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today, the TSS is an impediment to safe 

navigation in the area. The TSS 

identifies separate northbound and 

southbound travel lanes which 

accommodated both lanes of vessel 

traffic in 1969, given the size of vessels 

operating in the area then. Today, 

however, vessels with deeper drafts, 

which are limited to operating in the 

waters the TSS covers, travel in the area, 

and they must travel in opposing lanes 

to avoid the risk of grounding. 

The comment, and supporting 

documents, are available in the public 

docket and can be viewed at https://

www.regulation.gov. To view 

documents, in the ‘‘Search’’ box insert 

‘‘USCG–2023–0330’’ and click 

‘‘Search.’’ Then select ‘‘Supporting & 

Related Material’’ in the Document Type 

column. 

The Smith Point TSS no longer serves 

a useful purpose, and the notice of 

inquiry USCG published in August 

confirms that there are no concerns from 

the public about removing it and 

therefore the USCG has decided to move 

forward with the removal of the vessel 

traffic routing measure. 

III. Authority and Action To Be Taken 

Under 46 U.S.C. 70001(a)(4), as 

delegated, USCG may control vessel 

traffic in areas subject to the jurisdiction 

of the United States that it determines 

to be hazardous by, among other means, 

establishing vessel traffic routing 

schemes. Based on the analysis of 

historical vessel traffic patterns and the 

comment received, the Coast Guard 

will: 

1. Request NOAA remove the Smith 

Point TSS chart feature from all 

applicable charts and update the U.S. 

Coast Pilot to remove the TSS and 

reflect changes to the on-scene 

navigational buoy the USCG will 

deploy. 

2. Change the Smith Point Fairway 

Lighted Buoy SP (LLNR 7490) to Smith 

Point Lighted Buoy SP, a white and red 

striped Safe Water Buoy and the light 

will be changed from a yellow to white 

with a Morse Code ‘‘A’’ flash 

characteristic. 

Dated: December 8, 2023. 

Shannon N. Gilreath, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, 

Fifth Coast Guard District. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27440 Filed 12–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[CIS No. 2760–23; DHS Docket No. USCIS– 

2023–0013] 

RIN 1615–ZC06 

Extension of Re-Registration Periods 

for Extensions of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designations of El 

Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, 

Nicaragua, and Sudan 

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS), 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS). 

ACTION: Notice of extension of reregistration periods for extensions of the 

Temporary Protected Status 

designations of El Salvador, Haiti, 

Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and 

Sudan. 

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) announces that the Secretary of 

Homeland Security (Secretary) is 

extending the re-registration periods for 

the extensions of the Temporary 

Protected Status (TPS) designations for 

El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, 

Nicaragua, and Sudan from 60 days to 

the full 18-month designation extension 

period of each country. Beneficiaries 

must re-register to receive TPS benefits 

under the most recent designation 

extensions for these countries. 

DATES: The re-registration period for 

individuals to submit TPS applications 

under the designation of: 

• El Salvador is July 12, 2023, 

through March 9, 2025; 

• Haiti is January 26, 2023, through 

August 3, 2024; 

• Honduras is November 6, 2023, 

through July 5, 2025; 

• Nepal is October 24, 2023, through 

June 24, 2025; 

• Nicaragua is November 6, 2023, 

through July 5, 2025; and 

• Sudan is August 21, 2023, through 

April 19, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

• You may contact Rena ́ CutlipMason, Chief, Humanitarian Affairs 

Division, Office of Policy and Strategy, 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services, Department of Homeland 

Security, by mail at 5900 Capital 

Gateway Drive, Camp Springs, MD 

20746, or by phone at 800–375–5283. 

• For further information on TPS, 

including guidance on the registration 

process and additional information on 

eligibility, please visit the USCIS TPS 

web page at https://uscis.gov/tps. You 

can find specific information about each 

country’s TPS designation by selecting 

the name of the country from the menu 

on the left side of the TPS web page. 

• If you have additional questions 

about TPS, please visit https://uscis.gov/ 

tools. Our online virtual assistant, 

Emma, can answer many of your 

questions and point you to additional 

information on our website. If you are 

unable to find your answers there, you 

may also call our USCIS Contact Center 

at 800–375–5283 (TTY 800–767–1833). 

• Applicants seeking information 

about the status of their individual cases 

may check Case Status Online, available 

on the USCIS website at uscis.gov, or 

visit the USCIS Contact Center at 

https://uscis.gov/contactcenter. 

