35986 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 114 / Tuesday, June 14, 2022 / Notices 

Dated: June 8, 2022. 

David W. Freeman, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Child Health and Human Development 

Special Emphasis Panel; NCMRR Early 

Career Research Award. 

Date: July 7–8, 2022. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development, National Institutes of Health, 

6710B Rockledge Drive, Room 2137C, 

Bethesda, MD 20892 (Video Assisted 

Meeting). 

Contact Person: Kimberly L. Houston, 

M.D., Scientific Review Officer, Scientific 

Review Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver 

National Institute of Child Health and 

Human Development, National Institutes of 

Health, 6710B Rockledge Drive, Room 2137C, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 827–4902, 

kimberly.houston@nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.929, Center for Medical 

Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes 

of Health, HHS) 

Dated: June 8, 2022. 

David W. Freeman, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special 

Emphasis Panel; NIAID Investigator Initiated 

Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical 

Trial Not Allowed). 

Date: June 29, 2022. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Room 3G45, 

Rockville, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Vanitha S. Raman, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Program, Division of Extramural Activities, 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 

Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 

Fishers Lane, Room 3G45, Rockville, MD 

20852, 301–761–7949, vanitha.raman@

nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.855, Allergy, Immunology, 

and Transplantation Research; 93.856, 

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: June 8, 2022. 

Tyeshia M. Roberson-Curtis, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket Number USCG–2021–0738] 

Final Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement/Overseas 

Environmental Impact Statement 

Offshore Patrol Cutter Acquisition 

Program 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard 

announces the availability of the Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (PEIS)/Overseas 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(POEIS) for the Offshore Patrol Cutter 

(OPC) Program’s Stage 2 acquisition of 

up to 21 OPCs and operation of up to 

25 total OPCs to replace the capabilities 

of the existing fleet of Medium 

Endurance Cutters (MEC) (Proposed 

Action). In accordance with National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ) NEPA implementing regulations, 

and Executive Order 12114 

‘‘Environmental Effects Abroad of Major 

Federal Actions,’’ the Final PEIS/POEIS 

analyzes the potential environmental 

and socioeconomic impacts of the 

acquisition and identifies related 

mitigation measures associated with the 

acquisition and operation of up to 25 

OPCs. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must be post-marked or received by the 

Coast Guard on or before July 14, 2022. 

No decision will be made until at least 

30 days after publication of the Notice 

of Availability (NOA) in the Federal 

Register by the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, at which time the 

Coast Guard may execute a Record of 

Decision (ROD). 

ADDRESSES: The Final PEIS/POEIS is 

available in the docket which can be 

found by searching the docket number 

USCG–2021–0738 using the Federal 

Decision Making Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov, or by 

downloading from the project website at 

https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/OurOrganization/Assistant-Commandantfor-Engineering-Logistics-CG-4-/ 

Program-Offices/EnvironmentalManagement/Environmental-Planningand-Historic-Preservation/. Requests for 

additional information should be sent to 

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, ATTN: 

Andrew Haley, 2700 Martin Luther King 

Jr. Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20593. 

We encourage you to submit 

comments and related material on the 


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Final PEIS. We will consider all 

submissions and may adjust our final 

action based on your comments. If you 

submit a comment, please include the 

docket number for this notice, indicate 

the specific section of this document to 

which each comment applies, and 

provide a reason for each suggestion or 

recommendation. 

Submitting Comments: You may 

submit comments on the Final PEIS/ 

POEIS by one of the following methods: 

• Via the Web: You may submit 

comments identified by docket number 

USCG–2021–0738 using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. 

• Via U.S. Mail: U.S. Coast Guard 

Headquarters, ATTN: Andrew Haley, 

2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, 

Washington, DC 20593. Please note that 

mailed comments must be postmarked 

on or before the comment deadline of 30 

days following publication of this notice 

to be considered. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Andrew Haley, U.S. 

