75332 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 211 / Thursday, November 2, 2023 / Notices 

data for the ongoing, monthly 

publication of the PPI family of indexes. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics must 

continue collecting data for the PPI 

since both policy and business planning 

benefit from accurate, timely, and 

relevant description of price trends. 

Legislators and government agencies use 

the PPI to assist them with developing 

policy and evaluating the markets. 

Dollar-denominated measures of 

economic performance, such as Gross 

Domestic Product, require accurate 

price data in order to convert nominal 

to constant-dollar values. Inflation-free 

national income accounting figures are 

vital to fiscal and monetary policymakers when setting objectives and 

targets. The price adjustment clauses of 

purchase agreements use monthly PPIs. 

It is conservatively estimated that 

hundreds-of-billions of dollars’ worth of 

contracts and purchase agreements 

employ PPIs as part of price-adjustment 

clauses. Failure to provide current 

accurate monthly statistics would 

necessitate more complex clauses in 

contracts and prolong the time required 

to determine price changes for purposes 

of contract adjustments. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• 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, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Title of Collection: Producer Price 

Index Survey. 

OMB Number: 1220–0008. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Affected Public: Private Sector. 

Data collection Number of respondents Frequency 

Number of 

responses 

(per year) 

Average time 

per response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

burden 

(hours) 

Initiation BLS Forms 1810A, C, C1, 

and E.

4,305 .............................................. Once .................. 4,305 120 8,610 

Data Quality Verification Calls ........ Subset of 4,305 initiation respondents (Approximately 8%).Once .................. 340 15 85 

BLS IDCF ........................................ 11,107 ............................................ Monthly .............. 660,537 5 55,045 

Totals ....................................... 15,412 ............................................ ............................ 665,182 ........................ 63,740 

* For monthly repricing, PPI requests repricing of 55,045 items each month. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of 

October 2023. 

Eric Molina, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Branch of Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24223 Filed 11–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Mine Safety and Health Administration 

Fee Adjustment for Testing, 

Evaluation, and Approval of Mining 

Products 

AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health 

Administration (MSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of fee adjustment. 

SUMMARY: The Mine Safety and Health 

Administration (MSHA) is announcing a 

revised hourly rate for the fees charged 

to applicants and approval holders for 

testing, evaluating, and approving 

products for use in mines. MSHA 

charges a fee to cover the costs (direct 

and indirect) of its services associated 

with the approval program. The new 

hourly rate will be $166. 

DATES: MSHA will charge the new 

hourly rate for new approval services 

starting January 1, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Juliette E. Hill, Chief, Approval and 

Certification Center (A&CC), 304–547– 

2029 or 304–547–0400 (these are not 

toll-free numbers). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Federal Mine Safety and Health 

Act of 1977 (Mine Act), as amended, 

authorizes MSHA to approve 

equipment, materials, and explosives for 

use in mines to ensure that the products 

are designed, constructed, and 

maintained so as not to cause a fire, 

explosion, or other accident. Under 30 

CFR part 5—Fees for Testing, 

Evaluation, and Approval of Mining 

Products, MSHA establishes the method 

the Agency uses to calculate the fees 

needed to recover costs for approval 

services. Under 30 U.S.C. 966, MSHA 

may collect and retain up to $2,499,000 

of fees collected for the approval and 

certification of equipment, materials, 

and explosives for use in mines. 

On December 21, 2018, MSHA 

published a notice of fee adjustment in 

the Federal Register (83 FR 65747) that 

adjusted the Agency’s fees for testing, 

evaluation, and approval of products 

manufactured for use in mines. Since 

January 1, 2019, MSHA has charged an 

hourly rate of $137. 

II. Applicable Fee 

Under 30 CFR 5.50, a new hourly rate 

must remain in effect for at least 1 year 

and the rate will be subject to revision 

at least once every 3 years. MSHA 

determines a new hourly rate by 

dividing the total of approval program 

costs (direct and indirect costs) for a 

previous fiscal year by the number of 

total direct hours spent on approval 

program activities for that fiscal year. 

For this update, MSHA calculated the 

FY 2024 hourly rate using FY 2021 

costs. MSHA has determined that as of 

January 1, 2024, the hourly rate will be 

$166 per hour for services on new 

applications and post-approval 

activities (changes to approvals and 

post-approval product audits). This rate 

increase is consistent with cumulative 

inflation between January 2019, when 


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the last hourly rate was instituted, and 

mid-2023. 

