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independent source of advice and 

policy. The purpose of this meeting is 

to discuss efforts that support veteranowned small businesses, updates on 

past and current events, and the 

ACVBA’s objectives for fiscal year 2024. 

Dated: January 30, 2024. 

Andrienne Johnson, 

Committee Manager Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02599 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12322] 

International Security Advisory Board 

(ISAB) Meeting Notice 

Closed Meeting 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. 1009(a)(2), the Department of 

State announces a meeting of the 

International Security Advisory Board 

(ISAB) to take place on March 12, 2024, 

at the Department of State, Washington, 

DC. 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. 1009(d), and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1), 

it has been determined that this Board 

meeting will be closed to the public 

because the Board will be reviewing and 

discussing matters properly classified in 

accordance with Executive Order 13526. 

The purpose of the ISAB is to provide 

the Department with a continuing 

source of independent advice on all 

aspects of arms control, disarmament, 

nonproliferation, outer space, critical 

infrastructure, cybersecurity, the 

national security aspects of associated 

technologies, international security, and 

related aspects of public diplomacy. The 

agenda for this meeting will include 

classified discussions related to the 

Board’s ongoing studies on current U.S. 

policy and issues regarding arms 

control, international security, nuclear 

proliferation, associated technologies, 

climate and energy security. 

For more information, contact 

Michelle Dover, Executive Director of 

the International Security Advisory 

Board, Department of State, 

Washington, DC 20520, telephone: (202) 

736–4930. 

Michelle Dover, 

Executive Director, International Security 

Advisory Board, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02606 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–27–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2024–0009] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Renewal of Currently Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for extension 

of currently approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the 

information collection request described 

in this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval of a renewal of information 

collection. We published a Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day public 

comment period on this information 

collection on October 31, 2023. We are 

required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

March 11, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

0009 by any of the following methods: 

Website: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Omar Elkassed, (213) 894–6718, Office 

of Stewardship, Oversight, and Program 

Management, Federal Highway 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 888 South Figueroa 

Street, Suite 440, Los Angeles, CA 

90017. Office hours are from 7 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

comments and FHWA’s responses to the 

60-day notice published October 31, 

2023 at 88 FR 74557 are below: 

• Virginia Department of Transportation 

(VDOT) 

Æ Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FHWA ’s performance: 

D The Fiscal Management Information 

System (FMIS), which generates the 

project agreement, contains a PREFIX 

Field, which is established at the onset 

of a project on the state’s allocation. As 

estimates are updated, multiple fund 

sources can be added to a project at the 

state’s discretion; however, the PREFIX 

field is not required to be revised as 

additional federal funding sources are 

added. VDOT therefore recommends 

that the PREFIX Field be removed from 

FMIS, as it does not appear to serve any 

purpose from the state’s perspective. 

D Response: The prefix field on the 

project detail screen is an optional field 

and will not prevent you from obligating 

funds. 

Æ The accuracy of the estimated 

burdens: 

D Based on the complexity and the 

phase of project data required, Virginia 

averages an estimated 1.0 to 1.5 how-s 

to complete a project agreement. 

D Response: Thank you for your input 

on the estimated duration to complete a 

project agreement in Virginia. The 

estimated burdens hours in the notice is 

based on nationwide average. 

Æ Ways for the FHWA to enhance the 

quality, usefulness and clarity of the 

collected information. 

D VDOT recommends that FHWA 

develop additional standard reports for 

states to utilize on data fields in FMIS 

for analysis of data as needed. That 

would save time so that states would 

not have to create reports on their own 

using the Business Objects tool within 

FMIS. Additionally, it would ensure 

that all states are consistently reporting 

data from the same source in response 

to FHWA requests. 

D Response: FMIS has a set of 

standard reports in the Reports module 

in FMIS and a set of Resource Center 

and developer created reports in 

Business Objects under the following 

Public Folders: BUGS University—Help, 

Delphi Reporting Tool (DRT), and 

FMIS5. If your state would like 

assistance to develop specific reports for 

your state, you may reach out to the 

FDAT for assistance. 

Æ Ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information 

D VDOT recommends that FHWA 

provide clearer communication to states 

when/if FHWA updates FMIS in order 

to allow states sufficient time to update 

their IT requirements/recode data for 

FHWA’s Electronic Data System (EDS). 

D Response: In September 2023, we 

extended the FMIS system change 

notification period to states from 60- 


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days to 90-days. Recipients receive 

notification from their Division Office of 

these changes and are notified on the 

FMIS opening page message board after 

sign in. 

