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have stated they do not plan to fill their 

FY2024 allocated raw cane sugar 

quantities. The U.S. Trade 

Representative is allocating the 223,740 

MTRV to the following countries in the 

amounts specified below: 

Country 

FY2024 

raw sugar 

unused 

reallocation 

(MTRV) 

Argentina .............................. 15,592 

Australia ................................ 30,098 

Belize .................................... 3,989 

Bolivia ................................... 2,901 

Brazil ..................................... 52,581 

Colombia ............................... 8,703 

Costa Rica ............................ 5,439 

Ecuador ................................ 3,989 

El Salvador ........................... 9,428 

Eswatini (Swaziland) ............ 5,802 

Guatemala ............................ 17,406 

Guyana ................................. 4,352 

Honduras .............................. 3,626 

Jamaica ................................ 3,989 

Malawi ................................... 3,626 

Mauritius ............................... 4,352 

Mozambique ......................... 4,714 

Panama ................................ 10,516 

Peru ...................................... 14,868 

South Africa .......................... 8,340 

Thailand ................................ 5,077 

Zimbabwe ............................. 4,352 

The allocations of the raw cane sugar 

WTO TRQ to countries that are net 

importers of sugar are conditioned on 

receipt of the appropriate verifications 

of origin. Certificates for quota 

eligibility must accompany imports 

from any country for which an 

allocation has been provided. 

Douglas McKalip, 

Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative. 

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BILLING CODE 3390–F4–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2023–0050] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Reinstatement of a Previously 

Approved Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for 

reinstatement of a previously approved 

information collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the 

information collection request described 

in this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval of a new (periodic) 

information collection. We published a 

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

public comment period on this 

information collection on September 6, 

2023. We are required to publish this 

notice in the Federal Register by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

January 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

0050 by any of the following methods: 

Website: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Spencer Stevens, 202–366–6221, Office 

of Planning, Environment and Realty, 

Federal Highway Administration, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590, between 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Planning and Research Program 

Administration. 

OMB Control #: 2125–0039. 

Background: The Planning and 

Research Program Administration is 

covered under 23 CFR part 420. 23 CFR 

part 420 regulation includes 

administrative requirements and 

procedures for PL funds (23 U.S.C. 

104(b)(6)) provided for Metropolitan 

Planning Organizations (MPOs) to carry 

out metropolitan planning, and SPR 

funds (provided under the provisions of 

23 U.S.C. 505) for State Departments of 

Transportation (State DOTs) to 

implement statewide transportation 

planning and research, development 

and technology (RD&T) work activities. 

Also, at a State DOT’s option, other Title 

23 funds as identified in the definition 

of FHWA planning and research funds 

in 23 U.S.C. 505 and 23 CFR 420.103 

may be used to perform planning 

activities. Different from this request, 

the information collection requirement 

for work performed by MPOs is a joint 

Federal Highway Administration/ 

Federal Transit Administration 

requirement and is covered under OMB 

Control Number 2132–0529. 

In accordance with government-wide 

grant management procedures, a grant 

application must be submitted for these 

funds. In addition, recipients must 

submit periodic progress and financial 

reports. The content and frequency of 

submission of progress and financial 

reports specified in 23 CFR part 420 is 

as specified in 2 CFR 200 grant 

management regulations. With the 

implementation of 2 CFR 200, the focus 

will be more on using data to determine 

the grant’s achievement outcomes and 

less on accountability compliance. 

FHWA and the State DOTs are called 

upon to identify clear performance 

goals, indicators, and milestones for the 

grants. This information collection 

supports the DOT’s Strategic Objective 

of ‘‘Organizational Excellence’’ by 

providing an ongoing mechanism to 

review applications and approve 

Federal grants to States for their 

transportation planning and research, 

development, and technology work 

programs. 

Respondents: Each State, the District 

of Columbia and the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico are required to provide 

information. The annual number of 

burden hours (professional and clerical 

staff) per respondent for preparation of 

work programs and progress and 

financial reports is estimated to be 720 

(18 weeks × 40 hours per week). The 

total annual burden for all respondents 

is estimated to be 37,440 burden hours 

(720 burden hours per respondent times 

52 respondents). 

Frequency: This annual burden 

consists of staff time of each respondent 

for preparation of the work programs, 

and progress and financial reports. For 

those respondents that elect to use 

biennial work programs, the burden for 

preparation of work programs would be 

significantly less for the second year. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 

Professional staff time for preparation 

of work programs: 400 hours/ 

respondent. 

Professional staff time for preparation 

of progress and financial reports: 120 

hours/respondent. 

Clerical staff time: 200 hours/ 

respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 720 hours/respondent × 52 

respondents = 37,400 hours. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 


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necessary for the FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burdens; (3) ways for the FHWA to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued on: November 27, 2023. 

Jazmyne Lewis, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26360 Filed 11–29–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Prevention of Alcohol Misuse and 

Prohibited Drug Use in Transit 

Operations 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of calendar year 2024 

random drug and alcohol testing rates. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

calendar year 2024 drug and alcohol 

random testing rates for specific 

recipients of FTA financial assistance. 

