Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 240 / Friday, December 15, 2023 / Notices 86929 

The initial notice of institution of this 

series of investigations was published in 

the Federal Register on September 8, 

1993 (58 FR 47287) and provided for a 

report on merchandise trade. The 

Commission expanded the scope of the 

investigation to cover services trade in 

a separate report, which it announced in 

a notice published in the Federal 

Register on December 28, 1994 (59 FR 

66974). The separate report on services 

trade has been published annually since 

1996, except in 2005. As in past years, 

the 2024 report will summarize U.S. 

trade in services in the aggregate and 

provide analyses of trends and 

developments in selected services 

industries during the latest 5-year 

period for which data are published by 

the U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Bureau of Economic Analysis. 

Written submissions: Interested 

persons are invited to file written 

submissions and other information 

concerning the matters to be addressed 

by the Commission in its 2024 report. 

For the 2024 report, the Commission is 

particularly interested in receiving 

information relating to trade in financial 

services (including banking services, 

insurance services, and securities 

services). Submissions should be 

addressed to the Secretary. To be 

assured of consideration by the 

Commission, written submissions 

related to the Commission’s report 

should be submitted at the earliest 

practical date and should be received 

not later than 5:15 p.m., January 29, 

2024. All written submissions must 

conform to the provisions of section 

201.8 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 201.8), 

as temporarily amended by 85 FR 15798 

(March 19, 2020). Under that rule 

waiver, the Office of the Secretary will 

accept only electronic filings at this 

time. Filings must be made through the 

Commission’s Electronic Document 

Information System (EDIS, https://

edis.usitc.gov). No in-person paperbased filings or paper copies of any 

electronic filings will be accepted until 

further notice. Persons with questions 

regarding electronic filing should 

contact the Office of the Secretary, 

Docket Services Division (202–205– 

1802), or consult the Commission’s 

Handbook on Filing Procedures. 

Confidential business information: 

Any submissions that contain CBI must 

also conform with the requirements in 

section 201.6 of the Commission’s Rules 

of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 

201.6). Section 201.6 of the rules 

requires that the cover of the document 

and the individual pages be clearly 

marked as to whether they are the 

‘‘confidential’’ or ‘‘nonconfidential’’ 

version, and that the CBI is clearly 

identified by means of brackets. All 

written submissions, except for CBI, 

will be made available for inspection by 

interested persons. 

The Commission intends to prepare 

only a public report in this 

investigation. The report that the 

Commission makes available to the 

public will not contain CBI. However, 

all information, including CBI, 

submitted in this investigation may be 

disclosed to and used: (i) by the 

Commission, its employees and Offices, 

and contract personnel (a) for 

developing or maintaining the records 

of this or a related proceeding, or (b) in 

internal investigations, audits, reviews, 

and evaluations relating to the 

programs, personnel, and operations of 

the Commission including under 5 

U.S.C. appendix 3; or (ii) by U.S. 

Government employees and contract 

personnel for cybersecurity or other 

security purposes. The Commission will 

not otherwise disclose any CBI in a 

manner that would reveal the operations 

of the firm supplying the information. 

Summaries of written submissions: 

Persons wishing to have a summary of 

their position included in the report 

should include a summary with their 

written submission on or before January 

29, 2024, and should mark the summary 

as having been provided for that 

purpose. The summary should be 

clearly marked as ‘‘summary for 

inclusion in the report’’ at the top of the 

page. The summary may not exceed 500 

words and should not include any CBI. 

The summary will be published as 

provided if it meets these requirements 

and is germane to the subject matter of 

the investigation. The Commission will 

list the name of the organization 

furnishing the summary and will 

include a link where the written 

submission can be found. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 11, 2023. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27478 Filed 12–14–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Resilient Infrastructure + 

Secure Energy Consortium 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

October 3, 2023, pursuant to section 6(a) 

of the National Cooperative Research 

and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 

4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), the Resilient 

Infrastructure + Secure Energy 

Consortium (‘‘RISE’’) has filed written 

notifications simultaneously with the 

Attorney General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing changes in its 

membership. The notifications were 

filed for the purpose of extending the 

Act’s provisions limiting the recovery of 

antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages 

under specified circumstances. 

Specifically, Beacon Industries, Inc., 

Newington, CT; IEEECyber Security, 

Inc., York, PA; Mechanical Solutions, 

Inc., Whippany, NJ; MPR Associates, 

Inc., Alexandria, VA; NGU Sports 

Lighting, Palm Beach Gardens, FL; 

Potorti Enterprises, Inc., Floyds Knobs, 

IN; and Venturi LLC, Huntsville, AL 

have been added as parties to this 

venture. 

No other changes have been made in 

either the membership or planned 

activity of the group research project. 

Membership in this group research 

project remains open, and RISE intends 

to file additional written notifications 

disclosing all changes in membership. 

On July 2, 2021, RISE filed its original 

notification pursuant to section 6(a) of 

the Act. The Department of Justice 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on August 23, 2021 (86 FR 47155). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on July 7, 2023. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on September 26, 2023 (88 FR 

66057). 

Suzanne Morris, 

Deputy Director Civil Enforcement 

Operations, Antitrust Division. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27559 Filed 12–14–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Countering Weapons of 

Mass Destruction 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

October 9, 2023, pursuant to section 6(a) 

of the National Cooperative Research 

and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 

4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Countering 

Weapons of Mass Destruction 

(‘‘CWMD’’) has filed written 

notifications simultaneously with the 

Attorney General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing changes in its 

membership. The notifications were 

filed for the purpose of extending the 


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