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resulting from flooding during the period of
April 10 to April 26, 2023, is of sufficient
severity and magnitude to warrant a major
disaster declaration under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. (the
‘‘Stafford Act’’). Therefore, I declare that such
a major disaster exists in the State of
Montana.
In order to provide Federal assistance, you
are hereby authorized to allocate from funds
available for these purposes such amounts as
you find necessary for Federal disaster
assistance and administrative expenses.
You are authorized to provide Public
Assistance in the designated areas and
Hazard Mitigation throughout the State.
Consistent with the requirement that Federal
assistance be supplemental, any Federal
funds provided under the Stafford Act for
Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation will
be limited to 75 percent of the total eligible
costs.
Further, you are authorized to make
changes to this declaration for the approved
assistance to the extent allowable under the
Stafford Act.

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The Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that
pursuant to the authority vested in the
Administrator, under Executive Order
12148, as amended, Jon K. Huss, of
FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal
Coordinating Officer for this major
disaster.
The following areas of the State of
Montana have been designated as
adversely affected by this major disaster:
Blaine, Daniels, Hill, Park, Roosevelt,
Sheridan, and Valley Counties and the Fort
Peck Tribes for Public Assistance.
All areas within the State of Montana are
eligible for assistance under the Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program.
The following Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used
for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030,
Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora
Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling;
97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034,
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA);
97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant;
97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to
Individuals and Households In Presidentially
Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049,
Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance—
Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals
and Households; 97.050, Presidentially
Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals
and Households—Other Needs; 97.036,
Disaster Grants—Public Assistance
(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039,
Hazard Mitigation Grant.
Deanne Criswell,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA–2023–0016]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Technical Assistance
Request and Evaluation
Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 30-day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Emergency
Communications Division (ECD) within
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA) will submit the
following information collection request
(ICR) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance.
CISA previously published this
information collection request (ICR) in
the Federal Register on June 6, 2023 for
a 60-day public comment period. No
comments were received by CISA. This
is a revision and reinstatement of the
existing collection. The purpose of this
notice is to allow an additional 30-days
for public comments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until October 27, 2023.
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.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
which:
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
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 submissions
of responses.
SUMMARY:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kendall Carpenter, 202.744.1580,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Emergency Communications Division,
formed under title XVIII of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002, 6
U.S.C. 571 et seq., as amended, provides
emergency communications-related
technical assistance at no charge to
State, regional, local, and tribal
government officials. To receive this
technical assistance, stakeholders must
submit a request form identifying their
priorities. For ECD to assess the value of
the services it provides through
technical assistance; an evaluation form
is also requested of those receiving
technical assistance.
ECD uses the Technical Assistance
Request Form (DHS Form 9043) to
identify the number and type of
technical assistance services needed by
the State, Territory, local, and Tribal
agencies. This information enables ECD
to plan and align resources accordingly.
ECD considers each request based on
the priority indicated by the State, as
well as the anticipated impact of the
service offering on the implementation
of the Statewide Communications
Interoperability Plan (SCIP) and the
applicability to National Emergency
Communications Plan (NECP).
The evaluation form (DHS Form 9042)
is completed by stakeholders at the
completion of ECD technical assistance
services and enables ECD to assess the
quality of technical assistance services
provided and, in a holistic fashion,
measure the value of the services. The
information collected through these
evaluations is used by ECD for
continued improvement planning.
Approximately 100 percent of request
and evaluation forms are submitted
electronically by logging into the portal
at https://www.cisa.cisa.gov/safecom/
ictapscip-resources.
From the website, users are able to
select the appropriate form, either the
Technical Assistance Requests (DHS
Form 9043) and/or the TA Evaluation
forms (DHS Form 9042), to complete as
a fillable PDF. Each form is then
submitted by email to either
[email protected] or
[email protected],
respectively.
The changes to the collection since
the previous OMB approval include:
Updating the web address, decreasing
the estimated number of responses,
decreasing the burden time, and
increasing the cost estimates. This is a
renewal of the existing information
collection that expired on 7/31/2023.
There are no substantial changes to the

