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Controlled substance Drug 

code Schedule 

4-Anilino-N-Phenethyl-4- 

Piperidine (ANPP).

8333 II 

Norfentanyl (N-phenyl-N- 

(piperidin-4-yl) 

propionamide).

8366 II 

The company plans to bulk 

manufacture the listed controlled 

substances for the internal use as 

intermediates for formulation and 

analytical development purposes. No 

other activities for these drug codes are 

authorized for this registration. 

Claude Redd, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00994 Filed 1–18–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Drug Enforcement Administration 

[Docket No. DEA–1310] 

Bulk Manufacturer of Controlled 

Substances Application: Siegfried 

USA, LLC 

AGENCY: Drug Enforcement 

Administration, Justice. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Siegfried USA, LLC has 

applied to be registered as a bulk 

manufacturer of basic class(es) of 

controlled substance(s). Refer to 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION listed 

below for further drug information. 

DATES: Registered bulk manufacturers of 

the affected basic class(es), and 

applicants therefore, may submit 

electronic comments on or objections to 

the issuance of the proposed registration 

on or before March 19, 2024. Such 

persons may also file a written request 

for a hearing on the application on or 

before March 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The Drug Enforcement 

Administration requires that all 

comments be submitted electronically 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal, 

which provides the ability to type short 

comments directly into the comment 

field on the web page or attach a file for 

lengthier comments. Please go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions at that site for 

submitting comments. Upon submission 

of your comment, you will receive a 

Comment Tracking Number. Please be 

aware that submitted comments are not 

instantaneously available for public 

view on https://www.regulations.gov. If 

you have received a Comment Tracking 

Number, your comment has been 

successfully submitted and there is no 

need to resubmit the same comment. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 21 CFR 1301.33(a), this 

is notice that on November 28, 2023, 

Siegfried USA, LLC, 33 Industrial Park 

Road, Pennsville, New Jersey 08070– 

3244, applied to be registered as a bulk 

manufacturer of the following basic 

class(es) of controlled substance(s): 

Controlled substance Drug 

code Schedule 

Gamma Hydroxybutyric 

Acid.

2010 I 

Noroxymorphone ............. 9145 I 

Hydromorphinol ............... 9301 I 

Amphetamine .................. 1100 II 

Lisdexamfetamine ........... 1205 II 

Methylphenidate .............. 1724 II 

Amobarbital ..................... 2125 II 

Pentobarbital ................... 2270 II 

Secobarbital ..................... 2315 II 

Codeine ........................... 9050 II 

Oxycodone ...................... 9143 II 

Hydromorphone ............... 9150 II 

Hydrocodone ................... 9193 II 

Methadone ...................... 9250 II 

Methadone intermediate .. 9254 II 

Morphine .......................... 9300 II 

Oripavine ......................... 9330 II 

Thebaine .......................... 9333 II 

Opium tincture ................. 9630 II 

Oxymorphone .................. 9652 II 

Tapentadol ...................... 9780 II 

The company plans to bulk 

manufacture the listed controlled 

substances in bulk for sale to its 

customers. No other activities for these 

drug codes are authorized for this 

registration. 

Claude Redd, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00990 Filed 1–18–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Information Collection Activities; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed revision of the 

International Price Program (IPP) U.S. 

Import and Export Price Indexes. A 

copy of the proposed information 

collection request can be obtained by 

contacting the individual listed below 

in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

Addresses section of this notice on or 

before March 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora 

Kincaid, 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: 

Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, at 

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

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The U.S. Import and Export Price 

Indexes, produced by the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics’ International Price 

Program (IPP), measure price change 

over time for all categories of imported 

and exported products, as well as 

selected services. The IPP has produced 

the U.S. Import Price Indexes (MPI) 

continuously since 1973 and the U.S. 

Export Price Indexes (XPI) continuously 

since 1971. The Office of Management 

and Budget has listed the Import and 

Export Price Indexes (MXPI) as a 

Principal Federal Economic Indicator 

since 1982. The indexes are widely used 

in both the public and private sectors. 

The primary public sector use is the 

deflation of the U.S. monthly trade 

statistics and the quarterly estimates of 

U.S. Gross Domestic Product; the 

indexes also are used in formulating 

U.S. trade policy and in trade 

negotiations with other countries. In the 

private sector, uses of the Import Price 

Indexes include market analysis, 

inflation forecasting, contract escalation, 

and replacement cost accounting. 

The MXPI are closely followed 

statistics and are viewed as a key 

indicator of the economic environment. 

