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Title of Collection: Consumer Price 

Index Commodities and Services 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 1219–0003. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions; 

State, Local and Tribal Governments. 

Number of Respondents: 4. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Number of Responses: 404. 

Annual Burden Hours: 402 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $20. 

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

Michael Howell, 

Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst. 

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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 23–04] 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

Candidate Country Report for Fiscal 

Year 2024 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003, as amended, requires the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation to 

publish a report that identifies countries 

that are ‘‘candidate countries’’ for 

Millennium Challenge Account 

assistance during Fiscal Year 2024. The 

report is set forth in full below. 

(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7707(a)) 

Dated: August 28, 2023. 

Gina Porto Spiro, 

Acting Vice President, General Counsel, and 

Corporate Secretary. 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

Candidate Country Report for Fiscal 

Year 2024 

Summary 

This report to Congress is provided in 

accordance with section 608(a) of the 

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as 

amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a) (the 

Act). 

The Act authorizes the provision of 

assistance for global development 

through the Millennium Challenge 

Corporation (MCC) for countries that 

enter into a Millennium Challenge 

Compact with the United States to 

support policies and programs that 

advance the progress of such countries 

to achieve lasting economic growth and 

poverty reduction. The Act requires 

MCC to take a number of steps in 

selecting countries with which MCC 

will seek to enter into a compact, 

including determining the countries that 

will be eligible countries for fiscal year 

(FY) 2024 based on (a) a country’s 

demonstrated commitment to (i) just 

and democratic governance, (ii) 

economic freedom, and (iii) investments 

in its people; (b) the opportunity to 

reduce poverty and generate economic 

growth in the country; and (c) the 

availability of funds to MCC. These 

steps include the submission to the 

congressional committees specified in 

the Act and publication in the Federal 

Register of reports on the following: 

• The countries that are ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ for FY 2024 based on their 

per capita income levels and their 

eligibility to receive assistance under 

U.S. law and countries that would be 

candidate countries but for specified 

legal prohibitions on assistance (section 

608(a) of the Act); 

• The criteria and methodology that 

the MCC Board of Directors (the Board) 

will use to measure and evaluate the 

relative policy performance of the 

‘‘candidate countries’’ consistent with 

the requirements of subsections (a) and 

(b) of section 607 of the Act in order to 

determine ‘‘eligible countries’’ from 

among the ‘‘candidate countries’’ 

(section 608(b) of the Act); and 

• The list of countries determined by 

the Board to be ‘‘eligible countries’’ for 

FY 2024, identification of such 

countries with which the Board will 

seek to enter into compacts, and a 

justification for such eligibility 

determination and selection for compact 

negotiation (section 608(d) of the Act). 

This report is the first of three 

required reports listed above. 

Candidate Countries for FY 2024 

The Act requires the identification of 

all countries that are candidate 

countries for purposes of eligibility for 

MCC compact assistance for FY 2024 

and the identification of all countries 

that would be candidate countries for 

purposes of eligibility for MCC compact 

assistance but for specified legal 

prohibitions on assistance. Under 

sections 606(a) and (b) of the Act, 

candidate countries must qualify as low 

income or lower middle income 

countries as defined in the Act. 

Specifically, a country will be a 

candidate country in the low income 

category for FY 2024 if it 

• has a per capita income that is not 

greater than the World Bank’s lower 

middle income country threshold for 

such fiscal year ($4,465 gross national 

income per capita for FY 2023); 

• is among the 75 countries identified 

by the World Bank as having the lowest 

per capita income; and 

• is not ineligible to receive United 

States economic assistance under part I 

of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 

as amended (the Foreign Assistance 

Act), by reason of the application of the 

Foreign Assistance Act or any other 

provision of law. 

A country will be a candidate country 

in the lower middle income category for 

FY 2024 if it 

• has a per capita income that is not 

greater than the World Bank’s lower 

middle income country threshold for 

such fiscal year ($4,465 gross national 

income per capita for FY 2024); 

• is not among the 75 countries 

identified by the World Bank as having 

the lowest per capita income; and 

• is not ineligible to receive United 

States economic assistance under part I 

of the Foreign Assistance Act by reason 

of the application of the Foreign 

Assistance Act or any other provision of 

law. 

