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1 66 FR 5351 (Jan. 18, 2001). 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Justice Programs 

[OJP (OJP) Docket No. 1748] 

Meeting of the Public Safety Officer 

Medal of Valor Review Board 

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs 

(OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance 

(BJA), Justice. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This is an announcement of a 

meeting of the Public Safety Officer 

Medal of Valor Review Board, primarily 

intended to consider nominations for 

the 2017–2018 Medal of Valor, and to 

make a limited number of 

recommendations for submission to the 

U.S. Attorney General. Additional 

issues of importance to the Board may 

also be discussed. The meeting/ 

conference call date and time is listed 

below. 

DATES: September 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m. to 

12:00 p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The public may hear the 

proceedings of this meeting/conference 

call at the Office of Justice Programs, 

810 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 

20531. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Joy, Policy Advisor, Bureau of 

Justice Assistance, Office of Justice 

Programs, 810 7th Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20531, by telephone at 

(202) 514–1369, toll free (866) 859– 

2687, or by email at Gregory.joy@

usdoj.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor 

Review Board carries out those advisory 

functions specified in 42 U.S.C. 15202. 

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 15201, the 

President of the United States is 

authorized to award the Public Safety 

Officer Medal of Valor, the highest 

national award for valor by a public 

safety officer. 

This meeting/conference call is open 

to the public at the offices of BJA. For 

security purposes, members of the 

public who wish to participate must 

register at least seven (7) days in 

advance of the meeting/conference call 

by contacting Mr. Joy. All interested 

participants will be required to meet at 

the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office 

of Justice Programs; 810 7th Street NW, 

Washington, DC, 20531, and will be 

required to sign in at the front desk. 

Note: Photo identification will be 

required for admission. Additional 

identification documents may be 

required. 

Access to the meeting/conference call 

will not be allowed without prior 

registration. Anyone requiring special 

accommodations should contact Mr. Joy 

at least seven (7) days in advance of the 

meeting. Please submit any comments 

or written statements for consideration 

by the Review Board in writing at least 

seven (7) days in advance of the meeting 

date. 

Gregory Joy, 

Policy Advisor/Designated Federal Officer, 

Bureau of Justice Assistance. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Notice of Initial Determination To 

Remove Cotton From Uzbekistan From 

the List of Products Requiring Federal 

Contractor Certification as to Forced 

or Indentured Child Labor Pursuant to 

Executive Order 13126 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of initial determination; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This initial determination 

proposes to revise the list required by 

Executive Order No. 13126 

(‘‘Prohibition of Acquisition of Products 

Produced by Forced or Indentured Child 

Labor’’) (E.O. List) in accordance with 

the Department of Labor’s (DOL) 

‘‘Procedural Guidelines for the 

Maintenance of the List of Products 

Requiring Federal Contractor 

Certification as to Forced or Indentured 

Child Labor’’ (the Procedural 

Guidelines).1 The E.O. List identifies a 

list of products, by their country of 

origin, that DOL, in consultation and 

cooperation with the Department of 

State and the Department of Homeland 

Security (hereinafter ‘‘the three 

Departments’’), has a reasonable basis to 

believe might have been mined, 

produced, or manufactured by forced or 

indentured child labor. This notice 

proposes to remove cotton from 

Uzbekistan because the three 

Departments have preliminarily 

determined that the use of forced or 

indentured child labor in the 

production of that product has been 

significantly reduced. The Department 

of Labor invites public comment on this 

initial determination. The three 

Departments will consider all public 

comments prior to publishing a final 

determination revising the E.O. List. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

to the Office of Child Labor, Forced 

Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) 

via one of the methods described below 

and must be received by no later than 

5 p.m. ET, August 30, 2018, to guarantee 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Information submitted to 

the Department of Labor should be 

submitted directly to OCFT, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor. Comments, 

identified as ‘‘Docket No. DOL–2018– 

0004,’’ may be submitted by any of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: You 

may submit electronic comments to: 

http://www.regulations.gov. The portal 

includes instructions for submitting 

comments. Parties submitting responses 

electronically are encouraged not to 

submit paper copies. 

2. Facsimile (fax): OCFT, at 202–693– 

4830. 