The U.S. Department of Commerce uses 

the monthly statistics to produce 

monthly and quarterly estimates of 


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inflation-adjusted trade flows. Without 

continuation of data collection, it would 

be extremely difficult to construct 

accurate estimates of the U.S. Gross 

Domestic Product. In fact, a budget 

proposal to curtail publication of the 

export price indexes beginning in FY15 

was not supported by the Commerce 

Department which explained that a 

viable substitute is not available. 

Additionally, Federal policymakers in 

the Department of Treasury, the Council 

of Economic Advisers, and the Federal 

Reserve Board utilize these statistics on 

a regular basis to improve these 

agencies’ formulation and evaluation of 

monetary and fiscal policy and 

evaluation of the general business 

environment. 

II. Current Action

Office of Management and Budget

clearance is being sought for a revision 

of the U.S. Import and Export Price 

Indexes information collection. The IPP 

revision is a transition from using 

survey data as a source of prices for 

approximately a third of the current 

sample of merchandise goods to using 

administrative data from the Census 

Bureau as an alternative source. This 

revision to data collection is in line with 

past actions to modernize data 

collection and to reduce reporter 

burden. Modernization was introduced 

in 2003 with the IPP web application. In 

2018, paper surveys were eliminated, 

and the web application became the 

near universal method for respondents 

to update their data online and more 

rapidly than previously. 

The IPP has implemented several 

systems changes over the years in order 

to reduce burden for web respondents. 

In 2019, the IPP adopted the use of a 

new web application format/layout. 

Previously, the web survey used 

separate pages for each part of the 

repricing process; now, the web 

application utilizes modal windows in 

combination with separate pages. In 

September 2022, the Program 

introduced new functionality (referred 

to internally as ‘‘Web Lite’’), which 

allows respondents to upload files of 

price information without using a login; 

the files are reviewed by analysts who 

manually enter the price data into IPP’s 

repricing application. 

The current revision is focused on the 

planned implementation of an 

alternative data source for some of the 

Import and Export Price Indexes 

(MXPI); the data source is 

administrative data in the form of trade 

transaction records of shipments 

reported by U.S. importers and 

exporters. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, 

the IPP will calculate unit value indexes 

based on the trade transaction records 

from the Department of Commerce for a 

range of homogenous commodity and 

product areas and will calculate upper 

level price indexes by blending these 

unit value indexes with directly 

collected survey data for the other 

product areas, to calculate and publish 

the MXPI for merchandise goods. This 

approach is based on new research and 

new statistical methods. 

Historically, unit value indexes have 

not been considered a good substitute 

for directly collected data in the 

calculation of price indexes for any but 

the most homogenous of commodities. 

The use of unit value indexes in the 

statistical community has been limited 

to homogenous commodities due 

primarily to the potential for unit value 

bias, which is a measurement of a price 

trend that imprecisely measures price 

changes due to product composition or 

quality change, instead of price changes 

due to markets. Advances and 

improvements in coverage, accuracy, 

and level of detail of the trade 

transaction records have improved, and 

new statistical methods for addressing 

and mitigating unit value bias have 

recently been developed. The necessity 

to address a recent downward trend in 

IPP’s traditional data collection, in light 

of these improvements, prompted the 

Program to consider the use of unit 

value indexes in the MXPI. 

In 2018, the IPP launched a major 

research initiative to analyze the fitness 

for use of unit value indexes based on 

administrative trade data in place of 

directly collected data for more 

homogenous product areas. With the 

application of new methods for 

mitigating unit value bias, the IPP has 

constructed research import and export 

price indexes based on administrative 

trade data for January 2012 through 

December 2021. Comparison of the 

research data sets to official (published 

and unpublished) import and export 

price indexes were sufficiently robust to 

indicate that unit value indexes based 

on administrative trade data can be used 

in place of directly collected data for 

many of IPP’s homogenous product 

price indexes. Additional details and 

research data sets are accessible from 

the MXP Research page (https://

www.bls.gov/mxp/data/research.htm). 

This new data source also allows for 

the expansion of published lower-level 

indexes and improves index quality; 

while the existing MXPI are based 

entirely on a modified Laspeyres 

formula (as current trade weights are not 

available), the availability of current 

period weights in the administrative 

trade data allows the IPP to apply a 

Tornqvist formula to lower-level 

aggregates. (The Tornqvist formula is 

considered superior to the Laspeyres 

formula for handling substitution bias, a 

well-known problem for fixed-basket 

price indexes which do not account for 

consumer expenditure switching from 

relatively more expensive products to 

cheaper ones as prices change.) 

