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automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

All comments to this document will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval and will 

become a matter of public record. 

Erin Morris, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27240 Filed 12–11–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Black Hills National Forest Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Black Hills National 

Forest Advisory Board will hold a 

public meeting according to the details 

shown below. The Board is authorized 

under the Forest and Rangeland 

Renewable Resources Planning Act of 

1974, the National Forest Management 

Act of 1976, the Federal Lands 

Recreation Enhancement Act, and 

operates in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The 

purpose of the Board is to provide 

advice and recommendations on a broad 

range of forest issues such as forest plan 

revisions or amendments, forest health 

including fire, insect and disease, travel 

management, forest monitoring and 

evaluation, recreation fees, and sitespecific projects having forest-wide 

implications. 

DATES: An in-person meeting will be 

held on January 17, 2024, 1 p.m.–4:30 

p.m. Mountain standard time (MST). 

Written and Oral Comments: Anyone 

wishing to provide in-person oral 

comments must pre-register by 11:59 

p.m. MST on January 12, 2024. Written 

public comments will be accepted up to 

11:59 p.m. MST on January 12, 2024. 

Comments submitted after this date will 

be provided to the Forest Service, but 

the Board may not have adequate time 

to consider those comments prior to the 

meeting. 

All board meetings are subject to 

cancellation. For status of the meeting 

prior to attendance, please contact the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held in 

person, at the U.S. Forest Service, 

Mystic Ranger District Office, 8221 

Mount Rushmore Road, Rapid City, 

South Dakota 57702. Board information 

and meeting details can be found at the 

following website: https://

www.fs.usda.gov/main/blackhills/ 

workingtogether/advisorycommittees or 

by contacting the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Written Comments: Written comments 

must be sent by email to 

scott.j.jacobson@usda.gov or via mail 

(i.e., postmarked) to Scott Jacobson, 

8221 Mount Rushmore Road, Rapid 

City, South Dakota 57702. The Forest 

Service strongly prefers comments be 

submitted electronically. 

Oral Comments: Persons or 

organizations wishing to make oral 

comments must pre-register by 11:59 

p.m. MST, January 12, 2024, and 

speakers can only register for one 

speaking slot. Oral comments must be 

sent by email to scott.j.jacobson@

usda.gov or via mail (i.e., postmarked) 

to Scott Jacobson, 8221 Mount 

Rushmore Road, Rapid City, South 

Dakota 57702. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ivan 

Green, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), by phone at 605–673–9201 or 

email at ivan.green@usda.gov, or Scott 

Jacobson, Committee Coordinator, at 

605–440–1409 or email at 

scott.j.jacobson@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting agenda will include: 

1. Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) Permit 

Fees; and 

2. Forest Plan Revision update. 

The agenda will include time for 

individuals to make oral statements of 

three minutes or less. Individuals 

wishing to make an oral statement 

should make a request in writing at least 

three days prior to the meeting date to 

be scheduled on the agenda. Written 

comments may be submitted to the 

Forest Service up to 7 days after the 

meeting date listed under DATES. 

Please contact the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, by 

or before the deadline, for all questions 

related to the meeting. All comments, 

including names and addresses when 

provided, are placed in the record and 

are available for public inspection and 

copying. The public may inspect 

comments received upon request. 

Meeting Accommodations: The 

meeting location is compliant with the 

Americans with Disabilities Act, and the 

USDA provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you are 

a person requiring reasonable 

accommodation, please make requests 

in advance for sign language 

interpretation, assistive listening 

devices, or other reasonable 

accommodation to the person listed 

under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section or contact USDA’s 

TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TTY) or USDA through the 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Additionally, program information may 

be made available in languages other 

than English. 

USDA programs are prohibited from 

discriminating based on race, color, 

national origin, religion, sex, gender 

identity (including gender expression), 

sexual orientation, disability, age, 

marital status, family/parental status, 

income derived from a public assistance 

program, political beliefs, or reprisal or 

retaliation for prior civil rights activity, 

in any program or activity conducted or 

funded by USDA (not all bases apply to 

all programs). Remedies and complaint 

filing deadlines vary by program or 

incident. 

Equal opportunity practices in 

accordance with USDA’s policies will 

be followed in all appointments to the 

Board. To ensure that the 

recommendations of the Board have 

taken into account the needs of the 

diverse groups served by USDA, 

membership shall include to the extent 

possible, individuals with demonstrated 

ability to represent minorities, women, 

and persons with disabilities. USDA is 

an equal opportunity provider, 

employer, and lender. 

Dated: December 7, 2023. 

Cikena Reid, 

USDA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27212 Filed 12–11–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

[Docket Number: 231128–0279; X–RIN 

0607–XC072] 

Geographically Updated Population 

Certification Program 

AGENCY: Census Bureau, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of program 

reinstatement. 

