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receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

1. Type of Information Collection: 

Extension of a previously approved 

collection. 

2. Title of the Form/Collection: 

Inventories: Licensed Explosives 

Importers, Manufacturers, Dealers and 

Permittees. 

3. Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the 

Department of Justice sponsoring the 

collection: Form number: None. 

Component: Bureau of Alcohol, 

Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

4. Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Affected Public: Private 

Sector—businesses or other for-profit 

institutions. Abstract: These records 

show the explosive material inventories 

of those persons engaged in various 

activities within the explosives industry 

and are used by the government as 

initial figures from which an audit trail 

can be developed during a compliance 

inspection or criminal investigation. 

5. Obligation to Respond: Mandatory 

per Title 27 CFR 555.121, 27 CFR 

555.122, 27 CFR 555.123, 27 CFR 

555.124, 27 CFR 555.125, and 27 CFR 

555.127. 

6. Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 9,219 of respondents. 

7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 

hours. 

8. Frequency: Once annually. 

9. Total Estimated Annual Time 

Burden: 18,438 hours. 

10. Total Estimated Annual Other 

Costs Burden: $0. 

If additional information is required, 

contact: Darwin Arceo, Department 

Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning 

Staff, Justice Management Division, 

United States Department of Justice, 

Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street 

NE, 4W–218 Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: August 23, 2023. 

Darwin Arceo, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Labor Surplus Area Classification 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to announce the annual Labor Surplus 

Area (LSA) list for fiscal year (FY) 2024. 

DATES: The annual LSA list is effective 

October 1, 2023, for all states, the 

District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Samuel Wright or Donald Haughton, 

Office of Workforce Investment, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Room C–4514, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 

Samuel Wright (202) 693–2870 (this is 

not a toll-free number), or Donald 

Haughton (202) 693–2784 (this is not a 

toll-free number), or email 

wright.samuel.e@dol.gov, or 

haughton.donald.w@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Labor’s regulations 

implementing Executive Orders 12073 

and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR part 

654, subpart A. These regulations 

require the Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) to classify 

jurisdictions as LSAs pursuant to the 

criteria specified in the regulations, and 

to publish annually a list of LSAs. 

Pursuant to those regulations, ETA is 

hereby publishing the annual LSA list. 

In addition, the regulations provide 

exceptional circumstance criteria for 

classifying LSAs when catastrophic 

events, such as natural disasters, plant 

closings, and contract cancellations are 

expected to have a long-term impact on 

labor market area conditions, 

discounting temporary or seasonal 

factors. 

Eligible Labor Surplus Areas 

A LSA is a civil jurisdiction that has 

a civilian average annual 

unemployment rate during the previous 

two calendar years of 20 percent or 

more above the average annual civilian 

unemployment rate for all states during 

the same 24-month reference period. 

ETA uses only official unemployment 

estimates provided by the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics in making these 

classifications. The average 

unemployment rate for all states 

includes data for the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico. The LSA classification 

criteria stipulate a civil jurisdiction 

must have a ‘‘floor unemployment rate’’ 

of 6 percent or higher to be classified an 

LSA. Any civil jurisdiction that has a 

‘‘ceiling unemployment rate’’ of 10 

percent or higher is classified an LSA. 

Civil jurisdictions are defined as 

follows: 

1. A city of at least 25,000 population 

on the basis of the most recently 

available estimates from the Bureau of 

the Census; or 

2. A town or township in the States 

of Michigan, New Jersey, New York, or 

Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more 

population and which possess powers 

and functions similar to those of cities; 

or 

3. All counties, except for those 

counties which contain any type of civil 

jurisdictions defined in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’ 

above; or 

4. A ‘‘balance of county’’ consisting of 

a county less any component cities and 

townships identified in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’ 

above; or 

5. A county equivalent which is a 

town in the States of Connecticut, 

Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a 

municipio in the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico. 

Procedures for Classifying Labor 

Surplus Areas 

The Department of Labor (DOL) issues 

the LSA list on a fiscal year basis. The 

list becomes effective each October 1, 

and remains in effect through the 

following September 30. The reference 

period used in preparing the current list 

was January 2021 through December 

2022. The national average 

unemployment rate (including Puerto 

Rico) during this period is rounded to 

4.51 percent. Twenty percent higher 

than the national unemployment rate 

during this period is rounded to 5.41 

percent. Since this is below the floor 

rate, the qualifying rate is 6 percent. 

To ensure that all areas classified as 

labor surplus meet the requirements, 

when a city is part of a county and 

meets the unemployment qualifier as a 

LSA, that city is identified in the LSA 

list, the balance of county, not the entire 

county, will be identified as a LSA if the 

balance of county also meets the LSA 

unemployment criteria. The data on the 

current and previous years’ LSAs are 

available at www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/ 

lsa. 

