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deadline. The CDFI Fund will not 

respond to questions or provide support 

concerning the Application that are 

received after 5:00 p.m. ET on said date, 

until after the Application deadline. 

CDFI Fund IT support will be available 

until 5:00 p.m. ET on date of the 

Application deadline. Application 

Instructions and other information 

regarding the CDFI Fund and its 

programs may be obtained from the 

CDFI Fund’s website at http://

www.cdfifund.gov/cmf. The CDFI Fund 

will post on its website responses to 

questions of general applicability 

regarding the CMF. 

B. The CDFI Fund’s Contact 

Information is Listed in Table 9: 

TABLE 9—CONTACT INFORMATION

Type of question Preferred method Telephone number 

(not toll free) Email addresses 

CMF Program and Application Questions Submit a Service Request in AMIS .......... 202–653–0421 cmf@cdfi.treas.gov. 

CDFI Certification ...................................... Submit a Service Request in AMIS .......... 202–653–0423 ocpecert@cdfi.treas.gov. 

Compliance Monitoring and Evaluation ..... Submit a Service Request in AMIS .......... 202–653–0423 ccme@cdfi.treas.gov. 

Information Technology Support ............... Submit a Service Request in AMIS .......... 202–653–0422 AMIS@cdfi.treas.gov. 

The preferred method of contact is to 

submit a Service Request within AMIS. 

For a CMF Application question, select 

‘‘Capital Magnet Fund’’ for the program. 

For a CDFI Certification question, select 

‘‘Certification.’’ For a Compliance 

question, select ‘‘Compliance & 

Reporting.’’ For Information 

Technology, select ‘‘Technical Issues.’’ 

Failure to select the appropriate 

program for the Service Request could 

result in delays in responding to your 

question. 

C. Communication with the CDFI 

Fund: The CDFI Fund will use AMIS to 

communicate with Applicants and 

Recipients, using the contact 

information maintained in their 

respective AMIS accounts. Therefore, 

the Recipient and any Subsidiaries, 

signatories, and Affiliates must maintain 

accurate contact information (including 

contact persons and Authorized 

Representatives, email addresses, fax 

numbers, phone numbers, and office 

addresses) in its AMIS account(s). For 

more information about AMIS please 

see the Help documents posted at 

https://amis.cdfifund.gov/Training. 

D. Civil Rights and Diversity: Any 

person who is eligible to receive 

benefits or services from the CDFI Fund 

or Recipients under any of its programs 

or activities is entitled to those benefits 

or services without being subject to 

prohibited discrimination. The 

Department of the Treasury’s Office of 

Civil Rights and Equal Employment 

Opportunity enforces various Federal 

statutes and regulations that prohibit 

discrimination in financially assisted 

and conducted programs and activities 

of the CDFI Fund. If a person believes 

that they have been subjected to 

discrimination and/or reprisal because 

of race, color, religion, national origin, 

age, sex, marital status, familial status, 

disability and/or reprisal, that person 

may file a complaint with: Director, 

Office of Civil Rights and Equal 

Employment Opportunity, 1500 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 

20220 or (202) 622–1160 (not a toll-free 

number). 

E. Statutory and National Policy 

Requirements: The CDFI Fund will 

manage and administer the Federal 

award in a manner so as to ensure that 

Federal funding is expended and 

associated programs are implemented in 

full accordance with the U.S. 

Constitution, Federal Law, and public 

policy requirements, including, but not 

limited to: those protecting free speech, 

religious liberty, public welfare, and the 

environment; and those prohibiting 

discrimination. 

Authority: Public Law 110–289. 12 

U.S.C. 4701, 12 CFR part 1805, 12 CFR 

part 1807, 12 CFR part 1815, 12 U.S.C. 

4502. 

Marcia Sigal, 

Acting Director, Community Development 

Financial Institutions Fund. 

