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Secretary for those parties authorized to 

receive BPI under the APO. 

Staff report.—The prehearing staff 

report in the reviews will be placed in 

the nonpublic record on October 28, 

2022, and a public version will be 

issued thereafter, pursuant to section 

207.64 of the Commission’s rules. 

Hearing.— The Commission will hold 

a hearing in connection with these 

reviews beginning at 9:30 a.m. on 

November 15, 2022. Information about 

the place and form of the hearing, 

including about how to participate in 

and/or view the hearing, will be posted 

on the Commission’s website at https:// 

www.usitc.gov/calendarpad/ 

calendar.html. Interested parties should 

check the Commission’s website 

periodically for updates. Requests to 

appear at the hearing should be filed in 

writing with the Secretary to the 

Commission on or before November 7, 

2022. A nonparty who has testimony 

that may aid the Commission’s 

deliberations may request permission to 

present a short statement at the hearing. 

All parties and nonparties desiring to 

appear at the hearing and make oral 

presentations should attend a 

prehearing conference to be held at 9:30 

a.m. on November 8, 2022. Oral 

testimony and written materials to be 

submitted at the public hearing are 

governed by sections 201.6(b)(2), 

201.13(f), and 207.24 of the 

Commission’s rules. Parties must submit 

any request to present a portion of their 

hearing testimony in camera no later 

than 7 business days prior to the date of 

the hearing. 

Written submissions.—Each party to 

the reviews may submit a prehearing 

brief to the Commission. Prehearing 

briefs must conform with the provisions 

of section 207.65 of the Commission’s 

rules; the deadline for filing is 

November 4, 2022. Parties may also file 

written testimony in connection with 

their presentation at the hearing, as 

provided in section 207.24 of the 

Commission’s rules, and posthearing 

briefs, which must conform with the 

provisions of section 207.67 of the 

Commission’s rules. The deadline for 

filing posthearing briefs is November 22, 

2022. In addition, any person who has 

not entered an appearance as a party to 

the reviews may submit a written 

statement of information pertinent to 

the subject of the reviews on or before 

November 22, 2022. On December 21, 

2022, the Commission will make 

available to parties all information on 

which they have not had an opportunity 

to comment. Parties may submit final 

comments on this information on or 

before December 28, 2022, but such 

final comments must not contain new 

factual information and must otherwise 

comply with section 207.68 of the 

Commission’s rules. All written 

submissions must conform with the 

provisions of section 201.8 of the 

Commission’s rules; any submissions 

that contain BPI must also conform with 

the requirements of sections 201.6, 

207.3, and 207.7 of the Commission’s 

rules. The Commission’s Handbook on 

Filing Procedures, available on the 

Commission’s website at https://

www.usitc.gov/documents/handbook_

on_filing_procedures.pdf, elaborates 

upon the Commission’s procedures with 

respect to filings. 

Additional written submissions to the 

Commission, including requests 

pursuant to section 201.12 of the 

Commission’s rules, shall not be 

accepted unless good cause is shown for 

accepting such submissions, or unless 

the submission is pursuant to a specific 

request by a Commissioner or 

Commission staff. 

In accordance with sections 201.16(c) 

and 207.3 of the Commission’s rules, 

each document filed by a party to the 

reviews must be served on all other 

parties to the reviews (as identified by 

either the public or BPI service list), and 

a certificate of service must be timely 

filed. The Secretary will not accept a 

document for filing without a certificate 

of service. The Commission has 

determined that these reviews are 

extraordinarily complicated and 

therefore has determined to exercise its 

authority to extend the review period by 

up to 90 days pursuant to 19 

U.S.C.1675(c)(5)(B). 

Authority: These reviews are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of 

the Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is 

published pursuant to section 207.62 of 

the Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: July 13, 2022. 

William Bishop, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–15324 Filed 7–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under The Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act 

On July 13, 2022, the Department of 

Justice filed a complaint and lodged a 

proposed consent decree with the 

United States District Court for the 

Middle District of Louisiana in the 

lawsuit entitled United States of 

America and Louisiana Department of 

Environmental Quality v. PCS Nitrogen 

Fertilizer, L.P., Civil Action No. 3:22– 

cv–00468–SDD–RLB. If approved by the 

court, the consent decree would resolve 

the claims of the United States and the 

parallel claims of the Louisiana 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(LDEQ) against PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, 

L.P., (PCS Nitrogen) for injunctive relief 

and civil penalties for alleged violations 

of the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA) at PCS Nitrogen’s 

former phosphoric acid fertilizer facility 

located in Geismar, Louisiana (Facility). 

PCS Nitrogen made phosphate and 

nitrogen fertilizer products (including 

sulfuric acid) at the Facility beginning 

in the 1960s, through processes that 

generated large quantities of acidic 

wastewater and a solid material called 

phosphogypsum. The phosphogypsum 

was deposited and remains in large 

piles that are over 200 feet high and 

cover an area greater than 100 acres. The 

Facility ceased fertilizer production 

operations in December 2018 but 

continues to conduct remediation and 

closure activities at its phosphogypsum 

stack system and surface 

impoundments. 

