Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 228 / Wednesday, November 25, 2020 / Notices 75399 

I. Background 

On October 2, 2020 the U.S. Trade 

Representative initiated an investigation 

pursuant to Section 301 of the Trade Act 

of 1974, of whether Vietnam’s acts, 

policies, and practices related to the 

import and use of illegal timber are 

unreasonable or discriminatory and 

burden or restrict U.S. commerce. See 

85 FR 63639. USTR invited interested 

persons to submit written comments by 

November 12, 2020, regarding the issues 

in the investigation. 

II. Hearing and Rebuttal Comments 

USTR will hold a virtual public 

hearing in this investigation on Monday, 

December 28, 2020. To be assured of 

consideration, you must submit requests 

to testify at the virtual hearing, and 

summaries of your testimony, by 

December 10, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. 

Because the hearing will be public, your 

testimony should not include any 

confidential information. 

USTR will post information regarding 

access to the virtual public hearing at 

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/ 

enforcement/section-301-investigations/ 

section-301-vietnam. In addition, USTR 

will contact persons who are testifying 

at the hearing regarding the procedures 

for participation. 

You may request to testify on the 

issues covered by the investigation. See 

85 FR 63639. In particular, USTR invites 

hearing testimony regarding: 

• The extent to which illegal timber 

is imported into Vietnam. 

• The extent to which Vietnamese 

producers, including producers of 

wooden furniture, use illegal timber. 

• The extent to which products of 

Vietnam made from illegal timber, 

including wooden furniture, are 

imported into the United States. 

• Vietnam’s acts, policies, or 

practices relating to the import and use 

of illegal timber. 

• The nature and level of the burden 

or restriction on U.S. commerce caused 

by Vietnam’s import and use of illegal 

timber. 

• The determinations required under 

section 304 of the Trade Act, including 

what action, if any, should be taken in 

the investigation. 

USTR will offer a further opportunity 

for public comment in the event actions 

affecting specific products or services 

are considered in the investigation. 

Accordingly, the upcoming hearing will 

not involve testimony regarding specific 

products or services that might be 

affected by an action in the 

investigation. 

USTR will consider rebuttal 

comments submitted by January 6, 2021. 

Rebuttal comments should be strictly 

limited to demonstrating errors of fact or 

analysis not pointed out in the written 

submissions or hearing testimony and 

should be as concise as possible. 

III. Submission Procedures 

Requests to appear and summaries of 

testimony, as well as rebuttal comments, 

must be submitted on Regulations.gov. 

To make a submission via 

Regulations.gov, enter docket number 

USTR–2020–0036 in the ‘search for’ 

field on the home page and click 

‘search.’ The site will provide a search 

results page listing all documents 

associated with this docket. Find a 

reference to this notice by selecting 

‘notice’ under ‘document type’ in the 

‘filter results by’ section on the left side 

of the screen and click on the link 

entitled ‘comment now.’ 

When submitting a request to appear 

and a summary of your testimony, 

provide in the ‘comment’ field on the 

next page the full name, address, email 

address, and telephone number of the 

person who wishes to present the 

testimony. To submit a written 

statement or summary, Regulations.gov 

allows users to provide comments by 

filling in a ‘type comment’ field or by 

attaching a document using the ‘upload 

file(s)’ field. USTR prefers that you 

provide submissions in an attached 

document. The file name should 

include the name of the person who will 

be presenting the testimony, or if not 

testifying, the name of the person 

submitting the statement. The name of 

the presenter also should be clear in the 

content of the file itself. All submissions 

must be in English and be prepared in 

(or be compatible with) Microsoft Word 

(.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. 

Include any data attachments to the 

submission in the same file as the 

submission itself, and not as separate 

files. For additional information on 

using Regulations.gov, please consult 

the resources provided on the website 

by clicking on ‘how to use this site’ on 

the left side of the home page. 

For any rebuttal comments that 

contain business confidential 

information (BCI), the file name of the 

business confidential version should 

begin with the characters ‘BCI.’ You 

must clearly mark any page containing 

BCI by including ‘BUSINESS 

CONFIDENTIAL’ on the top of that page 

and clearly indicating, via brackets, 

highlighting, or other means, the 

specific information that is BCI. If you 

request business confidential treatment, 

you must certify in writing that 

disclosure of the information would 

endanger trade secrets or profitability, 

and that you would not customarily 

release the information to the public. 

