Title: Local Food Marketing Practice Survey.

OMB Control Number: 0535-0259.

Type of Request: Intent to seek approval to reinstate an information collection for a period of three years.

Abstract: Interest continues to grow in support of local agricultural economies through the purchase of foods from sources that are geographically close to the consuming areas, via channels that are direct from farm to consumer or at most one step removed. Significant policy support for local food systems began with the institution of the USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative (KYF2) in September 2009. The KYF2 Initiative was designed to eliminate organizational barriers to improve coordination and availability of resources for the promotion of local food systems. This initiative is in response to the consumer and producer interests. Many community and farm advocacy groups are requesting changes in the next major agricultural program legislation (the Farm Bill) that will directly target local foods producers, consumers, and markets. The Local Food Marketing Practice Survey was initially conducted in 2015. This reinstatement will allow NASS to collect data to measure changes and growth within the local food industry on a national basis. The results of previous surveys can be found at the following link: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Local_Food/index.php.

In preparation for this next round of data collection, NASS included a question in the 2022 Census of Agriculture to capture data needed to identify farm operators who sold products through direct marketing channels. As a follow-on survey to the 2022 Census of Agriculture, the target population will focus on respondents who reported product sales directly to consumers or to retail outlets that in turn sold directly to consumers. NASS intends to use mandatory reporting authority (Title 7 U.S. Code § 2204g) for the 2025 Local Food Marketing Practice Survey.

Authority: The data will be collected under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a). Individually identifiable data collected under this authority are governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985 as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to afford strict confidentiality to non-aggregated data provided by respondents. This Notice is submitted in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq. ), and Office of Management and Budget regulations at 5 CFR part 1320.

All NASS employees and NASS contractors must also fully comply with all provisions of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title III of Public Law 115-435, codified in 44 U.S.C. Ch. 35. CIPSEA supports NASS's pledge of confidentiality to all respondents and facilitates the agency's efforts to reduce burden by supporting statistical activities of collaborative agencies through designation of NASS agents, subject to the limitations and penalties described in CIPSEA.

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 60 minutes per response. NASS plans to mail out publicity materials with the questionnaires to inform producers of the importance of this survey. NASS will also use multiple mailings, followed up with phone and limited personal enumeration to increase response rates and to minimize data collection costs.

Respondents: Farmers and Ranchers.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 65,000.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 74,000 hours.

Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, technological, or other forms of information technology collection methods.

All responses to this notice will become a matter of public record and be summarized in the request for OMB approval.

Title: Organic Survey.

OMB Control Number: 0535-0249.

Type of Request: Intent to Seek Renewal of an Information Collection.

Abstract: The primary objective of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is to prepare and issue State and national estimates of crop and livestock production, prices, and disposition as well as economic statistics, farm numbers, land values, on-farm pesticide usage, pest crop management practices, as well as the Census of Agriculture.

Originally, the Organic Survey was designed to be conducted once every five years as a mandatory, follow-on-survey to the 2007 Census of Agriculture and then every five years after that. In 2011, the Information Collection Request was renewed to include that the survey was changed to accommodate a cooperative agreement between NASS and the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA). Specifically, the survey was changed to a voluntary survey that was to be conducted annually if funding permitted, and it would allow for a rotation of target crops each year. With the completion of the 2012 Census of Agriculture, NASS renewed the Organic Survey again and returned it to its original scope of questions and the mandatory reporting requirement. After the completion of the 2014 Organic Survey, NASS renewed its cooperative agreement with RMA to conduct the shorter questionnaire on an annual basis.

The sample will consist of all certified organic operations, operations exempt from organic certification (value of sales <$5,000), and operations with acres transitioning into organic certification from the most recent published Census of Agriculture as well as organic operations currently on the NASS list frame. The survey will be conducted in all States. Some operation level data will be collected to use in classifying each operation for summary purposes. The majority of the questions will involve production data (acres planted, acres harvested, quantity harvested, quantity sold, livestock produced and sold, value of sale, etc.), and marketing and production practices.

Depending on annual funding, approximately 27,000 operations will be contacted by mail in late November or early December, with a second mailing later in the month to non-respondents. Respondents will be able to complete the questionnaire by use of the internet, if they so choose. Telephone and personal enumeration will be used for remaining non-response follow-up. If the survey is funded, the National Agricultural Statistics Service will publish summaries in December at both the State level and for each major organic commodity when possible. Due to confidentiality rules, some State level data may be combined and published at the regional or national level to prevent disclosure of individual operation's data.

This collection of data will support requirements within the Agricultural Act of 2014. Under section 11023 some of the duties of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) are defined as “(i) IN GENERAL—As soon as possible, but not later than the 2015 reinsurance year, the Corporation shall offer producers of organic crops price elections for all organic crops produced in compliance with standards issued by the Department of Agriculture under the national organic program established under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6501 et seq. ) that reflect the actual retail or wholesale prices, as appropriate, received by producers for organic crops, as determined by the Secretary using all relevant sources of information. “(ii) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Corporation shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate an annual report on progress made in developing and improving Federal crop insurance for organic crops, including—“(I) the numbers and varieties of organic crops insured; “(II) the progress of implementing the price elections required under this subparagraph, including the rate at which additional price elections are adopted for organic crops; “(III) the development of new insurance approaches relevant to organic producers; and “(IV) any recommendations the Corporation considers appropriate to improve Federal crop insurance coverage for organic crops”.