• Further information will also be 

available at local USCIS offices upon 

publication of this notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Abbreviations 

DHS U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security 

EAD Employment Authorization Document 

Form I–765 Application for Employment 

Authorization 

Form I–821 Application for Temporary 

Protected Status 

FR Federal Register 

INA Immigration and Nationality Act 

Secretary Secretary of Homeland Security 

TPS Temporary Protected Status 

TTY Text Telephone 

USCIS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

Purpose of This Action (TPS) 

The re-registration period extensions 

apply to the following Federal Register 

notices: 

Reconsideration and Rescission of 

Termination of the Designation of El 

Salvador for Temporary Protected 

Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for El 

Salvador, 88 FR 40282 (June 21, 2023). 

The 18-month re-registration period 

now runs from July 12, 2023, through 

March 9, 2025. 

Extension and Redesignation of Haiti 

for Temporary Protected Status, 88 FR 

5022 (January 26, 2023). The reregistration period now runs from 

January 26, 2023, through August 3, 

2024. 

Reconsideration and Rescission of 

Termination of the Designation of 

Honduras for Temporary Protected 

Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for 

Honduras, 88 FR 40304 (June 21, 2023). 

The 18-month re-registration period 

now runs from November 6, 2023, 

through July 5, 2025. 


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1Reconsideration and Rescission of Termination 

of the Designation of El Salvador for Temporary 

Protected Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for El Salvador, 88 FR 

40282 (June 21, 2023). 

2Extension and Redesignation of Haiti for 

Temporary Protected Status, 88 FR 5022 (Jan. 26, 

2023). 

3Reconsideration and Rescission of Termination 

of the Designation of Honduras for Temporary 

Protected Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for Honduras, 88 FR 

40304 (June 21, 2023). 

4Reconsideration and Rescission of Termination 

of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary 

Protected Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for Nepal, 88 FR 

40317 (June 21, 2023). 

5Reconsideration and Rescission of Termination 

of the Designation of Nicaragua for Temporary 

Protected Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for Nicaragua, 88 FR 

40294 (June 21, 2023). 

6Extension and Redesignation of Sudan for 

Temporary Protected Status, 88 FR 56864 (Aug. 21, 

2023). 

7 DHS has previously provided a re-registration 

period for longer than 60 days. See, e.g., Extension 

and Redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected 

Status, 76 FR 29000 (May 19, 2011) (providing a 90- 

day re-registration period for Haiti TPS). 

Additionally, DHS has previously extended a reregistration period. See, e.g., Extension of the ReRegistration Period for Haiti Temporary Protected 

Status, 79 FR 25141 (May 2, 2014) (providing an 

extension of the re-registration period for Haiti TPS 

in order to maximize re-registration opportunities 

for eligible beneficiaries. At the time, USCIS had 

received a low proportion of the expected number 

of re-registration applications, and stakeholders 

reported that the low number of re-registration 

applications may have been due to confusion about 

the re-registration deadline). Similarly, DHS is 

providing applicants under these designations 

extended re-registration periods to address the 

several year gap in the typical re-registration 

requirements. 

8TPS termination decisions were announced for 

El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, 

and Nepal in 2017–2018. Lawsuits challenging the 

terminations were filed in the U.S. District Court for 

the Northern District of California in Ramos v. 

Nielsen, 326 F. Supp. 3d 1075 (N.D. Cal. 2018), and 

Bhattarai v. Nielsen, No. 19–cv–00731 (N.D. Cal. 

Mar. 12, 2019), and in the U.S. U.S. District Court 

for the Eastern District of New York in Saget v. 

Trump, 375 F. Supp. 3d 280 (E.D.N.Y. 2019). DHS 

has taken actions to ensure its continued 

compliance with the court orders in Ramos and 

Bhattarai. DHS has published periodic notices to 

continue TPS and extend the validity of TPS-related 

documentation previously issued to beneficiaries 

under the TPS designations for El Salvador, Haiti, 

Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and Nepal. See 83 FR 

54764 (Oct. 31, 2018); 84 FR 7103 (Mar. 1, 2019); 

84 FR 20647 (May 10, 2019) (correction notice 

issued at 84 FR 23578 (May 22, 2019)); 84 FR 59403 

(Nov. 4, 2019); 85 FR 79208 (Dec. 9, 2020); 86 FR 

50725 (Sept. 10, 2021) (correction notice issued at 

86 FR 52694 (Sept. 22, 2021)); 87 FR 68717 (Nov. 

16, 2022). 

9Re-registrants under TPS Haiti and Sudan, 

including beneficiaries who initially obtained TPS 

under the 2021 and 2022 designations of TPS for 

Haiti and Sudan, may file during the entire 

designation re-registration period as noted in this 

notice. 

10Haiti and Sudan were newly designated for 

TPS in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Prior to the 

new designation of TPS for Haiti on August 3, 2021, 

beneficiaries under the Haiti designation were last 

required to re-register from May 24, 2017, through 

July 24, 2017. See Extension and Redesignation of 

Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, 82 FR 23830 

(July 23, 2017). Prior to the new designation of TPS 

for Sudan on April 19, 2022, beneficiaries under the 

Sudan designation were last required to re-register 

from January 25, 2016, through March 25, 2016. See 

Extension and Redesignation of Sudan for 

Temporary Protected Status, 81 FR 4045 (January 

25, 2016). 

