Comment on Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Nonprofit Research and Education Corporations Data Collection; OMB No. New (VA Form 10-0510); FR Doc. #2011-14118; West, Barbara F. (NAVREF)

Reference: 2900-New (VA Form 10-0510) Nonprofit Research and Education Corporations (NPCs) Data Collection Thank you for the opportunity to respond to proposed VA Form 10-0510, as well as VA Forms 10-0510a-c, as published for public comment in the Federal Register on June 8, 2011, pages 33416-7. The National Association of Veterans’ Research and Education Foundations (NAVREF) is the membership association of 82 corporations that are affiliated with VA medical centers across the nation, each of which is established and operated in accordance with 38 U.S.C. §§ 7361-7366, Research and Education Corporations. This statute authorizes VA medical centers to establish nonprofit research and education corporations (NPCs) and describes their nature and purposes. We are pleased to submit the attached response to the Federal Register notice regarding each of the four documents proposed for Nonprofit Research and Education Corporations (NPCs) Data Collection purposes. We encourage all reviewers of this response to first read the NPC authorizing statute for context. A copy is attached for the convenience of reviewers. Please be aware that in order to ensure that the NAVREF response represents NPC views on the proposed documents, NAVREF conducted a membership survey. The results are reflected in the attached response. NPC responses to the survey were based on some twenty NPCs having already completed one or more of the proposed documents at VHA request. The remaining 60 or so NPCs were asked by NAVREF to review the documents in order to respond to the survey. For ease of your review, we are responding to each of the documents in four documents, one of which has an attachment. For clarity, text quoted from the proposed documents is provided in italics. If you have questions or need additional information, or if any of the enclosures are not clear, please do not hesitate to contact Barbara West at 301-656-5005 or bwest@navref.org. Comment has been redacted/posted. fp