Notice of Second Interested Party Feedback Period Regarding Increasing Public Access to the Results of USDA-Funded Research, 5485-5486 [2024-01673]

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Cikena Reid, USDA Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 2024–01614 Filed 1–26–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3411–15–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE National Agricultural Library Notice of Second Interested Party Feedback Period Regarding Increasing Public Access to the Results of USDAFunded Research National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture. AGENCY: E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM 29JAN1 5486 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 19 / Monday, January 29, 2024 / Notices Notice of second public feedback period. ACTION: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (Department’s) National Agricultural Library (NAL) announces a second public feedback period to receive public comments, recommendations, and suggestions on the Department’s planned response to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) guidance on access to the results of federally-funded research. The Department’s plan and policies apply to the results of research funded wholly or in part by any USDA component agency. This effort to obtain input regarding implementation of federal public access requirements will be carried out through an online submission mechanism. This second public feedback period is to allow opportunity for feedback from interested parties not widely heard from during the first period, including but not limited to members of the public; principal investigators; research institutions, including minority-serving institutions; research libraries; data repositories; and data scientists. Responses received during the first comment period have already been reviewed and will be considered along with comments received during the second comment period. If you need a reasonable accommodation or language access services to leave a written comment, please contact Cynthia Parr, National Agricultural Library, at Cynthia.Parr@usda.gov, or 301–837– 8917. Written Comments: Submission of written interested party input will be open upon publishing of this Notice through 5 p.m. Eastern time February 28, 2024, via the Federal eRulemaking portal as described below. ADDRESSES: Written comments: Written comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at regulations.gov. Please go to www.regulations.gov to submit your comments electronically. Information on using regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available at https://www.nal.usda.gov/ services/public-access/. The Department will not accept comments submitted by fax or by email or comments submitted after the comment period closes. To ensure that the Department does not receive duplicate copies, please submit your comments only once. Privacy Note: The Department’s policy is to make all comments received from members of the public available for ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:33 Jan 26, 2024 Jkt 262001 public viewing on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters should be careful to include in their comments only information that they wish to make publicly available. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Parr, National Agricultural Library, at Cynthia.Parr@usda.gov, or 301–837–8917. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose: USDA seeks further public input on its plans for enhancing policy, infrastructure, and outreach to make results of the research it funds more readily available and accessible by the public. Background: USDA developed a public access plan in response to the February 22, 2013, OSTP memorandum entitled ‘‘Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research’’ and several White House memoranda. Current USDA policy and activities were developed from that original plan. On August 25, 2022, OSTP issued a new public access memorandum: ‘‘Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.’’ In response to OSTP’s 2022 memo, USDA will enhance policy, infrastructure, and outreach to make its scientific data and publications more readily available and accessible by the public, as described generally in its new plan available at: https://www.nal.usda.gov/services/ public-access/. This comment period, organized by the National Agricultural Library on behalf of the USDA Office of the Chief Scientist, allows interested parties the opportunity to provide feedback on USDA’s plan and to inform details of its policy-making and other implementation. The USDA Public Access plan and policies apply to the results of research funded wholly or in part by any USDA component agency. USDA provides the following questions to prompt feedback and comments. USDA encourages public comment on any or all of these questions, and also seeks any other information that commenters believe is relevant. • How can USDA best implement its plans to improve public access to USDA-funded research results? • How can USDA update or refine its policies to improve public access to USDA-funded research results? • How can USDA ensure equity in publication opportunities? • How can USDA use partnerships to improve public access and accessibility to results of USDA-funded research? • How can USDA monitor impacts on communities impacted by its public access policies? PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Done at Washington, DC Jeffrey Silverstein, Acting Associate Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. [FR Doc. 2024–01673 Filed 1–26–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–03–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Census Bureau Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Longitudinal EmployerHousehold Dynamics (LEHD) 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 November 14, 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: Longitudinal EmployerHousehold Dynamics (LEHD). OMB Control Number: 0607–1001. Form Number(s): None. Type of Request: Regular submission, request for a revision of a currently approved collection. Number of Respondents: 54. Average Hours Per Response: No more than 8 hours required to identify and send/post required data sets. Burden Hours: 1728 hours. Needs and Uses: The data products developed by the LEHD program provide statistics on employment, earnings, and job flows at detailed levels of geography and industry and for different demographic groups. The potential and realized uses of these data products and their supporting dissemination tools are far-reaching, both for unraveling many important questions in economic research and for the provision of new statistical products. Over the first five months of 2017, the Census Bureau received more than 105,000 visits to its LEHD dissemination tools. 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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5485-5486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01673]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

National Agricultural Library


Notice of Second Interested Party Feedback Period Regarding 
Increasing Public Access to the Results of USDA-Funded Research

AGENCY: National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, 
Department of Agriculture.