The minimum random drug testing rate 

will remain at 50 percent, and the 

random alcohol testing rate will remain 

at 10 percent. 

DATES: Applicability Date: January 1, 

2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Iyon 

Rosario, Drug and Alcohol Program 

Manager in the Office of Transit Safety 

and Oversight, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: 

202–366–2010 or email: Iyon.Rosario@

dot.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 1, 1995, FTA required large 

transit employers to begin drug and 

alcohol testing of employees performing 

safety-sensitive functions, and to submit 

annual reports by March 15 of each year 

beginning in 1996, pursuant to drug and 

alcohol regulations adopted by FTA at 

49 CFR parts 653 and 654 in February 

1994. The annual report includes the 

number of employees who had a 

verified positive test for the use of 

prohibited drugs, and the number of 

employees who tested positive for the 

misuse of alcohol during the reported 

year. Small employers commenced the 

required testing on January 1, 1996, and 

began reporting the same information as 

the large employers beginning March 

15, 1997. 

FTA updated the testing rules by 

merging them into a new 49 CFR part 

655, effective August 1, 2001 (66 FR 

42002). The regulation maintained a 

random testing rate for prohibited drugs 

at 50 percent and the misuse of alcohol 

at 10 percent. The Administrator may 

lower the random testing rate to 25 

percent if the violation rates drop below 

1.0 percent for drug testing and 0.5 

percent for alcohol testing for two 

consecutive years. Accordingly, in 2007, 

FTA reduced the random drug testing 

rate from 50 percent to 25 percent (72 

FR 1057). In 2018, however, FTA 

returned the random drug testing rate to 

50 percent for calendar year 2019 based 

on verified industry data for calendar 

year 2017, which showed that the rate 

had exceeded 1 percent (83 FR 63812). 

Pursuant to 49 CFR 655.45, the 

Administrator’s decision to determine 

the minimum annual percentage rate for 

random drug and alcohol testing is 

based, in part, on the reported positive 

drug and alcohol violation rates for the 

entire public transportation industry. 

The information used for this 

determination is drawn from the Drug 

and Alcohol Management Information 

System (MIS) reports required by 49 

CFR 655.72. To ensure the reliability of 

the data, the Administrator must 

consider the quality and completeness 

of the reported data, may obtain 

additional information or reports from 

employers, and may make appropriate 

modifications in calculating the 

industry’s verified positive results and 

violation rates. 

For calendar year 2024, the 

Administrator has determined that the 

minimum random drug testing rate for 

covered employees will remain at 50 

percent based on a verified positive rate 

for prohibited drug use of 1.09 percent 

for calendar year 2022 and 0.99 percent 

for calendar year 2021. Further, the 

Administrator has determined that the 

minimum random alcohol testing rate 

for calendar year 2024 will remain at 10 

percent, because the violation rate again 

was lower than 0.5 percent for calendar 

years 2022 and 2021. The random 

alcohol violation rates were 0.18 percent 

for 2022 and 0.13 for 2021. 

Detailed reports on FTA’s drug and 

alcohol testing data collected from 

transit employers may be obtained from 

FTA, Office of Transit Safety and 

Oversight, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC, 20590, (202) 366–2010, 

or at: https://transit-safety.fta.dot.gov/

DrugAndAlcohol/Publications/Default.

aspx. 

Nuria I. Fernandez, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26347 Filed 11–29–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Fiscal Year 2024 Competitive Funding 

Opportunity: All Stations Accessibility 

Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of funding opportunity 

(NOFO). 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) announces the 

opportunity to apply for approximately 

$343 million in competitive grants 

under the fiscal year (FY) 2024 All 

Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP). 

DATES: Complete proposals must be 

submitted electronically through the 

GRANTS.GOV ‘‘APPLY’’ function by 

11:59 p.m. Eastern time on January 30, 

2024. Prospective applicants should 

initiate the process by registering on the 

GRANTS.GOV website promptly to 

ensure completion of the application 

process before the submission deadline. 

Instructions for applying can be found 

on FTA’s website at https://

www.transit.dot.gov/howtoapply and in 

the ‘‘FIND’’ module of GRANTS.GOV. 

The funding opportunity ID is FTA– 

2024–001–TPM–ASAP. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information concerning this 

notice, please contact Kevin Osborn, All 

Stations Accessibility Program Manager, 

via email at Kevin.Osborn@dot.gov or 

call 202–366–7519. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

A. Program Description 

B. Federal Award Information 

C. Eligibility Information 

D. Application and Submission Information 

E. Application Review Information 

F. Federal Award Administration 

Information 

G. Federal Awarding Agency Contacts 

H. Other Information 

A. Program Description 

Division J of the Bipartisan 

Infrastructure Law (enacted as the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 

Pub. L. 117–58) authorizes FTA to 

award grants for public transportation 

rail station accessibility projects, for 


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