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summarize or include your comments in 

the request for OMB’s clearance of this 

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Issued under the authority delegated in 49 

CFR 1.87. 

Tom Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26058 Filed 11–24–20; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[DOT–OST–2020–0237] 

Workshop on GPS Jamming and 

Spoofing in the Maritime Environment 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Transportation for Research 

and Technology (OST–R), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to inform the public that DOT, through 

the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Research and Technology (OST–R) and 

the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 

will host a workshop on Global 

Positioning System (GPS) jamming and 

spoofing in the maritime environment 

on December 3, 2020. The workshop 

will focus on: 

• How positioning, navigation, and 

timing (PNT) supports maritime 

applications; 

• What happens when PNT is denied, 

disrupted, or manipulated in a maritime 

environment; and 

• Options to reduce operational 

impact and increase PNT resiliency. 

This DOT Workshop will be held 

virtually and is open to the general 

public by registration only. For those 

who would like to attend the workshop, 

we request that you register no later 

than November 30, 2020. Please use the 

following link to register: https://volpeevents.webex.com/volpe-events/ 

onstage/g.php?MTID

=e8d794472bbf3089c77da9ac1c31efdc2. 

You must include: 

• Name 

• Organization 

• Telephone number 

• Mailing and email addresses 

• Country of citizenship 

Several days before the workshop, an 

email containing the agenda, dial-in 

number, and WebEx information will be 

provided. DOT is committed to 

providing equal access to this workshop 

for all participants. If you need 

alternative formats or services because 

of a disability, please contact Elliott 

Baskerville (contact information listed 

below) with your request by the close of 

business on November 27, 2020. 

Date and Time: December 3, 2020, 

from 1:00–5:00 p.m. (EST). 

Location: This workshop will be held 

virtually. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elliott Baskerville, Office of Positioning, 

Navigation, and Timing & Spectrum 

Management, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Research and Technology, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC 

20590, 202–366–5284, 

Elliott.Baskerville@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Overview 

Accurate and reliable PNT 

capabilities are essential for the safety 

for all modes of transportation and will 

become increasingly important for 

automated vessels. The primary and 

most recognizable PNT service 

supporting critical infrastructure is GPS. 

However, because GPS relies on signals 

broadcast from the satellite 

constellation, its signals are low power 

at the receiver and are thus vulnerable 

to intentional and unintentional 

disruption, such as jamming and 

spoofing. GPS ‘‘jamming’’ involves the 

use of a device to block or interfere with 

GPS signals; ‘‘spoofing’’ is deceiving a 

GPS device through fake signals. Both 

phenomena undermine the reliability of 

GPS and may have adverse 

consequences for maritime safety and 

commerce. 

Jamming has long been a threat to 

GPS due to the weak signal power from 

the GPS satellites. North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization (NATO) military drills in 

the Baltic Sea last year, with 40,000 

troops and all 29 Nations participating, 

experienced GPS jamming. Spoofing 

was considered an unrealistic threat for 

many years because it is complicated to 

perform. However, high-profile 

demonstrations at the University of 

Texas that spoofed a drone and a 

sophisticated yacht brought spoofing 

into the public eye in 2012–2013, a little 

more than a decade after DOT’s Volpe 

National Transportation Systems Center 

(Volpe Center) issued its report, 

‘‘Vulnerability Assessment of the 

Transportation Infrastructure Relying on 

the Global Positioning System’’ (August 

2001; available at: https://

rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8435). 

A likely GPS spoofing attack occurred 

in the Black Sea in 2017, where over 20 

ships erroneously reported their GPS 

positions as being inland at an airport. 

The number of separate vessels that 

reported the same false position and the 

characteristic jumping between the false 

and true position of the ships is strong 

evidence of a large-scale spoofing attack. 

More recently, incidents of GPS 

spoofing have been occurring around 

the world, particularly in maritime 

environments. The U.S. Government 

provides advisories of GPS interference 

through the Maritime Security 

Communications with Industry (MSCI) 

portal, at https://www.maritime.dot.gov/ 

msci/2020-016-various-gps-interference. 

Much of global trade is conducted by 

waterways, where ports are often 

congested and visibility is variable. In a 

maritime environment, GPS not only 

provides positioning information, but 

also provides inputs to speed, heading, 

steering, radar and target information, 

Electronic Chart Display Information 

System (ECDIS), Under Keel Clearance 

(UKC), and the Automatic Identification 

System (AIS). Being able to detect when 

spoofing is occurring is vital, since over 

50% of all casualties at sea occur due to 

navigation issues. When GPS jamming 

and spoofing is detected, the goal is for 

ships to immediately switch to other 

navigation tools. It is therefore critical to 

use complementary PNT technologies to 

ensure PNT resiliency. 

