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OMB Control No: 2900-0697	ICR Reference No: 202104-2900-020
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201703-2900-013
Agency/Subagency: VA	Agency Tracking No: VBA-EDU-NK
Title: Application for Approval of a Licensing or Certification Test and Organization or Entity; 38 CFR 21.4268
Type of Information Collection: Reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 08/23/2021
	Date Received in OIRA: 07/19/2021
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2024	36 Months From Approved
Responses	571	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	1,713	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses	571	-1,880	2,451
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,713	896	817
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: There is an increase in the average number of annual responses received for the licensing or certification tests and the organizations offering them, due to the consideration and use of 5 years of data, rather than the typical 3-year use of data. The previous renewal did not account for data covering 2016 and 2017. Therefore, the data used for this renewal submission represents years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 resulting in the increase in burden.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $144,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Maribel Aponte 202 266-4688 maribel.aponte@va.gov

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