11Extension of the Designation of El Salvador for 

Temporary Protected Status, 81 FR 44645 (July 8, 

2016). 

12Extension of the Designation of Nicaragua for 

Temporary Protected Status, 81 FR 30325 (May 16, 

2016). Extension of the Designation of Honduras for 

Temporary Protected Status, 81 FR 30331 (May 16, 

2016). Following the last extension of TPS for 

Honduras, former Acting Secretary Elaine Duke did 

not make a decision on extending or terminating 

Honduras’s TPS designation by the statutory 

deadline, resulting in an automatic 6-month 

extension of the designation, through July 5, 2018. 

See Extension of the Designation of Honduras for 

Temporary Protected Status, 82 FR 59630 (Dec. 15, 

2017). If the Secretary makes no decision on 

extension or termination of a country’s TPS 

designation by at least 60 days before the expiration 

of the existing TPS designation, then INA sec. 

244(b)(3)(C) requires that the designation be 

extended an additional six months (or 12 or 18 

months in the Secretary’s discretion). 

13Extension of the Designation of Nepal for 

Temporary Protected Status, 81 FR 74470 (October 

26, 2016). 

Reconsideration and Rescission of 

Termination of the Designation of Nepal 

for Temporary Protected Status; 

Extension of the Temporary Protected 

Status Designation for Nepal, 88 FR 

40317 (June 21, 2023). The 18-month reregistration period now runs from 

October 24, 2023, through June 24, 

2025. 

Reconsideration and Rescission of 

Termination of the Designation of 

Nicaragua for Temporary Protected 

Status; Extension of the Temporary 

Protected Status Designation for 

Nicaragua, 88 FR 40294 (June 21, 2023). 

The 18-month re-registration period 

now runs from November 6, 2023, 

through July 5, 2025. 

Extension and Redesignation of 

Sudan for Temporary Protected Status, 

88 FR 56864 (August 21, 2023). The reregistration period now runs from 

August 21, 2023, through April 19, 

2025. 

Through this notice, DHS sets forth 

updated re-registration periods from 60 

days to 18 months for the extensions of 

the TPS designations for El Salvador,1

Haiti,2 Honduras,3 Nepal,4 Nicaragua,5

and Sudan 6 as specified in this notice. 

See section 244 of the Immigration and 

Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1254a; 8 

CFR 244.17. This will allow individuals 

to submit a re-registration application 

for TPS and an application for 

employment authorization 

documentation (if desired), during the 

full length of the relevant country’s TPS 

designation extension. 

DHS is extending the re-registration 

periods for a number of reasons, 

including that certain beneficiaries have 

not been required to re-register for TPS 

for several years due to pending 

litigation and related continuation of 

their documentation, confusion within 

the beneficiary population, and 

operational considerations for USCIS. 

Historically, the length of the reregistration period has typically been 60 

days.7 Beneficiaries of TPS have 

typically re-registered for TPS within a 

60-day period on a recurring basis at the 

end of their country’s designation 

approximately every 12 to 18 months as 

announced by Federal Register notices 

that extended the designation. However, 

certain beneficiaries under these TPS 

designations have not been required to 

re-register for TPS for several years due 

to a series of DHS-issued Federal 

Register notices that continued the 

documentation for beneficiaries of TPS 

designations for El Salvador, Haiti, 

Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and Nepal 

pursuant to ongoing litigation.8 Those 

beneficiaries must re-register to receive 

TPS benefits under the most recent 

extensions. 

After reevaluating the initial 60-day 

re-registration periods announced for 

TPS under the designation extensions 

for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, 

Honduras, and Nepal, DHS has 

determined that it will provide the full 

designation extension periods for 

applicants to file their re-registration 

Form I–821 and Form I–765 to obtain an 

EAD, if desired. Limiting the reregistration period to 60 days for these 

particular beneficiaries may place a 

burden on applicants who are unable to 

timely file but would otherwise be 

eligible to re-register for TPS, 

particularly in light of the ongoing 

litigation and the resulting overlapping 

periods of TPS validity announced in 

several Federal Register notices, which 

may be confusing to some current 

beneficiaries. This notice allows 

beneficiaries of these countries who 

have not been required to re-register for 

TPS since their last extension to reregister over the full TPS designation 

period.9 Prior to the currently required 

re-registration, beneficiaries under these 

designations 10 were last required to reregister from July 8, 2016, through 

September 6, 2016, under El Salvador’s 

designation,11 from May 16, 2016, 

through July 15, 2016, under 

Nicaragua’s and Honduras’s 

designations,12 and from October 26, 

2016, through December 27, 2016, under 

Nepal’s designation.13

As discussed previously, due to 

unique circumstances, including 

protracted litigation, these TPS 


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beneficiaries have been subject to 