• California Department of

Transportation 

Æ Caltrans recommends that state 

requests for agreement modifications 

resulting in net-zero obligation be 

allowed when the unobligated 

apportionment balance is less than the 

obligation amount of the request, 

without considering the de-obligation 

portion. 

Æ Response: The Fiscal Management 

Information System (FMIS) must 

validate funding availability in FMIS 

and Delphi. In the instance of a deobligation when unobligated 

apportionment balance is zero or less 

than the obligation request, FMIS 

indicates an over-obligation error until 

the de-obligation is posted to Delphi. 

Once posted to Delphi, new obligations 

may occur up to the unobligated 

balance. 

Title: Preparation and Execution of 

the Project Agreement and 

Modifications. 

OMB Control #: 2125–0529. 

Background: Formal agreements 

between State Transportation 

Departments and the FHWA are 

required for Federal-aid highway 

projects. These agreements, referred to 

as ‘‘project agreements’’ are written 

contracts between the State and the 

Federal government that define the 

extent of work to be undertaken and 

commitments made concerning a 

highway project. Section 1305 of the 

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 

Century (TEA–21, Pub. L. 105–178) 

amended 23 U.S.C. 106(a) and 

combined authorization of work and 

execution of the project agreement for a 

Federal-aid project into a single action. 

States continue to have the flexibility to 

use whatever format is suitable to 

provide the statutory information 

required, and burden estimates for this 

information collection are not changed. 

Respondents: There are 56 

respondents, including 50 State 

Transportation Departments, the District 

of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 

Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the 

Virgin Islands and American Samoa. 

Depending on the size of and activity in 

the above government agencies, the 

number of project agreements executed 

in any agency ranges between 10 and 

1,500. 

Frequency: On an on-going basis as 

project agreements are written. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: There is a total of 23,809 

agreements per year. Each agreement 

requires 1 hour to complete. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: Total estimated average annual 

burden is 23,809 hours. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated

burdens; (3) ways for the FHWA to

enhance the quality, usefulness, and

clarity of the collected information; and

(4) ways that the burden could be

minimized, including the use of

electronic technology, without reducing

the quality of the collected information.

The agency will summarize and/or

include your comments in the request

for OMB’s clearance of this information

collection.

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued On: February 5, 2024. 

Jazmyne Lewis, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02572 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2024–0061] 

Request for Information Concerning 

the Study of Sexual Assault and 

Sexual Harassment in the Commercial 

Motor Vehicle Industry 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice; request for information. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA is planning to 

undertake a study to understand and 

quantify the prevalence and severity of 

sexual assault and sexual harassment 

(SASH) experienced across the 

commercial motor vehicle (CMV) 

industry, particularly among drivers. 

FMCSA seeks information on how best 

to design and conduct a study to 

identify, categorize, and assess context 

and trends of SASH in the CMV 

industry. FMCSA is particularly 

interested in how to support women 

currently in these jobs and those seeking 

to enter the CMV industry. This RFI 

seeks information on how best to 

approach this study holistically in terms 

of statistical sampling, study design, 

and administering the appropriate data 

collection efforts. For example, FMCSA 

seeks information on how best to treat 

categories of gender, sexual orientation, 

and ethnicity in the study, as well as 

best practices in designing questions 

that use the latest standards for SASH 

research and address the breadth and 

lifecycles of careers in the CMV 

industry. This study builds on 

recommendations from FMCSA’s 

Women of Trucking Advisory Board 

(WOTAB) to better understand problems 

of SASH among drivers, thereby helping 

identify possible countermeasures. 

FMCSA will use the results of this study 

to understand any potential regulatory 

or policy measures needed to improve 

driver safety and mitigate SASH; work 

with industry partners on outreach and 

other efforts to improve driver safety 

through SASH prevention; and support 

the participation of women in the CMV 

industry. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or before March 11, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Docket Number FMCSA– 

2024–0061 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Go to https://www.regulations.gov/

docket/FMCSA-2024-0061/document. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

• Mail: Dockets Operations, U.S.

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Dockets

Operations, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building, Ground 

Floor, Washington, DC 20590–0001, 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

To be sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 366–9317 or (202) 366– 

9826 before visiting Dockets Operations. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicole Katsikides, Ph.D., Senior 

Transportation Specialist, Research 

Division, FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590– 

0001; (202) 940–6645; Nicole.

Katsikides@dot.gov. If you have 

questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, contact Dockets 

Operations at (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FMCSA 

organizes this notice as follows: 

I. Public Participation and Request for

Comments

A. Submitting Comments

B. Viewing Comments and Documents

C. Privacy Act

D. Comments on the Information

Collection


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