16616 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 46 / Thursday, March 7, 2024 / Notices 

MARAD–2024–0028 or visit the Docket 

Management Facility (see ADDRESSES for 

hours of operation). We recommend that 

you periodically check the Docket for 

new submissions and supporting 

material. 

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the public? 

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If you wish to submit comments 

under a claim of confidentiality, you 

should submit the information you 

claim to be confidential commercial 

information by email to SmallVessels@

dot.gov. Include in the email subject 

heading ‘‘Contains Confidential 

Commercial Information’’ or ‘‘Contains 

CCI’’ and state in your submission, with 

specificity, the basis for any such 

confidential claim highlighting or 

denoting the CCI portions. If possible, 

please provide a summary of your 

submission that can be made available 

to the public. 

In the event MARAD receives a 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

request for the information, procedures 

described in the Department’s FOIA 

regulation at 49 CFR 7.29 will be 

followed. Only information that is 

ultimately determined to be confidential 

under those procedures will be exempt 

from disclosure under FOIA. 

Privacy Act 

Anyone can search the electronic 

form of all comments received into any 

of our dockets by the name of the 

individual submitting the comment (or 

signing the comment, if submitted on 

behalf of an association, business, labor 

union, etc.). For information on DOT’s 

compliance with the Privacy Act, please 

visit https://www.transportation.gov/ 

privacy. 

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.93(a), 46 U.S.C. 55103, 

46 U.S.C. 12121) 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04898 Filed 3–6–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Bureau of the Fiscal Service 

Prompt Payment Interest Rate; 

Contract Disputes Act 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of prompt payment 

interest rate; Contract Disputes Act. 

SUMMARY: For the period beginning 

January 1, 2024, and ending on June 30, 

2024, the prompt payment interest rate 

is 47⁄8 per centum per annum. 

DATES: Applicable January 1, 2024, to 

June 30, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments or inquiries may 

be mailed to: E-Commerce Division, 

Bureau of the Fiscal Service, 401 14th 

Street SW, Room 306F, Washington, DC 

20227. Comments or inquiries may also 

be emailed to PromptPayment@

fiscal.treasury.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas M. Burnum, E-Commerce 

Division, (202) 874–6430; or Thomas 

Kearns, Senior Counsel, Office of the 

Chief Counsel, (202) 874–7036. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An agency 

that has acquired property or service 

from a business concern and has failed 

to pay for the complete delivery of 

property or service by the required 

payment date shall pay the business 

concern an interest penalty. 31 U.S.C. 

3902(a). The Contract Disputes Act of 

1978, sec. 12, Public Law 95–563, 92 

Stat. 2389, and the Prompt Payment Act, 

31 U.S.C. 3902(a), provide for the 

calculation of interest due on claims at 

the rate established by the Secretary of 

the Treasury. 

The Secretary of the Treasury has the 

authority to specify the rate by which 

the interest shall be computed for 

interest payments under section 12 of 

the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 and 

under the Prompt Payment Act. Under 

the Prompt Payment Act, if an interest 

penalty is owed to a business concern, 

the penalty shall be paid regardless of 

whether the business concern requested 

payment of such penalty. 31 U.S.C. 

3902(c)(1). Agencies must pay the 

interest penalty calculated with the 

interest rate, which is in effect at the 

time the agency accrues the obligation 

to pay a late payment interest penalty. 

31 U.S.C. 3902(a). ‘‘The interest penalty 

shall be paid for the period beginning 

on the day after the required payment 

date and ending on the date on which 

payment is made.’’ 31 U.S.C. 3902(b). 

Therefore, notice is given that the 

Secretary of the Treasury has 

determined that the rate of interest 

applicable for the period beginning 

January 1, 2024, and ending on June 30, 

2024, is 47⁄8 per centum per annum. 

Timothy E. Gribben, 

Commissioner, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04833 Filed 3–6–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–AS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) has removed from 

OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals 

and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) the 

names of persons whose property and 

interests in property had been blocked 

pursuant to Zimbabwe sanctions 

authorities. 

DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

for applicable date(s). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

OFAC: Bradley T. Smith, Director, tel.: 

202–622–2490; Associate Director for 

Global Targeting, tel.: 202–622–2420; 

Assistant Director for Licensing, tel.: 

202–622–2480; Assistant Director for 

Regulatory Affairs, tel.: 202–622–4855; 

or the Assistant Director for Sanctions 

Compliance & Evaluation, tel.: 202–622– 

2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Availability 

The SDN List and additional 

information concerning OFAC sanctions 

programs are available on OFAC’s 

website (https://www.treasury.gov/ofac). 

Notice of OFAC Actions 

Effective March 4, 2024, Executive 

Order (E.O.) 13288 of March 6, 2003, 

‘‘Blocking Property of Persons 

Undermining Democratic Processes or 

Institutions in Zimbabwe,’’ E.O. 13391 

of November 22, 2005, ‘‘Blocking 

Property of Additional Persons 

Undermining Democratic Processes or 

Institutions in Zimbabwe,’’ and E.O. 

13469 of July 25, 2008, ‘‘Blocking 

Property of Additional Persons 

Undermining Democratic Processes or 

Institutions in Zimbabwe’’ (collectively 

‘‘the Orders’’) were revoked pursuant to 

the Executive Order on the 

‘‘Termination of Emergency with 

Respect to the Situation in Zimbabwe.’’ 

As a result of the revocation of the 

Orders, effective March 4, 2024, the 

persons listed below are no longer 

subject to the blocking provisions of the 

Orders, and therefore were removed 

from the SDN List. 

Individuals 

1. CHARAMBA, George; DOB 04 Apr 1963; 

Passport AD001255 (Zimbabwe); Permanent 

Secretary, Zimbabwean Ministry of 


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