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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation 

Program, via email at michael.lameier@

noaa.gov. In the subject heading of your 

email, please include ‘‘Written 

comments for the 47th U.S. Coral Reef 

Task Force Meeting’’. 

The oral and written comments 

NOAA and DOI receive are considered 

part of the public record, and the 

entirety of the comment, including the 

name of the commenter, email address, 

attachments, and other supporting 

materials, will be publicly accessible. 

Sensitive personally identifiable 

information, such as account numbers 

and Social Security numbers, should 

not be included with the comment. 

Comments that are not related to the 

U.S. Coral Reef Task Force or that 

contain profanity, vulgarity, threats, or 

other inappropriate language will not be 

considered. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Lameier, NOAA USCRTF 

Steering Committee Point of Contact, 

NOAA Coral Reef Conservation 

Program, (410) 267–5673, 

michael.lameier@noaa.gov, or Liza 

Johnson, DOI USCRTF Steering 

Committee Executive Secretary, U.S. 

Department of Interior, (202) 255–9843, 

Liza_M_Johnson@ios.doi.gov, or visit 

the USCRTF website at https://

www.coralreef.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting provides a forum for 

coordinated planning and action among 

Federal agencies, State and Territorial 

governments, and non-governmental 

partners. Registration is requested to 

participate in the meeting. This meeting 

has time allotted for public oral 

comment from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET. 

A written summary of the meeting will 

be posted on the USCRTF website 

within two months of occurrence. For 

more information about the meeting, 

registering for the meeting, and 

submitting public comments, visit 

https://www.coralreef.gov. During the 

oral comment period, commenters are 

encouraged to address the meeting, the 

role of the USCRTF, or general coral reef 

conservation issues. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 6451 et seq.; E.O. 

13089, 63 FR 32701. 

Nicole R. LeBoeuf, 

Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services 

and Coastal Zone Management, National 

Ocean Service, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22329 Filed 10–6–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–08–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Wednesday, October 11, 

2023—10:00 a.m. (See MATTERS TO BE

CONSIDERED for each meeting). 

PLACE: Room 420, Bethesda Towers, 

4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD. 

STATUS: Commission Meetings—Open to 

the Public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Decisional Matter (postponed from 

October 4, 2023): Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking—Safety Standard for Infant 

Rockers and Infant/Toddler Rockers. 

Decisional Matter: Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking—Safety Standard for 

Residential Gas Furnaces and Boilers. 

Briefing Matter: FY 2024 Operating 

Plan. 

A live webcast of the meetings can be 

viewed at the following link: https://

cpsc.webex.com/weblink/register/ 

rcba2daff690fcdbc61d969fd800c6446. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Alberta E. Mills, Office of the Secretary, 

U.S. Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 4330 East West Highway, 

Bethesda, MD 20814, 301–504–7479 

(Office) or 240–863–8938 (Cell). 

Dated: October 4, 2023. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Commission Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22449 Filed 10–5–23; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

Negotiation of a Reciprocal Defense 

Procurement Agreement With the 

Republic of India 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice and request for public 

comments. 

SUMMARY: On behalf of the U.S. 

Government, DoD is contemplating 

negotiating and concluding a new 

Reciprocal Defense Procurement 

Agreement with the Republic of India. 

DoD is requesting industry feedback 

regarding its experience in public 

defense procurements conducted by or 

on behalf of the Indian Ministry of 

Defence or Armed Forces. 

DATES: Comments must be received 

November 9, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by email 

to gregory.d.snyder.civ@mail.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Greg Snyder, telephone +1–571–217– 

4920. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DoD has 

concluded Reciprocal Defense 

Procurement (RDP) Agreements with 28 

qualifying countries, as defined in the 

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 

Supplement (DFARS) 225.003, at the 

level of the Secretary of Defense and his 

counterpart. The purpose of an RDP 

Agreement is to promote rationalization, 

standardization, interchangeability, and 

interoperability of conventional defense 

equipment with allies and other friendly 

governments. These Agreements 

provide a framework for ongoing 

communication regarding market access 

and procurement matters that enhance 

effective defense cooperation. 

RDP Agreements generally include 

language by which the Parties agree that 

their defense procurements will be 

conducted in accordance with certain 

implementing procedures. These 

procedures relate to— 

• Publication of notices of proposed 

purchases; 

• The content and availability of 

solicitations for proposed purchases; 

• Notification to each unsuccessful 

offeror; 

• Feedback, upon request, to 

unsuccessful offerors concerning the 

reasons they were not allowed to 

participate in a procurement or were not 

awarded a contract; and 

• Provision for the hearing and 

review of complaints arising in 

connection with any phase of the 

procurement process to ensure that, to 

the extent possible, complaints are 

equitably and expeditiously resolved. 

Based on the Agreement, each country 

affords the other country certain 

benefits on a reciprocal basis consistent 

with national laws and regulations. The 

benefits that the United States accords 

to the products of qualifying countries 

include— 

• Offers of qualifying country end 

products are evaluated without applying 

the price differentials otherwise 

required by the Buy American statute 

and the Balance of Payments Program; 

• The chemical warfare protection 

clothing restrictions in 10 U.S.C. 4862 

and the specialty metals restriction in 

10 U.S.C. 4863 do not apply to products 

manufactured in a qualifying country; 

and 

• Customs, taxes, and duties are 

waived for qualifying country end 

products and components of defense 

procurements. 

