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that such persons will produce goods 

using [forced and child labor].’’ 

Many firms have policies, activities, 

and/or systems in place to monitor labor 

rights in their supply chains and 

remediate violations. Such policies, 

activities, and systems vary depending 

on location, industry, and many other 

factors. ILAB seeks to identify practices 

that have been effective in specific 

contexts, analyze their replicability, and 

disseminate those that have potential to 

be effective on a broader scale through 

Comply Chain. 

Information Requested and Invitation 

to Comment: In addition to general 

comments on the existing publication of 

Comply Chain, ILAB is seeking 

information on current practices of 

firms, business associations, and other 

private sector groups to reduce the 

likelihood of child labor and forced 

labor in the production of goods. ILAB 

welcomes any and all input. Examples 

of materials could include, but are not 

limited to: (1) Codes of conduct; (2) Sets 

of standards used for implementation of 

codes in specific industries or locations 

or among particular labor populations; 

(3) Auditing/monitoring systems, or 

components of such systems, as well as 

related systems for enforcement of labor 

standards across a supply chain; (4) 

Strategies for monitoring sub-tier 

suppliers, informal workplaces, 

homework, and other challenging 

environments; (5) Training modules and 

other mechanisms for communicating 

expectations to stakeholders which 

incorporate worker input; (6) 

Traceability models or experiences; (7) 

Remediation strategies for children and/ 

or adults found in conditions of forced 

or child labor; (8) Reporting-related 

practices and practices related to 

independent review; (9) Projects at the 

grassroots level which address 

underlying issues or root causes of child 

labor or forced labor; (10) and/or any 

other relevant practices. 

In addition, ILAB is seeking 

information on current practices of 

governments to collaborate with private 

sector actors through public-private 

partnerships to reduce the likelihood of 

child labor and forced labor in the 

production of goods. Submissions may 

include policy documents, reports, 

statistics, case studies, and many other 

formats. In addition, ILAB welcomes 

submissions of reports, analyses, 

guidance, toolkits, and other documents 

in which such practices have been 

compiled or analyzed by third-party 

groups. Information should be 

submitted to the addresses and within 

the time period set forth above. DOL 

seeks information that can be used to 

inform the development of tools and 

resources to be disseminated publicly 

on the DOL website and/or in other 

publications. However, in disseminating 

information, DOL will conceal, to the 

extent permitted by law, the identity of 

the submitter and/or the individual or 

company using the practice in question, 

upon request. Internal, confidential 

documents that cannot be shared with 

the public will not be used. 

Submissions containing confidential or 

personal information may be redacted 

by DOL before being made available to 

the public, in accordance with 

applicable laws and regulations. DOL 

does not commit to responding directly 

to submissions or returning submissions 

to the submitters, but DOL may 

communicate with the submitter 

regarding any matters relating to the 

submission. 

This notice is a general solicitation of 

comments from the public. 

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7112(b)(2)(C) & 

(D) and 19 U.S.C. 2464; Executive Order 

13126. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of 

September, 2023. 

Thea Lee, 

Deputy Undersecretary for International 

Affairs. 

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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 23–06] 

Notice of Entering Into a Compact With 

the Republic of Mozambique 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

provisions of the Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003, as amended, the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

(MCC) is publishing a summary of the 

Millennium Challenge Compact 

(Compact) between the United States of 

America and the Republic of 

Mozambique. Representatives of the 

United States of America and the 

Republic of Mozambique executed the 

Compact on September 21, 2023. The 

complete text of the Compact has been 

posted at: https://assets.mcc.gov/ 

content/uploads/compact-mozambiqueccr.pdf. 

(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7709 (b)(3)) 

Dated: September 25, 2023. 

Gina Porto Spiro, 

Acting Vice President, General Counsel, and 

Corporate Secretary. 

Summary of Mozambique Connectivity 

and Coastal Resilience Compact 

The United States has signed a fiveyear, $500,000,000 Compact with the 

Republic of Mozambique aimed at 

reducing poverty through economic 

growth. 

The Compact seeks to assist the 

Government of the Republic of 

Mozambique (‘‘GRM’’) in addressing 

three major constraints to economic 

growth: (i) the high cost and 

unreliability of road freight and 

passenger transport services that 

inhibits input and output market 

development, farm to market linkages, 

and access to basic public services; (ii) 

agricultural policy, the legal and 

regulatory framework, and 

implementation of the existing 

framework, which inhibit the equitable 

and efficient functioning of input 

markets, vertical coordination of value 

chains, and input and output market 

competitiveness; and (iii) agricultural 

policy, the legal and regulatory 

framework which has led to an 

overexploitation of fisheries and 

depleted economic opportunities for 

coastal zones. 

The Compact will address these 

constraints through three primary 

projects: 

(1) The Connectivity and Rural 

Transport Project (using the Portuguese 

acronym, the ‘‘CTR Project’’); 

(2) The Promoting Reform and 

Investment in Agriculture Project (the 

‘‘PRIA Project’’); and 

(3) The Coastal Livelihoods and 

Climate Resilience Project (the ‘‘CLCR 

Project’’). 

