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subsequently issued its final
determination that an industry in the
United States was materially injured by
reason of imports of sodium nitrite from
Russia provided for in subheading
2834.10.10 of the HTSUS that have been
found by Commerce to be sold in the
United States at less than fair value (87
FR 66323, November 3, 2022).
Commerce issued final affirmative
countervailing and antidumping duty
determinations with respect to imports
of sodium nitrite from India (88 FR
1042, January 6, 2023; and 88 FR 1052,
January 6, 2023). Accordingly, the
Commission currently is issuing a
supplemental schedule for its
countervailing and antidumping duty
investigations on imports of sodium
nitrite from India.
This supplemental schedule is as
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supplemental party comments on
Commerce’s final countervailing and
antidumping duty determinations is
Wednesday, January 18, 2023.
Supplemental party comments may
address only Commerce’s final
countervailing and antidumping duty
determinations regarding imports of
sodium nitrite from India. These
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final phase of the current investigations
will be placed in the nonpublic record
on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, and a
public version will be issued thereafter.
For further information concerning
these investigations see the
Commission’s notice cited above and
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure, part 201, subparts A and B
(19 CFR part 201), and part 207,
subparts A and C (19 CFR part 207).
Additional written submissions to the
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pursuant to section 201.12 of the
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accepted unless good cause is shown for
accepting such submissions, or unless
the submission is pursuant to a specific
request by a Commissioner or
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In accordance with sections 201.16(c)
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each document filed by a party to the
investigations must be served on all
other parties to the investigations (as
identified by either the public or BPI
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not accept a document for filing without
a certificate of service.
Please note the Secretary’s Office will
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time. Filings must be made through the
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further notice.
Authority: These investigations are
being conducted under authority of title
VII of the Tariff Act of 1930; this notice
is published pursuant to section 207.21
of the Commission’s rules.
By order of the Commission.
Issued: January 13, 2023.
Jessica Mullan,
Acting Supervisory Attorney.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Proposed Second
Amendment to Consent Decree Under
the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act
On January 11, 2022, the Department
of Justice lodged a proposed second
amendment to a consent decree with the
United States District Court for the
Southern District of Texas in the lawsuit
entitled United States v. Formosa
Plastics Corporation, Texas, et al., Civil
Action No. 09–00061.
Under the original 2010 consent
decree, Formosa Plastics Corporation,
Texas, Formosa Hydrocarbons, Inc.
(now Formosa Hydrocarbons Company,
Inc.) (collectively ‘‘FPC TX’’), and
Formosa Plastics Corporation, Louisiana
(collectively ‘‘Defendants’’) agreed to
undertake numerous measures to come
into compliance with various
environmental statutes and regulations
at their facilities in Point Comfort,
Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The
Defendants still are in the process of
complying with the 2010 Decree and the
2013 First Amendment to the Consent
Decree. Under the 2010 consent decree,
Defendant FPC TX is required to
manage and dispose of its wastewater
treatment system sludge as a listed
hazardous waste under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, 42
U.S.C. 6901 et seq. (‘‘RCRA’’), because
the company treats a RCRA listed
hazardous waste (recovered
groundwater from its contaminated
groundwater treatment system) in its
wastewater system. Under the proposed
Second Amendment, FPC TX will cease
treating the recovered groundwater
onsite, and instead send the recovered
wastewater offsite to a RCRA permitted
hazardous waste treatment, storage, and
disposal facility. Accordingly, the RCRA
hazardous waste listing will no longer
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In doing so, FPC TX will eliminate the
wastewater sludge hazardous waste
stream. FPC TX also will clean the
wastewater treatment system to
eliminate hazardous waste residue.
The publication of this notice opens
a period for public comment on the
proposed Consent Decree. Comments
should be addressed to the Assistant
Attorney General, Environment and
Natural Resources Division, and should
refer to United States v. Formosa
Plastics Corporation, Texas, et al., D.J.
Ref. No. 90–5–2–1–08995. All
comments must be submitted no later
than thirty (30) days after the
publication date of this notice.
Comments may be submitted either by
email or by mail:
To submit
comments:
Send them to:
By email .......
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usdoj.gov.
Assistant Attorney General,
U.S. DOJ—ENRD,
P.O. Box 7611,
Washington, DC 20044–7611.
By mail .........
During the public comment period,
the proposed second amendment may
be examined and downloaded at this
Justice Department website: https://
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proposed amendments upon written
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costs. Please mail your request and
payment to: Consent Decree Library,
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Please enclose a check or money order
for $ 2.25 (25 cents per page
reproduction cost) payable to the United
States Treasury.
Thomas Carroll,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental
Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request,
Reemployment Services and Eligibility
Assessments (RESEA) Program
Implementation Study, Reinstatement
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation
Office, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Information
Collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:
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The Department of Labor
(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, conducts a preclearance
consultation program to provide the
general public and federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95). 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
is properly assessed. Currently, the
Department of Labor is soliciting
comments concerning the collection of
data about the Reemployment Services
and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA)
Program Implementation Study. A copy
of the proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) can be obtained by
contacting the office listed below in the
addressee section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before
March 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either one of the following methods:
Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov;
Mail or Courier: Megan Lizik, Chief
Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room S–2312, 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 OMB
Control Number identified above for
this information collection. Comments,
including any personal information
provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB
approval of the information collection
request.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Megan Lizik by email at
ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov or by
phone at (202)430–1255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: DOL funds RESEA
programs across all 50 states, DC, Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands. States and
territories use these funds to address the
reemployment services needs of
Unemployment Insurance (UI)
claimants and to prevent and detect UI
improper payments (Unemployment
Insurance Program Letter 8–18). The
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L.
115–123) included amendments to the
Social Security Act (SSA) that create a
permanent authorization for the RESEA
program. The permanently authorized
RESEA program in Section 306 of the
SSA provides for a phased
implementation of new program
requirements over several years, one of
which is to ‘‘establish and expand the
use of evidence-based interventions’’ in
states’ RESEA programs. To help meet
this requirement and build evidence
about RESEA, DOL is conducting an
implementation study that will provide
an understanding of current RESEA
programs and program components
being implemented in the field. As part
of this implementation study, DOL will
conduct a web-based survey of all
RESEA grantees nationwide. This
Federal Register Notice provides the
opportunity to comment on a new
proposed information collection activity
that will be used for the implementation
study.
• Web-based survey instrument. The
evaluation team will conduct a survey
of all states and territories operating
RESEA programs to systematically
gather up-to-date information about
RESEA program operations not available
in existing documents. This includes
detail on how reemployment services
are provided, interactions with federal
workforce programs, how eligibility
assessment and enforcement are carried
out, types of reemployment services
provided, and exploratory information
about evaluation activities.
II. Desired Focus of Comments:
Currently, the Department of Labor is
soliciting comments concerning the
above data collection for the Evaluation
to Advance Reemployment Services and
Eligibility Assessments Program
Evidence. DOL is particularly interested
in comments that do the following:
Æ evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
Æ evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s burden estimate of the
proposed information collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions;
Æ enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
Æ minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology—
for example, permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions: At this time, the
Department of Labor is requesting
clearance for for the survey protocol to
be administered with all RESEA
grantees nationwide.
Type of Review: New information
collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1290–0029.
Affected Public: State RESEA program
administrators.
Comments submitted in response to
this request will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents a
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Type of instrument
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total No.
of responses
Average
burden time
per response
(hours)
Estimated
burden hours
Web-based survey instrument for State RESEA administrators ...............................................................................
b 18
1
18
2
36
Total ..............................................................................
18
1
18
2
36
a We
are seeking a clearance period of three years.
approximately 1 survey participant from each of approximately 53 state and territory RESEA programs over the three-year clearance period.
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Scott Gibbons,
Acting Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S.
Department of Labor.
[FR Doc. 2023–00917 Filed 1–18–23; 8:45 am]
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Notice of Availability of Calendar Year
2023 Competitive Grant Funds for the
Technology Initiative Grant Program
Legal Services Corporation.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Legal Services
Corporation (LSC) issues this Notice
describing the conditions for submitting
a pre-application for 2023 Technology
Initiative Grants (TIGs), and for
applying under TIG categories that do
not require pre-applications. PreApplications must be submitted
electronically via LSC’s unified grants
management system, GrantEase.
DATES: The deadline to submit a PreApplication is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time on Friday, March 10,
2023.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Technology, Office of Program
Performance, Legal Services
Corporation, 3333 K Street NW,
Washington, DC 20007; (202) 295–1547
or dbonebrake@lsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
Since 2000, Congress has provided an
annual appropriation to LSC to award
special funding for client self-help and
information technology projects. LSC’s
Technology Initiative Grant (TIG)
program funds technology tools that
help achieve LSC’s goal of increasing
the quantity and quality of legal services
available to eligible persons. Projects
funded under the TIG program develop,
test, and replicate innovative
technologies that can enable grant
recipients and state justice communities
to improve low-income persons’ access
to high-quality legal assistance through
an integrated and well-managed
technology system. The TIG program
also supports effective technology
planning and management at LSCfunded organizations through the use of
targeted assessment grants focused on
improvements to technology systems
and information security.
II. Funding Opportunity Information
A. Eligible Applicants
To be eligible for Technology
Initiative Grants, applicants must be
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current grantees of LSC Basic FieldGeneral, Basic Field-Migrant, or Basic
Field-Native American grants. In
addition, applicants must receive basic
field funding of at least a one-year term,
be up to date on reporting on any
existing TIG-funded projects, and not
have had a previous TIG terminated in
the past three years for reporting or
other performance issues.
B. Technology Initiative Grant Purpose
and Key Goals
Since LSC’s TIG program was
established in 2000, LSC has made over
859 grants totaling over $81 million.
This grant program encourages
organizations to use technology in
innovative ways to:
1. Effectively and efficiently provide
high-quality legal assistance to lowincome persons and to promote access
to the judicial system through legal
information, advice, and representation.
2. Improve service delivery, quality of
legal work, and management and
administration of grantees.
3. Develop, test, and replicate
innovative strategies that can enable
grantees and state justice communities
to improve clients’ access to highquality legal assistance.
C. Funding Categories
1. General Technology Initiative Grants
Projects in this category (1)
implement new or innovative
approaches for using technology in legal
services delivery; (2) enhance the
effectiveness and efficiency of existing
technologies so that they may be better
used to increase the quality and
quantity of services to clients; or (3)
replicate, adapt, or provide added value
to the work of prior technology projects.
This includes, but is not limited to, the
implementation and improvement of
tested methodologies and technologies
from previous TIG projects. We also
encourage replication of proven
technologies from non-LSC funded legal
aid organizations as well as sectors
outside the legal aid community.
(Applicants seeking continuation
funding for their own existing TIG
initiatives may wish to apply under the
new Adoption, Expansion and
Enhancement Grants category discussed
below.)
LSC recommends a minimum amount
for funding requests in this category of
$40,000, but projects with lower budgets
will be considered. There is no
maximum amount for TIG funding
requests that are within the total
appropriation for TIG. All applicants in
this category must submit a preapplication according to the process and
requirements outlined in this notice.
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2. Technology Improvement Projects
LSC recognizes that grantees need
sufficient technology infrastructure in
place before they can take on a more
innovative TIG project, and this grant
category is for applicants that need to
improve their basic technology
infrastructure or their information
security posture. The maximum funding
amount for this category is $35,000.
Technology Improvement Projects do
not require a pre-application. LSC will
open the application system and
provide guidance for this project
category by April 10, 2023. The
application deadline for Technology
Improvement Projects is May 19, 2023.
3. Adoption, Expansion, and
Enhancement Grants
In 2023, LSC is piloting a new
category, called Adoption, Expansion,
and Enhancement Grants, to provide
continuation funding for those TIG
projects that have moved beyond the
proof-of-concept phase and
demonstrated excellent results. This
funding will allow successful TIG
grantees to further build upon a specific
project and its technologies, ensure that
their TIG-funded work is effectively
integrated into the service delivery
system, and complete the project
activities necessary to ensure the
initiative’s long-term success.
