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1See 12 U.S.C. 1427(a)(1), (b), (d). 

2See 12 CFR 1273.7(a). 

3See 12 U.S.C. 4520(a). 

4See 12 U.S.C. 4520(b), (d). 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01108 Filed 1–16–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE 

AGENCY 

[No. 2025–N–3] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice of submission of 

information collection for approval from 

Office of Management and Budget. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the 

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA 

or the Agency) is seeking public 

comments concerning an information 

collection known as ‘‘Minority and 

Women Inclusion,’’ which has been 

assigned control number 2590–0014 by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). FHFA intends to submit the 

information collection to OMB for 

review and approval of a three-year 

extension of the control number, which 

is due to expire on March 31, 2025. 

DATES: Interested persons may submit 

comments on or before March 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to FHFA, 

identified by Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request: ‘‘Minority and 

Women Inclusion, (No. 2025–N–3)’’ by 

any of the following methods: 

• Agency Website: https://

www.fhfa.gov/regulation/federalregister?comments=open. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery: Federal 

Housing Finance Agency, Fourth Floor, 

400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 

20219, ATTENTION: Proposed 

Collection; Comment Request: 

‘‘Minority and Women Inclusion, (No. 

2025–N–3).’’ Please note that all mail 

sent to FHFA via the U.S. Postal Service 

is routed through a national irradiation 

facility, a process that may delay 

delivery by approximately two weeks. 

For any time-sensitive correspondence, 

please plan accordingly. 

FHFA will post all public comments 

on the FHFA public website at https:// 

www.fhfa.gov, except as described 

below. Commenters should submit only 

information that the commenter wishes 

to make available publicly. FHFA may 

post only a single representative 

example of identical or substantially 

identical comments, and in such cases 

will generally identify the number of 

identical or substantially identical 

comments represented by the posted 

example. FHFA may, in its discretion, 

redact or refrain from posting all or any 

portion of any comment that contains 

content that is obscene, vulgar, profane, 

or threatens harm. All comments, 

including those that are redacted or not 

posted, will be retained in their original 

form in FHFA’s internal file and 

considered as required by all applicable 

laws. Commenters that would like 

FHFA to consider any portion of their 

comment exempt from disclosure on the 

basis that it contains trade secrets, or 

financial, confidential or proprietary 

data or information, should follow the 

procedures in section IV.D. of FHFA’s 

Policy on Communications with Outside 

Parties in Connection with FHFA 

Rulemakings, see https://www.fhfa.gov/ 

sites/default/files/documents/Ex-ParteCommunications-Public-Policy_3-5- 

19.pdf. FHFA cannot guarantee that 

such data or information, or the identity 

of the commenter, will remain 

confidential if disclosure is sought 

pursuant to an applicable statute or 

regulation. See 12 CFR 1202.8, 12 CFR 

1214.2, and the FHFA FOIA Reference 

Guide at https://www.fhfa.gov/about/ 

foia-reference-guide for additional 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Takisha Koonce, Supervisory Program 

Manager, Office of Minority and Women 

Inclusion, Division of Inclusivity, 

Culture, and Equity, Takisha.Koonce@

fhfa.gov, or by telephone at (202) 647– 

3740; or Angela Supervielle, Senior 

Counsel, Angela.Supervielle@fhfa.gov, 

(202) 649–3973 (these are not toll-free 

numbers); Federal Housing Finance 

Agency, 400 Seventh Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20219. For TTY/TRS 

users with hearing and speech 

disabilities, dial 711 and ask to be 

connected to any of the contact numbers 

above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FHFA is 

seeking comments on its collection of 

information regarding the minority and 

gender classification of individuals 

serving on the boards of directors of the 

Federal Home Loan Banks (Banks) and 

of the Office of Finance under FHFA’s 

regulations on Minority and Women 

Inclusion (MWI), codified at 12 CFR 

part 1223, which it will soon be 

submitting for renewal of the OMB 

control number under the PRA. 

A. Need for and Use of the Information 

Collection 

The Federal Home Loan Bank System 

consists of eleven regional Banks and 

the Office of Finance, which issues and 

services the Banks’ debt securities. The 

Banks are wholesale financial 

institutions, organized under authority 

of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act 

(Bank Act) to serve the public interest 

by enhancing the availability of 

residential housing finance and 

community lending credit through their 

member institutions and, to a limited 

extent, through certain eligible nonmember entities. Each Bank is 

structured as a regional cooperative that 

is owned and controlled by member 

financial institutions located within its 

district, which are also its primary 

customers. The Bank Act vests the 

management of each Bank in a board of 

directors that consists of two types of 

directors: (1) member directors, who are 

drawn from the officers and directors of 

member institutions located in the 

Bank’s district and who are elected to 

represent members in a particular state 

in that district; and (2) independent 

directors, who are unaffiliated with any 

of the Bank’s member institutions, but 

who reside in the Bank’s district and are 

elected on an at-large basis.1 The Office 

of Finance is also governed by a board 

of directors, which consists of the 

presidents of the eleven Banks and five 

independent directors.2

Section 1319A of the Federal Housing 

Enterprises Financial Safety and 

Soundness Act of 1992 (Safety and 

Soundness Act) requires that each of the 

Banks establish an Office of Minority 

and Women Inclusion (OMWI) to be 

responsible for all matters relating to 

diversity in its management, 

employment, and business activities, in 

accordance with requirements 

established by FHFA.3 Section 1319A 

also requires that each Bank implement 

standards and procedures to ensure, to 

the maximum extent possible, the 

inclusion and utilization of women and 

minorities ‘‘at all levels’’ of its business 

and activities, and submit an annual 

report to FHFA detailing actions taken 

to achieve those goals.4

FHFA’s MWI regulations implement 

those statutory requirements and also 

extend the requirements to the Office of 

Finance. The MWI regulations require 

generally that each Bank and the Office 

of Finance ‘‘develop, implement, and 

maintain policies and procedures to 

ensure, to the maximum extent possible 


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5See 12 CFR 1223.21(b). 