Filers of submissions containing BCI 

also must submit a public version of 

their comments. The file name of the 

public version should begin with the 

character ‘P.’ Follow the ‘BCI’ and ‘P’ 

with the name of the person or entity 

submitting the comments. If these 

procedures are not sufficient to protect 

BCI or otherwise protect business 

interests, please contact the Section 301 

line at (202) 395–5725 to discuss 

whether alternative arrangements are 

possible. 

USTR will post submissions in the 

docket for public inspection, except for 

submissions properly designated BCI. 

You can view submissions on 

Regulations.gov by entering docket 

number USTR–2020–0036 in the search 

field on the home page. 

Joseph Barloon, 

General Counsel, Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26061 Filed 11–24–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3290–F0–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2020–0030] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Extension of Currently Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for extension 

of currently approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for renewal of an 

existing information collection that is 

summarized below under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We are 

required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

January 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

2020–0030 by any of the following 

methods: 

Website: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 


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75400 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 228 / Wednesday, November 25, 2020 / Notices 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Dougherty 202–366–9234, 

Department of Transportation, Federal 

Highway Administration, Office of 

Highway Policy Information, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590, Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Certification of Enforcement of 

the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax. 

OMB Control #: 2125–0541. 

Background: Title 23 United States 

Code, Section 141(c), provides that a 

State’s apportionment of funds under 23 

U.S.C. 104(b)(1) shall be reduced in an 

amount up to 8 percent of the amount 

to be apportioned during any fiscal year 

beginning after September 30, 1984, if 

vehicles subject to the Federal heavy 

vehicle use tax are lawfully registered in 

the State without having presented 

proof of payment of the tax. The annual 

certification by the State Governor or 

designated official regarding the 

collection of the heavy vehicle use tax 

serves as the FHWA’s primary means of 

determining State compliance. The 

FHWA has determined that an annual 

certification of compliance by each State 

is the least obtrusive means of 

administering the provisions of the 

legislative mandate. In addition, States 

are required to retain for 1 year a 

Schedule 1, IRS Form 2290, Heavy 

Vehicle Use Tax Return (or other 

suitable alternative provided by 

regulation). The FHWA conducts 

compliance reviews at least once every 

3 years to determine if the annual 

certification is adequate to ensure 

effective administration of 23 U.S.C. 

141(c). 

The estimated annual reporting 

burden is 102 hours; the estimated 

recordkeeping burden is 510 hours for a 

total of 612 hours. The 50 States and the 

District of Columbia share this burden. 

Preparing and processing the annual 

certification is estimated to require 2 

hours per State. Recordkeeping is 

estimated to require an average of 10 

hours per State. 

Respondents: 50 State Transportation 

Departments, and the District of 

Columbia for a total of 51 respondents. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Average Annual Burden 

per Response: The average burden to 

submit the certification and to retain 

required records is 12 hours per 

respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: Total estimated average annual 

burden is 612 hours. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the U.S. 

DOT’s performance, including whether 

the information will have practical 

utility; (2) the accuracy of the U.S. 

DOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, 

and clarity of the collected information; 

and (4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, 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. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued On: November 20, 2020. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26125 Filed 11–24–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–RY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2020–0028] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments for a 

New Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for a new information 

collection, which is summarized below 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 

are required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

January 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID 2020–0028 

by any of the following methods: 

Website: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received; go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Moulden, 202–493–3470, TurnerFairbank Highway Research Center, 

Office of Corporate Research, 

Technology, and Innovation 

Management, Federal Highway 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 6300 Georgetown Pike, 

McLean, VA 22101. Office hours are 

from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Federal Highway 

Administration Research, Development 

and Technology Portfolio website. 

Background: Title 23, United States 

Code, Section 502(a)(5) requires that 

Federal surface transportation research 

and development activities address the 

needs of stakeholders, including 

‘‘States, metropolitan planning 

organizations, local governments, the 

private sector, researchers, research 

sponsors, and other affected parties, 

including public interest groups.’’ As 

part of its effort to ensure that Federal 

research, development and technology 

(RD&T) activities are addressing the 

most critical national challenges, the 

Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA) is developing the RD&T 

Agenda website. This website will 

communicate FHWA’s RD&T goals, 

objectives and strategies to its 

stakeholders and highlight notable 

initiatives or projects that illustrate 

FHWA’s RD&T approach. The website 

will include an electronic mechanism 

for stakeholders to provide feedback on 

the overall RD&T Agenda, FHWA’s 

approach to addressing national 

transportation challenges, and potential 

opportunities for FHWA to collaborate 

with stakeholders to address them. 

Respondents: Approximately 1,000 

annual respondents. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Approximately 10 minutes 

per respondent per year. 


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