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Notices Federal Register

97582 

Vol. 89, No. 236 

Monday, December 9, 2024 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: United States Commission on 

Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of Commission public 

business meeting. 

DATES: Friday, December 13, 2024, 10:00 

a.m. EST. 

ADDRESSES: Meeting to take place 

virtually and is open to the public via 

livestream on the Commission’s 

YouTube page: https://

www.youtube.com/user/USCCR/videos. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe 

Kim: 202–376–8371; publicaffairs@

usccr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Government in 

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

Commission on Civil Rights is holding 

a meeting to discuss the Commission’s 

business for the month. This business 

meeting is open to the public. Computer 

assisted real-time transcription (CART) 

will be provided. The web link to access 

CART (in English) on December 13, 

2024, is https://www.streamtext.net/ 

player?event=USCCR. Please note that 

CART is text-only translation that 

occurs in real time during the meeting 

and is not an exact transcript. 

I. Approval of Agenda 

II. Business Meeting 

A. A Discussion and Vote on the 

planning documents for the 2025 

Briefing Report Topic on Language 

Access, led by Commissioner 

Magpantay. 

B. Management and Operations. 

• Staff Director’s Report. 

III. Adjourn Meeting 

Dated: December 5, 2024. 

David Mussatt, 

USCCR Chief of Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29013 Filed 12–5–24; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; High-Frequency Surveys 

Program/Household Trends and 

Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) 

On July 22, 2024, the Department of 

Commerce received clearance from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to 

conduct Phase 4.2 of the Household 

Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607–1029, 

Exp. 01/31/27) and on July 12, 2024, 

clearance was received to conduct the 

tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Census 

Household Panel topical operations 

(OMB No. 0607–1025, Exp. 6/30/26). 

The Household Trends and Outlook 

Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is designed to 

ensure availability of frequent data 

collection for nationwide estimates on a 

variety of topics for a variety of 

subgroups of the population. This notice 

serves to inform of the Department’s 

intent to request clearance from OMB to 

conduct HTOPS sample replenishment 

and January and February topical 

operations. 

The purpose of the sample 

replenishment baseline instrument is to 

recruit a nationally representative 

survey panel and also collect data on a 

variety of topics of interest. The topical 

survey that will field in January will 

include a household roster update and 

a section of assistance program income 

questions that will be used to test 

several possible changes being made in 

preparation for the transition to a 

multimode version of the Survey of 

Income and Program Participation 

(SIPP) the SIPP redesign effort on a 

larger representative respondent sample. 

The results of this test will be for 

internal use only. The February topical 

survey will include content from the 

Household Pulse Survey. The 

Household Pulse Survey will continue 

to serve as an experimental endeavor 

coordinated with other federal agencies 

to produce near real-time data to 

understand the effects of current events, 

including health events, natural disaster 

events, or other social or economic 

events facing the nation or a significant 

portion of the nation. 

It is the Department’s intention to 

commence data collection using the 

revised instrument on or about July 23, 

2024. We invite the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed, and continuing information 

collections, which helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. Public comments 

were previously requested via the 

Federal Register on February 15, 2024 

(OMB No. 0607–1029) during a 30-day 

comment period. This notice allows for 

an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Department of Commerce. 

Title: High Frequency Surveys 

Program/Household Trends and 

Outlook Pulse Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–1029. 

Form Number(s): Not yet determined. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Request for a Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

Number of Respondents: Baseline: 

18,000 respondents/Topicals 17,812 

panel members. 

Average Hours per Response: 

Baseline: .400 (24 minutes); Topicals: 

.333 (20 minutes). 

Burden Hours: Baseline: 7,200/ 

Topical 3,300 per month. 

Needs and Uses: The High-Frequency 

Surveys Program was established as a 

natural progression from the creation of 

the Household Pulse Survey. The 

Household Trends and Outlook Pulse 

Survey (HTOPS) is a probability-based 

nationwide nationally representative 

survey panel designed to test the 

methods to collect data on a variety of 

topics of interest, and for conducting 

experimentation on alternative question 

wording and methodological 

approaches. The goal of the HTOPS is 

to ensure availability of frequent data 

collection for nationwide estimates on a 

variety of topics and a variety of 

subgroups of the population, meeting 

standards for transparent quality 

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Agencies and the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB). 

Panelists and households selected for 

the HTOPS were recruited from the 

Census Bureau’s gold standard Master 

Address File. This ensures that HTOPS 

is rooted in this rigorously developed 

and maintained frame and available for 

linkage to administrative records 

securely maintained and curated by the 

Census Bureau. Invitations to complete 

the monthly surveys will be sent via 

email and SMS messages. 

Questionnaires will be mainly internet 

self-response. The HTOPS will maintain 

representativeness by allowing 

respondents who do not use the internet 

to respond via computer-assisted 

telephone interviewing (CATI). All 

panelists will receive an incentive for 

each complete questionnaire. Periodic 

replenishment samples will maintain 

representativeness and panelists will be 

replaced after a period of three years. 

Affected Public: Households. 

Frequency: Monthly. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 141, 182 

and 193. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0607–1025. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28849 Filed 12–6–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

[Docket No. 241127–0304] 

RIN 0694–XC110 

Impact of the Implementation of the 

Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) 

on Legitimate Commercial Chemical, 

Biotechnology, and Pharmaceutical 

Activities Involving ‘‘Schedule 1’’ 

Chemicals (Including ‘‘Schedule 1’’ 

Chemicals Produced as Intermediates) 

During Calendar Year 2024 

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and 

Security, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of inquiry. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS) is seeking public 

comments on the impact that 

implementation of the Chemical 

Weapons Convention (CWC or ‘‘the 

Convention’’), through the Chemical 

Weapons Convention Implementation 

Act of 1998 and the Chemical Weapons 

Convention Regulations (CWCR), has 

had on commercial activities involving 

‘‘Schedule 1’’ chemicals during calendar 

year 2024. The purpose of this notice of 

inquiry is to collect information to assist 

BIS in its preparation of the annual 

certification to the Congress on whether 

the legitimate commercial activities and 

interests of chemical, biotechnology, 

and pharmaceutical firms are harmed by 

such implementation. This certification 

is required under Condition 9 of Senate 

Resolution 75 (April 24, 1997), in which 

the Senate gave its advice and consent 

to the ratification of the CWC. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

January 8, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on this rule may 

be submitted to the Federal rulemaking 

portal at: www.regulations.gov. The 

regulations.gov ID for this rule is: BIS– 

2024–0054. Please refer to RIN 0694– 

XC110 in all comments. 

All filers using the portal should use 

the name of the person or entity 

submitting the comments as the name of 

their files, in accordance with the 

instructions below. Anyone submitting 

business confidential information 

should clearly identify the business 

confidential portion at the time of 

submission, file a statement justifying 

nondisclosure and referring to the 

specific legal authority claimed, and 

provide a non-confidential version of 

the submission. 

For comments submitted 

electronically containing business 

confidential information, the file name 

of the business confidential version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘BC.’’ 

Any page containing business 

confidential information must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ 

on the top of that page. The 

corresponding non-confidential version 

of those comments must be clearly 

marked ‘‘PUBLIC.’’ The file name of the 

non-confidential version should begin 

with the character ‘‘P.’’ Any 

submissions with file names that do not 

begin with either a ‘‘BC’’ or a ‘‘P’’ will 

be assumed to be public and will be 

made publicly available at: https://

www.regulations.gov. 

Commenters submitting business 

confidential information are encouraged 

to scan a hard copy of the nonconfidential version to create an image 

of the file, rather than submitting a 

digital copy with redactions applied, to 

avoid inadvertent redaction errors 

which could enable the public to read 

business confidential information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For questions on the Chemical 

Weapons Convention requirements for 

‘‘Schedule 1’’ chemicals, contact David 

Johnston, Treaty Compliance Division, 

(202) 482–2450, Email: David Johnston@

bis.doc.gov. 

For questions on the submission of 

comments, contact Logan Norton, 

Regulatory Policy Division, (202) 482– 

2440; Email: RPD2@bis.doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In providing its advice and consent to 

the ratification of the Convention on the 

Prohibition of the Development, 

Production, Stockpiling, and Use of 

Chemical Weapons and Their 

Destruction (CWC or ‘‘the Convention’’), 

the Senate included, in Senate 

Resolution 75 (S. Res. 75, April 24, 

1997), several conditions to its 

ratification. Condition 9, titled 

‘‘Protection of Advanced 

Biotechnology,’’ calls for the President 

to certify to Congress on an annual basis 

that ‘‘the legitimate commercial 

activities and interests of chemical, 

biotechnology, and pharmaceutical 

firms in the United States are not being 

significantly harmed by the limitations 

of the Convention on access to, and 

production of, those chemicals and 

toxins listed in Schedule 1.’’ On July 8, 

2004, President George W. Bush, by 

Executive Order 13346, delegated his 

authority to make the annual 

certification to the Secretary of 

Commerce. 

The CWC is an international arms 

control treaty that contains certain 

verification provisions. In order to 

implement these verification provisions, 

the CWC established the Organization 


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