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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Justice Programs 

[OJP (BJA) Docket No. 1831] 

Meeting of the Public Safety Officer 

Medal of Valor Review Board 

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs 

(OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance 

(BJA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This is an announcement of a 

meeting (via WebEx/conference call-in) 

of the Public Safety Officer Medal of 

Valor Review Board to consider 

nominations for the 2023–2024 Medal of 

Valor, and to make a limited number of 

recommendations for submission to the 

U.S. Attorney General to be cited. 

Additional issues of importance to the 

Board may also be discussed. 

DATES: November 6, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 

EST. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

virtually using web conferencing 

technology. The public may hear the 

proceedings of this virtual meeting/ 

conference call by registering at last 

seven (7) days in advance with Gregory 

Joy (contact information below). All 

emailed requests to register must 

include within its Subject line, ‘‘MOV 

Board Meeting—November 6, 2024’’. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Joy, Policy Advisor, Bureau of 

Justice Assistance, Office of Justice 

Programs, by telephone at (202) 514– 

1369, or by email at Gregory.joy@

usdoj.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor 

Review Board carries out those advisory 

functions specified in 42 U.S.C. 15202. 

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 15201, the 

President of the United States is 

authorized to award the Public Safety 

Officer Medal of Valor, the highest 

national award for valor by a public 

safety officer. 

This virtual meeting/conference call 

is open to the public to participate 

remotely. For security purposes, 

members of the public who wish to 

participate must register at least seven 

(7) days in advance of the meeting/ 

conference call by contacting Mr. Joy. 

Access to the virtual meeting/ 

conference call will not be allowed 

without prior registration. Please submit 

any comments or written statements for 

consideration by the Review Board in 

writing at least seven (7) days in 

advance of the meeting date. 

Gregory Joy, 

Policy Advisor/Designated Federal Officer, 

Bureau of Justice Assistance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

National Institute of Justice 

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1826] 

Request for Comment on NIJ Draft 

Public Access Plan 

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, 

Office of Justice Programs, Department 

of Justice. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Justice (NIJ) seeks input from all 

interested stakeholders, including NIJ 

grantees, criminal justice practitioners, 

academics, publishers, nonprofits, and 

the public as it develops a Public Access 

Plan to increase access to publications 

and data resulting from NIJ-funded 

research. 

DATES: Individuals wishing to submit 

comments must do so by 5 p.m. Eastern 

Time November 29, 2024, as instructed 

below. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by sending electronic mail (Email) to: 

public.access.nij@usdoj.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Dutton, Physical Scientist, 

National Institute of Justice, 999 North 

Capitol St. NE, Washington, DC 20002; 

telephone number: (202) 532–5612; 

email address: gregory.dutton@

usdoj.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Ensuring 

broad access to the products of NIJsponsored research is critical to 

achieving our mission to provide 

evidence, data, and tools to inform 

criminal and juvenile justice 

communities, victims services 

providers, and the public. NIJ is drafting 

a Public Access Plan to expand timely 

access to the results of NIJ-funded 

research and the data underpinning it. 

Facilitating access to both publications 

and data without barriers increases 

transparency and reproducibility. This 

has the potential to accelerate new 

discoveries and practical applications 

and contribute to evidence-based 

changes in policy and practice, which is 

all in the public interest. NIJ’s Public 

Access Plan is expected to be 

implemented for new awards made in 

Fiscal Year 2025. NIJ intends to include 

these key requirements: 

• That all peer-reviewed publications 

resulting from NIJ-funded research will 

be made freely available to the public 

without delay, by requiring the authors 

to deposit their manuscripts in a public 

repository designated by NIJ. 

• That the data underlying those 

publications will be made available at 

the time of publication. 

• That persistent digital identifiers 

and metadata will be used to facilitate 

findability and reuse. 

Access to Scholarly Publications 

The current scientific publishing 

model places many peer-reviewed 

journal articles behind paywalls, which 

can make access inequitable. While 

large research institutions often have 

subscriptions or negotiated publisher 

agreements granting them full access, 

the general public and many criminal 

justice practitioners typically do not. 

