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compliance officer to determine that an 

employer properly notified workers 

about the design and construction of, 

and modifications made to, the trucks 

they are operating, and that an employer 

provided them with the required 

training. 

II. Special Issues for Comment 

OSHA has a particular interest in 

comments on the following issues: 

• Whether the proposed information 

collection requirements are necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

Agency’s functions, including whether 

the information is useful; 

• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of 

the burden (time and costs) of the 

information collection requirements, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• The quality, utility, and clarity of 

the information collected; and 

• Ways to minimize the burden on 

employers who must comply. For 

example, by using automated or other 

technological information collection 

and transmission techniques. 

III. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is proposing to increase the 

existing burden hour estimate of the 

collection of information requirements 

specified by the Standard. In this regard, 

the Agency is proposing to increase the 

current burden hour estimate from 

888,244 hours to 911,764 hours, a total 

increase of 23,520 hours. The 

adjustment increase is due to updated 

data indicating a growth in the number 

of powered industrial trucks from 

1,179,441 to 1,210,679 and the number 

of operators from 1,769,162 to 

1,816,018. 

Upon further analysis, OSHA has 

determined that these training 

provisions are not considered to be 

collections of information under the 

PRA. In addition, the Agency was able 

to gather data updating the number of 

trucks and operators. The Agency will 

summarize the comments submitted in 

response to this notice and will include 

this summary in the request to OMB. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Powered Industrial Trucks (29 

CFR 1910.178). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0242. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 1,210,679. 

Number of Responses: 2,397,144. 

Frequency of Reponses: On occasion; 

annually; triennially. 

Average Time per Response: Various. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

427,866. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $256,626. 

IV. Public Participation—Submission of 

Comments on This Notice and Internet 

Access to Comments and Submissions 

You may submit comments in 

response to this document as follows: 

(1) Electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal; (2) by 

facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All 

comments, attachments, and other 

materials must identify the Agency 

name and the OSHA docket number for 

the ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062). 

You may supplement electronic 

submissions by uploading document 

files electronically. If you wish to mail 

additional materials in reference to an 

electronic or facsimile submission, you 

must submit them to the OSHA Docket 

Office (see the section of this notice 

titled ADDRESSES). The additional 

materials must clearly identify your 

electronic comments by your name, 

date, and the docket number so that the 

Agency can attach them to your 

comments. 

Because of security procedures, the 

use of regular mail may cause a 

significant delay in the receipt of 

comments. For information about 

security procedures concerning the 

delivery of materials by hand, express 

delivery, messenger, or courier service, 

please contact the OSHA Docket Office 

at (202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889– 

5627). 

Comments and submissions are 

posted without change at http://

www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA 

cautions commenters about submitting 

personal information such as social 

security numbers and date of birth. 

Although all submissions are listed in 

the http://www.regulations.gov index, 

some information (e.g., copyrighted 

material) is not publicly available to 

read or download from this Web site. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

Information on using the http://

www.regulations.gov Web site to submit 

comments and access the docket is 

available at the Web site’s ‘‘User Tips’’ 

link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office 

for information about materials not 

available from the Web site, and for 

assistance in using the Internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Loren Sweatt, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health, directed the 

preparation of this notice. The authority 

for this notice is the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506 

et seq.) and Secretary of Labor’s Order 

No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on September 

19, 2017. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 17–05] 

Notice of Entering Into a Compact With 

the Federal Democratic Republic of 

Nepal 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701–7718), as 

amended, and the heading ‘‘Millennium 

Challenge Corporation’’ of the 

Department of State, Foreign 

Operations, and Related Programs 

Appropriations Act, 2017, the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

(MCC) is publishing a summary of the 

Millennium Challenge Compact 

between the United States of America, 

acting through MCC, and the Republic 

of Nepal. Representatives of MCC and 

Nepal signed the compact on September 

14, 2017. The complete text of the 

compact has been posted at: https://

assets.mcc.gov/content/uploads/ 

compact-nepal.pdf. 

Dated: September 25, 2017. 

