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IX, Pub. L. 116–94), as amended (the
Act), and codified in 22 U.S.C. 2680b,
I hereby delegate to the Under Secretary
of State for Management, to the extent
authorized by law, the authority to
designate ‘‘another foreign country’’ for
purposes of the definition of ‘‘Covered
Employee,’’ ‘‘Covered Individual,’’ and
‘‘Qualifying Injury’’, as provided in
subsections (e)(2), (e)(3)(A), (e)(4)(A)(i),
(e)(4)(B)(i), and (f) of § 901, as amended
(22 U.S.C. 2680b(e)(2); 22 U.S.C.
2680b(e)(3)(A); 22 U.S.C.
2680b(e)(4)(A)(i); 22 U.S.C.
2680b(e)(4)(B)(i); and 22 U.S.C.
2680b(f)).
Any act, regulation, or procedure
subject to, or affected by, this delegation
shall be deemed to be such act,
regulation, or procedure as amended
from time to time.
The Secretary, the Deputy Secretary,
and the Deputy Secretary for
Management and Resources, may also
exercise the authorities delegated
herein. Nothing in this delegation shall
be deemed to supersede or modify any
other delegation of authority. This
document shall be published in the
Federal Register.
Dated: January 17, 2023.
Antony J. Blinken,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2023–01482 Filed 1–24–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 11976]

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Notice of a Public Meeting in
Preparation for the International
Maritime Organization FAL 47 Meeting
The Department of State will conduct
a public meeting at 10:00 a.m. on
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, both in-person
at the offices of ABSG Consulting in
Washington, DC, and via teleconference.
The primary purpose of the meeting is
to prepare for the forty-seventh session
of the International Maritime
Organization’s (IMO) Facilitation
Committee (FAL 47) to be held at IMO
Headquarters in London, United
Kingdom from Monday, March 13, 2023,
to Friday, March 17, 2023.
Members of the public may
participate in-person or up to the
capacity of the teleconference phone
line, which can handle 500 participants.
To RSVP, participants should contact
the meeting coordinator, Mr. James Bull,
by email at [email protected]. The
meeting location will be the offices of
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the teleconference line will be provided
to those who RSVP.
The agenda items to be considered at
this meeting mirror those to be
considered at FAL 47, and include:
• Opening of the session
• Adoption of the agenda; report on
credentials
• Decisions of other IMO bodies
• Consideration and adoption of
amendments to the Convention
• Review and update of the Explanatory
Manual to the FAL Convention
• Application of single window concept
• Review and revision of the IMO
Compendium on Facilitation and
Electronic Business, including
additional e-business solutions
• Consideration of descriptions of
Maritime Services in the context of enavigation
• Development of guidelines for
harmonized communication and
electronic exchange of operational
data for port calls
• Development of guidelines on Port
Community Systems
• Unsafe mixed migration by sea
• Consideration and analysis of reports
and information on persons rescued at
sea and stowaways
• Measures to address Maritime
Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) in
the instruments under the purview of
the Facilitation Committee
• Introduction of the API/PNR concept
in maritime transport
• Analysis of possible means of
auditing compliance with the
Convention on Facilitation of
International Maritime Traffic
• Technical cooperation activities
related to facilitation of maritime
traffic
• Relations with other organizations
• Application of the Committee’s
procedures on organization and
method of work
• Work program
• Election of Chair and Vice-Chair for
2024
• Any other business
• Consideration of the report of the
Committee on its forty-seventh
session
Please note: The Committee may, on
short notice, adjust the FAL 47 agenda
to accommodate the constraints
associated with the meeting format.
Although no changes to the agenda are
anticipated, if any are necessary, they
will be provided to those who RSVP.
Those who plan to participate may
contact the meeting coordinator, Mr.
James Bull, by email at James.T.Bull@
uscg.mil or in writing at 2703 Martin
Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Stop 7501,
Washington, DC 20593–7501. Members

