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represented on HHS Federal advisory
committees and, therefore, the
Department encourages nominations of
qualified candidates from these groups.
The Department also encourages
geographic diversity in the composition
of the Committee. Appointment to this
Committee shall be made without
discrimination on the basis of age, race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation,
disability, and cultural, religious, or
socioeconomic status. Requests for
reasonable accommodation to enable
participation on the Committee should
be indicated in the nomination
submission.
Member Terms: Non-Federal public
members of the Committee serve for a
term of 3 years, and may serve for an
unlimited number of terms if
reappointed. Members may serve after
the expiration of their terms, until their
successors have taken office.
Meetings and Travel: As specified by
Public Law 113–166, the MDCC ‘‘shall
meet no fewer than two times per
calendar year.’’ Travel expenses are
provided for non-federal public
Committee members to facilitate
attendance at in-person meetings.
Members are expected to make every
effort to attend all full committee
meetings, twice per year, either in
person or via remote access.
Participation in relevant subcommittee,
working and planning group meetings,
and workshops, is also encouraged.
Submission Instructions and
Deadline: Nominations are due by 5
p.m. EDT on February 28, 2020, and
should be sent to Glen Nuckolls, Ph.D.,
by email to [email protected].
Nominations must include contact
information for the nominee, a current
curriculum vitae or resume of the
nominee and a paragraph describing the
qualifications of the person to represent
some portion(s) of the muscular
dystrophy research, advocacy and/or
patient care communities.
More information about the MDCC is
available at https://mdcc.nih.gov/.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY

Dated: January 16, 2020.
Walter J. Koroshetz,
Director, National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of
Health.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement
[OMB Control Number 1653–0048]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension, Without Change,
of a Currently Approved Collection:
ICE Mutual Agreement Between
Government and Employers (IMAGE)
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reductions Act (PRA) of
1995 the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) will submit
the following Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until March 27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: All submissions received
must include the OMB Control Number
1653–0048 in the body of the letter, the
agency name and Docket ID ICEB–2020–
0001. All comments received will be
posted without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. To
avoid duplicate submissions, please use
only one of the following methods to
submit comments:
(1) Online. Submit comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal website at
http://www.regulations.gov under eDocket ID number ICEB–2020–0001;
(2) Mail: Submit written comments to
DHS, ICE, Office of the Chief
Information Officer (OCIO), PRA
Clearance, Washington, DC 20536–5800.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific question related to collection
activities, please contact: John Morris
(202–732–5409), john.j.morris@
ice.dhs.gov, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information should address one or more
of the following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
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(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agencies 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: U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Mutual Agreement between
Government and Employers (IMAGE)
Self-Assessment Questionnaire
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: ICE Form 73–
028; U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. The
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Mutual Agreement
between Government and Employers
(IMAGE) program is the outreach and
education component of the Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI) Worksite
Enforcement (WSE) program. IMAGE is
designed to build cooperative
relationships with the private sector to
enhance compliance with immigration
laws and reduce the number of
unauthorized aliens within the
American workforce. Under this
program ICE will partner with
businesses representing a cross-section
of industries. A business will initially
complete and prepare an IMAGE
application so that ICE can properly
evaluate the company for inclusion in
the IMAGE program. The information
provided by the company plays a vital
role in determining its suitability for the
program. While 8 U.S.C. 1324(a) makes
it illegal to knowingly employ a person
who is not in the U.S. legally, there is
no requirement for any entity in the
private sector to participate in the
program and the information obtained
from the company should also be
available to the public.

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(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: ICE estimates a total of 100
responses at 90 minutes (1.5 hours) per
response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 150 annual burden hours.
Dated: January 21, 2020.
Scott Elmore,
PRA Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6109–N–04]

Allocations, Common Application,
Waivers, and Alternative Requirements
for Community Development Block
Grant Mitigation Grantees;
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Allocation
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice allocates $8.285
billion of Community Development
Block Grant mitigation (CDBG–MIT)
funds to the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico pursuant to the requirements of the
Further Additional Supplemental
Appropriations for Disaster Relief
Requirements Act, 2018 (Division B,
Subdivision 1 of the Bipartisan Budget
Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–123).
DATES: Applicability Date: February 3,
2020.
SUMMARY:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jessie Handforth Kome, Acting Director,
Office of Block Grant Assistance,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room
7282, Washington, DC 20410, telephone
number 202–708–3587. Persons with
hearing or speech impairments may
access this number via TTY by calling
the Federal Relay Service at 800–877–
8339. Facsimile inquiries may be sent to
Ms. Kome at 202–401–2044. (Except for
the ‘‘800’’ number, these telephone
numbers are not toll-free.) Email
inquiries may be sent to disaster_
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Allocations
A. Background
B. Use of Funds
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II. Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers,
Alternative Requirements, and Grant
Conditions
III. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
IV. Finding of No Significant Impact

