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Nominations should be sent to Katie 

Zanowicz (see ADDRESSES) and must be 

received by [December 23, 2024]. The 

full text of the Committee Charter and 

its current membership can be viewed at 

the NMFS web page at https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ 

partners/marine-fisheries-advisorycommittee-charter. 

Dated: October 31, 2024. 

Heidi Lovett, 

Designated Federal Officer, Marine Fisheries 

Advisory Committee, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE431] 

Taking and Importing Marine 

Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals 

Incidental to Ice Roads and Ice Trails 

Construction and Maintenance 

Activities on Alaska’s North Slope 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of revised 

Letter of Authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA), as amended, its implementing 

regulations, and NMFS’ MMPA 

Regulations for Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to ice road and ice 

trail construction, maintenance, and 

operation in Alaska’s North Slope, 

notification is hereby given that NMFS 

has issued a revised Letter of 

Authorization (LOA) to Hilcorp Alaska, 

LLC (Hilcorp), in place of Eni US 

Operating Co. Inc. (Eni), for the take of 

marine mammals incidental to specified 

construction and maintenance activities. 

DATES: The LOA is effective through 

November 30, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: The LOA, original LOA 

request, request for transferal, and 

supporting documentation are available 

online at: https://www.fisheries.

noaa.gov/action/incidental-takeauthorization-hilcorp-alaska-and-eniice-road-and-ice-trail-construction-and. 

In case of problems accessing these 

documents, please call the contact listed 

below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenna Harlacher, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of 

marine mammals with certain 

exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and 

(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et 

seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce 

(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon 

request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

incidental take authorization (ITA) may 

be provided to the public for review. 

Authorization for incidental takings 

shall be granted if NMFS finds that the 

taking will have a negligible impact on 

the species or stock(s) and will not have 

an unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

taking for subsistence uses (where 

relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe 

the permissible methods of taking and 

other ‘‘means of effecting the least 

practicable adverse impact’’ on the 

affected species or stocks and their 

habitat, paying particular attention to 

rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of 

similar significance, and on the 

availability of such species or stocks for 

taking for certain subsistence uses 

(referred to in shorthand as 

‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements 

pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring 

and reporting of such takings are set 

forth. The definitions of all applicable 

MMPA statutory terms cited above are 

included in the relevant sections below. 

NMFS issued regulations in 2020 that 

govern the taking of marine mammals 

incidental to ice road and ice trail 

construction, maintenance, and 

operation in Alaska’s North Slope. The 

regulations, which are effective through 

November 30, 2025, were issued in 

response to an application from Hilcorp 

Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp) and Eni US 

Operating Co. Inc. (Eni) (85 FR 83451, 

December 22, 2020). Under those 

regulations, NMFS issued LOAs to 

Hilcorp and Eni (85 FR 83451). 

Description of the activities, as well as 

analysis related to the issuance of those 

LOAs, is available in the proposed and 

final rules (85 FR 2988, January 17, 

2020; 85 FR 83451, December 22, 2020). 

Summary of Request 

On October 4, 2024, Hilcorp requested 

the transfer of Eni’s LOA to Hilcorp 

because Hilcorp was expected to 

become the owner and operator of the 

Unit previously owned and operated by 

Eni as of November 1, 2024. Eni 

confirmed this in an October 23, 2024, 

letter to NMFS. Hilcorp agrees to 

comply with the terms, conditions, 

stipulations, and restrictions of the 

original LOA to Eni. No other changes 

were requested. The revised LOA 

remains effective through November 30, 

2025. 

The revised LOA sets forth only a 

change in the LOA holder’s name. There 

are no other changes to the LOA as 

described in the December 22, 2020, 

final rule and notice of issuance of 

LOAs (85 FR 83451). 

Authorization 

NMFS is changing the name of the 

holder of the LOA from ‘‘Eni’’ to 

‘‘Hilcorp’’. 

Dated: November 1, 2024. 

Kimberly Damon-Randall, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposals, Submissions, 

and Approvals 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled operates as the U.S. AbilityOne 

Commission (Commission). This notice 

announces the Commission’s intent to 

submit the Information Collection 

Request (ICR) described below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for approval under applicable 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act. This notice provides an 

opportunity to interested members of 

the public and affected agencies to 

comment on a proposed Participating 

Employee Information (PEI) form. 

