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Federal, State, and local officials may 

submit written comments and 

accompanying data as described in 

ADDRESSES, above. Comments regarding 

specific CBRS unit(s) should reference 

the appropriate unit number(s) and unit 

name(s). Please note that boundary 

modifications through the 5-year review 

process can only be made to reflect 

changes that have occurred in the size 

or location of any CBRS unit as a result 

of natural forces. Other requests for 

changes to the CBRS outside of the 

Service’s administrative authorities (16 

U.S.C. 3503(c)–(d)) will not be 

considered at this time. We must receive 

comments on or before the date listed 

above in DATES. 

The draft revised boundaries may be 

viewed in a web mapping application 

accessed from the Service’s website at 

https://www.fws.gov/project/cbrs-5- 

year-review. A shapefile of the draft 

revised CBRS boundaries, which can be 

used with GIS software, is also available 

for download. The shapefile is best 

viewed using the base imagery to which 

the boundaries were drawn; the base 

imagery sources and dates are included 

in the metadata for the shapefile. The 

Service is not responsible for any 

misuse or misinterpretation of the 

shapefile. 

Interested parties who are unable to 

access the draft revised boundaries or 

other information online may contact 

the individual identified in FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT, above, and 

reasonable accommodations will be 

made. 

Next Steps 

Following the close of the comment 

period, the Service will review all 

comments received on the draft revised 

boundaries; adjust the boundaries, as 

appropriate; prepare final revised maps; 

and publish a notice in the Federal 

Register to announce the availability of 

the final revised maps. The revised 

maps will take effect upon the date of 

publication of that notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Authority 

Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA; 

16 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Gary Frazer, 

Assistant Director for Ecological Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2023–0047] 

Notice of Availability of a Joint Record 

of Decision for the Proposed Coastal 

Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial 

Project 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior; National 

Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Commerce. 

ACTION: Record of decision (ROD); 

notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: BOEM announces the 

availability of the joint ROD on the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the construction and operations 

plan (COP) submitted by Virginia 

Electric and Power Company (dba 

Dominion Energy) for its proposed 

Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind 

Commercial Project (Project), offshore 

Virginia Beach, Virginia. The joint ROD 

includes the Department of the Interior’s 

(DOI) decision regarding the COP and 

NMFS’ plans for decision, pending 

completion of all statutory processes, 

regarding Dominion Energy’s requested 

Incidental Take Regulations (ITR) and 

an associated Letter of Authorization 

(LOA) under the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act (MMPA). NMFS has 

adopted the final EIS to support its 

decision of whether or not to issue the 

requested ITR under the MMPA. The 

joint ROD concludes the National 

Environmental Policy Act process for 

each agency. 

ADDRESSES: The joint ROD and 

associated information are available on 

BOEM’s website at https://

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/CVOW-C. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information related to BOEM’s action, 

contact Jessica Stromberg, BOEM Office 

of Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 

Woodland Road, VAM–OREP, Sterling, 

Virginia 20166, (703) 787–1730, or 

jessica.stromberg@boem.gov; For 

information related to NMFS’ action, 

contact Katherine Renshaw, NOAA 

Office of General Counsel, (302) 515– 

0324. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dominion 

Energy seeks approval to construct, 

operate, and maintain the Project: a 

wind energy facility and the associated 

export cables on the Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) offshore Virginia. The 

Project would be developed within the 

range of design parameters outlined in 

the COP, subject to applicable 

mitigation measures. 

The Project as proposed in the COP 

would include up to 202 wind turbine 

generators (WTGs); 3 offshore, high 

voltage, alternating current substations; 

inter-array cables linking the individual 

turbines to the offshore substations; 

substation interconnector cables linking 

the substations to each other; offshore 

export cables; an onshore export cable 

system; an onshore switching station 

north of Harpers Road (Harpers 

Switching Station) or north of Princess 

Anne Road (Chicory Switching Station) 

in Virginia Beach, Virginia; and an 

overhead power line connection to the 

existing electrical grid at the Fentress 

Substation in Chesapeake, Virginia. 