Authority: These data will be collected under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a). Individually identifiable data collected under this authority are governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985 as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to afford strict confidentiality to non-aggregated data provided by respondents. This Notice is submitted in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq. ) and Office of Management and Budget regulations at 5 CFR part 1320.

All NASS employees and NASS contractors must also fully comply with all provisions of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title III of Public Law 115-435, codified in 44 U.S.C. ch. 35. CIPSEA supports NASS's pledge of confidentiality to all respondents and facilitates the agency's efforts to reduce burden by supporting statistical activities of collaborative agencies through designation of NASS agents, subject to the limitations and penalties described in CIPSEA.

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 43 minutes per response.

Respondents: Farmers and Ranchers.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 27,000.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 9,500 hours (based on an estimated 80% response rate, using two questionnaire mail attempts, two pressure sealers/postcard mailings, and an Email blast, followed by phone and personal enumeration for non-respondents).

Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, technological, or other forms of information technology collection methods.

All responses to this notice will become a matter of public record and be summarized in the request for OMB approval.

On November 14, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register the final results of the 2022-2023 administrative review of the AD order on CAAS from Türkiye. 1 On December 4, 2024, Commerce received allegations of ministerial errors from Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Kibar Americas, Inc., and Kibar Dis Ticaret A.S. (collectively, Assan) and from Teknik Aluminyum Sanayi A.S. (Teknik). 2 We received no rebuttal comments. Commerce is amending the Final Results to correct the ministerial errors.

Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), defines a “ministerial error” as including “errors in addition, subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical errors resulting from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other unintentional error which the administering authority considers ministerial.”  3 With respect to final results of administrative reviews, 19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that Commerce “will analyze any comments received and, if appropriate, correct any . . . ministerial error by amending the final results of review . . .”

Commerce reviewed the record, and we agree that the errors alleged by Assan and Teknik constitute ministerial errors within the meaning of section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f). 4 Specifically, we find that we made inadvertent errors in Assan's calculations related to the use of the most up-to-date exchange rates and the calculation of insurance expenses, and inadvertent errors in Teknik's calculations related to freight revenue. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e), Commerce is amending the Final Results to reflect the correction of the ministerial errors, as described in the Ministerial Error Memorandum. Based on the corrections, Assan's final dumping margin changed from 2.38 percent to 1.84 percent, and Teknik's final dumping margin changed from 2.72 percent to 2.04 percent. As a result, we are also revising the rate assigned to the non-individually examined companies, utilizing the same methodology in the Final Results, from 2.55 percent to 1.94 percent. The amended estimated weighted-average dumping margins are listed in the “Amended Final Results of Review,” section below.

For a complete discussion of the ministerial error allegation, as well as Commerce's analysis, see the Ministerial Error Memorandum. The Ministerial Error Memorandum is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov.

As a result of correcting the ministerial errors described above, Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023:

Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with these amended final results of review to interested parties within five days after public announcement of the amended final results or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the notice of amended final results in the Federal Register , in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review. Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this administrative review in the Federal Register . If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired ( i.e., within 90 days of publication).

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), because Assan's and Teknik's weighted-average dumping margins are not zero or de minimis ( i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we calculated importer-specific ad valorem assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of the sales. Where an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.

Consistent with Commerce's clarification of its assessment practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by any of the above-referenced respondents for which they did not know the merchandise was destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of 4.85 percent ad valorem  if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.

For the non-examined companies subject to review, we will instruct CBP to liquidate all applicable entries of subject merchandise during the POR at the rate listed in the table above.

The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the company-specific cash deposit rate for Assan and Teknik will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of this review for each respondent (except, if that rate is de minimis, then the cash deposit rate will be zero); (2) for producers or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recently-completed segment of this proceeding in which they were reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review or a prior segment of the proceeding but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be 4.85 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV investigation. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.

This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of countervailing duties.

This notice serves as the final reminder to parties subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written notification of return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.

We are issuing and publishing these amended final results of review in accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.224(e).

This preliminary determination is made in accordance with section 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce published the notice of initiation of this investigation on July 16, 2024. 1 On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. 2 On November 13, 2024, Commerce postponed the preliminary determination of this investigation until January 23, 2025. 3

For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this investigation, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 4 A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as Appendix II to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

The products covered by this investigation are LSPTVs from China. For a complete description of the scope of this investigation, see Appendix I.

In accordance with the Preamble to Commerce's regulations, 5 in the Initiation Notice Commerce set aside a period of time for parties to raise issues regarding product coverage ( i.e., scope). 6 Certain interested parties commented on the scope of the investigation as it appeared in the Initiation Notice. Concurrent with the preliminary determination in the companion countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of LSPTVs from China, 7 Commerce issued a preliminary scope modification memorandum in which it made one modification to the scope and also included proposed modifications to the scope language and invited interested parties to comment. 8 For a summary of the product coverage comments and rebuttal responses submitted to the record for this preliminary determination, and accompanying discussion and analysis of all comments timely received, see the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum. 9 Commerce is preliminarily modifying the scope language as it appeared in the LSPTVs CVD Preliminary Determination. See the scope in Appendix I to this notice.

