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in Columbus, Ohio as soon as possible, 

but no later than seven (7) days, after it 

has knowledge that it will: 

(i) Cease doing business; 

(ii) Change the location and address of 

the main office for managing the 

tunneling operations specified herein; 

or 

(iii) Transfer the operations specified 

herein to a successor company. 

(f) Notify all affected employees of 

this permanent variance by the same 

means required to inform them of its 

application for a permanent variance. 

2. This permanent variance cannot be 

transferred to a successor company 

without OSHA approval. 

OSHA hereby grants a permanent 

variance to Ballard Marine Construction 

for the 

completion of the Lower Olentangy 

Tunnel Project in Columbus, Ohio. 

VIII. Authority and Signature 

Douglas L. Parker, Assistant Secretary 

of Labor for Occupational Safety and 

Health, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210, authorized the 

preparation of this notice. Accordingly, 

the agency is issuing this notice 

pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 655(d), Secretary 

of Labor’s Order No. 8–2020 (85 FR 

58393, Sept. 18, 2020), and 29 CFR 

1905.11. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on September 3, 

2024. 

Douglas L. Parker, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Networking and Information 

Technology Research and 

Development Request for Information 

on a National Plan for Cyber-Physical 

Systems Resilience 

AGENCY: Networking and Information 

Technology Research and Development 

(NITRD) National Coordination Office 

(NCO), National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: On behalf of Office of Science 

and Technology Policy (OSTP), the 

NITRD National Coordination Office 

seeks public input for the creation of a 

National Plan for Cyber-Physical 

Systems Resilience Research (the Plan). 

The goal of the plan is to shape a wholeof-government research and 

development (R&D) plan related to 

cyber-physical resilience across systems 

that may be local, regional, or national 

in scope. As defined in the President’s 

Council of Advisors on Science and 

Technology (PCAST) Report, Strategy 

for Cyber-Physical Resilience: Fortifying 

Our Critical Infrastructure for a Digital 

World, cyber-physical systems are 

defined as physical systems that rely on 

computing technologies for sensing, 

analysis, tracking, controls, 

connectivity, coordination, and humansystem interaction. The National 

Climate Resilience Framework defines 

resilience as the ability to prepare for 

threats and hazards, adapt to changing 

conditions, and withstand and recover 

rapidly from adverse conditions and 

disruptions. From the perspective of the 

RFI, the system recovery period and 

performance are acceptable from a 

social and technical perspective. These 

definitions will be used for the purposes 

of this RFI, but respondents are 

welcome to provide alternate definitions 

if cyber-physical systems have a 

different meaning in their industry or 

field, along with the scientific rationale 

for specific use-cases. The Plan is 

scheduled to be released in 2025. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 11:59 

p.m. (ET) on October 26, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this RFI may be sent by any 

of the following methods: 

• Email: CPSR-ftacRFI@nitrd.gov; 

Email submissions should be machinereadable and not be copy-protected. 

Submissions should include ‘‘RFI 

Response: Cyber-Physical Systems 

Resilience R&D Plan’’ in the subject line 

of the message. 

• Mail: Attn: Melissa Cornelius, 2415 

Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 

22314, USA. 

Instructions: Response to this RFI is 

voluntary. Each individual or institution 

is requested to submit only one 

response. Submissions must not exceed 

10 pages in 12 point or larger font, with 

a page number provided on each page. 

Responses must include the name of the 

person(s) or organization(s) filing the 

comment and the following statement: 

‘‘This document is approved for public 

dissemination. The document contains 

no business-proprietary or confidential 

information. Document contents may be 

reused by the government in the 

National Cyber-Physical Systems 

Resilience R&D Strategic Plan and 

associated documents without 

attribution.’’ 

Responses to this RFI may be posted 

online at https://www.nitrd.gov/. 

Therefore, we request that no business 

proprietary information, copyrighted 

information, or sensitive personally 

identifiable information be submitted as 

part of your response to this RFI. 

In accordance with FAR 15.202(3), 

responses to this notice are not offers 

and cannot be accepted by the 

Government to form a binding contract. 

Responders are solely responsible for all 

expenses associated with responding to 

this RFI. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Alexander, David Corman, Kristin 

Ludwig, Melissa Cornelius, Martin 

Stanley at CPSR-ftacRFI@nitrd.gov or 

(202) 459–9674. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., eastern time, 

Monday through Friday, except for U.S. 

Federal Government holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

(PCAST) released its report, Strategy for 

Cyber-Physical Resilience: Fortifying our 

Critical Infrastructure for a Digital 

World. The report makes 

recommendations to formulate a 

National Plan for Cyber-Physical 

Resilience Research. The goal is to 

enable focused research across Federal 

programs that increase the likelihood of 

successful research results, but more 

importantly help ensure that such 

results will transition into practice. In 

response to this, the Fast-Track Action 

Committee (FTAC) on Cyber-Physical 

Systems Resilience (CPSR) is 

developing a National Cyber Physical 

Systems Resilience (R&D) Strategic Plan 

(the Plan) which will define research 

needs that will strengthen our national 

capability to cyber-physical resilience; 

identify the gaps; and define research 

needs, and investment priorities 

spanning across multiple time horizons. 

