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estimated hour burden per response is
1 hour.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden associated with this
collection is 16,000 hours.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: The estimated total annual
cost burden associated with this
collection of information is $0. Costs for
this collection of information are
included in those reported for USCIS
Form I–485 (OMB Control Number
1615–0023) and USCIS Form I–140
(OMB Control Number 1615–0015).
Dated: January 11, 2022.
Samantha L. Deshommes,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
[OMB Control Number 1615–0137]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension, Without Change,
of a Currently Approved Collection:
Application for Employment
Authorization for Abused
Nonimmigrant Spouse
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) will be
submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until February 18,
2022.
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SUMMARY:

Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
regarding the estimated public burden
and associated response time, must be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal website at http://
www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID

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number USCIS–2016–0004. All
submissions received must include the
OMB Control Number 1615–0137 in the
body of the letter, the agency name and
Docket ID USCIS–2016–0004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division,
Samantha Deshommes, Chief,
Telephone number (240) 721–3000
(This is not a toll-free number;
comments are not accepted via
telephone message.). Please note contact
information provided here is solely for
questions regarding this notice. It is not
for individual case status inquiries.
Applicants seeking information about
the status of their individual cases can
check Case Status Online, available at
the USCIS website at http://
www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS
Contact Center at (800) 375–5283; TTY
(800) 767–1833.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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The information collection notice was
previously published in the Federal
Register on October 29, 2021, at 86 FR
60060, allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. USCIS received two
comments in connection with the 60day notice.
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions,
or additional information by visiting the
Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
http://www.regulations.gov and enter
USCIS–2016–0004 in the search box.
The comments submitted to USCIS via
this method are visible to the Office of
Management and Budget and comply
with the requirements of 5 CFR
1320.12(c). All submissions will be
posted, without change, to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at http://
www.regulations.gov, and will include
any personal information you provide.
Therefore, submitting this information
makes it public. You may wish to
consider limiting the amount of
personal information that you provide
in any voluntary submission you make
to DHS. DHS may withhold information
provided in comments from public
viewing that it determines may impact
the privacy of an individual or is
offensive. For additional information,
please read the Privacy Act notice that
is available via the link in the footer of
http://www.regulations.gov.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
should address one or more of the
following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
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functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Extension, Without Change, of a
Currently Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Employment
Authorization for Abused
Nonimmigrant Spouse.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the DHS
sponsoring the collection: I–765V;
USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. USCIS uses Form I–765V,
Application for Employment
Authorization for Abused
Nonimmigrant Spouse, to collect the
information needed determine if the
applicant is eligible for an initial EAD
or renewal EAD as a qualifying abused
nonimmigrant spouse. Noncitizens are
required to possess an EAD as evidence
of work authorization. To be authorized
for employment, a noncitizen must be
lawfully admitted for permanent
residence or authorized to be so
employed by the INA or under
regulations issued by DHS. Pursuant to
statutory or regulatory authorization,
certain noncitizens are authorized to be
employed in the United States without
restrictions as to location or type of
employment as a condition of their
admission or subsequent change to one
of the indicated classes. USCIS may
determine the validity period assigned
to any document issued evidencing a
noncitizen’s authorization to work in
the United States. USCIS also collects
biometric information from EAD
applicants to verify their identity, check
or update their background information,
and produce the EAD card.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
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estimated for an average respondent to
respond: The estimated total number of
respondents for the information
collection I–765V is 350 and the
estimated hour burden per response is
3.75 hours; the estimated total number
of respondents for the information
collection Biometric Processing is 350
and the estimated hour burden per
response is 1.17 hours.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden associated with this
collection is 1,723 hours.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: The estimated total annual
cost burden associated with this
collection of information is $87,500.
Dated: January 11, 2022.
Samantha L. Deshommes,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6310–N–01]

Identification of Federal Financial
Assistance Infrastructure Programs
Subject to the Build America, Buy
America Provisions of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Office of Chief Financial
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces that
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD, the Department)
has conducted an initial review required
by the Build America, Buy America Act
(the Act) to identify and evaluate its
Federal financial assistance programs
for infrastructure to determine whether
they are inconsistent with the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(the IIJA). The Act imposes domestic
content procurement preference
requirements on Federal financial
assistance programs for infrastructure
that do not currently have such a
requirement and requires Federal
agencies to evaluate each financial
assistance program for infrastructure
administered by the agency to identify
programs inconsistent with the Act’s
requirements for application of a
domestic procurement preference. Each
Federal agency must submit its report
on the agency’s programs and related

