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they are affiliated with (if any), and an 

email address prior to placing callers 

into the conference room. Callers can 

expect to incur regular charges for calls 

they initiate over wireless lines, 

according to their wireless plan. The 

Commission will not refund any 

incurred charges. Callers will incur no 

charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free 

telephone number. Persons with hearing 

impairments may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–977–8339 and 

providing the Service with the 

conference call number and conference 

ID number. 

Members of the public are also 

entitled to submit written comments; 

the comments must be received in the 

regional office within 30 days following 

the meeting. Written comments may be 

mailed to the Midwestern Regional 

Office, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 

55 W. Monroe St., Suite 410, Chicago, 

IL 60615. They may also be faxed to the 

Commission at (312) 353–8324, or 

emailed to Carolyn Allen at callen@

usccr.gov. Persons who desire 

additional information may contact the 

Midwestern Regional Office at (312) 

353–8311. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Midwestern Regional Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Records of the meeting will 

be available via www.facadatabase.gov 

under the Commission on Civil Rights, 

Wisconsin Advisory Committee link 

(http://www.facadatabase.gov/ 

committee/meetings.aspx?cid=282). 

Persons interested in the work of this 

Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s Web site, http://

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Midwestern Regional Office at the above 

email or street address. 

Agenda 

Welcome and Roll Call 

Announcements and Business Updates 

Discussion of civil rights report publication: 

Hate Crime in Wisconsin 

Future Plans and Actions: Civil Rights in 

Wisconsin 

Public Comment 

Adjournment 

Dated: November 2, 2017. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24247 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: United States Commission on 

Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of Commission Briefing 

and Business Meeting. 

DATES: Monday, November 13, 2017, at 

1:00 p.m. EST. 

ADDRESSES: National Place Building, 

1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Suite 

1150, Washington, DC 20245 (Entrance 

on F Street NW.). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Walch; (202) 376–8371; TTY: 

(202) 376–8116; email: publicaffairs@

usccr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

business meeting is open to the public. 

There will also be a call-in line for 

individuals who desire to listen to the 

presentations: (888) 339–3513; 

Conference ID 360–3740. 

Persons with disabilities who need 

accommodation should contact Pamela 

Dunston at (202) 376–8105, or access@

usccr.gov at least three business days 

before the date of the meeting. 

Meeting Agenda 

I. Approval of Agenda 

II. Business Meeting 

A. State Advisory Committees 

a. Discussion and Vote on Nomination 

of Shaakirrah Sanders as Chair of 

the Idaho Advisory Committee 

b. Discussion and Vote on 

Nomination of Curtiss Reed, Jr. as 

Chair of the Vermont Advisory 

Committee 

c. Discussion and Vote on Nomination 

of Alexes Harris as Chair of the 

Washington Advisory Committee 

B. Management and Operations 

• Staff Director’s Report 

III. Adjourn Meeting 

Dated: November 6, 2017. 

Brian Walch, 

Director, Communications and Public 

Engagement. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24391 Filed 11–6–17; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 170824806–7806–01] 

Proposed Content for the Prototype 

2020 Census Redistricting Data File 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The 2020 Census 

Redistricting Data Program provides 

states the opportunity to specify the 

small geographic areas for which they 

wish to receive 2020 decennial 

population totals for the purpose of 

reapportionment and redistricting. This 

notice pertains to Phase 3, the Data 

Delivery phase of the program, as the 

U.S. Census Bureau is providing 

notification and requesting comment on 

the content of the prototype 2020 

Census Redistricting Data File that will 

be produced from the 2018 End-to-End 

Census Test. The Census Bureau 

anticipates publishing the content for 

the prototype 2020 Census Redistricting 

Data File from the 2018 End-to-End 

Census Test in the second quarter of 

fiscal year 2018 in a final notice. In that 

final notice, the Census Bureau also will 

respond to the comments received on 

this notice. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by January 8, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please address all written 

comments to James Whitehorne, Chief 

of the Census Redistricting and Voting 

Rights Data Office, U.S. Census Bureau, 

4600 Silver Hill Road, Room 4H057, 

Washington, DC 20233. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Whitehorne, Chief of the Census 

Redistricting and Voting Rights Data 

Office, U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver 

Hill Road, Room 4H057, Washington, 

DC 20233, Telephone (301) 763–4039, 

or by email at rdo@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

provisions of Public Law 94–171, as 

amended (Title 13, United States Code 

(U.S.C.), Section 141(c)), the Director of 

the Census Bureau is required to 

provide the ‘‘officers or public bodies 

with initial responsibility for legislative 

apportionment or districting of each 

state. . .’’ with the opportunity to 

specify small geographic areas (e.g., 

census blocks, voting districts, wards, 

and election precincts) for which they 

wish to receive decennial census 

population totals for the purpose of 

reapportionment and redistricting. 

By April 1 of the year following the 

census, the Secretary of Commerce is 

required to furnish those state officials 

or their designees with population 

counts for counties, cities, census 

blocks, and state-specified congressional 

districts, legislative districts, and voting 

districts. 

In accordance with the provisions of 

Title 13, U.S.C. 141(c), and on behalf of 

the Secretary of Commerce, the U.S. 

Census Bureau Director requests 

comment on the proposed content of the 

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produced as part of Phase 3 of the 2020 

Census Redistricting Data Program. 

The 2020 Census Redistricting Data 

Program was initially announced on 

July 15, 2014, in the Federal Register 

(79 FR 41258). This notice described the 

program that the Census Bureau 

proposed to adopt for the 2020 Census. 