The Plan will coordinate cross-agencies 

priorities. Responsible innovation in 

cyber physical resilience could provide 

significant benefits for the American 

people especially as systems need to 

adapt to emergent behaviors or 

operating conditions far exceeding 

design specifications. 

Information Requested: This RFI 

seeks input to shape a whole-ofgovernment effort on research and 

development that will strengthen cyberphysical resilience. 

In the context of this RFI, we refer to 

threats to include cybersecurity, 

physical, natural disasters including 

extreme weather events or other hazards 

such as earthquakes, and the potential 

for adversary use of AI to disrupt 

systems as well as deceive human 

operators of critical infrastructure 

systems. 

Threat-agnostic approaches for 

resilience are of special interest. As part 

of the input, we are primarily concerned 

with the ability of cyber-physical 


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systems to recover and adapt while 

ability to withstand may be already 

covered in the current risk assessment 

and management efforts. We are 

particularly interested in how resilience 

by design or resilience by intervention 

can prepare for recovery and adaptation 

in different threat scenarios as well as 

in threat-agnostic situations. 

Examples of domains and application 

of interest include but are not limited to 

critical infrastructure and systems for 

energy, transportation, medical, 

agriculture, water, space, 

manufacturing, and other R&D topic 

areas in which the strategic plan should 

focus, as well as details that should be 

considered when/if the topic area is 

elaborated in the strategic plan. 

This RFI is NOT soliciting approaches 

solely focused on risk assessment and 

management through shielding cyberphysical systems from specific threats 

including threat identification and 

sensing, or through hardening the 

system to make it less vulnerable to 

specific threat or disruptions. 

Submitters are encouraged to address 

the topics of this RFI clearly and 

concisely. 

References 

• PCAST Releases Report on Strategy for 

Cyber-Physical Resilience (https://

www.whitehouse.gov/pcast/briefingroom/2024/02/27/pcast-releases-reporton-strategy-for-cyber-physicalresilience/), The White House, February 

2024. 

• National Climate Resilience Framework 

(https://www.whitehouse.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2023/09/NationalClimate-Resilience-FrameworkFINAL.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NationalClimate-Resilience-FrameworkFINAL.pdf). 

• Strategy for Cyber-Physical Resilience: 

Fortifying Our Critical Infrastructure for 

a Digital World, (https://

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/ 

uploads/2024/02/PCAST_CyberPhysical-Resilience-Report_Feb2024.pdf) 

Executive Office of the President, 

President’s Council of Advisors on 

Science and Technology, February 2024. 

• Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience—The 

Networking and Information Technology 

Research and Development (NITRD) 

Program (https://www.nitrd.gov/ 

coordination-areas/cyber-physicalsystems-resilience/). 

• Submitted by the National Science 

Foundation in support of the Networking 

and Information Technology Research 

and Development (NITRD) National 

Coordination Office (NCO) on September 

20, 2024. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 

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Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 3:30 p.m., Monday, 

September 30, 2024. 

PLACE: via ZOOM. 

STATUS: Parts of this meeting will be 

open to the public. The rest of the 

meeting will be closed to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Special 

Board of Directors meeting. 

The General Counsel of the 

Corporation has certified that in her 

opinion, one or more of the exemptions 

set forth in the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2) 

permit closure of the following 

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• Executive (Closed) Session 

Agenda 

I. Call to Order 

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Notice Waiver for a Meeting of the Board 

of Directors 

III. Sunshine Act Approval of Executive 

(Closed) Session 

IV. Executive Session: Special Topic 

V. Discussion Item: Overview of Strategic 

Planning Process & Discussion Questions 

VI. Discussion Item: Key Themes from 

Market Research and Internal Scan 

VII. Discussion Item: Emerging Strategic 

Focus Areas 

VIII. Next Steps 

PORTIONS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: 

Everything except the Executive 

(Closed) Session. 

PORTIONS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC: 

Executive (Closed) Session. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Jenna Sylvester, Paralegal, (202) 568– 

2560; jsylvester@nw.org. 

Jenna Sylvester, 

Paralegal. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22183 Filed 9–24–24; 11:15 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2024–0166] 

NRC Implementation of the 

Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, 

Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy 

Act of 2024 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is implementing the 

requirements in the Accelerating 

Deployment of Versatile, Advanced 

Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024 

(the ADVANCE Act, or the Act). The 

NRC plans to hold public meetings 

periodically to support the NRC’s 

implementation of the ADVANCE Act. 

DATES: This document was published in 

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2024. Public meetings will be noticed in 

the NRC’s Public Meeting Notice System 

at least 10 days in advance of the 

scheduled meeting. The NRC will not 

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each time a public meeting is 

scheduled. 

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415–1228; email: Shilp.Vasavada@

nrc.gov; or Aaron McCraw, Office of the 

Executive Director for Operations, 

telephone: 630–829–9650; email: 

Aaron.McCraw@nrc.gov. Both are staff 

of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

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0001. 

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