Commerce is conducting this investigation in accordance with section 731 of the Act. Commerce has calculated export prices and constructed export prices in accordance with sections 772(a) and (b) of the Act, respectively. Because China is a non-market economy (NME) within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, Commerce has calculated normal value (NV) in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. Pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce preliminarily has relied upon facts otherwise available, with adverse inferences, for the China-wide entity. For a full description of the methodology underlying Commerce's preliminary determination, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

In accordance with section 733(e)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.206(c), Commerce preliminarily determines that critical circumstances exist with respect to imports of LSPTVs from China for Guangdong Lvtong New Energy Electric Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. (Guangdong Lvtong) and Xiamen Dalle New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd (Xiamen Dalle), the non-selected respondents eligible for a separate rate, and the China-wide entity. For a full description of the methodology and results of Commerce's analysis, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

In the Initiation Notice, 10 Commerce stated that it would calculate producer/exporter combination rates for the respondents that are eligible for a separate rate in this investigation. Policy Bulletin 05.1 describes this practice. 11

We preliminarily granted a separate rate to certain separate rate respondents that we did not select for individual examination. 12 In calculating the rate for non-individually examined separate rate respondents in an NME LTFV investigation, Commerce normally looks to section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, which pertains to the calculation of the all-others rate in a market economy LTFV investigation, for guidance. Pursuant to section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, normally this rate shall be an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for those companies individually examined, excluding any margins that are zero, de minimis, or based entirely under section 776 of the Act.

Commerce calculated individual estimated weighted-average dumping margins for Guangdong Lvtong and Xiamen Dalle that are not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise available. Therefore, we are preliminarily determining the dumping rate for the non-selected separate rate companies (listed in Appendix III) based on the weighted-average of the calculated rates determined for the mandatory respondents, Guangdong Lvtong and Xiamen Dalle, 13 in accordance with section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. See the table below in the “Preliminary Determination” section of this notice.

Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist:

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation of subject merchandise as described in the scope of the investigation section entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register , as discussed below. Further, pursuant to section 733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP to require a cash deposit equal to the weighted average amount by which normal value exceeds U.S. price, as indicated in the chart above as follows: (1) for the producer/exporter combinations listed in the table above, the cash deposit rate is equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margin listed for that combination in the table; (2) for all combinations of Chinese producers/exporters of merchandise under consideration that have not established eligibility for their own separate rates, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margin established for the China-wide entity; and (3) for all third-country exporters of merchandise under consideration not listed in the table above, the cash deposit rate is the cash deposit rate applicable to the Chinese producer/exporter combination (or the China-wide entity) that supplied that third-country exporter.

Section 733(e)(2) of the Act provides that, given an affirmative determination of critical circumstances, any suspension of liquidation shall apply to unliquidated entries of merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the later of: (a) the date that is 90 days before the date on which the suspension of liquidation was first ordered; or (b) the date on which notice of initiation of the investigation was published. Commerce preliminarily finds that critical circumstances exist for imports of subject merchandise from the non-selected companies eligible for a separate rate and the China-wide entity. 14 In accordance with section 733(e)(2)(A) of the Act, the suspension of liquidation shall apply to all unliquidated entries of merchandise from all exporters that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date that is 90 days before the publication of this notice in the Federal Register .

To determine the cash deposit rate, Commerce normally adjusts the estimated weighted-average dumping margin by the amount of domestic subsidy pass-through and export subsidies determined in a companion CVD proceeding when CVD provisional measures are in effect. Accordingly, where Commerce has made a preliminary affirmative determination for domestic subsidy pass-through or export subsidies, Commerce has offset the calculated estimated weighted-average dumping margin by the appropriate rate. Any such adjusted rates may be found in the “Preliminary Determination” section's chart of estimated weighted-average dumping margins above.

Should provisional measures in the companion CVD investigation expire prior to the expiration of provisional measures in this LTFV investigation, Commerce will direct CBP to begin collecting cash deposits at a rate equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins calculated in this preliminary determination unadjusted for the passed-through domestic subsidies or for export subsidies at the time the CVD provisional measures expire.

These suspension of liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.

Commerce intends to disclose to interested parties the calculations and analysis it performed in connection with this preliminary determination within five days of the public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Consistent with 19 CFR 351.224(e), Commerce will analyze and, if appropriate, correct any timely allegations of significant ministerial errors by amending the preliminary determination. However, consistent with 19 CFR 351.224(d), Commerce will not consider incomplete allegations that do not address the significance standard under 19 CFR 351.224(g) following the preliminary determination. Instead, Commerce will address such allegations in the final determination together with issues raised in the case briefs or other written comments.

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the Act, Commerce intends to verify information relied upon in making its final determination.

For the deadlines for submitting scope-related case and rebuttal briefs, refer to the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum. 15

Case briefs or other written comments on non-scope issues may be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than seven days after the date on which the final verification report is issued in this investigation. 16 A timeline for the submission of case briefs and written comments will be notified to interested parties at a later date. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing case briefs. 17 Interested parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities. 18

As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an executive summary of their briefs that should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. In this investigation, we instead request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs. 19 Further, we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that will accompany the final determination in this investigation. We request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the executive summary of each issue. Note that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f). 20

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants and whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of the issues to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be determined.

Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides that a final determination may be postponed until no later than 135 days after the date of the publication of the preliminary determination if, in the event of an affirmative preliminary determination, a request for such postponement is made by exporters who account for a significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise, or in the event of a negative preliminary determination, a request for such postponement is made by the petitioners. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.210(e)(2), Commerce requires that requests by respondents for postponement of a final antidumping duty determination be accompanied by a request for extension of provisional measures from a four-month period to a period not more than six months in duration.