Consistent with these concerns, on 

February 12, 2020, President Trump 

issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13905, 

Strengthening National Resilience 

through Responsible Use of Positioning, 

Navigation, and Timing Services. The 

goal is to foster the responsible use of 

PNT services by critical infrastructure 

owners and operators (including the 

transportation sector) to strengthen 

national resilience. E.O. 13905 seeks to 

ensure that disruption or manipulation 

of PNT services does not undermine the 

reliability or efficiency of critical 

infrastructure by: 

• Raising awareness of the extent to 

which critical infrastructure depends on 

PNT services; 

• Ensuring that critical infrastructure 

can withstand disruption or 

manipulation of PNT services; and 

• Engaging the public and private 

sectors to promote responsible use of 

PNT services. 

In accordance with Section 4(g) of 

E.O. 13905, DOT is conducting a pilot 

program to inform the development of 

the relevant PNT profile and research 

and development (R&D) opportunities. 

The DOT pilot program, led by OST–R 

and MARAD, is focused on addressing 

GPS jamming and spoofing impacts to 

maritime vessels through stakeholder 

engagement and evaluating 

complementary PNT technologies that 

can be adopted to mitigate the impacts 

during these threat scenarios. The DOT 

pilot program will be conducted 

through stakeholder engagement and 

evaluation of complementary PNT 

technologies that can be adopted to 


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mitigate the impacts during these threat 

scenarios. 

The purpose of the workshop, which 

is a key component of stakeholder 

engagement of the DOT pilot program, 

is to increase public awareness of realworld incidents of the GPS signal being 

jammed or spoofed in a maritime 

environment and to discuss potential 

options to detect this interference, as 

well as use of complementary PNT 

technologies to provide a resilient PNT 

capability in the maritime environment. 

Issued this 20th day of November, 2020, in 

Washington, DC. 

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and 

Technology, U.S. Department of 

Transportation. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26120 Filed 11–24–20; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Regulation Project 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on continuing 

information collections, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

The IRS is soliciting comments 

concerning the monthly tax return for 

wagers. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before January 25, 2021 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Kinna Brewington, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the form should be directed to 

LaNita Van Dyke, at (202) 317–6009, at 

Internal Revenue Service, Room 6526, 

1111 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20224, or through the 

internet, at Lanita.VanDyke@irs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Monthly Tax Return for Wagers. 

OMB Number: 1545–0235. 

Regulation Project Number: Form 730. 

Abstract: Form 730 is used to identify 

taxable wagers under Internal Revenue 

Code section 4401 and collect the tax 

monthly. The information is used to 

determine if persons accepting wagers 

are correctly reporting the amount of 

wagers and paying the required tax. 

Current Actions: There is no change to 

this existing form. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit organizations and individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

51,082. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 8 

hours, 11 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 418,362. 

The following paragraph applies to all 

the collections of information covered 

by this notice. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

Books or records relating to a collection 

of information must be retained as long 

as their contents may become material 

in the administration of any internal 

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tax return information are confidential, 

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request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

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(a) Whether the collection of 

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(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the collection of 

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or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Approved: November 18, 2020. 

Chakinna B. Clemons, 

Supervisory Tax Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2020–25998 Filed 11–24–20; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Regulation Project 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. The IRS is soliciting 

comments concerning Treatment of 

Gain from the Disposition of Interest in 

Certain Natural Resource Recapture 

Property by S Corporations and Their 

Shareholders. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before January 25, 2021 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Paul D. Adams, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224. 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

should be directed to Sara Covington, 

(737) 800–6149, at Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224, or 

through the internet, at 

Sara.L.Covington@irs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Treatment of Gain From the 

Disposition of Interest in Certain 

Natural Resource Recapture Property by 

S Corporations and Their Shareholders. 

OMB Number: 1545–1493. 

Regulation Project Number: T.D. 8684. 

Abstract: This regulation prescribes 

rules under Code section 1254 relating 

to the treatment by S corporations and 

their shareholders of gain from the 

disposition of natural resource recapture 

property and from the sale or exchange 

of S corporation stock. Section 1.1254– 

4(c)(2) of the regulation provides that 

gain recognized on the sale or exchange 

of S corporation stock is not treated as 

ordinary income if the shareholder 

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containing information establishing that 

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Current Actions: There is no change to 

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