Under section 606(c) of the Act as 

applied for FY 2024, a country with per 

capita income changes from FY 2023 to 

FY 2024 such that the country would be 

reclassified from the low income 

category to the lower middle income 

category or vice versa will retain its 

income status in its former category for 

FY 2024 and two subsequent fiscal years 

(FY 2025 and FY 2026). A country that 

has transitioned to the upper middle 

income category does not qualify as a 

candidate country. 

Pursuant to section 606(d) of the Act, 

the Board identified the following 

countries as candidate countries under 

the Act for FY 2024. In so doing, the 

Board referred to the prohibitions on 

assistance to countries for FY 2023 

under the Department of State, Foreign 

Operations, and Related Programs 

Appropriations Act, 2023 (FY 2023 

SFOAA) contained in Division K of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 

(Pub. L. 117–103). 

Candidate Countries: Low Income 

Category 

1. Afghanistan 

2. Angola 

3. Bangladesh 

4. Benin 

5. Bhutan 

6. Bolivia 

7. Burundi 

8. Cabo Verde 

9. Cameroon 

10. Central African Republic 

11. Chad 

12. Comoros 

13. Congo, Democratic Republic of the 

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* Note that, should events that began in July 2023 

in Niger be assessed to trigger restrictions on foreign 

assistance pursuant to the military coup restriction 

in section 7008 of the FY 2023 SFOAA, Niger will 

not be a candidate country. 

15. Coˆte d’Ivoire 

16. Djibouti 

17. Egypt 

18. Eswatini 

19. Ethiopia 

20. Gambia, The 

21. Ghana 

22. Guinea-Bissau 

23. Honduras 

24. India 

25. Kenya 

26. Kiribati 

27. Kyrgyzstan 

28. Laos 

29. Lebanon 

30. Lesotho 

31. Liberia 

32. Madagascar 

33. Malawi 

34. Mauritania 

35. Micronesia, Federated States of 

36. Mongolia 

37. Morocco 

38. Mozambique 

39. Nepal 

40. Niger * 

41. Nigeria 

42. Pakistan 

43. Papua New Guinea 

44. Philippines 

45. Rwanda 

46. Sao Tome and Principe 

47. Senegal 

48. Sierra Leone 

49. Solomon Islands 

50. Somalia 

51. Tajikistan 

52. Tanzania 

53. Timor-Leste 

54. Togo 

55. Tunisia 

56. Uganda 

57. Ukraine 

58. Uzbekistan 

59. Vanuatu 

60. Vietnam 

61. Yemen 

62. Zambia 

Candidate Countries: Lower Middle 

Income Category 

1. Algeria 

2. Jordan 

3. Samoa 

Countries That Would Be Candidate 

Countries but for Legal Provisions That 

Prohibit Assistance 

Countries that would be considered 

candidate countries for purposes of 

eligibility for MCC compact assistance 

for FY 2024 but are ineligible to receive 

United States economic assistance 

under part I of the Foreign Assistance 

Act by reason of the application of any 

provision of the Foreign Assistance Act 

or any other provision of law are listed 

below. This list is based on legal 

prohibitions against economic 

assistance that apply as of July 25, 2023. 

Prohibited Countries: Low Income 

Category 

• Burkina Faso is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance pursuant to the 

military coup restriction in section 7008 

of the FY 2023 SFOAA. 

• Burma is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance as it is subject to 

numerous restrictions including 

concerns relative to its record on human 

rights and pursuant to the military coup 

restriction in section 7008 of the FY 

2023 SFOAA. 

• Cambodia is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance pursuant to section 

7043(b)(2) of the FY 2023 SFOAA, 

which restricts (with limited 

exceptions) assistance to the 

Government of Cambodia unless the 

Secretary of State certifies that the 

Government of Cambodia is taking 

effective steps to strengthen regional 

security and stability and respect the 

rights and responsibilities enshrined in 

the Constitution of the Kingdom of 

Cambodia. 