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of the public needing reasonable
accommodation should advise Mr.
James Bull not later than February 28,
2023. Requests made after that date will
be considered, but might not be possible
to fulfill.
Additional information regarding this
and other IMO public meetings may be
found at: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/
IMO.
(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2656 and 5 U.S.C. 552)
Emily A. Rose,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean
and Polar Affairs, Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Delegation of Authority No. 479–1]

Re-Delegation; Authority To Invoke the
Deliberative-Process Privilege
By virtue of the authority vested in
Department of State Legal Adviser by
Delegation of Authority 479, dated
December 17, 2019, and to the extent
authorized by law, I hereby re-delegate
the authority to assert the deliberativeprocess privilege in judicial and
administrative proceedings to the
Deputy Legal Advisers.
The guidelines and exclusions
contained in Delegation of Authority
479 apply to this re-delegation.
This delegation does not repeal or
modify any delegation of authority
currently in effect. This delegation does
not rescind or disapprove of any of the
Department’s prior invocations of the
deliberative-process privilege.
This delegation of authority shall be
published in the Federal Register.
Dated: January 16, 2023.
Richard C. Visek,
Acting Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 2023–01485 Filed 1–24–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Docket No. FAA–2022–1711]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of Renewed Approval of
Information Collection: Carbon
Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for
International Aviation (CORSIA)
Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification
(MRV) Program
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.

AGENCY:

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Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
invites public comments about our
intention to request Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval to renew an information
collection. The collection involves a
request that airplane operators subject to
the applicability of Annex 16, Volume
IV of the Convention on Civil Aviation
(hereinafter the ‘‘Chicago Convention’’)
submit electronically an Emissions
Monitoring Plan (EMP), an annual
Emissions Report (ER) to the FAA.
Airplane operators may also submit an
optional ER CORSIA Eligible Fuels
Annex (CEFA) to the FAA if they want
to receive credit for their use of CORSIA
Eligible Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
or Lower Carbon Aviation Fuel (LCAF).
The information to be collected is
necessary because FAA will use the
information to fulfill the United States’
responsibilities under the Chicago
Convention

SUMMARY:

Written comments should be
submitted by March 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Please send written
comments:
By Electronic Docket:
www.regulations.gov (Enter docket
number into search field).
By mail: Kevin Partowazam, Federal
Aviation Administration, AEE–5, 800
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20591.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin Partowazam by email at:
[email protected]; phone:
202–267–3563.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for FAA’s
performance; (b) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information collection; and (d)
ways that the burden could be
minimized without reducing the quality
of the collected information. The agency
will summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
OMB Control Number: 2120–0790.
Title: CORSIA Monitoring, Reporting,
and Verification (MRV) Program.
Form Numbers: 1. Emissions
Monitoring Plan (EMP) Template; 2.
Emissions Report (ER) Template; 3. ER
CORSIA Eligible Fuels Annex (CEFA).
Type of Review: Clearance of a
renewal of an information collection.