On November 11, 2024, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.210(e), Xiamen Dalle requested that Commerce postpone the final determination and that provisional measures be extended to a period not to exceed six months. 21 In accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii), because: (1) the preliminary determination is affirmative; (2) the requesting exporter account for a significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise; and (3) no compelling reasons for denial exist, Commerce is postponing the final determination and extending the provisional measures from a four-month period to a period not greater than six months. Accordingly, Commerce's final determination will be published no later than 135 days after the date of publication of this preliminary determination.

In accordance with section 733(f) of the Act, Commerce will notify the ITC of its preliminary determination of sales at LTFV. If the final determination is affirmative, the ITC will determine before the later of 120 days after the date of this preliminary determination or 45 days after the final determination whether imports of the subject merchandise are materially injuring, or threaten material injury to, the U.S. industry.

This preliminary determination is issued and published in accordance with sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.205(c).

On July 11, 2019, Commerce published in the Federal Register the AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products from China. 1 On June 3, 2024, the ITC instituted, 2 and Commerce initiated, 3 the first sunset review of the Orders, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). As a result of its reviews, Commerce determined that revocation of the Orders would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping and countervailable subsidies, and therefore, notified the ITC of the magnitude of the margins of dumping and subsidy rates likely to prevail should the Orders be revoked. 4

On January 24, 2025, the ITC published its determination, pursuant to sections 751(c) and 752(a) of the Act, that revocation of the Orders would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the United States within a reasonably foreseeable time. 5

The scope of the Orders covers certain quartz surface products. 6 Quartz surface products consist of slabs and other surfaces created from a mixture of materials that includes predominately silica ( e.g., quartz, quartz powder, cristobalite) as well as a resin binder ( e.g., an unsaturated polyester). The incorporation of other materials, including, but not limited to, pigments, cement, or other additives does not remove the merchandise from the scope of the Orders. However, the scope of the Orders only includes products where the silica content is greater than any other single material, by actual weight. Quartz surface products are typically sold as rectangular slabs with a total surface area of approximately 45 to 60 square feet and a nominal thickness of one, two, or three centimeters. However, the scope of the Orders includes surface products of all other sizes, thicknesses, and shapes. In addition to slabs, the scope of the Orders includes, but is not limited to, other surfaces such as countertops, backsplashes, vanity tops, bar tops, work tops, tabletops, flooring, wall facing, shower surrounds, fire place surrounds, mantels, and tiles. Certain quartz surface products are covered by the Orders whether polished or unpolished, cut or uncut, fabricated or not fabricated, cured or uncured, edged or not edged, thermoformed or not thermoformed, finished or unfinished, packaged or unpackaged, and regardless of the type of surface finish.

In addition, quartz surface products are covered by the Orders whether or not they are imported attached to, or in conjunction with, non-subject merchandise such as sinks, sink bowls, vanities, cabinets, and furniture. If quartz surface products are imported attached to, or in conjunction with, such non-subject merchandise, only the quartz surface product is covered by the scope.

Subject merchandise includes material matching the above description that has been finished, packaged, or otherwise fabricated in a third country, including by cutting, polishing, curing, edging, thermoforming, attaching to, or packaging with another product, or any other finishing, packaging, or fabrication that would not otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the Orders if performed in the country of manufacture of the quartz surface products.

The scope of the Orders does not cover quarried stone surface products, such as granite, marble, soapstone, or quartzite. Specifically excluded from the scope of the Orders are crushed glass surface products. Crushed glass surface products must meet each of the following criteria to qualify for this exclusion: (1) The crushed glass content is greater than any other single material, by actual weight; (2) there are pieces of crushed glass visible across the surface of the product; (3) at least some of the individual pieces of crushed glass that are visible across the surface are larger than one centimeter wide as measured at their widest cross-section (glass pieces); and (4) the distance between any single glass piece and the closest separate glass piece does not exceed three inches.

The products subject to the scope are currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under the following subheadings: 6810.99.0020, 6810.99.0040. Subject merchandise may also enter under subheadings 6810.11.0010, 6810.11.0070, 6810.19.1200, 6810.19.1400, 6810.19.5000, 6810.91.0000, 6810.99.0080, 6815.99.4070, 2506.10.0010, 2506.10.0050, 2506.20.0010, 2506.20.0080, and 7016.90.10. The HTSUS subheadings set forth above are provided for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of the Orders is dispositive.

As a result of the determinations by Commerce and the ITC that revocation of the Orders would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping, countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, pursuant to section 751(d)(2) of the Act, Commerce hereby orders the continuation of the Orders. U.S. Customs and Border Protection will continue to collect AD and CVD cash deposits at the rates in effect at the time of entry for all imports of subject merchandise.

The effective date of the continuation of the Orders is January 24, 2025. 7 Pursuant to section 751(c)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(c)(2), Commerce intends to initiate the next five-year reviews of the Orders not later than 30 days prior to fifth anniversary of the date of the effective date of this continuation.

This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return or destruction of APO materials, or conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO is a violation which is subject to sanction.

These five-year (sunset) reviews and this notice are in accordance with sections 751(c) and 751(d)(2) of the Act and published in accordance with section 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.218(f)(4).

The purpose of this meeting is to explore innovative management strategies for reef species in the Gulf of Mexico, using the five focal species to illustrate potential approaches. The Working Group will develop consensus-based recommendations on actions for the Council to consider on priority action items and goals identified.