SUMMARY: Effective January 1, 2024, the 

Census Bureau will reinstate the 

Geographically Updated Population 

Certification Program (GUPCP). At that 

time, the Census Bureau will resume 

processing applications for certified 

decennial census population and 

housing counts associated with updated 

government boundaries. This service 

was suspended on January 1, 2019, to 


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accommodate the taking of the 2020 

Census (see the Federal Register, 

October 19, 2018). The resumption of 

this service provides the requesting 

government a new certification of 2020 

Census population and housing counts 

based on boundary updates that became 

legally effective after the 2020 Census. 

Government boundaries effective on or 

before January 1, 2020 were used for 

2020 Census population and housing 

tabulation. While GUPCP was originally 

scheduled for reinstatement in 2022, 

resource demands following the 2020 

Census have delayed its relaunch until 

2024. Resumption of the program 

continues a fee-based service that the 

Census Bureau has provided since the 

1970s. Additional program details, 

including the schedule of fees and 

application instructions, will be 

available online at: https://

www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ 

gupcp.html. 

DATES: The GUPCP will be reinstated on 

January 1, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lindsay Spell, Population Division, U.S. 

Census Bureau, by email at 

lindsay.spell@census.gov or telephone 

at 301–763–1652. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following 

the 1970 decennial census and after 

every subsequent decennial census, the 

Census Bureau provided the 

opportunity for tribal, state, and local 

governments to obtain certified 

population and housing counts for areas 

where the boundaries have changed 

from those used to tabulate the results 

of the immediately preceding decennial 

census. These changes occur due to 

newly incorporated governments, the 

merger of two or more existing 

governments, the addition or annexation 

of land by a government, or other 

circumstances. The certification process 

is available to governments established 

by law for the purpose of implementing 

specified general-purpose or specialpurpose government functions. Most 

governments have legally established 

boundaries and names and have 

officials (usually elected) who have the 

power to carry out legally prescribed 

functions, provide services for residents, 

and raise revenues. These are commonly 

referred to as general-purpose 

governments and typically include 

federally recognized American Indian 

reservations and off-reservation trust 

land, counties and county equivalents, 

boroughs, cities, towns, villages, and 

townships. Special-purpose 

governments, such as school districts, 

typically are limited to one function. 

The Census Bureau is issuing this 

notice to reinstate the GUPCP as a 

centralized system for certifying 

decennial population and housing 

counts. This service will be a permanent 

process, but one that will be suspended 

in advance of future decennial censuses. 

Typically, the Census Bureau will 

suspend this service and direct its 

resources to the decennial census for 

approximately five years. This includes 

the two years preceding the decennial 

census, the decennial census year, and 

the two years following it. The Census 

Bureau will issue notices in the Federal 

Register announcing when it suspends 

and, in turn, resumes the service. 

The Census Bureau first began to 

make updated decennial census count 

determinations to reflect geographic 

boundary changes in 1972 in response 

to the requests of local governments to 

establish eligibility for participation in 

the General Revenue Sharing Program, 

authorized under Public Law 92–512. At 

that time, the Census Bureau established 

a fee-based service enabling 

governments with annexations to obtain 

updated decennial census population 

counts that reflected the population 

living in the annexed areas. The Census 

Bureau also received funding from the 

U.S. Department of the Treasury to 

make those determinations for larger 

annexations that met prescribed criteria, 

and for new incorporations. The General 

Revenue Sharing Program ended on 

September 30, 1986, but the certification 

program continued into 1988 with 

support from the Census Bureau. The 

program was suspended to 

accommodate the taking of the 1990 

decennial census and resumed in 1992. 

The Census Bureau supported the 

program through fiscal year 1995 for 

cities with large annexations and 

through fiscal year 1996 for newly 

incorporated places. The program was 

continued as a fee-based service until 

June 1, 1998, at which time it was 

suspended for the 2000 decennial 

census (see the Federal Register, 63 FR 

27706, May 20, 1998). In 2002, the 

program resumed and has since been 

referred to as the Geographically 

Updated Population Certification 

Program or GUPCP (see the Federal 

Register, 67 FR 72095, December 4, 

2002). GUPCP was suspended again in 

2008 to accommodate the taking of the 

2010 Census (see the Federal Register, 

72 FR 46602, August 21, 2007), as well 

as in 2019 to accommodate the taking of 

the 2020 Census (see the Federal 

Register, 83 FR 53029, October 19, 

2018). 

Although there is no legal 

requirement that the Census Bureau 

provide this service, there is a demand 

from governments for 2020 Census 

population and housing counts to be 

certified to reflect boundary updates or 

the formation of new governments dated 

after January 1, 2020, the legal effective 

date for boundaries used in tabulating 

the 2020 Census. Title 13, United States 

Code (U.S.C.), section 8 allows the 

Census Bureau to conduct this program 

by providing certain statistical materials 

upon payment of costs for the service. 