One approach authors take to reach 

broader audiences is to publish their 

work under ‘‘Gold’’ Open Access. The 

publisher collects an upfront fee to 

make the article free to all readers. This 

cost must be borne by the author, their 

institution, or the funding agency, 

putting additional financial strain on 

institutions and researchers. A second 

approach is for the author to make their 

author accepted manuscript—to which 

they typically retain the rights— 

available in a public repository. This is 

referred to as ‘‘Green’’ Open Access. 

While the manuscript made available 

under this approach is not the 

publisher’s version of record, it 

accurately reflects the final peerreviewed text, except for formatting. 

Since 2013, large federal science 

funding agencies (e.g., National 

Institutes of Health, National Science 

Foundation, Department of Energy) have 

required that a version of all peerreviewed publications be made publicly 

accessible within 12 months of 

publication (2013 OSTP Memo). More 

recently, a call was made for all 

federally funded peer-reviewed 

publications and associated data to be 

made publicly accessible upon 

publication without delay (2022 OSTP 

Memo). 

NIJ expects its grantees to publish the 

results of their work in the peerreviewed literature. But since NIJ was 

not subject to the 2013 OSTP Memo, our 

current policy does not mandate public 

access to these publications. Currently, 

grantees must notify NIJ of these 

publications simultaneous with their 

public release, and they are 

encouraged—but not required—to index 

them at the National Criminal Justice 

Research Service (NCJRS) Virtual 

Library. This aids discoverability, but 


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many NIJ-funded publications are 

behind publisher paywalls and 

inaccessible to many. To expand access, 

we are drafting a Public Access Plan 

that will require grantees to deposit 

their accepted manuscripts under Green 

Open Access at a public repository. 

To facilitate this, NIJ plans to use 

PubMed Central (PMC) as our official 

repository for grantee publications. This 

would permit NIJ to tap into the digital 

infrastructure and deep expertise of the 

National Library of Medicine, a leader 

in digital library information 

technology. It would allow for the longterm preservation and availability of NIJ 

peer-reviewed publications, in a 

machine-readable format, along with 

their associated metadata, free of charge. 

PMC provides accessible manuscripts to 

the extent possible. As used here, 

accessibility refers to both machine 

readability, which makes information 

available for data mining, as well as to 

the use of assistive devices by people 

with disabilities. Accessibility can be 

limited by the completeness of the 

information submitted by the authors, 

and NIJ aims to maximize the 

accessibility of grantee submissions 

(e.g., through the inclusion of alt-text for 

figures). PMC can accommodate both 

author accepted manuscripts and 

publisher versions of record. PMC 

assigns a unique identifier to each 

article in addition to collecting digital 

object identifiers (DOIs) for versions of 

record when available. Through PMC’s 

application programming interfaces 

(APIs), NIJ can make all our 

publications in PMC findable via the 

NCJRS Virtual Library. This would 

ensure that users can find and access all 

publications resulting from NIJ-funded 

research (including peer-reviewed 

publications, grant reports, and other 

documents published by the grantee or 

NIJ) at a single location. 

Data Associated With Scholarly 

Publications 

There is a broad and growing 

acknowledgement of the importance of 

sharing datasets that are welldocumented and reusable. This serves 

both to confirm the reproducibility of 

reported findings and to enable new 

discoveries. Scientific datasets are 

increasingly considered primary 

research products, on par with journal 

publications. Secondary analysis might 

yield new conclusions or allow for 

exploration of new research questions 

with existing data. Despite these 

benefits, researchers and institutions 

may incur additional costs in 

assembling, storing, and curating these 

datasets. 

NIJ requires grantees to archive their 

full project data at the end of the project 

period at the National Archive of 

Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) or an 

alternate repository appropriate to their 

field of study (https://nij.ojp.gov/ 

funding/data-archiving). The terms of 

data archiving for each project (e.g., 

what constitutes the data, where it will 

be archived) are established in a Data 

Archiving Plan submitted at the 

proposal stage. The NIJ Data Officer 

reviews and approves this plan after an 

award is made and any requested 

revisions have been incorporated. 

To expedite access to research data 

and consistent with other federal 

science agencies, NIJ now proposes to 

make public access to the data 

underlying grantee peer-reviewed 

publications mandatory at the time of 

publication. Researchers in some 

disciplines already routinely provide 

access to their data as Supplementary 

Information along with their 

publications. For others, this may be 

new. While the default expectation will 

be for maximum access, this 

requirement may be waived if the data 

are subject to disclosure concerns. This 

could include proprietary information; 

data pertaining to national security or 

law enforcement operations; Indigenous 

data; or data that could lead to a breach 

of personally identifiable information. 