If DoD (for the U.S. Government) 

concludes a new RDP Agreement with 

the Republic of India and DoD executes 


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a blanket public interest determination, 

as intended, India will be listed as one 

of the qualifying countries at DFARS 

225.872–1(a). 

While DoD is evaluating India’s laws 

and regulations in this area, DoD would 

benefit from U.S. industry’s experience 

in participating in Indian public defense 

procurements. DoD is, therefore, asking 

U.S. firms that have participated or 

attempted to participate in 

procurements by or on behalf of India’s 

Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces 

to let us know if the procurements were 

conducted with transparency, integrity, 

fairness, and due process in accordance 

with published procedures, and if not, 

the nature of the problems encountered. 

DoD is also interested in comments 

relating to the degree of reciprocity that 

exists between the United States and 

India when it comes to the openness of 

defense procurements to offers of 

products from the other country. 

Further, DoD would like to understand 

the degree to which U.S. industry feels 

that it would have equal and 

proportional access to the Indian market 

as India would have under an RDP 

Agreement. 

Jennifer D. Johnson, 

Editor/Publisher, Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22429 Filed 10–6–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6001–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2023–OS–0083] 

Joint Rules of Appellate Procedure for 

Courts of Criminal Appeals; Proposed 

Changes 

AGENCY: Joint Rules of Appellate 

Procedure for Courts of Criminal 

Appeals (JRAP) Committee, Department 

of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; changes to 

the JRAP. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces 

proposed changes to the JRAP, which 

prescribe uniform rules of procedure for 

Courts of Criminal Appeals. Although 

these rules of practice and procedure 

fall within the Administrative 

Procedure Act’s exemptions for notice 

and comment, the Department, as a 

matter of policy, has decided to make 

these changes available for public 

review and comment before they are 

implemented. The proposed changes are 

a refinement of the JRAP effective 

January 1, 2019 and implement 

statutory changes expanding the 

jurisdiction of Courts of Criminal 

Appeals and creating special trial 

counsel. The approval authorities for 

these changes are the Judge Advocates 

General of the Army, Navy, Air Force, 

and Coast Guard. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed 

changes must be received no later than 

November 9, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: The changes to the JRAP are 

available for review on Regulations.gov 

in docket DoD–2023–OS–0083. You 

may submit comments, identified by 

docket number and title by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

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

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

further instructions on submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Assistant to the Secretary of 

Defense for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and 

Transparency, Regulatory Directorate, 

4800 Mark Center Drive, Attn: Mailbox 

24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria, VA 22350– 

1700. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this Federal Register 

document. The general policy for 

comments and other submissions from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Robin Jaramillo, (202) 685– 

7695, christopher.r.jaramillo@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Defense Authorization Act 

(NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 included 

several significant amendments to the 

Uniform Code of Military Justice 

(UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. 801 et seq. Regarding 

military appellate practice the NDAA: 

• Added 10 U.S.C. 824a, creating the 

Office of the Special Trial Counsel, with 

exclusive authority over certain victimcentric offenses, known as ‘‘covered 

offenses.’’ 

• Amended 10 U.S.C. 866 to expand 

the jurisdiction of the Courts of 

Criminal Appeals to all courts-martial 

resulting in a guilty verdict. 

The Joint Rules of Appellate 

Procedure for Courts of Criminal 

Appeals (JRAP) Committee convened 

and suggested numerous changes to the 

JRAP, both to reflect these changes to 

the UCMJ and to clarify several issues 

that have been raised by practitioners 

since the previous version of the JRAP 

became effective on January 1, 2019. 

Beyond incorporating the role of the 

Office of the Special Trial Counsel in 

appellate procedure, some of the more 

significant changes to the JRAP include: 

Æ Changes to Rule 5 to reflect the 

Courts’ expanded jurisdiction. 

Æ Changes to Rule 6 to reflect what 

the record on appeal will be for the new 

types of appeals. 

Æ Changes to Rule 16 to clarify 

procedures for waiver or withdrawal of 

appellate review. 

Æ Changes to Rule 18: 

D To expand on what is required for 

pro se filings; and 

D To create procedures for new types 

of appeals under the Courts’ expanded 

jurisdiction. 

Æ Changes to Rule 23 to clarify when 

the Court will consider factual material 

not otherwise in the record. 

Æ Changes to Rule 31 to clarify what 

is required for a Motion for 

Reconsideration. 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

Public participation is essential to 

effective governance and all comments 

and material received during the 

comment period will be considered. 

Your comment can help shape the 

outcome of the changes to the JRAP. If 

you submit a comment, please include 

the docket number for this document, 

indicate the specific section of this JRAP 

to which each comment applies, and 

provide a reason for each suggestion or 

recommendation. 

Submitting comments. You may 

submit comments through the Federal 

Docket Management Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. To do so, go to 

https://www.regulations.gov, type DoD– 

2023–OS–0083 in the search box and 

click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, look for this 

document in the Search Results column, 

and click on it. Then click on the 

Comment option. If you cannot submit 

your material by using https://

www.regulations.gov, call or email the 

person in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this proposed rule 

for alternate instructions. 

Viewing Material in Docket 

To view the JRAP mentioned in this 

notice of availability as being available 

in the docket, find the docket as 

described in the previous paragraph, 

and then select ‘‘Supporting & Related 

Material’’ in the Document Type 

column. Public comments will also be 

placed in the online docket and can be 

viewed by following instructions on the 

https://www.regulations.gov Frequently 

Asked Questions web page. Also, if you 


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