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contact our Admin Council staff, email: 

npfmc.admin@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

Monday, February 24, 2025 

The Committee will discuss: (a) 

potential comments to the State of 

Alaska Board of Fish on statewide 

shellfish issues; and (b) other business. 

The agenda is subject to change, and the 

latest version will be posted https://

meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/Details/ 

3078 prior to the meeting, along with 

meeting materials. 

Connection Information 

You can attend the meeting online 

using a computer, tablet, or smart 

phone, or by phone only. Connection 

information will be posted online at: 

https://meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/ 

Details/3078. 

Public Comment 

Public comment letters will be 

accepted and should be submitted 

electronically to https://

meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/Details/ 

3078. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: February 5, 2025. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02415 Filed 2–7–25; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Scoping Period Extension for the 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (SEIS) for the Columbia 

River System Operations 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD; Bureau 

of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation 

(Co-Lead Agencies) are extending the 

scoping period and re-scheduling public 

meetings for the notice of intent entitled 

‘‘Notice of Intent to Prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (SEIS) for the Columbia River 

System Operations,’’ published in the 

Federal Register on December 18, 2024. 

The scoping period is now scheduled to 

end May 9, 2025 and public meetings 

will now be held the week of April 7, 

2025. 

DATES: The Co-Lead Agencies invite 

federal and state agencies, Native 

American Tribes, local governments, 

and the public to submit scoping 

comments relevant to the supplemental 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) process no later than May 9, 

2025. Information will also be provided 

at public meetings. Information on the 

public meetings is provided under the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this Notice. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments, requests 

to be placed on the project mailing list, 

and requests for information may be 

mailed by letter to U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers Northwestern Division Attn: 

CRSO SEIS, P.O. Box 2870, Portland, 

OR 97208–2870; or by email to 

columbiariver@usace.army.mil. All 

comment letters will be available via the 

project website at https://

www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ 

columbiariver/. All comments and 

materials received, including names and 

addresses, will become part of the 

administrative record, and may be 

released to the public. Interested parties 

should not submit confidential business 

or otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim 

Fleeger, Columbia River Basin Policy 

and Environmental Coordinator, 

Northwestern Division, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers 1 (800) 290–5033 or 

email columbiariver@usace.army.mil. 

Additional information can be found at 

the project website: https://

www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ 

columbiariver/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

scoping period for the notice of intent 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 18, 2024 (89 FR 102869) was 

originally scheduled to end on March 

20, 2025 but is now being extended to 

May 9, 2025. The Co-Lead Agencies 

invite all affected Federal, State, and 

local agencies, affected Tribes, other 

interested parties, and the general 

public to participate in the NEPA 

process during development of the SEIS. 

Three (3) virtual public scoping 

meetings will be held the week of April 

7, 2025. The specific dates, times, and 

meeting information will be published 

on the project website: https://

www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ 

columbiariver/. Additional public 

meetings will be scheduled after release 

of the draft SEIS. 

William C Hannan, 

Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Division 

Commander, 

Jennifer Carrington, 

Regional Director, Columbia-Pacific 

Northwest Region, Bureau of Reclamation. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Retroactive Application of the Revised 

Version of the Guidance for Federal 

Financial Assistance 

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Evaluation 

and Policy Development, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces 

updates to awardees’ Grant Award 

Notices (GANs) to conform the 

retroactive application of the 2024 

revision of the Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

(the Uniform Guidance) to cross-agency 

understandings and established 

interpretive principles. This update 

applies to all Department grants that are 

subject to the Uniform Guidance and 

withdraws and supersedes prior 

Department policies and actions, 

including the notice titled Application 

of the Revised Version of the Uniform 

Guidance to Department Grants 

published on Jan. 16, 2025. 

DATES: This change is effective February 

10, 2025. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

22, 2024, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) published a final rule in 

the Federal Register, ‘‘Guidance for 

Federal Financial Assistance’’ that 

revised the Uniform Guidance. See 89 

FR 30046 (the April 22 revised 

Guidance). This final rule, effective as of 

October 1, 2024, made certain revisions 

to the process and requirements for 

grant administration. 

On January 16, 2025, the Department 

of Education issued a notice updating 

the terms and conditions of Department 

grants to incorporate certain parts of the 

revised Uniform Guidance. See 90 FR 

4727 (the Jan. 16 Notice). In particular, 

the Department added the following 

condition to Box 10 of its GANs: 

By the drawdown of funds under this 

GAN, the grantee accepts that this award is 

subject to the requirements of the Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards; Title 2 CFR part 200 as 


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revised at 89 FR 30136–30208 (April 22, 

2024). 

The Department is now withdrawing 

this notice of January 16, 2025, and the 

condition it sets forth in Box 10 of the 

Department’s GANs. The revised Box 10 

is below. 

OMB set the effective date for the 

April 22 revised Guidance as October 1, 

2024. See 89 FR 30208. Agencies had 

the option to ‘‘elect to apply the 

financial guidance to Federal awards 

issued prior to October 1, 2024,’’ but no 

‘‘earlier than June 21, 2024.’’ Id. The 

Department’s Jan. 16 Notice purported 

to retroactively apply the revised 

Uniform Guidance to grants issued 

before June 21, 2024, creating 

uncertainty among grant recipients and 

generating non-conformity with the 

policies and interpretive understandings 

of other federal agencies which follow 

the Uniform Guidance. 