6See 12 CFR 1223.21(b)(7). 

7See 12 CFR 1223.22(a). 

8See 12 CFR 1223.23(b)(1). As required by 29 

CFR 1602.7, each Bank and the Office of Finance 

annually files an EEO–1 form with the EEOC. 

9See 12 CFR 1223.23(b)(10)(i). 

10See 12 CFR 1223.23(b)(10)(i)(A). 

in balance with financially safe and 

sound business practices, the inclusion 

and utilization of minorities, women, 

individuals with disabilities, and 

minority-, women-, and disabled-owned 

businesses in all business and activities 

and at all levels of the regulated entity, 

including in management, employment, 

procurement, insurance, and all types of 

contracts.’’ 5 In recognition of the fact 

that each Bank is required by statute to 

promote diversity and inclusion ‘‘at all 

levels’’ of its business and activities, the 

MWI regulations further require that the 

Banks’ policies and procedures (as well 

as those of the Office of Finance) 

‘‘[e]ncourage the consideration of 

diversity in nominating or soliciting 

nominees for positions on boards of 

directors and engage in recruiting and 

outreach directed at encouraging 

individuals who are minorities, women, 

and individuals with disabilities to seek 

or apply for employment with the 

regulated entity.’’ 6

In conformity with the statutory 

requirements, FHFA’s MWI regulations 

require that each Bank and the Office of 

Finance submit to FHFA an annual 

report describing, among other things, 

its efforts to promote diversity at all 

levels of management and employment, 

and the results of those efforts.7 In order 

to provide a quantitative basis upon 

which to assess the results of those 

efforts, FHFA’s MWI regulations require 

that each Bank and the Office of Finance 

set forth in their respective annual 

reports the demographic data reported 

on the EEO–1 form, which they are 

required to file annually with the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC).8 The EEO–1 form requires that 

each respondent provide race, ethnicity 

and gender information for its 

employees, broken down into various 

job categories. Because the EEO–1 form 

does not require that a respondent 

provide information on board directors, 

FHFA cannot use the EEO–1 data to 

assess the effectiveness of the Federal 

Home Loan Bank System’s efforts to 

‘‘encourage the consideration of 

diversity in nominating or soliciting 

nominees for positions on boards of 

directors.’’ 

Therefore, in order to enable FHFA to 

assess those efforts, the MWI regulations 

separately require that the annual 

reports set forth ‘‘[d]ata showing for the 

reporting year by minority and gender 

classification, the number of individuals 

on the board of directors of each Bank 

and the Office of Finance,’’ using the 

same racial and ethnic classifications 

that are used on the EEO–1 form (which 

comply with OMB’s ‘‘Statistical Policy 

Directive No. 15, Race and Ethnic 

Standards for Federal Statistics and 

Administrative Reporting’’).9 The MWI 

regulations require that each Bank and 

the Office of Finance collect that data 

‘‘through an information collection 

requesting each director’s voluntary 

self-identification of his or her minority 

and gender classification without 

personally identifiable information.’’ 10

FHFA uses the information collected 

under this control number to assess the 

effectiveness of the policies and 

procedures that each Bank and the 

Office of Finance is required to 

implement to promote diversity in all of 

its business and activities ‘‘at all levels’’ 

and, specifically, to encourage diversity 

in the nomination and solicitation of 

nominees for members of its boards of 

directors. FHFA also uses the 

information to establish a baseline to 

analyze future trends related to the 

diversity of the boards of directors of the 

Banks and the Office of Finance and to 

assess the effectiveness of the strategies 

developed by the Banks and the Office 

of Finance for promoting, developing, 

and retaining diverse board talent. 

B. Burden Estimate 

FHFA estimates the total annual hour 

burden imposed upon respondents by 

this information collection to be 19.8 

hours. This is based on estimates that 

198 Bank and Office of Finance 

Directors will respond annually, with 

each response taking an average of 0.1 

hours (6 minutes) (198 respondents x 

0.1 hours = 19.8 hours). 

C. Comments Request 

FHFA requests written comments on 

the following: (1) Whether the collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of FHFA functions, 

including whether the information has 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

FHFA’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information; (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Shawn Bucholtz, 

Chief Data Officer, Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01061 Filed 1–16–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8070–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day-25–0666; Docket No. CDC–2025– 

0001] 

Proposed Data Collection Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations; Correction 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: 60-Day notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), submits 

this Notice as a correction to the 60-day 

FRN (CDC Docket Number CDC–2025– 

0001) published January 8, 2025 for the 

information collection project titled 

National Healthcare Safety Network 

(NHSN). This correction adds Polio to 

the NHSN package and extends the 

public comment period 60 days from 

the date of publication. 

DATES: CDC must receive written 

comments on or before March 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2025– 

0001 by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road, NE, MS H21–8, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

Docket Number. CDC will post, without 

change, all relevant comments to 

www.regulations.gov. 

Please note: Submit all comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking portal 

(www.regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to 

the address listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the information collection plan and 

instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Information Collection Review Office, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS 

H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; 


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