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Stephanie J. Bost,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket ID: DoD–2024–OS–0140]
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition and
Sustainment (USD(A&S)), Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: 60-Day information collection
notice.
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AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
announces a proposed public
information collection and seeks public
comment on the provisions thereof.
Comments are invited on: whether the
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You may submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Department of Defense, Office of
the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and
Transparency, Regulatory Directorate,
4800 Mark Center Drive, Mailbox #24,
Suite 05F16, Alexandria, VA 22350–
1700.
Instructions: All submissions received
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received without change, including any
personal identifiers or contact
information.
ADDRESSES:
To
request more information on this
proposed information collection or to
obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instruments,
please write to Defense Logistics
Agency, 4800 Mark Center Drive, Suite
14G07–01, Alexandria, VA 22350,
ATTN: Carla Smith, (804) 279–1340.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title; Associated Form; and OMB
Number: Defense Logistics Agency
Child and Youth Program Forms; DLA
Forms 1849, 1849–1, 1849–2, 1849–3,
1849–4, 1855, 1855–1, 1855–1A, 1855–
1B, 1855–1C, 1855–1D (Parts I and II),
1855–1E, 1855–1F; OMB Control
Number 0704–0582.
Needs and Uses: The DoD requires the
information in the proposed collection
in support of the DLA Child and Youth
Programs (CYPs). This collection
includes fourteen DLA forms, some of
which are used by all the collection
respondents and some of which are
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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SUMMARY:
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways
to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the information collection on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by February 28,
2025.
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used under specific circumstances. The
information collected is used for
program planning, management, and
health and safety purposes. More
specifically, the information in the
proposed collection allows CYP staff to
provide safe, developmentally
appropriate day care services and to
ensure proper, effective response in the
event of an emergency. Respondents
include patrons enrolling their children
in a CYP; these patrons may include
active-duty military, DoD civilian
employees, and DoD contractors.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Annual Burden Hours: 1,004.6.
Number of Respondents: 828.
Responses per Respondent: 14.56.
Annual Responses: 12,056.
Average Burden per Response: 5
minutes.
Frequency: On occasion.
Dated: December 18, 2024.
Stephanie J. Bost,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Adoption of Categorical Exclusion
From the Department of the Navy
Under the National Environmental
Policy Act
Office of Local Defense
Community Cooperation (OLDCC),
Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice of adoption of the
Department of Navy’s (DoN) Categorical
Exclusion for facility renovation
pursuant to section 109 of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
AGENCY:
OLDCC is adopting the DoN’s
Categorical Exclusion 14 for the
alteration of an existing building. This
notice describes the proposed action for
which OLDCC intends to use the DoN
Categorical Exclusion and details the
consultation between the agencies.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick J. O’Brien, Director, Office of
Local Defense Community Cooperation,
Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2231
Crystal Drive, Suite 520, Arlington VA
22202–4704, (703) 697–2130.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. NEPA and Categorical Exclusions
NEPA and Categorical Exclusions, 42
United States Code (U.S.C.) 4321–4347,
requires all Federal agencies to assess
the environmental impacts of their
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actions. Congress enacted NEPA to
encourage productive and enjoyable
harmony between humans and the
environment, recognizing the profound
impact of human activity and the
critical importance of restoring and
maintaining environmental quality to
the overall welfare of humankind. NEPA
seeks to ensure agencies consider the
environmental effects of their proposed
actions in their decision-making
processes and inform and involve the
public in that process. NEPA created the
Council on Environmental Quality
(CEQ), which based on 42 U.S.C. 4336c,
promulgated NEPA implementing
guidance at 40 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) parts 1500 through
1508 (CEQ regulations).
