Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 174 / Monday, September 9, 2024 / Notices 73125 

SUMMARY: Curia New York, Inc. has 

applied to be registered as an importer 

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 October 9, 2024. Such 

persons may also file a written request 

for a hearing on the application on or 

before October 9, 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. All 

requests for a hearing must be sent to: 

(1) Drug Enforcement Administration, 

Attn: Hearing Clerk/OALJ, 8701 

Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 

22152; and (2) Drug Enforcement 

Administration, Attn: DEA Federal 

Register Representative/DPW, 8701 

Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 

22152. All requests for a hearing should 

also be sent to: Drug Enforcement 

Administration, Attn: Administrator, 

8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, 

Virginia 22152. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 21 CFR 1301.34(a), this 

is notice that on August 6, 2024, Curia 

New York, Inc., 33 Riverside Avenue, 

Rensselaer, New York 12144, applied to 

be registered as an importer of the 

following basic class(es) of controlled 

substance(s): 

Controlled substance Drug code Schedule 

Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid ....................................................................................................................................... 2010 I 

ANPP (4-Anilino-N-phenethyl-4-piperidine) ................................................................................................................. 8333 II 

Poppy Straw Concentrate ............................................................................................................................................ 9670 II 

The company plans to import the 

listed controlled substances for bulk 

manufacturing into other controlled 

substances to be distributed to their 

customers. No other activities for these 

drug codes are authorized for this 

registration. 

Approval of permit applications will 

occur only when the registrant’s 

business activity is consistent with what 

is authorized under 21 U.S.C. 952(a)(2). 

Authorization will not extend to the 

import of Food and Drug 

Administration-approved or nonapproved finished dosage forms for 

commercial sale. 

Marsha L. Ikner, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20192 Filed 9–6–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Labor Surplus Area Classification 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to announce the annual Labor Surplus 

Area (LSA) list for fiscal year (FY) 2025. 

DATES: The annual LSA list is effective 

October 1, 2024, for all States, the 

District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lucas Arbulu or Donald Haughton, 

Office of Workforce Investment, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Room C–4514, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 

Lucas Arbulu (202) 693–2611 (this is 

not a toll-free number), or Donald 

Haughton (202) 693–2784 (this is not a 

toll-free number), or email 

arbulu.lucas.w@dol.gov, or 

haughton.donald.w@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Labor’s regulations 

implementing Executive Orders 12073 

and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR part 

654, subpart A. These regulations 

require the Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) to classify 

jurisdictions as LSAs pursuant to the 

criteria specified in the regulations, and 

to publish annually a list of LSAs. 

Pursuant to those regulations, ETA is 

hereby publishing the annual LSA list. 

In addition, the regulations provide 

exceptional circumstance criteria for 

classifying LSAs when catastrophic 

events, such as natural disasters, plant 

closings, and contract cancellations are 

expected to have a long-term impact on 

labor market area conditions, 

discounting temporary or seasonal 

factors. 

Eligible Labor Surplus Areas 

A LSA is a civil jurisdiction that has 

a civilian average annual 

unemployment rate during the previous 

two calendar years of 20 percent or 

more above the average annual civilian 

unemployment rate for all states during 

the same 24-month reference period. 

ETA uses only official unemployment 

estimates provided by the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics in making these 

classifications. The average 

unemployment rate for all states 

includes data for the District of 

Columbia, and the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico. The LSA classification 

criteria stipulate a civil jurisdiction 

must have a ‘‘floor unemployment rate’’ 

of 6 percent or higher to be classified an 

LSA. Any civil jurisdiction that has a 

‘‘ceiling unemployment rate’’ of 10 

percent or higher is classified an LSA. 

Civil jurisdictions are defined as 

follows: 

1. A city of at least 25,000 population 

on the basis of the most recently 

available estimates from the Bureau of 

the Census; or 

2. A town or township in the States 

of Michigan, New Jersey, New York, or 

Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more 

population and which possess powers 

and functions similar to those of cities; 

or 

3. All counties, except for those 

counties which contain any type of civil 

jurisdictions defined in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’ 

above; or 

4. A ‘‘balance of county’’ consisting of 

a county less any component cities and 

townships identified in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’ 

above; or 

5. A county equivalent which is a 

town in the States of Connecticut, 

Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

Rhode Island, Vermont or a municipio 

in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 


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73126 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 174 / Monday, September 9, 2024 / Notices 

Procedures for Classifying Labor 

Surplus Areas 

The Department of Labor (DOL) issues 

the LSA list on a fiscal year basis. The 

list becomes effective each October 1, 

and remains in effect through the 

following September 30. The reference 

period used in preparing the current list 

was January 2022 through December 

2023. The national average 

unemployment rate (including Puerto 

Rico) during this period is rounded to 

3.66 percent. Twenty percent higher 

than the national unemployment rate 

during this period is rounded to 4.39 

percent. Since this percent is below the 

floor rate, the qualifying rate is 6 

percent. 