Project Summaries 

The Compact’s three projects are 

described below: 

The objective of the Connectivity and 

Rural Transport (CTR) Project is to 

reduce the cost of transport in the 

province of Zambezia and throughout 

Mozambique. The CTR Project will 

include a set of investments in arterial 

routes, including a major bridge, and 

secondary roads through rural areas to 

district centers as described below: 

• Licungo Bridge and Mocuba Bypass 

Activity—The Licungo Bridge and 

Mocuba Bypass Activity is the principal 

activity under the CTR Project and the 

GRM’s highest priority transport project 

in Zambezia. The investment will create 

a new major, high-level bridge, 

replacing a nearly 80-year-old one, 

diverting the traffic around the town of 


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Mocuba at a new site across the Licungo 

River via a 16km bypass. 

• Rural Roads Activity—This activity 

will focus on select segments of arterial 

and secondary routes for inclusion in 

the Compact to improve access to 

regional capitals, markets, and social 

services. 

• Policy and Institutional Reforms on 

Road Maintenance Activity—This 

activity seeks to improve the reliability 

and adequacy of funding for road 

maintenance and build capacity for road 

asset management at the provincial 

level, as well as to promote gender 

equity and social inclusion within the 

transport sector, specifically enhancing 

opportunities for women and excluded 

groups in the road sector. 

In addition to the above activities, the 

Compact will support a project-specific 

program management office to supervise 

the CTR Project. This project 

management consultant is necessary to 

ensure the geographically dispersed 

construction works in Zambezia are 

well managed. 

The objective of the Promoting 

Reform and Investment in Agriculture 

(PRIA) Project is to increase agricultural 

investment as well as the productivity 

and incomes of smallholder farmers, 

including female-headed households, 

and other value chain actors in 

Mozambique. 

This project is organized into two 

activities: 

• Reforms Package for Taxation of 

Agricultural Investment Activity—This 

activity is a public financial 

management activity that includes 

support for policy and institutional 

reform of the national taxation 

framework in the agriculture sector, 

with a focus on improving consistency 

and predictability of the value added 

tax, the corporate income tax, and local 

tax application within both formal and 

informal markets. 

• Zambezia Commercial Aggregator 

(ZCAP) Activity—This activity will 

employ results-based financing (i.e., 

success payments) and technical 

assistance to develop and strengthen 

sustainable market linkages and 

contracts between commercial 

agricultural aggregators and smallholder 

farmers. The ZCAP Activity will 

prioritize women smallholder farmers 

and provide tailored training to 

smallholder farmer households through 

the ‘Gender Action Learning System’ to 

redress power imbalances. 

The Coastal Livelihoods and Climate 

Resilience (CLCR) Project seeks to 

increase ecosystem productivity through 

sustainable increases in fish and 

shellfish harvests and through 

non-extractive benefits from sustainable 

ecosystems, such as carbon credits and 

coastal protection benefits. 

This project is organized into two 

activities: 

• Coastal Livelihoods Activity—This 

activity will help local communities 

better manage their fisheries through 

modernization of practice, improvement 

to their fishing gear, improved supply 

chain, and governance of local areas 

(establishment of no-catch zones to 

replenish stocks). 

• Climate Resilience Activity—This 

activity will protect and restore critical 

habitats through co-management with 

local communities, conservation and 

creation of protected areas, reforestation 

initiatives, and through carbon finance 

opportunities. 

Compact Overview and Budget 

The Compact Program is summarized 

in the budget table below. The program 

budget is approximately $537,500,000, 

which includes up to $500,000,000 

funded by MCC and a GRM contribution 

of $37,500,000. 

TABLE 1—MOZAMBIQUE COMPACT PROGRAM BUDGET

Component Amount 

1. Connectivity and Rural Transport Project ....................................................................................................................................... $310,500,000 

Activity 1: Licungo Bridge & Mocuba Bypass .............................................................................................................................. 201,001,000 

Activity 2: Rural Roads ................................................................................................................................................................. 83,499,000 

Activity 3: Policy and Institutional Reforms on Road Maintenance ............................................................................................. 11,000,000 

Program Management Office ....................................................................................................................................................... 15,000,000 

2. Promoting Reform and Investment in Agriculture Project ............................................................................................................... 30,000,000 

Activity 1: Reforms Package for Taxation of Agricultural Investments ........................................................................................ 15,000,000 

Activity 2: Zambezia Commercial Aggregator Platform ............................................................................................................... 15,000,000 

3. Coastal Livelihoods & Climate Resilience Project .......................................................................................................................... 100,000,000 

Activity 1: Partnership Climate Resilience ................................................................................................................................... 56,300,000 

Activity 2: Partnership Coastal Livelihoods .................................................................................................................................. 43,700,000 

4. Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................................................................................................................... 7,000,000 

5. Program Management and Administration ...................................................................................................................................... 52,500,000 

Total MCC Funding ............................................................................................................................................................... 500,000,000 

Government of the Republic of Mozambique Contribution ................................................................................................... 37,500,000 

Total Compact Program ...................................................................................................................................................................... 537,500,000 

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–2023–044] 

National Industrial Security Program 

Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC); 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Information Security Oversight 

Office (ISOO), National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice of Federal advisory 

committee meeting. 

SUMMARY: We are announcing an 

upcoming National Industrial Security 

Program Policy Advisory Committee 

(NISPPAC) meeting in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

and implementing regulations. 

DATES: The meeting will be on 

November 15, 2023, from 10am–1pm 

EST. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be a 

virtual meeting. See supplementary 

procedures below. 


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