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Nominations should be sent to Katie
Zanowicz (see ADDRESSES) and must be
received by [December 23, 2024]. The
full text of the Committee Charter and
its current membership can be viewed at
the NMFS web page at https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/
partners/marine-fisheries-advisorycommittee-charter.
Dated: October 31, 2024.
Heidi Lovett,
Designated Federal Officer, Marine Fisheries
Advisory Committee, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2024–25747 Filed 11–5–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XE431]

Taking and Importing Marine
Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals
Incidental to Ice Roads and Ice Trails
Construction and Maintenance
Activities on Alaska’s North Slope
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of revised
Letter of Authorization.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA), as amended, its implementing
regulations, and NMFS’ MMPA
Regulations for Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to ice road and ice
trail construction, maintenance, and
operation in Alaska’s North Slope,
notification is hereby given that NMFS
has issued a revised Letter of
Authorization (LOA) to Hilcorp Alaska,
LLC (Hilcorp), in place of Eni US
Operating Co. Inc. (Eni), for the take of
marine mammals incidental to specified
construction and maintenance activities.
DATES: The LOA is effective through
November 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The LOA, original LOA
request, request for transferal, and
supporting documentation are available
online at: https://www.fisheries.
noaa.gov/action/incidental-takeauthorization-hilcorp-alaska-and-eniice-road-and-ice-trail-construction-and.
In case of problems accessing these
documents, please call the contact listed
below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jenna Harlacher, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals with certain
exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and
(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce
(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon
request, the incidental, but not
intentional, taking of small numbers of
marine mammals by U.S. citizens who
engage in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and either regulations are
issued or, if the taking is limited to
harassment, a notice of a proposed
incidental take authorization (ITA) may
be provided to the public for review.
Authorization for incidental takings
shall be granted if NMFS finds that the
taking will have a negligible impact on
the species or stock(s) and will not have
an unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of the species or stock(s) for
taking for subsistence uses (where
relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe
the permissible methods of taking and
other ‘‘means of effecting the least
practicable adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of such species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses
(referred to in shorthand as
‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements
pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring
and reporting of such takings are set
forth. The definitions of all applicable
MMPA statutory terms cited above are
included in the relevant sections below.
NMFS issued regulations in 2020 that
govern the taking of marine mammals
incidental to ice road and ice trail
construction, maintenance, and
operation in Alaska’s North Slope. The
regulations, which are effective through
November 30, 2025, were issued in
response to an application from Hilcorp
Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp) and Eni US
Operating Co. Inc. (Eni) (85 FR 83451,
December 22, 2020). Under those
regulations, NMFS issued LOAs to
Hilcorp and Eni (85 FR 83451).
Description of the activities, as well as
analysis related to the issuance of those
LOAs, is available in the proposed and
final rules (85 FR 2988, January 17,
2020; 85 FR 83451, December 22, 2020).
Summary of Request
On October 4, 2024, Hilcorp requested
the transfer of Eni’s LOA to Hilcorp
because Hilcorp was expected to
become the owner and operator of the
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Eni as of November 1, 2024. Eni
confirmed this in an October 23, 2024,
letter to NMFS. Hilcorp agrees to
comply with the terms, conditions,
stipulations, and restrictions of the
original LOA to Eni. No other changes
were requested. The revised LOA
remains effective through November 30,
2025.
The revised LOA sets forth only a
change in the LOA holder’s name. There
are no other changes to the LOA as
described in the December 22, 2020,
final rule and notice of issuance of
LOAs (85 FR 83451).
Authorization
NMFS is changing the name of the
holder of the LOA from ‘‘Eni’’ to
‘‘Hilcorp’’.
Dated: November 1, 2024.
Kimberly Damon-Randall,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposals, Submissions,
and Approvals
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled operates as the U.S. AbilityOne
Commission (Commission). This notice
announces the Commission’s intent to
submit the Information Collection
Request (ICR) described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for approval under applicable
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act. This notice provides an
opportunity to interested members of
the public and affected agencies to
comment on a proposed Participating
Employee Information (PEI) form.
DATES: Submit comments within 30
days of this notice, on or before
December 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments through
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Stewart, Compliance and
Enforcement Attorney, Office of General
Counsel, U.S. AbilityOne Commission,
355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington,
DC 20024; telephone: (703) 254–6172;
SUMMARY:

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email: [email protected]. If you
are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a
speech disability and wish to access
telecommunications relay services,
please dial 7–1–1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Overview of ICR: This notice pertains
to an ICR the Commission intends to
submit to OMB for approval of a form
that a participating nonprofit agency
(NPA) employer will fill out to
document relevant information for each
of its blind or significantly disabled
employees whose work on a
requirement on the Procurement List
contract is counted by the NPA as direct
labor hours. These individuals are
called ‘‘Participating Employees.’’
This ICR is consistent with OMB
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.). These regulations require the
Commission to provide an opportunity
to interested members of the public and
affected agencies to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)) such as those proposed to be
implemented through this form. The
Commission may not require
completion of this form without
receiving approval from OMB and is
required to display a valid control
number.
The Commission is responsible for
implementing the Javits-Wagner-O’Day
(JWOD) Act, 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506. In
doing so, the Commission oversees the
AbilityOne Program (Program), an
employment program in which
individuals who are blind or have
significant disabilities provide products
and services to Federal agencies,
thereby creating employment
opportunities for such individuals. The
Commission maintains a Procurement
List of mandatory source products and
services provided by more than 400
qualified NPAs.
Consistent with the Commission’s
Strategic Plan, the Agency is working to
ensure that Participating Employees in
the AbilityOne program are afforded
high quality employment opportunities
with the possibility for lateral, upward,
and outward, mobility. Measuring the
Commission’s success in this regard
requires the Commission to gather data
as to the matters covered by this form
and the other forms on which the
Commission is seeking public comment.
This PEI form will collect data from
qualified NPAs regarding Participating
Employees to ensure the integrity and
further the mission of the AbilityOne
Program. This form will provide data on
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nature of Participating Employees’
disabilities, what job supports and
accommodations the Participating
Employees are receiving, and a
description of employee career
development activities that are available
to Participating Employees, if an NPA is
currently providing such activities.
The form described in this ICR is the
second of three forms designed to
modernize the Commission’s
information gathering efforts and align it
with the Commission’s Strategic Plan
for FY 2022–2026, as well as with
Commission regulations, including,
inter alia, 41 CFR 51–4.3.
The Commission is also developing a
new Policy 51.405 which will set forth
an NPA’s responsibility to provide
Participating Employees with employee
career development activities such as
job individualization and employee
career plans. Although the requirements
of Policy 51.405 will be implemented
over time, this form will allow those
NPAs that are already providing such
employee career development activities
to provide data on what they offer.
The PEI form will be filled out and
submitted annually for each
Participating Employee through an
electronic system that will be
established by the Central Nonprofit
Agency(ies) (CNAs) for the use of the
NPAs.
The Commission published a 60-day
notice for this form on May 3, 2024, (89
FR 36774). In that notice, the
Commission called this form the
‘‘Individual Employee Information’’
form, but it is now called the
Participating Employee Information
form. The Commission received 48
comments in response.
A few commenters stated their
support for the Commission’s purposes
of helping ensure the integrity of and
furthering the mission of the Program. A
commenter noted that some aspects of
the information collection are
simplified, while promoting the growth
and development of Participating
Employees. One commenter stated that
the forms present a good opportunity to
collect data to measure Program
accountability and increase
transparency.
The Commission also received
comments questioning the necessity of
collecting the proposed information and
asserting that the information to be
collected was too extensive or excessive.
Some comments noted that the
proposed data collection is not required
by law. Some also stated that the
rationale for collecting the information
was too general to substantiate the
collection. Finally, some commenters
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Commission’s planned use for the
information.
In addition, the Commission received
comments expressing concerns over the
potential collection of personally
identifiable information (PII) covered by
the Privacy Act. Some suggested that
personal identifiers could raise concerns
for NPAs under the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), and still others
were concerned that the Health
Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be
implicated. However, no commenter
offered a legal analysis as to why HIPAA
would be implicated.
Other commenters suggested revisions
to the disabilities and job supports
listed on the form. Commenters also
noted that some employees might object
to listing additional disabilities beyond
those qualifying them for the program.
A number of commenters questioned
why the wage data was required and
stated that the wage data requested on
the form would require significant work
by different employees to complete.
Commenters expressed concerns
about providing data regarding
employees’ career mobility and
requested clarification as to how to fill
out the form for an employee who did
not desire career mobility.
One commenter requested
clarification as to why the form
requested both the date of hire and the
date of eligibility for an employee.
As to the burden of completion,
commenters opined that the
Commission’s estimated time for
completing the form was too short,
though only a few offered an alternative
estimate. Similarly, one commenter
questioned the Commission’s
assessment of the salary for someone
completing the form, but here again, the
Commission received little feedback as
to an alternative amount. Some
commenters contrasted the proposed
form to the Commission’s prior
requirements for information, which
required record keeping but not data
reporting. Commenters noted that the
CNAs presently collect some of the
information collected in this form.
In response to the comments received,
the Commission has significantly
updated the form. First, to address the
privacy concerns, the form will no
longer require the name of any
employee. Instead, the form will have
only a form reference number. The NPA
will maintain the information required
to associate the form with the specific
employee, and the NPA will make that
information available for certain
employees during qualification
assessments. In order to share this
information with CNA staff during such