To comply with NEPA, agencies
determine the appropriate level of
review—an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS), Environmental
Assessment (EA), or categorical
exclusion (42 U.S.C. 4336). If a
proposed action is likely to have
significant environmental effects, the
agency must prepare an EIS and
document its decision in a record of
decision. Id. If the proposed action is
not likely to have significant
environmental effects or the effects are
unknown, the agency may instead
prepare an EA, which involves a more
concise analysis and process than an
EIS. Id. Following the EA, the agency
may conclude the process with a finding
of no significant impact if the analysis
shows that the action will have no
significant effects. If the analysis in the
EA finds that the action is likely to have
significant effects, however, then an EIS
is required. Under NEPA and the CEQ
regulations, a Federal agency may
establish in its NEPA implementing
procedures categorical exclusions,
which are categories of actions the
agency has determined normally do not
significantly affect the quality of the
human environment (40 CFR 1501.4,
1507.3(e)(2)(ii), 1508.1(d)). If an agency
determines that a categorical exclusion
covers a proposed action, it then
evaluates the proposed action for
extraordinary circumstances in which a
normally excluded action may have a
significant effect (40 CFR 1501.4(b)). If
no extraordinary circumstances are
present, or if further analysis determines
that the extraordinary circumstances do
not involve the potential for significant
environmental impacts, the agency may
apply the categorical exclusion to the
proposed action without preparing an
EA or EIS (40 CFR 1501.4). If the
extraordinary circumstances have the
potential to result in significant effects,
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the agency is required to prepare an EA
or EIS.
Section 109 of NEPA, enacted as part
of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023,
allows a Federal agency to adopt a
categorical exclusion listed in another
agency’s NEPA procedures for a
category of proposed agency actions for
which the categorical exclusion was
established (42 U.S.C. 4336(c)). To
adopt another agency’s categorical
exclusion under section 109, an agency
must identify the relevant categorical
exclusion listed in that agency’s
(‘‘establishing agency’’) NEPA
procedures that cover its category of
proposed actions or related actions;
consult with the establishing agency to
ensure that the proposed adoption of the
categorical exclusion to a category of
actions is appropriate; identify to the
public the categorical exclusion that the
agency plans to use for its proposed
actions; and document adoption of the
categorical exclusion. Id. This notice
documents OLDCC’s adoption of DoN’s
categorical exclusion under Section 109
of NEPA.
II. Identification of the Categorical
Exclusion
DoN’s categorical exclusion for the
alteration to an existing building when
the environmental effects will remain
substantially the same and the use is
consistent with applicable regulations is
codified in DoN’s NEPA procedures as
categorical exclusion 14 in 32 CFR
775.6(f)(14).
Proposed Action
The Manufacturers’ Association of
South-Central Pennsylvania
(Association) proposes to renovate their
existing facility at 3405 Board Road,
York, Pennsylvania to simulate a
manufacturing environment as part of
the association’s scope of work
undertaken as part of an OLDCC
Defense Manufacturing Community
Support Program funded grant.
III. Rationale for the Categorical
Exclusion
The proposed renovation will take
place within the existing envelope of
the facility by expanding training and
classroom space. All proposed
renovation activities will not require
any ground disturbance or external
changes. The proposed renovation will
alter 6,000 square feet of the existing
interior warehouse space, adjacent to
the Association’s currently occupied
space of 12,000 square feet.
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IV. Consideration of Extraordinary
Circumstances
If an agency determines that a
categorical exclusion covers a proposed
action, the agency must evaluate the
proposed action for extraordinary
circumstances in which a normally
excluded action may have a significant
effect (40 CFR 1501.4(b)). OLDCC does
not currently have its own NEPA
implementing procedures to guide its
application of extraordinary
circumstances. Until OLDCC establishes
NEPA implementing procedures, for
purposes of considering extraordinary
circumstances in connection with the
DoN categorical exclusion discussed in
this notice, OLDCC has considered
whether the proposed action has the
potential to result in significant effects,
including by considering the factors
listed in DoN’s definition of
extraordinary circumstances (32 CFR
775.6(e)(1)).
OLDCC has assessed the proposed
action and determined that none of the
extraordinary circumstances listed in 32
CFR 775.6(e)(1) that preclude the use of
categorical exclusion 14 are applicable
to the proposed action.
V. Consultation With DoN and
Determination of Appropriateness
OLDCC and DoN consulted on the
appropriateness of OLDCC’s adoption of
the categorical exclusion from July to
September 2024. DoN has provided
OLDCC with a ‘‘no objection
concurrence’’ for OLDCC’s proposed
adoption of the categorical exclusion.
