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Laboratory Corporation of America 

Holdings, 7207 N. Gessner Road, 

Houston, TX 77040, 713–856–8288/ 

800–800–2387 

Laboratory Corporation of America 

Holdings, 69 First Ave., Raritan, NJ 

08869, 908–526–2400/800–437–4986 

(Formerly: Roche Biomedical 

Laboratories, Inc.) 

Laboratory Corporation of America 

Holdings, 1904 TW Alexander Drive, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, 

919–572–6900/800–833–3984 

(Formerly: LabCorp Occupational 

Testing Services, Inc., CompuChem 

Laboratories, Inc.; CompuChem 

Laboratories, Inc., A Subsidiary of 

Roche Biomedical Laboratory; Roche 

CompuChem Laboratories, Inc., A 

Member of the Roche Group) 

Laboratory Corporation of America 

Holdings, 1120 Main Street, 

Southaven, MS 38671, 866–827–8042/ 

800–233–6339 (Formerly: LabCorp 

Occupational Testing Services, Inc.; 

MedExpress/National Laboratory 

Center) 

MedTox Laboratories, Inc., 402 W 

County Road D, St. Paul, MN 55112, 

651–636–7466/800–832–3244 

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical 

Center, Forensic Toxicology 

Laboratory, 1 Veterans Drive, 

Minneapolis, MN 55417, 612–725– 

2088. Testing for Veterans Affairs 

(VA) Employees Only 

Omega Laboratories, Inc.*, 2150 

Dunwin Drive, Unit 1 & 2, 

Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 5M8, 

289–919–3188 

Pacific Toxicology Laboratories, 9348 

DeSoto Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311, 

800–328–6942 (Formerly: Centinela 

Hospital Airport Toxicology 

Laboratory) 

Phamatech, Inc., 15175 Innovation 

Drive, San Diego, CA 92128, 888– 

635–5840 

US Army Forensic Toxicology Drug 

Testing Laboratory, 2490 Wilson St., 

Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755– 

5235, 301–677–7085, Testing for 

Department of Defense (DoD) 

Employees Only 

* The Standards Council of Canada 

(SCC) voted to end its Laboratory 

Accreditation Program for Substance 

Abuse (LAPSA) effective May 12, 1998. 

Laboratories certified through that 

program were accredited to conduct 

forensic urine drug testing as required 

by U.S. Department of Transportation 

(DOT) regulations. As of that date, the 

certification of those accredited 

Canadian laboratories continued under 

DOT authority. The responsibility for 

conducting quarterly performance 

testing plus periodic on-site inspections 

of those LAPSA-accredited laboratories 

was transferred to the U.S. HHS, with 

the HHS’ NLCP contractor continuing to 

have an active role in the performance 

testing and laboratory inspection 

processes. Other Canadian laboratories 

wishing to be considered for the NLCP 

may apply directly to the NLCP 

contractor just as U.S. laboratories do. 

Upon finding a Canadian laboratory to 

be qualified, HHS will recommend that 

DOT certify the laboratory as meeting 

the minimum standards of the current 

Mandatory Guidelines published in the 

Federal Register. After receiving DOT 

certification, the laboratory will be 

included in the monthly list of HHScertified laboratories and participate in 

the NLCP certification maintenance 

program. DOT established this process 

in July 1996 (61 FR 37015) to allow 

foreign laboratories to participate in the 

DOT drug testing program. 

Anastasia D. Flanagan, 

Public Health Advisor, Division of Workplace 

Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 4160–20–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Continuing Education Requirement for 

Licensed Customs Brokers 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: General notice. 

SUMMARY: This document announces 

that individual customs broker license 

holders may begin completing qualified 

continuing broker education courses on 

January 1, 2025 (compliance date) and, 

accordingly, 20 credits as the prorated 

number of required credit hours for the 

triennial period beginning on February 

1, 2024, and ending on January 31, 

2027. Further, this notice announces the 

criteria that U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) used to select qualified 

accreditors, the list of CBP-selected 

qualified accreditors, and the period of 

award for these accreditors. 

DATES: Individual brokers may begin 

completing qualified continuing broker 

education courses on January 1, 2025. 

