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Respondents (i.e., affected public): 

Not-for profit institutions; State, Local, 

or Tribal Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

353 annually. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 353 

annually. 

Frequency of Response: 1 per agency 

performance review. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hour 

annually. 

Total Estimated Burden: 353 hours. 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

(5) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are respond, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507. 

Colette Pollard, 

Department Reports Management Officer 

Assistant, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03552 Filed 2–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2020–0018] 

Withdrawal of the Public Review 

Period for Cook Inlet Lease Sale 258 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice to withdraw public 

review period. 

SUMMARY: BOEM is withdrawing the 

public review period and virtual public 

hearings announced in the Notice of 

Availability (NOA) of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

for the proposed Cook Inlet Lease Sale 

258. 

DATES: This withdrawal is effective 

immediately. The public review period, 

scheduled to close March 1, 2021, and 

the virtual public hearings, scheduled 

for February 9–11, 2021, are canceled. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this notice, please 

contact Amee Howard, Project Manager, 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Alaska Regional Office, 3801 

Centerpoint Drive, Suite 500, 

Anchorage, Alaska 99503–5823, by 

telephone at (907) 334–5200, or by 

email at amee.howard@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 15, 2021, BOEM published an 

NOA for the proposed Cook Inlet Lease 

Sale 258 DEIS. The NOA began a 45-day 

comment period and announced the 

dates and times of three virtual public 

hearings. However, in response to 

Executive Order 14008, BOEM has 

decided to cancel the comment period 

and public hearings for the Lease Sale 

258 DEIS. 

Executive Order 14008, published in 

the Federal Register on February 1, 

2021, directed the Secretary of the 

Interior to pause new oil and gas leasing 

on public lands and offshore waters 

pending completion of a comprehensive 

review of Federal oil and gas activities, 

including climate and other impacts. 

Consistent with the Executive Order, 

BOEM has decided to cancel the 

comment period and virtual public 

hearings for Lease Sale 258 DEIS. This 

decision to postpone further 

environmental review of the lease sale 

pending completion of the review 

specified in the Executive Order was 

made to avoid administrative costs 

associated with holding hearings on the 

sale while it is under review. In advance 

of this notice, on February 4, 2021, 

BOEM issued a press release and 

updated its website to notify 

stakeholders that the public review 

period and virtual public hearings were 

cancelled. If, after completion of the 

review directed in Executive Order 

14008, BOEM resumes its 

environmental review of Lease Sale 258, 

a notice will be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Authority: This notice to withdraw the 

public review period is published pursuant 

to 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; 40 CFR 1506.6 

(2019 ed.). 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03693 Filed 2–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 731–TA–1528 (Final)] 

Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and 

Tube From Vietnam; Scheduling of the 

Final Phase of an Anti-Dumping Duty 

Investigation 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice of the scheduling of the final 

phase of antidumping investigation No. 

731–TA–1528 (Final) pursuant to the 

Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the Act’’) to 

determine whether an industry in the 

United States is materially injured or 

threatened with material injury, or the 

establishment of an industry in the 

United States is materially retarded, by 

reason of imports of seamless refined 

copper pipe and tube from Vietnam, 

provided for in subheading 7411.10.10 

of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 

the United States, preliminarily 

determined by the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘Commerce’’) to be sold at 

less-than-fair-value. 

DATES: February 1, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jordan Harriman ((202) 205–2610), 

Office of Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. 

Hearing-impaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (https://

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

this investigation may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope.—For purposes of this 

investigation, Commerce has defined 

the subject merchandise as all seamless 

circular refined copper pipes and tubes, 

including redraw hollows, greater than 

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1For Commerce’s complete scope, see ‘‘Seamless 

Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Preliminary Negative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances,’’ 86 FR 7698, February 1, 2021. 

or equal to 6 inches (152.4 mm) in 

actual length and measuring less than 

12.130 inches (308.102 mm) in actual 

outside diameter (OD), regardless of 

wall thickness, bore (e.g., smooth, 

enhanced with inner grooves or ridges), 

manufacturing process (e.g., hot 

finished, cold-drawn, annealed), outer 

surface (e.g., plain or enhanced with 

grooves, ridges, fins, or gills), end finish 

(e.g., plain end, swaged end, flared end, 

expanded end, crimped end, threaded), 

coating (e.g., plastic, paint), insulation, 

attachments (e.g., plain, capped, 

plugged, with compression or other 

fitting), or physical configuration (e.g., 

straight, coiled, bent, wound on spools). 