The Census Bureau is the sole provider 

of this service, which is based on 

processing 2020 Census enumeration 

records protected by the confidentiality 

restrictions at 13 U.S.C. 8 and 9. 

A geographically updated population 

certification from the Census Bureau 

confirms that an official population and 

housing count is an accurate retabulation of the 2020 Census 

population and housing as configured 

for the updated government boundaries. 

A population certification may be 

needed for many reasons. For example, 

general-purpose governments may be 

required by state law to produce a 

Census Bureau population and housing 

certification for funds disbursement 

from their respective state, or federally 

sponsored programs may require or 

honor a Census Bureau population and 

housing certification for program 

eligibility. Special-purpose governments 

may also need official certification of 

census population and housing counts 

for other purposes. 

The Census Bureau is reinstating the 

fee-based service that will use current 

geographic and demographic programs 

to support customer requests. The final 

fee structure will reflect variations in 

the resources needed to meet customer 

requirements for certifications of 

standard governmental units and will be 

posted online at: https://

www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ 

gupcp.html. There are two types of fees, 

based upon whether the population 

certificate is generated through an 

annually scheduled geographic update 

process or is expedited in order to meet 

customer needs. Governments 

requesting certification must complete 

Form BC–1869(EF), ‘‘Geographically 

Updated Population Certification 

Program (GUPCP) Request’’. This form 

will be available online at: https://

www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ 

gupcp.html. Tribal, state, and local 

governments should submit requests for 

certifications on Form BC–1869(EF) by 

email to the Census Bureau at 

pop.lgemp@census.gov. Communication 

requesting the service without Form 

BC–1869(EF) will be accepted only if it 

contains the information necessary to 

complete the form. 

Paperwork Reduction Act: 

Notwithstanding any other provision of 

law, no person is required to respond to, 


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nor shall a person be subject to a 

penalty for failure to comply with, a 

collection of information subject to the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.), unless that collection of 

information displays a current Office of 

Management and Budget control 

number. This notice does not represent 

a collection of information and is not 

subject to the PRA’s requirements. The 

form reference in the notice, Form BC– 

1869(EF), will collect only information 

necessary to process a certification 

request. As such, it is not subject to the 

PRA’s requirements. 

Robert L. Santos, Director, Census 

Bureau, approved the publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register. 

Dated: December 7, 2023. 

Shannon Wink, 

Program Analyst, Policy Coordination Office, 

U.S. Census Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27207 Filed 12–11–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Reporting Process for 

Complaint of Employment 

Discrimination Used by Permanent 

Employees and Applicants for 

Employment at DOC and Complaint of 

Employment Discrimination for the 

Decennial Census 

AGENCY: Office of Civil Rights, Office of 

the Secretary, Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed, and continuing information 

collections, which helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before February 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments by email to 

predpath@doc.gov or PRAcomments@

doc.gov. Please reference OMB Control 

Number 0694–0015 in the subject line of 

your comments. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Paul 

Redpath, Office of Civil Rights, Chief, 

Program Implementation Division, 

phone (202) 482–2627 or by email at 

predpath@doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Equal Employment Opportunity 

Federal Commission (EEOC) regulations 

at 29 CFR 1614.106 require that a 

Federal employee or applicant for 

Federal employment alleging 

discrimination based on race, color, sex, 

national origin, religion, age, disability, 

genetic information, or reprisal for 

protected activity must submit a signed 

statement that is sufficiently precise to 

identify the actions or practices that 

form the bases of the complaint. The 

individual completing the form is asked 

to identify the bureau at which the 

alleged discrimination took place, and 

whether the individual worked at that 

bureau at the time of the alleged 

discrimination. The individual 

completing the form is also asked to 

describe the alleged discriminatory 

action(s) as clearly as possible and 

include the date(s) and to articulate the 

basis or bases of the complaint (race, 

color, sex, etc.). Further, the individual 

completing the form is asked to identify 

the remedy(ies) sought for the alleged 

discrimination. Although complainants 

are not required to use the proposed 

form to file their complaints, the Office 

of Civil Rights strongly encourages its 

use to ensure efficient case processing 

and trend analyses of complaint 

activity. 

II. Method of Collection 

A paper form, signed by the 

complainant or his or her designated 

representative, must be submitted by 

mail or delivery service, email, in 

person, or by facsimile transmission. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0015. 

Form Number(s): CD–498, CD–498A. 

Type of Review: Regular. Extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Households and 

individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

200. 

Estimated Time per Response: 30 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 100. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $193. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27242 Filed 12–11–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–BP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–351–856] 

Certain Aluminum Foil From Brazil: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review; 2021– 

2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that producers or exporters 

of certain aluminum foil (aluminum 

foil) from Brazil subject to this review 

made sales of subject merchandise at 

less than normal value (NV) during the 


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