The meeting will begin with a welcome and recap of previous Working Group Meetings 1 and 2, and an overview of the second Public Engagement Meeting. The Group will be tasked with a homework assignment and convene in breakout sessions to consider preferred seasons, bag limits, and vessel limits and considerations for the 5 focal species. Afterward there will be a report out to the larger group.

The Group will hear a presentation on: Lessons from the Mid-Atlantic—Alternative Approaches to Management of Federally Managed Recreational Fisheries, including Specific Examples of Engagement of the Recreational Sector and Application of Harvest Control Rules. After a working lunch, the Group will hear a series of overviews on Alternative Management Strategies Proposed in Previous Efforts: Potential Benefits and Challenges. Then, the Group will have a breakout session and report out on pros and cons and feasibility of each alternative management strategy including Harvest Control Rule. The Group will be tasked with Homework and Discuss Agenda for Day 2, and any remaining logistics.

The Working Group will begin with review of agenda for Day 2, and a recap key element of Working Groups 1, 2 & 3 for consensus recommendations questions and discussion, followed by a report-out of each breakout. The Group is tasked with identifying commonalities identified by Working Group members on developing trusted data; establishing trust with the recreational community; developing predictable and reliable recreational access; allowing for regional flexibility in management; increasing recreational community engagement in the management process; maximizing angler satisfaction and accommodating growth.

Following the lunch, consultants will guide the Working Group by pulling it all together: consensus recommendations on goals and objectives for recreational fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Fisheries for future management approaches that: prevent overfishing; address discards and/or discard mortality; address uncertainty in recreational data; and provide innovative new management approaches. The meeting will end with a wrapping up and Finalize Consensus Recommendations. Lastly, Council staff will offer closing remarks and logistics.

The full agenda and additional information will be posted on https://gulfcouncil.org/recreational-initiative/. You may register for the webinar to listen-in only by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org and click on the meeting on the calendar.

The timing and order in which agenda items are addressed may change as required to effectively address the issue, and the latest version along with other meeting materials will be posted on the website as they become available.

These meetings are physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid or accommodations should be directed to Kathy Pereira, (813) 348-1630, at least 15 days prior to the meeting date.

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

The CPS Subcommittee will review the draft update stock assessment for Pacific sardine in preparation for full SSC and Pacific Council review at the April 2025 Pacific Council meeting. The Subcommittee will also discuss a correlation analysis between CalCOFI-based temperature and sardine population dynamics. At its April 2025 meeting, the Pacific Council is scheduled to use the update stock assessment and any new information regarding the CalCOFI temperature relationship to set harvest specifications and management measures for the 2025-2026 Pacific sardine fishery.

Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues specifically listed in this document and any issues arising after publication of this document that require emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, provided the public has been notified of the intent to take final action to address the emergency.

Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt ( kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov; (503) 820-2412) at least 10 days prior to the meeting date.

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

The Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery Management Councils, in conjunction with NOAA Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commissions, have implemented the Southeast Data, Assessment and Review (SEDAR) process, a multi-step method for determining the status of fish stocks in the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a three-step process including: (1) Data Workshop; (2) Assessment Process utilizing webinars; and (3) Review Workshop. The product of the Data Workshop is a data report which compiles and evaluates potential datasets and recommends which datasets are appropriate for assessment analyses. The product of the Assessment Process is a stock assessment report which describes the fisheries, evaluates the status of the stock, estimates biological benchmarks, projects future population conditions, and recommends research and monitoring needs. The assessment is independently peer reviewed at the Review Workshop. The product of the Review Workshop is a Summary documenting panel opinions regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the stock assessment and input data. Participants for SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery Management Councils and NOAA Fisheries Southeast Regional Office, Highly Migratory Species Management Division, and Southeast Fisheries Science Center. Participants include: data collectors and database managers; stock assessment scientists, biologists, and researchers; constituency representatives including fishermen, environmentalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); international experts; and staff of Councils, Commissions, and state and federal agencies.

The items of discussion at the webinar are as follows:

• Continue discussion on modelling issues and decisions.

Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come before this group for discussion, those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in this notice and any issues arising after publication of this notice that require emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, provided the public has been notified of the intent to take final action to address the emergency.

This meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for auxiliary aids should be directed to the SAFMC office (see ADDRESSES ) at least 10 business days prior to the meeting.

Note: The times and sequence specified in this agenda are subject to change.

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

Under the Federal Election Campaign Act, 52 U.S.C. 30101-45, coordinated party expenditure limits (52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(2)-(3)), certain contribution limits (52 U.S.C. 30116(a)(1)(A) and (B), and (h)), and the disclosure threshold for contributions bundled by lobbyists (52 U.S.C. 30104(i)(3)(A)) are adjusted periodically to reflect changes in the consumer price index. See 52 U.S.C. 30104(i)(3)(B), 30116(c); 11 CFR 109.32(a)(2), (b)(3), 110.17(a), (f). The Commission is publishing this notice to announce the adjusted limits and disclosure threshold.

Under 52 U.S.C. 30116(c), the Commission must adjust the expenditure limitations established by 52 U.S.C. 30116(d) (the limits on expenditures by national party committees, state party committees, or their subordinate committees in connection with the general election campaign of candidates for Federal office) annually to account for inflation. This expenditure limitation is increased by the percent difference between the price index, as certified to the Commission by the Secretary of Labor, for the 12 months preceding the beginning of the calendar year and the price index for the base period (calendar year 1974). 52 U.S.C. 30116(c)(1)(B)(i), (2)(B)(i).