This consultation included a review of
DoN’s experience applying the
categorical exclusion and the proposed
action for which OLDCC plans to utilize
it. Following this consultation and
review, OLDCC has determined that the
impacts of the proposed action to
renovate the Association’s facility is
similar to the impacts, which are not
significant, of projects for which DoN
may apply the categorical exclusion.
Additionally, OLDCC determined that
there are no extraordinary
circumstances. Therefore, OLDCC has
determined that its proposed use of
DoN’s categorical exclusion 14, as
described within this notice, would be
appropriate.
Notice to the Public and Documentation
of Adoption
This notice documents adoption of
the DoN categorical exclusion listed
above in accordance with 42 U.S.C.
4336(c) and 32 CFR 775.6(e)(1) and is
available for use by OLDCC, effective
immediately.
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Dated: December 19, 2024.
Stephanie J. Bost,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW, EE–5B, Washington, DC
20585; (202) 441–1288;
Jeremiah.Williams@ee.doe.gov.
For legal issues, please contact: Ms.
Laura Zuber; U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of the General Counsel, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, GC–33,
Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586–4798;
Laura.Zuber@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[EERE–2024–BT–DET–0007]
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I. Background
II. Determination Statement
III. State Certification
Determination Regarding Energy
Efficiency Improvements in the 2024
International Energy Conservation
Code
I. Background
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notification of determination.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) has reviewed the 2024
International Energy Conservation Code
(IECC) and determined the updated
edition would improve energy
efficiency in residential buildings. DOE
analysis indicates that buildings
meeting the 2024 IECC, as compared
with buildings meeting the 2021 IECC,
would result in national site energy
savings of 7.80 percent, source energy
savings of 6.80 percent, and energy cost
savings of approximately 6.60 percent of
residential building energy
consumption. Under the Energy
Conservation and Production Act, as
amended (ECPA), upon publication of
an affirmative determination, each State
must review the energy efficiency
provisions of its residential building
code and determine whether it is
appropriate for such state to revise its
building code to meet or exceed the
2024 IECC. Additionally, this
notification provides guidance on state
code review processes and associated
certifications.
SUMMARY:
Certification statements provided
by States shall be submitted by
December 30, 2026.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the supporting
analysis and a link to the Federal docket
are available at https://
www.energycodes.gov/determinations.
Certification Statements must be
addressed to the Building Technologies
Office—Building Energy Codes Program
Manager, U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW, EE–5B, Washington, DC
20585.
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DATES:
Mr.
Jeremiah Williams; U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and
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Title III of the Energy Conservation
and Production Act, as amended
(ECPA), establishes requirements for
DOE to review consensus-based
building energy conservation standards.
42 U.S.C. 6831 et seq. Section 304(a) of
ECPA, as amended, provides that
whenever the 1992 Council of American
Building Officials (CABO) Model Energy
Code, or any successor to that code, is
revised, the Secretary of Energy
(Secretary) must make a determination,
no later than 12 months after such
revision, whether the revised code
would improve energy efficiency in
residential buildings, and must publish
notice of such determination in the
Federal Register. 42 U.S.C.
6833(a)(5)(A). If the Secretary makes an
affirmative determination, within two
years of the publication of the
determination, each State is required to
certify that it has reviewed the
provisions of its residential building
code regarding energy efficiency and
made a determination as to whether it
is appropriate to revise its code to meet
or exceed the provisions of the
successor code. 42 U.S.C. 6833(a)(5)(B).
The International Energy
Conservation Code (IECC) is the
contemporary successor to the CABO
Model Energy Code specified in ECPA.
The IECC is revised every three years
through an established code
development and consensus process
administered by the International Code
Council (ICC). The ICC published the
most recent edition of the IECC in
August 2024 (the 2024 IECC) and
triggered the statutorily required DOE
review process. As part of the ICC
process, any interested party may
submit proposals, as well as written
comments or suggested changes to any
proposal, and make arguments before a
committee of experts assembled by the
ICC. The collection of accepted
proposals forms the revised edition of
the IECC. More information on the ICC
code development process is available
at https://www.iccsafe.org/products-
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and-services/i-codes/code-development/
cs/iecc-residential-consensuscommittee.
As required by ECPA, DOE conducts
a technical analysis to assess the energy
savings impacts associated with the
updated code, the 2024 IECC. DOE’s
review under ECPA is technical in
nature and helps to inform and advise
interested industry stakeholders of the
effects of the updated code, and informs
states and local governments who
ultimately adopt, implement, and
enforce building codes. Although DOE
is an active participant in the review
and update process for the 2024 IECC,
as directed under ECPA (42 U.S.C.
6836(b)), the Department neither
administers nor publishes the model
energy codes. Additionally, the
directive for states to update their
energy efficiency codes based on the
updated edition of the 2024 IECC is
required by ECPA. DOE’s technical
analysis serves as the basis for DOE’s
determination and helps inform states
who seek to update their codes and
comply with ECPA.
DOE’s full technical analysis,
including assumptions and parameters
applied in the analysis, is published as
a separate technical support document
(TSD) and available for review at
https://www.energycodes.gov/
determinations.
DOE publishes a wide range of
technical assistance resources
supporting building energy codes. These
include additional technical analyses
evaluating the impacts of updated
building energy codes, such as
quantifying the energy and
environmental benefits, as well as
additional resources supporting the
adoption and successful
implementation of energy codes across
states and local governments. New
Federal assistance is also available to
support state and local adoption and
implementation of building energy
codes through the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law (Section 40511) and
Inflation Reduction Act (Section 50131).
Visit www.energycodes.gov to learn
more about these initiatives and
technical assistance resources.
II. Determination Statement
Residential buildings meeting the
2024 IECC are expected to experience
the following savings on a weighted
national average basis (compared to the
previous 2021 edition):
• 7.80 percent site energy savings
• 6.80 percent source energy savings
• 6.60 percent energy cost savings
• 6.51 percent carbon emissions
savings
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Adoption of Categorical Exclusion From the Department of the Navy
Under the National Environmental Policy Act
AGENCY: Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC),
Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice of adoption of the Department of Navy's (DoN)
Categorical Exclusion for facility renovation pursuant to section 109
of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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SUMMARY: OLDCC is adopting the DoN's Categorical Exclusion 14 for the
alteration of an existing building. This notice describes the proposed
action for which OLDCC intends to use the DoN Categorical Exclusion and
details the consultation between the agencies.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick J. O'Brien, Director, Office
of Local Defense Community Cooperation, Office of the Secretary of
Defense, 2231 Crystal Drive, Suite 520, Arlington VA 22202-4704, (703)
697-2130.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. NEPA and Categorical Exclusions
NEPA and Categorical Exclusions, 42 United States Code (U.S.C.)
4321-4347, requires all Federal agencies to assess the environmental
impacts of their
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actions. Congress enacted NEPA to encourage productive and enjoyable
harmony between humans and the environment, recognizing the profound
impact of human activity and the critical importance of restoring and
maintaining environmental quality to the overall welfare of humankind.
NEPA seeks to ensure agencies consider the environmental effects of
their proposed actions in their decision-making processes and inform
and involve the public in that process. NEPA created the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ), which based on 42 U.S.C. 4336c,
promulgated NEPA implementing guidance at 40 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) parts 1500 through 1508 (CEQ regulations).
To comply with NEPA, agencies determine the appropriate level of
review--an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Environmental
Assessment (EA), or categorical exclusion (42 U.S.C. 4336). If a
proposed action is likely to have significant environmental effects,
the agency must prepare an EIS and document its decision in a record of
decision. Id. If the proposed action is not likely to have significant
environmental effects or the effects are unknown, the agency may
instead prepare an EA, which involves a more concise analysis and
process than an EIS. Id. Following the EA, the agency may conclude the
process with a finding of no significant impact if the analysis shows
that the action will have no significant effects. If the analysis in
the EA finds that the action is likely to have significant effects,
however, then an EIS is required. Under NEPA and the CEQ regulations, a
Federal agency may establish in its NEPA implementing procedures
categorical exclusions, which are categories of actions the agency has
determined normally do not significantly affect the quality of the
human environment (40 CFR 1501.4, 1507.3(e)(2)(ii), 1508.1(d)). If an
agency determines that a categorical exclusion covers a proposed
action, it then evaluates the proposed action for extraordinary
circumstances in which a normally excluded action may have a
significant effect (40 CFR 1501.4(b)). If no extraordinary
circumstances are present, or if further analysis determines that the
extraordinary circumstances do not involve the potential for
significant environmental impacts, the agency may apply the categorical
exclusion to the proposed action without preparing an EA or EIS (40 CFR
1501.4). If the extraordinary circumstances have the potential to
result in significant effects, the agency is required to prepare an EA
or EIS.