DATES: Submit comments within 30 

days of this notice, on or before 

December 5, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments through 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Stewart, Compliance and 

Enforcement Attorney, Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. AbilityOne Commission, 

355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington, 

DC 20024; telephone: (703) 254–6172; 


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email: cstewart@abilityone.gov. If you 

are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a 

speech disability and wish to access 

telecommunications relay services, 

please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Overview of ICR: This notice pertains 

to an ICR the Commission intends to 

submit to OMB for approval of a form 

that a participating nonprofit agency 

(NPA) employer will fill out to 

document relevant information for each 

of its blind or significantly disabled 

employees whose work on a 

requirement on the Procurement List 

contract is counted by the NPA as direct 

labor hours. These individuals are 

called ‘‘Participating Employees.’’ 

This ICR is consistent with OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

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

et seq.). These regulations require the 

Commission to provide an opportunity 

to interested members of the public and 

affected agencies to comment on 

information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)) such as those proposed to be 

implemented through this form. The 

Commission may not require 

completion of this form without 

receiving approval from OMB and is 

required to display a valid control 

number. 

The Commission is responsible for 

implementing the Javits-Wagner-O’Day 

(JWOD) Act, 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506. In 

doing so, the Commission oversees the 

AbilityOne Program (Program), an 

employment program in which 

individuals who are blind or have 

significant disabilities provide products 

and services to Federal agencies, 

thereby creating employment 

opportunities for such individuals. The 

Commission maintains a Procurement 

List of mandatory source products and 

services provided by more than 400 

qualified NPAs. 

Consistent with the Commission’s 

Strategic Plan, the Agency is working to 

ensure that Participating Employees in 

the AbilityOne program are afforded 

high quality employment opportunities 

with the possibility for lateral, upward, 

and outward, mobility. Measuring the 

Commission’s success in this regard 

requires the Commission to gather data 

as to the matters covered by this form 

and the other forms on which the 

Commission is seeking public comment. 

This PEI form will collect data from 

qualified NPAs regarding Participating 

Employees to ensure the integrity and 

further the mission of the AbilityOne 

Program. This form will provide data on 

matters such as employee wages, the 

nature of Participating Employees’ 

disabilities, what job supports and 

accommodations the Participating 

Employees are receiving, and a 

description of employee career 

development activities that are available 

to Participating Employees, if an NPA is 

currently providing such activities. 

The form described in this ICR is the 

second of three forms designed to 

modernize the Commission’s 

information gathering efforts and align it 

with the Commission’s Strategic Plan 

for FY 2022–2026, as well as with 

Commission regulations, including, 

inter alia, 41 CFR 51–4.3. 

The Commission is also developing a 

new Policy 51.405 which will set forth 

an NPA’s responsibility to provide 

Participating Employees with employee 

career development activities such as 

job individualization and employee 

career plans. Although the requirements 

of Policy 51.405 will be implemented 

over time, this form will allow those 

NPAs that are already providing such 

employee career development activities 

to provide data on what they offer. 

The PEI form will be filled out and 

submitted annually for each 

Participating Employee through an 

electronic system that will be 

established by the Central Nonprofit 

Agency(ies) (CNAs) for the use of the 

NPAs. 

The Commission published a 60-day 

notice for this form on May 3, 2024, (89 

FR 36774). In that notice, the 

Commission called this form the 

‘‘Individual Employee Information’’ 

form, but it is now called the 

Participating Employee Information 

form. The Commission received 48 

comments in response. 

A few commenters stated their 

support for the Commission’s purposes 

of helping ensure the integrity of and 

furthering the mission of the Program. A 

commenter noted that some aspects of 

the information collection are 

simplified, while promoting the growth 

and development of Participating 

Employees. One commenter stated that 

the forms present a good opportunity to 

collect data to measure Program 

accountability and increase 

transparency. 

The Commission also received 

comments questioning the necessity of 

collecting the proposed information and 

asserting that the information to be 

collected was too extensive or excessive. 

Some comments noted that the 

proposed data collection is not required 

by law. Some also stated that the 

rationale for collecting the information 

was too general to substantiate the 

collection. Finally, some commenters 

requested information about the 

Commission’s planned use for the 

information. 