Adoption, Expansion, and
Enhancement Grants are available to
current Technology Initiative Grant
(TIG) recipients and to recipients of
recently completed TIG projects.
(Applicants seeking to enhance a nonTIG initiative or replicate another
organization’s project should apply
under the General category.) There is
not a pre-application for these
proposals, but LSC encourages all
prospective applicants to meet with
their regional TIG program manager to
discuss whether an Adoption,
Expansion, and Enhancement grant may
be a good fit. Applicants should be able
to clearly demonstrate that their project
was successful and that they have a
reasonable plan for building on that
success.
LSC recommends a minimum amount
for funding requests in this category of
$40,000, but projects with lower budgets
will be considered. There is no
maximum amount for TIG funding
requests that are within the total
appropriation for TIG.
Adoption, Expansion, and
Enhancement Grants do not require a
pre-application. LSC will open the
application system and provide
guidance for this project category by
April 10, 2023, and the application
deadline is May 19, 2023.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request, Reemployment Services and Eligibility
Assessments (RESEA) Program Implementation Study, Reinstatement
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation
Office, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Information Collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and
federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95). 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 is properly assessed. Currently, the Department of Labor is
soliciting comments concerning the collection of data about the
Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) Program
Implementation Study. A copy of the proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in
the addressee section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee section below on or before March 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following
methods: Email: [email protected]; Mail or Courier: Megan
Lizik, Chief Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S. Department of Labor, Room S-
2312, 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 OMB Control
Number identified above for this information collection. Comments,
including any personal information provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized and/or included in the request for
OMB approval of the information collection request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Megan Lizik by email at
[email protected] or by phone at (202)430-1255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: DOL funds RESEA programs across all 50 states, DC,
Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. States and territories use these
funds to address the reemployment services needs of Unemployment
Insurance (UI) claimants and to prevent and detect UI improper payments
(Unemployment Insurance Program Letter 8-18). The Bipartisan Budget Act
of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-123) included amendments to the Social Security
Act (SSA) that create a permanent authorization for the RESEA program.
The permanently authorized RESEA program in Section 306 of the SSA
provides for a phased implementation of new program requirements over
several years, one of which is to ``establish and expand the use of
evidence-based interventions'' in states' RESEA programs. To help meet
this requirement and build evidence about RESEA, DOL is conducting an
implementation study that will provide an understanding of current
RESEA programs and program components being implemented in the field.
As part of this implementation study, DOL will conduct a web-based
survey of all RESEA grantees nationwide. This Federal Register Notice
provides the opportunity to comment on a new proposed information
collection activity that will be used for the implementation study.
Web-based survey instrument. The evaluation team will
conduct a survey of all states and territories operating RESEA programs
to systematically gather up-to-date information about RESEA program
operations not available in existing documents. This includes detail on
how reemployment services are provided, interactions with federal
workforce programs, how eligibility assessment and enforcement are
carried out, types of reemployment services provided, and exploratory
information about evaluation activities.
II. Desired Focus of Comments: Currently, the Department of Labor
is soliciting comments concerning the above data collection for the
Evaluation to Advance Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments
Program Evidence. DOL is particularly interested in comments that do
the following:
[cir] evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
[cir] evaluate the accuracy of the agency's burden estimate of the
proposed information collection, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions;
[cir] enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and
[cir] minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology--for example, permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions: At this time, the Department of Labor is
requesting clearance for for the survey protocol to be administered
with all RESEA grantees nationwide.
Type of Review: New information collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1290-0029.
Affected Public: State RESEA program administrators.
Comments submitted in response to this request will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they will also become a
matter of public record.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours
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Average burden
Number of Number of Total No. of time per Estimated
Type of instrument respondents responses per responses response burden hours
\a\ respondent (hours)
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Web-based survey instrument for \b\ 18 1 18 2 36
State RESEA administrators.....
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Total....................... 18 1 18 2 36
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\a\ We are seeking a clearance period of three years.
\b\ Assumes approximately 1 survey participant from each of approximately 53 state and territory RESEA programs
over the three-year clearance period.
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Scott Gibbons,
Acting Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor.
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