multiple, overlapping periods of 

potential TPS validity due to the 

ongoing litigation. They also have not 

been required to re-register for several 

years. Therefore, this extended reregistration period allows this 

population of beneficiaries to more 

easily comply with the re-registration 

requirement, which could avoid placing 

additional burdens on these reregistrants. In addition, permitting reregistration throughout the entirety of 

the designation extension period could 

reduce the operational burden on 

USCIS; reviewing and adjudicating latefiled re-registration applications that 

may occur as a result of the 60-day 

period due to lack of awareness of the 

re-registration requirement that these 

particular beneficiaries are more likely 

to experience because of the protracted 

litigation and subsequent TPS actions to 

continue documentation, would require 

additional resources. 

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27342 Filed 12–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–97–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7076–N–19] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Public Housing Agency 

(PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan; OMB 

Control No.: 2577–0226 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian Housing 

(PIH), HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: February 

12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection can be submitted 

within 60 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 60-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Interested persons are 

also invited to submit comments 

regarding this proposal by name and/or 

OMB Control Number and can be sent 

to: Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, REE, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 

20410–5000 or email at 

PaperworkReductionActOffice@

hud.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Pollard, Management Analyst, 

Reports Management Officer, REE, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW, 

Washington, DC 20410; email 

Colette.Pollard@hud.gov, telephone 

202–402–3400. This is not a toll-free 

number. HUD welcomes and is prepared 

to receive calls from individuals who 

are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as 

individuals with speech or 

communication disabilities. To learn 

more about how to make an accessible 

telephone call, please visit https://

www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Pollard. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: Public 

Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and 

Annual Plan. 

OMB Approval Number: 2577–0226. 

Type of Request: Revision of currently 

approved collection. 

Form Number(s): HUD–50075–5Y, 

HUD–50075–HCV, HUD–50075–HP, 

HUD–50075–MTW, HUD–50075–SM, 

HUD–50075–ST, HUD–50077–CR, 

HUD–50077–CRT–SM HUD–50077–ST– 

HCV–HP and HUD–50077–SL. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: The 

Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was 

created by section 5A of the United 

States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

1437c–1). There are two different PHA 

Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the 

Annual Plan. The Five-Year Plan 

describes the agency’s mission, longrange goals, and objectives for achieving 

its mission over a five-year period. The 

Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive 

guide to PHA policies, programs, 

operations, and strategies for meeting 

local housing needs and goals. This 

revision addresses updates to the HUD– 

50075–HCV form and the automation of 

all the PHA Plan forms including the 

Moving to Work (MTW) Supplement for 

PHAs that joined the MTW 

Demonstration under the 2016 

Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW 

Expansion). 

PHA Plans are needed to inform the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD), residents, and the 

public of the PHA’s mission and 

strategy for serving the needs of low 

income, very low-income, and 

extremely low- income families in the 

PHA’s jurisdiction. This information 

helps provide accountability to the local 

community for how PHAs spend their 

funding and implement their policies. 

The PHA Plan submission also includes 

various certifications to confirm that 

PHAs will abide by all Federal civil 

rights laws and that the PHA Plan is 

consistent with the applicable 

Consolidated Plan. 

PHA plans also allow HUD to monitor 

the performance of programs and the 

performance of the public housing 

agencies that administer them. Since 

2000, HUD has taken several steps to 

reduce the administrative burden of the 

PHA Plan submission including the use 

of streamlined plan submissions for 

certain PHA based on size and 

performance. Most recently, the 

Housing and Economic Reform Act 

(HERA) removed the requirement for 

qualified PHAs to submit an annual 

PHA Plan and to only submit the 5-year 

Plan. A ‘‘qualified PHA’’ is one that 

manages 550 or fewer public housing 

units and vouchers and is not labeled as 

a troubled public housing agency. 

Currently, qualified PHA must only 

submit an annual certification to 

confirm that they will abide by all 

Federal civil rights laws. 

In January 2021 HUD requested from 

OMB that the PHA Plan collection be 

reinstated with change. These changes 

included a new section to accommodate 

the new requirements of the 

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 

(AFFH) Rule and the introduction of the 

MTW Supplement. OMB approved the 

changes, reinstated the collections and 

HUD made the new templates available 

to PHAs on the HUD website as 

individual word processing files. After 

publication, HUD made subsequent 

minor changes to the forms and 

certifications to remove unnecessary 

sections, make minor edits and to 

account for updated or removed 

regulatory citations. Additionally, HUD 

took steps to automate the MTW 

supplement in the Housing Information 

Portal (HIP). 

With this current proposed 

information collection, HUD intends to 


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