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1These criteria may be found in APPENDIX A TO 

PART 391—MEDICAL ADVISORY CRITERIA, 

section H. Epilepsy: § 391.41(b)(8), paragraphs 3, 4, 

and 5, which is available on the internet at https:// 

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2015-title49-vol5/pdf/ 

CFR-2015-title49-vol5-part391-appA.pdf. 

1The Build America, Buy America Act was 

included as title XI, subtitle A of the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Pub. L. 117–58). 

2 DOT OAs that provide or administer financial 

assistance covered under this waiver include the 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA); Federal Transit 

Continued 

95899). The public comment period 

ended on January 2, 2025, and no 

comments were received. 

FMCSA has evaluated the eligibility 

of these applicants and determined that 

renewing these exemptions would likely 

achieve a level of safety that is 

equivalent to, or greater than, the level 

that would be achieved by complying 

with § 391.41(b)(8). 

The physical qualification standard 

for drivers regarding epilepsy found in 

§ 391.41(b)(8) states that a person is 

physically qualified to drive a CMV if 

that person has no established medical 

history or clinical diagnosis of epilepsy 

or any other condition which is likely 

to cause the loss of consciousness or any 

loss of ability to control a CMV. 

In addition to the regulations, FMCSA 

has published advisory criteria 1 to 

assist medical examiners in determining 

whether drivers with certain medical 

conditions are qualified to operate a 

CMV in interstate commerce. 

III. Discussion of Comments 

FMCSA received no comments in this 

proceeding. 

IV. Conclusion 

Based on its evaluation of the eight 

renewal exemption applications and 

comments received, FMCSA announces 

its decision to exempt the following 

drivers from the epilepsy and seizure 

disorders prohibition in § 391.41(b)(8). 

As of December 12, 2024, and in 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315(b), the following seven 

individuals have satisfied the renewal 

conditions for obtaining an exemption 

from the epilepsy and seizure disorders 

prohibition in the FMCSRs for interstate 

CMV drivers (89 FR 95899): 

Jesse Hansen (MN) 

Thomas Kline (PA) 

Jose Lara-Ramirez (NV) 

Domenick Panfile (NJ) 

Andrew Rieschick (NE) 

Stephen St. Marthe (NC) 

Carsten Thode (WA) 

The drivers were included in docket 

number FMCSA–2013–0444, FMCSA– 

2018–0052, FMCSA–2018–0054, 

FMCSA–2020–0050, or FMCSA–2022– 

0045. Their exemptions were applicable 

as of December 12, 2024 and will expire 

on December 12, 2026. 

As of December 16, 2024, and in 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315(b), Kyle Loney (WA) has satisfied 

the renewal conditions for obtaining an 

exemption from the epilepsy and 

seizure disorders prohibition in the 

FMCSRs for interstate CMV drivers (89 

FR 95899). 

This driver was included in docket 

number FMCSA- FMCSA–2015–0323. 

The exemption is applicable as of 

December 16, 2024, and will expire on 

December 16, 2026. 

In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 

31315(b), each exemption will be valid 

for 2 years from the effective date unless 

revoked earlier by FMCSA. The 

exemption will be revoked if the 

following occurs: (1) the person fails to 

comply with the terms and conditions 

of the exemption; (2) the exemption has 

resulted in a lower level of safety than 

was maintained prior to being granted; 

or (3) continuation of the exemption 

would not be consistent with the goals 

and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315(b). 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No.: DOT–OST–2024–0129] 

Waiver of Buy America Requirements 

for the Pacific Island Territories and 

the Freely Associated States 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation (DOT) is finalizing a 

general applicability public interest 

waiver of the requirements of section 

70914(a) of the Build America, Buy 

America Act (BABA) and related 

domestic preference statutes 

administered by DOT and its Operating 

Administrations (OAs) for federal 

financial assistance awarded for 

infrastructure projects located in the 

Commonwealth of Northern Mariana 

Islands (CNMI), Guam, and American 

Samoa, collectively referred to as the 

Pacific Island territories. The waiver 

would also apply to discretionary grant 

assistance provided by DOT to the 

Freely Associated States (the Republic 

of Palau, Republic of the Marshall 

Islands, and Federated States of 

Micronesia) in the Pacific that is subject 

to a domestic preference statute (which 

does not include BABA, as that statute 

only applies to the United States and its 

territories). The waiver will remain in 

effect for five years after the effective 

date of the final waiver. This action also 

terminates the previously issued 

temporary general applicability waiver 

for this region. 

