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8415–01–546–0362—Shirt, Underwear, 

Midweight Cold Weather Gen III, 

ECWCS, Army, Desert Sand, X-Large/XLong 

8415–01–546–0369—Shirt, Underwear, 

Midweight Cold Weather Gen III, 

ECWCS, Army, Desert Sand, XX-Large/ 

Regular 

8415–01–546–0370—Shirt, Underwear, 

Midweight Cold Weather Gen III, 

ECWCS, Army, Desert Sand, XX-Large/ 

Long 

8415–01–546–0374—Shirt, Underwear, 

Midweight Cold Weather Gen III, 

ECWCS, Army, Desert Sand, XX-Large/ 

X-Long 

Authorized Source of Supply: Peckham 

Vocational Industries, Inc., Lansing, MI 

Authorized Source of Supply: Knox County 

Association for Remarkable Citizens, 

Inc., Vincennes, IN 

Authorized Source of Supply: TradeWinds 

Services, Inc., Merrillville, IN 

Authorized Source of Supply: BESTWORK 

INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND, INC, 

Cherry Hill, NJ 

Contracting Activity: DLA TROOP SUPPORT, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA 

Contracting Activity: DLA TROOP SUPPORT, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA 

NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 

6645–01–698–6558—Clock, Wall, Quartz, 

‘‘Think Safety’’, 123⁄4′′ Diameter, Black 

Frame 

Mandatory Source of Supply: Chicago 

Lighthouse Industries, Chicago, IL 

Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN 

SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK, 

NY 

NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 

8540–01–378–6218—Tissue, Toilet, Jumbo, 

1-Ply, 3.5′′ x 4000′, White, 6 Rolls 

Authorized Source of Supply: Outlook 

Nebraska, Inc, Omaha, NE 

Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN 

SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK, 

NY 

Service(s) 

Service Type: Grounds Maintenance 

Authorized for: U.S. Army Reserve Center: 

1850 Baltimore Road Maus-Warfield, 

Rockville, MD 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE ARMY, 

W6QM MICC CTR–FT DIX (RC) 

Service Type: Grounds Maintenance and 

Snow Removal 

Mandatory for: US Army Corps of Engineers, 

Walla Walla District Headquarters, 201 

North Third Ave., Walla Walla, WA 

Authorized Source of Supply: Lillie Rice 

Center, Inc., Walla Walla, WA 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE ARMY, 

W071 ENDIST WALLA WALLA 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2024–26660 Filed 11–14–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–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 updated 

Nonprofit Agency (NPA) Annual 

Representations and Certifications form. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

December 14, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to 

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; 

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 an 

updated form that each AbilityOne NPA 

will submit annually regarding its 

AbilityOne Program performance. This 

is a revision of an existing form that is 

submitted on an annual reporting cycle. 

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 updated 

form. 

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), a 

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 

approximately 400 qualified nonprofit 

agencies (NPAs). The individuals who 

are blind or have significant disabilities 

performing direct labor tasks for NPAemployers are called ‘‘qualifying direct 

labor employees.’’ The Commission also 

established the term ‘‘participating 

employees’’ to mean the subset of such 

qualifying direct labor employees who 

work on AbilityOne contracts. 

The implementing regulations for the 

JWOD Act, which are located at 41 CFR 

chapter 51, provide the requirements, 

procedures, and standards for the 

Program. Section 51–4.3 of the 

regulations sets forth the requirements 

that an NPA must meet to maintain 

qualification for participation in the 

Program. Under this section of the 

regulations, an NPA must submit a 

completed copy of the appropriate 

Annual Certification form. This 

documentation helps the Commission 

determine whether the NPA is meeting 

the qualification requirements of the 

Program. The Commission has also 

published policies regarding 

compliance requirements for qualified 

NPAs. 

This information collection request 

seeks approval for the Commission to 

update its collection of information 

necessary to annually verify an NPA’s 

compliance with Program requirements, 

as required by statute, regulations, and 

policies, as well to update its collection 

of the NPA’s performance data to assess 

the total effect and effectiveness of the 

AbilityOne Program. The proposed form 

is called the Annual Representations 

and Certifications (ARC) for AbilityOne 

Qualified Nonprofit Agencies. 