As seen in the 1990, 2000, and 2010 

censuses, the 2020 Census Redistricting 

Data Program is partitioned into several 

phases. Phase 1, the Block Boundary 

Suggestion Project, was announced in a 

Federal Register notice on June 26, 2015 

(80 FR 36765). This notice described the 

procedures for the states to provide the 

Census Bureau with their suggestions 

for the 2020 Census tabulation block 

inventory. Phase 2, the Voting District 

Project, was announced in a Federal 

Register notice on June 28, 2017 (82 FR 

29276). This second phase specifically 

provides states the opportunity to 

provide the Census Bureau with their 

voting district boundaries (election 

precincts, wards, etc.). Phase 3 of the 

2020 Redistricting Data Program is data 

delivery. 

The Census Bureau will produce, in 

preparation for Phase 3, a prototype 

2020 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File from the 2018 

End-to-End Census Test. This prototype 

product will be delivered to official 

recipients and the public in early 2019. 

The content of this prototype product, 

which includes population counts by 

race and ethnicity, is meant to simulate 

the official product that will be 

produced as the 2020 Census Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File, 

delivered in early 2021. This prototype 

should not be interpreted, however, as 

signifying that a design decision for 

collecting race and ethnicity data has 

been made for the 2020 Census. 

The U.S. Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) is currently reviewing 

proposed revisions to the Standards for 

Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting 

Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. 

OMB will announce their decision on 

making any changes to the standards in 

the Federal Register later this year. 

These standards will inform how the 

Census Bureau collects and publishes 

race/ethnicity data for the 2020 Census. 

More information on OMB’s review is 

available on https://

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/ 

whitehouse.gov/files/briefing-room/ 

presidential-actions/related-ombmaterial/r_e_iwg_faqs_and_talking_

points_032917.pdf. 

One of the potential changes being 

decided by OMB is question format, 

specifically the use of two separate 

questions or a combined question for 

race/ethnicity data. In the 2010 Census, 

race/ethnicity data were collected using 

a two separate questions approach. 

Consequently, the Census Bureau has 

experience and is prepared to produce 

statistics on race/ethnicity in that 

format. Should the use of a combined 

race/ethnicity question be allowed 

under the as yet to be released guidance 

from OMB, the Census Bureau must be 

prepared to produce race/ethnicity 

statistics with the combined question 

format. Therefore, the current design for 

the prototype 2020 Census Public Law 

94–171 Redistricting Data File reflects 

the combined question format, and 

alters the design of that produced as the 

official 2010 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File. If only a separate 

questions format is permitted under the 

as yet to be released guidance from 

OMB, then the 2020 Census Public Law 

94–171 Redistricting Data File will 

mirror that of the 2010 Census Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File, 

with the addition of the group quarters 

table described below. If a combined 

question format is permitted under the 

revised OMB standards, then the design 

for the 2020 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File will mirror that 

of the prototype 2020 Census Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File. 

Regardless of whether a separate or 

combined question format is used in the 

2020 Census, to assist those states that 

reallocate populations prior to 

conducting redistricting, a group 

quarters table is added. This table will 

include the group quarters categories of: 

Institutionalized populations 

(correctional facilities for adults, 

juvenile facilities, nursing facilities/ 

skilled nursing facilities, and other 

institutional facilities) and 

noninstitutionalized populations 

(college/university student housing, 

military quarters, and other noninstitutionalized facilities). The group 

quarters table will include state, county, 

county sub-division, voting district, 

tract, and block geographic levels for the 

total population in the group quarters 

count. A schematic of the tables 

planned for the prototype 2020 Census 

Public Law 94–171 Redistricting File is 

available at the Census Bureau’s FTP 

site: https://www2.census.gov/ 

programs-surveys/decennial/rdo/about/ 

2020-census-program/Phase3/Phase3_

prototype_schematic.pdf. 

This notice requests comment on 

these changes and the continued 

suitability of these data in redistricting. 

Other potential changes to the OMB 

guidance on the collection and 

tabulation of Race and Ethnicity 

announced in the Federal Register later 

this year may necessitate changes to the 

prototype product beyond those 

proposed here. The Census Bureau will 

announce any respective revisions in a 

forthcoming, final Federal Register 

notice in the second quarter of fiscal 

year 2018. 

The Census Bureau will continue to 

communicate with each state to ensure 

all are well informed of the benefits of 

working with the Census Bureau 

towards a successful 2020 Census. In 

addition, the Census Redistricting and 

Voting Rights Data Office will continue 

to work with each state to ensure that 

all are prepared to participate in every 

phase of the Redistricting Data Program. 

As required by Public Law 94–171, 

every state, regardless of its 

participation in Phase 1 or Phase 2, will 

receive the official redistricting data in 

Phase 3. 

Dated: November 2, 2017. 

Ron S. Jarmin, 

Associate Director for Economic Programs, 

Performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and 

Duties of the Director, Bureau of the Census. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24242 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–122–857] 

Certain Softwood Lumber Products 

From Canada: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Affirmative Final 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) determines that certain 

softwood lumber products (softwood 

lumber) from Canada is being, or is 

likely to be, sold in the United States at 

less than fair value (LTFV). The period 

of investigation (POI) is October 1, 2015, 

through September 30, 2016. 

DATES: Applicable: November 8, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Bailey, Robert Galantucci, 

Thomas Martin, or Jeff Pedersen, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office IV, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0193, (202) 482–2923, (202) 

482–3936, or (202) 482–2769, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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