[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 61 (Thursday, March 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19189-19193]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06624]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Multiple Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 
Information Collection Requests

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury will submit the following 
information collection requests to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of publication of this 
notice. The public is invited to submit comments on these requests.

DATES: Comments should be received on or before May 1, 2023 to be 
assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

    1. Title: Application for Reduced Rate of Withholding on 
Whistleblower Award Payment.
    OMB Number: 1545-2273.
    Form Number: 14693.
    Abstract: The Application for Reduced Rate of Withholding on 
Whistleblower Award Payment will be used by the whistleblower to apply 
for a reduction in withholding to minimize the likelihood of the IRS 
over withholding tax from award payments providing whistleblowers with 
a pre-award payment opportunity to substantiate their relevant attorney 
fees and court costs. The Whistleblower Office will review and evaluate 
the form and calculate the rate.
    Current Actions: There are no changes in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 100.
    Estimated Time per Response: 45 mins.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 75.
    2. Title: Country-by-Country Reporting.
    OMB Number: 1545-2272.
    Form Number: Form 8975 and Schedule A (Form 8975).
    Abstract: 26 CFR 1.6038-4, issued under the authority of 26 U.S.C. 
6001, 6011, 6012, 6031, 6038, and 7805, requires U.S. persons that are 
the ultimate parent entity of a U.S. multinational enterprise (U.S. 
MNE) group with annual revenue for the preceding reporting period of 
$850 million or more to file Form 8975 with their income tax return. 
Form 8975 and Schedules A (Form 8975) are used by filers to annually 
report certain information with respect to the filer's U.S. MNE group 
on a country-by-country basis. The filer must list the U.S. MNE group's 
constituent entities, indicating each entity's tax jurisdiction (if 
any), country of organization and main business activity, and provide 
financial and employee information for each tax jurisdiction in which 
the U.S. MNE does business. The financial information includes 
revenues, profits, income taxes paid and accrued, stated capital, 
accumulated earnings, and tangible assets other than cash. Separate 
Schedules A (Form 8975) are filed for each tax jurisdiction in which a 
group has one or more constituent entities resident.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the existing collection 
previously approved by OMB. However, the total burden has increased due 
to better estimates.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,045.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 46,790.
    Estimated Time per Response: 6.41 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 299,822.
    3. Title: Election to Expense Certain Depreciable Assets.
    OMB Number: 1545-2197.
    Form Number: Form 1097-BTC.
    Abstract: Form 1097-BTC, Bond Tax Credit, is an information return 
used by a regulated investment company (RIC) to report tax credit bond 
credits distributed to shareholders. Shareholders of the RIC include 
their proportionate share of the interest income attributable to the 
credits and are allowed to claim the proportionate share of credits on 
their tax returns. A RIC must report the shareholder's proportionate 
share of credits and gross income after the close of the RIC's tax

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year. Form 1097-BTC, Bond Tax Credit, has been designed to report to 
the taxpayers and the IRS the tax credit distributed.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the existing collection.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 1,500.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 19 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 474.
    4. Title: Affordable Care Act Internal Claims and Appeals and 
External review Disclosures.
    OMB Number: 1545-2182.
    Regulation Number: T.D. 9494 and T.D. 9955.
    Abstract: This collection of information request includes the 
information collection and third- party notice and disclosure 
requirements that a plan must satisfy under final regulations 
implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act pertaining to 
internal claims and appeals, and the external review process. The No 
Surprise Act extends the balance billing protections related to 
external reviews to grandfathered plans. The definitions of group 
health plan and health insurance issuer that are cited in section 110 
of the No Surprises Act include both grandfathered and non-
grandfathered plans and coverage. Accordingly, the practical effect of 
section 110 of the No Surprises Act is that grandfathered health plans 
must provide external review for adverse benefit determinations 
involving benefits subject to these surprise billing protections. 
Grandfathered and non-grandfathered plans must provide claimants, free 
of charge, any new or additional evidence considered, relied upon, or 
generated by the plan or issuer in connection with the claim, and the 
requirement to comply either with a State external review process or a 
Federal review process. The disclosure requirements of the Federal 
external review process require (1) a preliminary review by plans of 
requests for external appeals; (2) Independent Review Organizations 
(IROs) to notify claimants of eligibility and acceptance for external 
review; (3) the plan or issuer to provide IROs with documentation and 
other information considered in making adverse benefit determination; 
(4) the IRO to forward to the plan or issuer any information submitted 
by the claimant; (5) plans to notify the claimant and IRO if it 
reverses its decision; (6) the IRO to notify the claimant and plan of 
the result of the final external appeal; (7) the IRO to maintain 
records for six years.
    Current Actions: There is a change to the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB. Adjustments to the burden estimates result 
from updated estimates on the number of ERISA-covered plans and 
policyholders.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits, Not-for-profit 
institutions.