3. Mail, Express Delivery, Hand 

Delivery, and Messenger Service (2 

copies): Rachel Rigby/Austin Pedersen, 

U.S. Department of Labor, OCFT, 

Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 

S–5313, Washington, DC 20210. 

4. Email: Email submissions should 

be addressed to: EO13126@dol.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced 

Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau 

of International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor, at (202) 693–4843 

(this is not a toll free number). 

Individuals with hearing or speech 

impairments may access the telephone 

number above via TTY by calling the 

Federal Information Relay Service at 

1–877–889–5627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information Sought 

The Department of Labor is requesting 

public comment on the revisions to the 

list proposed below, as well as any other 

issue related to the fair and effective 

implementation of E.O. 13126. This 

notice is a general solicitation of 

comments from the public. All 

submitted comments will be made a 

part of the public record and will be 

available for inspection on http://

www.regulations.gov. 

In conducting research for this initial 

determination, the three Departments 

considered a wide variety of materials 

based on their own research, and which 

originates from other U.S. Government 

agencies, foreign governments, 

international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 

U.S. Government-funded technical 

assistance and field research projects, 

academic and other independent 

research, media, and other sources. The 

Department of State and U.S. embassies 


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2 ‘‘Environmental Justice Foundation. Child Labor 

and Cotton in Uzbekistan.’’ available from http://

www.ejfoundation.org/page145.html; 

‘‘Environmental Justice Foundation. White Gold: 

The True Cost of Cotton.’’ London, 2005; available 

from http://www.ejfoundation.org/pdf/white_gold_

the_true_cost_of_cotton.pdf; U.S. Department of 

State. ‘‘Uzbekistan. ’’ In Country Reports on Human 

Rights Practices 2007, March 11, 2008; available 

from http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/ 

100623.htm; U.S. Embassy Tashkent. reporting. 

June 6, 2008. 

3 ILO. ‘‘Third-Party Monitoring of Measures 

Against Child Labor and Forced Labor During the 

2017 Cotton Harvest in Uzbekistan.’’ February 1, 

2018. http://www.ilo.org/ipec/ 

Informationresources/WCMS_543130/lang-en/ 

index.htm; Government of Uzbekistan. Response to 

TDA Questionnaire; January 25, 2017; Uzbek 

German Forum for Human Rights. Cotton Harvest 

2017: Summary of Key Findings. March 2018. On 

file. 

4U.S. Embassy—Tashkent. Reporting. January 9, 

2018; Uzbek German Forum for Human Rights, 

2018; ILO, 2018. 

5U.S. Embassy—Tashkent, 2018. 

6 ILO, 2018; Uzbek German Forum for Human 

Rights, 2018. 

7 64 FR 32383. 

8 66 FR 5353. 

9 66 FR 5351. 

and consulates abroad also provided 

important information by gathering data 

from contacts, conducting site visits, 

and reviewing local media sources. In 

developing the proposed revision to the 

E.O. List, the three Departments’ review 

focused on information concerning the 

use of forced or indentured child labor 

that was available from the above 

sources. 

As outlined in the Procedural 

Guidelines, several factors were 

weighed in determining whether a 

product should be placed, or remain on, 

the revised E.O. List: The nature of the 

information describing the use of forced 

or indentured child labor; the source of 

the information; the date of the 

information; the extent of corroboration 

of the information by appropriate 

sources; whether the information 

involved more than an isolated incident; 

and whether recent and credible efforts 

are being made to address forced or 

indentured child labor in a particular 

country and industry (66 FR 5351). 

This notice constitutes an initial 

determination to revise the list issued 

December 1, 2014. Based on available 

information from various sources, the 

three Departments have preliminarily 

concluded that there is no longer a 

reasonable basis to believe that there is 

use of forced or indentured child labor 

in the production of the following 

product, identified by its country of 

origin: 

Product: Cotton 

Country: Uzbekistan 

The Department of Labor has received 

recent, credible, and corroborated 

information from various sources on the 

use of forced or indentured child labor 

in cotton production in Uzbekistan. 