The initial three-year period of award 

for CBP-selected qualified accreditors 

will be from June 2, 2024, through June 

1, 2027. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elena D. Ryan, Special Advisor, Broker 

Continuing Education, Trade Policy and 

Programs, Office of Trade, U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection, at (202) 302– 

2426 or CONTINUINGEDUCATION@

cbp.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (19 U.S.C. 1641), provides 

that individuals and business entities 

must hold a valid customs broker’s 

license and permit to transact customs 

business on behalf of others. The statute 

also sets forth standards for the issuance 

of broker licenses and permits, provides 

for disciplinary action against customs 

brokers in the form of suspension or 

revocation of such licenses and permits, 

and provides for the assessment of 

monetary penalties against customs 

brokers. The statute also provides for 

the assessment of monetary penalties 

against persons for conducting customs 

business without the required broker’s 

license. 

Based upon 19 U.S.C. 1641, U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

has promulgated regulations setting 

forth additional obligations of customs 

brokers pertinent to the conduct of their 

customs business, in part 111 of title 19 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (19 

CFR part 111). Part 111 provides the 

regulations regarding the licensing and 

granting of permits to persons desiring 

to transact customs business as customs 

brokers. These regulations also include 

the qualifications required of applicants, 

the procedures for applying for licenses 

and permits, the duties and 

responsibilities of individual brokers, 

the grounds and procedures for 

disciplining individual brokers, 

including the assessment of monetary 

penalties, and the revocation or 

suspension of licenses and permits. CBP 

has also updated part 111 to require 

individual brokers to satisfy a 

continuing education requirement. 

CBP believes that maintaining current 

knowledge of customs laws and 

procedures is essential for customs 

brokers to meet their legal duties. 

Requiring a customs broker to fulfill a 

continuing education requirement is the 

most effective means to ensure that the 

customs broker keeps up with an everchanging customs practice after passing 

the broker exam and subsequently 

receiving the license. Therefore, on 

October 28, 2020, CBP published an 

advance notice of proposed rulemaking 

(ANPRM) in the Federal Register (85 FR 

68260), soliciting comments on a 

potential framework of continuing 

education requirements for licensed 

customs brokers. On September 10, 

2021, CBP published a notice of 


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proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the 

Federal Register (86 FR 50794), in 

which CBP responded to the 29 

comments it received in response to the 

ANPRM, and adopted some of the 

suggestions proposed by the 

commenters. CBP thus drafted the 

NPRM accordingly and announced 

proposed regulatory amendments to 

include a proposed framework for 

individual customs broker license 

holders (individual brokers) to 

administratively maintain their license 

through completion of qualified 

continuing broker education. 

On June 23, 2023, CBP published a 

final rule in the Federal Register (88 FR 

41224). In the final rule, CBP responded 

to the 70 comments it received in 

response to the NPRM, and adopted as 

final, with changes, the proposed 

amendments. The final rule added a 

new subpart F in part 111, requiring 

continuing education for individual 

brokers and setting forth the framework 

for administering the requirement. In 

addition, CBP stated that it would 

announce, in a Federal Register notice 

following publication of the final rule, 

the date on which individual brokers 

may begin completing qualified 

continuing broker education courses 

and the prorated number of required 

continuing broker education credit 

hours for the triennial period beginning 

on February 1, 2024, and ending on 

January 31, 2027 (the 2024–2027 

triennial period). The final rule also 

noted that CBP will announce the date 

on which qualified continuing broker 

education courses will be available to 

individual brokers to begin meeting the 

requirement and will publish an initial 

list of available qualified continuing 

broker education opportunities on 

CBP.gov. Lastly, CBP will periodically 

publish notices in the Federal Register 

announcing the criteria that CBP will 

use to select an accreditor, the period 

during which CBP will accept 

applications by potential accreditors, 

and the period of award for CBPselected accreditors. 