Group Health Plans Internal Claims and Appeals and External Review 
Processes

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 314,560.
    Estimated Time per Respondent:.5 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 14,432 hours.

Procedures for Federal External Review and Model Notices Relating to 
Internal Claims and Appeals and External Review Under the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 76,014.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: .4 hours.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 4,615.
    Total Estimated Time per Respondent: 390,574.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 19,047 hours.
    5. Title: Taxation and Reporting of REIT Excess Inclusion Income.
    OMB Number: 1545-2036.
    Notice Number: Notice 2006-97.
    Abstract: This notice requires certain REITs, RICS, partnerships 
and other entities that have excess inclusion income to disclose the 
amount and character of such income allocable to their record interest 
owners. The record interest owners need the information to properly 
report and pay taxes on such income.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the notice that 
would affect burden at this time.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 50.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 100 hours.
    6. Title: Domestic Production Activities Deduction.
    OMB Number: 1545-1984.
    Form Number: 8903.
    Abstract: Taxpayers will use Form 8903 and related instructions to 
calculate the domestic production activities deduction.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 30,000.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 24 hours, 40 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 739,800 hours.
    7. Title: Consent to Disclose Tax Compliance Check.
    OMB Number: 1545-1856.
    Form Number: Form 14767.
    Abstract: Form 14767 is used to authorize the Internal Revenue 
Service (IRS) to prepare a tax compliance report that discloses 
confidential tax information to a third-party appointee for Federal 
employment.
    Current Actions: Form 13362 was used by Personnel Offices for 
external applicants to allow IRS to disclose tax-related information to 
the Office of Personnel Management for suitability determinations. This 
form has been obsoleted and replaced by Form 14767.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Federal Government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 46,000.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 10 mins.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,664.
    8. Title: Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Advance Payments.
    OMB Number: 1545-1813.
    Form Number: Form 1099-H.
    Abstract: Form 1099-H is used to report advance payments of health 
insurance premiums to qualified recipients for their use in computing 
the allowable health insurance credit on Form 8885.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the form at 
this time. However, the estimated number of responses is being 
decreased as a result of updated filing estimates. Type of Review: 
Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 2,200.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 18 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 660.
    9. Title: Special Rules for Long-Term Contracts Under Section 460.

