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applies to areas that do not currently
meet old-growth definitional conditions
but that have been identified in the
Adaptive Strategy for Old-Growth Forest
Conservation as a priority for the future
contribution of the development of
those conditions over time.
For the purposes of fostering an
increasing trend in the amount,
representativeness, redundancy, and
connectivity of old-growth forest
conditions such that future conditions
will be resilient and adaptable to
stressors and likely future
environments, landscape-level proactive
stewardship activities should, within
the scope of meeting other desired
conditions, and characteristic of the
ecosystem, be developed for the
following priorities and purposes:
(a) To provide landscape-level
redundancy and representation of oldgrowth conditions such that loss due to
natural disturbance events does not
result in a loss or isolation of the oldgrowth conditions at the landscape
scale.
(b) To retain and promote the
development of resilient old-growth
conditions adjacent to existing oldgrowth forest conditions, including for
the purposes of reducing fire hazard,
altering potential fire spread or fire
severity, or reducing potential insect or
disease outbreak that may spread to
adjacent old-growth forest.
(c) To enhance landscape and patch
connectivity in forest conditions
between old-growth condition patches
where connectivity is poor or oldgrowth patches are isolated.
(d) To retain and promote the
development of old-growth conditions
where current conditions are likely to
provide old-growth conditions in the
shortest timeframe possible.
(e) To retain and promote the
development of old-growth conditions
in watersheds, firesheds, or other
relevant landscape units where existing
amounts and distributions of old-growth
conditions lack resilience and
adaptability to stressors and likely
future environments.
(f) To retain and promote the
development of old-growth conditions
in areas of likely climate refugia that are
projected to have the inherent capability
to sustain old-growth conditions.
(g) To promote climate adapted
species assemblages in areas where
changing climatic conditions are likely
to alter current conditions and change
species assemblages over time.
Plan Monitoring—
The Chief of the Forest Service is
responsible for establishing a National
Old-Growth Monitoring Network for the
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purposes of informing the continued
implementation and evaluating the
effectiveness of this amendment, based
on the initial inventory and remote
sensing data and other sources of finer
scale information. The National OldGrowth Monitoring Network will adapt
to emerging inventory methods,
regularly update the national inventory
of mature and old-growth conditions,
develop analytical processes to interpret
trend information, and convey findings
to the field as they relate to
implementation of the amendment.
Regions and units will collaborate with
the Chief’s Office on the development of
approaches to identify old-growth forest
conditions and for effectively verifying
estimated abundances and distributions.
For plan-level monitoring:
1. Within two years, identify initial
criteria indicating where these plan
components will apply and include
such identification in the biennial
monitoring report or the broader scale
monitoring strategy to be updated as
conditions change.
2. Within biennial monitoring
evaluation reports, provide regular
updates on actions taken pursuant to
this amendment and provide updates on
measurable changes in unit-level oldgrowth forest conditions when new
information is available.
3. Add the following questions and
indicators to plan-level monitoring
programs:
a. Question: Are retention,
development, and proactive
stewardship activities implemented
under the Adaptive Old-Growth
Conservation and Management Strategy
fostering an increasing trend in the
amount, representativeness,
redundancy, and connectivity of oldgrowth forest conditions on the unit?
i. Indicator: Changes in trends in
amounts and distributions of old-growth
forest conditions on the unit.
b. Question: Are vegetation
management activities within oldgrowth forest promoting the desired
composition, structure, pattern, and
ecological conditions?
i. Indicator: Changes in composition,
structure, and patterns related to desired
ecological conditions in areas affected
by vegetation management.
This proposed action and other
related documents are available for
comment on the project website at
https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/
?project=65356. Additional information
can be found on the Forest Service
website for mature and old-growth
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managing-land/old-growth-forests.
Thomas J. Vilsack,
Secretary of Agriculture.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Generic Clearance for
Internet Panel Pretesting and
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on October 17,
2023 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Generic Clearance for internet
Panel Pretesting and Qualitative Survey
Methods Testing.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0978.
Form Number(s): TBD.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for an Extension, without
Change, of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 67,600.
Average Hours per Response: 0.25
hours.
Burden Hours: 16,900.
Needs and Uses: The information
collected in this program of developing
and testing questionnaires will be used
by staff from the Census Bureau and
sponsoring agencies to evaluate and
improve the quality of the data in the
surveys and censuses that are ultimately
conducted. Because the questionnaires
being tested under this clearance are
still in the process of development, the
data that result from these collections
are not considered official statistics of
the Census Bureau or other Federal
agencies. Data will be included in
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research reports prepared for sponsors
inside and outside of the Census
Bureau. The results may also be
prepared for presentations related to
survey methodology at professional
meetings or publications in professional
journals.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Data collection for
this project is authorized under the
authorizing legislation for the
questionnaire being tested. This may be
Title 13, Sections 131, 141, 161, 181,
182, 193, and 301 for Census Bureausponsored surveys, and Title 13, Section
8(b) and Title 15 for surveys sponsored
by other Federal agencies. We do not
now know what other titles will be
referenced, since we do not know what
survey questionnaires will be pretested
during the course of the clearance.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–0978.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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RIN 0694–XC103
Impact of the Implementation of the
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
on Legitimate Commercial Chemical,
Biotechnology, and Pharmaceutical
Activities Involving ‘‘Schedule 1’’
Chemicals (Including ‘‘Schedule 1’’
Chemicals Produced as Intermediates)
During Calendar Year 2023
Bureau of Industry and
Security, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of inquiry.