Jeanne M. Hauch, 

Vice President and General Counsel, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Summary of the Nepal Compact 

Overview of MCC Nepal Compact 

MCC’s Board of Directors has 

approved a five-year, $500 million 

compact with Nepal aimed at reducing 

poverty through economic growth. The 

compact seeks to assist Nepal in 

addressing two binding constraints to 

economic growth: (i) Inadequate supply 

of electricity; and (ii) high cost of 

transportation. The compact will 

address these binding constraints by 

investing in two projects: The Electricity 

Transmission Project and the Road 

Maintenance Project. 

Background and Context 

Nepal’s economic growth, labor 

productivity, and gross domestic 

product per capita are among the lowest 

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in South Asia. A decade of civil and 

political unrest from 1996 to 2006 

continues to shape the social, economic, 

and political landscape of the country. 

The people of Nepal continue to deal 

with the fallout from a series of 

devastating earthquakes in 2015 that 

killed nearly 9,000 people and pushed 

an additional million below the poverty 

line. Almost half a million people leave 

the country each year for economic 

opportunities elsewhere. In September 

2017, Nepal will hold the final phase of 

a three-phase local, democratic election 

in hundreds of municipalities 

throughout the country. These local 

elections are the first in 20 years and the 

first to be held since Nepal ratified its 

constitution in 2015, a critical step in 

continuing to foster transparency and 

accountability in government. 

The proposed compact is designed to 

address the underlying causes of two 

binding constraints to Nepal’s growth: 

Inadequate supply of electricity and 

high cost of transportation. Nepal 

suffers from the worst electricity 

shortages in South Asia, and new 

investment in Nepal’s electricity sector 

is critical to achieve economic growth. 

Only half of the demand for electricity 

can be met by the nation’s grid, which 

has resulted in load-shedding of up to 

18 hours a day during the dry winter 

months when hydropower generation is 

low. The constraints to growth analysis 

found that the low availability of 

electricity creates significant costs for 

businesses that must run generators on 

expensive imported fuel. The 

availability of electricity is further 

reduced by Nepal’s constrained ability 

to import power when needed and the 

high level of losses in transmission and 

distribution system. 

The transportation sector has also 

suffered from Nepal’s past political 

instability, inadequate investment, weak 

planning, and poor project execution. 

These factors have contributed to poor 

road quality, inefficient customs and 

border enforcement, an inefficient 

trucking industry, and inadequate road 

coverage. The Government of Nepal 

recognizes that investments in this 

sector are needed to reduce 

transportation costs and promote 

economic growth. 

Compact Overview and Budget 

After MCC selected Nepal as eligible 

for threshold program assistance in 

December 2011, MCC and the 

Government of Nepal conducted a 

constraints to growth analysis. When 

MCC’s Board of Directors selected Nepal 

as eligible to develop a compact in 

December 2014, MCC and the 

Government of Nepal used the analysis 

completed for the threshold program to 

develop the proposed compact. 

MCC and Nepal identified four 

binding constraints and agreed to focus 

the proposed compact on the two best 

suited for MCC’s assistance: The 

inadequate supply of electricity and the 

high cost of transportation. The 

proposed compact seeks to address the 

selected constraints by investing in two 

projects: the Electricity Transmission 

Project and the Road Maintenance 

Project. 

Nepal is already undertaking 

significant investments in the 

generation and distribution portions of 

the power sector value chain. The 

proposed Electricity Transmission 

Project therefore seeks to strengthen the 

transmission portion of the value chain, 

which has been weakened by historic 

underinvestment and poor 

implementation. The Electricity 

Transmission Project plans to add 

approximately 300 kilometers to the 

high-voltage transmission backbone 

inside Nepal, complete the Nepal 

portion of the second cross-border 

transmission line with India for 

increased electricity trade, and provide 

technical assistance aimed at improving 

the sustainability of Nepal’s power 

sector. The compact will also support 

Nepal’s establishment of an 

independent and capable power sector 

regulator, which is essential for 

maintaining open, non-discriminatory 

access to a transmission network with 

transparent pricing and clear rules of 

engagement. 