The scope of this investigation covers, 

but is not limited to, seamless refined 

copper pipe and tube produced or 

comparable to the American Society for 

Testing and Materials (ASTM) ASTM– 

B42, ASTM–B68, ASTM–B75, ASTM– 

B88, ASTM–B88M, ASTM–B188, 

ASTM–B251, ASTM–B251M, ASTM– 

B280, ASTM–B302, ASTM–B306, 

ASTM–B359, ASTM–B743, ASTM– 

B819, and ASTM–B903 specifications 

and meeting the physical parameters 

described therein.1

Background.—The final phase of this 

investigation is being scheduled, 

pursuant to section 735(b) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673d(b)), as a 

result of an affirmative preliminary 

determination by Commerce that 

imports of seamless refined copper pipe 

and tube from Vietnam are being sold in 

the United States at less than fair value 

within the meaning of § 733 of the Act 

(19 U.S.C. 1673b). The investigation was 

requested in a petition filed on June 30, 

2020, by the American Copper Tube 

Coalition, consisting of the Mueller 

Group, Collierville, Tennessee, and 

Cerro Flow Products, LLC, Sauget, 

Illinois. 

For further information concerning 

the conduct of this phase of the 

investigation, hearing procedures, and 

rules of general application, consult the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A and B 

(19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A and C (19 CFR part 207). 

Participation in the investigation and 

public service list.—Persons, including 

industrial users of the subject 

merchandise and, if the merchandise is 

sold at the retail level, representative 

consumer organizations, wishing to 

participate in the final phase of this 

investigation as parties must file an 

entry of appearance with the Secretary 

to the Commission, as provided in 

§ 201.11 of the Commission’s rules, no 

later than 21 days prior to the hearing 

date specified in this notice. A party 

that filed a notice of appearance during 

the preliminary phase of the 

investigation need not file an additional 

notice of appearance during this final 

phase. The Secretary will maintain a 

public service list containing the names 

and addresses of all persons, or their 

representatives, who are parties to the 

investigation. 

Please note the Secretary’s Office will 

accept only electronic filings during this 

time. Filings must be made through the 

Commission’s Electronic Document 

Information System (EDIS, https://

edis.usitc.gov). No in-person paperbased filings or paper copies of any 

electronic filings will be accepted until 

further notice. 

Limited disclosure of business 

proprietary information (BPI) under an 

administrative protective order (APO) 

and BPI service list.—Pursuant to 

§ 207.7(a) of the Commission’s rules, the 

Secretary will make BPI gathered in the 

final phase of this investigation 

available to authorized applicants under 

the APO issued in the investigation, 

provided that the application is made 

no later than 21 days prior to the 

hearing date specified in this notice. 

Authorized applicants must represent 

interested parties, as defined by 19 

U.S.C. 1677(9), who are parties to the 

investigation. A party granted access to 

BPI in the preliminary phase of the 

investigation need not reapply for such 

access. A separate service list will be 

maintained by the Secretary for those 

parties authorized to receive BPI under 

the APO. 

Staff report.—The prehearing staff 

report in the final phase of this 

investigation will be placed in the 

nonpublic record on May 27, 2021, and 

a public version will be issued 

thereafter, pursuant to § 207.22 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

Hearing.—The Commission will hold 

a hearing in connection with the final 

phase of this investigation beginning at 

9:30 a.m. on June 15, 2021. Information 

about the place and form of the hearing, 

including about how to participate in 

and/or view the hearing, will be posted 

on the Commission’s website at https:// 

www.usitc.gov/calendarpad/ 

calendar.html. Interested parties should 

check the Commission’s website 

periodically for updates. Requests to 

appear at the hearing should be filed in 

writing with the Secretary to the 

Commission on or before June 8, 2021. 

