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rule. It provides a means for registering multiple 

works with one submission in cases where multiple 

submissions would otherwise be required and 

where no other statutory or regulatory 

accommodation exists. Often, when multiple items 

are fixed in the same medium of expression, they 

may be considered a derivative work, a 

compilation, or a collective work. If so, there is no 

need to rely on the unit of publication option, 

because the statute already provides a means for 

obtaining a registration. If applicants could register 

multiple works as a unit of publication whenever 

they happen to be fixed in the same medium of 

expression, the regulatory accommodation would 

displace the statutory scheme, and this narrow 

exception would become the default method for 

registering published works. 

9Similarly, one individual asked the Office to 

add a new space to Form TX where applicants may 

provide titles of the works appearing within a unit 

of publication. The Office declines to adopt this 

suggestion, because the Compendium already 

provides instructions for adding title information to 

a paper application. See Compendium section 

1107.4(C). 

That said, the Office has, over time, 

expanded its group registration options 

to accommodate the need to register 

multiple works with the same 

application. To the extent the concern 

expressed in the comments relates to the 

inability to register multiple musical 

works fixed and/or distributed on an 

album, the Office is planning to create 

a new group registration option to 

accommodate those situations. 

Collective Works and Contributions to 

Collective Works 

The Copyright Alliance commented 

on the Public Draft’s discussion of 

collective works. First, it asserted that 

more information should be included in 

applications for certain collective 

works. When registering an album 

together with the works on that album, 

the Copyright Alliance asserted that 

applicants should identify the complete 

content of the album. Specifically, the 

Copyright Alliance suggested that 

section 618.7(B)(2) should be revised to 

state that titles of the individual works 

should be included in the ‘‘Content 

Titles’’ field, even if the applicant 

intends to exclude one or more of those 

works from the claim. The Copyright 

Alliance said this would provide a clear 

record of what the album contains and 

makes the titles accessible in the online 

public record.9

The Office declines to adopt the 

Copyright Alliance’s suggestion at this 

time. The Office encourages applicants 

to provide album information as 

suggested by the Copyright Alliance, but 

it will not require applicants for all 

collective works to submit all similar 

information. Requiring applicants to 

provide contents titles for an album may 

be feasible, but applying the same 

requirement to all types of collective 

works may be burdensome for some 

applicants. That said, the Office plans to 

revise the sections on collective works 

consisting of musical works and/or 

sound recordings in a future update to 

the Compendium, and will revisit the 

Copyright Alliance’s suggestions in 

making those revisions. 

Additionally, the Copyright Alliance 

contended that the Office will not 

register a collective work unless it 

contains at least four independent 

works (citing Compendium sections 

312.2, 618.7, and 803.8(F)(4)). The 

Copyright Alliance said this is a 

problem for the recording industry, 

because extended play albums (‘‘EPs’’) 

often contain two or three tracks. In 

such cases, the individual tracks must 

be registered separately. It also said this 

creates a workflow problem for the 

record labels because, although EPs are 

a single product, they cannot be 

registered in a manner that reflects the 

way they are commercially distributed. 

The Office registers ‘‘original works of 

authorship,’’ as defined in sections 102 

and 103 of the Copyright Act. A 

compilation may be registered if it 

contains a sufficient amount of creative 

expression in the selection, 

coordination, and/or arrangement of its 

component elements. These 

requirements are set forth in the statute, 

and the Office adheres to this standard 

when it examines an album or any other 

type of compilation. The vast majority 

of albums contain sufficient selection, 

coordination, or arrangement authorship 

to be considered a collective work, but 

some albums do not satisfy this 

requirement. The Office recognizes that 

in such cases, a separate application 

may be required for each individual 

track, and that this may increase the 

incremental cost and effort of seeking a 

registration. But, contrary to the 

Copyright Alliance’s suggestion, the 

Office does not have a bright line rule 

regarding the number of tracks that must 

be present to qualify as a collective 

work; the Office will simply scrutinize 

collective work applications with fewer 

tracks more closely to ensure they pass 

the necessary threshold of creativity. 

Dated: September 27, 2017. 

Karyn Temple Claggett, 

Acting Register of Copyrights and Director 

of the U.S. Copyright Office. 

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NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING 

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Submission Guidelines 

AGENCY: National Capital Planning 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The National Capital Planning 

Commission (NCPC or Commission) 

hereby adopts new Submission 

Guidelines. 

DATES: The Submission Guidelines are 

adopted as of October 30, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Matthew Flis, Senior Urban Designer at 

(202) 482–7236 or submission@

ncpc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Background 

Federal and non-Federal agency 

applicants whose development 

proposals are subject to statutorilymandated Commission plan and project 

review must submit their proposals to 

the Commission following a process laid 

out in the Submission Guidelines. The 

Submission Guidelines describe the 

content of submissions, the submission 

stages, and the coordination and review 

process governing submissions. 

