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ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol 

Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room G225, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, 

DC 20212. Written comments also may 

be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_

Public@bls.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, at 

202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free 

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Quarterly Census of Employment 

and Wages Business Supplement (QBS) 

is a versatile collection instrument 

designed to capture information on the 

US economy quickly and efficiently. 

The QBS collection is designed to 

incorporate new questionnaires as the 

need arises to allow BLS to collect and 

publish information quickly so that 

stakeholders and data users can 

understand the impact of specific 

events, or economic issues of relevance, 

on the US economy. 

The BLS will primarily use the 

Annual Refiling Survey (ARS) as a 

platform for conducting the QBS. Each 

year, the BLS Quarterly Census of 

Employment and Wages (QCEW) 

Program conducts the ARS by reaching 

out to approximately 1.5 million 

establishments requesting verification of 

their main business activity, and their 

mailing and physical location addresses. 

The fully web-based ARS allows for an 

accelerated timeframe for collection and 

provides a low-cost platform for 

conducting the quick, short surveys of 

the QBS. The QBSs accompanying the 

ARS have little data collection 

overhead, leveraging the respondent 

contact process undertaken as part of 

the production ARS. QBS respondents 

already logged into the ARS secure 

website are directed to a QBS and asked 

to answer a limited number of 

additional survey questions after 

completing the ARS. QBS respondents 

that are not in the ARS are solicited 

using established contact methods 

(email and/or printed letters) and 

directed to a stand-alone interface to 

access and answer the QBS questions 

online. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for a revision 

of the QCEW Business Supplement 

(QBS). 

The QBS is designed to encourage a 

fast response and minimize respondent 

burden on the public by limiting the 

number of questions on each survey and 

by asking questions that respondents 

should be able to answer without 

research or referring to records. In this 

manner, BLS can provide information 

that is needed quickly and is not 

collected elsewhere. The QBS will 

incorporate new questionnaires as the 

need for data arises, as frequently as 

twice a year. The BLS plans to conduct 

multiple small surveys under the QBS 

clearance. The 2024 survey will focus 

on establishments’ telework policies 

and practices, recent experiences in 

hiring, and how they advertise 

vacancies. These questions were 

previously asked in the 2022 QBS 

collected under this clearance (the 2022 

Business Response Survey). Asking 

these questions again, a full two years 

later, will provide an understanding of 

how these business operations have 

changed. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Title of Collection: QCEW Business 

Supplement. 

OMB Number: 1220–0198. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, not-for-profit institutions, and 

farms. 

Total Number of Respondents: 80,000. 

Frequency: Once. 

Total Responses: 80,000. 

Average Time per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 6,667 

hours. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on January 5, 

2024. 

Eric Molina, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Branch of Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00374 Filed 1–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Arts Advisory Panel Meetings 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 

notice is hereby given that 5 meetings of 

the Arts Advisory Panel to the National 

Council on the Arts will be held by 

teleconference or videoconference. 

DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for individual 

meeting times and dates. All meetings 

are Eastern time and ending times are 

approximate: 

ADDRESSES: National Endowment for the 

Arts, Constitution Center, 400 7th St. 

SW, Washington, DC 20506. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Further information with reference to 

these meetings can be obtained from 

David Travis, Office of Guidelines & 

Panel Operations, National Endowment 

for the Arts, Washington, DC 20506; 

travisd@arts.gov, or call 202–682–5001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

closed portions of meetings are for the 

purpose of Panel review, discussion, 

evaluation, and recommendations on 

financial assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including information given in 

confidence to the agency. In accordance 

with the determination of the Chair of 

March 11, 2022, these sessions will be 

closed to the public pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

10. 

The upcoming meetings are: 

NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships Panel 

A (review of applications): This meeting 

will be closed. 

Date and time: February 6, 2024; 2:00 

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

NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships Panel B 

(review of applications): This meeting 

will be closed. 

Date and time: February 6, 2024; 2:00 

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

Shakespeare in American 

Communities Cooperative Agreement 


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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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