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plan items for the Executive Committee 

to consider in October 2023. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aid should be directed to 

Shelley Spedden, (302) 526–5251, at 

least 5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: August 24, 2023. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18775 Filed 8–30–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–C–2023–0006] 

Future Strategies in Anticounterfeiting 

and Antipiracy 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for comments; 

extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) published a 

request for comments in the Federal 

Register on May 25, 2023, seeking 

information from interested parties—in 

particular consumers, intellectual 

property rights holders, online 

marketplaces and platforms, physical 

marketplaces, parties who provide 

goods to the public, and other private 

sector stakeholders—on the evolution of 

counterfeiting and piracy in recent years 

and ways to identify and develop future 

anticounterfeiting and antipiracy 

strategies. Through this notice, the 

USPTO is extending the period for 

public comments until September 25, 

2023. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by 11:59 p.m. ET on September 

25, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by one of the following methods: 

(1) Electronic submissions: Submit all 

electronic comments via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov (at the homepage, 

enter PTO–C–2023–0006 in the 

‘‘Search’’ box, click the ‘‘Comment’’ 

icon, complete the required fields, and 

enter or attach your comments). The 

materials in the docket will not be 

edited to remove identifying or contact 

information, and the USPTO cautions 

against including any information in an 

electronic submission that the submitter 

does not want publicly disclosed. 

Attachments to electronic comments 

will be accepted only in Microsoft 

Word, Microsoft Excel, or Adobe PDF 

formats. Comments containing 

references to studies, research, and 

other empirical data that are not widely 

published should include copies of the 

referenced materials. Please do not 

submit additional materials. If you want 

to submit a comment with confidential 

business information that you do not 

wish to be made public, please submit 

the comment as a written/paper 

submission in the manner detailed 

below. 

(2) Written/paper submissions: Send 

all written/paper submissions to: United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 

Mail Stop OPIA, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22314. Submission 

packaging should clearly indicate that 

materials are responsive to Docket No. 

PTO–C–2023–0006, Office of Policy and 

International Affairs, Comment Request; 

Future Strategies in Anticounterfeiting 

and Antipiracy. 

Submissions of confidential business 

information: Any submissions 

containing confidential business 

information must be delivered in a 

sealed envelope marked ‘‘confidential 

treatment requested’’ to the address 

listed above. Submitters should provide 

an index listing the document(s) or 

information they would like the USPTO 

to withhold. The index should include 

information such as numbers used to 

identify the relevant document(s) or 

information, the document title(s) and 

description(s), and relevant page 

numbers and/or section numbers within 

a document. Submitters should provide 

a statement explaining their grounds for 

objecting to the disclosure of the 

information to the public. The USPTO 

also requests that submitters of 

confidential business information 

include a non-confidential version 

(either redacted or summarized) of those 

confidential submissions that will be 

available for public viewing and posted 

on www.regulations.gov. In the event 

that the submitter cannot provide a nonconfidential version of their submission, 

the USPTO requests that the submitter 

post a notice in the docket stating that 

they have provided the USPTO with 

confidential business information. 

Should a submitter fail to either docket 

a non-confidential version of their 

submission or post a notice that 

confidential business information has 

been provided, the USPTO will note the 

receipt of the submission on the docket 

with the submitter’s organization or 

name (to the degree permitted by law) 

and the date of submission. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ameen Imam, USPTO, Office of Policy 

and International Affairs, at 571–272– 

9300 or ameen.imam@uspto.gov. Please 

direct media inquiries to the USPTO’s 

Office of the Chief Communications 

Officer at 571–272–8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 

25, 2023, the USPTO published a 

Federal Register Notice requesting 

information from interested parties 

regarding their observations and 

insights into the future of 

anticounterfeiting and antipiracy 

strategies. In particular, as part of the 

USPTO’s efforts to address 

counterfeiting and piracy, the notice 

requested information from consumers, 

intellectual property rights holders, 

online marketplaces and platforms, 

physical marketplaces, parties who 

provide goods to the public, and other 

private sector stakeholders on the 

evolution of counterfeiting and piracy in 

recent years and ways to identify and 

develop future anticounterfeiting and 

antipiracy strategies. See Future 

Strategies in Anticounterfeiting and 

Antipiracy, 88 FR 33872. The notice 

requested public comments on or before 

August 23, 2023. 

