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Authorization
NMFS has issued a modified IHA to
MOS for conducting construction
activities associated with the terminal
redevelopment in Skagway, Alaska, that
includes the previously explained
mitigation, monitoring, and reporting
requirements.
Dated: April 30, 2024.
Catherine Marzin,
Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2024–09655 Filed 5–2–24; 8:45 am]
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End of Certification
Accordingly, the following product(s)
and service(s) are deleted from the
Procurement List:
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Deletions from the Procurement
List.
AGENCY:
This action deletes product(s)
and service(s) from the Procurement List
that were furnished by nonprofit
agencies employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities.
DATES: Date deleted from the
Procurement List: June 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325,
Washington, DC 20064.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703)
489–1322, or email CMTEFedReg@
AbilityOne.gov.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Deletions
On March 29, 2024 (89 FR 22131), the
Committee for Purchase From People
Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
published notice of proposed deletions
from the Procurement List. This notice
is published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503
(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3.
After consideration of the relevant
matter presented, the Committee has
determined that the product(s) and
service(s) listed below are no longer
suitable for procurement by the Federal
Government under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506
and 41 CFR 51–2.4.
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
I certify that the following action will
not have a significant impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
The major factors considered for this
certification were:
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1. The action will not result in
additional reporting, recordkeeping or
other compliance requirements for small
entities.
2. The action may result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
product(s) and service(s) to the
Government.
3. There are no known regulatory
alternatives which would accomplish
the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in
connection with the product(s) and
service(s) deleted from the Procurement
List.
Product(s)
NSN(s)—Product Name(s):
7530–01–583–0556—Folders, File,
Reinforced Tab, Manila, 1⁄3 Cut, Letter
7530–01–583–0557—Folders, File,
Reinforced Tab, Manila, Straight Cut,
Letter
Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN
SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK,
NY
Service(s)
Service Type: File Maintenance
Mandatory for: US Department of Treasury,
Bureau of Public Debt, 200 Third Street,
Parkersburg, WV
Designated Source of Supply: SW
Resources, Inc., Parkersburg, WV
Contracting Activity: BUREAU OF THE
FISCAL SERVICE, PSB 3
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2024–09703 Filed 5–2–24; 8:45 am]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposals, Submissions,
and Approvals
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled operates as the U.S. AbilityOne
Commission (Commission). This notice
announces the Commission’s intent to
submit the Information Collection
Request (‘‘ICR’’) described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for approval under applicable
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
SUMMARY:
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Act. This notice provides an
opportunity to interested members of
the public and affected agencies to
comment on a proposed Nonprofit
Agency (NPA) AbilityOne
Representations and Certifications
(ARC) form.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
July 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Stewart, Compliance and
Enforcement Attorney, Office of General
Counsel, U.S. AbilityOne Commission,
355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington,
DC 20024; telephone: (703) 254–6172;
email: cstewart@abilityone.gov. If you
are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a
speech disability and wish to access
telecommunications relay services,
please dial 7–1–1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Overview
of ICR: This notice pertains to an ICR
the Commission intends to submit to
OMB for approval of an updated form
that an AbilityOne NPA will submit
annually regarding its AbilityOne
Program performance. This is a revision
of an existing form that is submitted on
an annual reporting cycle. This ICR is
consistent with OMB regulations at 5
CFR part 1320, which implement
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
These regulations require the
Commission to provide an opportunity
for interested members of the public and
affected agencies to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)), such as those proposed to be
implemented through this updated
form.
The Commission is responsible for
implementing the Javits-Wagner-O’Day
(JWOD) Act, 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506. In
doing so, the Commission oversees the
AbilityOne Program (Program), a
program in which individuals who are
blind or have significant disabilities
provide products and services to
Federal agencies, thereby creating
employment opportunities for such
individuals. The Commission maintains
a Procurement List of mandatory source
products and services provided by
approximately 400 qualified nonprofit
agencies (NPAs). Individuals who are
working on AbilityOne contracts and
counted towards the direct labor hour
ratio mandated by the JWOD Act are
called ‘‘participating employees.’’
The implementing regulations for the
JWOD Act, located at 41 CFR chapter
51, provide the program’s requirements,
procedures, and standards. Section 51–
4.3 of the regulations sets forth the
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requirements that an NPA must meet to
maintain qualification for participation
in the Program. Under this section of the
regulations, an NPA must submit a
completed copy of the appropriate
Annual Certification form. This
documentation helps the Commission
determine whether the NPA is meeting
the qualification requirements of the
Program. The Commission has also
published policies regarding
compliance expectations of the NPAs.
