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changes to the notice are necessary. This
matching program will be valid for 18
months from the effective date of this
notice.
Written comments may be
submitted through www.Regulations.gov
by mail or hand-delivery to the Director,
Regulations Management (00REG),
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810
Vermont Ave. NW, Room 1068,
Washington, DC 20420; or by fax to
(202) 273–9026 (not a toll-free number).
Comments should indicate that they are
submitted in response to Matching
Program IRS/VA. Copies of comments
received will be available for public
inspection in the Office of Regulation
Policy and Management, Room 1063B,
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. Monday through Friday (except
holidays). Please call (202) 461–4902 for
an appointment. (This is not a toll-free
number.) In addition, during the
comment period, comments may be
viewed online through the Federal
Docket Management System (FDMS) at
www.Regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
LeRoy F. Garcia, Acting Director, Health
Eligibility Center, (404) 848–5300 (this
is not a toll free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Veterans Affairs has
statutory authorization under 38 U.S.C.
5317, 38 U.S.C. 5106, 26 U.S.C.
6103(l)(7)(D)(viii) and 5 U.S.C. 552a to
establish matching agreements and
request and use income information
from other agencies for purposes of
verification of income for determining
eligibility for benefits. 38 U.S.C.
1710(a)(2)(G), 1710(a)(3), and 1710(b)
identify those veterans whose basic
eligibility for medical care benefits is
dependent upon their financial status.
Eligibility for nonservice-connected and
zero percent noncompensable serviceconnected veterans is determined based
on the veteran’s inability to defray the
expenses for necessary care as defined
in 38 U.S.C. 1722. This determination
can affect their responsibility to
participate in the cost of their care
through copayments and their
assignment to an enrollment priority
group. The goal of this match is to
obtain IRS unearned income
information data needed for the income
verification process. The VA records
involved in the match are ‘‘Income
Verification Records—VA’’
(89VA10NB). The IRS records are from
the Information Return Master File
(IRMF) Process File, Treas/IRS 22.061,
through the Disclosure of Information to
Federal, State and Local Agencies
(DIFSLA) program. A copy of this notice

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has been sent to both Houses of
Congress and OMB.
Participating Agencies: Department of
Veterans Affairs/Veteran
HealthAdministration and Internal
Revenue Service.
Authority for Conducting the
Matching Program: This agreement is
executed under the Privacy Act of 1974,
5 United States Code (U.S.C.) § 552a, as
amended by the Computer Matching
and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, and
the regulations and guidance
promulgated thereunder. Legal authority
for the disclosures under this agreement
is 38 U.S.C. 5106 and 5317, and 26
U.S.C. 6103(l)(7)(D)(viii). Under 38
U.S.C. 1710, VA/VHA has a statutory
obligation to collect income information
from certain applicants for medical care
and to use that income data to
determine the appropriate eligibility
category for the applicant’s medical
care. 26 U.S.C. 6103(l)(7) authorizes the
disclosure of tax return information
with respect to net earnings from selfemployment and wages, as defined by
relevant sections of the Internal
Revenue Code (IRC), to Federal, state,
and local agencies administering certain
benefit programs under Title 38 of the
U.S.C.
Purpose(s): To identify and verify
those veterans whose basic eligibility for
medical care benefits is dependent upon
their financial status and ensure they
are in the correct Priority Group and
copayment status.
Categories of Individuals: Nonserviceconnected and zero percent
noncompensable service-connected
veterans who are in Priority Group 5
based on their inability to defray the
expenses for necessary care as defined
in 38 U.S.C. 1722.
Categories of Records: The VA records
involved in the match are ‘‘Income
Verification Records—VA’’
(89VA10NB). The IRS will provide
return information with respect to
unearned income from the Information
Return Master File (IRMF) Process File,
Treas/IRS 22.061.
System(s) of Records: VHA’s System
of Records entitled ‘‘Income Verification
Records—VA’’ (89VA10NB) (Routine
use nineteen (19)), as published at 73 FR
26192 (May 8, 2008), and updated at 78
FR 76897 (December 19, 2013). IRS will
extract return information with respect
to unearned income from the
Information Return Master File (IRMF)
Processing File, Treas/IRS 22.061, as
published at 80 FR 54081 (September 8,
2015), through the Disclosure of
Information to Federal, State and Local
Agencies (DIFSLA) program.

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Signing Authority
The Senior Agency Official for
Privacy, or designee, approved this
document 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. John Buck, Director
for the Office of Privacy, Information
and Identity Protection, Department of
Veterans Affairs approved this
document on June 13, 2018 for
publication.
Dated: June 14, 2018.
Kathleen M. Manwell,
Program Analyst, VA Privacy Service, Office
of Privacy, Information and Identity
Protection, Quality, Privacy and Risk, Office
of Information and Technology, Department
of Veterans Affairs.
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Agency Information Collection
Activity: Application in Acquiring
Specially Adapted Housing or Special
Adaptation Grant
Loan Guaranty Service,
Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, this notice announces that the
Loan Guaranty Service, 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.

SUMMARY:

Comments must be submitted on
or before July 19, 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. 2900–0132’’ in any
correspondence.
DATES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cynthia Harvey-Pryor, Office of Quality,
Privacy and Risk (OQPR), Department of

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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.
2900–0132’’ in any correspondence.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: 38 U.S.C. 2108.
Title: Application in Acquiring
Specially Adapted Housing or Special
Adaptation Grant.
OMB Control Number: 2900–0132.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: Title 38, U.S.C., chapter 21,
authorizes a VA program of grants for
specially adapted housing for disabled
veterans or servicemembers. Section
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outlines those determinations that must
be made by VA before such grant is
approved for a particular veteran or
servicemember. VA Form 26–4555 is
used to gather the necessary information
to determine Veteran eligibility for the
SAH or SHA grant.
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 83 FR
12654 on March 22, 2018, pages 12654–
12655.

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Affected Public: Individuals and
households.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,166
hours.
Estimated Average Burden per
Respondent: 10 minutes.
Frequency of Response: One time.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
7,000 per year.
By direction of the Secretary.
Cynthia D. Harvey-Pryor,
Department Clearance Officer, Office of
Quality, Privacy and Risk, Department of
Veterans Affairs.
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