The consent decree would require 

PCS Nitrogen to (1) implement 

compliance projects at the Facility; (2) 

make RCRA hazardous waste 

determinations and properly manage all 

solid wastes generated, including any 

solid wastes generated during cleaning 

of equipment and phosphogypsum stack 

closure; (3) construct a wastewater 

treatment plant, repair leaks in certain 

impoundments, properly segregate 

stormwater and wastewater, and 

properly manage railcar and other 

cleaning wastes; (4) comply with 

specified requirements for the ongoing 

closure and long-term care of the 

Facility; and (5) provide over $84 

million of financial assurance to cover 

the estimated cost of such obligations. 

In addition, the consent decree would 

require PCS Nitrogen to pay a civil 

penalty of $1,510,023. In return for PCS 

Nitrogen’s compliance with these 

requirements, the consent decree would 

resolve past RCRA violations at the 

Facility that the United States’ and 

LDEQ’s complaint alleges. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

consent decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, and should refer to 

United States of America and Louisiana 

Department of Environmental Quality v. 

PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P., D.J. Ref. 

No. 90–7–1–08388/22. All comments 

must be submitted no later than fortyfive (45) days after the publication date 


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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, 

D.C. 20044–7611. 

During the public comment period, 

the consent decree, including a number 

of technical appendices, may be 

examined and downloaded at this 

Justice Department website: http://

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

We will provide a paper copy of the 

consent decree upon written request 

and payment of reproduction costs. 

Please mail your request and payment 

to: Consent Decree Library U.S. DOJ— 

ENRD P.O. Box 7611 Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $147.75 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. For a paper copy 

without the Appendices and signature 

pages, the cost is $16.00. 

Thomas Carroll, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2022–15342 Filed 7–18–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Wage and Hour Division 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Establishing Paid Sick Leave for 

Federal Contractors 

AGENCY: Wage and Hour Division, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(Department) is soliciting comments 

concerning a proposed extension of the 

information collection request (ICR) 

titled ‘‘Establishing Paid Sick Leave for 

Federal Contractors.’’ This comment 

request is part of continuing 

Departmental efforts to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The 

Department proposes to extend the 

approval of this existing information 

collection without change to existing 

requirements. 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. A 

copy of the proposed information 

request can be obtained by contacting 

the office listed below in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this Notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

September 19, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Control Number 1235– 

0029, by either one of the following 

methods: Email: WHDPRAComments@

dol.gov; Mail, Hand Delivery, Courier: 

Division of Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room S–3502, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210. 

Instructions: Please submit one copy 

of your comments by only one method. 

All submissions received must include 

the agency name and Control Number 

identified above for this information 

collection. Because we continue to 

experience delays in receiving mail in 

the Washington, DC area, commenters 

are strongly encouraged to transmit their 

comments electronically via email or to 

submit them by mail early. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy DeBisschop, Division of 

Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division, 

U.S. Department of Labor, Room S– 

3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 

693–0406 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Alternative formats are 

available upon request by calling 1– 

866–487–9243. If you are deaf, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability, 

please dial 7–1–1 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: On September 7, 2015, 

President Barack Obama signed 

Executive Order 13706, ‘‘Establishing 

Paid Sick Leave for Federal 

Contractors.’’ 80 FR 54697. The 

Executive Order established paid sick 

leave for Federal Contractors. Executive 

Order 13706 stated that the Federal 

Government’s procurement interests in 

efficiency and cost savings are promoted 

when the Federal Government contracts 

with sources that ensure workers on 

those contracts can earn paid sick leave. 

The Executive Order therefore required 

parties who contract with the Federal 

Government to provide their employees 

with up to 7 days of paid sick time 

annually, including paid time allowing 

for family care. The Executive Order 

directed the Secretary to issue 

regulations by September 30, 2016, to 

the extent permitted by law and 

consistent with the requirements of 40 

U.S.C. 121, to implement the Order’s 

requirements. The Final Rule 

established standards and procedures 

for implementing and enforcing the paid 

sick leave requirements of Executive 

Order 13706. 81 FR 67598. 

Among other requirements, the 

regulations at 29 CFR 13 require 

employers subject to the Order to make 

and maintain records for notifications to 

employees on leave accrual and requests 

to use paid sick leave, dates and 

amounts of paid sick leave used, written 

responses to requests to use paid sick 

leave, records relating to certification 

and documentation where an employer 

requires this from an employee using at 

least 3 consecutive days of leave, 

tracking of or calculations related to an 

employee’s accrual or use of paid sick 

leave, the relevant covered contract, pay 

and benefits provided to an employee 

using leave, and any financial payment 

for unused sick leave made to an 

employee on separation from 

employment. 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless the OMB 

under the PRA approves it and displays 

a currently valid OMB Control Number. 

In addition, notwithstanding any other 

provisions of law, no person shall 

generally be subject to penalty for 

failing to comply with a collection of 

information that does not display a 

valid Control Number. See 5 CFR 

1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The Department 

obtains OMB approval for this 

information collection under Control 

Number 1235–0029. 

OMB authorization for an ICR cannot 

be for more than 3 years without 

renewal, and the current approval for 

this collection will expire on January 

31, 2023. The Department seeks to 

extend PRA authorization for this 

information collection for 3 more years, 

without any change to existing 

requirements. The Department notes 

that existing information collection 

requirements submitted to the OMB 

receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. 


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