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Background: The CORSIA MRV
Program is a voluntary program for
certain U.S. air carriers and commercial
operators (collectively referred
hereinafter as ‘‘operators’’) to submit
certain airplane CO2 emissions data to
the FAA to enable the United States to
establish uniformity with ICAO
Standards And Recommended Practices
(SARPs) for CORSIA, which were
adopted in June 2018, as Annex 16,
Volume IV to the Chicago Convention.
The United States supported the
decision to adopt the CORSIA SARPs
based on the understanding that
CORSIA is the exclusive market-based
measure applying to international
aviation, and that CORSIA will ensure
fair and reciprocal commercial
competition by avoiding a patchwork of
country- or regionally-based regulatory
measures that are inconsistently
applied, bureaucratically costly, and
economically damaging. Furthermore,
continued U.S. support for CORSIA
assumes a high level of participation by
other countries, particularly by
countries with significant aviation
activity, as well as a final CORSIA
package that is acceptable to, and
implementable by, the United States.
Under CORSIA, all ICAO Member
States whose airplane operators
undertake international flights will have
needed to develop an MRV system for
CO2 emissions from those international
flights starting January 1, 2019. The
FAA’s CORSIA MRV Program is
intended to be the United States’ MRV
system for monitoring, reporting, and
verification of U.S. airplane operator
CO2 emissions from international
flights.
Operators that are subject to the
applicability of CORSIA will submit
their EMPs, ERs, and ER CEFAs
electronically.1
Each document uses Microsoft Excelbased templates and can be transmitted
via email or uploaded to a web portal.
EMPs that are submitted by operators
will be used as a collaborative tool
between the operator and FAA to
1 CORSIA applies to airplane operators that
produce annual CO2 emissions greater than 10,000
tonnes (i.e., 10,000 metric tons) from international
flights, excluding emissions from excluded flights.
The following activities are excluded CORSIA:
—Domestic flights;
—Humanitarian, medical, and firefighting
operations, including flight(s) preceding or
following a humanitarian, medical, or firefighting
flight provided such flight(s) were conducted with
the same airplane, were required to accomplish the
related humanitarian, medical, or firefighting
activities or to reposition thereafter the airplane for
its next activity;
—Operations using an airplane with a maximum
certificated take-off mass equal to or less than 5,700
kg;
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document a given operator’s chosen fuel
use monitoring procedures. FAA will
retain a copy of the EMP and will share
with ICAO a list of operators that submit
EMPs. FAA will not submit any specific
EMPs from U.S. operators to ICAO.
Large operators, i.e., those emitting
500,000 metric tons or more of CO2 per
year, will gather data through a ‘‘fuel
use monitoring method.’’ Small
operators, i.e., those emitting less than
500,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, can
use a simplified monitoring method.
Annual ERs and optional ER CEFAs that
are submitted to FAA by operators and
verifiers will be used to document each
operators’ international emissions. FAA
will use the ERs and ER CEFAs to
calculate aggregated emissions data for
all U.S. operators. FAA will submit the
aggregated emissions data to ICAO to
demonstrate U.S. implementation of
CORSIA.
Respondents: Respondents will be
airplane operators subject to the
applicability of Annex 16, Volume IV of
the Chicago Convention. Since the
CORSIA MRV Program was originally
launched, FAA received 30 EMPs from
participating operators, along with an
annual ER from each. Some additional
operators could submit an EMP and ER
over time based on their international
aviation activities.
Frequency: An EMP is a one-time
submission. An ER, and optional ER
CEFA, is an annual submission.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: FAA expects that filling and
submitting an EMP could take an
average of approximately 28.6 hours per
operator. FAA expects that for operators
using a Fuel Use Monitoring Method,
the reporting hour burden could be
approximately 47.5 hours per operator,
per year. For operators using a
simplified Monitoring Method, the
reporting hour burden could be
approximately 16 hours per operator,
per year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
Based on the above, FAA expects that
the average annual submission of an ER
could take approximately 49.4 hours per
operator, per year. For operators using a
Fuel Use Monitoring Method, this
includes 60 hours per operator, per year
for filling and reporting an ER and an
additional potential 8 hours for filling
and reporting the ER CEFA. For
operators using simplified Monitoring
Methods, this includes 17.5 hours per
operator, per year for filling and
reporting an ER and an additional
potential 4 hours for filling and
reporting the ER CEFA.

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Issued in Washington, DC, on January 19,
2023.
Kevin Welsh,
Executive Director, Office of Environment and
Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023–01405 Filed 1–24–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2009–0074]