A nonparty who has testimony that may 

aid the Commission’s deliberations may 

request permission to present a short 

statement at the hearing. All parties and 

nonparties desiring to appear at the 

hearing and make oral presentations 

should participate in a prehearing 

conference to be held at 9:30 a.m. on 

June 14, 2021. Oral testimony and 

written materials to be submitted at the 

public hearing are governed by sections 

201.6(b)(2), 201.13(f), and 207.24 of the 

Commission’s rules. Parties must submit 

any request to present a portion of their 

hearing testimony in camera no later 

than 7 business days prior to the date of 

the hearing. 

Written submissions.—Each party 

who is an interested party shall submit 

a prehearing brief to the Commission. 

Prehearing briefs must conform with the 

provisions of § 207.23 of the 

Commission’s rules; the deadline for 

filing is June 7, 2021. Parties may also 

file written testimony in connection 

with their presentation at the hearing, as 

provided in § 207.24 of the 

Commission’s rules, and posthearing 

briefs, which must conform with the 

provisions of section 207.25 of the 

Commission’s rules. The deadline for 

filing posthearing briefs is June 22, 

2021. In addition, any person who has 

not entered an appearance as a party to 

the investigation may submit a written 

statement of information pertinent to 

the subject of the investigation, 

including statements of support or 

opposition to the petition, on or before 

June 22, 2021. On July 13, 2021, the 

Commission will make available to 

parties all information on which they 

have not had an opportunity to 

comment. Parties may submit final 

comments on this information on or 

before July 15, 2021, but such final 

comments must not contain new factual 

information and must otherwise comply 

with § 207.30 of the Commission’s rules. 

All written submissions must conform 

with the provisions of § 201.8 of the 

Commission’s rules; any submissions 

that contain BPI must also conform with 

the requirements of §§ 201.6, 207.3, and 

207.7 of the Commission’s rules. The 

Commission’s Handbook on Filing 

Procedures, available on the 

Commission’s website at https://

www.usitc.gov/documents/handbook_

on_filing_procedures.pdf, elaborates 

upon the Commission’s procedures with 

respect to filings. 

Additional written submissions to the 

Commission, including requests 

pursuant to § 201.12 of the 

Commission’s rules, shall not be 

accepted unless good cause is shown for 

accepting such submissions, or unless 

the submission is pursuant to a specific 

request by a Commissioner or 

Commission staff. 

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In accordance with §§ 201.16(c) and 

207.3 of the Commission’s rules, each 

document filed by a party to the 

investigation must be served on all other 

parties to the investigation (as identified 

by either the public or BPI service list), 

and a certificate of service must be 

timely filed. The Secretary will not 

accept a document for filing without a 

certificate of service. 

Authority: This investigation is being 

conducted under authority of title VII of 

the Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is 

published pursuant to § 207.21 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: February 18, 2021. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03678 Filed 2–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Labor Certification Process for the 

Temporary Employment of Aliens in 

Agriculture in the United States: 2021 

Adverse Effect Wage Rates for NonRange Occupations 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA) of the 

Department of Labor (Department) is 

issuing this notice to announce the 2021 

Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for 

the employment of temporary or 

seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers 

(H–2A workers) to perform agricultural 

labor or services other than the herding 

or production of livestock on the range. 

AEWRs are the minimum wage rates the 

Department has determined must be 

offered and paid by employers to H–2A 

workers and workers in corresponding 

employment for a particular occupation 

and area so that the wages and working 

conditions of similarly employed 

workers in the United States will not be 

adversely affected. In this notice, the 

Department announces updates of the 

AEWRs, which are effective 

immediately pursuant to a recent federal 

court order. Supplemental Order 

Regarding Preliminary Injunctive Relief, 

United Farm Workers, et al. v. U.S. 

Dep’t of Labor, et al., No. 20–cv–1690 

(E.D. Cal. Jan. 12, 2021), ECF No. 39. 