This information collection request
seeks approval for the Commission to
update its collection of information
necessary to verify an NPA’s
compliance with Program requirements,
as well as regarding an NPA’s effective
performance in meeting the mission of
the Program. To ensure consistency
with the Commission’s modernization
of the Program, the updated form will
collect information on employment
benefits offered to participating
employees, aggregate data regarding
employment mobility outcomes
achieved by participating employees,
and the prevalence of subcontracting
that contributes to workplace
integration and employee career
development for participating
employees.
The proposed updated ARC is
available at www.abilityone.gov.
The ARC will be required annually at
the Federal fiscal year-end. The form
will be completed and submitted
electronically.
The updated form is expected to
provide a net reduction in the time
burden for NPAs and to result in greater
efficiency and cost savings in the
oversight process.
The estimated time burden for the
existing form is 8 hours. The
Commission estimates that the updated
form will require 5 hours to complete.
The existing form requires 33 yes/no/
not applicable responses to questions
about the NPA’s AbilityOne Program
qualification standing, and these
questions require that attachments be
provided to explain certain responses to
these questions. The existing form also
includes seven data tables to be
completed, with more than 60 rows of
data.
The proposed new form limits
qualification standing responses to 10,
comprised of five yes/no/not applicable
responses, with only two questions
directing further explanation or an
attachment, as well as one multiple
choice question and four open text field
questions. The proposed new form
contains one less data table than the
existing form and requires fewer than 30
rows of data to be completed. The
Commission proposes two related forms
for electronic completion, which should
Annual form
time burden
(hours)
NPA positions
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HR Specialist ..............................................................
Principal Officer ..........................................................
Total Cost Burden: $203,248.
With respect to this collection of
information via the proposed form, the
Commission welcomes comments on
the following:
• The necessity to collect this
information to support the
Commission’s mission and oversight
responsibilities;
• Methodology to improve the
accuracy of the estimated time burden;
• Suggestions or methods to
minimize the burdens associated with
collecting the information described in
this ICR.
• The proposed form is viewable at
www.abilityone.gov.
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Director, Business Operations.
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$123.52 (for 4 hours) .................................................
$384.60 (for 1 hour) ...................................................
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Proposed Additions
and Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Proposed additions to and
deletions from the Procurement List.
AGENCY:
The Committee is proposing
to add service(s) to the Procurement List
that will be furnished by nonprofit
agencies employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities
and deletes product(s) previously
furnished by such agencies.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before: June 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
SUMMARY:
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enable auto-calculation of certain data
fields required by this proposed form,
further streamlining the process to
complete the proposed form. In total,
the existing form requires 132
mandatory responses and requires
additional (conditional) explanations to
33 questions. The proposed new form
requires fewer than 80 mandatory
responses and approximately 65
conditional responses. The Commission
does not expect the NPAs preparing this
form to answer ‘‘yes’’ to every question
that involves a conditional response.
The Commission has also designed the
new proposed form with check boxes
where possible, to make preparation of
the form more efficient.
To calculate the cost burden for the
average annual burden, the Commission
used national average pay data from the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, using
the May 2023 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimate of
$30.88 as the median hourly wage for a
Human Resources Specialist (OC 13–
1070) to fill out the form and a median
principal officer hourly wage from the
990 Forms filed by a sampling of NPAs
for the NPA principal officer to review
and sign the form. (https://www.bls.gov/
oes/current/oes_nat.htm#11-0000.)
The table below represents the time
and cost burden the Commission
estimates this form will necessitate.
Cost estimate for annual time burden on employees
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Annual form
cost burden on
all NPAs
$49,408
153,840
Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325,
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or to submit
comments contact: Michael R.
Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 489–1322,
or email CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published pursuant to 41
U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its
purpose is to provide interested persons
an opportunity to submit comments on
the proposed actions.
Additions
In accordance with 41 CFR 51–5.3(b),
the Committee intends to add this
services requirement to the Procurement
List as a mandatory purchase only for
the DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE, FA4419
97 CONS CC at Altus Air Force Base,
OK with the proposed qualified
nonprofit agency as the authorized
source of supply. Prior to adding the
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposals, Submissions,
and Approvals
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or
Severely Disabled operates as the U.S. AbilityOne Commission
(Commission). This notice announces the Commission's intent to submit
the Information Collection Request (``ICR'') described below to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval under applicable
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act. This notice provides an
opportunity to interested members of the public and affected agencies
to comment on a proposed Nonprofit Agency (NPA) AbilityOne
Representations and Certifications (ARC) form.