The Road Maintenance Project 

focuses on improving Nepal’s road 

maintenance regime by providing 

technical assistance to key actors within 

the transportation sector. The Road 

Maintenance Project also includes an 

incentive-matching fund to encourage 

the expansion of Nepal’s road 

maintenance budget, in addition to the 

periodic maintenance of up to 305 

kilometers of the country’s strategic 

road network. 

The following summary describes the 

components of Nepal’s compact. The 

MCC investment for the compact is $500 

million, with an additional $130 million 

committed by Nepal to support the 

compact program. 

Component Total 

(millions $) 

1. Electricity Transmission Project ...................................................................................................................................................... 398.2 

1.1 Transmission Lines Activity ................................................................................................................................................. 228.2 

1.2 Substation Activity ................................................................................................................................................................ 114.0 

1.3 Power Sector Technical Assistance Activity ........................................................................................................................ 22.4 

1.4 Project Management Activity ............................................................................................................................................... 33.6 

2. Roads Maintenance Project ............................................................................................................................................................ 52.3 

2.1 Technical Assistance Road Maintenance Reform ............................................................................................................... 7.1 

2.2 Strategic Road Maintenance Works .................................................................................................................................... 45.2 

3. Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................................................................................................................... 9.5 

3.1 Monitoring and Evaluation Activities .................................................................................................................................... 9.5 

4. Program Administration and Oversight ........................................................................................................................................... 40.0 

4.1 MCA-Nepal Program Administration .................................................................................................................................... 23.4 

4.2 Fiscal Agent, Procurement Agent, Audit ............................................................................................................................. 16.6 

Total MCC Contribution ......................................................................................................................................................... 500.0 

Government of Nepal Contribution ................................................................................................................................ 130.0 

Total Program Investment ...................................................................................................................................... 630.0 

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Nepal Compact Budget 

Project Summaries 

The Electricity Transmission Project: 

The objective of this project is to spur 

economic activity and growth by 

improving the availability and 

reliability of electricity supply in 

Nepal’s power grid, thus increasing per 

capita electricity consumption. This 

project includes four activities: 

• Transmission Lines Activity. This 

activity will focus on the construction of 

an estimated 300 kilometers of high 

voltage transmission lines in Nepal, 

providing a vital missing link to the 

existing high voltage grid. Most of the 

proposed transmission lines traverse 

mountainous terrain, starting near the 

Kathmandu Valley, moving to the west 

and then southwest to the Indian 

border. The particular lines were 

selected following careful analyses and 

feasibility studies that weighed their 

technical and economic merit, their 

importance in meeting Nepal’s medium 

and long term electricity supply goals, 

and their consistency with Nepal’s 

domestic and cross border transmission 

investment plans. The transmission line 

route was selected to minimize impact 

on people and sensitive geographic 

areas, to the extent possible. Moreover, 

the activity includes funding for certain 

community benefit-sharing activities in 

order to further mitigate potential social 

impacts from construction of the 

transmission lines. Potential activities 

include rural electrification through offgrid solutions and community 

empowerment programs. 

• Substations Activity. This activity is 

complementary to the Transmission 

Lines Activity. The proposed compact 

contemplates constructing three 

substations. In combination with the 

transmission lines, these substations 

would help evacuate and transmit 

power collected from three major river 

basins where large hydropower projects 

are under construction by investors, 

many of which are private. The 

substation near Butwal would be the 

starting point for the transmission line 

to the Indian border and power grid. 

• Power Sector Technical Assistance 

Activity. This activity seeks to 

strengthen the proposed power sector 

regulator (Electricity Regulatory 

Commission) to help bring 

transparency, efficiency, and 

competition to the power sector. The 

activity would help Nepal embed 

experts within the Electricity Regulatory 

Commission to improve the skills of this 

nascent agency in areas such as rulemaking, dispute resolution, and 

economic and technical regulation. This 

activity would also help the Nepal 

Electricity Authority improve its 

transmission operations and prepare for 

oversight from the new independent 

electricity regulator. This will help 

establish a regulatory cost recovery 

system, improved grid operations, and 

better power system planning within the 

Nepal Electricity Authority. 