The WTGs, offshore substations, interarray cables, and substation 

interconnector cables would be located 

on the OCS approximately 24 nautical 

miles (27 statute miles) east of Virginia 

Beach, Virginia, within the area defined 

by Renewable Energy Lease OCS–A– 

0483. The offshore export cables would 

be buried below the seabed surface on 

the OCS and Commonwealth of 

Virginia-owned submerged lands. The 

onshore export cables, substations, and 

grid connections would be located in 

Princess Anne County, Virginia. 

After carefully considering public 

comments on the draft EIS and the 

alternatives described and analyzed in 

the final EIS, DOI selected Alternative 

B, ‘‘Revised Layout to Accommodate the 

Fish Haven and Navigation,’’ in 

combination with Alternative D–1, 

‘‘Onshore Habitat Impact Minimization 

Alternative.’’ This combination of 

alternatives B and D–1 is the preferred 

alternative identified in the final EIS. 

The anticipated mitigation, monitoring, 

and reporting requirements, which will 

be included in BOEM’s COP approval as 

terms and conditions, are included in 

the ROD, which is available at: https:// 

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/CVOW-C. 

NMFS has adopted BOEM’s final EIS 

to support its decision of whether or not 

to promulgate the requested ITR and 

issue the associated LOA to Dominion 

Energy. NMFS’ final decision of 

whether or not to promulgate the 

requested ITR and issue the LOA will be 

documented in a separate Decision 

Memorandum prepared in accordance 

with internal NMFS policy and 

procedures. The final ITR and a notice 

of issuance of the LOA, if issued, will 

be published in the Federal Register. 

The LOA would authorize Dominion 

Energy to take small numbers of marine 

mammals incidental to Project 

construction and would set forth 

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iSection 1557 of the Patient Protection and 

Affordable Care Act; 42 U.S.C. 18116, https:// 

www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/section1557/index.html. 

iiAlgorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and 

Disability Discrimination in Hiring, Department of 

Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission, https://www.ada.gov/resources/aiguidance/. 

taking; means of affecting the least 

practicable adverse impact on the 

species and their habitat; and 

requirements for monitoring and 

reporting. Pursuant to section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act, NMFS issued 

a final Biological Opinion to BOEM on 

September 18, 2023, evaluating the 

effects of the proposed action on ESAlisted species. The proposed action in 

the Biological Opinion includes the 

associated permits, approvals, and 

authorizations that may be issued. 

Authority: National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969, as amended, (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 40 CFR 1505.2. 

Karen Baker, 

Chief, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24295 Filed 11–2–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4340–98–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Request for Comments on Advancing 

Governance, Innovation, and Risk 

Management for Agency Use of 

Artificial Intelligence Draft 

Memorandum 

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget. 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) is seeking public 

comment on a draft memorandum titled 

Advancing Governance, Innovation, and 

Risk Management for Agency Use of 

Artificial Intelligence (AI). As proposed, 

the memorandum would establish new 

agency requirements in areas of AI 

governance, innovation, and risk 

management, and would direct agencies 

to adopt specific minimum risk 

management practices for uses of AI that 

impact the rights and safety of the 

public. The full text of the draft 

memorandum is available for review at 

https://www.ai.gov/input and https:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before December 5, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments via 

https://www.regulations.gov, a Federal 

website that allows the public to find, 

review, and submit comments on 

documents that agencies have published 

in the Federal Register and that are 

open for comment. Simply type ‘‘OMB– 

2023–0020’’ in the search box, click 

‘‘Search,’’ click the ‘‘Comment’’ button 

underneath ‘‘Request for Comments on 

Advancing Governance, Innovation, and 

Risk Management for Agency Use of 

Artificial Intelligence Memorandum,’’ 

and follow the instructions for 

submitting comments. The OMB System 

of Records Notice, OMB Public Input 

System of Records, OMB/INPUT/01, 

includes a list of routine uses associated 

with the collection of this information. 