Both the national and state party committees have an expenditure limitation for each general election held to fill a seat in the House of Representatives in states with more than one congressional district. See 52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(3)(B). This limitation also applies to the District of Columbia and territories that elect individuals to the office of Delegate or Resident Commissioner. 1 Id. The formula used to calculate the expenditure limitation in such states and territories multiplies the base figure of $10,000 by the difference in the price index (6.36203), rounding to the nearest $100. See 52 U.S.C. 30116(c)(1)(B), (d)(3)(B); 11 CFR 109.32(b), 110.17. Based upon this formula, the expenditure limitation for 2025 general elections for House candidates in these states, districts, and territories is $63,600.

Both the national and state party committees have an expenditure limitation for a general election held to fill a seat in the Senate or in the House of Representatives in states with only one congressional district. See 52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(3)(A). The formula used to calculate this expenditure limitation considers not only the price index but also the voting age population (“VAP”) of the state. Id. The VAP figures used to calculate the expenditure limitations were certified by the U.S. Census Bureau. The VAP of each state is also published annually in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Commerce. 11 CFR 110.18. The general election expenditure limitation is the greater of: The base figure ($20,000) multiplied by the difference in the price index, 6.36203 (which totals $127,200); or $0.02 multiplied by the VAP of the state, multiplied by 6.36203. See 52 U.S.C. 30116(c)(1)(B), (d)(3)(A); 11 CFR 109.32(b), 110.17. Amounts are rounded to the nearest $100. 52 U.S.C. 30116(c)(1)(B)(iii); 11 CFR 109.32(b)(3), 110.17(c). The chart below provides the state-by-state breakdown of the 2025 general election expenditure limitations for Senate elections. The expenditure limitation for 2025 House elections in states with only one congressional district  2 is $127,200.

Pursuant to section 6(f) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule § 2.34, 16 CFR 2.34, notice is hereby given that the above-captioned consent agreement containing a consent order to cease and desist, having been filed with and accepted, subject to final approval, by the Commission, has been placed on the public record for a period of 30 days. The following Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes the terms of the consent agreement and the allegations in the complaint. An electronic copy of the full text of the consent agreement package can be obtained at https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/commission-actions.

You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or before March 3, 2025. Write “GM and OnStar; File No. 242 3052” on your comment. Your comment—including your name and your State—will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable, on the https://www.regulations.gov website.

Because of heightened security screening, postal mail addressed to the Commission will be subject to delay. We strongly encourage you to submit your comments online through the https://www.regulations.gov website. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, write “GM and OnStar; File No. 242 3052” on your comment and on the envelope, and send it via overnight service to: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Stop H-144 (Annex L), Washington, DC 20580.

Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible website at https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for making sure your comment does not include any sensitive or confidential information. In particular, your comment should not include sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else's Social Security number; date of birth; driver's license number or other State identification number, or foreign country equivalent; passport number; financial account number; or credit or debit card number. You are also solely responsible for making sure your comment does not include sensitive health information, such as medical records or other individually identifiable health information. In addition, your comment should not include any “trade secret or any commercial or financial information which . . . is privileged or confidential”—as provided by section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule § 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)—including competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.

Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled “Confidential,” and must comply with FTC Rule § 4.9(c). In particular, the written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request and must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule § 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has been posted on the https://www.regulations.gov website—as legally required by FTC Rule § 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or remove your comment from that website, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule § 4.9(c), and the General Counsel grants that request.

Visit the FTC website at https://www.ftc.gov to read this document and the news release describing the proposed settlement. The FTC Act and other laws the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding, as appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments it receives on or before March 3, 2025. For information on the Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.

The Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) has accepted, subject to final approval, an agreement containing a consent order from General Motors LLC, General Motors Holdings LLC, and OnStar, LLC (collectively “Respondents”). The proposed consent order (“Proposed Order”) has been placed on the public record for 30 days for receipt of public comments from interested persons. Comments received during this period will become part of the public record. After 30 days, the Commission will again review the agreement, along with the comments received, and will decide whether it should make the Proposed Order final or withdraw from the agreement and take appropriate action.

Respondent General Motors LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its principal office or place of business at 300 Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan 48243. General Motors LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Company, a Delaware corporation. Respondent General Motors Holdings LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its principal office or place of business at 300 Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan 48243. General Motors Holdings LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Company, a Delaware corporation. Respondent OnStar, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its principal office or place of business at 400 Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan. OnStar, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Company, a Delaware corporation 48243. Respondents manufacture and sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick brands (collectively, the “GM-branded” vehicles) in the United States. Respondents offer connected car services for GM-branded vehicles under the OnStar brand.

Respondents collect precise geolocation and driver behavior data from the GM-branded vehicles and then use and sell that data to third parties. Respondents do not obtain consumers' specific consent for using precise geolocation and driver behavior data and sell that same data to third parties, including consumer reporting agencies that compile consumer reports with the data for insurance purposes. As a result of these practices, consumers have experienced loss of auto insurance coverage, unexpected increases in insurance premiums, as well as the loss of privacy about sensitive locations they visit and their day-to-day movements.