II. CBP Implementation of the 

Continuing Education Requirement for 

Licensed Customs Brokers 

A. Compliance Date and Prorated 

Number of Required Continuing Broker 

Education Credit Hours for the 2024– 

2027 Triennial Period 

CBP has now completed full 

implementation of the framework for 

administering the new continuing 

broker education requirement. Thus, 

CBP is ready to announce that 

individual brokers may begin 

completing qualified continuing broker 

education courses on January 1, 2025 

(compliance date). On this same date, 

qualified continuing broker education 

courses will be made available to 

individual brokers to begin meeting the 

requirement. The initial list of available 

qualified continuing broker education 

opportunities, as well as free qualified 

continuing broker education activities 

available to individual brokers through 

CBP and other U.S. government agency 

offerings, may be found at CBP.gov. CBP 

believes that individual brokers will be 

able to fulfill the continuing broker 

education requirement through the free, 

online-based trainings that CBP and 

other U.S. government agencies offer, 

alone. 

The CBP regulations in section 

111.102(b) require individual brokers to 

complete at least 36 continuing 

education credits of qualifying 

continuing broker education per 

triennial period, with limited 

exceptions. In the final rule, CBP 

announced that, to allow for full 

implementation of the continuing 

education requirement, CBP would 

reduce the 36 continuing education 

credits required to be completed for the 

2024–2027 triennial period by six (6) 

credit hours for approximately every six 

(6) months that elapse between February 

1, 2024, and the compliance date on 

which individual brokers may begin 

completing qualified continuing broker 

education courses. To give individual 

brokers additional time to prepare for 

the new continuing education 

requirement, CBP is reducing the 

number of required credit hours that 

individual brokers must earn to 20 

credit hours for the 2024–2027 triennial 

period (with certification of completion 

of the credits by February 1, 2027). This 

reduced number of credits applies to the 

2024–2027 triennial period only. 

Individual brokers are required to earn 

the full 36 credit hours for all triennial 

periods following the 2024–2027 

triennial period. 

B. CBP-Selected Accreditors 

In order to supplement the available 

trainings offered by CBP and other U.S. 

government agencies, CBP selected 

accreditors to administer the 

accreditation of additional broker 

training and educational activities 

offered by providers other than by a U.S. 

government agency. 

Section 111.103(c) sets forth the 

process used by CBP for selection of 

accreditors, based on a Request for 

Information (RFI) and a Request for 

Proposal (RFP) announced through the 

System for Award Management (SAM) 

or any other electronic system for award 

management approved by the U.S. 

General Services Administration, in 

accordance with the Federal Acquisition 

Regulation (48 CFR 1.000 et seq.), for a 

specific period of award, subject to 

renewal. On August 29, 2023, CBP 

announced through SAM an RFI (Notice 

ID 201400XX) seeking information from 

organizations interested in establishing 

a relationship with CBP to review and 

accredit commercial training, programs, 

course materials, and other activities 

relating to the new continuing 

education requirement for licensed 

customs brokers. CBP received replies 

from 11 organizations expressing such 

interest. In response to the replies CBP 

received, on February 6, 2024, CBP 

announced through SAM a nontraditional RFP (Notice ID 

70B06C24R00000030) to solicit 

applications to become approved 

accreditors of qualifying continuing 

customs broker education. The RFP set 

forth the following criteria to be used for 

the selection of accreditors: 

• Identification of at least one key 

official in the applicant’s organization 

that holds an individual customs broker 

license. 

• Demonstration of knowledge of 

international trade laws, customs laws 

and regulations, and general customs 

practices for imported goods and goods 

subject to drawback. 

• Demonstration of knowledge of 

other U.S. Government agencies that are 

involved in transactions of international 

trade. 

• A description of the applicant’s 

process for handling accreditation 

requests, beginning with how an 

individual submits a training or 

educational activity proposed for credit 

to the applicant, including detail on 

electronic and online methods for 

submitting materials for consideration. 

• Confirmation that the applicant’s 

process for handling accreditation 

requests uses a secure online (webbased) repository and an overview of the 

basic functionality of the envisioned 

online repository, and confirmation that 

the applicant can protect any business 

sensitive or proprietary information 

collected in the requests. 

• Identification of up to five (5) 

professional references with contact 

information, who should be familiar 

with the applicant’s relevant 

professional history, job performance, 

and have the knowledge to determine if 

the applicant is capable of conducting 

the kind of complex work described in 

this RFP. Additionally, the applicant 

was required to provide contact 

information that included an 

individual’s full name, entity employing 

the individual (if applicable), email 

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• Disclosure of any known potential 

organizational or personal conflicts of 

interest, any applicant personnel who 

have previously been employed by CBP, 

and any applicant personnel who 

perform critical functions for one or 

more other applicants applying to be 

approved accreditors under this RFP. 