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qualification assessments (also known
as compliance inspections), the NPA
will have been required to collect any
consent forms that might be required
under law from the individual at the
onset of employment, or the NPA will
be required to meet an exemption under
the law.
With respect to the Privacy Act, the
law does not apply because the forms
will not be retrievable by the
Commission via a search of any
personally identifiable information.
Moreover, searches of the forms will be
limited to the broad category of an NPA
and any form references numbers that
may appear in that search will not be
able to be correlated to any personally
identifiable information. Therefore, the
Commission is confident that the
Privacy Act is not implicated in the
collection of this information.
With regard to HIPAA, the
Commission believes that, even to the
extent some NPAs are covered entities
under that law, submitting the form
would constitute an exception for
disclosures required for ‘‘[e]ntities
subject to government regulatory
programs for which health information
is necessary for determining compliance
with program standards[.]’’ 45 CFR
164.512(d)(1)(III). Moreover, the
Commission has removed personal
identifiers from the form, creating
another built-in layer of privacy.
If the NPA believes that submitting
the form would constitute a transaction
under 45 CFR part 162, the NPA should
consult with its HIPAA compliance
officer for any updates to its existing
HIPAA release form(s).
With regard to the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and the inclusion
of information on the form about an
employee’s disability and the reasonable
accommodations the employee is
receiving, it is true that the ADA
requires that such information be kept
confidential, subject to only limited
exceptions. However, an exception
exists where release of the information
is required or necessitated by another

Federal law. Since disability is a
statutory prerequisite to be able to count
an individual’s direct labor hours
toward an NPA’s ratio under the JWOD
Act, proof of disability is necessary for
complying with the law. To the extent
NPAs have any additional concerns,
they may also obtain the authority to
release this information for these very
limited purposes upon hire.
This form does not change an NPA’s
record keeping requirements except
insofar as the NPA is required to
maintain a record of which employee is
associated with which Form Reference
Number. That duty is a natural
consequence of NPAs’ regulatory
requirements to maintain a file on each
employee as required to participate in
the AbilityOne Program. See 51.4.3(b)
and (c).
With regard to comments about the
difficulty of providing information on
wages, the Commission has deleted the
questions regarding the average hours
worked per week and median wages.
Instead, the form asks only about the
employee’s W–2 wages in the past
calendar year and the employee’s hourly
wage as reflected on the most recent pay
stub for the employee.
The listed disabilities were
reorganized, as were the significant job
supports, and supports were added in
response to specific suggestions.
The form makes clear that only the
disability(ies) that qualifies the
individual for the program must be
recorded on the form, although
employees may choose to provide
information on other disabilities
(particularly those for which they are
receiving job supports).
With regard to career mobility,
collecting and analyzing data in this
area is necessary to identify the career
opportunities available in this program.
The Commission has also added an
option permitting the NPA to note an
employee’s desire not to participate in
career mobility and, in addition, to
record whether the employee’s desire
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Requested

Annual Number of Responses for this IC ....................
Annual IC Time Burden (Hour) ....................................
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars) .................................

With respect to this collection of
information via the proposed form, the
Commission welcomes comments on
the following:

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Program
change
due to
new statute

Program
change
due to
agency
discretion

Change
due to
adjustment
in agency
estimate

Change
due to
potential
violation
of the PRA

Previously
approved

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1. The necessity to collect this
information to support the
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responsibilities.

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due to the employee’s concern with
losing government-funded health care or
other benefits.
With respect to burden, the
Commission agrees with commenters
that some of the information requested
in this form is already being collected
by one of the CNAs. Once this form is
approved, the CNAs will be required to
have an electronic data system that can
collect this information, and the
Commission will ensure the CNAs will
not be collecting information that
duplicates the information in this form.
Moreover, the Commission believes that
making the form available in electronic
format will significantly ease the burden
of compliance. Nevertheless, based on
all of the comments received, the
Commission has revised its estimate for
completing the form upward to two
hours.
A draft version of the PEI form is
available at www.abilityone.gov.
To calculate the burden for
completion of the form in units of
hours, the Commission multiplied the
estimated total number of annual
responses by 2, the number of hours the
Commission estimates will be needed to
complete the form. NPAs can assess the
burden to their particular organization
by multiplying the time by their total
number of Participating Employees.
The cost burden is based upon
national average pay data from the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, using the
May 2022 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimate of
$30.88 as the median hourly wage for a
Human Resources Specialist (OC 13–
1070). (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
oes_nat.htm#11-0000) The table below
represents the time and cost burden the
Commission estimates this form will
necessitate. The Commission believes
that collecting this critical data will
further the Program’s mission and
ultimately result in an expansion in
opportunities for the individuals
employed through the AbilityOne
Program.

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means of requesting the information
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3. Whether there are additional pieces
of information that should be collected
in the form.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

4. Methodology to improve the
accuracy of the estimated time burden.

[Transmittal No. 21–69]

5. Suggestions or methods to
minimize the burdens associated with
collecting the information described in
this ICR.
Michael R. Jurkowski,

dsca.ncr.rsrcmgmt.list.cns-mbx@
mail.mil.

Office of the Secretary

Arms Sales Notification
Defense Security Cooperation
Agency, Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Arms sales notice.
AGENCY:

[FR Doc. 2024–25793 Filed 11–5–24; 8:45 am]

The DoD is publishing the
unclassified text of an arms sales
notification.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Pamela Young at (703) 953–6092,
[email protected], or

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This
36(b)(1) arms sales notification is
published to fulfill the requirements of
section 155 of Public Law 104–164
dated July 21, 1996. The following is a
copy of a letter to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives with attached
Transmittal 21–69 and Policy
Justification.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

SUMMARY:

Director, Business Operations.

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Dated: November 1, 2024.
Stephanie J. Bost,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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