Coast Guard; email HQS-SMB-OPCEIS@

uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Coast Guard (Coast 

Guard), a military, multi-mission, 

maritime service within the Department 

of Homeland Security (DHS), is 

proposing to continue the acquisition of 

up to 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs) 

each with a design service life of 30 

years to replace 28 aging Medium 

Endurance Cutters (MECs; Famous and 

Reliance-Class) which would then be or 

have already been decommissioned. 

There is no redundant vessel capability 

within the Coast Guard or other 

government agencies. 

The OPC program is a DHS Level 1 

Major Acquisition Program that 

provides surface assets to bridge the 

Coast Guard’s operational capability gap 

between the National Security Cutters 

(NSC) that patrol the open ocean and 

the Fast Response Cutters (FRC), which 

primarily operate within 50 nautical 

miles (nm; 93 kilometers (km)) from 

shore. The complete OPC Program of 

Record comprises 25 OPCs. OPC Stage 

1 is already under contract to provide 

the first four OPCs. OPC Stage 2 is the 

focus of this PEIS/POEIS and would 

provide the remaining 21 OPCs. The 

purpose of the OPC program is to 

provide the Coast Guard with a reliable 

and operationally available presence to 

accomplish assigned missions in 

offshore waters. Typical OPC operations 

would occur between 12 nm from shore 

and inside 200 nm (370 km), but they 

could be deployed anywhere around the 

globe where national interests require. 

These missions may require an 

extended on-scene vessel presence, a 

long transit time to reach the 

operational area, or a forward 

deployment of forces in support of 

national defense. Without replacement 

of the MECs and the USCGC ALEX 

HALEY, the Coast Guard could face an 

increasing risk of failure to maintain the 

capability to execute its mission and 

provide timely services in offshore 

waters. The Proposed Action would 

enable the Coast Guard to continue to 

ensure the Nation’s maritime safety, 

security, and stewardship. 

Similar to the MEC’s operations, the 

Proposed Action would include vessel 

and aircraft operations supporting a 

range of missions including maritime 

patrol, fisheries protection, port 

security, disaster response, and drug 

and migrant interdiction. Full 

operational capability would be 

achieved when all planned OPCs have 

been produced and are operational. 

Coast Guard OPC operations and 

training would occur after delivery of 

each OPC from the shipbuilder to the 

Coast Guard. For example, the 

completion of the first OPC is expected 

in 2023 and it is expected to become 

operational in 2024. Completed 

construction of one new OPC is 

scheduled annually through 2028. 

Beginning in 2029, completion of two 

new OPCs is scheduled annually until 

all 25 have been constructed. OPCs 

would be operationally ready one year 

after delivery to the Coast Guard from 

the shipbuilder. The projected 

construction completion date of all 25 

OPCs is 2037. 

The Proposed Action would include 

delivery, training, operations, and 

maintenance of up to 25 OPCs to replace 

the capabilities of the MECs. The Final 

PEIS/POEIS analyzes the potential 

environmental and socioeconomic 

impacts associated with the Proposed 

Action, including direct, indirect, and 

cumulative effects, and mitigation 

measure to minimize impacts. 

The Coast Guard submitted a request 

for consultation under Section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) to the 

United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

(USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS; the Services) for those 

endangered or threatened species under 

their respective jurisdictions. 

Determinations made in the PEIS/POEIS 

regarding endangered or threatened 

species, as well as critical habitat, 

should be considered preliminary, as 

the consultation process under Section 

7 of the ESA is ongoing and has not 

been completed. On April 13, 2022, the 

Coast Guard submitted letters to NMFS 

and the USFWS under Section 7(d) of 

the ESA confirming that there would be 

no irretrievable commitment of 

resources that would preclude any 

reasonable and prudent alternatives as 

the Coast Guard works together with the 

Services towards completing 

consultation before the first OPC is 

delivered to the Government. The Coast 

Guard also requested consultation under 

the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act on 

designated essential fish habitat (EFH) 

and anticipates completion before the 

first OPC is delivered. The 

determinations presented herein may be 

modified as a result of the ESA and EFH 

consultations. 