DATES: The waiver is applicable to 

awards that are obligated on or after 

January 10, 2025, until January 9, 2030. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about this notice, please 

contact Elizabeth Fox, DOT Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Transportation 

Policy, at elizabeth.fox@dot.gov or at 

202–366–4540. For legal questions, 

please contact Jennifer KirbyMcLemore, DOT Office of the General 

Counsel, 405–446–6883, or via email at 

jennifer.mclemore@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Buy America preferences set forth 

in section 70914(a) of BABA 1 require 

that all iron, steel, manufactured 

products, and construction materials 

used for infrastructure projects in the 

United States under federal financial 

assistance awards be produced in the 

United States. 

Under section 70914(b) and in 

accordance with the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB)’s 

Guidance Memorandum M–24–02, 

Implementation Guidance on 

Application of Buy America Preference 

in Federal Financial Assistance 

Programs for Infrastructure, DOT may 

waive the application of BABA 

requirements in any case in which it 

finds that: (i) applying the domestic 

content procurement preference would 

be inconsistent with the public interest; 

(ii) types of iron, steel, manufactured 

products, or construction materials are 

not produced in the U.S. in sufficient 

and reasonably available quantities or of 

a satisfactory quality; or (iii) the 

inclusion of iron, steel, manufactured 

products, or construction materials 

produced in the U.S. will increase the 

cost of the overall project by more than 

25 percent. 

BABA also provides that the 

preferences under section 70914 apply 

only to the extent that a domestic 

content procurement preference as 

described in section 70914 does not 

already apply to iron, steel, 

manufactured products, and 

construction materials. IIJA § 70917(a)– 

(b). Federal financial assistance 

programs administered by DOT’s 

Operating Administrations (OAs) 2 are 


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Administration (FTA); and the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD). 

3 In this notice, references to ‘‘Buy America’’ 

include domestic preference laws referred to ‘‘Buy 

American’’ that apply to DOT financial assistance 

programs. 

4For example, Section 409 of the Transportation, 

Housing and Urban Development, and Related 

Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 states that ‘‘no 

funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be 

expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that 

in expending the assistance the entity will comply 

with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 

1933 (41 U.S.C. 8301–8305, popularly known as the 

‘Buy American Act’).’’ 

subject to a variety of mode-specific 

statutes that apply particular Buy 

America 3 requirements to iron, steel, 

and manufactured products, including 

49 U.S.C. 50101(a) (FAA); 23 U.S.C. 313 

(FHWA); 49 U.S.C. 5323(j) (FTA); and 

46 U.S.C. 54101(d)(2) (MARAD). Recent 

annual appropriations acts have also 

required DOT to apply the Buy 

American Act (41 U.S.C. chapter 83) to 

funds appropriated under those acts,4

where a mode-specific statute is not in 

place. These statutes also allow for 

waivers of the Buy America 

requirements to be issued when the 

Department determines that doing so is 

in the public interest. 

DOT and its OAs provide financial 

assistance to the three Pacific Island 

territories of Guam, American Samoa, 

and CNMI through both discretionary 

grants and allocated programs, 

including assistance programs for 

highways and bridges, public 

transportation, airports, and port 

facilities. The Freely Associated States 

(the Republic of Palau, Republic of the 

Marshall Islands, and Federated States 

of Micronesia) in the Pacific region are 

also eligible recipients of discretionary 

grants under FAA’s Airport 

Improvement Program (AIP). 

During FY 2024, DOT OAs provided 

more than $132.7 million in financial 

assistance for at least 20 capital projects 

in the Pacific Island territories under 

various programs where infrastructure is 

an eligible activity and may be subject 

to BABA or other DOT existing Buy 

America requirements. DOT also 

provided $47.6 million in AIP 

discretionary grants to the Freely 

Associated States in the Pacific region 

for 3 projects during that time. 

On April 29, 2024, DOT issued a 

temporary general applicability waiver 

of the requirements of Section 70914(a) 

of BABA and related domestic 

preference statutes administered by 

DOT and its OAs. The DOT waiver was 

part of an interagency effort, led by the 

OMB, to provide time for DOT and other 

infrastructure agencies to collect and 

analyze evidence to determine if a longterm waiver of these requirements is in 

the public interest and allow time for 

DOT and its OAs to offer technical 

assistance to potential assistance 

recipients in the remote communities in 

the Pacific Island territories and Freely 

Associated States. 

