90200 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 249 / Friday, December 29, 2023 / Notices 

(NOA) in the Federal Register. The EPA 

usually publishes its NOAs on Fridays. 

ADDRESSES: The final EIS and 

documents pertinent to this proposal are 

available for review on the BLM 

ePlanning project website at https://

go.usa.gov/xtk6a. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth 

Flanigan, Project Manager, telephone: 

208–373–4094; email: sflanigan@

blm.gov. Individuals in the United 

States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability may 

dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to 

access telecommunications relay 

services for contacting Mr. Flanigan. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document provides notice that the BLM 

has prepared a final programmatic EIS 

for a review of active ingredients that 

may be approved for use in vegetation 

treatments on BLM-managed public 

lands. 

Purpose and Need for the Proposed 

Action 

The BLM’s purpose and need is to 

improve the effectiveness of its invasive 

plant management efforts by allowing 

the use of EPA-registered active 

ingredients not currently authorized for 

use on BLM public lands. Approving 

additional active ingredients would 

diversify the BLM’s herbicide treatment 

options and help meet the purposes that 

were first identified in the 2007 and 

2016 programmatic EISs related to 

vegetation treatments, which are to 

make herbicides available for vegetation 

treatment on public lands and to 

describe the stipulations that apply to 

their use. 

Proposed Action and Alternatives 

The proposed action is to approve the 

following herbicide active ingredients 

for use in vegetation treatments on 

public lands: aminocyclopyrachlor, 

clethodim, fluozifop-p-butyl, 

flumioxazin, imazamox, indaziflam, and 

oryzalin. These active ingredients are 

registered by the EPA. As part of the 

process for evaluating whether to 

approve these active ingredients, the 

BLM will adopt and depend on Human 

Health and Ecological Risk Assessments 

prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. 

Schedule for the Decision-Making 

Process 

The BLM anticipates releasing a 

Record of Decision in January 2024. 

Responsible Official 

Assistant Director for Resources and 

Planning. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

Through this process, the BLM will 

decide whether to approve the seven 

additional herbicide active ingredients 

identified earlier for use on BLMmanaged public lands. This decision 

will be based on the best available 

science and current needs for vegetation 

management. Any authorization to 

apply any of these active ingredients at 

a particular site will be made through a 

separate, site-specific decision and so is 

not within the scope of the 

programmatic EIS or potential decision 

described in this notice. 

Public Participation 

In addition to making the draft 

programmatic EIS available for public 

comment and review, the BLM hosted a 

virtual public meeting during the public 

comment period. The agency received 

46 comments, which were incorporated 

in the final programmatic EIS as 

appropriate. In coordination with 

comments received from Native 

American Tribes, the BLM emphasizes, 

in the EIS, the need to coordinate with 

local Tribes during implementationlevel analyses and authorizations to 

reduce and avoid impacts to Tribes that 

may gather and use native plant 

materials for cultural or subsistence 

purposes. 

Comments on the draft EIS received 

from the public and from internal BLM 

review were considered and 

incorporated as appropriate into the 

final EIS. These comments resulted in 

the addition of clarifying text but did 

not significantly change the impact 

analysis. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10) 

Brian St George, 

Acting Assistant Director for Resources and 

Planning. 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–23–059] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: January 10, 2024 at 11:00 

a.m. 

PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agendas for future meetings: none. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Commission vote on Inv. No. 701– 

TA–686 (Final) (Brass Rod from India). 

The Commission currently is scheduled 

to complete and file its determinations 

and views of the Commission on 

February 1, 2024. 

5. Outstanding action jackets: none. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sharon Bellamy, Supervisory Hearings 

and Information Officer, 202–205–2000. 

The Commission is holding the 

meeting under the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b). In 

accordance with Commission policy, 

subject matter listed above, not disposed 

of at the scheduled meeting, may be 

carried over to the agenda of the 

following meeting. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 27, 2023. 

Sharon Bellamy, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28825 Filed 12–27–23; 11:15 am] 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation. No. 337–TA–1384] 

Certain Passive Optical Network 

Equipment; Notice of Institution of 

Investigation 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

complaint was filed with the U.S. 

International Trade Commission on 

November 14, 2023, under section 337 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 

on behalf of Optimum Communications 

Services, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey. 

An amended complaint was filed on 

November 22, 2023. The complaint, as 

amended, alleges violations of section 

337 based upon the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

and the sale within the United States 

after importation of certain passive 

optical network equipment by reason of 

the infringement of certain claims of 

U.S. Patent No. 7,558,260 (‘‘the ’260 

patent’’) and U.S. Patent No. 7,333,511 

(‘‘the ’511 patent’’). The complaint 

further alleges that an industry in the 

United States exists as required by the 

applicable Federal Statute. The 

complainant requests that the 

Commission institute an investigation 


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and, after the investigation, issue a 

general exclusion order, or in the 

alternative a limited exclusion, and a 

cease and desist order. 