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determinations to Congress and to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and publish its report in the
Federal Register. Today’s notice
complies with the Act’s publication and
reporting requirements and contains
HUD’s list of identified Federal
financial assistance programs for
infrastructure. HUD has determined that
none of the programs it has reviewed to
date are consistent with the Act. HUD’s
initial analysis errs on the side of overinclusiveness based on the Department’s
current understanding of information
contained in the Act and the imminent
timing requirements for reporting.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: J.
Malcom Smith, Management and
Program Analyst, Grants Management
and Oversight Division, Office of the
Assistant Chief Financial Officer of
Systems, Office of the Chief Financial
Officer, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW,
Washington, DC 20410–8000; telephone
number 202–402–6472 (this is not a tollfree number), or email AskGMO@
hud.gov with the subject line ‘‘Build
America, Buy America’’. Persons with
hearing or speech impairments may
access this number through TTY by
calling the Federal Relay Service at 800–
877–8339 (this is a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
November 15, 2021, the President
signed into law the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117–
58) (the IIJA), which includes the Build
America, Buy America Act at sections
70911 through 70927 (the Act). The Act
ensures that Federal financial assistance
programs for infrastructure require the
use of materials produced in the United
States, increases requirements for
American-made content, and
strengthens the waiver process
associated with Buy American
provisions. Section 70913 of the Act
requires, within 60 days of the
enactment of the IIJA, that each Federal
agency, including HUD,1 file a report
with Congress and the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) which
identifies and evaluates all financial
assistance programs for infrastructure to
determine whether the program is
inconsistent with section 70914 of the
Act. The report must be published in
the Federal Register. The reports must
identify and provide a list of which of
these programs are ‘‘deficient,’’ as
defined in section 70913(c) of the Act.2
1 The Act applies to ‘‘any authority of the United
States that is an ‘‘agency’’’ as defined in 44 U.S.C.
3502. Public Law 117–58, section 70912(3).
2 The Act defines ‘‘deficient programs’’ as ‘‘any
Federal financial assistance program for
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Section 70914 of the Act requires that
no later than 180 days after enactment
of the IIJA (which would be May 14,
2022), Federal agencies ‘‘shall ensure
that none of the funds made available
for a Federal financial assistance
program for infrastructure, including
each deficient program, may be
obligated for a project unless all of the
iron, steel, manufactured products, and
construction materials used in the
project are produced in the United
States.’’ 3 Federal agencies must identify
all infrastructure programs and
determine whether a program is
inconsistent with section 70914 of the
Act, regardless of whether the program
received funding from IIJA. (HUD did
not receive funding.) Pursuant to the
Act, an infrastructure program is
considered inconsistent with section
70914 if: (1) It does not require that all
the iron, steel, manufactured products,
and construction materials used in the
project are produced in the United
States; (2) it does not issue waivers and
written justifications as specified in
section 70914; or (3) it is subject to a
waiver of general applicability under
section 70914(b) of the Act. On
December 20, 2021, OMB issued a
memorandum titled ‘‘Identification of
Federal Financial Assistance
Infrastructure Programs Subject to the
Build America, Buy America Provisions
of the Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act,’’ M–22–08, to implement these
requirements and provide guidance to
Federal agencies.4
HUD awards discretionary funding
through over 20 Grant programs and 10
formula programs in support of HUD’s
mission. These programs generally meet
the definition of ‘‘Federal financial
assistance’’ as defined in the Act. HUD
has evaluated these programs and they
are included in this report, but a full
assessment of whether they fund
infrastructure as described by the Act
has not yet been completed. HUD has
procurement preference requirement does not apply
in a manner consistent with section 70914 of the
law; or is subject to a waiver of general applicability
not limited to the use of specific products for use
in a specific project.’’ Id. at section 70913(c).
3 Section 70912(4) of the Act defines ‘‘Federal
financial assistance’’ and provides that the
definition is consistent with the definition in 2 CFR
200.1 and includes ‘‘all expenditures by a Federal
agency to a non-Federal entity for an infrastructure
project, except that it does not include expenditures
for assistance authorized under section 402, 403,
404, 406, 408, or 502 of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5170a, 5170b, 5170c, 5172, 5174, or 5192)
relating to a major disaster or emergency declared
by the President under section 401 or 501,
respectively, of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5170, 5191) or
pre and post disaster or emergency response
expenditures.’’
4 Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2021/12/M-22-08.pdf.

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