Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 182 / Friday, September 18, 2020 / Notices 58343 

For Media Inquiries: Ryan Oremland, 

(571) 665–6186, Ryan.Oremland@

FirstNet.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Middle Class Tax 

Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 

(codified at 47 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.) (Act) 

established the FirstNet Authority as an 

independent authority within NTIA. 

The Act directs the FirstNet Authority 

to ensure the building, deployment, and 

operation of a nationwide interoperable 

public safety broadband network. The 

FirstNet Authority Board is responsible 

for making strategic decisions regarding 

the FirstNet Authority’s operations. 

Matters to be Considered: The 

FirstNet Authority will post a detailed 

agenda for the Combined Board and 

Board Committees Meeting on 

FirstNet.gov prior to the meeting. The 

agenda topics are subject to change. 

Please note that the subjects discussed 

by the Board and Board Committees 

may involve commercial or financial 

information that is privileged or 

confidential, or other legal matters 

affecting the FirstNet Authority. As 

such, the Board may, by majority vote, 

close the meeting only for the time 

necessary to preserve the confidentiality 

of such information, pursuant to 47 

U.S.C. 1424(e)(2). 

Other Information: The Combined 

Board and Board Committees Meeting is 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Individuals requiring accommodations, 

such as sign language interpretation or 

other ancillary aids, are asked to notify 

Janell Smith at (202) 257–5929 or email: 

Janell.Smith@FirstNet.gov at least five 

(5) business days (September 23) before 

the meeting. 

Records: The FirstNet Authority 

maintains records of all Board 

proceedings. Minutes of the Combined 

Board and Board Committees Meeting 

will be available on FirstNet.gov. 

Dated: September 15, 2020. 

Janell Smith, 

Board Secretary, First Responder Network 

Authority. 

[FR Doc. 2020–20613 Filed 9–17–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–TL–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Additions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Additions to from the 

Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: This action adds services to 

the Procurement List that will be 

furnished by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities. 

DATES: Date added to the Procurement 

List: October 18, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 

715, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 

603–2117, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email 

CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additions 

On 5/22/2020, the Committee for 

Purchase From People Who Are Blind 

or Severely Disabled published notice of 

proposed additions to the Procurement 

List. This notice is published pursuant 

to 41 U.S.C. 8503 (a)(2) and 41 CFR 51– 

2.3. 

After consideration of the material 

presented to it concerning capability of 

qualified nonprofit agencies to provide 

the service and impact of the additions 

on the current or most recent 

contractors, the Committee has 

determined that the service listed below 

are suitable for procurement by the 

Federal Government under 41 U.S.C. 

8501–8506 and 41 CFR 51–2.4. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. The action will not result in any 

additional reporting, recordkeeping or 

other compliance requirements for small 

entities other than the small 

organizations that will furnish the 

service to the Government. 

2. The action will result in 

authorizing small entities to furnish the 

service to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in 

connection with the service proposed 

for addition to the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

Accordingly, the following service is 

added to the Procurement List: 

Service 

Service Type: Document Management/ 

Document Conversion 

Mandatory for: Army National Guard, 

Temple Army Readiness Center, 

Arlington, VA 

Mandatory Source of Supply: Columbia 

Lighthouse for the Blind, Washington, 

DC; Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston, 

Houston, TX; 

Contracting Activity: Dept of the Army, W39L 

USA NG Readiness Center 

The Committee finds good cause to 

dispense with the 30-day delay in the 

effective date normally required by the 

Administrative Procedure Act. See 5 

U.S.C. 553(d). This addition to the 

Committee’s Procurement List is 

effectuated because of the expiration of 

the current U.S. Army National Guard 

contract. The Federal customer 

contacted, and has worked diligently 

with the AbilityOne Program to fulfill 

this service need under the AbilityOne 

Program. To avoid performance 

disruption, and the possibility that the 

U.S. Army National Guard will refer its 

business elsewhere, this addition must 

be effective on September 28, 2020, 

ensuring timely execution for a 

September 28, 2020, start date while 

still allowing 10 days for comment. 