• Eritrea is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance as it is subject to 

numerous restrictions including 

concerns relative to its record on human 

rights and its status as a Tier 3 country 

under the Trafficking Victims Protection 

Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.). 

• Guinea is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance pursuant to the 

military coup restriction in section 7008 

of the FY 2023 SFOAA. 

• Haiti is ineligible to receive foreign 

assistance unless the Secretary of State 

provides a certification pursuant to 

section 7045(c)(2) of the FY 2023 

SFOAA. 

• Iran is ineligible to receive foreign 

assistance as it is subject to numerous 

restrictions including as a state sponsor 

of terrorism under Section 620A of the 

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 

U.S.C. 2371) and its status as a Tier 3 

country under the Trafficking Victims 

Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 

et seq.). 

• Korea North ,is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance as it is subject to 

numerous restrictions including section 

7007 of the FY 2023 SFOAA and its 

status as a Tier 3 country under the 

Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 

2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.). 

• Mali is ineligible to receive foreign 

assistance pursuant to the military coup 

restriction in section 7008 of the FY 

2023 SFOAA. 

• Nicaragua is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance as it is subject to 

numerous restrictions including its 

status as a Tier 3 country under the 

Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 

2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) and under 

section 7047(c) of the FY 2023 SFOAA 

related to its recognition posture with 

respect to the Russian Federation 

occupied Georgian territories of 

Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region/South 

Ossetia. 

• South Sudan is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance as it is subject to 

numerous restrictions including under 

section 7042(g) of the FY 2023 SFOAA, 

for concerns relative to its record on 

human rights, and its status as a Tier 3 

country under the Trafficking Victims 

Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 

et seq.). 

• Sudan is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance as it is subject to 

numerous restrictions including the 

military coup restriction in section 7008 

of the FY 2023 SFOAA. 

• Syria is ineligible to receive foreign 

assistance as it is subject to numerous 

restrictions including as a state sponsor 

of terrorism under Section 620A of the 

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 

U.S.C. 2371) and its status as a Tier 3 

country under the Trafficking Victims 

Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 

et seq.). 

• Zimbabwe is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance, including pursuant to 

section 7042(j)(2) of the FY 2023 

SFOAA, which prohibits (with limited 

exceptions) assistance for the central 

government of Zimbabwe unless the 

Secretary of State certifies and reports to 

Congress that the rule of law has been 

restored, including respect for 

ownership and title to property, and 

freedoms of expression, association, and 

assembly. 

Prohibited Countries: Lower Middle 

Income Category 

• Sri Lanka is ineligible to receive 

foreign assistance pursuant to section 

7044(e)(2) of the FY 2023 SFOAA, 

which restricts (with limited 

exceptions) assistance for the central 

government unless the Secretary makes 

certain certifications regarding actions 

taken by the Government of Sri Lanka 

and reports to the Committees on 

Appropriations. 

Countries identified above as 

candidate countries, as well as countries 

that would be considered candidate 

countries but for the applicability of 

legal provisions that prohibit U.S. 

economic assistance, may be the subject 

of future statutory restrictions or 

determinations, or changed country 

circumstances, that affect their legal 


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eligibility for assistance under part I of 

the Foreign Assistance Act by reason of 

application of the Foreign Assistance 

Act or any other provision of law for FY 

2024. 

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BILLING CODE 9211–03–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice: 23–093] 

Name of Information Collection: 

Improving Customer Experience (OMB 

Circular A–11, Section 280 

Implementation) 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection. 

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA) as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, is 

announcing an opportunity for public 

comment on a new proposed collection 

of information by the Agency. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), Federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, and to allow 30 days for 

public comment in response to the 

notice. This notice solicits comments on 

new collection proposed by the Agency. 

DATES: Comments are due by October 2, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

identified by Information Collection 

2700–0181, Improving Customer 

Experience (OMB Circular A–11, 

Section 280 Implementation), by any of 

the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Comments submitted electronically, 

including attachments to https://

www.regulations.gov, will be posted to 

the docket unchanged. 