During the temporary general 

applicability waiver period, DOT has 

worked with OMB’s Made in America 

Office (MIAO) and with other 

infrastructure agencies to better 

understand the local manufacturing 

environment, consider how to best 

balance the equities for residents of the 

Pacific Island territories and domestic 

suppliers, and explore ways to 

potentially ease supply chain challenges 

for infrastructure projects in those 

territories. The Pacific Islands are over 

5,000 miles from the mainland United 

States and must import products via air 

or sea. These economies have few local 

heavy manufacturers and largely rely on 

regional supply chains from east Asia, 

Australia, and New Zealand. Most 

goods, equipment, materials, and 

supplies are imported and rely on 

shipping with extended timelines and 

unpredictable shipping cost 

fluctuations. Moreover, materials 

sourced from the mainland U.S. lead to 

additional shipping fees and longer lead 

times, thus significantly extending 

construction activity schedules. 

Along with other Federal agencies, 

DOT has reviewed the U.S. International 

Trade Commission’s 2023 report U.S.- 

Pacific Islands Trade and Investment: 

Impediments and Opportunities, which 

noted the geographic isolation, high 

costs of shipping, dependence on 

imports, regulatory barriers, limited 

economies of scale, and environmental 

challenges as persistent barriers that the 

Pacific Island territories face. 

Additionally, the lack of available land 

on the Pacific Island territories creates 

barriers for developing new 

manufacturing and assembly facilities. 

Those infrastructure products readily 

available and produced locally on the 

Pacific Islands, such as aggregates and 

cement products, are mostly statutorily 

exempt from BABA requirements. For 

these reasons, the DOT remains 

concerned that complying with the 

domestic sourcing requirements may 

increase already elevated project time 

and costs. 

In considering this waiver, DOT 

consulted with the relevant Federal 

assistance programs in the respective 

OAs, including the regional offices in 

those agencies that directly administer 

DOT funding programs in the Pacific 

Island territories and Freely Associated 

States. DOT also relied on other 

communications that it has received 

from stakeholders in those territories. 

For example, CNMI and Guam have 

cited their isolated location in the 

Western Pacific and reliance on ocean 

freight as the only mode of transporting 

commodities to the island as creating 

significant challenges in obtaining 

materials from domestic sources, with 

impacts on both project costs and 

delivery schedules. The two territories 

have also indicated that shipping 

construction materials from the 

continental United States raises 

shipping costs by approximately 30 

percent above the cost to ship directly 

to the islands from Asia. 

In August 2024, the U.S. Department 

of the Interior (DOI) hosted the third 

Territorial Climate and Infrastructure 

Workshop in Honolulu, HI, which 

included many representatives from 

various territorial agencies and 

departments. During the workshop, DOI 

and DOT led a session on the Build 

America, Buy America Act, during 

which many participants described the 

structural challenges the territories face 

in complying with Buy America 

requirements and the desire for relief 

due to the significant cost increases and 

delays in project timelines that would 

ensue. In addition, in February 2023, 

DOI hosted the Interagency Group on 

Insular Areas, at which the governors of 

the Territories expressed concerns 

related to BABA implementation and 

potential project delays and requested 

that federal agencies be flexible in these 

requirements, including consideration 

of waivers. 

Additionally, representatives from 

American Samoa have indicated to the 

Federal Emergency Management Agency 

that ‘‘As a containerized community, 

our territories depend on goods, 

equipment, materials, and supplies to be 

imported.’’ They further stated that ‘‘we 

can purchase equipment from foreign 

countries closer to American Samoa and 

with reasonable prices and shorter 

shipping time.’’ American Samoa 

representatives also noted that 

availability of materials from nearby 

foreign countries such as New Zealand 

and Australia would result in a 

significant cost savings to the grantors. 

