12036 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 38 / Monday, March 1, 2021 / Notices 

Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1321(f)(4) and (5), 

and applicable state law for injury to, 

impairment of, destruction of, and loss 

of, diminution of value of and/or loss of 

use of natural resources as a result of the 

February 4, 2015 discharge of 30,000– 

53,000 gallons of denatured ethanol into 

and near the Mississippi River near 

Balltown, Iowa from CP’s derailed train 

(‘‘the Spill’’). Under the proposed 

Settlement Agreement, CP agrees to pay 

$282,391 to the DOI Natural Resource 

Damage Assessment and Restoration 

Fund to be used for restoration activities 

to compensate the public for 

recreational and aquatic injuries. CP 

will receive from the Trustees a 

covenant not to sue for the claims 

resolved by the settlement. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed Settlement Agreement. 

Comments on the proposed Settlement 

Agreement should be addressed to the 

Assistant Attorney General, 

Environment and Natural Resources 

Division and should refer to the CP 

Settlement Agreement, DJ No. 90–11–3– 

10260/1. All comments must be 

submitted no later than thirty (30) days 

after the publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email .... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ...... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 

7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

During the public comment period, 

the Settlement Agreement may be 

examined and downloaded at this 

Justice Department website: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

We will provide a paper copy of the 

Settlement Agreement upon written 

request and payment of reproduction 

costs. Please mail your request and 

payment to: Consent Decree Library, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $2.50 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. 

Susan M. Akers, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging Proposed Consent 

Decree 

In accordance with Departmental 

Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 

given that a proposed Consent Decree in 

United States v. Thomas E. Lipar, et al., 

Civil Action Number 4:10–cv–01904, 

was lodged with the United States 

District Court for the Southern District 

of Texas on January 19, 2021. 

This proposed Consent Decree 

concerns a complaint filed by the 

United States against Defendants 

Thomas E. Lipar, LGI Land, LLC, LGI 

Group, LLC, and LGI Development, Inc., 

pursuant to Sections 301 and 404 of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311 and 

1344, to obtain remedies against them 

for violating the Clean Water Act by 

discharging pollutants without a permit 

into waters of the United States. The 

proposed Consent Decree resolves these 

allegations by requiring the Defendants 

to effectuate compensatory mitigation, 

conduct best management practices 

work, and be subject to other injunctive 

relief. 

On January 26, 2021, the Department 

of Justice published a notice in the 

Federal Register opening a period of 

public comment on the proposed 

Consent Decree for a period of thirty 

(30) days through February 25, 2021. By 

this notice, the Department of Justice is 

extending the public comment period 

through March 11, 2021. Comments 

should be addressed to Michele Walter 

and Andrew Doyle, United States 

Department of Justice, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, 

Environmental Defense Section, Post 

Office Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044, 

pubcomment_eds.enrd@usdoj.gov, and 

refer to United States v. Thomas E. 

Lipar, et al., DJ #90–5–1–1–18564. 

The proposed Consent Decree may be 

examined electronically at http://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

In addition, the proposed Consent 

Decree may be examined at the Clerk’s 

Office, United States District Court for 

the Southern District of Texas, 515 Rusk 

Street, Houston, TX 77002. However, 

the Clerk’s Office may limit public 

access due to the ongoing Coronavirus/ 

COVID–19 emergency. Please visit 

www.txs.uscourts.gov or call 713–250– 

5500 for more information. 

Cherie Rogers, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Defense Section, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; National 

Compensation Survey 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL) is submitting this Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS)-sponsored information 

collection request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are 

invited. 

DATES: The OMB will consider all 

written comments that agency receives 

on or before March 31, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (2) if the 

information will be processed and used 

in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of 

the agency’s estimates of the burden and 

cost of the collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (4) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collection; and 

(5) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony May by telephone at 202–693– 

4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Compensation Survey (NCS) is 

an ongoing survey of earnings and 

benefits among private firms, State, and 

local government. Data from the NCS 

program include estimates of wages 

covering broad groups of related 

occupations, and data that directly links 

benefit plan costs with detailed plan 

provisions. The NCS is used to produce 

the Employment Cost Trends, including 

the Employment Cost Index (ECI) and 

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Employer Costs for Employee 

Compensation (ECEC), employee 

benefits data (on coverage, cost, and 

provisions), and data used by the 

President’s Pay Agent. This data is used 

by compensation administrators and 

researchers in the public and private 

sectors. Data from the NCS are used to 

help in determining monetary policy (as 

a Principal Federal Economic Indicator). 