The Commission's proposed a two-count complaint alleges that Respondents violated section 5(a) of the FTC Act by (1) unfairly using and disclosing precise geolocation and driver behavior data without taking reasonable steps to obtain consumers' affirmative express consent prior to collection, and (2) deceptively failing to disclose Respondents' uses and disclosure of that same data. With respect to the first count, the proposed complaint alleges that Respondents do not obtain affirmative express consent to sell consumers' precise geolocation and driver behavior data to third parties, including consumer reporting agencies. The proposed complaint alleges that this practice caused, or is likely to cause, substantial injury to consumers that is not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or competition and is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves. With respect to the second count, the proposed complaint alleges that Respondents' failure to disclose their actual use and sharing of drivers' precise geolocation and driver behavior data was deceptive; Respondents did not disclose to consumers that it would be sharing this data with third parties, including consumer reporting agencies for insurance purposes, which led to consumers being denied auto insurance coverage and having their auto insurance premiums increased.

The Proposed Order contains injunctive relief designed to prevent Respondents from engaging in the same or similar acts or practices in the future. Provision I prohibits Respondents for five years from sharing certain geolocation and driver behavior data with consumer reporting agencies. Provision II requires Respondents to obtain affirmative express consent prior to the collection, use, and sharing of certain geolocation and driver behavior data. This provision includes carve-outs for, among other things, responding to consumer-initiated communication, safety-enhancing research and development, diagnostics and prognostics, and providing necessary information in case of an emergency. Provision III requires that Respondents provide consumers the ability to withhold or withdraw affirmative express consent to the collection, use, and sharing of certain geolocation and driver behavior data. Provision IV limits Respondents' data collection to that which is reasonably necessary to fulfill the specific purpose for which it was collected.

Provision V requires Respondents to create a retention schedule for certain geolocation and driver behavior data they collect that is tied to the purpose for which the data is collected, the business need for retaining it, and the timeframe for deleting it. Provision VI requires Respondents to delete certain geolocation and driver behavior data previously collected without consumers' affirmative express consent. It also provides Respondents the opportunity to obtain consumers' affirmative express consent to retain previously collected geolocation and driver behavior data. This provision includes exceptions for safety, warranties, prognostics and diagnostics, legal or regulatory requirements, and research and development. Provision VII requires Respondents to provide all consumers the ability to request a copy of their geolocation and driver behavior data and to request that such data be deleted. Provision VIII requires Respondents to request third parties with whom it has previously shared certain geolocation and driver behavior data to delete that data and to not engage in further sharing with third parties that fail to respond to such requests. Provision IX requires Respondents to ensure consumers can disable collection of precise geolocation data from their vehicles. The provision includes exceptions for emergency response and responding to consumer-initiated requests. Provision X provides consumers the ability to fully opt out of collection of all data with narrow exclusions for consumer-initiated communication, safety, and over-the-air updates. This provision is unique to the Proposed Order. Provision XI prohibits Respondents from misrepresenting information regarding their collection, use, sharing, and deletion of consumers' geolocation and driver behavior data.

Provisions XII-XV are reporting and compliance provisions, which include recordkeeping requirements and provisions requiring Respondents to provide information or documents necessary for the Commission to monitor compliance. Provision XVI states that the Proposed Order will remain in effect for 20 years, with certain exceptions.

The purpose of this analysis is to facilitate public comment on the Proposed Order, and it is not intended to constitute an official interpretation of the complaint or Proposed Order, or to modify the Proposed Order's terms in any way.

Pursuant to section 6(g) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(g), and FTC Rule 2.51, 16 CFR 2.51, notice is hereby given that the above-captioned petition has been filed with the Secretary of the Commission and is being placed on the public record for a period of 30 days. After the period for public comments has expired and no later than one hundred and twenty (120) days after the date of the filing of the request, the Commission shall determine whether to reopen the proceeding and modify or set aside the Order as requested. In making its determination, the Commission will consider, among other information, all timely and responsive comments submitted in connection with this notice.

The text of petition is provided below. An electronic copy of the filed petition and the exhibits attached to it can be obtained from the FTC website at this web address: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/c4604enbridgepetitiontoreopenmodify.pdf.

You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or before March 3, 2025. Write “Enbridge Petition to Reopen; Docket No. C-4604” on your comment. Your comment—including your name and your State—will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable, on the www.regulations.gov website.

Because of the agency's heightened security screening, postal mail addressed to the Commission will be subject to delay. We strongly encourage you to submit your comments online through the www.regulations.gov website. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, write “Enbridge Petition to Reopen; Docket No. C-4604” on your comment and on the envelope, and mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Stop H-144 (Annex E), Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by overnight service.

Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible website at www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive or confidential information. In particular, your comment should not include any sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else's Social Security number; date of birth; driver's license number or other State identification number, or foreign country equivalent; passport number; financial account number; or credit or debit card number. You are also solely responsible for making sure your comment does not include any sensitive health information, such as medical records or other individually identifiable health information. In addition, your comment should not include any “trade secret or any commercial or financial information which . . . is privileged or confidential”—as provided by section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)—including in particular competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.

Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled “Confidential,” and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). In particular, the written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request and must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has been posted on www.regulations.gov —as legally required by FTC Rule 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or remove your comment from that website, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General Counsel grants that request.

Visit the FTC website at https://www.ftc.gov to read this document and the news release describing this matter. The FTC Act and other laws that the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding, as appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that it receives on or before March 3, 2025. For information on the Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 46, 5 U.S.C. 552.

