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Science and Engineering Statistics 

(NCSES) within the National Science 

Foundation and cosponsored by the 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(NCES) within the U.S. Department of 

Education. The NTEWS serves the 

purpose of measuring and 

understanding two research concepts 

that are of national interest: (1) the 

education, training, and career 

pathways of skilled technical workers, 

and (2) the prevalence and interplay of 

education (postsecondary degrees and 

certificates), work credentials 

(certifications and licenses), and work 

experience programs among American 

workers. 

The NTEWS will collect information 

on the following topics to examine the 

relationship between credentials and 

employment outcomes: 

• Credential types 

• Education characteristics 

• Initial work training 

• Employment characteristics 

• Demographic characteristics 

Given these areas of mutual interest 

for NCSES and NCES, the NTEWS will 

reduce public burden by fielding one 

cosponsored survey that meets the 

information needs of both federal 

agencies. 

The 2024 NTEWS data collection 

effort will be the second cycle for a 

planned, biennial, rotating-panel design. 

Respondents can complete the survey in 

English or Spanish by web, paper, or 

computer-assisted telephone 

interviewing. The sponsoring agencies 

plan to include questions about sexual 

orientation and gender identity (SOGI) 

as experimental modules to examine the 

response rates and data quality for 

possible future inclusion of SOGI 

questions in the NTEWS. The agencies 

will analyze the 2024 NTEWS data to 

inform and resolve any statistical, 

methodological, operational, and 

content issues before the subsequent 

NTEWS collection cycle in the planned, 

biennial survey cycle design. 

The U.S. Census Bureau, the agency 

responsible for the American 

Community Survey (ACS), will serve as 

the Federal data collection contractor 

for NCSES and NCES. The 2024 NTEWS 

sample will be selected from the 2022 

ACS and the 2022 NTEWS, providing 

the needed coverage of the STW 

working in the United States. The 

NTEWS collection and data will be 

protected under the applicable Census 

Bureau confidentiality statutes. 

Use of the information: NCSES and 

NCES intend to publish national 

estimates from the 2024 NTEWS and 

use the results to inform the next survey 

cycle. NCSES anticipates that the 

NTEWS data will be used for the two 

congressionally mandated biennial 

reports authored by NCSES: Women, 

Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities 

in Science and Engineering (https://

www.nsf.gov/statistics/women/) and 

Science and Engineering Indicators 

(https://ncses.nsf.gov/indicators). NCES 

plans to release statistical reports and 

web tables on the status of educational 

and professional credentials in the 

United States. In addition, a public 

release file of collected data, designed to 

protect respondent confidentiality, will 

be made available to policymakers, 

researchers, and the public on the 

internet. 

Established within NSF by the 

America COMPETES Reauthorization 

Act of 2010 § 505, codified in the NSF 

Act of 1950, as amended, NCSES serves 

as a central Federal clearinghouse for 

the collection, interpretation, analysis, 

and dissemination of objective data on 

science, engineering, technology, and 

research and development for use by 

practitioners, researchers, policymakers, 

and the public. NCSES also provides 

data to support the Science and 

Engineering Equal Opportunities Act of 

1980, which directs NSF to provide to 

Congress and the Executive Branch an 

‘‘accounting and comparison, by sex, 

race, and ethnic group and by 

discipline, of the participation of 

women and men in scientific and 

engineering positions.’’ 

NCSES has historically met these 

legislative mandates through its surveys 

and biennial publications measuring the 

education, employment, and 

demographic characteristics of the 

nation’s college-educated scientists and 

engineers. However, an emerging 

research and policy interest in the STW 

creates a need for continued collection 

of the relatively new NTEWS data to 

expand and supplement NCSES’s efforts 

on the college-educated science and 

engineering workforce. 

Expected Respondents: Eligible 

individuals are ages 16 through 75, not 

enrolled in high school or 

institutionalized, and living in the U.S. 

or Puerto Rico. The NTEWS sample 

design will meet the needs of the 

sponsoring agencies by providing 

coverage of the workforce-eligible adult 

population and including an 

oversample of adults in skilled technical 

occupations. A statistical sample of 

approximately 120,000 individuals 

(17,000 returning sample members from 

the 2022 NTEWS and 103,000 new 

sample members from the 2022 ACS) 

will be contacted in 2024 for the 

NTEWS production. Another 3,000 

individuals known to have a certificate 

will form a seeded sample that will not 

be included in the production of 

NTEWS official statistics. Information 

from the seeded sample will be used for 

agencies’ research purposes to evaluate 

questions on the NTEWS. 

Estimate of Burden: The expected 

response rate is 62.5 percent, or 75,000 

completed cases, a calculation that is 

based on the 2022 NTEWS. The time to 

complete the survey may vary 

depending on an individual’s 

circumstances and response mode (web, 

paper, or telephone). NCSES estimates 

an average completion time of 15 

minutes. NCSES estimates that the 

average annual burden for the initial 

NTEWS over the course of the threeyear OMB clearance period will be no 

more than 6,250 hours [75,000 

completed cases × 15 minutes) / 3 

years]. 