As part of the Commission’s 

modernization of the Program, the 

updated ARC form will collect limited 

aggregate information: (1) NPA Programrelated revenue and Program-related 

subcontracting; (2) a headcount of 

qualifying direct labor employees and 

other NPA employees who perform 

direct labor; (2) the direct labor hours 

performed by qualifying direct labor 

employees and others; (3) a headcount 

of veterans employed by the NPA; (4) 

the wages paid to participating 

employees and other NPA employees 

who perform direct labor; (5) 

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participating employees; (6) 

employment mobility outcomes (e.g., 

internal promotion, employment with a 

new employer, etc.) achieved by 

participating employees; (7) the source 

of disability eligibility determination 

documentation for participating 

employees; and (8) eleven (11) questions 

about general NPA function, 

governance, and support(s) received 

from its designated Central Nonprofit 

Agency (CNA). 

To streamline the ARC as compared to 

its predecessor form, the Commission 

removed the following: (1) questions 

about NPA governance, NPA-Program 

requirements, and Program integrity 

questions requiring yes/no responses, as 

those matters will be separately 

monitored by the designated CNA’s 

compliance program; (2) the NPA’s 

revenue, wages paid to direct labor 

employees, and subcontracting 

expenditures for work performed by the 

NPA that is not subject to the Program; 

and (3) career mobility outcomes 

generated from an NPA’s vocational 

rehabilitation activities (previously 

called direct placement). In this ARC 

modification, the Commission requires a 

limited expansion in reporting: (1) the 

headcount and cumulative employment 

of qualifying direct labor employees and 

other NPA employees who perform 

direct labor; (2) wages (total wages and 

other benefits paid) to participating 

employees and other NPA employees 

who perform direct labor; (3) the 

source(s) of disability determination 

documentation; (4) employment benefits 

offered to participating employees 

(select all that apply); and (5) general 

information about the number of board 

members that self-identify as having a 

disability, whether the Program contract 

worksites are represented by union(s), 

and what types of supports the NPA 

received from its designated CNA. 

The proposed updated ARC is 

available at www.abilityone.gov. 

The ARC will be required annually 

after the close of the Federal fiscal year. 

In accordance with 41 CFR 51–4.3(a), 

each NPA must submit the ARC to its 

responsible CNA by November 1. The 

form will be completed and submitted 

electronically. 

The Commission published a sixtyday notice for this ICR on May 3, 2024. 

The Commission received twenty-six 

(26) comments from various 

stakeholders in response to the notice. 

Comments were received from NPAs, 

CNAs, and other stakeholders. In 

addition to general comments, the 

comments can be grouped into those 

that questioned the Commission’s need 

to collect certain data, comments that 

sought clarification of definitions or 

specific data elements, comments about 

career mobility data, comments about 

benefits-related data, comments about 

subcontracting data, and comments that 

questioned the Commission’s estimated 

time burden for completing the form. 

Among the general comments, some 

included requests for instructions for 

the form, or for the definitions of 

various terms used in the form to be 

made clearer. A few commenters 

supported the Commission’s stated 

purposes of helping ensure the integrity 

of and furthering the mission of the 

AbilityOne Program. One stated that the 

forms present a good opportunity to 

increase transparency and ensure 

program accountability. Several 

commenters noted that the proposed 

form collected many of the same data 

elements collected by the CNAs and 

wanted to ensure there would not be 

duplication of data collection. 

Among the comments questioning the 

Commission’s need to collect certain 

data, some commenters asserted that the 

proposed data collection exceeded the 

Commission’s statutory authority or 

went beyond collecting data pertaining 

to NPA qualification requirements. 

Some commenters stated that the 

rationale for collecting the information 

published in the 60-day notice was too 

general to substantiate the collection. 

Others requested information about the 

Commission’s planned use for the 

information. 

Among the comments about specific 

data elements to be collected, some 

questioned the need to collect data 

regarding the source of participating 

employees’ disability eligibility 

determination. Some commenters 

questioned the purpose of collecting the 

number of employees on October 1, 

September 30, and a cumulative value, 

and requested clarification of the term 

‘‘cumulative.’’ Some questioned the 

purpose and benefit of collecting the 

number of employees with disabilities 

performing indirect labor, particularly if 

that data element is optional, as the 

form makes clear. Many commenters 

were critical of the data request for 

mean (average) and median hourly 

wages paid, citing the burden in 

providing such data and questioning the 

utility of such data. Some of those 

commenters requested a definition and/ 

or clarification of the terms ‘‘mean’’ and 

‘‘median.’’ Many commenters noted 

their concerns with collecting data 

regarding the employment of spouses 

and dependents of veterans, requested 

the definition of a ‘‘dependent,’’ and 

noted that such data was not currently 

collected by the NPAs. 

