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a plan that achieves a result inconsistent 

with the purposes of section 4966 of the 

Code, the distributions are treated as a 

single distribution for purposes of 

section 4966. For example, if a donor 

advises a distribution, that the 

sponsoring organization subsequently 

makes, from a donor advised fund to 

Charity X and the donor or the 

sponsoring organization arranges for 

Charity X to use the funds to make 

distributions to individuals 

recommended by the donor, the 

distribution will be a taxable 

distribution from the sponsoring 

organization to individuals. 

(b) Distribution for purpose not 

specified in section 170(c)(2)(B)—(1) In 

general. For purposes of paragraph 

(a)(1)(ii)(A) of this section, a distribution 

to be used for an activity that is 

prohibited under section 501(c)(3) of the 

Code or for an activity that, if it were a 

substantial part of a section 501(c)(3) 

organization’s total activities, would 

cause loss of tax exemption, is not for 

a purpose specified in section 

170(c)(2)(B). For example, a distribution 

used for political campaign intervention 

activity or for attempting to influence 

legislation is considered to be for a 

purpose not specified in section 

170(c)(2)(B). Purposes described in 

section 170(c)(2)(B) are treated as such 

whether or not carried out by an 

organization described in section 170(c). 

(2) Grants to noncharitable 

organizations. If the distribution is a 

grant (as defined in § 53.4945–4(a)(2)) to 

any organization (other than an 

organization described in section 

501(c)(3) and not in section 509(a)(4) of 

the Code), it will not be considered for 

a purpose specified in section 

170(c)(2)(B) unless the grantee agrees 

either to separately account for the grant 

funds on its books or to segregate the 

grant funds. 

(c) Organizations described in section 

170(b)(1)(A)—(1) In general. For 

purposes of paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this 

section, an organization will be treated 

as described in section 170(b)(1)(A) if— 

(i) It is described in both sections 

170(b)(1)(A) and 170(c)(2), other than a 

disqualified supporting organization, 

and without regard to section 

170(c)(2)(A); 

(ii) It is a governmental unit described 

in section 170(b)(1)(A)(v) and 170(c)(1) 

(or an agency or instrumentality thereof, 

including an organization described in 

section 511(a)(2)(B) of the Code), as long 

as the distribution to it is made for 

exclusively public purposes; or 

(iii) It is a foreign government (or an 

agency or instrumentality thereof), or an 

international organization designated as 

such by Executive Order under 22 

U.S.C. 288, as long as the distribution to 

it is made exclusively for charitable 

purposes as described in section 

170(c)(2)(B). 

(2) Certain foreign organizations. For 

purposes of this section, a foreign 

organization distributee that does not 

have a ruling or determination letter 

that it is an organization described in 

sections 501(c)(3) and 170(b)(1)(A) 

(other than a disqualified supporting 

organization) will be treated as 

described in sections 501(c)(3) and 

170(b)(1)(A) (other than a disqualified 

supporting organization) if, prior to the 

distribution, the sponsoring 

organization makes a good faith 

determination, using procedures similar 

to those set forth in § 53.4945–5(a)(5), 

that the distributee is described in 

sections 501(c)(3) and 170(b)(1)(A) 

(other than a disqualified supporting 

organization). 

(d) Expenditure responsibility—(1) In 

general. For purposes of paragraph 

(a)(1)(ii)(B) of this section, a sponsoring 

organization will be treated as 

exercising expenditure responsibility if 

it follows the procedures set forth in 

§ 53.4945–5(b) through (e) as modified 

by paragraph (d)(2) of this section. 

(2) Special rules—(i) Nonapplicability of certain Code provisions. 

References to sections 507, 4945(d), and 

4948 of the Code do not apply. 

(ii) Substituted terms. In applying 

§ 53.4945–5(b) through (e), substitute 

sponsoring organization for private 

foundation, granting private foundation, 

granting foundation, grantor 

foundation, foundation, or grantor (but 

not for private foundation grantees in 

§ 53.4945–5(c)); substitute distribution 

for grant or amount granted; substitute 

distributee for grantee; and substitute 

taxable distribution for taxable 

expenditure each place they appear. 

(iii) Additional modifications. In lieu 

of § 53.4945–5(b)(3)(iv)(c) and 

(b)(4)(iv)(c), the distributee must agree 

not to use any of the funds to make any 

grant to an organization that does not 

comply with the expenditure 

responsibility requirements of this 

paragraph (d), to make any grant to a 

natural person, or to make any grant, 

loan, compensation, or other similar 

payment (as described in section 

4958(c)(2) of the Code) to a donor, 

donor-advisor, or related person with 

respect to the donor advised fund from 

which the distribution that is the subject 

of the agreement is made. 