• By mail: Bill Edwards-Bodmer, 

NASA Clearance Officer, NASA 

Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, JF0000, 

Washington, DC 20546, 757–864–7998, 

or b.edwards-bodmer@nasa.gov. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite Information Collection 

2700–0181, Improving Customer 

Experience (OMB Circular A–11, 

Section 280 Implementation), in all 

correspondence related to this 

collection. To confirm receipt of your 

comment(s), please check 

regulations.gov, approximately two-tothree business days after submission to 

verify posting (except allow 30 days for 

posting of comments submitted by 

mail). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Bill Edwards-Bodmer, 

NASA Clearance Officer, NASA 

Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, JF0000, 

Washington, DC 20546, 757–864–7998, 

or b.edwards-bodmer@nasa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Under the PRA, (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520) Federal agencies must obtain 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c) and includes Agency requests 

or requirements that members of the 

public submit reports, keep records, or 

provide information to a third party. 

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA 

requires Federal agencies to provide a 

60-day notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each proposed 

extension of an existing collection of 

information, before submitting the 

collection to OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, NASA is 

publishing notice of the proposed 

collection of information set forth in 

this document. 

Whether seeking a loan, Social 

Security benefits, veterans benefits, or 

other services provided by the Federal 

Government, individuals and businesses 

expect Government customer services to 

be efficient and intuitive, just like 

services from leading private-sector 

organizations. Yet the 2016 American 

Consumer Satisfaction Index and the 

2017 Forrester Federal Customer 

Experience Index show that, on average, 

Government services lag nine 

percentage points behind the private 

sector. 

A modern, streamlined and 

responsive customer experience means: 

Raising government-wide customer 

experience to the average of the private 

sector service industry; developing 

indicators for high-impact Federal 

programs to monitor progress towards 

excellent customer experience and 

mature digital services; and providing 

the structure (including increasing 

transparency) and resources to ensure 

customer experience is a focal point for 

agency leadership. To support this, 

OMB Circular A–11 Section 280 

established government-wide standards 

for mature customer experience 

organizations in government and 

measurement. To enable Federal 

programs to deliver the experience 

taxpayers deserve, they must undertake 

three general categories of activities: 

Conduct ongoing customer research, 

gather and share customer feedback, and 

test services and digital products. 

These data collection efforts may be 

either qualitative or quantitative in 

nature or may consist of mixed 

methods. Additionally, data may be 

collected via a variety of means, 

including but not limited to electronic 

or social media, direct or indirect 

observation (i.e., in person, video and 

audio collections), interviews, 

questionnaires, surveys, and focus 

groups. NASA will limit its inquiries to 

data collections that solicit strictly 

voluntary opinions or responses. Steps 

will be taken to ensure anonymity of 

respondents in each activity covered by 

this request. 

The results of the data collected will 

be used to improve the delivery of 

Federal services and programs. It will 

include the creation of personas, 

customer journey maps, and reports and 

summaries of customer feedback data 

and user insights. It will also provide 

government-wide data on customer 

experience that can be displayed on 

performance.gov to help build 

transparency and accountability of 

Federal programs to the customers they 

serve. 

II. Methods of Collection 

NASA will collect this information by 

electronic means when possible, as well 

as by mail, fax, telephone, technical 

discussions, and in-person interviews. 

III. Data 

Title: Improving Customer Experience 

(OMB Circular A–11, Section 280 

Implementation). 

OMB Number: 2700–0181. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Affected Public: Collections will be 

targeted to the solicitation of opinions 

from respondents who have experience 

with the program or may have 

experience with the program in the near 

future. For the purposes of this request, 

‘‘customers’’ are individuals, 

businesses, and organizations that 

interact with a Federal Government 

agency or program, either directly or via 

a Federal contractor. This could include 

individuals or households; businesses 

or other for-profit organizations; not-forprofit institutions; State, local or Tribal 

governments; Federal Government; and 

Universities. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,001,550. 

Estimated Time per Response: Varied, 

dependent upon the data collection 


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