FY 2024 CMF Program NOFA Footnotes 

1 (A) Applicants with a 6/30 fiscal year end 

date, or 9/30 fiscal year end date, and a 

completed FY 2023 audit will treat FY 2023 

as their most recent historic fiscal year. (B) 

Applicants with a 6/30 fiscal year end date, 

or a 9/30 fiscal year end date, but without a 

completed FY 2023 audit will treat FY 2022 

as their most recent historic fiscal year. (C) 

Applicants with a 3/31 fiscal year end date 

will treat FY 2023 as their most recent 

historic fiscal year. (D) Applicants with a 12/ 

31 fiscal year end date will treat FY 2022 as 

their most recent historic fiscal year. 2Regulated Institutions include Insured 

Credit Unions, Insured Depository 

Institutions, State-Insured Credit Unions, and 

Depository Institution Holding Companies. 3The Management Letter may include 

suggestions for improving identified 

weaknesses and deficiencies and/or best 

practice suggestions for items that may not be 

considered to be weaknesses or deficiencies. 

The Management Letter may also include 

items that are not required to be disclosed in 

the annual audited financial statements. The 

Management Letter is distinct from the 

auditor’s Opinion Letter, which is required 

by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 

(GAAP). Management Letters are not required 

by GAAP and are sometimes provided by the 

auditor as a separate letter from the audit 

itself. 4‘‘Lump Sum Payment’’ shall mean one 

single payment which comprises the entire 

CMF Award. 5 ‘‘Initial Payment’’ shall mean the first 

Payment from the CDFI Fund to the 

Recipient at Closing. 6 ‘‘Subsequent Payment’’ shall mean a 

second Payment representing the balance of 

the CMF Award in the case where a 

Recipient exercises its option to receive the 

CMF Award in two Payments. 

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BILLING CODE 4810–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Superfund Tax on Chemical 

Substances; Request To Modify List of 

Taxable Substances; Correction to 

Filing of Petition for Polyphenylene 

Sulfide 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Supplemental notice of filing 

and additional request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This supplemental notice of 

filing announces a correction to the 

stoichiometric material consumption 

equation in the notice of filing for the 

polyphenylene sulfide petition that was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 30, 2022. This supplemental 

notice of filing also requests comments 

on the corrected petition. This 

supplemental notice of filing is not a 

determination that the list of taxable 

substances is modified. 

DATES: Written comments and requests 

for a public hearing must be received on 

or before April 15, 2024. 


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ADDRESSES: Commenters are encouraged 

to submit public comments or requests 

for a public hearing relating to this 

petition electronically via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov gov (indicate 

public docket number IRS–2022–0037 

or polyphenylene sulfide) by following 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. Comments cannot be edited 

or withdrawn once submitted to the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. 

Alternatively, comments and requests 

for a public hearing may be mailed to: 

Internal Revenue Service, Attn: 

CC:PA:01:PR (Supplemental Notice of 

Filing for Polyphenylene Sulfide), Room 

5203, P.O. Box 7604, Ben Franklin 

Station, Washington DC 20044. All 

comments received are part of the 

public record and subject to public 

disclosure. All comments received will 

be posted without change to 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. You 

should submit only information that 

you wish to make publicly available. If 

a public hearing is scheduled, notice of 

the time and place for the hearing will 

be published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Camille Edwards Bennehoff at (202) 

317–6855 (not a toll-free number). 

Request To Add Substance to the List 

(a) Overview. 

A petition was filed pursuant to Rev. 

Proc. 2022–26 (2022–29 I.R.B. 90), 

requesting that polyphenylene sulfide 

be added to the list of taxable 

substances under section 4672(a) of the 

Internal Revenue Code (List). The notice 

of filing summarizing the 

polyphenylene sulfide petition and 

requesting comments was published in 

the Federal Register on December 30, 

2022 (87 FR 80579). The Treasury 

Department and the IRS received no 

written comments in response to the 

original notice of filing and a public 

hearing was neither requested nor held. 

After the comment period for the notice 

of filing closed, an error was discovered 

in the stoichiometric material 

consumption equation for 

polyphenylene sulfide, and the 

Petitioner subsequently provided a 

corrected petition. 