• MSHA will process applications 

and post-approval activities postmarked 

before January 1, 2024, under the 

existing FY 2019 hourly rate of $137. 

• MSHA will process applications 

and post-approval activities postmarked 

on or after January 1, 2024, under the 

revised FY 2024 hourly rate of $166. 

This fee information is available on 

the MSHA website at http://

www.msha.gov. 

Christopher J. Williamson, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety 

and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24142 Filed 11–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4520–43–P 

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: The Marine Mammal 

Commission and its Committee of 

Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals 

will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, 

14 November 2023 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 

p.m. and Wednesday, 15 November 

2023 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 

Commission and the Committee also 

will meet in executive session on 

Tuesday, 14 November 2023, from 4:15 

to 5 p.m. 

PLACE: The Navy Memorial Visitor’s 

Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

STATUS: The executive session will be 

closed to the public in accordance with 

the provisions of the Government in the 

Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b) and 

applicable regulations. The session will 

be limited to discussions of the internal 

personnel rules and practices of the 

Commission. All other portions of the 

meeting will be open to the public. 

Public participation will be allowed as 

time permits and as determined to be 

desirable by the Chair. Virtual 

participation will be possible through a 

Zoom Webinar. The meeting agenda and 

webinar registration details will be 

posted on the Commission’s website 

(https://www.mmc.gov/events-meetingsand-workshops/marine-mammalcommission-annual-meetings/2023- 

annual-meeting/) prior to the meeting. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The 

Commission and Committee will meet 

in public session to discuss a broad 

range of marine mammal science and 

conservation policy issues and celebrate 

the 50th anniversaries of the 

Endangered Species Act and Marine 

Mammal Protection Act. While these 

laws have achieved the recovery of 

some marine mammal species, others 

continue to struggle and face a variety 

of risk factors, including the impacts of 

climate change. Through the meeting, 

we will use case studies of threatened 

and endangered marine mammals to 

explore national-level issues related to 

stock assessment, health surveillance, 

and other management needs in a 

changing climate. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Brady O’Donnell, Communications 

Officer, Marine Mammal Commission, 

4340 East-West Highway, Room 700, 

Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504–0087; 

email: bodonnell@mmc.gov. 

Dated: October 27, 2023. 

Peter O. Thomas, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24280 Filed 10–31–23; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–31–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–498, 50–499, and 72–1041; 

NRC–2023–0128] 

In the Matter of STP Nuclear Operating 

Company and NRG South Texas LP; 

South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2 and 

the Associated Independent Spent 

Fuel Storage Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Indirect transfer of licenses; 

order. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an order 

approving the application filed by STP 

Nuclear Operating Company, acting on 

behalf of Constellation Energy 

Generation, LLC (CEG) and NRG South 

Texas LP (NRG South Texas) and its 

parent companies, on June 12, 2023, as 

supplemented by letters dated August 

31, 2023, and October 5, 2023. 

Specifically, the order approves the 

indirect transfer of possession-only nonoperating interests in Renewed Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–76 and 

NPF–80 for South Texas Project (STP), 

Units 1 and 2, respectively, and its 

generally licensed independent spent 

fuel storage installation from NRG South 

Texas to CEG and the issuance of 

conforming amendments to the 

operating licenses. 

DATES: The order was issued on October 

30, 2023, and is effective for 1 year. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2023–0128 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0128. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The order, the 

NRC staff safety evaluation supporting 

the order, and the draft conforming 

license amendments are available at 

ADAMS Package Accession No. 

ML23279A022. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dennis Galvin, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone: 301–415–6256; email: 

Dennis.Galvin@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the order is attached. 

Dated: October 30, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dennis J. Galvin, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, 

Division of Operator Reactor Licensing, Office 

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

Attachment—Order Approving Indirect 

Transfer of Licenses and Conforming 

License Amendments 

United States of America 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

In the Matter of: STP NUCLEAR 

OPERATING COMPANY AND NRG 

SOUTH TEXAS LP; (South Texas 

Project, Units 1 and 2 and 72–1041; 

the Associated Independent Spent 

Fuel Storage Installation) 

Docket Nos. 50–498, 50–499, and 

Renewed License Nos. NPF–76 and 

NPF–80 


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