• Program Management and 

Technical Oversight Activity. This 

activity is designed to complement the 

Transmission Lines and Substation 

Activities by supporting project 

management, environmental and social 

impact assessment, and engineering and 

technical supervision. This will allow 

the compact to properly implement the 

proposed infrastructure investments 

while complying with MCC’s technical, 

environmental, and social standards. 

The Road Maintenance Project: The 

objective of this project is to avoid 

future increases in transportation costs 

across Nepal’s road network by 

preventing further deterioration of 

maintained roads and to improve the 

administration of road maintenance. 

This project has two activities: 

• Technical Assistance Activity. This 

activity is planned to build capacity for 

the Department of Roads and Roads 

Board Nepal in (1) improved data 

collection; (2) preparation of 

appropriate road maintenance plans and 

cost estimates; (3) improved 

prioritization of periodic maintenance; 

(4) improved contracting and 

contracting management; and (5) 

improved project management. 

• Strategic Road Maintenance Works 

Activity. This activity seeks to 

complement and build upon the 

Technical Assistance Activity by 

incentivizing additional government 

spending on road maintenance. The 

activity would establish a matching 

fund to provide $2 for every $1 Nepal 

spends above its current average annual 

amount for road maintenance, up to a 

total of $15 million annually for three 

years. The activity would additionally 

provide for the physical maintenance of 

an initial 305 kilometers out of the 2,000 

kilometers of Nepal’s strategic road 

network. 

Economic Analysis 

The proposed Electricity 

Transmission Project has an estimated 

economic rate of return of 12 percent. 

The investment in Nepal’s transmission 

system is expected to affect all gridconnected consumers, which represent 

72 percent of Nepali households. With 

a projected population in 2024 of 31.5 

million people, an estimated 23 million 

individual beneficiaries living in five 

million households are expected to 

benefit from this project. Fifty-two 

percent of the potential beneficiaries are 

estimated to be female. 

The estimated economic rate of return 

for the Road Maintenance Project is 29 

percent. The 305 kilometers of roads 

proposed by Nepal for periodic 

maintenance under the compact are 

spread across five road segments in five 

geographic areas. The Project is 

expected to benefit approximately 

924,000 people in 205,000 households. 

MCC anticipates that there will be 

overlap in the beneficiaries of the two 

proposed projects and thus ultimately 

expects the compact to benefit 

approximately 23 million individuals. 

Policy Reforms and the Compact 

MCC will require certain conditions 

to entry into force of the compact in 

order to ensure sustainability of 

compact investments. For example, 

given the proposed compact’s focus and 

the clear need for a second cross-border 

transmission connection with India, 

MCC will require that technical and 

financial arrangements for the 

construction of the complementary 

investment in India be finalized before 

entry into force of the compact. This 

requirement is expected to be further 

strengthened through conditions 

regarding the Nepal portion of the crossborder transmission line that must be 

met for certain compact disbursements. 

The proposed compact includes 

several key reform elements, supported 

by technical assistance activities in each 

project. The Power Sector Technical 

Assistance Activity includes conditions 

to help Nepal create a transparent and 

efficient electricity market. MCC 

believes that the establishment of the 

Electricity Regulatory Commission as an 

independent and capable regulator is 

essential for maintaining open, nondiscriminatory access to a transmission 

network with transparent pricing and 

clear rules of engagement for all power 

market participants, particularly 

investors in generation projects. The 

compact proposes to increase the 

utility’s planning, operations, and cost 

recovery mechanisms to help ensure the 

sustainability of the proposed 

investments. Strengthening the utility’s 

transmission operations should ensure 

its viability if Nepal decides to spin off 

or merge those operations with an 

independent transmission company. 

MCC has conditioned the entry into 

force of the compact on satisfactory 

progress toward parliamentary approval 

of a bill to establish the Electricity 

Regulatory Commission. Further, 

funding for the Power Sector Technical 

Assistance Activity will only be 

provided if the Electricity Regulatory 

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Commission bill has been passed by the 

Nepali parliament. 

