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that your entire comment—including 

your PII—may be made publicly 

available at any time. While you may 

ask us in your comment to withhold 

your PII from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. ch. 10. 

Holly A. Chandler, 

Designated Federal Officer, Advisory Council 

for Climate Adaptation Science, U.S. 

Geological Survey. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02210 Filed 2–2–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4338–11–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 332–598] 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensities 

of the U.S. Steel and Aluminum 

Industries at the Product Level; 

Submission of Questionnaire and 

Information Collection Plan for Office 

of Management and Budget Review 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission of request 

for approval of a questionnaire and 

information collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

SUMMARY: The information requested by 

the questionnaire is for use by the 

Commission in connection with 

Investigation No. 332–598, Greenhouse 

Gas Emissions Intensities of the U.S. 

Steel and Aluminum Industries at the 

Product Level. 

ADDRESSES: All Commission offices are 

located in the U.S. International Trade 

Commission Building, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC. 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

project leaders for this investigation are 

Caroline Peters, Shova KC, Alexander 

Melton, and Kristin Smyth. Please direct 

all questions and comments about this 

investigation to Shova KC at 202–780– 

0230 or via email at sa.emissions@

usitc.gov. The Commission is not 

accepting paper correspondence for this 

investigation. 

Comments about the proposal should 

be provided to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

through the Information Collection 

Review Dashboard at https://

www.reginfo.gov. All comments should 

be specific, indicating which part of the 

questionnaire is objectionable, 

describing the concern in detail, and 

including specific suggested revisions or 

language changes. Copies of any 

comments should be provided 

electronically to the Commission’s 

survey team via an email to 

sa.emissions@usitc.gov. 

The public record for this 

investigation may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may be obtained by accessing its 

internet address (https://www.usitc.gov). 

Hearing-impaired individuals are 

advised that information on this matter 

can be obtained by contacting the TDD 

terminal on 202–205–1810. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information requested by the 

questionnaire is for use by the 

Commission in connection with 

Investigation No. 332–598, Greenhouse 

Gas Emissions Intensities of the U.S. 

Steel and Aluminum Industries at the 

Product Level, instituted under the 

authority of section 332(g) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1332(g)). This 

investigation and report were requested 

by the United States Trade 

Representative in a letter dated June 5, 

2023. This investigation was instituted 

on July 5, 2023, and the notice of 

investigation was published in the 

Federal Register on July 10, 2023 (88 FR 

43633). The Commission will deliver its 

report to the Trade Representative by 

January 28, 2025. 

As stated in the notice of 

investigation, the Trade Representative 

requested that the Commission generate 

estimates of the greenhouse gas (GHG) 

emissions intensities of a broad range of 

U.S. steel and aluminum products. The 

U.S.-produced individual products that 

are covered under this investigation are 

enumerated in attachment B to the 

request letter. GHG emissions intensities 

will be developed from the scope 1 and 

2 emissions related to the production of 

covered steel and aluminum products 

and the scope 3 emissions associated 

with the material and resource inputs 

for the production of covered steel and 

aluminum products in 2022. These 

intensity estimates will be developed, to 

the extent practicable, for a set of 

specific product category groupings 

listed in attachment A of the request 

letter, though the Commission may 

present emissions intensities at further 

levels of disaggregation from these 

groupings. Because the information 

necessary to generate these estimates is 

not available in the requested specificity 

from governmental and other public 

sources, the Trade Representative 

directed the Commission to obtain 

much of such information through a 

survey. The survey aims to collect data 

on scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, 

production, and parameters that will 

allow for the allocation of the emissions 

to the product categories. Responses 

will be used as inputs in the 

Commission’s calculation of emissions 

intensities. 

The Commission intends to submit 

the following draft information 

collection plan to OMB: 

(1) Number of forms submitted: 2. 

(2) Title of forms: Greenhouse Gas 

(GHG) Emissions Intensities 

Questionnaire: Company-Level and 

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions 

Intensities Questionnaire: FacilityLevel. 

(3) Type of request: New. 

(4) Frequency of use: Industry 

questionnaire, single data gathering, 

scheduled for 2024. 

(5) Description of respondents: 

Companies with U.S. facilities that 

produced steel and aluminum products 

in 2022 and those facilities. 

(6) Estimated number of 

questionnaires to be distributed: 5,250 

total (1,750 companies, 3,500 facilities). 

(7) Estimated total number of hours to 

complete the questionnaire per 

respondent: 5 hours for the companylevel questionnaire and 30 hours for the 

facility-level questionnaire for each 

facility. 

(8) Information obtained from the 

questionnaires that qualifies as 

confidential business information will 

be so treated by the Commission and not 

disclosed in a manner that would reveal 

the individual operations of a business 

at the company or facility level. 

Information about the investigation 

and other supplementary documents 

can be accessed on the USITC website 

at https://www.usitc.gov/saemissions. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: January 31, 2024. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02232 Filed 2–2–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 332–602] 

Apparel: Export Competitiveness of 

Certain Foreign Suppliers to the United 

States 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission 

ACTION: Notice of a new date for the 

public hearing. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has changed 

the date of its public hearing for 


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