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    OMB Number: 1545-1732.
    Form Number: 8697.
    Regulation Project Number: 8775, 8929, 8995, and 9137.
    Abstract: IRC section 460 generally provides rules that requires 
taxpayers to determine taxable income from a long-term contract using 
the percentage-of-completion (PCM) method and pay, or be entitled to 
receive, interest computed using the look-back method.
    Form 8697 is used by taxpayers to figure the interest due or to be 
refunded under the look-back method of IRC section 460(b)(2) on certain 
long-term contracts that are accounted for under either the PCM method 
or the percentage-of-completion capitalized cost method.
    TD 8775 added Treasury Regulations section 1.460-6(j), providing 
taxpayers with the requirements to make an election not to apply the 
look-back method to long-term contracts in de minimis cases.
    TD 8929 added Treasury Regulations section 1.460-1(e)(4), requiring 
taxpayers to attach a statement with specific information to their 
income tax return if they sever an agreement or aggregate two or more 
agreements during the taxable year.
    TD 8995, as amended by TD 9137, added Treasury Regulations section 
1.460-6(g)(3)(ii)(D) providing rules concerning a mid-contract change 
in taxpayer of a contract accounted for under a long-term contract 
method of accounting. The regulation requires the previous taxpayer to 
provide specific information to the new taxpayer to help the new 
taxpayer apply the look-back method when the income from a long-term 
contract has been previously reported by another taxpayer.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the existing collection. 
However, the estimated burden for individuals filing Form 8697 is 
approved under OMB control number 1545-0074. The estimated burden for 
businesses filing Form 8697 is approved under OMB control number 1545-
0123.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals and households, and business or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 75,010.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 22 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 26,668.
    10. Title: Regulations Governing Practice Before the Internal 
Revenue Service.
    OMB Number: 1545-1726.
    Regulation Project and Associated Form Numbers: T.D. 9527, T.D. 
9011, Rev. Proc. 2012-12, Form 14360, Form 14364, and Form 14392.
    Abstract: The regulations affect individuals who are eligible to 
practice before the Internal Revenue Service and authorize the Director 
of Practice to act upon applications for enrollment to practice before 
the Internal Revenue Service. The Director of Practice will use certain 
information to ensure that: (1) enrolled agents properly complete 
continuing education requirements to obtain renewal; (2) practitioners 
properly obtain consent of taxpayers before representing conflicting 
interests; (3) practitioners do not use e-commerce to make misleading 
solicitations.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the regulation, 
forms, or burden estimates at this time.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 718,400.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours, 28 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,777,125 hours.
    11. Title: Employer-Designed Tip Reporting Program for the Food and 
Beverage Industry (EmTRAC).
    OMB Number: 1545-1716.
    Notice Number: Notice 2001-1.
    Abstract: Information is required by the Internal Revenue Service 
in its compliance efforts to assist employers in the food and beverage 
industry that have employee who receive both cash and charged tips; in 
understanding and complying with Internal Revenue Code section 6053(a), 
which requires employees to report all their tips monthly to their 
employers.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the notice at 
this time.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents and/or Recordkeepers: 20.
    Estimated Average Time per Respondent/Recordkeeper: 44 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Reporting and/or Recordkeeping Burden Hours: 
870 hours.
    12. Title: Rule to be Included in Final Regulations Under Section 
897(e) of the Code.
    OMB Number: 1545-1660.
    Regulation Project Number: Notice 99-43.
    Abstract: Notice 99-43 announced modification of the current rules 
under Temporary Regulation section 1.897-6T(a)(1) regarding transfers, 
exchanges and other dispositions of U.S. real property interests in 
nonrecognition transactions occurring after June 18, 1980. The notice 
provided that, contrary to section 1.897-6T(a)(1), a foreign taxpayer 
will not recognize a gain under Code 897(e) for an exchange described 
in Code section 368(a)(1)(E) or (F), provided the taxpayer receives 
substantially identical shares of the same domestic corporation with 
the same divided rights, voting power, liquidation preferences, and 
convertibility as the shares exchanged without any additional rights or 
features.
    Current Actions: There are no changes in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations, 
individuals or households, and corporations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 100.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 200.
    13. Title: Request for Innocent Spouse Relief.
    OMB Number: 1545-1596.
    Form Numbers: 8857 and 8857(SP).
    Abstract: Section 6013(e) of the Internal Revenue Code allows 
taxpayers to request, and IRS to grant, ``innocent spouse'' relief 
when: the taxpayer files a joint return with tax substantially 
understated; the taxpayer establishes no knowledge of, or benefit from, 
the understatement; and it would be inequitable to hold the taxpayer 
liable. Forms 8857 and 8857(SP) is used to request relief from 
liability of an understatement of tax on a joint return resulting from 
a grossly erroneous item attributable to the spouse.
    Current Actions: There are no changes in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 50,000.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 6 hours, 32 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 316,000.
    14. Title: Examination of returns and claims for refund, credits or 
abatement; determination of correct tax liability.
    OMB Number: 1545-1533.
    Revenue Procedure Number: Revenue Procedure 97-22.
    Abstract: This revenue procedure provides guidance to taxpayers who 
maintain books and records by using an