Pursuant to its own regulation 41 CFR 

51–2.4, the Committee conducted an 

impact analysis on the current 

contractor and found that there was not 

severe adverse impact on the current 

contractor. The Committee also 

published a notice of proposed 

Procurement List addition in the 

Federal Register on May 22, 2020, and 

did not receive any comments from any 

interested persons, including from the 

incumbent contractor. This addition 

will not create a public hardship and 

has limited effect on the public at large, 

but, rather, will create new jobs for 

other affected parties—people with 

significant disabilities in the AbilityOne 

program who otherwise face challenges 

securing employment. Moreover, this 

addition will enable Federal customer 

operations to continue without 

interruption. 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Deputy Director, Business & PL Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2020–20601 Filed 9–17–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Response to Comment 

Request; Civic Engagement and 

Volunteering: Current Population 

Survey Supplement 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice; response to comments. 


jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES
58344 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 182 / Friday, September 18, 2020 / Notices 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (CNCS) 

published a document in the Federal 

Register on July 1, 2020 requesting 

public comment on a public information 

collection request (ICR) entitled The 

Civic Engagement and Volunteering 

Supplement (CEV) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. This 

document provides the agency response 

to comments received during the 60-day 

comment period. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Borgstrom, Associate Director of 

Policy, 202–422–2781. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments 

A 60-day Notice requesting public 

comment was published in the Federal 

Register on July 1, 2020 at Vol. 85 No. 

127 FR 39537 39538. This comment 

period ended August 31, 2020. CNCS 

received 23 comments in response to 

the Notice. A majority of these 

comments (n = 18) supported the formal 

comments submitted by AL!VE, a 

national membership organization of 

over 500 leaders and professionals in 

volunteer engagement, and ASC, the 

association of the 52 Governorsupported state service commissions, 

which administer nearly 80% of 

AmeriCorps State and National Funding 

and support an ethic of service in their 

states and territories. The comments 

submitted by each organization and 

referenced by 16 other organizations are 

available at the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal at https://beta.regulations.gov/ 

document/CNCS-2020-0011-0020. In 

summary, the comments and agency 

responses to these coordinated and 

thoughtful comments are as follows: 

Reinstate questions on types of 

activity, types of organization, who 

asked respondent to volunteer for the 

organization, and number of 

organizations volunteered with in past 

year. The re-designed supplement is 

intended to focus on the broader 

concept of civic engagement, of which 

volunteerism is one component. The redesigned supplement incorporates many 

of the recommendations made by the 

National Academy of Sciences, as well 

as recommendations made by experts in 

the field of civic engagement, social 

capital and volunteering. The agency 

reduced the number of questions based 

on Census recommendations to decrease 

burden and to increase response rates. 

The agency utilized statistical methods 

to validate the questions retained to 

ensure they measure desired constructs. 

Add two new questions about barriers 

to volunteering and knowledge about 

how to volunteer. The re-designed 

supplement is intended to focus on the 

broader concept of civic engagement, of 

which volunteerism is one component. 

The re-designed supplement 

incorporates many of the 

recommendations made by the National 

Academy of Sciences, as well as 

recommendations made by experts in 

the field of civic engagement, social 

capital and volunteering. The agency 

reduced the number of questions based 

on Census recommendations to decrease 

burden and to increase response rates. 

The agency utilized statistical methods 

to validate the questions retained to 

ensure they measure desired constructs. 

The agency is conducting other 

volunteer research through its grant 

program to explore more detailed 

questions about civic engagement and 

volunteering. 

Request that the balance of the 

questions be provided between the civic 

and volunteering questions. The redesigned supplement is intended to 

focus on the broader concept of civic 

engagement, of which volunteerism is 

one component. The re-designed 

supplement incorporates many of the 

recommendations made by the National 

Academy of Sciences, as well as 

recommendations made by experts in 

the field of civic engagement, social 

capital and volunteering. The agency 

reduced the number of questions based 

on Census recommendations to decrease 

burden and to increase response rates. 

The agency utilized statistical methods 

to validate the questions retained to 

ensure they measure desired constructs. 

Request that CNCS reinstate its 

practice of conducting a standard data 

analysis and report of data collected in 

the Volunteering and Civic Life 

Assessment, making results accessible 

and searchable to the general public. 

The agency has experienced staffing 

constraints in the Office of Research and 

Evaluation and the Office of Information 

Technology making it challenging to 

conduct analysis, reporting, and public 

access to the information. 

