at 4:00 p.m. (EST) each day. carrier voluntarily elects to modify or Estimated Annual Burden on Both meetings are open to the public. improve its form, and 32 hours per Respondents: 6 hours for carriers to The purpose of the Committee is to carrier creating an online request form. create, test, and deploy the disclaimer. provide advice to the Secretary on the Estimated Total Annual Burden: 96 30 minutes for carriers compliant in rehabilitation needs of Veterans with hours. This estimate was calculated by prior years to associate the notice with disabilities and on the administration of multiplying the total number of labor new links and third-party software. VA’s rehabilitation programs. hours per year that a carrier is estimated Estimated Total Annual Burden: On May 7, 2018, the Committee will to spend to develop, implement, 100.5 hours. This estimate was be provided with ethics training, receive integrate, connect, and test the online calculated by multiplying the total updated briefings from the Advisory request form (32) by the estimated number of labor hours per year that a Committee Management Office (ACMO), number of new respondent carriers each carrier is estimated to spend to develop, Vocational Rehabilitation and year (3). test, and deploy the online request form Employment (VR&E) Service and Frequency: One-time requirement. (6) by the estimated number of new participate in group breakout sessions. 2. Requirement to provide a On May 8, 2018, Committee members respondent carriers each year (3). To disclaimer notice to users when clicking will receive updated briefings on that total we added the product of the a link on a primary website to various VA programs designed to number of hours that we estimated embedded third-party software or an enhance the rehabilitative potential of carriers may spend associating the external website. (14 CFR 382.43(e)). disabled Veterans. Members will also Carriers must provide a disclaimer notice with new weblinks (.5 hours) and the number of carriers that are expected begin their consideration of potential notice for each link on their primary recommendations to be included in the website that enables a user to access to have achieved compliance in a prior year (165). Committee’s next annual report. software or an external website that is Although no time will be allocated for not in the carrier’s control. The Frequency: One-time and recurrent requirements. receiving oral presentations from the disclaimer notice must be activated the public, members of the public may first time a user clicks the link and must Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of this submit written statements for review by notify the user that the application/ the Committee to Sabrina McNeil, website is not within the carrier’s information collection, including: (a) Whether the proposed collection of Designated Federal Officer, Veterans control and may not follow the same Benefits Administration (28), 810 accessibility policies as the primary information is necessary for the Department’s performance; (b) the Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC website. The Department anticipates 20420, or via email at Sabrina.McNeil@ that each covered U.S. and foreign accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for the Department to enhance the va.gov. In the communication, writers carrier will incur costs associated with must identify themselves and state the identifying all links on their websites quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and (d) ways organization, association or person(s) that may require a disclaimer such as they represent. Individuals who wish to developing and reviewing the design that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of the attend the meeting should RSVP to and language for the disclaimer notice, Sabrina McNeil at (202) 461–9618, no as well as developing, testing, and collected information. The agency will summarize and/or include your later than close of business, April 30, deploying the code to the appropriate 2018. Any member of the public seeking web pages. comments in the request for OMB’s clearance of this information collection. additional information should contact The incremental labor hours Sabrina McNeil at the phone number or associated with providing the required Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act email address noted above. disclaimer may vary depending on the of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. Dated: April 12, 2018. number of links on the website to which LaTonya L. Small, this requirement applies. The FRA Issued in Washington, DC, on April 11, estimated that it will take an average of 2018. Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer. 6 labor hours per carrier to identify the Blane A. Workie, links and then develop, test, and deploy [FR Doc. 2018–08005 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am] Assistant General Counsel for Aviation the disclaimer notice on the website. We BILLING CODE P Enforcement and Proceedings. also estimate that it will take less than [FR Doc. 2018–08107 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am] 30 minutes per year for a carrier to BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS associate the notice with any new links AFFAIRS to external websites or third-party software added to their websites. 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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 75 / Wednesday, April 18, 2018 / Notices 17223 a.m. (EST) each day and adjourn at 5:00 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS or sponsor. This request for comment is p.m. (EST). The meetings are open to AFFAIRS being made pursuant to Section the public. 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA. [OMB Control No. 2900–0791] The purpose of the Committee is to With respect to the following advise the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Agency Information Collection collection of information, VBA invites Activity: Notice of Disagreement comments on: (1) Whether the proposed on rural health care issues affecting collection of information is necessary Veterans. The Committee examines AGENCY: Veterans Benefits for the proper performance of VBA’s Programs and policies that impact the Administration, Department of Veterans functions, including whether the delivery of VA rural health care to Affairs. information will have practical utility; Veterans and discusses ways to improve ACTION: Notice. (2) the accuracy of VBA’s estimate of the and enhance VA access to rural health burden of the proposed collection of care services for Veterans. SUMMARY: Veterans Benefits information; (3) ways to enhance the Administration, Department of Veterans The agenda will include updates from quality, utility, and clarity of the Affairs (VA), is announcing an Department leadership, Network information to be collected; and (4) opportunity for public comment on the Director South Central VA Health Care ways to minimize the burden of the proposed collection of certain Network, Director Gulf Coast Veterans collection of information on information by the agency. Under the Health Care System and the Director respondents, including through the use Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of Office of Rural Health and Committee of automated collection techniques or 1995, Federal agencies are required to Chairman, as well as presentations on the use of other forms of information publish notice in the Federal Register general health care access. technology. concerning each proposed collection of Public comments will be received at information, including each proposed Authority: Public Law 104–13; 44 U.S.C. extension of a currently approved 3501–3521. 4:30 p.m. on May 24, 2018. Interested parties should contact Ms. Judy Bowie, collection, and allow 60 days for public Title: Notice of Disagreement (VA via email at VRHAC@va.gov, via fax at comment in response to the notice. Form 21–0958). (202) 632–8615, or by mail at 810 DATES: Written comments and OMB Control Number: 2900–0971. Vermont Avenue NW (10P1R), recommendations on the proposed Type of Review: Revision of a Washington, DC 20420. Individuals collection of information should be currently approved collection. wishing to speak are invited to submit received on or before June 18, 2018. Abstract: Veterans use VA Form 21– a 1–2 page summary of their comment ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 0958 to indicate disagreement with a for inclusion in the official meeting on the collection of information through decision issued by a Regional Office record. Any member of the public Federal Docket Management System (RO) in order to initiate an appeal. This (FDMS) at www.Regulations.gov or to form is the first step in the appeal seeking additional information should Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits process. contact Ms. Bowie at the phone number Administration (20M33), Department of Affected Public: Individuals and or email address noted above. Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue households. Dated: April 13, 2018. NW, Washington, DC 20420 or email to Estimated Annual Burden: 36,000 LaTonya L. Small, nancy.kessinger@va.gov. Please refer to hours. Federal Advisory Committee Management ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0791’’ in any Estimated Average Burden per Office. correspondence. During the comment Respondent: 15 minutes. [FR Doc. 2018–08112 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am] period, comments may be viewed online Frequency of Response: On occasion. through FDMS. Estimated Number of Respondents: BILLING CODE P FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 144,000. Cynthia D. Harvey-Pryor at (202) 461– By direction of the Secretary. 5870. Cynthia D. Harvey-Pryor, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Department Clearance Officer, Office of PRA of 1995, Federal agencies must Quality, Privacy and Risk, Department of obtain approval from the Office of Veterans Affairs. Management and Budget (OMB) for each [FR Doc. 2018–07946 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am] collection of information they conduct BILLING CODE 8320–01–P amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:31 Apr 17, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\18APN1.SGM 18APN1


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FR Citation83 FR 17222 
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