As it does now for end-of-project data, 

NIJ will develop processes for 

requesting waivers for the release of 

publication data where legitimate 

disclosure concerns or prohibitions 

exist. Existing guidelines and award 

condition language will be revised 

accordingly. 

Persistent Identifiers 

A persistent identifier (PID) is a 

unique identifier for research 

information (e.g., publications, data, 

researchers, institutions) that is 

persistent, machine processable, and 

follows metadata schema. Greater use of 

PIDs would allow NIJ to use a federated 

approach whereby research data reside 

in appropriate repositories and the PID 

serves as a point of discovery and a 

means of linking information. This 

approach allows data assets to be 

managed by the research communities 

that create and use them, while 

simultaneously making them available 

to other users. However, this relies on 

third-party repositories ensuring data 

preservation and access over time, as 

well as the ongoing engagement of 

domain-specific expertise for dataset 

curation within scholarly communities. 

Currently, NIJ encourages principal 

investigators (PIs) and co-PIs to provide 

a researcher PID (e.g., ORCID) at the 

time of application. This helps NIJ 

assess applicants’ publishing histories 

as well as track the products of NIJ 

funding into the future. NIJ’s grant 

reporting process also encourages 

researchers to report PIDs for 

publications and datasets (typically 

DOIs). 

NIJ intends to expand its use of PIDs. 

In line with NSPM–33 specifications, 

NIJ plans to require the NSPM–33 

compliant Common Forms (i.e., 

Biographical Sketch, and Current and 

Pending (Other) Support), which should 

include researcher PIDs, with all 

applications. Additionally, NIJ is 

exploring the assignment of PIDs, via 

CrossRef, to grant award numbers and 

final grant reports, as well as NIJpublished content such as the NIJ 

Journal. 

Questions 

Commenters are encouraged to 

respond to any or all of the following 

questions. Additional comments 

relevant to public access are also 

welcome. The Freedom of Information 

Act applies to all comments received 

and may require release of part or all of 

a comment. NIJ anticipates publishing a 

summary of the comments received. No 

personally identifying information 

about the commenters will be included 

in the summary. 

EQUITY 

What steps should NIJ take to improve 

equity in access to peer-reviewed 

publications? 

How can NIJ ensure equity in 

publication opportunities for NIJsupported authors? 

PUBLICATIONS 

What opportunities or benefits do you 

anticipate you or your institution 

would realize from a requirement 

that NIJ-funded peer-reviewed 

publications be made available in a 

designated repository (e.g., PubMed 

Central)? 

What challenges or barriers do you 

anticipate facing in complying with 

a requirement that NIJ-funded peerreviewed publications be made 

available in a designated 

repository? 

If you are an author, have you 

published under Gold Open 

Access? Have you deposited your 

Author Accepted Manuscripts in a 

Green Open Access repository? 

Why or why not? 

If you are an author, have you 

attached use licenses (e.g. Creative 

Commons) to your publications to 

clarify the terms of use and reuse by 

others? Why or why not? 

DATA 

What opportunities or benefits do you 


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anticipate you or your institution 

would realize from a requirement 

that the data underlying your NIJfunded peer-reviewed publications 

be made publicly available? 

What challenges or barriers do you 

anticipate in complying with a 

requirement that the data 

underlying your NIJ-funded peerreviewed publications be made 

publicly available? 

How can NIJ provide broad access to 

datasets while protecting sensitive 

personal, proprietary, or national 

security information? 

If you are an author, have you made 

your publication data available 

along with your publications? What 

repositories did you use and why? 

PIDs 

What should NIJ consider in 

improving the findability and 

transparency of its research through 

PIDs and metadata? 

How can NIJ best implement the use 

of PIDs for people, institutions, and 

research products? 

SOFTWARE 

How can NIJ improve the archiving, 

sharing, and maintenance of NIJfunded software for reuse? 

GENERAL 

How can NIJ ensure broad access and 

accessibility to the outputs of NIJfunded research? 