DATES: Submit comments on or before July 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Stewart, Compliance and
Enforcement Attorney, Office of General Counsel, U.S. AbilityOne
Commission, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington, DC 20024;
telephone: (703) 254-6172; email: [email protected]. If you are
deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and wish to access
telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Overview of ICR: This notice pertains to an
ICR the Commission intends to submit to OMB for approval of an updated
form that an AbilityOne NPA will submit annually regarding its
AbilityOne Program performance. This is a revision of an existing form
that is submitted on an annual reporting cycle. This ICR is consistent
with OMB regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which implement provisions of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These
regulations require the Commission to provide an opportunity for
interested members of the public and affected agencies to comment on
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)), such as those proposed to be implemented through this
updated form.
The Commission is responsible for implementing the Javits-Wagner-
O'Day (JWOD) Act, 41 U.S.C. 8501-8506. In doing so, the Commission
oversees the AbilityOne Program (Program), a program in which
individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities provide
products and services to Federal agencies, thereby creating employment
opportunities for such individuals. The Commission maintains a
Procurement List of mandatory source products and services provided by
approximately 400 qualified nonprofit agencies (NPAs). Individuals who
are working on AbilityOne contracts and counted towards the direct
labor hour ratio mandated by the JWOD Act are called ``participating
employees.''
The implementing regulations for the JWOD Act, located at 41 CFR
chapter 51, provide the program's requirements, procedures, and
standards. Section 51-4.3 of the regulations sets forth the
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requirements that an NPA must meet to maintain qualification for
participation in the Program. Under this section of the regulations, an
NPA must submit a completed copy of the appropriate Annual
Certification form. This documentation helps the Commission determine
whether the NPA is meeting the qualification requirements of the
Program. The Commission has also published policies regarding
compliance expectations of the NPAs. This information collection
request seeks approval for the Commission to update its collection of
information necessary to verify an NPA's compliance with Program
requirements, as well as regarding an NPA's effective performance in
meeting the mission of the Program. To ensure consistency with the
Commission's modernization of the Program, the updated form will
collect information on employment benefits offered to participating
employees, aggregate data regarding employment mobility outcomes
achieved by participating employees, and the prevalence of
subcontracting that contributes to workplace integration and employee
career development for participating employees.
The proposed updated ARC is available at www.abilityone.gov.
The ARC will be required annually at the Federal fiscal year-end.
The form will be completed and submitted electronically.
The updated form is expected to provide a net reduction in the time
burden for NPAs and to result in greater efficiency and cost savings in
the oversight process.
The estimated time burden for the existing form is 8 hours. The
Commission estimates that the updated form will require 5 hours to
complete.
The existing form requires 33 yes/no/not applicable responses to
questions about the NPA's AbilityOne Program qualification standing,
and these questions require that attachments be provided to explain
certain responses to these questions. The existing form also includes
seven data tables to be completed, with more than 60 rows of data.
The proposed new form limits qualification standing responses to
10, comprised of five yes/no/not applicable responses, with only two
questions directing further explanation or an attachment, as well as
one multiple choice question and four open text field questions. The
proposed new form contains one less data table than the existing form
and requires fewer than 30 rows of data to be completed. The Commission
proposes two related forms for electronic completion, which should
enable auto-calculation of certain data fields required by this
proposed form, further streamlining the process to complete the
proposed form. In total, the existing form requires 132 mandatory
responses and requires additional (conditional) explanations to 33
questions. The proposed new form requires fewer than 80 mandatory
responses and approximately 65 conditional responses. The Commission
does not expect the NPAs preparing this form to answer ``yes'' to every
question that involves a conditional response. The Commission has also
designed the new proposed form with check boxes where possible, to make
preparation of the form more efficient.
To calculate the cost burden for the average annual burden, the
Commission used national average pay data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, using the May 2023 National Occupational Employment and
Wage Estimate of $30.88 as the median hourly wage for a Human Resources
Specialist (OC 13-1070) to fill out the form and a median principal
officer hourly wage from the 990 Forms filed by a sampling of NPAs for
the NPA principal officer to review and sign the form. (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#11-0000.)
The table below represents the time and cost burden the Commission
estimates this form will necessitate.
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Annual form Annual form cost
NPA positions time burden Cost estimate for annual time burden on all
(hours) burden on employees NPAs
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HR Specialist................................ 4 $123.52 (for 4 hours).......... $49,408
Principal Officer............................ 1 $384.60 (for 1 hour)........... 153,840
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Total Cost Burden: $203,248.
With respect to this collection of information via the proposed
form, the Commission welcomes comments on the following:
The necessity to collect this information to support the
Commission's mission and oversight responsibilities;
Methodology to improve the accuracy of the estimated time
burden;
Suggestions or methods to minimize the burdens associated
with collecting the information described in this ICR.
The proposed form is viewable at www.abilityone.gov.
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2024-09706 Filed 5-2-24; 8:45 am]
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