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The Bureau of Industry and
Security is seeking public comments on
the impact that the implementation of
the Chemical Weapons Convention,
through the Chemical Weapons
Convention Implementation Act of 1998
and the Chemical Weapons Convention
Regulations, has had on commercial
activities involving ‘‘Schedule 1’’
chemicals during calendar year 2023.
The purpose of this notice of inquiry is
to collect information to assist BIS in its
preparation of the annual certification to
the Congress on whether the legitimate
commercial activities and interests of
chemical, biotechnology, and
pharmaceutical firms are harmed by
such implementation. This certification
is required under Condition 9 of Senate
Resolution 75 (April 24, 1997), in which
the Senate gave its advice and consent
to the ratification of the Chemical
Weapons Convention.
DATES: Comments must be received by
January 19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this rule may
be submitted to the Federal rulemaking
portal https://www.regulations.gov. The
regulations.gov ID for this rule is: BIS–
2023–0039. Please refer to RIN 0694–
XC103 in all comments.
All filers using the portal should use
the name of the person or entity
submitting the comments as the name of
their files, in accordance with the
instructions below. Anyone submitting
business confidential information
should clearly identify the business
confidential portion at the time of
submission, file a statement justifying
nondisclosure and referring to the
specific legal authority claimed, and
provide a non-confidential version of
the submission.
For comments submitted
electronically containing business
confidential information, the file name
of the business confidential version
should begin with the characters ‘‘BC.’’
Any page containing business
confidential information must be clearly
marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’
on the top of that page. The
corresponding non-confidential version
of those comments must be clearly
marked ‘‘PUBLIC.’’ The file name of the
non-confidential version should begin
with the character ‘‘P.’’ Any
submissions with file names that do not
begin with either a ‘‘BC’’ or a ‘‘P’’ will
be assumed to be public and will be
made publicly available through https://
www.regulations.gov.
Commenters submitting business
confidential information are encouraged
to scan a hard copy of the nonconfidential version to create an image
of the file, rather than submitting a
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digital copy with redactions applied, to
avoid inadvertent redaction errors
which could enable the public to read
business confidential information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on the Chemical Weapons
Convention requirements for ‘‘Schedule
1’’ chemicals, contact James Truske,
Treaty Compliance Division, (202) 482–
2509, Email: james.truske@bis.doc.gov.
For questions on the submission of
comments, contact Logan Norton,
Regulatory Policy Division, Email:
RPD2@bis.doc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Convention on the Prohibition of
the Development, Production,
Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical
Weapons and Their Destruction,
commonly called the Chemical
Weapons Convention (CWC or ‘‘the
Convention’’) is an international arms
control treaty that seeks to eliminate
chemical weapons through requiring
ratifying countries (States Parties) to
prohibit the development, production,
acquisition, stockpiling, retention, and
transfer of chemical weapons. The CWC
imposes certain obligations on States
Parties, among which are the enactment
of legislation to implement the treaty’s
prohibitions. In the United States, the
Chemical Weapons Convention
Implementation Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C.
6701 et seq., implements the provisions
of the CWC. In providing its advice and
consent to the ratification of the CWC,
the Senate included, in Senate
Resolution 75 (S. Res. 75, April 24,
1997), several conditions to its
ratification. Condition 9, titled
‘‘Protection of Advanced
Biotechnology,’’ calls for the President
to certify to Congress on an annual basis
that ‘‘the legitimate commercial
activities and interests of chemical,
biotechnology, and pharmaceutical
firms in the United States are not being
significantly harmed by the limitations
of the Convention on access to, and
production of, those chemicals and
toxins listed in Schedule 1.’’ On July 8,
2004, President George W. Bush, by
Executive Order 13346, delegated his
authority to make the annual
certification to the Secretary of
Commerce.
‘‘Schedule 1’’ chemicals consist of
those toxic chemicals and precursors set
forth in the CWC ‘‘Annex on
Chemicals’’ and in ‘‘Supplement No. 1
to part 712—SCHEDULE 1
CHEMICALS’’ of the Chemical Weapons
Convention Regulations (CWCR) (15
CFR parts 710–722). The CWC
identified these toxic chemicals and
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Generic Clearance for Internet Panel Pretesting and
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on October 17, 2023 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: Generic Clearance for internet Panel Pretesting and
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0978.
Form Number(s): TBD.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension,
without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 67,600.
Average Hours per Response: 0.25 hours.
Burden Hours: 16,900.
Needs and Uses: The information collected in this program of
developing and testing questionnaires will be used by staff from the
Census Bureau and sponsoring agencies to evaluate and improve the
quality of the data in the surveys and censuses that are ultimately
conducted. Because the questionnaires being tested under this clearance
are still in the process of development, the data that result from
these collections are not considered official statistics of the Census
Bureau or other Federal agencies. Data will be included in
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research reports prepared for sponsors inside and outside of the Census
Bureau. The results may also be prepared for presentations related to
survey methodology at professional meetings or publications in
professional journals.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Data collection for this project is authorized
under the authorizing legislation for the questionnaire being tested.
This may be Title 13, Sections 131, 141, 161, 181, 182, 193, and 301
for Census Bureau-sponsored surveys, and Title 13, Section 8(b) and
Title 15 for surveys sponsored by other Federal agencies. We do not now
know what other titles will be referenced, since we do not know what
survey questionnaires will be pretested during the course of the
clearance.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0607-0978.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-28005 Filed 12-19-23; 8:45 am]
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