Issuance of Waiver and Discussion of 

Comments Received 

On December 16, 2024, DOT 

published a proposed Buy America 

waiver for projects located within 

Pacific Island territories of CNMI, 

Guam, or American Samoa and funded 

under DOT-administered financial 

assistance programs in the Federal 

Register (89 FR 101688). DOT received 

12 comments on the proposed waiver 

from individuals and government 

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5For more discussion of ‘‘deficient programs,’’ 

see DOT’s Identification of Federal Financial 

Assistance Infrastructure Programs Subject to the 

Build America, Buy America Provisions of the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, January 

2022, available at https://www.transportation.gov/ 

office-policy/transportation-policy/made-inamerica/build-america-buy-america-60-day-report. 

6See, for example, section 409 of the 

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, 

and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024. 

Island territories and the Freely 

Associated States and from the general 

public, a steel manufacturer, and a trade 

organization. Ten of the comments 

received were supportive of the waiver 

as proposed, while two expressed 

opposition to the waiver. 

Supportive comments noted the 

difficulties in complying with domestic 

content requirements that the distance 

from the mainland US creates. Shipping 

materials from the U.S. mainland incurs 

additional costs and lengthy delays that, 

in turn, imperil project timelines and 

budgets, with one commenter citing cost 

increases of 50–100%. Supportive 

commenters also noted that the small 

size of the infrastructure projects can 

also create compliance issues noting 

difficulties contractors face in obtaining 

Buy America certifications from 

manufacturers for small orders. 

Additionally, the length of the waiver 

was supported by more than one 

commenter, noting that the time will 

help entice contractors to bid on their 

projects and ensure projects are 

completed on time and on budget. 

One commenter requested that the 

waiver cover specific types of vehicles 

and associated infrastructure. DOT 

appreciates this comment and notes that 

as the waiver would apply to both 

manufactured products and iron and 

steel, vehicles should be covered, 

regardless of which category they fall 

into. Another supportive commenter 

requested that the waiver apply 

standards to the items procured. DOT 

notes that the waiver only applies to the 

domestic content requirements, and that 

the materials procured must still meet 

the necessary performance criteria and 

be suitable for their intended 

applications, regardless of their 

manufacturing location. 

One commenter raised concerns that 

the proposed waiver would result in tax 

dollars being utilized for the sourcing of 

iron and steel, manufactured products, 

and construction materials produced in 

countries of concern or by entities of 

concern. The commenter also raised 

concerns that the proposed waiver 

would render the territories’ projects 

less resilient because they could foster 

a reliance on regional, rather than allied 

trading partners. Though DOT 

acknowledges this concern, DOT is 

confident that, through the 

implementation of existing prohibitions 

and the exclusion of the specified list of 

items provided in the waiver, this 

concern is addressed to the fullest 

extent possible under available legal 

authorities. With respect to existing 

prohibitions, various DOT OAs have 

prohibitions against use of funds for 

rolling stock purchases from certain 

entities found at 49 U.S.C. 5323(u) and 

49 U.S.C. 50101(d). This waiver does 

not impact such prohibitions. 

Furthermore, DOT notes that the waiver 

applies only to domestic sourcing 

requirements; thus, all other restrictions 

on the use of Federal funding must still 

be followed, including any funding 

specific restrictions on purchases 

outside the Buy American statutes, and 

any limitations on funding imposed by 

the notice of funding opportunity or 

grant agreements. Lastly, the list of 

products excluded from this waiver was 

crafted with this concern in mind; 

accordingly, DOT incorporated this list 

of excluded products in this waiver to 

protect against related national security 

concerns. Taken together, these 

safeguards will ensure that the Pacific 

Island territories are able to rely on 

nearby allied trading partners for their 

purchases of materials, thereby 

improving resilience for their critical 

infrastructure projects. 

One commenter questioned DOT’s 

conclusion that the assessment required 

under OMB Memorandum M–24–02 

regarding dumping or injuriously 

subsidized products is not applicable to 

this waiver. To mitigate this concern, 

DOT has added language noting that the 

cost considerations driving this public 

interest waiver are not due to the use of 

dumped steel, iron, or manufactured 

products or of injuriously subsidized 

steel, iron, or manufactured products 

but rather to the increased costs of 

shipping domestic items from the 

mainland U.S. 

A commenter also questioned DOT’s 

authority to issue a waiver for a 

‘‘deficient program,’’ as defined in 

sections 70912 and 70913(c) of BABA. 

