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for filing, and served it on the firm’s
clients, and the other who reviewed and
redacted the document but failed to
protect the other party’s CBI.
Case 4. The Commission determined
that an economic consultant breached
the APO in a title VII investigation by
making BPI available to unauthorized
parties on three separate occasions.
The document that was the subject of
all three breaches was a presentation
slide prepared by the consultant’s firm.
The slide at issue contained unredacted
BPI that revealed information in a chart
about pricing data. The first breach
occurred when copies of the slide were
distributed during a meeting that
included individuals who were not
authorized under the APO to receive
BPI. The second breach occurred at a
second meeting, to additional
unauthorized individuals who were not
present at the first meeting. The third
breach occurred at a public Commission
hearing when the economic consulting
firm displayed the slide in question on
a large screen and distributed paper
copies. At the conclusion of the
presentation, a Commission employee
approached the economic consultant to
express concerns that the slide had
exposed BPI. At the conclusion of the
hearing, the economic consultant
attempted to retrieve the paper copies
from the recipients, which the
Commission then collected.
In determining whether to issue a
sanction for the breach, the Commission
considered the following mitigating
factors: (1) all three breaches were
inadvertent and unintentional; (2) the
breaching party took prompt action to
remedy the third breach and prevent
further dissemination of BPI; (3) the
breaching party implemented new
procedures to prevent against similar
breaches in the future; and (4) the
individual involved had not previously
breached an APO in the two-year period
preceding the dates of these breaches.
The Commission also considered the
following aggravating factors: (1) all
three breaches resulted in the exposure
of BPI to unauthorized individuals; (2)
the breaching party violated the APO on
three occasions; and (3) the breaching
party did not discover the breaches.
The Commission issued a private
letter of reprimand to the economic
consultant responsible for creating,
reviewing, and disseminating the slide
to unauthorized individuals.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Notice of Lodging of Proposed
Consent Decree Under the Clean Air
Act
Bureau of Labor Statistics
By order of the Commission.
Issued: December 17, 2024.
Lisa Barton,
Secretary to the Commission.
Patricia McKenna,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental
Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
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On December 17, 2024, the United
States lodged a proposed Consent
Decree and Environmental Settlement
Agreement with the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern
District of Texas in the Chapter 11
bankruptcy cases filed by Vertex Energy,
Inc., as Lead Debtor, and its Affiliated
Debtors in the case captioned In re
Vertex Energy, Inc., et al., Case No. 24–
90507–CML.
The proposed Consent Decree
requires the Debtors, and after the
effective date of the Debtors’ plan of
reorganization, the Reorganized Debtors,
to retire over 18.7 million renewable
identification number credits, currently
estimated to cost approximately $15
million, to satisfy the Debtors’ 2023 and
2024 renewable volume obligations by
March 31, 2025.
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 In re Vertex Energy, Inc., et al.,
D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–2–1–13141. All
comments must be submitted no later
than ten (10) 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 .......
pubcomment-ees.enrd@
usdoj.gov.
Assistant Attorney General,
U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O.
Box 7611, Washington, DC
20044–7611.
By mail .........
Any comments submitted in writing
may be filed by the United States in
whole or in part on the public court
docket without notice to the commenter.
During the public comment period,
the proposed Consent Decree may be
examined and downloaded at this
Justice Department website: https://
www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees.
If you require assistance accessing the
proposed Consent Decree, you may
request assistance by email or by mail
to the addresses provided above for
submitting comments.
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Information Collection Activities;
Comment Request
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance 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. 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 can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed reinstatement
with change of the ‘‘Contingent Work
Supplement (CWS) to the Current
Population Survey (CPS)’’ to be
conducted in May 2025. A copy of the
proposed information collection request
can be obtained by contacting the
individual listed below in the Addresses
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before February 21, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin
Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, by email to BLS_PRA_
Public@bls.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin
Good, BLS Clearance Officer, at 202–
691–7628 (this is not a toll-free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
The purpose of this request for review
is for the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) to obtain clearance for a
reinstatement with change for the
Contingent Work Supplement (CWS) to
the Current Population Survey (CPS),
which was last conducted in July 2023.
The proposed CWS questions focus on
people with contingent jobs—those that
people do not expect to last or that are
temporary—and workers in alternative
employment arrangements, such as
independent contractors, on-call
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Air
Act
On December 17, 2024, the United States lodged a proposed Consent
Decree and Environmental Settlement Agreement with the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in the Chapter 11
bankruptcy cases filed by Vertex Energy, Inc., as Lead Debtor, and its
Affiliated Debtors in the case captioned In re Vertex Energy, Inc., et
al., Case No. 24-90507-CML.
The proposed Consent Decree requires the Debtors, and after the
effective date of the Debtors' plan of reorganization, the Reorganized
Debtors, to retire over 18.7 million renewable identification number
credits, currently estimated to cost approximately $15 million, to
satisfy the Debtors' 2023 and 2024 renewable volume obligations by
March 31, 2025.
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 In re Vertex Energy, Inc., et al., D.J. Ref. No.
90-5-2-1-13141. All comments must be submitted no later than ten (10)
days after the publication date of this notice. Comments may be
submitted either by email or by mail:
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To submit comments: Send them to:
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By email............................ [email protected].
By mail............................. Assistant Attorney General, U.S.
DOJ--ENRD, P.O. Box 7611,
Washington, DC 20044-7611.
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Any comments submitted in writing may be filed by the United States
in whole or in part on the public court docket without notice to the
commenter.
During the public comment period, the proposed Consent Decree may
be examined and downloaded at this Justice Department website: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. If you require assistance
accessing the proposed Consent Decree, you may request assistance by
email or by mail to the addresses provided above for submitting
comments.
Patricia McKenna,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-30505 Filed 12-20-24; 8:45 am]
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