The integrated program’s single sample 

produces both time-series indexes and 

cost levels for industry and 

occupational groups, thereby increasing 

the analytical potential of the data. 

The NCS employs probability 

methods for selection of occupations. 

This ensures that sampled occupations 

represent all occupations in the 

workforce, while minimizing the 

reporting burden on respondents. The 

survey collects data from a sample of 

employers. These data will consist of 

information about the duties, 

responsibilities, and compensation 

(earnings and benefits) for a sample of 

occupations for each sampled employer. 

Data will be updated on a quarterly 

basis. The updates will allow for 

production of data on change in 

earnings and total compensation. 

This survey was revised to 

temporarily add questions to the 

National Compensation Survey to cover 

sick leave policy changes due to the 

coronavirus pandemic. These questions 

were collected primarily through email 

in June and July of 2020. These data 

were approved for collection under 

Emergency OMB Clearance Package 

1220–0195, but they were discontinued 

on November 13, 2020. Respondents 

will electronically complete and submit 

responses through a simple fillable 

form. The additional sick leave policy 

questions are not intended to be 

collected beyond the July timeframe. At 

this time, BLS has discontinued in 

person data collection in response to the 

coronavirus pandemic. NCS will return 

to using in person interviews as a 

method of collection once restrictions 

are lifted. During this time, the NCS is 

relying heavily on telephone, email, and 

mail for current collection. Video 

interview collection is also available in 

response to the pandemic and is being 

considered as a standard collection 

method. 

The NCS collects earnings and work 

level data on occupations for the nation. 

The NCS also collects information on 

the cost, provisions, and incidence of 

major employee benefits through its 

benefit cost and benefit provision 

programs and publications. BLS has for 

a number of years been using a revised 

approach to the Locality Pay Survey 

(LPS) component of the NCS; this uses 

data from two current BLS programs— 

the Occupational Employment Statistics 

(OES) survey and the ECI program. This 

approach uses OES data to provide wage 

data by occupation and by area, while 

ECI data are used to specify grade level 

effects. This approach is also being used 

to extend the estimation of pay gaps to 

areas that were not included in the prior 

Locality Pay Survey sample, and these 

data have been delivered to the Pay 

Agent (in 2019, data for 95 areas were 

delivered). 

For additional substantive 

information about this ICR, see the 

related notice published in the Federal 

Register on June 11, 2020 (85 FR 35667). 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless the OMB 

approves it and displays a currently 

valid OMB Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

DOL seeks PRA authorization for this 

information collection for three (3) 

years. OMB authorization for an ICR 

cannot be for more than three (3) years 

without renewal. The DOL notes that 

information collection requirements 

submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs 

receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. 

Agency: DOL–BLS. 

Title of Collection: National 

Compensation Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 1220–0164. 

Affected Public: Private Sector: 

Businesses or other for-profits; not-forprofit institutions; State, local, and 

tribal governments. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 15,863. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 49,717. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

43,978 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $0. 

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D)) 

Dated: February 23, 2021. 

Anthony May, 

Management and Program Analyst. 

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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

60-Day Notice for the ‘‘NEA Panelist 

Profile Data’’ 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts, National Foundation on the Arts 

and the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed collection; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a 

preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This program 

helps to ensure that requested data is 

provided in the desired format; 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized; collection 

instruments are clearly understood; and 

the impact of collection requirements on 

respondents is properly assessed. 

Currently, the NEA is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

information collection of NEA panelist 

profile data. A copy of the current 

information collection request can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

below in the address section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

address section below within 60 days 

from the date of this publication in the 

Federal Register. The NEA is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate 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; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and assumptions 

used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

• Can help the agency minimize the 

burden of the collection of information on 

those who are to respond, including through 

the electronic submission of responses. 

ADDRESSES: Email comments to Daniel 

Beattie, Director, Office of Guidelines 

and Panel Operations, National 

Endowment for the Arts, at: beattied@

arts.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel Beattie, Director of Guidelines