It is critical that CNCS does not lose 

sight of the volunteerism portion of its 

mission, which is how most Americans 

engage in giving back to their 

community . . . which includes a 

central focus on researching and 

promoting community volunteerism and 

volunteer engagement in America more 

broadly. The agency agrees and 

anticipates a continuation and future 

resourcing of its volunteer research 

program. 

It is important for CNCS to fix the 

2019 supplement so future data is high 

quality and comparable to past federal 

data collections (2002 to 2015). 

Over a decade of national trend data 

indicates relatively little variation in the 

national rates of civic behaviors, 

including demographic variations. As 

such the volunteer research program has 

been expanded to include more local 

examinations of civic behaviors and to 

explore the use of alternative data 

sources. Keeping the instrument 

relatively stable for a third 

administration of the combined 

supplement will help ensure data 

quality moving forward. 

Ensure that the federal government 

collects and reports annually on the 

trends in service and civic life. Over a 

decade of national trend data indicates 

relatively little variation in the national 

rates of civic behaviors, including 

demographic variations. As such the 

volunteer research program has been 

expanded to include more local 

examinations of civic behaviors and to 

explore the use of alternative data 

sources. Annual data on national service 

trends is collected via an annual 

member exit survey and is separate from 

this instrument which collects data from 

a nationally representative sample of the 

U.S. population who may or may not 

engage in civic behaviors like 

volunteering and who may or may not 

receive stipends like participants in 

national service programs. Statute and 

annual appropriations provide 

resources for this research—how is the 

agency using these resources? The 

agency uses Congressional 

appropriations to pay the U.S. Census 

Bureau to administer the VCLA/CEV 

supplement on a biannual schedule. 

When the CPS supplement is not being 

administered, the agency uses the 

appropriations to support its volunteer 

research grant program (for more 

information see https://

www.nationalservice.gov/impact-ournation/research-evaluation/researchcompetition). The agency has a different 

appropriations line for professional 

staffing which is the resource gap that 

has affected analysis, reporting, and 

access to the dataset. 

In addition to these comments, there 

were requests to move the order of the 

survey items, combine questions, 

remove questions, and expand upon 

questions. Two requests for adding 

COVID–19 related questions and two 

requests for adding questions specific to 

disasters were received. The items in 

their current order and structure have 

been tested and used for the 2017 and 

2019 administrations of the survey. 

The agency’s goal is to maintain 

relative stability in the instrument for a 

third administration to maintain the 

integrity and comparability of the data. 

Two new questions were added, 


jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 182 / Friday, September 18, 2020 / Notices 58345 

however, to facilitate the transition from 

employment-related questions in the 

Current Population Survey to the 

questions in the CEV. These new 

questions address one request to add 

employment-based volunteering and 

civic engagement behaviors. 

Finally, two additional types of 

comments were received. One category 

of comments references the importance 

of including volunteer engagement 

practitioners in agency decision-making 

about this national survey. The other 

type of comment references the 

importance of considering the full 

continuum of volunteering and civic 

behaviors and not just the more formal 

types of civic engagement behaviors 

measured in this supplement. 

The agency remains committed to 

being responsive to the expertise and 

information needs of all public 

stakeholders. The agency’s statutorily 

mandated volunteer research program 

will continue to evolve. The goal is 

continuous learning and improvement 

and this supplement is a key component 

of our overall volunteer research 

program. 

The CEV, however, comes with 

constraints in terms of number of survey 

items and time demands we can ask of 

respondents. Addressing the wide range 

of important questions about 

volunteering and civic engagement of 

interest to practitioners, researchers, 

and policymakers will require a 

comprehensive, multi-faceted strategy. 

The agency has begun designing and 

implementing this multi-dimensional 

approach and looks forward to building 

upon progress made to date in 

partnership with all interested 

stakeholders. 

Dated: September 9, 2020. 

Mary Hyde, 

Director, Office of Research and Evaluation. 