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current approval. TA services by
category type (NAME) have been added
or removed throughout the form
lifecycle.
Analysis
Agency: Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security.
Title of Collection: Technical
Assistance Request and Evaluation.
OMB Number: 1670–0023.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: State, local, Tribal,
and Territorial governments.
Number of Respondents: 175.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.5
Hours.
Total Burden Hours: 50 Hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Annual Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $2,372.50.
Robert J. Costello,
Chief Information Officer, Department of
Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Notice Regarding the Uyghur Forced
Labor Prevention Act Entity List
Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), as the Chair
of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task
Force (FLETF), announces the
publication and availability of the
updated Uyghur Forced Labor
Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, a
consolidated register of the four lists
required to be developed and
maintained pursuant to section
2(d)(2)(B) of the UFLPA, on the DHS
UFLPA website. The updated UFLPA
Entity List is also published as an
appendix to this notice. This update
adds three entities to the section
2(d)(2)(B)(ii) list of the UFLPA, which
identifies entities working with the
government of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region to recruit,
transport, transfer, harbor or receive
forced labor or Uyghurs, Kazakhs,
Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted
groups out of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region. Details related to
the process for revising the UFLPA

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Entity List are included in this Federal
Register notice.
This notice announces the
publication and availability of the
UFLPA Entity List updated as of
September 27, 2023, included as an
appendix to this notice.

DATES:

Persons seeking additional
information on the UFLPA Entity List
should email the FLETF at
[email protected].

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cynthia Echeverria, Director of Trade
Policy, Trade and Economic Security,
Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans,
DHS. Phone: (202) 938–6365, Email:
[email protected].
The U.S.
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), on behalf of the Forced Labor
Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), is
announcing the publication of the
updated UFLPA Entity List, a
consolidated register of the four lists
required to be developed and
maintained pursuant to section
2(d)(2)(B) of the Uyghur Forced Labor
Prevention Act (Pub. L. 117–78)
(UFLPA), to https://www.dhs.gov/uflpaentity-list. The UFLPA Entity List is
available as an appendix to this notice.
This update adds three entities to the
section 2(d)(2)(B)(ii) list of the UFLPA,
which identifies entities working with
the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region to recruit,
transport, transfer, harbor or receive
forced labor or Uyghurs, Kazakhs,
Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted
groups out of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region. Future revisions to
the UFLPA Entity List, which may
include additions, removals or technical
corrections, will be published to https://
www.dhs.gov/uflpa-entitylist and in the
appendices of future Federal Register
notices. See Appendix 1.
Beginning on June 21, 2022, the
UFLPA requires the Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection to
apply a rebuttable presumption that
goods mined, produced, or
manufactured by entities on the UFLPA
Entity List are made with forced labor,
and therefore, prohibited from
importation into the United States
under 19 U.S.C. 1307. See section 3(a)
of the UFLPA. As the FLETF revises the
UFLPA Entity List, including by making
additions, removals, or technical
corrections, DHS, on its behalf, will post
such revisions to the DHS UFLPA
website (https://www.dhs.gov/uflpaentity-list) and also publish the revised
UFLPA Entity List as an appendix to a
Federal Register notice.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background
A. The Forced Labor Enforcement Task
Force
Section 741 of the United StatesMexico-Canada Agreement
Implementation Act established the
FLETF to monitor United States
enforcement of the prohibition under
section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 1307). See 19 U.S.C.
4681. Pursuant to DHS Delegation Order
No. 23034, the DHS Under Secretary for
Strategy, Policy, and Plans serves as
Chair of the FLETF, an interagency task
force that includes the Department of
Homeland Security, the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative, and the
Departments of Labor, State, Justice, the
Treasury, and Commerce (member
agencies).1 See 19 U.S.C. 4681;
Executive Order 13923 (May 15, 2020).
In addition, the FLETF includes six
observer agencies: the Departments of
Energy and Agriculture, the U.S. Agency
for International Development, the
National Security Council, U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, and U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Homeland Security Investigations.
B. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention
Act: Preventing Goods Made With
Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of
China From Being Imported Into the
United States
The UFLPA requires, among other
things, that the FLETF, in consultation
with the Secretary of Commerce and the
Director of National Intelligence,
develop a strategy (UFLPA section 2(c))
for supporting enforcement of section
307 of the Tariff Act of 1930, to prevent
the importation into the United States of
goods, wares, articles, and merchandise
mined, produced, or manufactured
wholly or in part with forced labor in
the People’s Republic of China. As
required by the UFLPA, the Strategy to
Prevent the Importation of Goods
Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with
Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of
China, which was published on the DHS
website on June 17, 2022 (see https://
www.dhs.gov/uflpa-strategy), includes
the initial UFLPA Entity List, a
consolidated register of the four lists
required to be developed and
maintained pursuant to the UFLPA. See
UFLPA section 2(d)(2)(B).
1 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as
the FLETF Chair, has the authority to invite
representatives from other executive departments
and agencies, as appropriate. See Executive Order
13923 (May 15, 2020). The U.S. Department of
Commerce is a member of the FLETF as invited by
the Chair.

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