Many commenters questioned the 

need for data regarding career mobility 

of participating employees. Some asked 

for clarification of the three types of 

career mobility referenced in the form 

(lateral, upward and outward). Others 

sought clarification of an ‘‘NPA system 

for career mobility’’ and suggested 

simply using the term ‘‘NPA’’ instead. 

One commenter suggested that 

‘‘demotion’’ be included as a category. 

Some commenters stated that NPAs 

often do not know where an employee 

has gone, including what new jobs they 

may have attained, when an employee 

has chosen to leave. One commenter 

stated that NPAs contacting departing or 

former employees for feedback on 

employment mobility outcomes would 

be burdensome. Finally, some 

commenters requested the ability to 

note on the form that the employee has 

not desired any new career 

opportunities. 

Among the comments regarding the 

benefits-related data requested, some 

questioned the relevance of collecting 

this data. Some commenters noted that 

employees may choose to opt out of 

receiving certain benefits. Some 

commenters were supportive of 

collecting employment benefits data but 

suggested that it would be useful to 

provide a free text option for the NPA 

to explain its benefits system. 

Several comments related to the scope 

of the data requested about 

subcontracts. Some commenters 

requested a definition of ‘‘subcontract’’ 

and ‘‘subcontractor.’’ Some sought 

clarification of the timeframe for 

reporting subcontracts, while others 

sought clarification on how to 

accurately report whether the 

subcontractor’s employees and NPA 

employees were occupying the same 

labor positions and whether the 

subcontractor had offered jobs to NPA 

employees. One commenter 

recommended that the Commission add 

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small 

Businesses as a category for small 

business subcontract reporting. 

Among the comments that questioned 

the Commission’s estimated time 

burden, several commenters suggested 

that the Commission’s estimated time 

burden was inadequate or understated. 

Two offered a time burden amount for 

the previous form, but neither 

commented whether the time burden for 

the proposed form would be higher, 

lower, or approximately the same as the 

previous form. Only one commenter 

offered an estimate that the proposed 

form would require 20 hours to collect 

and report the required data. 

Some commenters stated that it may 

be costly and onerous to report the 

number of participating employees by 

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Another commenter stated it may be 

burdensome to calculate and report 

employees with disabilities employed in 

indirect labor functions, but did not 

offer any details as to why that would 

be difficult and did not offer an estimate 

of the additional time it would take to 

make that calculation. One commenter 

said that it may be burdensome to report 

low, high, and average hourly wages 

paid to participating employees. 

Other commenters stated it would be 

burdensome to report the percentage of 

employees that elect to receive the NPAprovided health insurance or the cash 

payment instead, but did not offer 

details as to why that would be difficult 

and did not offer an estimate of the 

additional time it would take to 

determine that number. 

The two CNAs, as commenters, stated 

that the burden to modify their data 

collection system was not considered in 

the burden estimate. 

The Commission appreciates the 

comments it received and has made a 

number of modifications in the revised 

form available with this notice. 

As a general matter, the Commission 

modified and reduced the data 

collection in the proposed form. To 

address the apparent confusion 

regarding whether the proposed form 

will duplicate existing data collections, 

the Commission has made clear that the 

proposed form replaces and supersedes 

the previous, similarly named annual 

certification required from NPAs. In 

addition, the Commission has made 

clear that it expects the CNAs to collect 

the data from this form in a manner that 

does not duplicate the manner in which 

the CNAs currently collect much of the 

same data. These points have been 

discussed in a variety of public 

meetings and forums and will continue 

to be articulated by the Commission. 

With respect to the Commission’s 

authority and need to collect the data, 

some of the information being collected 

is required by law, regulation, or policy, 

while other information is needed to 

ensure that the Program operates 

efficiently, successfully, and in accord 

with the mission of the Program. In 

order to strengthen and grow the 

employment opportunities offered 

through the AbilityOne Program, the 

Commission needs quantitative data to 

demonstrate the Program’s integrity, to 

reflect the number and nature of good 

jobs offered in the Federal contracts 

obtained through the sole-source 

procurement process of the Program, 

and to determine the positive 

employment outcomes, including 

opportunities for career mobility, that 

currently exist in the Program. 

The Commission’s collection of data 

about the sources of employees’ 

disability qualification documentation 

will be used to help ensure and 

demonstrate that individuals working 

on AbilityOne projects have qualifying 

disabilities and are eligible for the 

hiring opportunities available through 

the sole-source procurement program. 