However, DOT notes the identification 

of a program as ‘‘deficient’’ under the 

BABA statute does not have any bearing 

on the agency’s ability to issue new 

waivers of Buy America requirements 

under the respective statutes applicable 

to those programs.5 The commenter also 

indicated that they were ‘‘unaware of 

any instance in which the 1933 BAA 

has been deemed applicable to federally 

assisted building and infrastructure 

construction.’’ DOT notes that 

provisions included in annual 

appropriations acts in recent fiscal years 

provide the basis for applying Buy 

American Act requirements to financial 

assistance programs administered by 

DOT.6

Some of the commenters, both 

supporting and opposing, either directly 

or indirectly referenced the temporary 

waiver issued by DOT on April 29, 

2024, apparently viewing the proposed 

waiver as an extension of that waiver. In 

the Findings section below, DOT is 

clarifying that this is a new, longerduration waiver with a different public 

interest basis and justification, and the 

temporary waiver issued April 29, 2024, 

is being terminated concurrent with 

issuance of this waiver. 

Finally, one commenter stated that 

the 15-day comment period on the 

proposed waiver was insufficient. DOT 

notes that the comment period provided 

for this waiver is consistent with the 

requirements of BABA and related 

statutes for new Buy America waivers. 

Finding on Waiver and Termination of 

Temporary Waiver 

DOT is using its authority under 

Section 70914(b)(1) to waive the Act’s 

Buy America preferences for iron and 

steel, manufactured products, and 

construction materials used in 

infrastructure projects located within 

the Pacific Island territories of CNMI, 

Guam, or American Samoa and funded 

under DOT-administered financial 

assistance programs, on the basis that 

doing so would be in the public interest. 

The waiver applies to all awards 

obligated after the effective date and, in 

the case of awards obligated prior to the 

effective date, the waiver applies to all 

expenditures for non-domestic iron, 

steel, manufactured products, and 

construction materials incurred after the 

effective date. The waiver does not 

apply to the following products that 

have been identified by OMB as critical 

supply chains that warrant special 

consideration: 

• Telecommunications infrastructure: 

Æ Telecommunications equipment 

used to transmit and receive digital 

signals across constructed networks 

(e.g., vaults, cabinets, routers, switches, 

optical line terminals (OLTs), optical 

network terminals (ONTs), wi-fi capable 

customer equipment, and other 

electronic hardware used to connect the 

network). This includes: 

D Video surveillance equipment, 

including any equipment that is used in 

fixed and mobile networks that provides 

advanced communications service in 

the form of a video surveillance service, 

provided the equipment includes or 

uses electronic components. This 


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7https://www.fcc.gov/laboratory-division/ 

equipment-authorization-approval-guide/ 

equipment-authorization-system#step2. 

8https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfdevice. 

9 2024–002—Worldwide-Foreign Adversarial 

Technological, Physical, and Cyber Influence 

https://www.maritime.dot.gov/msci/2024-002- 

worldwide-foreign-adversarial-technologicalphysical-and-cyber-influence. 

10The proposed waiver under section 70914(b)(1) 

of BABA excludes projects in the Freely Associated 

States because the requirements under section 

70914(a) are applicable only to infrastructure 

projects ‘‘in the United States’’ and, therefore, the 

BABA requirements to not apply to projects in the 

Freely Associated States. However, airports located 

in the Freely Associated States are eligible 

recipients under FAA’s Airport Improvement 

Program, and the Buy American requirements 

specific to that program would thus also apply to 

the Freely Associated States. 

encompasses any equipment that can be 

used in a fixed or mobile broadband 

network to enable users to originate and 

receive high quality voice, data, 

graphics, and video telecommunications 

using technology with connection 

speeds of at least 200 kbps in either 

direction.7

D Broadcasting equipment, including 

radio frequency devices contained in 

electronic-electrical products that are 

capable of emitting radio frequency 

energy by radiation, conduction, or 

other means. These products have the 

potential to cause interference to radio 

services operating in the radio 

frequency range of 9 kHz to 3000 GHz.8

Æ Broadband equipment (e.g., fiber/ 

coax cable, conduit, pedestals, 

handholes, tower structures, and other 

physical components used to connect to 

telecommunication equipment). 

• Grid-connected utility-scale energy 

generation and stationary storage 

(>5MW). 

• Cargo handling equipment, 

including cranes, that are manufactured 

by or contain any networks, operating 

systems, or software identified in U.S. 