What are the best practices (from 

academia, industry, and other 

stakeholder communities) for 

managing public access to research 

results? 

What will be the biggest challenges to 

NIJ implementing a public access 

policy, and how can these 

challenges be addressed? 

RESPONDENT BACKGROUND 

To contextualize your responses, 

please give any relevant 

information about your background, 

including primary field of study, 

type of institution, career stage, 

community partnerships (if 

applicable), and anything else that 

may impact your relationship to 

scholarly publications and data. 

NIJ publishes this notice pursuant to 

its authority at 34 U.S.C. 10122(c) and 

6 U.S.C. 161–165. 

Nancy La Vigne, 

Director, National Institute of Justice. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 

Act Native American Employment and 

Training Council 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, and section 

166(i)(4) of the Workforce Innovation 

and Opportunity Act (WIOA), notice is 

hereby given of the next meeting of the 

Native American Employment and 

Training Council (NAETC or Council), 

as constituted under WIOA. 

DATES: The meeting will begin at 1 p.m., 

(Pacific time) on Tuesday, October 29, 

2024, and continue until 5 p.m. (Pacific 

time). The meeting will reconvene at 10 

a.m. (Pacific time), on Wednesday, 

October 30, 2024, and adjourn at 4 p.m. 

(Pacific time). The period from 1 p.m. to 

2 p.m., on Wednesday, October 30, 

2024, is reserved for participation and 

comment by members of the public. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

person in the at the MGM Grand, 3799 

S Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89109. 

The meeting will also be accessible 

virtually. To join the meeting use the 

following URLs: 

October 29, 2024 

https://thegateam.webex.com/ 

thegateam/j.php?MTID=m74feb

877bd8079f53609e004154d6e81 

Meeting number: 2340 979 4955 

Password: 1005 

Join by phone 

1–844–992–4726 United States Toll Free 

1–408–418–9388 United States Toll 

Access code: 2340 979 4955 

October 30, 2024 

https://thegateam.webex.com/ 

thegateam/j.php?MTID=med861

edd0453fafce35e87ba9e223f19 

Meeting number: 2347 189 3020 

Password: 1005 

Join by phone 

1–844–992–4726 United States Toll Free 

1–408–418–9388 United States Toll 

Access code: 2347 189 3020 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nathaniel Coley, Designated Federal 

Officer, Division of Indian and Native 

American Programs, Employment and 

Training Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room S–4209, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210. Telephone number (202) 

693–4287 (VOICE) (this is not a toll-free 

number) or chief.dinap@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Council members and members of the 

public are encouraged to logon to the 

link provided early to allow for 

connection issues and troubleshooting. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public. Members of the public not 

present may submit a written statement 

by Friday, October 25, 2024, to be 

included in the record of the meeting. 

Statements are to be submitted to the 

U.S. Department of Labor Division of 

Indian and Native American Programs 

(DINAP) at DINAP@dol.gov. Persons 

who need special accommodations 

should contact Nathaniel Coley at 202– 

693–4287 or chief.dinap@dol.gov, two 

business days before the meeting. The 

formal agenda will focus on the 

following main topics: (1) Updates from 

the Employment and Training 

Administration; (2) NAETC workgroup 

updates; (3) DINAP updates; and (4) 

public comment. 

Jose ́ Javier Rodrı ́guez, 

Assistant Secretary for Employment and 

Training, Labor. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Wage and Hour Division 

Minimum Wage for Federal Contracts 

Covered by Executive Order 13658, 

Notice of Rate Change in Effect as of 

January 1, 2025 

AGENCY: Wage and Hour Division, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Wage and Hour Division 

(WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor 

(the Department) is issuing this notice to 

announce the applicable minimum 

wage rate for workers performing work 

on or in connection with Federal 

contracts covered by Executive Order 

13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage 

for Contractors (the Executive Order or 

the order), beginning January 1, 2025. 

Beginning on that date, the Executive 

Order 13658 minimum wage rate that 

generally must be paid to workers 

performing work on or in connection 

with covered contracts will increase to 

$13.30 per hour, while the required 

minimum cash wage that generally must 

be paid to tipped employees performing 

work on or in connection with covered 

contracts will increase to $9.30 per 

hour. Covered contracts that are entered 

into on or after January 30, 2022, or that 

are renewed or extended (pursuant to an 


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