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Petition for Extension of Waiver of
Compliance
Under part 211 of title 49 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR), this
document provides the public notice
that by letter dated October 31, 2022,
Canadian National Railway Company
(CN), the Transportation Division of the
International Association of Sheet
Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation
Workers, and the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
collectively petitioned the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) for an
extension of a waiver of compliance
from certain provisions of the hours of
service laws contained at title 49 United
States Code (U.S.C.) section 21103(a).
The relevant FRA Docket Number is
FRA–2009–0074.
Specifically, petitioners requested an
extension of the existing relief from the
provisions of 49 U.S.C. 21103(a)(4),
which in part, provides that a train
employee may not be required or
allowed to remain or go on duty after
that employee has initiated an on-duty
period each day for 6 consecutive days,
unless that employee has had at least 48
hours off duty at the employee’s home
terminal. In support of the request,
petitioners explained that CN has
operated these schedules of 6
consecutive on-duty periods followed
by 24 hours off duty successfully since
2002 and that the relief is ‘‘very unlikely
to have had any impact on any recent
safety trends.’’ Petitioners further state
that CN’s recent internal review of
human factor-caused accidents has
determined that ‘‘the absence of human
factors incidents involving persons
covered under this waiver demonstrates
that continued operation under the
waiver has not caused a problem with
safety.’’
A copy of the petition, as well as any
written communications concerning the
petition, is available for review online at
www.regulations.gov.
Interested parties are invited to
participate in these proceedings by
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scheduling a public hearing in
connection with these proceedings since
the facts do not appear to warrant a
hearing. If any interested party desires
an opportunity for oral comment and a
public hearing, they should notify FRA,
in writing, before the end of the
comment period and specify the basis
for their request.
All communications concerning these
proceedings should identify the
appropriate docket number and may be
submitted at http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Communications received by March
27, 2023 will be considered by FRA
before final action is taken. Comments
received after that date will be
considered if practicable.
Anyone can search the electronic
form of any written communications
and comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the
document, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
Under 5 U.S.C. 553(c), the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT)
solicits comments from the public to
better inform its processes. DOT posts
these comments, without edit, including
any personal information the
commenter provides, to
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
See also https://www.regulations.gov/
privacy-notice for the privacy notice of
regulations.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC.
John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety
Chief Safety Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2023–0004]

Notice of Application for Approval of
Discontinuance or Modification of a
Railroad Signal System
Under part 235 of title 49 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) and 49 U.S.C.
20502(a), this document provides the
public notice that by letter dated
January 9, 2023, Union Pacific Railroad
Company (UPRR) petitioned the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) seeking
approval to discontinue or modify a
signal system. FRA assigned the petition
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Specifically, UPRR requests a
suspension of block signals between CP
Reynard (F 417) and CP Phil (F 430) on
the Winnemucca Subdivision, near
Gerlach, Nevada. UPRR explains that
this suspension would be temporary,
and UPRR would later request to
‘‘remove [Centralized Traffic Control
(CTC)] limits and replace with [Track
Warrant Control (TWC)] limits through
the same area.’’ In support of its request,
UPRR states that its dispatching
software cannot grant track warrants
through the subject area, but when they
can grant track warrants, UPRR will
notify FRA prior to implementation of
TWC limits. UPRR requests the
suspension of block signals for up to six
months from the date of approval. UPRR
explains that the reason for the
proposed suspension is that UPRR ‘‘has
an uncurable situation with
contaminated track conditions that will
not allow the signal system to function
properly.’’
A copy of the petition, as well as any
written communications concerning the
petition, is available for review online at
www.regulations.gov.
Interested parties are invited to
participate in these proceedings by
submitting written views, data, or
comments. FRA does not anticipate
scheduling a public hearing in
connection with these proceedings since
the facts do not appear to warrant a
hearing. If any interested party desires
an opportunity for oral comment and a
public hearing, they should notify FRA,
in writing, before the end of the
comment period and specify the basis
for their request.
All communications concerning these
proceedings should identify the
appropriate docket number and may be
submitted at http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Communications received by
February 24, 2023 will be considered by
FRA before final action is taken.
Comments received after that date will
be considered if practicable. FRA notes
that it may consider the application
before the end of this comment period,
but any final action would be contingent
on subsequent consideration of any
comments that may be received in this
docket.
Anyone can search the electronic
form of any written communications
and comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the
document, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
Under 5 U.S.C. 553(c), the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT)
solicits comments from the public to

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