Another proposed data collection form, 

the ‘‘Participating Employee 

Information’’ form, will collect in an 

electronic system the source of 

disability documentation at the time of 

hire for new employees, as well as for 

individuals currently employed on the 

AbilityOne contracts. The Commission 

expects this electronic collection will 

enable an NPA to auto-calculate the 

aggregate number of employees by 

medical documentation source. Indeed, 

the Commission has conveyed to each 

CNAs that it expects the CNA’s 

electronic data system to enable such 

auto-population. 

In response to requests for 

clarification of various terminology used 

in the form, the Commission has 

changed the term ‘‘cumulative’’ to the 

term ‘‘total employed during the year’’ 

to clarify the value required in the 

participating employee count table. The 

Commission has also modified the 

question regarding ‘‘number of 

employees who are blind or have a 

significant disability performing 

indirect labor’’ to ‘‘number of employees 

who self-identify as a person with a 

disability performing indirect labor’’ to 

clarify that is a count of indirect labor 

employees that self-identify as having a 

disability. 

The Commission has removed the 

question regarding the median hourly 

wages paid to participating employees 

so as to reduce the burden on NPAs in 

calculating the median hourly wage. 

The data request for the mean hourly 

wages paid has been changed so that a 

field will be automatically calculated 

once the NPA has entered the count of 

participating employees during the 

fiscal year and the wages paid to 

participating employees. 

The Commission has removed the 

request for data regarding the number of 

military spouses or dependents hired by 

the NPA on Federal contracts obtained 

through the AbilityOne Program, thus 

eliminating the need to further define 

those terms. That data is often of 

interest to Federal agencies, particularly 

the Department of Defense, as the 

agency considers whether to ask or 

agree that a contract be placed on the 

AbilityOne sole-source procurement 

list. The NPAs that collect such data 

often include that information when 

they bid for contracts. However, data 

requests regarding employment of 

veteran spouses or dependents will not 

be included on this form. 

The Commission revised the question 

seeking the percentage of participating 

employees that utilize NPA-provided 

health insurance (or cash in lieu of the 

benefit). The form now simply provides 

check boxes for the NPA to indicate 

which benefits are offered. Based on 

comments received, ‘‘tuition assistance 

or other education support’’ is now 

included in the list of benefits offered. 

In addition, an ‘‘other’’ category has 

been added, along with an option to 

enter free text describing an 

employment benefit that is not listed on 

the form. Finally, an additional free text 

box has been added so an NPA can 

provide additional information on its 

benefits structure, if it wishes to do so. 

The measurement of participating 

employee career mobility is particularly 

important to the Commission’s 

demonstration that the AbilityOne 

Program offers a wide range of good 

jobs. The Commission added 

parenthetical explanations for the 

employment mobility outcome terms— 

lateral movement, upward movement, 

and outward movement—and has added 

‘‘demotion’’ as a potential outcome. 

The Commission also added an option 

to allow the NPA to note that the 

employee has a ‘‘stated desire to remain 

in present position.’’ As a subset of that 

answer, the form has an option for the 

NPA to note that the employee has 

‘‘expressed concern regarding potential 

government benefit disqualification as a 

result of increased wages.’’ 

The Commission has included an 

option of ‘‘unknown’’ regarding an 

employee’s desire to remain in a current 

labor position. However, once NPAs are 

required to engage in annual career 

planning with their employees, the NPA 

will be expected to know the answer to 

whether a participating employee 

wishes to remain in their current labor 

position. 

The Commission has significantly 

modified the requested information 

regarding subcontracting of work on the 

Procurement List. It has removed 

entirely the section seeking data on 

whether participating employees are 

performing the same or similar jobs as 

employees of the subcontractor. This 

data will be relevant when an NPA is a 

prime contractor and subcontracts with 

an entity in which the employees of the 

subcontractor and the NPAs 

participating employees perform the 

same or similar jobs. This is an 

approach the Commission is exploring 

as a means of increasing integration in 

the workplace, but it is not yet a 

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The Commission has also removed 

the question regarding whether a 

subcontractor has employed 

participating employees. While this data 

is relevant regardless of whether 

participating employees are doing the 

same or similar job as subcontractor 

employees, it is not yet the norm for 

NPAs to require that their 

subcontractors have a mechanism by 

which the subcontractor will view 

participating employees as a talent pool 

to draw upon for employment. 