I. CDBG–MIT Allocations
I.A. Background
The Further Additional Supplemental
Appropriations for Disaster Relief
Requirements Act, 2018 (Division B,
Subdivision 1 of the Bipartisan Budget
Act of 2018, Pub. L. 115–123, approved
February 9, 2018) (the ‘‘Appropriations
Act’’), made available $28 billion in
Community Development Block Grant
disaster recovery (CDBG–DR) funds, and
directed HUD to allocate not less than
$12 billion for mitigation activities
proportional to the amounts that CDBG–
DR grantees received for qualifying
disasters in 2015, 2016, and 2017. A
Federal Register Notice published by
the Department on August 30, 2019 (84
FR 45838), allocated $6.875 billion of
CDBG–MIT funds to 14 state and local
governments and described the grant
requirements and procedures, including
waivers and alternative requirements
applicable to CDBG–MIT funds (‘‘the
CDBG–MIT Notice’’).
The CDBG–MIT Notice recognizes
that CDBG–MIT funds are to be used for
distinctly different purposes than
CDBG–DR funds and that the level of
funding and nature of programs and
projects that are likely to be funded
requires all CDBG–MIT grantees and
their subrecipients to strengthen their
program management capacity, financial
management, and internal controls.
Under the CDBG–MIT Notice, each
grantee is required to strengthen its
internal audit function, specify the
criteria for subrecipient selection,
increase subrecipient monitoring, and
establish a process for promptly
identifying and addressing conflicts
under the grantee’s conflict of interest
policy. The CDBG–MIT Notice also
states the Department’s intent to
establish special grant conditions for
individual CDBG–MIT grants based
upon the risks posed by the grantee,
including risks related to the grantee’s
capacity to carry out the specific
programs and projects proposed in its
action plan. These conditions are
designed to provide additional
assurances that mitigation programs are
implemented in a manner to prevent
waste, fraud, and abuse and that
mitigation projects are effectively
operated and maintained.
The CDBG–MIT Notice acknowledges
the governance and financial
management challenges of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. For all
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Notice references the Department’s
expectation that grantees will take steps
to set in place substantial governmental
policies and organizational structure to
enhance the impact of HUD-funded
investments. For the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, this goal may be achieved
through reforms in land ownership
records and addressing the occurrence
of informal housing, while enhancing
the safety of the Commonwealth’s
residents. The CDBG–MIT Notice also
notes that it is imperative that all
CDBG–MIT grantees collect and supply
sufficient revenues for future operation
and maintenance costs of programs and
projects funded with this CDBG–MIT
grant. Additionally, prior to 2017, the
Department of Housing of Puerto Rico
(PRDOH), who has been designated as
the entity responsible for administering
the CDBG–DR allocations in response to
Hurricanes Irma and Maria, had not
previously administered CDBG–DR
funds. Because PRDOH does not have
previous experience managing CDBG–
DR funds, HUD has reviewed the
Commonwealth’s Staffing Analysis
Worksheet and determined that PRDOH
must continue to secure staff and
contractors to build its capacity and
knowledge of federal requirements,
including civil rights related program
requirements. These considerations
emerge as particular unmitigated risks
for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
in light of the substantial amount of
CDBG–MIT funding allocated under this
notice and the general fiscal condition
of the Commonwealth.
Accordingly, to further reduce the
specific potential risks associated with
the above challenges, this notice builds
upon the requirements of the CDBG–
MIT Notice and establishes additional
grant conditions to reduce risk and
support the successful implementation
of this CDBG–MIT allocation by the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These
measures are designed to augment and
support HUD’s continual technical
assistance and monitoring efforts,
undertaken in partnership with the
grantee.
This notice allocates $8.285 billion in
CDBG–MIT funds to the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico for mitigation activities
in accordance with the Appropriations
Act and the CDBG–MIT Notice. The
grantee receiving an allocation of funds
under this notice is subject to the
requirements of the CDBG–MIT Notice,
including waivers and alternative
requirements, and any additional
requirements imposed by this or future
Federal Register notices.

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