Comments: Comments are invited on 

(a) aspects of the data collection effort 

(including, but not limited to, the 

following: the availability of 

administrative and supplemental 

sources of data on the skilled technical 

workforce, survey content, contact 

strategy, and statistical methods); (b) 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of NCSES, 

including whether the information shall 

have practical utility; (c) the accuracy of 

the NCSES’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information; 

(d) ways to enhance the quality, use, 

and clarity of the information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

and (e) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Dated: September 18, 2023. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20515 Filed 9–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2023–271 and CP2023–274] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 


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1See Docket No. RM2018–3, Order Adopting 

Final Rules Relating to Non-Public Information, 

June 27, 2018, Attachment A at 19–22 (Order No. 

4679). 

1Complaint of Mark Allan Edwards, July 7, 2023 

(Complaint). Citations to the Complaint will be to 

the page number of the PDF. 

2United States Postal Service’s Motion to 

Dismiss, July 27, 2023 (Motion to Dismiss). 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: September 

26, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 

request(s) may propose the addition or 

removal of a negotiated service 

agreement from the Market Dominant or 

the Competitive product list, or the 

modification of an existing product 

currently appearing on the Market 

Dominant or the Competitive product 

list. 

Section II identifies the docket 

number(s) associated with each Postal 

Service request, the title of each Postal 

Service request, the request’s acceptance 

date, and the authority cited by the 

Postal Service for each request. For each 

request, the Commission appoints an 

officer of the Commission to represent 

the interests of the general public in the 

proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 

(Public Representative). Section II also 

establishes comment deadline(s) 

pertaining to each request. 

The public portions of the Postal 

Service’s request(s) can be accessed via 

the Commission’s website (http://

www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of 

the Postal Service’s request(s), if any, 

can be accessed through compliance 

with the requirements of 39 CFR 

3011.301.1

The Commission invites comments on 

whether the Postal Service’s request(s) 

in the captioned docket(s) are consistent 

with the policies of title 39. For 

request(s) that the Postal Service states 

concern Market Dominant product(s), 

applicable statutory and regulatory 

requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39 

U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3030, and 39 

CFR part 3040, subpart B. For request(s) 

that the Postal Service states concern 

Competitive product(s), applicable 

statutory and regulatory requirements 

include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633, 

39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and 

39 CFR part 3040, subpart B. Comment 

deadline(s) for each request appear in 

section II. 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

1. Docket No(s).: MC2023–271 and 

CP2023–274; Filing Title: USPS Request 

to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground 

Advantage Contract 56 to Competitive 

Product List and Notice of Filing 

Materials Under Seal; Filing Acceptance 

Date: September 18, 2023; Filing 

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 

3040.130 through 3040.135, and 39 CFR 

3035.105; Public Representative: 

Kenneth R. Moeller; Comments Due: 

September 26, 2023. 

This Notice will be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Erica A. Barker, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20572 Filed 9–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. C2023–6; Order No. 6688] 

Complaint Proceeding 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is 

appointing a presiding officer to set a 

procedural schedule and conduct 

limited discovery for the purpose of 

determining disputed issues of fact in 

the case. This notice informs the public 

of the filing and takes other 

administrative steps. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Background 

III. Commission Analysis and Limited 

Discovery 

IV. Ordering Paragraphs 

I. Introduction 

On July 7, 2023, Mark Allan Edwards 

(Complainant) filed a complaint 

pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3662(a), 401(2), 

and 403(c) with the Commission 

challenging the Postal Service’s decision 

to terminate delivery of oversized 

packages to his front door.1 On July 27, 

2023, the Postal Service filed a motion 

to dismiss the Complaint.2 Complainant 

did not respond to the Motion to 

Dismiss. 

For the reasons discussed below, the 

Commission concludes that the 

Complaint raises material issues of fact, 

and therefore denies in part the Postal 

Service’s Motion to Dismiss pursuant to 

39 U.S.C. 3662(b) and 39 CFR 

3022.30(a)(1). Accordingly, the 

Commission appoints a presiding officer 

to set a procedural schedule and 

conduct limited discovery for the 

purpose of determining the disputed 

issues of fact in the case. 39 CFR 

3030.21. The scope of the discovery 

proceeding will be limited only to factfinding conducted by the presiding 

officer on the specific matters of fact 

identified in this order. 

II. Background 

A. General Background 

Complainant is an individual resident 

of Clayton, Georgia and resides in the 

Mountain Creek Estates housing 

development. Complaint at 2; Motion to 

Dismiss at 3. The approved method of 

delivery for Mountain Creek Estates is 

central delivery with cluster mailboxes 

located at the entrance of the 

community, which is more than onehalf mile from Complainant’s home. 

Complaint at 1; Motion to Dismiss at 3. 

The Complaint alleges that from 

December 2019 until March 2022, the 

Postal Service delivered oversized 

packages to his door, even though it was 

more than one-half mile away from the 

centralized mailbox location. Complaint 

at 1. 

B. Federal Court Proceedings 

After the Postal Service stopped 

delivery of oversized packages, 

Complainant filed suit in the Northern 

District of Georgia, and sought 

resumption of that delivery and alleged 

a violation of the Postal Operations 

Manual. Complaint, Edwards v. United 

States Postal Service, No. 2:22–CV–160– 

SCJ (N.D. Ga. Aug. 15, 2022); Amended 

Complaint by Court Order, Edwards v. 

United States Postal Service, No. 2:22– 

CV–160–SCJ (N.D. Ga. Dec. 15, 2022). 

The United States filed a Motion to 

Dismiss in which it argued that the 

district court lacked subject matter 

jurisdiction to consider the complaint 

because Complainant failed to identify a 

specific statute that expressly waived 


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