In addition, the Commission received 

comments expressing concerns over the 

potential collection of personally 

identifiable information (PII) covered by 

the Privacy Act. Some suggested that 

personal identifiers could raise concerns 

for NPAs under the Americans with 

Disabilities Act (ADA), and still others 

were concerned that the Health 

Insurance Portability and 

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be 

implicated. However, no commenter 

offered a legal analysis as to why HIPAA 

would be implicated. 

Other commenters suggested revisions 

to the disabilities and job supports 

listed on the form. Commenters also 

noted that some employees might object 

to listing additional disabilities beyond 

those qualifying them for the program. 

A number of commenters questioned 

why the wage data was required and 

stated that the wage data requested on 

the form would require significant work 

by different employees to complete. 

Commenters expressed concerns 

about providing data regarding 

employees’ career mobility and 

requested clarification as to how to fill 

out the form for an employee who did 

not desire career mobility. 

One commenter requested 

clarification as to why the form 

requested both the date of hire and the 

date of eligibility for an employee. 

As to the burden of completion, 

commenters opined that the 

Commission’s estimated time for 

completing the form was too short, 

though only a few offered an alternative 

estimate. Similarly, one commenter 

questioned the Commission’s 

assessment of the salary for someone 

completing the form, but here again, the 

Commission received little feedback as 

to an alternative amount. Some 

commenters contrasted the proposed 

form to the Commission’s prior 

requirements for information, which 

required record keeping but not data 

reporting. Commenters noted that the 

CNAs presently collect some of the 

information collected in this form. 

In response to the comments received, 

the Commission has significantly 

updated the form. First, to address the 

privacy concerns, the form will no 

longer require the name of any 

employee. Instead, the form will have 

only a form reference number. The NPA 

will maintain the information required 

to associate the form with the specific 

employee, and the NPA will make that 

information available for certain 

employees during qualification 

assessments. In order to share this 

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qualification assessments (also known 

as compliance inspections), the NPA 

will have been required to collect any 

consent forms that might be required 

under law from the individual at the 

onset of employment, or the NPA will 

be required to meet an exemption under 

the law. 

With respect to the Privacy Act, the 

law does not apply because the forms 

will not be retrievable by the 

Commission via a search of any 

personally identifiable information. 

Moreover, searches of the forms will be 

limited to the broad category of an NPA 

and any form references numbers that 

may appear in that search will not be 

able to be correlated to any personally 

identifiable information. Therefore, the 

Commission is confident that the 

Privacy Act is not implicated in the 

collection of this information. 

With regard to HIPAA, the 

Commission believes that, even to the 

extent some NPAs are covered entities 

under that law, submitting the form 

would constitute an exception for 

disclosures required for ‘‘[e]ntities 

subject to government regulatory 

programs for which health information 

is necessary for determining compliance 

with program standards[.]’’ 45 CFR 

164.512(d)(1)(III). Moreover, the 

Commission has removed personal 

identifiers from the form, creating 

another built-in layer of privacy. 

If the NPA believes that submitting 

the form would constitute a transaction 

under 45 CFR part 162, the NPA should 

consult with its HIPAA compliance 

officer for any updates to its existing 

HIPAA release form(s). 

With regard to the Americans with 

Disabilities Act (ADA) and the inclusion 

of information on the form about an 

employee’s disability and the reasonable 

accommodations the employee is 

receiving, it is true that the ADA 

requires that such information be kept 

confidential, subject to only limited 

exceptions. However, an exception 

exists where release of the information 

is required or necessitated by another 

Federal law. Since disability is a 

statutory prerequisite to be able to count 

an individual’s direct labor hours 

toward an NPA’s ratio under the JWOD 

Act, proof of disability is necessary for 

complying with the law. To the extent 

NPAs have any additional concerns, 

they may also obtain the authority to 

release this information for these very 

limited purposes upon hire. 

This form does not change an NPA’s 

record keeping requirements except 

insofar as the NPA is required to 

maintain a record of which employee is 

associated with which Form Reference 

Number. That duty is a natural 

consequence of NPAs’ regulatory 

requirements to maintain a file on each 

employee as required to participate in 

the AbilityOne Program. See 51.4.3(b) 

and (c). 