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electronic storage system that either images their paper books and 
records or transfers their computerized books and records to an 
electronic storage media, such as an optical disk. The information 
requested in the revenue procedure is required to ensure that records 
maintained in an electronic storage system will constitute records 
within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code section 6001.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to this revenue 
procedure at this time.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit organizations, not-for-profit institutions, farms, Federal 
Government, and state, local or tribal governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 50,000.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 20 hours, 1 minute.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,000,400.
    15. Title: Hedging Transactions.
    OMB Number: 1545-1480.
    Regulation Project Number: T.D. 8985.
    Abstract: TD 8985 contains final regulations relating to the 
character of gain or loss from hedging transactions. The regulations 
reflect changes to the law made by the Ticket to Work and Work 
Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. The regulations affect businesses 
entering in to hedging transactions.
    Current Actions: There are no changes to burden.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 167,100.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 8 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 171,050 hours.
    16. Title: Continuing Education Provider Application and Request 
for Provider Number.
    OMB Number: 1545-1459.
    Form Number: Form 8498.
    Abstract: Form 8498 is used to: (1) register as a new provider of 
continuing educational programs being offered to IRS enrolled agents, 
enrolled retirement plan agents, and other tax return preparers; (2) 
annually renew the status as an IRS-approved continuing educational 
provider; and (3) add new programs to an existing IRS-approved provider 
continuing education curriculum.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the existing collection.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 800.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 36 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 480.
    17. Title: Information Return for Real Estate Mortgage Investment 
Conduits (REMICs) and Issuers of Collateralized Debt Obligations.
    OMB Number: 1545-1099.
    Form Project Number: Form 8811.
    Abstract: Current regulations require real estate mortgage 
investment conduits (REMICs) to provide Forms 1099 to true holders of 
interests in these investment vehicles. Because of the complex 
computations required at each level and the potential number of 
nominees, the ultimate investor may not receive a Form 1099 and other 
information necessary to prepare their tax return in a timely fashion. 
Form 8811 collects information for publishing by the IRS so that 
brokers can contact REMICs to request the financial information and 
timely issue Forms 1099 to holders.
    Current Actions: There is no change in the form previously approved 
however, an increase in the estimated annual responses will increase 
the overall estimated burden by 8,760 hours.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 3,000.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 4 Hours 23 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 13,140.
    18. Title: Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations.
    OMB Number: 1545-0990.
    Form Number(s): 8610, Sch A (F8610).
    Abstract: State housing credit agencies (Agencies) are required by 
Code section 42(l)(3) to report annually the amount of low-income 
housing credits that they allocated to qualified buildings during the 
year. Agencies report the amount allocated to the building owners and 
to the IRS in Part I of Form 8609. Carryover allocations are reported 
to the Agencies in carryover allocation documents. The Agencies report 
the carryover allocations to the IRS on Schedule A (Form 8610). Form 
8610 is a transmittal and reconciliation document for Forms 8609, 
Schedule A (Form 8610), binding agreements, and election statements.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the burden previously 
approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: State, local or tribal governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,353.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 4 Hour 58 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 6,738.
    19. Title: Estate and Gift Taxes; Qualified Disclaimers of 
Property.
    OMB Number: 1545-0959.
    Regulation Project Number: TD 8095.
    Abstract: Internal Revenue Code section 2518 allows a person to 
disclaim an interest in property received by gift or inheritance. The 
interest is treated as if the disclaimant never received or transferred 
such interest for Federal gift tax purposes. A qualified disclaimer 
must be in writing and delivered to the transferor or trustee.
    Current Actions: There is no change to this existing regulation.
    Type of Review: Extension without change of a currently approved 
collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,000.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 30 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,000.
    20. Title: Biofuel Producer Credit.
    OMB Number: 1545-0231.
    Form Number: 6478.
    Abstract: Form 6478 is used to figure your section 40 biofuel 
producer credit. You claim the credit for the tax year in which the 
sale or use occurs. This credit consists of the second-generation 
biofuel producer credit.
    Current Actions: There are no changes in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,300.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 4 hours, 36 mins.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 13,233.
    21. Title: Application for Extension of Time to File Certain 
Employee Plan Returns.
    OMB Number: 1545-0212.
    Form Number: 5558.
    Abstract: This form is used by employers to request an extension of 
time to file the employee plan annual information return/report (Form 
5500 series) or the employee plan excise tax return (Form 5330). The 
data supplied

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on Form 5558 is used to determine if such extension of time is 
warranted.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the form, however there is 
an increase in the estimated number of respondents previously approved 
by OMB.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations, and 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 671,189.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 hours, 11 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 798,715 hours.
    22. Title: Original Issue Discount.
    OMB Number: 1545-0117.
    Regulation Project Number: Form 1099-OID.
    Abstract: Form 1099-OID is used for reporting original issue 
discount as required by section 6049 of the Internal Revenue Code. It 
is used to verify that income earned on discount obligations is 
properly reported by the recipient.
    Current Actions: There are changes to the burden indicators used to 
compute burden and an estimated decrease in the number of responses 
previously approved by OMB.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit groups.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 4,411,100.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 23 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,720,329.
    23. Title: Request for Determination of Worker Status for Purposes 
of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax Withholding.
    OMB Number: 1545-0004.
    Form Project Number: Forms SS-8 and SS-8(PR).
    Abstract: Firms and workers file Form SS-8 to request a 
determination of the status of a worker under the common law rules for 
purposes of federal employment taxes and income tax withholding.
    Current Actions: This request is being submitted to update the 
filing estimates. The estimated number of annual responses has 
increased by 1,045. However, the total estimated burden has decreased 
by 27,333 hours due to changes in the methodology.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations, 
individuals, not-for-profit institutions, Federal government, farms, 
and state, local or tribal governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,750.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 21 Hours 6 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 121,288.
    Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.

Melody Braswell,
Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-06624 Filed 3-29-23; 8:45 am]
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