Under section 5(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 14 U.S.C. 45(b), and § 2.51 of the Federal Trade Commission Rules of Practice, 16 CFR 2.51, Respondent Enbridge Inc. (“Enbridge”) respectfully requests that the Commission reopen and set aside the Commission's Decision and Order entered on March 22, 2017, in Docket No. C-4604 (the “Order”) because Enbridge no longer holds an indirect ownership interest in the Discovery Pipeline, which was the indirect ownership interest giving rise to the Order.

The Commission entered the Order to address the potential that the merger of Enbridge and Spectra Energy Corp. (“Spectra”) would reduce competition between two natural gas pipelines in deep offshore gas-producing regions in the Gulf of Mexico: (1) the Walker Ridge Pipeline, which Enbridge owned and operated through a wholly-owned subsidiary, and (2) the Discovery Pipeline. Williams Partners, LP (which is now Williams Companies, Inc. and is referred to in both organizational forms herein as “Williams”) had majority control of the Discovery Pipeline and was the operator; Spectra had an indirect, minority ownership interest through its interests in DCP Midstream, LLC (“DCP”). Among other things, the Order required Enbridge both (1) to prevent access to, or the disclosure or use of, competitively sensitive information that could facilitate coordination between the Walker Ridge Pipeline and the Discovery Pipeline and (2) to restrict its ability to exercise contractual rights that could diminish the Discovery Pipeline's ability to compete against the Walker Ridge Pipeline.

On August 1, 2024, Williams acquired the entirety of DCP's minority interest in the Discovery Pipeline, as reflected in the Assignment and Assumption Agreement between DCP Asset Holdings, LP, and Williams Field Services Group, LLC, attached hereto as Exhibit 1 (and for which confidential treatment is requested). See also Williams Companies Inc., Quarterly Report (Form 10Q), at 36 (Aug. 5, 2024), https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000107263/000010726324000077/wmb-20240630.htm. After the acquisition by Williams, Enbridge no longer has an interest in the Discovery Pipeline that would provide access to competitively sensitive information concerning the Discovery Pipeline, or an ability to influence decisions concerning the Discovery Pipeline. In light of these changed circumstances, Enbridge hereby petitions the Commission to reopen and set aside the Order.

On September 5, 2016, Enbridge and Spectra entered into a merger agreement. Commission staff raised concerns that the merger would violate section 7 of the Clayton Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. 18, and section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. 45. Specifically, Commission staff alleged that the merger was likely to reduce competition by facilitating coordination between the Walker Ridge Pipeline and the Discovery Pipeline. As a means of resolving those concerns, Enbridge and Spectra entered into a Consent Agreement in which they agreed to comply with a Decision and Order. The Commission approved the Decision and Order on March 22, 2017.

The Order imposes restrictions to ensure that competitively sensitive information related to Williams or the Discovery Pipeline is not made available to, or used by, Enbridge employees associated with the Walker Ridge Pipeline. Provision II.C restricts those Enbridge employees from influencing operational decisions pertaining to the Discovery Pipeline. Provision II.B of the Order also restricts the disclosure of competitively sensitive information concerning the Walker Ridge Pipeline to entities with an interest in the Discovery Pipeline.

Under Provision II.D of the Order, Enbridge is responsible for ensuring compliance with the terms of the Order, and is directed to distribute information and training regarding the Order on an annual basis. Additionally, a monitor was in place for five years following the closing of the merger.

Enbridge filed compliance reports with the Commission on March 29, 2017, May 23, 2017, February 15, 2018, February 14, 2019, February 10, 2020, February 11, 2021, February 8, 2022, February 16, 2023, and February 15, 2024. In accordance with its responsibilities under the Order, Enbridge put in place policies and procedures to ensure that those involved in the Discovery Pipeline, as well as employees and contractors who become involved in Enbridge's offshore operations, received training as part of a standardized onboarding process on the information restrictions put in place. Moreover, Enbridge circulated an annual training guidance to (i) its representatives involved in the oversight of the Discovery Pipeline as well as those assisting them in their duties, (ii) the entities through which Enbridge had indirect ownership of the Discovery Pipeline, and (iii) all employees and contractors involved in Enbridge's offshore operations. Since the entry of the Order, no remedial actions have been necessary to address breaches of the information restrictions imposed by the Commission.

On August 1, 2024, Williams acquired DCP's interest in Discovery Producer Services, LLC. The acquisition eliminated Enbridge's indirect interest in the Discovery Pipeline, and, as set forth in the declaration attached hereto as Exhibit 2, Enbridge has no current intention of acquiring any further interest in the Discovery Pipeline in the future, either directly or indirectly.

Section 5(b) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(b), and § 2.51(b) of the Commission's Rules of Practice, 16 CFR 2.51(b), provide that the Commission may reopen and modify an order if the respondent makes a satisfactory showing that changed conditions of fact or law require the order to be altered, modified, or set aside, or that the public interest so requires. The Commission has stated that a “satisfactory showing sufficient to require reopening is made when a request identified significant changes in circumstances and shows that the changes eliminate the need for the order or make continued application of it inequitable or harmful to competition.” Eli Lilly & Co., Dkt. No. C-3594, Order Reopening and Setting Aside Order, at 2 (May 13, 1999).

In cases such as this, where the Respondent has no ownership interest in the business covered by the Order, the Commission has recognized that “the factual premise underlying the concerns that led to entry of the Order” has substantially changed, and setting aside the Order is justified. Entergy Corp., Dkt. No. C-3998, Order Reopening and Setting Aside Order, at 3 (July 1, 2005); see also Johnson & Johnson, