Document ID: FEMA-2020-0016-0074
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings To Implement Pandemic Response Voluntary Agreement Under Section 708 of the Defense Production Act
Posted Date: 2022-05-12T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 92 (Thursday, May 12, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 29163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10219]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID FEMA-2020-0016]

Meetings To Implement Pandemic Response Voluntary Agreement Under 
Section 708 of the Defense Production Act

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland 
Security.

ACTION: Notice of meeting cancellations.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) previously 
announced a series of meetings under the Plan of Action to Establish a 
National Strategy for the Coordination of National Multimodal 
Healthcare Supply Chains to Respond to COVID-19, to implement the 
Voluntary Agreement for the Manufacture and Distribution of Critical 
Healthcare Resources Necessary to Respond to a Pandemic. The meetings 
listed below have been cancelled.

DATES:  The meetings scheduled for the dates listed below were 
cancelled:
     Wednesday, March 16, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern 
Time (ET).
     Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.
     Wednesday, April 13, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.
     Wednesday, April 27, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.
     Wednesday, May 11, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.
     Wednesday, May 25, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Anne Lyle, Office of Business, 
Industry, and Infrastructure Integration, via email at 
[email protected] or via phone at (202) 212-1666.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 10, 2022, FEMA announced a series 
of meetings to be held pursuant to section 708(h)(8) of the Defense 
Production Act (DPA), 50 U.S.C. 4558(h)(8).\1\ The meeting scheduled 
for March 2, 2022, took place as planned, but in light of other efforts 
to address the draft recommendations of the National Multimodal 
Healthcare Supply Chains Plan of Action, as well as incremental 
improvement in the overall multimodal transportation situation, the 
Sponsor of the Voluntary Agreement,\2\ the FEMA Administrator, no 
longer sees the need to conduct the other meetings, and has cancelled 
them.
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    \1\ 87 FR 13742 (Mar. 10, 2022).
    \2\ ``[T]he individual designated by the President in subsection 
(c)(2) [of section 708 of the DPA] to administer the voluntary 
agreement, or plan of action.'' 50 U.S.C. 4558(h)(7).

Deanne Criswell,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2022-10219 Filed 5-11-22; 8:45 am]
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