The new Submission Guidelines 

accomplish three primary objectives: (1) 

Create clear, accessible, and efficient 

guidelines that are responsive to 

applicant needs; (2) Align NCPC’s 

review stages and National 

Environmental Policy Act requirements 

with those of applicant agencies to save 

time and resources in the planning 

process; and (3) Allow staff to exempt 

from Commission review certain minor 

projects based on specific criteria where 

there is no federal interest. The new 

Submission Guidelines are posted on 

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www.ncpc.gov/initiatives/subnepa.html. 

II. Summary of and Response to 

Comments 

NCPC published a notice of 

availability; request for comment; and 

notice of public meetings for its revised 

Submission Guidelines in the Federal 

Register on May 26, 2017. The notice 

announced, among others, a 45-day 

public comment period. The public 

comment period closed on July 10, 

2017. A summary of the comments 

received and NCPC’s response thereto 

can be found in Appendix A of the 

Executive Director’s Recommendation 

(EDR) for NCPC file No. 7744 dated 

September 7, 2017. The subject EDR is 

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Dated: September 21, 2017. 

Anne R. Schuyler, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20612 Filed 9–28–17; 8:45 am] 

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE 

PRESIDENT 

Office of National Drug Control Policy 

Designation of 16 Counties as High 

Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas 

AGENCY: Office of National Drug Control 

Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the 

President. 

ACTION: Notice of HIDTA designations. 

SUMMARY: The Director of the Office of 

National Drug Control Policy designated 

16 additional counties/cities and 

removed two counties as High Intensity 

Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) 

pursuant to agency law. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding this notice should 

be directed to Michael K. Gottlieb, 

National HIDTA Program Director, 

Office of National Drug Control Policy, 

Executive Office of the President, 

Washington, DC 20503; (202) 395–4868. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The new 

counties/cities are (1) Sullivan County 

in Tennessee and Wood County in West 

Virginia as part of the Appalachia 

HIDTA; (2) Greenville County in South 

Carolina as part of the Atlanta/Carolinas 

HIDTA; (3) DuPage County in Illinois as 

part of the Chicago HIDTA; (4) St. Clair 

County in Michigan as part of the 

Michigan HIDTA; (5) Ocean County in 

New Jersey and Oneida County in New 

York as part of the New York/New 

Jersey HIDTA; (6) Bradford and Union 

Counties in Florida as part of the North 

Florida HIDTA; (7) San Benito County 

in California as part of the Northern 

California HIDTA; (8) Bannock County 

in Idaho as part of the Oregon/Idaho 

HIDTA; (9) Montgomery County in 

Pennsylvania as part of the 

Philadelphia/Camden HIDTA; (10) 

Collier and Martin Counties in Florida 

as part of the South Florida HIDTA; (11) 

Taos County in New Mexico as part of 

the Southwest Border HIDTA—New 

Mexico Region; and (12) Dorchester 

County in Maryland as part of the 

Washington/Baltimore HIDTA. The 

Director of ONDCP also removed two 

counties as HIDTAs pursuant to 21 

U.S.C. 1706, effective July 10, 2017. The 

two counties removed from HIDTA 

county designation within the Houston 

HIDTA are Orange and San Patricio 

counties in Texas. The Executive Board 

of the Houston HIDTA requested 

removal of these counties from 

designation after assessing the threat 

and determining that these counties no 

longer met the statutory criteria 

necessary for designation as HIDTA 

counties. ONDCP evaluated and 

accepted the request. 

Dated: September 26, 2017. 

Michael J. Passante, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20937 Filed 9–28–17; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2016–0156] 

Information Collection: Solicitation of 

Non-Power Reactor Operator 

Licensing Examination Data 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has recently 

submitted a proposed collection of 

information to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review. The information collection is 

entitled, ‘‘Solicitation of Non-Power 

Reactor Operator Licensing Examination 

Data.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by October 30, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly 

to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron Szabo, 

Desk Officer, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (3150–XXXX), 

NEOB–10202, Office of Management 

and Budget, Washington, DC 20503; 

telephone: 202–395–3621; email: oira_

submission@omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– 

0156 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2016–0156. A copy 

of the collection of information and 

related instructions may be obtained 

without charge by accessing Docket ID 

NRC–2016–0156 on this Web site. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. A copy 

of the collection of information and 

related instructions may be obtained 

without charge by accessing ADAMS 

Accession No. ML17222A053. The 

supporting statement is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML17222A090. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. All comment 

submissions are posted at http://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the OMB, then you 

should inform those persons not to 

include identifying or contact 

information that they do not want to be 

publicly disclosed in their comment 

submission. Your request should state 

that the NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove such 

information before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment submissions into 

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