Through this notice, the USPTO is 

extending the period for public 

comments until September 25, 2023, to 

give interested members of the public 

additional time to submit comments. All 

other information and instructions to 

commenters provided in the May 25, 

2023, notice remain unchanged. 

Previously submitted comments do not 

need to be resubmitted. Any comments 

received after the previous deadline of 

August 23, 2023, and before the 

publication date of this notice will be 

treated as timely and given full 

consideration. 

Katherine K. Vidal, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18844 Filed 8–30–23; 8:45 am] 

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; VISTA 

Sponsor Survey 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 


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Corporation for National and 

Community Service (operating as 

AmeriCorps) is proposing to revise an 

information collection. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the individual and office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section by 

October 30, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) Electronically through 

www.regulations.gov (preferred 

method). 

(2) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, 

Attention: Robert Cox, 250 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20525. 

(3) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the AmeriCorps mailroom at the mail 

address given in paragraph (2) above, 

between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public through regulations.gov. For this 

reason, please do not include in your 

comments information of a confidential 

nature, such as sensitive personal 

information or proprietary information. 

If you send an email comment, your 

email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

docket and made available on the 

internet. Please note that responses to 

this public comment request containing 

any routine notice about the 

confidentiality of the communication 

will be treated as public comment that 

may be made available to the public, 

notwithstanding the inclusion of the 

routine notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Cox, Director, Program Impact & 

Operations, AmeriCorps VISTA, (202) 

420–1328, rcox@cns.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: VISTA Sponsor 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 3045–0191. 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Businesses and organizations. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 800. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 200. 

Abstract: This information collection 

allows AmeriCorps to conduct surveys 

about Volunteers in Service to America 

(VISTA) project development, 

management, and sustainability, 

including member recruitment and 

retention. Surveys of project sponsors 

would be administered online, to help 

to identify implementation challenges 

and best practices among VISTA project 

sponsors. AmeriCorps will use the 

results to make program improvements 

and mitigate potential challenges, and to 

develop training and technical 

assistance materials to strengthen and 

enhance VISTA programming. Sponsors 

will be sent individualized emails and 

survey data will be merged with existing 

administrative data regarding project 

characteristics. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval. Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

and (e) estimates of capital or start-up 

costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. All written comments will 

be available for public inspection on 

regulations.gov. 

Carly Bruder, 

Acting Director, AmeriCorps VISTA. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18812 Filed 8–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6050–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2023–OS–0077] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, the DoD is 

modifying and reissuing a current 

Department-wide system of records 

titled, ‘‘Defense Reasonable 

Accommodation and Assistive 

Technology Records,’’ DoD–0007. This 

system of records was originally 

established to collect and maintain 

records concerning DoD civilian 

employees and other members of the 

public requesting or receiving disabilityrelated accommodations. Additionally, 

this system was established to collect 

and maintain records concerning 

wounded, ill and injured Service 

members on Active Duty requesting or 

receiving assistive technology solutions. 

These accommodations, which relate to 

enabling civilian employees, members 

of the public, and certain Service 

members to access DoD employment, 

systems, facilities, and programs are 

hereafter referred to collectively as 

‘‘accessibility accommodations.’’ This 

SORN is being updated to expand 

coverage to DoD civilian and military 

personnel, and applicants for DoD 

employment, who request an exemption 

from generally applicable policies for 

reasons relating to individual medical 

conditions, religious beliefs or practices, 

or matters of conscience. The DoD is 

also modifying various other sections 

within the SORN to improve clarity or 

update information that has changed. 

DATES: This modified system of records 

is effective upon publication; however, 

comments on the new or modified 

Routine Uses will be accepted on or 

before October 2, 2023. The Routine 

Uses are effective at the close of the 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

* Federal Rulemaking Portal: https:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

* Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Assistant to the Secretary of 

Defense for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and 

Transparency, Regulatory Directorate, 

4800 Mark Center Drive, Attn: Mailbox 

24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria, VA 22350– 

1700. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this Federal Register 

document. The general policy for 

comments and other submissions from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at https://

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