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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 87 / Friday, May 3, 2024 / Notices

Authorization
NMFS has issued a modified IHA to
MOS for conducting construction
activities associated with the terminal
redevelopment in Skagway, Alaska, that
includes the previously explained
mitigation, monitoring, and reporting
requirements.
Dated: April 30, 2024.
Catherine Marzin,
Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2024–09655 Filed 5–2–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P

End of Certification
Accordingly, the following product(s)
and service(s) are deleted from the
Procurement List:

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Deletions from the Procurement
List.
AGENCY:

This action deletes product(s)
and service(s) from the Procurement List
that were furnished by nonprofit
agencies employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities.
DATES: Date deleted from the
Procurement List: June 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325,
Washington, DC 20064.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703)
489–1322, or email CMTEFedReg@
AbilityOne.gov.
SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Deletions
On March 29, 2024 (89 FR 22131), the
Committee for Purchase From People
Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
published notice of proposed deletions
from the Procurement List. This notice
is published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503
(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3.
After consideration of the relevant
matter presented, the Committee has
determined that the product(s) and
service(s) listed below are no longer
suitable for procurement by the Federal
Government under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506
and 41 CFR 51–2.4.
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
I certify that the following action will
not have a significant impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
The major factors considered for this
certification were:

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1. The action will not result in
additional reporting, recordkeeping or
other compliance requirements for small
entities.
2. The action may result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
product(s) and service(s) to the
Government.
3. There are no known regulatory
alternatives which would accomplish
the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in
connection with the product(s) and
service(s) deleted from the Procurement
List.

Product(s)
NSN(s)—Product Name(s):
7530–01–583–0556—Folders, File,
Reinforced Tab, Manila, 1⁄3 Cut, Letter
7530–01–583–0557—Folders, File,
Reinforced Tab, Manila, Straight Cut,
Letter
Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN
SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK,
NY
Service(s)
Service Type: File Maintenance
Mandatory for: US Department of Treasury,
Bureau of Public Debt, 200 Third Street,
Parkersburg, WV
Designated Source of Supply: SW
Resources, Inc., Parkersburg, WV
Contracting Activity: BUREAU OF THE
FISCAL SERVICE, PSB 3
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2024–09703 Filed 5–2–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

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

SUMMARY:

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Act. This notice provides an
opportunity to interested members of
the public and affected agencies to
comment on a proposed Nonprofit
Agency (NPA) AbilityOne
Representations and Certifications
(ARC) form.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
July 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to
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;
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 an updated form
that an AbilityOne NPA will submit
annually regarding its AbilityOne
Program performance. This is a revision
of an existing form that is submitted on
an annual reporting cycle. 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
for 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 updated
form.
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), a
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
approximately 400 qualified nonprofit
agencies (NPAs). Individuals who are
working on AbilityOne contracts and
counted towards the direct labor hour
ratio mandated by the JWOD Act are
called ‘‘participating employees.’’
The implementing regulations for the
JWOD Act, located at 41 CFR chapter
51, provide the program’s requirements,
procedures, and standards. Section 51–
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requirements that an NPA must meet to
maintain qualification for participation
in the Program. Under this section of the
regulations, an NPA must submit a
completed copy of the appropriate
Annual Certification form. This
documentation helps the Commission
determine whether the NPA is meeting
the qualification requirements of the
Program. The Commission has also
published policies regarding
compliance expectations of the NPAs.
This information collection request
seeks approval for the Commission to
update its collection of information
necessary to verify an NPA’s
compliance with Program requirements,
as well as regarding an NPA’s effective
performance in meeting the mission of
the Program. To ensure consistency
with the Commission’s modernization
of the Program, the updated form will
collect information on employment
benefits offered to participating
employees, aggregate data regarding
employment mobility outcomes
achieved by participating employees,
and the prevalence of subcontracting
that contributes to workplace
integration and employee career
development for participating
employees.
The proposed updated ARC is
available at www.abilityone.gov.

The ARC will be required annually at
the Federal fiscal year-end. The form
will be completed and submitted
electronically.
The updated form is expected to
provide a net reduction in the time
burden for NPAs and to result in greater
efficiency and cost savings in the
oversight process.
The estimated time burden for the
existing form is 8 hours. The
Commission estimates that the updated
form will require 5 hours to complete.
The existing form requires 33 yes/no/
not applicable responses to questions
about the NPA’s AbilityOne Program
qualification standing, and these
questions require that attachments be
provided to explain certain responses to
these questions. The existing form also
includes seven data tables to be
completed, with more than 60 rows of
data.
The proposed new form limits
qualification standing responses to 10,
comprised of five yes/no/not applicable
responses, with only two questions
directing further explanation or an
attachment, as well as one multiple
choice question and four open text field
questions. The proposed new form
contains one less data table than the
existing form and requires fewer than 30
rows of data to be completed. The
Commission proposes two related forms
for electronic completion, which should
Annual form
time burden
(hours)

NPA positions

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HR Specialist ..............................................................
Principal Officer ..........................................................

Total Cost Burden: $203,248.
With respect to this collection of
information via the proposed form, the
Commission welcomes comments on
the following:
• The necessity to collect this
information to support the
Commission’s mission and oversight
responsibilities;
• Methodology to improve the
accuracy of the estimated time burden;
• Suggestions or methods to
minimize the burdens associated with
collecting the information described in
this ICR.
• The proposed form is viewable at
www.abilityone.gov.
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2024–09706 Filed 5–2–24; 8:45 am]
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$123.52 (for 4 hours) .................................................
$384.60 (for 1 hour) ...................................................

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Proposed Additions
and Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Proposed additions to and
deletions from the Procurement List.
AGENCY:

The Committee is proposing
to add service(s) to the Procurement List
that will be furnished by nonprofit
agencies employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities
and deletes product(s) previously
furnished by such agencies.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before: June 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
SUMMARY:

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enable auto-calculation of certain data
fields required by this proposed form,
further streamlining the process to
complete the proposed form. In total,
the existing form requires 132
mandatory responses and requires
additional (conditional) explanations to
33 questions. The proposed new form
requires fewer than 80 mandatory
responses and approximately 65
conditional responses. The Commission
does not expect the NPAs preparing this
form to answer ‘‘yes’’ to every question
that involves a conditional response.
The Commission has also designed the
new proposed form with check boxes
where possible, to make preparation of
the form more efficient.
To calculate the cost burden for the
average annual burden, the Commission
used national average pay data from the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, using
the May 2023 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimate of
$30.88 as the median hourly wage for a
Human Resources Specialist (OC 13–
1070) to fill out the form and a median
principal officer hourly wage from the
990 Forms filed by a sampling of NPAs
for the NPA principal officer to review
and sign the form. (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.

Cost estimate for annual time burden on employees
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Annual form
cost burden on
all NPAs
$49,408
153,840

Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325,
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or to submit
comments contact: Michael R.
Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 489–1322,
or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published pursuant to 41
U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its
purpose is to provide interested persons
an opportunity to submit comments on
the proposed actions.
Additions
In accordance with 41 CFR 51–5.3(b),
the Committee intends to add this
services requirement to the Procurement
List as a mandatory purchase only for
the DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE, FA4419
97 CONS CC at Altus Air Force Base,
OK with the proposed qualified
nonprofit agency as the authorized
source of supply. Prior to adding the

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