Finally, the Commission has removed 

all collection of information about an 

NPA’s subcontracts on contracts 

obtained independently of the 

AbilityOne Program. 

The Commission has added ServiceDisabled Veteran-Owned Small 

Business as a choice of a subcontractor 

business entity type. The Commission 

will also define the terms ‘‘subcontract’’ 

and ‘‘subcontracting’’ in the instructions 

for the proposed form. 

With regard to the time burden 

estimate, the Commission has revised its 

estimate for an NPA to complete the 

proposed form from eight (8) hours to 

twenty (20) hours. 

One commenter suggested that ten 

(10) hours was more realistic for 

completing the form, while a second 

commenter suggested that twenty (20) 

hours was the appropriate estimate. No 

other commenters suggested alternative 

time estimates. 

In order to be conservative, the 

Commission now estimates that an NPA 

will need twenty (20) hours to complete 

the proposed form. The Commission 

estimates that it will take a human 

resources staff person (or an equivalent 

staff person) nine (9) hours to complete 

some sections of the form; a financial 

specialist nine (9) hours to complete 

other sections of the form, and two (2) 

hours by the Principal Officer to review 

and certify the form. 

To calculate the cost burden for this 

average annual burden, the Commission 

used national average pay data from the 

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, using 

the May 2023 National Occupational 

Employment and Wage Estimate of 

$36.57 as the mean hourly wage for a 

Human Resources Specialist (OC 13– 

1070), $46.37 as the mean hourly wage 

for a Financial Specialist (OC 13–2000), 

and $124.47 as the mean hourly wage 

for a Chief Executive Officer (OC 11– 

1011). See https://www.bls.gov/ 

news.release/ocwage.t01.htm. 

The table below represents the time 

and cost burden the Commission 

estimates this form will necessitate. 

NPA positions 

Annual form 

burden 

(hours) 

Total time 

burden for 

all employees 

Annual form 

cost burden 

(dollars) 

HR Specialist ............................................................................................................. 9 .............................. $329.13 

Financial Specialist .................................................................................................... 9 .............................. 417.33 

Principal Officer ......................................................................................................... 2 .............................. 248.94 

Total .................................................................................................................... 20 .............................. 995.40 

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. Methodology to improve the 

accuracy of the estimated time burden; 

3. 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 

Department of the Navy 

Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy 

Board of Visitors 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy (DoN), 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of partially closed 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this 

notice to announce that the following 

Federal Advisory Committee meeting of 

the U.S. Naval Academy Board of 

Visitors, hereafter ‘‘Board,’’ will take 

place. 

DATES: Open to the public, December 2, 

2024, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. eastern time 

zone (ET). Closed to the public, 

December 2, 2024, from 11 a.m. to noon 

(12 p.m.) ET. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at 

the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, 

MD. Pending prevailing health 

directives, the meeting will be handicap 

accessible. Escort is required. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lieutenant Commander Ross Hammerer, 

USN, Executive Secretary to the Board 

of Visitors, Office of the Superintendent, 

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 

21402–5000, 410–293–1503, 

hammerer@usna.edu, or visit https://

www.usna.edu/PAO/Superintendent/ 

bov.php. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is being held under the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 

United States Code (U.S.C.), appendix, 

as amended), the Government in the 

Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as 

amended), the General Services 

Administration’s (GSA) Federal 

Advisory Committee Management Final 

Rule (41 Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) part 102–3). 

Purpose of Meeting: The U.S. Naval 

Academy Board of Visitors will meet to 

make such inquiry, as the Board deems 

necessary, into the state of morale and 

discipline, the curriculum, instruction, 

physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and 

academic methods of the Naval 

Academy. 

Agenda: 

Proposed meeting agenda for 

December 2, 2024. 

0900 Call to Order (Open to Public) 

0900–1055 Business Session (Open to 

Public) 

1055–1100 Break (Open to Public) 

1100–1200 Executive Session (Closed 

to Public) 

Current details on the board of 

visitors may be found at https://

www.usna.edu/PAO/Superintendent/ 

bov.php. 

The executive session of the meeting 

from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET on December 

2, 2024, will consist of discussions of 

new and pending administrative or 

minor disciplinary infractions and nonjudicial punishments involving 

midshipmen attending the Naval 

Academy to include but not limited to, 

individual honor or conduct violations 

within the Brigade, the disclosure of 

which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. For this reason, the executive 

session of this meeting will be closed to 


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