To ensure that all areas classified as 

labor surplus meet the requirements, 

when a city is part of a county and 

meets the unemployment qualifier as a 

LSA, that city is identified in the LSA 

list, the balance of county, not the entire 

county, will be identified as a LSA if the 

balance of county also meets the LSA 

unemployment criteria. The data on the 

current and previous years’ LSAs are 

available at www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/ 

lsa. 

Petition for Exceptional Circumstance 

Consideration 

The classification procedures also 

provide criteria for the designation of 

LSAs under exceptional circumstances 

criteria. These procedures permit the 

regular classification criteria to be 

waived when an area experiences a 

significant increase in unemployment 

which is not temporary or seasonal and 

which was not reflected in the data for 

the 2-year reference period. Under the 

program’s exceptional circumstance 

procedures, LSA classifications can be 

made for civil jurisdictions, 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas or 

Combined Statistical Areas, as defined 

by the U.S. Office of Management and 

Budget. In order for an area to be 

classified as a LSA under the 

exceptional circumstance criteria, the 

State Workforce Agency must submit a 

petition requesting such classification to 

the Department of Labor’s ETA. 

The current criteria for an exceptional 

circumstance classification are: 

1. An area’s unemployment rate is at 

least 6 percent for each of the three most 

recent months; and 

2. A projected unemployment rate of 

at least 6 percent for each of the next 12 

months because of an event. 

When submitting such a petition, the 

State Workforce Agency must provide 

documentation that the exceptional 

circumstance event has occurred. The 

State Workforce Agency may file 

petitions on behalf of civil jurisdictions, 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or 

Micropolitan Statistical Areas. 

State Workforce Agencies may submit 

petitions in electronic format to 

arbulu.lucas.w@dol.gov, 

haughton.donald.w@dol.gov, or in hard 

copy to the U.S. Department of Labor, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, Office of Workforce 

Investment, 200 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Room C–4514, Washington, DC 

20210, Attention Lucas Arbulu. Data 

collection for the petition is approved 

under OMB 1205–0207, expiration date 

May 31, 2026. 

Jose ́ Javier Rodrı ́guez, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20162 Filed 9–6–24; 8:45 am] 

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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 24–04] 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

Candidate Country Report for Fiscal 

Year 2025 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003, as amended, requires the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation to 

publish a report that identifies countries 

that are ‘‘candidate countries’’ for 

Millennium Challenge Account 

assistance during Fiscal Year 2025. The 

report is set forth in full below. 

(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7707(a)) 

Dated: September 3, 2024. 

Peter E. Jaffe, 

Vice President, General Counsel, and 

Corporate Secretary. 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

Candidate Country Report for Fiscal 

Year 2025 

Summary 

This report to Congress is provided in 

accordance with section 608(a) of the 

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as 

amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a) (the 

Act). 

The Act authorizes the provision of 

assistance for global development 

through the Millennium Challenge 

Corporation (MCC) for countries that 

enter into a Millennium Challenge 

Compact with the United States to 

support policies and programs that 

advance the progress of such countries 

to achieve lasting economic growth and 

poverty reduction. The Act also 

authorizes the provision of assistance to 

countries for the purpose of assisting 

such country to become compact 

eligible. The Act requires MCC to take 

a number of steps in selecting countries 

to which MCC will seek to provide 

assistance, including determining the 

countries that will be eligible countries 

for fiscal year (FY) 2025 based on (a) a 

country’s demonstrated commitment to 

(i) just and democratic governance, (ii) 

economic freedom, and (iii) investments 

in its people; (b) the opportunity to 

reduce poverty and generate economic 

growth in the country; and (c) the 

availability of funds to MCC. These 

steps include the submission to the 

congressional committees specified in 

the Act and publication in the Federal 

Register of reports on the following: 

• The countries that are ‘‘candidate 

countries’’ for FY 2025 are based on 

their per capita income levels and their 

eligibility to receive assistance under 

U.S. law and countries that would be 

candidate countries but for specified 

legal prohibitions on assistance (section 

608(a) of the Act); 

• The criteria and methodology that 

the MCC Board of Directors (the Board) 

will use to measure and evaluate the 

relative policy performance of the 

‘‘candidate countries’’ consistent with 

the requirements of subsections (a) and 

(b) of section 607 of the Act in order to 

determine ‘‘eligible countries’’ from 

among the ‘‘candidate countries’’ 

(section 608(b) of the Act); and 

• The list of countries determined by 

the Board to be ‘‘eligible countries’’ for 

FY 2025, identification of such 

countries with which the Board will 

seek to enter into compacts, and a 

justification for such eligibility 

determination and selection for compact 

negotiation (section 608(d) of the Act). 

This report is the first of three 

required reports listed above. 

Candidate Countries for FY 2025 

The Act requires the identification of 

all countries that are candidate 

countries for purposes of eligibility for 

MCC assistance for FY 2025 and the 

identification of all countries that would 

be candidate countries for purposes of 

eligibility for MCC assistance but for 

specified legal prohibitions on 

assistance. Qualification as a candidate 

country is defined in sections 606(a) 

and (b) of the Act, under which: 

A country will be a candidate country 

in the low income category for FY 2025 

if it: 

• has a per capita income that is not 

greater than the World Bank’s lower 

middle income country threshold for 


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