1946 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 8 / Thursday, January 11, 2024 / Notices 

1 28 U.S.C. 2461 note. 

2 45 CFR 1168.400(a), (b), (e). 

3 45 CFR 1174.3(a), (b). 

4 85 FR 22025. 

5 86 FR 44626. 

6 88 FR 18998. 

7 45 CFR 1168.400(g), (h), 1174.3(f), (g). 

8Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 

Memorandum M–24–07 (December 19, 2023). 9 Id. 

Panel (review of applications): This 

meeting will be closed. 

Date and time: February 13, 2024; 

1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

NEA Big Read Cooperative Agreement 

Panel (review of applications): This 

meeting will be closed. 

Date and time: February 14, 2024; 

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Creative Placemaking Technical 

Assistance (review of applications): This 

meeting will be closed. 

Date and time: February 15, 2024; 

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Dated: January 8, 2024. 

David Travis, 

Specialist, National Endowment for the Arts. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00429 Filed 1–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7537–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities 

Civil Penalty Adjustments for 2024 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities; National Foundation on the 

Arts and the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of civil penalty 

adjustments for 2024. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities (NEH) is giving notice of 

the adjusted maximum and minimum 

civil monetary penalties that may be 

imposed for violations of its New 

Restrictions on Lobbying and Program 

Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations to 

reflect the requirements of the Federal 

Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act 

of 1990, as amended by the Federal 

Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act 

Improvements Act of 2015. The updated 

penalty amounts are adjusted for 

inflation and are effective from January 

15, 2024, through January 14, 2025. 

DATES: The updated civil penalties in 

this notice are applicable to penalties 

assessed on or after January 15, 2024, if 

the associated violations occurred after 

November 2, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Voyatzis, Deputy General 

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities, 400 7th Street SW, Room 

4060, Washington, DC 20506; (202) 606– 

8322; gencounsel@neh.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background 

The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation 

Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by 

the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation 

Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 

2015 (the Inflation Adjustment Act) 1

directs each Executive agency to make 

an annual inflation adjustment for each 

civil monetary penalty provided by law 

within the jurisdiction of the agency, 

and to publish notice of each such 

adjustment in the Federal Register. An 

agency adjusts a civil monetary penalty 

by increasing the maximum amount of 

such penalty (or the range of minimum 

and maximum amounts, as applicable) 

by the percentage by which the 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

Consumers (CPI–U) for the month of 

October preceding the date of 

adjustment (in this case, October 2023) 

exceeds the CPI–U for the October one 

year prior to the October immediately 

preceding the date of the adjustment (in 

this case, October 2022), then rounding 

each amount to the nearest dollar. 

NEH administers two civil monetary 

penalties subject to adjustment pursuant 

to the Inflation Adjustment Act: A civil 

monetary penalty that NEH may impose 

for violation of its New Restrictions on 

Lobbying regulation (the Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty) 2 and a civil 

monetary penalty that NEH may impose 

under its Program Fraud Civil Remedies 

Act Regulations (the PFCRA Civil 

Monetary Penalty).3 NEH made the 

initial ‘‘catch-up’’ adjustments to the 

Lobbying Civil Monetary Penalty for 

years 2016–2020 when it amended its 

New Restrictions on Lobbying 

regulation on April 21, 2020,4 and to the 

PFCRA Civil Monetary Penalty for years 

2016–2021 when it adopted its Program 

Fraud Civil Monetary Penalties Act 

regulations on August 13, 2021.5 NEH 

then adjusted the amount of those civil 

monetary penalties accordingly when it 

codified the statutory formula for 

inflation adjustments in NEH’s New 

Restrictions on Lobbying and Program 

Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations on 

March 30, 2023.6 Each regulation 

provides for subsequent annual 

adjustment of its respective civil 

monetary penalty by notice in the 

Federal Register.7

2. 2024 Adjustments for Inflation 

OMB has issued guidance on 

implementing and calculating the 2024 

adjustment under the Inflation 

Adjustment Act.8 Per this guidance, the 

CPI–U adjustment multiplier for this 

annual adjustment is 1.03241.9 The 

post-adjustment penalty or range is 

obtained by multiplying the preadjustment penalty or range by the 

percent change in the CPI–U over the 

relevant time period and rounding to 

the nearest dollar. Between October 

2022 and October 2023, the CPI–U 

increased by a multiplier of 103.241% 

Therefore, NEH will adjust each civil 

monetary penalty amount by 

multiplying it by 1.03241 and rounding 

to the nearest dollar. 

A. 2024 Adjustment To Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty 

For 2023, the Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty had a minimum 

amount of $23,727 and a maximum 

amount of $237,268. Therefore, the 

adjusted minimum Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty for 2024 is $24,496 

($23,727 multiplied by 1.03241) and the 

adjusted maximum Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty for 2024 is $244,958 

($237,268 multiplied by 1.03241). 

Thus, the Lobbying Civil Monetary 

Penalty, following the 2024 adjustment, 

has a minimum amount of $24,496 and 

a maximum amount of $244,958. 

B. 2024 Adjustment to PFCRA Civil 

Monetary Penalty 

For 2023, the PFCRA Civil Monetary 

Penalty had a maximum amount of 

$13,508. Therefore, the new, postadjustment maximum penalty for 2024 

under NEH’s PFCRA regulation is 

$13,946 ($13,508 multiplied by 

1.03241). 

Dated: January 8, 2024. 

Jessica Graves, 

Paralegal Specialist, National Endowment for 

the Humanities. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00405 Filed 1–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7536–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0151] 

Information Collection: Licenses and 

Radiation Safety Requirements for 

Irradiators 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Renewal of existing information 

collection; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment on the renewal of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for an existing collection of 


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