DATES: These rates are applicable 

February 23, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Pasternak, Administrator, Office 

of Foreign Labor Certification, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Room N–5311, Washington, DC 20210, 

telephone: (202) 693–8200 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Individuals with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access the telephone numbers above via 

TTY/TDD by calling the toll-free Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1 (877) 

889–5627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Citizenship and Immigration Services of 

the Department of Homeland Security 

will not approve an employer’s petition 

for the admission of H–2A 

nonimmigrant temporary and seasonal 

agricultural workers in the United States 

unless the petitioner has received an 

H–2A labor certification from the 

Department. The labor certification 

provides that: (1) There are not 

sufficient U.S. workers who are able, 

willing, and qualified and who will be 

available at the time and place needed 

to perform the labor or services involved 

in the petition; and (2) the employment 

of the foreign worker(s) in such labor or 

services will not adversely affect the 

wages and working conditions of 

workers in the United States similarly 

employed. 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a), 

1184(c)(1), and 1188(a); 8 CFR 

214.2(h)(5); 20 CFR 655.100. 

Adverse Effect Wage Rates for 2021 

The Department’s H–2A regulations at 

20 CFR 655.122(l) provide that 

employers must pay their H–2A workers 

and workers in corresponding 

employment at least the highest of: (i) 

The AEWR; (ii) the prevailing hourly 

wage rate; (iii) the prevailing piece rate; 

(iv) the agreed-upon collective 

bargaining wage rate; or (v) the federal 

or state minimum wage rate in effect at 

the time the work is performed. Further, 

when the AEWR is adjusted during a 

work contract and is higher than the 

highest of the previous AEWR, the 

prevailing rate, the agreed-upon 

collective bargaining wage, the Federal 

minimum wage rate, or the state 

minimum wage rate, the employer must 

pay that adjusted AEWR upon the 

effective date of the new rate, as 

provided in the applicable Federal 

Register Notice. See 20 CFR 655.122(l) 

(requiring the applicable AEWR or other 

wage rate to be paid based on the AEWR 

or rate in effect ‘‘at the time work is 

performed’’). 

On November 5, 2020, the Department 

published a final rule, Adverse Effect 

Wage Rate Methodology for the 

Temporary Employment of H–2A 

Nonimmigrants in Non-Range 

Occupations in the United States, 85 FR 

70445 (2020 AEWR final rule), to 

establish a new methodology for setting 

hourly AEWRs, effective December 21, 

2020. On December 23, 2020, the U.S. 

District Court for the Eastern District of 

California issued an order enjoining the 

Department from implementing the 

2020 AEWR final rule and ordering the 

Department to operate under the 2010 

rule, Temporary Agricultural 

Employment of H–2A Aliens in the 

United States, 75 FR 6884 (Feb. 12, 

2010). Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion 

for a Preliminary Injunction, United 

Farm Workers, et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of 

Labor, et al., No. 20–cv–1690 (E.D. Cal.), 

ECF No. 37. On January 12, 2021, the 

district court issued a supplemental 

order requiring the Department to 

publish the AEWRs for 2021 in the 

Federal Register on or before February 

25, 2021, using the methodology set 

forth in the 2010 rule, and to make those 

AEWRs effective upon their publication. 

Supplemental Order Regarding 

Preliminary Injunctive Relief, United 

Farm Workers, et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of 

Labor, et al., No. 20–cv–1690 (E.D. Cal.), 

ECF No. 39. Pursuant to the district 

court’s supplemental order, the 

Department notified state workforce 

agencies (SWAs), employers, and the 

general public that the AEWRs in effect 

on December 20, 2020, remained in 

effect during the interim period until 

the Department published this update of 

the AEWRs for 2021 in the Federal 

Register. See, e.g., Announcements, 

OFLC Announces Updates to 

Implementation of the H–2A Adverse 

Effect Wage Rate Methodology for NonRange Occupations Final Rule; 

Compliance with District Court Order 

(Jan. 15, 2021), available at https://

www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/ 

news. As reflected in the Department’s 

announcement on the OFLC website at 

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/ 

foreign-labor/news, the district court’s 

supplemental order also reserved 

decision on whether an award of 

backpay to affected H–2A workers may 

be warranted based on the difference, if 

any, between the applicable 2020 

AEWRs and the 2021 AEWRs 

announced in this notice. 

Accordingly, the 2021 AEWRs for all 

agricultural employment (except for the 

herding or production of livestock on 

the range, which is covered by 20 CFR 

655.200–235) for which temporary H– 

2A certification is being sought is equal 

to the annual weighted average hourly 

wage rate for field and livestock workers 

(combined) in the state or region as