This supplemental notice of filing 

provides the corrected stoichiometric 

material consumption equation for 

polyphenylene sulfide in paragraph (b) 

of this document. The stoichiometric 

material consumption equation is 

corrected to read as follows: 

on [2 NaOH + C6H6 + 2 Cl2 + H2S] → 

[C6H4S]n + 2n H2O + 2n NaCl + 2n 

HCl 

The other petition information 

provided in paragraph (b) of this 

document is unchanged from the 

original notice of filing for 

polyphenylene sulfide. Although the 

only change from the original notice of 

filing is to the stoichiometric material 

consumption equation, this document 

also includes all of the other 

information presented on the corrected 

petition to avoid confusion and is 

provided for public notice and comment 

pursuant to section 9 of Rev. Proc. 

2022–26. 

The petition requesting the addition 

of polyphenylene sulfide to the List is 

based on weight and—as noted 

previously—contains the information 

detailed in paragraph (b) of this 

document. The publication of petition 

information in this supplemental notice 

of filing is not a determination and does 

not constitute Treasury Department or 

IRS confirmation of the accuracy of the 

information published. 

Pursuant to section 10.02 of Rev. Proc. 

2022–26, the IRS and Petitioner agreed 

to extend the 180-day determination 

period. 

(b) Petition Content. 

(1) Substance name: Polyphenylene 

sulfide. 

According to the petition, these are 

the commonly used substance names for 

polyphenylene sulfide: 

Polyphenylene sulfide 

PPS 

Poly(p-phenylenesulfide) 

Benzene, 1,4-dichloro-, polymer with 

sodium sulfide. 

(2) Petitioner: Celanese Ltd., an 

exporter of polyphenylene sulfide. 

(3) Proposed classification numbers: 

(i) HTSUS number: 3911.90.2500. 

(ii) Schedule B number: 3911.90.6100. 

(iii) CAS numbers: 25212–74–2, 

26125–40–6 

(4) Petition filing dates: 

(i) Petition filing date for purposes of 

making a determination: December 20, 

2022. 

(ii) Petition filing date for purposes of 

section 11.02 of Rev. Proc. 2022–26: July 

1, 2022. 

(5) Description from petition: 

According to the petition, 

polyphenylene sulfide is a highperformance thermoplastic, has high 

heat and chemical resistance, and is 

used in applications such as filters, 

appliance, machine and automobile 

parts, replacing steel in some cases. 

In the final step of the production 

process, polyphenylene sulfide is 

manufactured by the polymerization of 

1,4-dichlorobenzene (p-DCB), a taxable 

substance, with sodium hydrosulfide 

and sodium hydroxide. Sodium 

hydrosulfide is made from sodium 

hydroxide and hydrogen sulfide. 

Taxable chemicals constitute 90.0 

percent by weight of the materials used 

to produce this substance. 

(6) Process identified in petition as 

predominant method of production of 

substance: 

Three separate reactions: 

(A) 1,4 dichlorobenzene is made from 

the reaction of benzene with 2 

equivalents of chlorine. 

(B) Sodium hydrogen sulfide is made 

from the reaction of hydrogen sulfide 

with sodium hydroxide. 

(C) 1,4-dichlorobenzene (pdichlorobenzene, p-DCB), sodium 

hydrosulfide (NaSH), and sodium 

hydroxide (NaOH) are reacted at high 

temperature and high pressure to form 

polyphenylene sulfide and byproduct 

sodium chloride. 

(7) Stoichiometric material 

consumption equation, based on 

process identified as predominant 

method of production: 

n [2 NaOH + C6H6 + 2 Cl2 + H2S] → 

[C6H4S]n + 2n H2O + 2n NaCl + 2n 

HCl 

(8) Tax rate calculated by Petitioner, 

based on Petitioner’s conversion factors 

for taxable chemicals used in 

production of substance: 

(i) Tax rate: $14.50 per ton. 

(ii) Conversion factors: 0.74 for 

sodium hydroxide, 0.72 for benzene, 

1.31 for chlorine. 

(9) Public docket number: IRS–2022– 

0037. 

Michael Beker, 

Senior Counsel (Passthroughs and Special 

Industries),IRS Office of Chief Counsel. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Request 

for Individual Access to Records 

Protected Under the Privacy Act and 

Consent for Disclosure of Records 

Protected Under the Privacy Act 

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, U.S. 

Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury will submit the following 

information collection requests to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the 

date of publication of this notice. The 


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