For the Technical Assistance Activity 

in the Road Maintenance Project, MCC 

will provide compact funding for 

maintenance works only if Nepal 

increases its own historically low 

spending levels on road maintenance. 

The compact is expected to incentivize 

Nepal to increase its spending for road 

maintenance significantly by making 

MCC funding conditioned on increased 

Nepal spending. 

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BILLING CODE 9211–03–P 

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 17–07] 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C.—App., the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

(MCC) Advisory Council was 

established as a discretionary advisory 

committee on June 14, 2016. The MCC 

Advisory Council contributes to MCC’s 

mission to reduce poverty through 

economic growth. The functions of the 

MCC Advisory Council are to 

exclusively serve MCC in an advisory 

capacity and provide insight regarding 

innovations in infrastructure, 

technology and sustainability, perceived 

risks and opportunities in MCC partner 

countries, new financing mechanisms 

for developing country contexts, and 

shared value approaches. The MCC 

Advisory Council provides a platform 

for systematic engagement with the 

private sector and other external 

stakeholders. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

October 17, 2017, from 9 a.m.–1:45 p.m. 

EST. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Millennium Challenge Corporation 

1099 14th St. NW., Suite 700 

Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, contact Beth 

Roberts at MCCAdvisoryCouncil@

mcc.gov or 202–521–3600 or visit 

https://www.mcc.gov/about/org-unit/ 

advisory-council. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Time and Place: Tuesday, October 17, 

2017, from 9:00 a.m.–1:45 p.m. EST 

which includes a working lunch. The 

meeting will be held at the Millennium 

Challenge Corporation 1099 14th St. 

NW., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005. 

Agenda: During the fall 2017 meeting 

of the MCC Advisory Council, members 

will discuss ways MCC can continue to 

bolster its relationship with the private 

sector and provide advice on MCC’s 

investments in the Northern Triangle 

and ongoing compact development in 

Tunisia. 

Public Participation: The meeting will 

be open to the public. Members of the 

public may file written statement(s) 

before or after the meeting. If you plan 

to attend, please submit your name and 

affiliation no later than Monday, 

October 9, to MCCAdvisoryCouncil@

mcc.gov to be placed on an attendee list. 

Jeanne M. Hauch, 

VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

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BILLING CODE 9211–03–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice: (17–069)] 

Notice of Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection. 

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: All comments should be 

submitted within 30 calendar days from 

the date of this publication. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments 

regarding the proposed information 

collection to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 7th Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20543. Attention: 

Desk Officer for NASA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Lori Parker, NASA Clearance 

Officer, NASA Headquarters, 300 E 

Street SW., JF0000, Washington, DC 

20546 or email Lori.Parker-1@nasa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The information submitted by 

recipients is an annual report of 

Government-owned property in the 

possession of educational or nonprofit 

institutions holding NASA grants. In 

addition to the annual report, a property 

report may also be required at the end 

of the grant, or on the occurrence of 

certain events. The collected 

information is used by NASA to 

effectively maintain an appropriate 

internal control system for equipment 

and property provided or acquired 

under grants and cooperative 

agreements with institutions of higher 

education and other nonprofit 

organizations, and to comply with 

statutory requirements. 

II. Method of Collection 

NASA is participating in Federal 

efforts to extend the use of information 

technology to more Government 

processes via Internet. NASA 

encourages recipients to use the latest 

computer technology in preparing 

documentation. Grant and Cooperative 

Agreement awardees submit annual 

property reports via an automated 

NASA Form 1018 by way of the NASA 

Electronic Submission System (NESS). 

Approximately 95% of reports are 

submitted via electronic means. 

III. Data 

Title: Property Inventory Report— 

Grants with Educational and Nonprofit 

Entities (formerly titled NASA 

Inventory Report: Property Management 

& Control, Grants). 

OMB Number: 2700–0047. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Educational 

institutions and not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

238. 

Estimated Time per Response: 8.33 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,983 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$67,552. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of NASA, including 

whether the information collected has 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

NASA’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the