• Demonstration of the applicant’s 

ability and commitment to complete the 

accreditation process, resulting in 

transmission of an approval or denial of 

credit to the requestor, within four (4) 

business days of request submission. 

CBP evaluated the applications 

received in response to the RFP based 

on the above-mentioned criteria and 

selected the following accreditors: 

• E-Merchants Trade Council Inc. 

(EMTC)–Global Trade Professionals 

Alliance (GTPA)–Practera 

• International Compliance 

Professionals Association (ICPA) 

• National Customs Brokers and 

Forwarders Association of America 

(NCBFAA) 

• Sandler Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. 

• Tru ̈Trade Solutions, Inc. 

The initial three-year period of award 

for CBP-selected accreditors will be 

from June 2, 2024, through June 1, 2027. 

The list of CBP-selected accreditors may 

be found at CBP.gov. 

Dated: October 11, 2024. 

AnnMarie R. Highsmith, 

Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of 

Trade. 

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BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

[OMB Control Number 1651–0003] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Extension; Transportation 

Entry and Manifest of Goods Subject 

to U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Inspection and Permit (CBP Form 

7512, 7512A) 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP), Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security, U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) will be submitting the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The 

information collection is published in 

the Federal Register to obtain comments 

from the public and affected agencies. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

must be submitted (no later than 

December 2, 2024) to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or 

suggestions regarding the item(s) 

contained in this notice should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Please submit written 

comments and/or suggestions in 

English. Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional PRA information 

should be directed to Seth Renkema, 

Chief, Economic Impact Analysis 

Branch, U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Office of Trade, Regulations 

and Rulings, 90 K Street NE, 10th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20229–1177, 

Telephone number 202–325–0056 or via 

email CBP_PRA@cbp.dhs.gov. Please 

note that the contact information 

provided here is solely for questions 

regarding this notice. Individuals 

seeking information about other CBP 

programs should contact the CBP 

National Customer Service Center at 

877–227–5511, (TTY) 1–800–877–8339, 

or CBP website at https://www.cbp.gov/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on the 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.). This proposed information 

collection was previously published in 

the Federal Register (89 FR 65640) on 

August 12, 2024, allowing for a 60-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. This process is conducted in 

accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8. Written 

comments and suggestions from the 

public and affected agencies should 

address one or more of the following 

four points: (1) whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

suggestions to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) suggestions to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. The 

comments that are submitted will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for approval. All comments will become 

a matter of public record. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

Title: Transportation Entry and 

Manifest of Goods Subject to CBP 

Inspection and Permit. 

OMB Number: 1651–0003. 

Form Number: 7512, 7512A. 

Current Actions: This submission is 

being made to extend the expiration 

date with an increase to the estimated 

annual burden hours. No change to the 

information collected or method of 

collection. 

Type of Review: Extension (with 

change). 

Affected Public: Businesses. 

Abstract: Title 19 U.S.C. 1552–1554 

authorizes the movement of imported 

merchandise from the port of 

importation to another Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) port prior to 

release of the merchandise from CBP 

custody. Forms 7512, ‘‘Transportation 

Entry and Manifest of Goods Subject to 

CBP Inspection and Permit,’’ and 

7512A, ‘‘Continuation Sheet,’’ allow 

CBP to exercise control over 

merchandise moving in-bond 

(merchandise that has not entered the 

commerce of the United States). Forms 

7512 and 7512A are filed by importers, 

brokers, or carriers, and they collect 

information such as the names of the 

importer and consignee, a description of 

the imported merchandise, and the 

ports of lading and unlading. Use of 

these forms is provided for by various 

provisions in 19 CFR to include 19 CFR 

10.60, 19 CFR 10.61, 19 CFR 123.41, 19 

CFR 123.42, 19 CFR 122.92, and 19 CFR 

part 18. These forms are accessible at: 

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/ 

forms/. 

Type of Information Collection: Forms 

7512 and 7512A. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

6,200. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses per Respondent: 871. 

Estimated Number of Total Annual 

Responses: 5,400,200. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 900,033. 


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