This information indicates that while 

children previously worked under 

forced labor conditions in cotton 

production, the use of forced child labor 

appears to have been significantly 

reduced. Therefore, the three 

Departments have preliminarily 

concluded that there is no longer a 

reasonable basis to believe that cotton 

from Uzbekistan is produced by forced 

or indentured child labor, except in a 

few isolated instances, and therefore it 

should not continue to be on the list. 

DOL placed cotton from Uzbekistan 

on the List in 2010, based on 14 sources 

dating from 2002 to 2008. Sources 

indicated that school administrators, at 

the direction of central and local 

governments, systematically mobilized 

children as young as 7 years old for 

participation in the annual cotton 

harvest.2 In 2013, the Government of 

Uzbekistan committed to working with 

the International Labor Organization 

(ILO) to address forced child labor. Over 

time, three forms of harvest monitoring 

were established: ILO-implemented 

Third Party Monitoring (TPM), 

Uzbekistan’s own national monitoring 

led by the Coordination Council, and 

independent monitoring conducted by 

human rights activists, many of whom 

coordinate their reporting through the 

Uzbek German Forum. In 2017, ILO 

monitoring, Uzbekistan’s national 

monitoring, and observation by 

independent human rights activists each 

found that forced child labor had been 

reduced to a few incidents in the cotton 

harvest, and only 32 additional children 

were found to be engaged in child labor, 

though not all in forced labor 

conditions, in the cotton harvest.3 Both 

the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent’s 

observation during the 2017 harvest, as 

well as DOL’s review of available 

information, corroborated that forced 

child labor in the production of cotton 

had been significantly reduced to 

isolated incidents.4 Further, the 

Government of Uzbekistan has taken 

steps to improve the monitoring 

environment for independent activists 

and follow up on all reports of child 

labor and forced labor in the cotton 

harvest, including those made by 

independent activists.5 However, both 

the ILO and independent monitoring 

found that at least 300,000 adults were 

forced to work in the 2017 cotton 

harvest.6

The Department of Labor invites 

public comment on whether this 

product (and/or other products, 

regardless of whether they are 

mentioned in this notice) should be 

included in or removed from the revised 

E.O. List. To the extent possible, 

comments provided should address the 

criteria for inclusion of a product on the 

E.O. List contained in the Procedural 

Guidelines discussed above. 

Following receipt and consideration 

of comments on the removal from the 

E.O. List set out above, the three 

Departments will issue a final 

determination in the Federal Register. 

The three Departments intend to 

continue to revise the E.O. List 

periodically to add and/or remove 

products as warranted by the receipt of 

new and credible information. 

II. Background 

E.O. 13126 was signed on June 12, 

1999, and published in the Federal 

Register on June 16, 1999.7 E.O. 13126 

declared that it was ‘‘the policy of the 

United States Government . . . that 

executive agencies shall take 

appropriate actions to enforce the laws 

prohibiting the manufacture or 

importation of goods, wares, articles, 

and merchandise mined, produced or 

manufactured wholly or in part by 

forced or indentured child labor.’’ The 

E.O. defines ‘‘forced or indentured child 

labor’’ as all work or service exacted 

from any person under the age of 18 

under the menace of any penalty for its 

nonperformance and for which the 

worker does not offer himself 

voluntarily, or performed by any person 

under the age of 18 pursuant to a 

contract the enforcement of which can 

be accomplished by process or 

penalties. 

Pursuant to E.O. 13126, and following 

public notice and comment, the 

Department of Labor published in the 

January 18, 2001, Federal Register the 

first E.O. List of products, along with 

their respective countries of origin, that 

the Department, in consultation and 

cooperation with the Departments of 

State and Treasury (whose relevant 

responsibilities are now within the 

Department of Homeland Security), had 

a reasonable basis to believe might have 

been mined, produced or manufactured 

with forced or indentured child labor.8

The Department also published the 

Procedural Guidelines on January 18, 

2001, which provide procedures for the 

maintenance, review, and, as 

appropriate, revision of the E.O. List.9

The Procedural Guidelines provide 

that the E.O. List may be revised 

through consideration of submissions by 

individuals and on the three 

Departments’ own initiative. When 

proposing a revision to the E.O. List, 

DOL must publish in the Federal 


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10See 48 CFR subpart 22.15. 