Section 109 of NEPA, enacted as part of the Fiscal Responsibility
Act of 2023, allows a Federal agency to adopt a categorical exclusion
listed in another agency's NEPA procedures for a category of proposed
agency actions for which the categorical exclusion was established (42
U.S.C. 4336(c)). To adopt another agency's categorical exclusion under
section 109, an agency must identify the relevant categorical exclusion
listed in that agency's (``establishing agency'') NEPA procedures that
cover its category of proposed actions or related actions; consult with
the establishing agency to ensure that the proposed adoption of the
categorical exclusion to a category of actions is appropriate; identify
to the public the categorical exclusion that the agency plans to use
for its proposed actions; and document adoption of the categorical
exclusion. Id. This notice documents OLDCC's adoption of DoN's
categorical exclusion under Section 109 of NEPA.
II. Identification of the Categorical Exclusion
DoN's categorical exclusion for the alteration to an existing
building when the environmental effects will remain substantially the
same and the use is consistent with applicable regulations is codified
in DoN's NEPA procedures as categorical exclusion 14 in 32 CFR
775.6(f)(14).
Proposed Action
The Manufacturers' Association of South-Central Pennsylvania
(Association) proposes to renovate their existing facility at 3405
Board Road, York, Pennsylvania to simulate a manufacturing environment
as part of the association's scope of work undertaken as part of an
OLDCC Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program funded grant.
III. Rationale for the Categorical Exclusion
The proposed renovation will take place within the existing
envelope of the facility by expanding training and classroom space. All
proposed renovation activities will not require any ground disturbance
or external changes. The proposed renovation will alter 6,000 square
feet of the existing interior warehouse space, adjacent to the
Association's currently occupied space of 12,000 square feet.
IV. Consideration of Extraordinary Circumstances
If an agency determines that a categorical exclusion covers a
proposed action, the agency must evaluate the proposed action for
extraordinary circumstances in which a normally excluded action may
have a significant effect (40 CFR 1501.4(b)). OLDCC does not currently
have its own NEPA implementing procedures to guide its application of
extraordinary circumstances. Until OLDCC establishes NEPA implementing
procedures, for purposes of considering extraordinary circumstances in
connection with the DoN categorical exclusion discussed in this notice,
OLDCC has considered whether the proposed action has the potential to
result in significant effects, including by considering the factors
listed in DoN's definition of extraordinary circumstances (32 CFR
775.6(e)(1)).
OLDCC has assessed the proposed action and determined that none of
the extraordinary circumstances listed in 32 CFR 775.6(e)(1) that
preclude the use of categorical exclusion 14 are applicable to the
proposed action.
V. Consultation With DoN and Determination of Appropriateness
OLDCC and DoN consulted on the appropriateness of OLDCC's adoption
of the categorical exclusion from July to September 2024. DoN has
provided OLDCC with a ``no objection concurrence'' for OLDCC's proposed
adoption of the categorical exclusion. This consultation included a
review of DoN's experience applying the categorical exclusion and the
proposed action for which OLDCC plans to utilize it. Following this
consultation and review, OLDCC has determined that the impacts of the
proposed action to renovate the Association's facility is similar to
the impacts, which are not significant, of projects for which DoN may
apply the categorical exclusion. Additionally, OLDCC determined that
there are no extraordinary circumstances. Therefore, OLDCC has
determined that its proposed use of DoN's categorical exclusion 14, as
described within this notice, would be appropriate.
Notice to the Public and Documentation of Adoption
This notice documents adoption of the DoN categorical exclusion
listed above in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 4336(c) and 32 CFR
775.6(e)(1) and is available for use by OLDCC, effective immediately.
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Dated: December 19, 2024.
Stephanie J. Bost,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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