In addition to the expansion of 

published indexes and improvement in 

index quality, the implementation of the 

unit value indexes will result in a 

considerable drop in respondent burden 

as fewer companies will be contacted 

because fewer survey-based prices will 

be needed to support publication of the 

MXPI. A detailed technical explanation 

regarding the use of the alternative 

administrative data source and the 

methodological approach used to 

integrate the data source into the official 

MXPI are available in IPP’s Federal 

Register Notice published on September 

11, 2023 (https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2023/09/11/2023-19486/commentrequest). 

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: International Price 

Program (IPP) U.S. Import and Export 

Price Indexes. 

OMB Number: 1220–0025. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Private Sector, 

Business or other for-profits. 


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Form Total 

respondents Frequency Total responses 

Average 

time per 

response 

(hours) 

Estimated 

total 

burden hours 

Form 3008 ........................................................................ ........................ Annually.

Imports ....................................................................... 900 ............................................................ 900 1.0 900 

Exports ...................................................................... 400 ............................................................ 400 1.0 400 

Total ................................................................... 1,300 ............................................................ 1,300 ........................ 1,300 

Repricing Form ................................................................. ........................ Monthly.

Imports ....................................................................... 1,200 8.8 1 .................................................... 10,560 2 4777 5,045 

Exports ...................................................................... 850 9.0 1 .................................................... 7,650 3.4320 3,305 

Total ................................................................... 2,050 ............................................................ 18,210 ........................ 8,350 

Totals .......................................................... ........................ ............................................................ 19,510 ........................ 9,650 

1 During initiation, the respondent determines how many months he/she will need to supply data in a given year based upon how often the company changes its 

pricing information. The average company is requested to supply information 9.0 months per year for exports and 8.8 months per year for imports. 2Time to reprice is based upon 5 minutes of response time per item × 5.732 items = 28.660 minutes/60 = .4777 hours. 3 Time to reprice is based upon 5 minutes of response time per item × 5.184 items = 25.920 minutes/60 = .4320 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 this 12th day 

of January 2024. 

Leslie Bennett, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00940 Filed 1–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Honoring Investments in Recruiting 

and Employing American Veterans 

(HIRE Vets) Medallion Program 

AGENCY: Veterans’ Employment and 

Training Service (VETS), United States 

Department of Labor (DOL). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

DOL is soliciting public comments 

regarding this VETS-sponsored 

information collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. 

DATES: Comments pertaining to this 

information collection are due on or 

before March 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronic submission: You may 

submit comments and attachments 

electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail submission: 200 Constitution 

Ave. NW, Room S–5315, Washington, 

DC 2020. 

Comments are invited on: (1) whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the DOL, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) if the information 

will be processed and used in a timely 

manner; (3) the accuracy of the DOL’s 

estimates of the burden and cost of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (4) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collection; and (5) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Randall Smith by telephone at 202–693– 

4745 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

by email at HIREVets@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The HIRE 

Vets Medallion Program is a voluntary 

employer recognition program 

administered by the Department of 

Labor—Veteran’s Employment and 

Training Service (VETS). Through the 

HIRE Vets Medallion Program, VETS 

will solicit voluntary applications from 

employers for an award called the HIRE 

Vets Medallion Award. These awards 

are intended to recognize employer 

efforts to recruit, employ, and retain our 

Nation’s veterans. All employers who 

employ at least one employee are 

eligible to apply for the Award. 

This information collection is subject 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 

A Federal agency generally cannot 

conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information, and the public is generally 

not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless the OMB 

approves it and displays a currently 

valid OMB Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

The DOL seeks PRA authorization for 

this information collection for three (3) 

years. OMB authorization for an 

Information Collection Review cannot 

be for more than three (3) years without 

renewal. The DOL notes that currently 

approved information collection 

requirements submitted to the OMB 

receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. 

Agency: DOL–VETS. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

changes. 

Title of Collection: HIRE Vets 

Medallion Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1293–0015. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 7,236. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 34,711. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

59,571 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $0. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). 

Dated: January 12, 2024. 

Julian Purdy, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Veterans’ 

Employment and Training Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00937 Filed 1–18–24; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities 

Meeting of Humanities Panel 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities; National Foundation on the 

Arts and the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities (NEH) will hold one 

meeting of the Humanities Panel, a 

federal advisory committee, during 


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