With regard to comments about the 

difficulty of providing information on 

wages, the Commission has deleted the 

questions regarding the average hours 

worked per week and median wages. 

Instead, the form asks only about the 

employee’s W–2 wages in the past 

calendar year and the employee’s hourly 

wage as reflected on the most recent pay 

stub for the employee. 

The listed disabilities were 

reorganized, as were the significant job 

supports, and supports were added in 

response to specific suggestions. 

The form makes clear that only the 

disability(ies) that qualifies the 

individual for the program must be 

recorded on the form, although 

employees may choose to provide 

information on other disabilities 

(particularly those for which they are 

receiving job supports). 

With regard to career mobility, 

collecting and analyzing data in this 

area is necessary to identify the career 

opportunities available in this program. 

The Commission has also added an 

option permitting the NPA to note an 

employee’s desire not to participate in 

career mobility and, in addition, to 

record whether the employee’s desire 

not to move to a job with higher pay was 

due to the employee’s concern with 

losing government-funded health care or 

other benefits. 

With respect to burden, the 

Commission agrees with commenters 

that some of the information requested 

in this form is already being collected 

by one of the CNAs. Once this form is 

approved, the CNAs will be required to 

have an electronic data system that can 

collect this information, and the 

Commission will ensure the CNAs will 

not be collecting information that 

duplicates the information in this form. 

Moreover, the Commission believes that 

making the form available in electronic 

format will significantly ease the burden 

of compliance. Nevertheless, based on 

all of the comments received, the 

Commission has revised its estimate for 

completing the form upward to two 

hours. 

A draft version of the PEI form is 

available at www.abilityone.gov. 

To calculate the burden for 

completion of the form in units of 

hours, the Commission multiplied the 

estimated total number of annual 

responses by 2, the number of hours the 

Commission estimates will be needed to 

complete the form. NPAs can assess the 

burden to their particular organization 

by multiplying the time by their total 

number of Participating Employees. 

The cost burden is based upon 

national average pay data from the U.S. 

Bureau of Labor Statistics, using the 

May 2022 National Occupational 

Employment and Wage Estimate of 

$30.88 as the median hourly wage for a 

Human Resources Specialist (OC 13– 

1070). (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/ 

oes_nat.htm#11-0000) The table below 

represents the time and cost burden the 

Commission estimates this form will 

necessitate. The Commission believes 

that collecting this critical data will 

further the Program’s mission and 

ultimately result in an expansion in 

opportunities for the individuals 

employed through the AbilityOne 

Program. 

Requested 

Program 

change 

due to 

new statute 

Program 

change 

due to 

agency 

discretion 

Change 

due to 

adjustment 

in agency 

estimate 

Change 

due to 

potential 

violation 

of the PRA 

Previously 

approved 

Annual Number of Responses for this IC .................... 37,377 

Annual IC Time Burden (Hour) .................................... 74,754 

Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars) ................................. $2,308,404 

With respect to this collection of 

information via the proposed form, the 

Commission welcomes comments on 

the following: 

1. The necessity to collect this 

information to support the 

Commission’s mission and oversight 

responsibilities. 

2. Whether there are better or different 

means of requesting the information 

sought in the form. 


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3. Whether there are additional pieces 

of information that should be collected 

in the form. 

4. Methodology to improve the 

accuracy of the estimated time burden. 

5. Suggestions or methods to 

minimize the burdens associated with 

collecting the information described in 

this ICR. 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Director, Business Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Transmittal No. 21–69] 

Arms Sales Notification 

AGENCY: Defense Security Cooperation 

Agency, Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Arms sales notice. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing the 

unclassified text of an arms sales 

notification. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pamela Young at (703) 953–6092, 

pamela.a.young14.civ@mail.mil, or 

dsca.ncr.rsrcmgmt.list.cns-mbx@

mail.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

36(b)(1) arms sales notification is 

published to fulfill the requirements of 

section 155 of Public Law 104–164 

dated July 21, 1996. The following is a 

copy of a letter to the Speaker of the 

House of Representatives with attached 

Transmittal 21–69 and Policy 

Justification. 

Dated: November 1, 2024. 

Stephanie J. Bost, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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