[[Page 5486]]


ACTION: Notice of second public feedback period.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (Department's) National 
Agricultural Library (NAL) announces a second public feedback period to 
receive public comments, recommendations, and suggestions on the 
Department's planned response to White House Office of Science and 
Technology Policy (OSTP) guidance on access to the results of 
federally-funded research. The Department's plan and policies apply to 
the results of research funded wholly or in part by any USDA component 
agency. This effort to obtain input regarding implementation of federal 
public access requirements will be carried out through an online 
submission mechanism. This second public feedback period is to allow 
opportunity for feedback from interested parties not widely heard from 
during the first period, including but not limited to members of the 
public; principal investigators; research institutions, including 
minority-serving institutions; research libraries; data repositories; 
and data scientists. Responses received during the first comment period 
have already been reviewed and will be considered along with comments 
received during the second comment period. If you need a reasonable 
accommodation or language access services to leave a written comment, 
please contact Cynthia Parr, National Agricultural Library, at 
[email protected], or 301-837-8917.
    Written Comments: Submission of written interested party input will 
be open upon publishing of this Notice through 5 p.m. Eastern time 
February 28, 2024, via the Federal eRulemaking portal as described 
below.

ADDRESSES: 
    Written comments: Written comments must be submitted via the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal at regulations.gov. Please go to 
www.regulations.gov to submit your comments electronically. Information 
on using regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency 
documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available at 
https://www.nal.usda.gov/services/public-access/.
    The Department will not accept comments submitted by fax or by 
email or comments submitted after the comment period closes. To ensure 
that the Department does not receive duplicate copies, please submit 
your comments only once.
    Privacy Note: The Department's policy is to make all comments 
received from members of the public available for public viewing on the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore, 
commenters should be careful to include in their comments only 
information that they wish to make publicly available.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Parr, National Agricultural 
Library, at [email protected], or 301-837-8917.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Purpose: USDA seeks further public input on its plans for enhancing 
policy, infrastructure, and outreach to make results of the research it 
funds more readily available and accessible by the public.
    Background: USDA developed a public access plan in response to the 
February 22, 2013, OSTP memorandum entitled ``Increasing Access to the 
Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research'' and several White 
House memoranda. Current USDA policy and activities were developed from 
that original plan. On August 25, 2022, OSTP issued a new public access 
memorandum: ``Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to 
Federally Funded Research.'' In response to OSTP's 2022 memo, USDA will 
enhance policy, infrastructure, and outreach to make its scientific 
data and publications more readily available and accessible by the 
public, as described generally in its new plan available at: https://www.nal.usda.gov/services/public-access/. This comment period, 
organized by the National Agricultural Library on behalf of the USDA 
Office of the Chief Scientist, allows interested parties the 
opportunity to provide feedback on USDA's plan and to inform details of 
its policy-making and other implementation. The USDA Public Access plan 
and policies apply to the results of research funded wholly or in part 
by any USDA component agency. USDA provides the following questions to 
prompt feedback and comments. USDA encourages public comment on any or 
all of these questions, and also seeks any other information that 
commenters believe is relevant.
     How can USDA best implement its plans to improve public 
access to USDA-funded research results?
     How can USDA update or refine its policies to improve 
public access to USDA-funded research results?
     How can USDA ensure equity in publication opportunities?
     How can USDA use partnerships to improve public access and 
accessibility to results of USDA-funded research?
     How can USDA monitor impacts on communities impacted by 
its public access policies?

    Done at Washington, DC
Jeffrey Silverstein,
Acting Associate Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture.
[FR Doc. 2024-01673 Filed 1-26-24; 8:45 am]
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