Maritime Advisory 2024–0026 or 

successor advisories.9

While these items are excluded from 

this general waiver, DOT recognizes that 

purchases of these items from nondomestic sources as part of a federallyassisted project may be warranted in 

certain circumstances. For those 

individual projects, DOT and its OAs 

will consider requests for potential 

waivers of BABA or other Buy America 

requirements on a case-by-case basis, 

with special attention to any strategic 

security issues that may be associated 

with those purchases. 

Separately, DOT also notes that the 

waiver does not waive the requirements 

of 49 U.S.C. 50101(d) or 49 U.S.C. 

5323(u), or any other requirements for 

federal financial assistance. Because 

many DOT-administered financial 

assistance programs are also subject to 

program-specific domestic preference 

requirements, the waiver would also 

apply to those requirements. 

Specifically, the waiver would also be 

an exercise of DOT’s authority to issue 

public interest waivers under 23 U.S.C. 

313(b)(1), 49 U.S.C. 5323(j), 46 U.S.C. 

54101(d)(2)(B)(i)(I), 49 U.S.C. 

50101(b)(1), and 41 U.S.C. chapter 83. 

Under those DOT authorities, the waiver 

also applies to projects in the Freely 

Associated States (the Republic of 

Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, 

and Federated States of Micronesia).10

The duration of the waiver will be for 

five years, from its effective date of 

January 10, 2025, until January 9, 2030. 

The Department will periodically 

review this waiver to assess whether it 

remains necessary to the fulfillment of 

DOT’s missions and goals and 

consistent with applicable legal 

authorities, such as the IIJA, Executive 

Order 14005, and OMB M–24–02. The 

Department may, based on the results of 

that review, terminate the waiver, or 

take action to develop a new waiver in 

consultation with the MIAO. 

This action is a new public interest 

waiver being issued on the basis of the 

unique circumstances and ongoing 

challenges faced by the Pacific Island 

territories and Freely Associated States 

due to their remote location. 

Accordingly, effective with the issuance 

of the new waiver on January 10, 2025, 

DOT is also terminating the existing 

temporary general applicability waiver 

for the Pacific Island Territories, which 

DOT issued on April 29, 2024, to 

provide time to collect and analyze 

evidence to determine if a more targeted 

waiver of these requirements would be 

in the public interest. 

Under OMB Memorandum M–24–02, 

agencies are expected to assess 

‘‘whether a significant portion of any 

cost advantage of a foreign-sourced 

product is the result of the use of 

dumped steel, iron, or manufactured 

products or the use of injuriously 

subsidized steel, iron, or manufactured 

products’’ as appropriate before granting 

a public interest waiver. DOT’s analysis 

has not found that the cost 

considerations driving this public 

interest waiver are due to the use of 

dumped steel, iron, or manufactured 

products or of injuriously subsidized 

steel, iron, or manufactured products 

but rather to the increased costs of 

shipping domestic items from the 

mainland U.S. 

Pursuant to Section 117 of the 

SAFETEA–LU Technical Corrections 

Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110–244, 122 Stat. 

1572), if FHWA makes a finding that a 

waiver is appropriate under 23 U.S.C. 

313(b), FHWA will also invite public 

comment on this finding for an 

additional five days following the date 

of publication of the finding. Comments 

received during that period will be 

reviewed, but the finding will continue 

to remain valid. Those comments may 

influence DOT/FHWA’s decision to 

terminate or modify a finding. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 8, 

2025. 

Polly E. Trottenberg, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) is publishing the names 

of one or more persons that have been 

placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated 

Nationals and Blocked Persons List 

(SDN List) based on OFAC’s 

determination that one or more 

applicable legal criteria were satisfied. 

All property and interests in property 

subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these 

persons are blocked, and U.S. persons 

are generally prohibited from engaging 

in transactions with them. 

DATES: This action was issued on 

January 10, 2025. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for relevant dates. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

OFAC: Associate Director for Global 

Targeting, 202–622–2420; Assistant 

Director for Sanctions Compliance, 202– 

622–2490 or https://ofac.treasury.gov/ 

contact-ofac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Availability 

The SDN List and additional 

information concerning OFAC sanctions 

programs are available on OFAC’s 

website: https://ofac.treasury.gov. 

Notice of OFAC Action 

On January 10, 2025, OFAC 

determined that the property and 

interests in property subject to U.S. 

jurisdiction of the following persons are 

blocked under the relevant sanctions 

authorities listed below. 


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