Register a notice of initial 

determination, which includes any 

proposed alteration to the E.O. List. The 

three Departments will consider all 

public comments prior to the 

publication of a final determination of a 

revised E.O. List. 

On January 18, 2001, pursuant to 

Section 3 of E.O. 13126, the Federal 

Acquisition Regulatory Council 

published a final rule to implement 

specific provisions of E.O. 13126 that 

require, among other things, that 

Federal contractors who supply 

products that appear on the list certify 

to the contracting officer that the 

contractor, or, in the case of an 

incorporated contractor, a responsible 

official of the contractor, has made a 

good faith effort to determine whether 

forced or indentured child labor was 

used to mine, produce, or manufacture 

any product furnished under the 

contract and that, on the basis of those 

efforts, the contractor is unaware of any 

such use of forced or indentured child 

labor.10

On September 11, 2009, the 

Department of Labor published an 

initial determination in the Federal 

Register proposing to revise the E.O. 

List to include 29 products from 21 

countries. The Notice requested public 

comments for a period of 90 days. 

Public comments were received and 

reviewed by all relevant agencies and a 

final determination was issued on July 

20, 2010. Following the same process, 

the E.O. List was revised again in 2011, 

2012, 2013, and 2014. The most recent 

E.O. List, finalized on December 1, 

2014, includes 35 products from 26 

countries. 

The current E.O. List and the 

Procedural Guidelines can be accessed 

at http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/ 

child-labor/list-of-products/ or can be 

obtained from: OCFT, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, Room 

S–5313, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693–4843; 

fax (202) 693–4830. 

(Authority: E.O. 13126, 64 FR 32383) 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 24 day of 

July 2018. 

Martha E. Newton, 

Deputy Undersecretary for International 

Affairs. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2018–0152] 

Biweekly Notice: Applications and 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses 

Involving No Significant Hazards 

Considerations 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Biweekly notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 189a.(2) 

of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) is 

publishing this regular biweekly notice. 

The Act requires the Commission to 

publish notice of any amendments 

issued, or proposed to be issued, and 

grants the Commission the authority to 

issue and make immediately effective 

any amendment to an operating license 

or combined license, as applicable, 

upon a determination by the 

Commission that such amendment 

involves no significant hazards 

consideration, notwithstanding the 

pendency before the Commission of a 

request for a hearing from any person. 

This biweekly notice includes all 

notices of amendments issued, or 

proposed to be issued, from June 30, 

2018 to July 16, 2018. The last biweekly 

notice was published on July 17, 2018. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

August 30, 2018. A request for a hearing 

must be filed by October 1, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specific subject): 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0152. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail Comments to: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shirley Rohrer, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–5411; 

email: Shirley.Rohrer@nrc.gov 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Notice of Consideration of Issuance of 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses and 

Proposed No Significant Hazards 

Consideration Determination 

The Commission has made a 

proposed determination that the 

following amendment requests involve 

no significant hazards consideration. 

Under the Commission’s regulations in 

section 50.92 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), this 

means that operation of the facility in 

accordance with the proposed 

amendment would not (1) involve a 

significant increase in the probability or 

consequences of an accident previously 

evaluated, or (2) create the possibility of 

a new or different kind of accident from 

any accident previously evaluated; or 

(3) involve a significant reduction in a 

margin of safety. The basis for this 

proposed determination for each 

amendment request is shown below. 

The Commission is seeking public 

comments on this proposed 

determination. Any comments received 

within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice will be 

considered in making any final 

determination. 

Normally, the Commission will not 

issue the amendment until the 

expiration of 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice. The 

Commission may issue the license 

amendment before expiration of the 60- 

day period provided that its final 

determination is that the amendment 

involves no significant hazards 

consideration. In addition, the 

Commission may issue the amendment 

prior to the expiration of the 30-day 

comment period if circumstances 

change during the 30-day comment 

period such that failure to act in a 

timely way would result, for example in 

derating or shutdown of the facility. If 

the Commission takes action prior to the 

expiration of either the comment period 

or the notice period, it will publish in 

the Federal Register a notice of 

issuance. If the Commission makes a 

final no significant hazards 

consideration determination, any 

hearing will take place after issuance. 

The Commission expects that the need 

to take this action will occur very 

infrequently. 


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