The Coast Guard is not requesting 

authorization under Section 101(a)(5) of 

the Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) at this time, because the 

Proposed Action discussed in this PEIS/ 

POEIS would not deliver the first 

operational OPC until 2024. The PEIS/ 

POEIS may contain information relevant 

and applicable to assist with future 

Coast Guard consultations that are in 

support of a request for future incidental 

take authorizations under the MMPA. 

The Coast Guard identified three 

reasonable alternatives that would meet 

the purpose and need of the Proposed 

Action; these three Action Alternatives 

are analyzed in detail in the Final PEIS/ 

POEIS. 

1. Alternative 1 (Preferred 

Alternative): The Coast Guard would 

acquire and operate up to 25 OPCs to 

fulfill mission requirements in the 

Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and 

Pacific Ocean, including Alaska, and 

Hawaii and Pacific Islands. Completed 

construction of one new OPC is 

scheduled annually through 2028; 

therefore, construction of OPC–1–4 

would be completed by Fiscal Year (FY) 

2027. Beginning in 2029, two new OPCs 

would be constructed annually with a 

projected construction completion date 

for all 25 OPCs by 2037. OPCs would be 

operationally ready one year after 

delivery to the Coast Guard from the 

shipbuilder. This notional construction 

schedule would allow for MECs to be 

decommissioned and the Coast Guard to 

remain present with no delay in service 

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2. Alternative 2: The Coast Guard 

would explore the acquisition of fewer 

OPCs after the completion of OPC–1 

through OPC–4 (which are still under 

contract). Five, ten, or fifteen OPCs 

would be considered via a recompetition of the original OPC contract 

as replacements for a corresponding 

number of in-service MECs. The Coast 

Guard would then replace the remaining 

MECs on a one-for-one basis, using 

whatever replacement hulls the Coast 

Guard could obtain when deterioration 

or obsolescence requires 

decommissioning. The life cycle 

training and logistical costs of 

maintaining several unique hulls would 

exceed the corresponding costs of 

maintaining a class of 25 cutters that 

would be built specifically to conduct 

missions in proposed action areas. Costs 

and challenges are similar to what is 

described under Alternative 3. 

3. Alternative 3: The Coast Guard 

would explore various forms of cutter 

purchase or lease, or inherit vessels 

from the Navy, as the need arises. This 

would mean that as a MEC reaches or 

surpasses the end of its economic and 

operational service life, that cutter 

would not necessarily be replaced with 

the same type of asset or by an asset 

with similar capabilities. 

The challenges involved with one-forone MEC replacements are best 

demonstrated by the 1999 acquisition of 

the U.S. Navy’s USS EDENTON, a 

salvage and rescue ship. The Coast 

Guard recommissioned the ship as the 

USCGC ALEX HALEY. The ship was 

designed in the early 1970s and, except 

for replacing her aged diesel engines, no 

significant environmental 

improvements were made. This is 

typical of a one-off ship acquisition 

because there is little justification for 

the extensive or expensive nonrecurring design engineering costs for 

specifications that would make the 

vessel capable of conducting missions 

assigned to MECs. Maintenance records 

maintained by the Surface Forces 

Logistics Center confirm the 

maintenance costs per operating hour 

for USCGC ALEX HALEY ($2,345) are 

62 percent higher than the equivalent 

costs for maintaining the average 270 ft 

(82 m) cutter ($1,445), as is typical for 

a one-of-a-kind ship. One-for-one MEC 

replacement would cost far more per 

replacement hull because it eliminates 

any workforce savings associated with a 

ship with capabilities designed 

specifically to conduct Coast Guard 

missions in offshore areas. The 

purchase, lease, or inherit alternative 

includes the lack of an existing 

domestic commercial vessel capable of 

meeting available options to Purchase 

and Build-to-Lease. One of the major 

challenges with this approach is that the 

Coast Guard would not have an 

integrated system of systems, thus assets 

would not be able to communicate in 

real time, they would operate at 

differing levels of efficiency (resulting 

in decreased efficiency throughout the 

system), and maintenance costs would 

be higher. 