§ 53.4966–6 Applicability date. 

Applicability date. The rules of 

§§ 53.4966–1 through 53.4966–5 apply 

to taxable years ending on or after [the 

date of publication of the Treasury 

decision adopting these rules as final 

regulations in the Federal Register]. 

Douglas W. O’Donnell, 

Deputy Commissioner for Services and 

Enforcement. 

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BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 257 

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2020–0107; FRL–7814– 

05–OLEM] 

RIN 2050–AH14 

Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Management System: Disposal of Coal 

Combustion Residuals From Electric 

Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface 

Impoundments 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability 

(NODA). 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or the Agency) is 

announcing the availability of new 

information and data pertaining to the 

Agency’s May 18, 2023 proposed 

rulemaking on the Disposal of Coal 

Combustion Residuals (CCR) from 

Electric Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface 

Impoundments. EPA is seeking public 

comment on this additional 

information, which may affect the 

Agency’s decisions as it develops a final 

rule. EPA is not reopening any other 

aspect of the proposal, the CCR 

regulations, or the underlying support 

documents that were previously 

available for comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 11, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2020–0107, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov/ (our 

preferred method). Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, 

OLEM Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier (by 

scheduled appointment only): EPA 

Docket Center, WJC West Building, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket 

Center’s hours of operations are 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

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Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

rulemaking. Comments received may be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments and additional information 

on the rulemaking process, see the 

‘‘Public Participation’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions concerning this notice of data 

availability, Michelle Lloyd, Office of 

Resource Conservation and Recovery, 

Materials Recovery and Waste 

Management Division, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, MC: 5304T, Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

566–0560; email address: 

Lloyd.Michelle@epa.gov. For more 

information on this rulemaking please 

visit https://www.epa.gov/coalash. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation 

A. Docket 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2020–0107. All documents in 

the docket are listed in the https://

www.regulations.gov index. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically at https://

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center. The Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the EPA Docket Center is 

(202) 566–1742. 

B. Written Comments 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OLEM–2020– 

0107, at https://www.regulations.gov 

(our preferred method), or the other 

methods identified in the ADDRESSES

section. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from the 

docket. EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (i.e., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). Please visit https://

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets for additional submission 

methods; the full EPA public comment 

policy; information about DBI, PBI, or 

multimedia submissions; and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments. 

II. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This document applies to and may 

affect all CCR generated by electric 

utilities and independent power 

producers that fall within the North 

American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS) code 221112. The 

reference to NAICS code 221112 is not 

intended to be exhaustive, but rather 

provides a guide for readers regarding 

entities likely to be regulated by this 

action. This discussion lists the types of 

entities that EPA is now aware could 

potentially be regulated by this action. 

Other types of entities not described 

here could also be regulated. To 

determine whether your entity is 

regulated by this action, you should 

carefully examine the applicability 

criteria found in 40 CFR 257.50 of title 

40 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 

If you have questions regarding the 

applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. 

B. What is the purpose of this NODA? 

With this document, EPA is reopening 

the comment period on the proposed 

rule: Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Management System: Disposal of Coal 

Combustion Residuals From Electric 

Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface 

Impoundments (88 FR 31982, May 18, 

2023), herein referred to as the ‘‘2023 

proposed rule,’’ for the limited purpose 

of obtaining public comment on 

additional information that may be 

relevant to the development of a final 

rule. Some of the information includes 

data or analyses that were received 

during the comment period for the 2023 

proposed rule and that could have the 

potential to play a role in support of 

decisions in the final rule. It also 

includes information obtained based on 

further EPA research conducted both 

during and after the close of the 

comment period, and which was 

therefore not available for public 

comment during the prior comment 

period on the 2023 proposed rule. This 

document describes some new 

information and data that EPA has 

received and new analyses that have 

been conducted. All the information 

subject to this document can be 

accessed as described in Unit II.C of this 

document. 

EPA is still in the process of 

evaluating this information and 

deliberating the provisions of a final 

rule. Therefore, EPA cannot definitively 

state whether this information will 

provide support for any provision of the 

final rule, or that the Agency has 

determined that it is appropriate to rely 

on this information in developing the 

final rule. In addition, it should not be 

assumed that the specific information 

identified in this document is the full 

sum of information received in 

comments that will be considered or 

that will influence the Agency’s 

decisions in this rulemaking. However, 

in the interests of ensuring that the 

public has had a full and complete 

opportunity to comment on the 

information that EPA has so far 

identified as having the potential to 

weigh in EPA’s decisions on the final 

rule, EPA is reopening the comment 

period for the limited purpose of 

allowing the public to comment on the 

validity and propriety of using this 

information, data, and potential 

analyses in developing the final rule. 

EPA is not reopening the comment 

period on any other aspect of the 

proposed rule. This is not an 

opportunity for the public to 

supplement their comments on the 

proposed rule, or to raise issues that 

could have been raised during the 

original comment period. The only 

issues on which the Agency is soliciting 

comment relate to the information in the 

docket supporting this document. 

Comments submitted on any issues 

other than those specifically identified 

in this document will be considered 

‘‘late comments’’ on the proposed rule. 

EPA will not respond to such 

comments, and they will not be 

considered part of the rulemaking 

record. 

C. Where can the information identified 

in the document be found? 

Most documents are available from 

the docket for viewing and downloading 

through http://www.regulations.gov; 

however, copyrighted documents are 

only available for viewing by visiting 

EPA’s Docket Center. 

D. What is the Agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

EPA is publishing this document 

under the authority of sections 1008(a), 

2002(a), 4004, and 4005(a) and (d) of the 

Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1970, as 

amended by the Resource Conservation 

and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), as 


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1An ‘‘inactive CCR surface impoundment’’ is 

defined at § 257.53 as a CCR surface impoundment 

that no longer received CCR on or after October 19, 

2015 and still contains both CCR and liquids on or 

after October 19, 2015. 

2An ‘‘active facility or active electric utilities or 

independent power producers’’ is defined at 

§ 257.53 as any facility subject to the requirements 

of this subpart that is in operation on October 19, 

2015. An electric utility or independent power 

producer is in operation if it is generating electricity 

that is provided to electric power transmission 

systems or to electric power distribution systems on 

or after October 19, 2015. An off-site disposal 

facility is in operation if it is accepting or managing 

CCR on or after October 19, 2015. 

3U.S. EPA. 2014a. ‘‘Final Human and Ecological 

Risk Assessment of Coal Combustion Residuals.’’ 

RIN: 2050–AE81. Prepared by the EPA Office of 

Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Washington, 

DC. December. 

amended by the Hazardous and Solid 

Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) 

and the Water Infrastructure 

Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act 

of 2016, 42 U.S.C. 6907(a), 6912(a), 

6944, and 6945(a) and (d). 

III. Background 

On April 17, 2015, EPA finalized 

national minimum criteria for the 

disposal of CCR as solid waste under 

Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation 

and Recovery Act (RCRA) in a rule 

titled, ‘‘Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Management System; Disposal of Coal 

Combustion Residuals from Electric 

Utilities,’’ (80 FR 21302) (2015 CCR rule 

or CCR regulations). The 2015 CCR rule, 

codified in subpart D of part 257 of Title 

40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 

established regulations for existing and 

new CCR landfills and existing and new 

CCR surface impoundments and all 

lateral expansions of CCR units. The 

criteria consist of location restrictions, 

design and operating criteria, 

groundwater monitoring and corrective 

action requirements, closure and postclosure care requirements, 

recordkeeping, notification and internet 

posting requirements. 

The 2015 CCR rule imposed 

requirements on inactive surface 

impoundments 1 at active facilities,2 but 

did not impose requirements on inactive 

surface impoundments at inactive 

facilities. The preamble to the 2015 CCR 

rule (80 FR 21344, April 17, 2015) 

explained that inactive units at inactive 

facilities were not covered by the rule in 

part due to possible complications that 

were specific to inactive or closed 

facilities: the concern that the present 

owner of the land on which an inactive 

site was located might have no 

connection (other than present 

ownership of the land) with the prior 

disposal activities. For that reason, EPA 

exempted those units at § 257.50(e). On 

August 21, 2018, the U.S. Court of 

Appeals for the District of Columbia 

Circuit issued its opinion in the case of 

Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, et 

al. v. EPA (‘‘USWAG’’), which vacated 

and remanded the provision that 

exempted inactive impoundments at 

inactive facilities from the CCR 

regulations. 

On May 18, 2023, EPA proposed 

revisions to the CCR regulations (88 FR 

31982). These revisions included 

establishing regulations specifying that 

inactive surface impoundments at 

inactive facilities (‘‘legacy CCR surface 

impoundments’’) are subject to 40 CFR 

part 257, subpart D and requiring 

owners and operators of legacy CCR 

surface impoundments to comply with 

all the appropriate requirements 

applicable to inactive CCR surface 

impoundments at active facilities. In 

addition, EPA proposed to establish 

requirements to address the risks from 

currently exempt solid waste 

management that involves the direct 

placement of CCR on the land. EPA 

proposed to extend a subset of the 

existing requirements in 40 CFR part 

257, subpart D to CCR surface 

impoundments and landfills that closed 

prior to the effective date of the 2015 

CCR Rule, inactive CCR landfills, and 

other areas where CCR is managed 

directly on the land. In the proposal, 

EPA referred to these as CCR 

management units, or CCRMU. This 

proposal would apply to all existing 

CCR facilities and all inactive facilities 

with legacy CCR surface impoundments. 

Lastly, EPA proposed to make several 

technical corrections to the CCR 

regulations. These are (1) to clarify the 

definitions of ‘‘feasible’’ and 

‘‘technically feasible’’; (2) to correct the 

CFR reference in the definition of 

wetlands at § 257.61(a); (3) to correct a 

reference in the groundwater monitoring 

scope section; (4) to standardize the 

references to CCR websites throughout 

the CCR regulations; and (5) EPA 

requested comment on extending the 

period for document retention and 

posting. 

The Agency received over 33,500 

comments on the proposed rule, with 

over 600 unique comments. 

Commenters included individual 

electric utilities and independent power 

producers, national trade associations, 

state agencies, public interest and 

environmental groups, and entities 

involved with the beneficial use of CCR. 

All public comments submitted in 

response to the proposal can be found 

in the docket for the proposed rule. 

IV. What information is EPA seeking? 

A. Risk Analysis 

In response to public comments and 

additional information made available 

since publication of the 2023 proposed 

rule, EPA has prepared a supplemental 

risk assessment in support of the 2023 

proposed rule. This risk assessment 

builds on the findings of the previous 

2014 Risk Assessment 3 and better 

quantifies the specific risks that may 

result from placement of CCR in legacy 

CCR surface impoundments and 

CCRMU. To accomplish this task, EPA 

used mathematical models to estimate 

the rate at which constituents may 

escape into surrounding media, the fate 

and transport of these constituents 

through the environment, and the 

potential risk of adverse effects to 

individual receptors that may occur in 

the absence of regulation. This 

supplemental risk assessment 

incorporates much of the same 

groundwater data and model framework 

as the 2014 Risk Assessment, updated 

where necessary to best reflect the 

relevant exposure scenarios. 

Additionally, this supplemental risk 

assessment considers additional 

exposure scenarios that may result from 

radionuclides present within CCR. EPA 

is requesting comment on all aspects of 

the assessment including the validity 

and propriety of relying on the new 

information, data, and analyses 

contained in the updated risk 

assessment to inform the final rule. 

B. Information About Legacy CCR 

Surface Impoundments and CCR 

Management Units 

EPA is also seeking information that 

would further document the universe of 

legacy CCR surface impoundments and 

CCRMU. In response to the USWAG 

decision, EPA issued an ANPRM on 

October 14, 2020 (85 FR 65015) to 

solicit comment and data on legacy CCR 

surface impoundment at inactive 

facilities to assist in the development of 

future regulations for legacy CCR 

surface impoundments. EPA received 

156 comments on the ANPRM regarding 

the presence, condition, and history of 

potential legacy CCR surface 

impoundments of which, 127 cited the 

sources of the information. EPA placed 

the data on these potential legacy CCR 

surface impoundments in the docket of 

the 2023 proposed rule for legacy CCR 

surface impoundments (88 FR 31982, 

May 18, 2023) and requested further 

comments and data on these units as 

well as any CCRMU. In response to the 

2023 proposed rule, EPA received 

additional comments regarding the 

location, presence, condition, and 

history of additional potential legacy 

CCR surface impoundments and of 

CCRMU at both active and inactive 


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facilities. EPA is placing the data 

received in response to the proposed 

rule in the docket for the present NODA 

and is soliciting public comment on 

these data in connection with this 

rulemaking. 

EPA is specifically soliciting 

supplementary comments, data, or 

sources of information on the location, 

presence, condition, history, and risk 

associated with any of the potential 

legacy CCR surface impoundments or 

any of the potential CCRMU within the 

docket, including any information 

regarding the presence of water, 

distance to surface water bodies, 

proximity to floodplains, unit size, CCR 

volume, depth to groundwater, date of 

CCR placement, closure status, any 

corrective action associated with the 

unit, and any groundwater monitoring 

data. In addition to information 

regarding the docket items for this 

NODA, EPA also requests comment on 

the accuracy of the information that was 

submitted regarding potential legacy 

CCR surface impoundments or potential 

CCRMU. Furthermore, EPA is seeking 

similar information on any other 

potential legacy CCR surface 

impoundments or potential CCRMU of 

which EPA may not be aware or for 

which we may have incomplete 

information. In all instances, it is 

important that commenters on this 

NODA provide verifiable sourcing 

information for data that is provided, as 

EPA may not consider information 

without a verifiable source in 

developing a final rule. 

The information included in the 

docket for this NODA is in PDFs and 

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. While 

some of the information in the PDFs and 

the Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is 

duplicative, the docket items contain 

distinct data. 

V. Request for Comment and Additional 

Information 

EPA is seeking comment on all 

questions and topics described in this 

NODA, including the issues identified 

in Unit IV of this document, and 

requests that you submit any 

information, that you believe is 

important for EPA to consider in 

connection with these questions and 

topics. At the same time, EPA will not 

consider comments that are beyond the 

scope of the questions and topics 

described in this NODA. 

Instructions for providing written 

comments are provided under 

ADDRESSES, including how to submit 

any comments that contain CBI. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 257 

Environmental protection, Coal 

combustion products, Coal combustion 

residuals, Coal combustion waste, 

Disposal, Hazardous waste, Landfill, 

Surface impoundment. 

Michael S. Regan, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24941 Filed 11–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

49 CFR Part 675 

[Docket No. FTA–2023–0018] 

RIN 2132–AB46 

Transit Worker Hours of Service and 

Fatigue Risk Management Virtual 

Listening Session 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) will hold a virtual 

public listening session concerning the 

topics of hours of service and fatigue 

risk management for transit workers on 

December 5, 2023. On October 30, 2023, 

FTA published an Advance Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking 

public input on those topics. The virtual 

listening session will allow all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

present comments, views, and relevant 

research on those topics in addition to 

providing written comments to the 

docket. A transcript will be placed in 

the rulemaking docket for public 

inspection. 

DATES: The webinar will be held on 

December 5, 2023, from 2:30 p.m. to 

3:45 p.m. ET. 

ADDRESSES: The listening session will 

be held virtually. Interested parties 

should register in advance at https://

usdot.zoomgov.com/j/ 

1608968545?pwd=c0tVNlJ3OTR

PUmxYTHN4STFZczNYQT09. 

Access information and codes will be 

provided to those groups and interested 

members of the public who register for 

the event. The total number of 

participants in the virtual listening 

session will be limited to the maximum 

allowed by the live webcast platform. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the listening session, 

contact Valerie Beck, Office of Transit 

Safety and Oversight, FTA, telephone at 

(202) 366–9178 or valerie.beck@dot.gov. 

Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On October 30, 2023, FTA published 

in the Federal Register (Docket No. 

FTA–2023–0018, 88 FR 74107) an 

Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking public 

input in two areas: (1) hours of service; 

and (2) fatigue risk management 

programs. At present, there are no 

Federal minimum standards for hours of 

service and fatigue risk management 

programs in the transit industry. FTA 

held an in-person listening session on 

October 8, 2023, in Orlando, Florida. 

The virtual listening session will allow 

additional interested persons to present 

comments, views, and relevant research 

on those topics. FTA seeks information 

to better understand current industry 

practices, priorities, requirements, and 

the costs and benefits of Federal 

requirements. 

II. Meeting Participation 

The listening session is open to the 

public. 

III. Registration 

The session will be held virtually. 

Interested parties should register in 

advance at https://usdot.zoomgov.com/ 

j/1608968545?pwd=c0tVNlJ3OT

RPUmxYTHN4STFZczNYQT09. 

(Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5329; 49 CFR 1.91) 

Joseph P. DeLorenzo, 

Associate Administrator for Transit Safety 

and Oversight. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25052 Filed 11–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 231107–0264] 

RIN 0648–BM55 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Mid-Atlantic Blueline Tilefish 

and Golden Tilefish Fisheries; 2024 

Specifications 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments. 


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