[FR Doc. 2020–20222 Filed 9–17–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6050–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for a 

Submarine Dry Dock and Waterfront 

Production Facility at the Pearl Harbor 

Naval Shipyard and Intermediate 

Maintenance Facility, Oahu, Hawaii, 

and To Announce the Public Scoping 

Meeting; Corrections 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice; corrections. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy 

published a document in the Federal 

Register of September 15, 2020, 

concerning its intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

to evaluate the potential environmental 

effects associated with construction and 

operation of a submarine dry dock (DD) 

replacement and waterfront production 

facility (WPF) at the Pearl Harbor Naval 

Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance 

Facility (PHNSY & IMF) at Joint Base 

Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), Oahu, 

Hawaii and announce the public 

scoping period. The document 

contained incorrect dates and omitted 

details concerning the request for public 

comment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andre ́a M. Von Burg Hall, Navy PHNSY 

DD/WPF EIS Project Manager, by 

telephone (808–472–1425) or email 

(andrea.vonburg-hall@navy.mil). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of September 

15, 2020, in FR Doc. 2020–19961, on 

page 57194, the following corrections 

are made: 

1. On page 57195, in the first column, 

correct the DATES caption to read: 

DATES: The Navy is initiating a 35-day 

public scoping process beginning on 

September 15, 2020 and extending 

through October 19, 2020. The purpose 

of the public scoping process is to 

identify community interests and to 

receive comments on the scope of the 

EIS and the project’s potential to affect 

historic properties pursuant to Section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act of 1966, including 

identification of potential alternatives, 

information, and analyses relevant to 

the proposed action. This public 

scoping process starts with the 

publication of this Notice of Intent. The 

Navy is providing two web-based 

platforms for the public to learn about 

the Proposed Action and provide 

scoping comments. All comments are 

due by October 19, 2020. The Navy 

intends to publish the Draft EIS in July 

of 2021, the Final EIS in April 2022 

with a Record of Decision signed in 

September 2022. 

2. On page 57195, in the first column, 

correct the second sentence in 

paragraph 1. of the ADDRESSES caption 

to read: The virtual Open House will be 

available at www.PearlHarbor

DryDockEISOpenHouse.org from 12:00 

a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (HST) on 

September 15, 2020, to 11:59 p.m. (HST) 

on October 19, 2020. 

3. On page 57195, in the second 

column, correct SUPPLEMENTAL

INFORMATION to read: SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION: Depot maintenance for 

PHNSY & IMF requires four DDs 

capable of docking current and future 

classes of submarines. In addition, to 

accommodate future submarine 

maintenance demands at PHNSY & IMF 

and improve operational readiness, the 

time spent servicing each submarine at 

the DD must be reduced. Infrastructure 

improvements and rearrangement of 

functions at PHNSY are, therefore, 

needed to ensure adequate capacity and 

operational efficiency. 

The purpose of the Proposed Action 

is to provide appropriate DD capacity at 

PHNSY & IMF to meet depot 

maintenance requirements and to 

provide a properly sized and configured 

WPF to enable efficient submarine 

maintenance. 

The Navy proposes DD replacement at 

PHNSY & IMF capable of performing 

depot-level maintenance on current and 

future fast-attack submarines. To meet 

the purpose and need, the Navy’s 

Proposed Action is to construct and 

operate a graving DD replacement and 

WPF at PHNSY & IMF, including 

permanent ancillary facilities such as 

new power and utilities. A graving or 

excavated DD is one that is constructed 

on land near the shore, using concrete. 

Other construction-related actions 

would include dredging, upgrade or 

replacement of new in-water structures, 

demolition of existing upland 

structures, and construction of new 

upland facilities. 

The Navy has identified four 

preliminary action alternatives to carry 

forward for analysis in the EIS along 

with the No Action alternative. These 

alternatives will be further refined based 

on input received from the public and 

resource agencies during scoping. 

Alternative 1 (No Action Alternative) 

would be no change from the status quo. 

A submarine DD replacement and WPF 

would not be built, and PHNSY & IMF 

would continue to service submarines 

using its existing infrastructure. 

Following the phasing out of the Los 

Angeles Class submarine in 2022, DD 3 

would no longer be capable of servicing 

any active submarines due to size 

limitations. 

Alternative 2 would consist of a 

covered graving DD replacement and 

bridge crane. A new WPF would be 

located east of the DD, servicing both 

the replacement DD and DD #2. 

Alternative 3 would consist of a 

covered graving DD replacement and 

bridge crane. A new WPF would be 

located west of the DD and would 

service only the replacement DD. 

Alternative 4 would consist of an 

uncovered graving DD replacement, 


jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES