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for filing, and served it on the firm’s 

clients, and the other who reviewed and 

redacted the document but failed to 

protect the other party’s CBI. 

Case 4. The Commission determined 

that an economic consultant breached 

the APO in a title VII investigation by 

making BPI available to unauthorized 

parties on three separate occasions. 

The document that was the subject of 

all three breaches was a presentation 

slide prepared by the consultant’s firm. 

The slide at issue contained unredacted 

BPI that revealed information in a chart 

about pricing data. The first breach 

occurred when copies of the slide were 

distributed during a meeting that 

included individuals who were not 

authorized under the APO to receive 

BPI. The second breach occurred at a 

second meeting, to additional 

unauthorized individuals who were not 

present at the first meeting. The third 

breach occurred at a public Commission 

hearing when the economic consulting 

firm displayed the slide in question on 

a large screen and distributed paper 

copies. At the conclusion of the 

presentation, a Commission employee 

approached the economic consultant to 

express concerns that the slide had 

exposed BPI. At the conclusion of the 

hearing, the economic consultant 

attempted to retrieve the paper copies 

from the recipients, which the 

Commission then collected. 

In determining whether to issue a 

sanction for the breach, the Commission 

considered the following mitigating 

factors: (1) all three breaches were 

inadvertent and unintentional; (2) the 

breaching party took prompt action to 

remedy the third breach and prevent 

further dissemination of BPI; (3) the 

breaching party implemented new 

procedures to prevent against similar 

breaches in the future; and (4) the 

individual involved had not previously 

breached an APO in the two-year period 

preceding the dates of these breaches. 

The Commission also considered the 

following aggravating factors: (1) all 

three breaches resulted in the exposure 

of BPI to unauthorized individuals; (2) 

the breaching party violated the APO on 

three occasions; and (3) the breaching 

party did not discover the breaches. 

The Commission issued a private 

letter of reprimand to the economic 

consultant responsible for creating, 

reviewing, and disseminating the slide 

to unauthorized individuals. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 17, 2024. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30518 Filed 12–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the Clean Air 

Act 

On December 17, 2024, the United 

States lodged a proposed Consent 

Decree and Environmental Settlement 

Agreement with the United States 

Bankruptcy Court for the Southern 

District of Texas in the Chapter 11 

bankruptcy cases filed by Vertex Energy, 

Inc., as Lead Debtor, and its Affiliated 

Debtors in the case captioned In re 

Vertex Energy, Inc., et al., Case No. 24– 

90507–CML. 

The proposed Consent Decree 

requires the Debtors, and after the 

effective date of the Debtors’ plan of 

reorganization, the Reorganized Debtors, 

to retire over 18.7 million renewable 

identification number credits, currently 

estimated to cost approximately $15 

million, to satisfy the Debtors’ 2023 and 

2024 renewable volume obligations by 

March 31, 2025. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed Consent Decree. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, and should 

refer to In re Vertex Energy, Inc., et al., 

D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–2–1–13141. All 

comments must be submitted no later 

than ten (10) days after the publication 

date of this notice. Comments may be 

submitted either by email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. 

Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

Any comments submitted in writing 

may be filed by the United States in 

whole or in part on the public court 

docket without notice to the commenter. 

During the public comment period, 

the proposed Consent Decree may be 

examined and downloaded at this 

Justice Department website: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

If you require assistance accessing the 

proposed Consent Decree, you may 

request assistance by email or by mail 

to the addresses provided above for 

submitting comments. 

Patricia McKenna, 

Deputy Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30505 Filed 12–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Information Collection Activities; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed reinstatement 

with change of the ‘‘Contingent Work 

Supplement (CWS) to the Current 

Population Survey (CPS)’’ to be 

conducted in May 2025. A copy of the 

proposed information collection request 

can be obtained by contacting the 

individual listed below in the Addresses 

section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

Addresses section of this notice on or 

before February 21, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin 

Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, by email to BLS_PRA_

Public@bls.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Good, BLS Clearance Officer, at 202– 

691–7628 (this is not a toll-free 

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The purpose of this request for review 

is for the Bureau of Labor Statistics 

(BLS) to obtain clearance for a 

reinstatement with change for the 

Contingent Work Supplement (CWS) to 

the Current Population Survey (CPS), 

which was last conducted in July 2023. 

The proposed CWS questions focus on 

people with contingent jobs—those that 

people do not expect to last or that are 

temporary—and workers in alternative 

employment arrangements, such as 

independent contractors, on-call 


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