Petition for Exceptional Circumstance 

Consideration 

The classification procedures also 

provide criteria for the designation of 

LSAs under exceptional circumstances 

criteria. These procedures permit the 

regular classification criteria to be 

waived when an area experiences a 

significant increase in unemployment 

which is not temporary or seasonal and 

which was not reflected in the data for 

the 2-year reference period. Under the 

program’s exceptional circumstance 

procedures, LSA classifications can be 

made for civil jurisdictions, 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas or 

Combined Statistical Areas, as defined 


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by the U.S. Office of Management and 

Budget. In order for an area to be 

classified as a LSA under the 

exceptional circumstance criteria, the 

state workforce agency must submit a 

petition requesting such classification to 

the Department of Labor’s ETA. The 

current criteria for an exceptional 

circumstance classification are: 

1. An area’s unemployment rate is at 

least 6 percent for each of the three most 

recent months; and 

2. A projected unemployment rate of 

at least 6 percent for each of the next 12 

months because of an event. 

When submitting such a petition, the 

state workforce agency must provide 

documentation that the exceptional 

circumstance event has occurred. The 

state workforce agency may file 

petitions on behalf of civil jurisdictions, 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or 

Micropolitan Statistical Areas. 

State Workforce Agencies may submit 

petitions in electronic format to 

wright.samuel.e@dol.gov, 

haughton.donald.w@dol.gov, or in hard 

copy to the U.S. Department of Labor, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, Office of Workforce 

Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Room C–4514, Washington, DC 

20210, Attention Samuel Wright. Data 

collection for the petition is approved 

under OMB 1205–0207, expiration date 

May 31, 2026. 

Signed at Washington, DC. 

Brent Parton, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Employment and Training. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18536 Filed 8–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Institute of Museum and Library 

Services 

74th Meeting of the President’s 

Committee on the Arts and the 

Humanities 

AGENCY: Institute of Museum and 

Library Services (IMLS), National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, notice is 

hereby given that the President’s 

Committee on the Arts and the 

Humanities. On September 13, 2023, the 

Committee will meet to carry out 

administrative functions and to consider 

preliminary recommendations for 

agency action. On September 14, 2023, 

the Committee will meet to deliberate 

on recommendations for agency action. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

September 13, 2023, 11:00 a.m. EST 

until 3 p.m. EST and on September 14, 

2023 at 9:00 a.m. EST until adjourned. 

ADDRESSES: On September 13, 2023, the 

meeting will convene at 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20001. On September 14, 2023, the 

meeting will convene at 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jasmine Jennings, Assistant General 

Counsel and Alternate Designated 

Federal Officer, Institute of Museum 

and Library Services, Suite 4000, 955 

L’Enfant Plaza North SW, Washington, 

DC 20024; (202) 653–4653; jjennings@

imls.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

President’s Committee on the Arts and 

the Humanities is meeting pursuant 

Executive Order 14084 and the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as 

amended, 5 U.S.C. app. The meeting of 

the President’s Committee on the Arts 

and Humanities will convene at 11 a.m. 

EST on September 13, 2013. This 

meeting with be an executive session 

(closed to the public and agency 

personnel). The meeting of the 

President’s Committee on the Arts and 

the Humanities will convene at 9 a.m. 

EST on September 14, 2023. This 

meeting will be open to the public. 

Agenda: On September 13, the 

Committee will meet to carry out 

administrative functions and to consider 

preliminary recommendations for 

agency action. 

As identified above, the September 

13, 2023 meeting of the President’s 

Committee on the Arts and the 

Humanities will be closed to the public 

and personnel pursuant to subsections 

(c)(6) and (c)(9)(B) of section 552b of 

Title 5, United States Code, as amended. 

The closed session will consider 

information of a personal nature where 

disclosure would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of privacy and 

will consider information which if 

prematurely disclosed would be likely 

to significantly frustrate implementation 

of proposed agency action. 

On September 14, 2023, the 

Committee will meet to deliberate on 

recommendations for agency action. 

Any interested persons may attend as 

observers, subject to limited seating 

availability. Individuals wishing to 

attend are advised to contact Alexandra 

Piper of the Institute of Museum and 

Library Services seven (7) working days 

in advance of the September 13 meeting 

at apiper@imls.gov or write to the 

Committee at the Institute of Museum 

and Library Services, 955 L’Enfant Plaza 

SW, Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20024. 

If you need special accommodations 

due to disability or would like to obtain 

further information in reference to the 

meeting, please contact Alexandra Piper 

at apiper@imls.gov. 

Dated: August 23, 2023. 

Connie Cox Bodner, 

Director, Office of Grants Policy and 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18534 Filed 8–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7036–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Information Collection; Improving 

Customer Experience (OMB Circular 

A–11, Section 280 Implementation) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This is the 

second notice for public comment; the 

first was published in the Federal 

Register, and no comments were 

received. NSF is forwarding the 

proposed submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

clearance simultaneously with the 

publication of this second notice. 

DATES: 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance 

Officer, National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

VA 22314, or send email to splimpto@

nsf.gov. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339, which is accessible 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year 

(including federal holidays). 

Copies of the submission may be 

obtained by calling 703–292–7556. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NSF may 

not conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information unless the collection of 

information displays a currently valid 

OMB control number and the agency 


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