Privacy/FOIA Notice: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice may 

be publicly available and are subject to 

disclosure under the Freedom of 

Information Act. For this reason, please 

do not include in your comments 

information of a confidential nature, 

such sensitive personal information or 

proprietary information, or any other 

information that you would not want 

publicly disclosed. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please direct questions regarding this 

Notice to Cindy Martinez at OFCIO_AI@

OMB.eop.gov with ‘‘AI Memo Request 

for Comment’’ in the subject line, or by 

phone at 202–395–0379. Please direct 

media inquiries to OMB OFCIO’s Office 

of Public Affairs, email: 

MBX.OMB.Media@OMB.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Administration has undertaken 

numerous efforts to advance responsible 

AI innovation and secure protections for 

people’s rights and safety. This work 

spans targeted sector-specific initiatives, 

such as the Department of Health and 

Human Services’ proposed rule to 

protect patients from discriminatory 

algorithms in health care,i as well as 

more broadly applicable guidance from 

the Department of Justice and Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

to help employers avoid AI-enabled 

disability discrimination in 

employment.ii Significant efforts have 

also yielded the development of 

landmark voluntary frameworks such as 

the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology’s (NIST) AI Risk 

Management Framework and White 

House Office of Science and Technology 

Policy’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of 

Rights. To build upon this body of 

policy, and in accord with President 

Biden’s Executive Order of October 30, 

2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy 

Development and Use of Artificial 

Intelligence), OMB has prepared a draft 

memorandum that would direct Federal 

agencies to strengthen their AI 

governance and innovation programs 

while managing risks from the use of AI, 

particularly when that use affects the 

safety and rights of the public. This 

memorandum also would carry out 

provisions of the AI in Government Act 

of 2020, secs. 101–104, Div. U, Public 

Law 116–260, and the Advancing 

American AI Act, secs. 7221–7228, 

Public Law 117–263. 

Requests for Comment 

Through this Request for Comment, 

OMB hopes to gather information on the 

questions posed below. However, this 

list is not intended to limit the scope of 

topics that may be addressed. 

Commenters are invited to provide 

feedback on any topic believed to have 

implications for the content or 

implementation of the proposed 

memorandum. 

When responding to one or more of 

the questions below, please note in the 

text of your response the number of the 

question to which you are responding. 

Commenters should include a page 

number on each page of their 

submissions. Commenters are not 

required to respond to all questions. 

OMB is requesting feedback related to 

the following: 

1. The composition of Federal 

agencies varies significantly in ways 

that will shape the way they approach 

governance. An overarching Federal 

policy must account for differences in 

an agency’s size, organization, budget, 

mission, organic AI talent, and more. 

Are the roles, responsibilities, seniority, 

position, and reporting structures 

outlined for Chief AI Officers 

sufficiently flexible and achievable for 

the breadth of covered agencies? 

2. What types of coordination 

mechanisms, either in the public or 

private sector, would be particularly 

effective for agencies to model in their 

establishment of an AI Governance 

Body? What are the benefits or 

drawbacks to having agencies 

establishing a new body to perform AI 

governance versus updating the scope of 

an existing group (for example, agency 

bodies focused on privacy, IT, or data)? 

3. How can OMB best advance 

responsible AI innovation? 

4. With adequate safeguards in place, 

how should agencies take advantage of 

generative AI to improve agency 

missions or business operations? 

5. Are there use cases for presumed 

safety-impacting and rights-impacting 

AI (Section 5 (b)) that should be 

included, removed, or revised? If so, 

why? 

6. Do the minimum practices 

identified for safety-impacting and 

rights-impacting AI set an appropriate 

baseline that is applicable across all 

agencies and all such uses of AI? How 


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