For federal grant programs, courts 

consistently apply the legal 

requirements that were in effect at the 

time the grants were made. Bennett v. 

New Jersey, 470 U.S. 632, 638 (1984). 

The Supreme Court has held that 

‘‘changes in substantive requirements 

for federal grants should not be 

presumed to operate retroactively.’’ Id. 

General background principles and 

‘‘practical considerations related to the 

administration of federal grant 

programs’’ support the principle ‘‘that 

obligations generally should be 

determined by reference to the law in 

effect when the grants were made.’’ Id. 

After consulting with OMB, the 

Department understands that nothing in 

the April 22 revised Guidance departed 

from this basic interpretive principle. 

While OMB provided agencies with 

some discretion to specify an 

application date prior to the rule’s 

effective date of October 1, 2024, the 

earliest date OMB’s revisions permitted 

an agency to elect for the guidance to 

apply was June 21, 2024, two months 

after the final rule was issued. This 

period offered agencies and grantees 

sufficient time to adjust and ensured 

that federal grants would not be 

retroactively changed. As noted, federal 

grants sound in contract, and retroactive 

changes to the terms are unfair to the 

granting agency and the grantee. See 

Bennett, 470 U.S. at 638. 

To remove any uncertainty or 

ambiguity, the Department now makes 

clear that the April 22 revised Guidance 

for Federal Financial Assistance only 

applies to grants awarded after the OMB 

effective date of October 1, 2024. The 

Department is withdrawing its Jan. 16 

Notice, removing its language from Box 

10, and instead adding the following 

new language to Box 10: 

By the drawdown of funds under this 

GAN, the grantee accepts Department 

regulations that this award is subject to the 

requirements of the Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit 

Requirements for Federal Awards; Title 2 

CFR part 200. The specific version applicable 

depends on the date of the award: (i) grants 

issued on or after October 1, 2024, are subject 

to Title 2 CFR part 200 as revised at 89 FR 

30136–30208 (April 22, 2024), while (ii) 

grants issued prior to the October 1, 2024 

effective date of those revisions, 89 FR 

30046–30208, are governed by the version of 

the Uniform Guidance applicable at the time 

of the Federal award, provided that for grants 

issued on or after June 21, 2024, where 

grantees drew down funds under the 

previous version of Box 10, those grants are 

subject to Title 2 CFR part 200 as revised at 

89 FR 30136–30208 (April 22, 2024). 

While grantees may not automatically 

receive a new printed GAN, the revised 

Box 10 and this notice supersede any 

previous GAN or Notice. Grantees are 

not required to take any action but are 

encouraged to maintain a copy of this 

notice within their grant files as 

documentation for grant management 

and auditing purposes. 

Program Authority: 2 CFR part 200 as 

adopted at 89 FR 30046 (April 22, 2024); 

2 CFR 3474. 

Thomas Wheeler, 

Acting General Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Independent Living Services for Older 

Individuals Who Are Blind Program— 

Independent Living Services for Older 

Individuals Who Are Blind Training and 

Technical Assistance; Corrections 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitation Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice; corrections. 

SUMMARY: On January 14, 2025, the 

Department of Education (Department) 

published in the Federal Register a 

notice inviting applications (NIA) for 

fiscal year (FY) 2025 for the 

Independent Living Services for Older 

Individuals Who Are Blind Program— 

Independent Living Services for Older 

Individuals Who Are Blind Training 

and Technical Assistance. We are 

correcting the date that applications will 

be available, adding the deadline date 

for the transmittal of applications, and 

correcting the deadline for 

intergovernmental review. All other 

information in the NIA remains the 

same. 

DATES: These corrections are applicable 

on February 10, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Williams, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 4A220, Washington, DC 20202– 

2600. Telephone: (202) 245–6263. 

Email: mary.williams@ed.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: On 

January 14, 2025, we published in the 

Federal Register (90 FR 3188) the NIA 

for the FY 2025 Independent Living 

Services for Older Individuals Who Are 

Blind Program—Independent Living 

Services for Older Individuals Who Are 

Blind Training and Technical 

Assistance competition, Assistance 

Listing Number 84.177Z. We are 

correcting the date that applications will 

be available and the intergovernmental 

review deadline and adding the 

deadline for the transmittal of 

applications. All other information in 

the NIA remains the same. 

Corrections 

In FR Doc. 2025–00533 appearing on 

pages 3188–3194 of the Federal Register 

of January 14, 2025, we revise the text 

under DATES in the right column, to read 

as follows: 

Applications Available: January 15, 

2025. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 17, 2025. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 16, 2025. 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document and a copy of the 

application package in an accessible 

format. The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

Department documents published in the 

Federal Register, in text or Portable 

Document Format (PDF). To use PDF 

you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, 

which is available free at the site. 

You may also access Department 

documents published in the Federal 


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