The Coast Guard also carried forward 

the No Action Alternative for detailed 

analysis in the Final PEIS/POEIS. While 

the No Action Alternative would not 

satisfy the purpose and need for the 

Proposed Action, this alternative was 

retained to provide a comparative 

against which to analyze the effects of 

the Action Alternatives as required 

under CEQ’s NEPA regulation. 

Resource areas analyzed in the Final 

PEIS include: air quality, ambient 

sound, biological resources and critical 

habitat, and socioeconomic resources. 

Stressors analyzed in the Final PEIS 

include: acoustic stressors (fathometer 

and Doppler speed log noise, vessel 

noise, aircraft noise, and gunnery noise) 

and physical stressors (vessel 

movement, aircraft movement, and 

military expended materials). 

Based on the analysis presented in the 

Final PEIS/POEIS, potentially adverse 

impacts could occur to biological 

resources (i.e., from disturbance); 

however, practical mitigation measures 

presented in the Final PEIS/POEIS are 

expected to reduce any of these 

potential adverse effects. As a result, 

impacts to all resource areas would be 

less-than-significant (i.e., negligible, 

minor, or moderate) adverse or 

beneficial, which may result in the 

Coast Guard making a finding of no 

significant impact in the ROD. However, 

these findings are not final until the 

Coast Guard executes a ROD. 

A Notice of Availability and request 

for comments was published in the 

Federal Register Notice (86 FR 52162; 

September 20, 2021) to notify the public 

of the 45 day public review period of 

the Draft PEIS/POEIS. The Coast Guard 

received comments from the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency and 

two comments from the public. The 

Coast Guard considered and addressed 

in the Final PEIS/POEIS comments 

received on the Draft PEIS during the 

comment period. Public comments did 

not result in the addition of substantive 

revisions to the Draft PEIS. Responses to 

comments are in Appendix I of the Final 

PEIS/POEIS. An electronic copy of the 

Final PEIS/POEIS can be obtained using 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

https://www.regulations.gov identified 

by docket number USCG–2021–0738, or 

by downloading from the project 

website at https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/ 

Our-Organization/AssistantCommandant-for-Engineering-LogisticsCG-4-/Program-Offices/EnvironmentalManagement/Environmental-Planningand-Historic-Preservation/. 

After publication of this NOA of the 

Final PEIS/POEIS, the Coast Guard will 

prepare and publish its ROD 

announcing which Alternative is 

environmentally preferred and which 

Alternative it selects for implementation 

(be it an Action Alternative or the No 

Action Alternative). Publication of the 

Final ROD will occur no sooner than 30 

days after the publication of the Final 

PEIS/POEIS. This notice is issued under 

authority of NEPA, specifically in 

compliance with 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C) 

and CEQ implementing regulations in 

40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508 and 

Executive Order 12114 titled 

‘‘Environmental Effects Abroad of Major 

Federal Actions.’’ 

Dated: June 8, 2022. 

Andrew T. Pecora, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, OPC Program 

Manager (CG–9322). 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

[CBP Dec. 22–12] 

Tuna Tariff-Rate Quota for Calendar 

Year 2022 Tuna Classifiable Under 

Subheading 1604.14.22, Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS) 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: Announcement of the quota 

quantity of tuna in airtight containers 

for Calendar Year 2022. 

SUMMARY: Each year, the tariff-rate quota 

for tuna described in subheading 

1604.14.22, Harmonized Tariff Schedule 

of the United States (HTSUS), is 

calculated as a percentage of the tuna in 

airtight containers entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption during the preceding 

calendar year. This document sets forth 

the tariff-rate quota for Calendar Year 

2022. 

DATES: The 2022 tariff-rate quota is 

applicable to tuna in airtight containers 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption during the period 

January 1, 2022 through December 31, 

2022. 


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