ADDRESSES: The complaint, except for 

any confidential information contained 

therein, may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. For help 

accessing EDIS, please email 

EDIS3Help@usitc.gov. Hearing impaired 

individuals are advised that information 

on this matter can be obtained by 

contacting the Commission’s TDD 

terminal on (202) 205–1810. Persons 

with mobility impairments who will 

need special assistance in gaining access 

to the Commission should contact the 

Office of the Secretary at (202) 205– 

2000. General information concerning 

the Commission may also be obtained 

by accessing its internet server at 

https://www.usitc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pathenia M. Proctor, The Office of 

Unfair Import Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 

telephone (202) 205–2560. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Authority: 

The authority for institution of this 

investigation is contained in section 337 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 

19 U.S.C. 1337, and in section 210.10 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10 (2023). 

Scope of Investigation: Having 

considered the complaint, the U.S. 

International Trade Commission, on 

December 22, 2023, Ordered that— 

(1) Pursuant to subsection (b) of 

section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, an investigation be instituted 

to determine whether there is a 

violation of subsection (a)(1)(B) of 

section 337 in the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

or the sale within the United States after 

importation of certain products 

identified in paragraph (2) by reason of 

infringement of one or more of claims 1 

and 12–14 of the ’511 patent and claims 

1 and 3 of the ’260 patent, and whether 

an industry in the United States exists 

as required by subsection (a)(2) of 

section 337; 

(2) Pursuant to section 210.10(b)(1) of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10(b)(1), the 

plain language description of the 

accused products or category of accused 

products, which defines the scope of the 

investigation, is ‘‘optical line 

termination (OLT) and optical network 

unit/terminal (ONU/ONT) equipment 

that conform to passive optical network 

standards of ITU–T Recommendation 

series G.984.x for Gigabit-capable 

Passive Optical Network (G–PON) and 

its successor standards, including 

10GPON/XGS–PON (ITU–T Rec. 

G.987.3) and TWDM–PON/NG–PON2 

(ITU–T Rec. G.989.3) as well as IEEE 

802.3ah (EPON) and 802.3av (10G– 

EPON)’’; 

(3) For the purpose of the 

investigation so instituted, the following 

are hereby named as parties upon which 

this notice of investigation shall be 

served: 

(a) The complainant is: 

Optimum Communications Services, 

Inc., 344 Grove Street #242, Jersey City, 

NJ 07302 

(b) The respondents are the following 

entities alleged to be in violation of 

section 337, and are the parties upon 

which the complaint is to be served: 

Hangzhou Softel Optic Co., Ltd., 708 

709 Haiwei Building, 101 Binkang 

Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, 

Zhejiang, China 310051 

Hangzhou DAYTAI Network 

Technologies Co., Ltd., 1513 Room, 

East Communications Building, No. 

398, Wensan Road, Xihu District, 

Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, 

China 310013 

Hangzhou Sumlo Industrial Co., Ltd., 

Room 706–707, Baiyun Bldg-2, No. 

190, Tiancheng Road, Hangzhou, 

Zhejiang, China 310007 

(c) The Office of Unfair Import 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, Suite 

401, Washington, DC 20436; and 

(4) For the investigation so instituted, 

the Chief Administrative Law Judge, 

U.S. International Trade Commission, 

shall designate the presiding 

Administrative Law Judge. 

Responses to the complaint and the 

notice of investigation must be 

submitted by the named respondents in 

accordance with section 210.13 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.13. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 201.16(e) and 210.13(a), as 

amended in 85 FR 15798 (March 19, 

2020), such responses will be 

considered by the Commission if 

received not later than 20 days after the 

date of service by the complainant of the 

complaint and the notice of 

investigation. Extensions of time for 

submitting responses to the complaint 

and the notice of investigation will not 

be granted unless good cause therefor is 

shown. 

Failure of a respondent to file a timely 

response to each allegation in the 

complaint and in this notice may be 

deemed to constitute a waiver of the 

right to appear and contest the 

allegations of the complaint and this 

notice, and to authorize the 

administrative law judge and the 

Commission, without further notice to 

the respondent, to find the facts to be as 

alleged in the complaint and this notice 

and to enter an initial determination 

and a final determination containing 

such findings, and may result in the 

issuance of an exclusion order or a cease 

and desist order or both directed against 

the respondent. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 26, 2023. 

Katherine Hiner, 

Supervisory Attorney. 

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Discount Rates for Cost-Effectiveness 

Analysis of Federal Programs 

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget. 

ACTION: Revisions to Appendix C of 

OMB Circular No. A–94. 

SUMMARY: Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Circular No. A–94 

specifies certain discount rates to be 

updated annually when the interest rate 

and inflation assumptions used to 

prepare the Budget of the United States 

Government are changed. These 

updated discount rates are found in 

Appendix C of the Circular and are to 

be used for cost-effectiveness analysis, 

including lease-purchase analysis, as 

specified in the revised Circular. These 

rates do not apply to regulatory analysis. 

The revised Appendix C of Circular No. 

A–94 can be accessed at https://

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/ 

uploads/2023/12/CircularA94AppendixC.pdf. 

DATES: The revised discount rates will 

be in effect through December 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jamie Taber, Office of Economic Policy, 

Office of Management and Budget, 202– 

395–2515, a94@omb.eop.gov. 

Wesley Yin, 

Associate Director for Economic Policy, Office 

of Management and Budget. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28727 Filed 12–28–23; 8:45 am] 

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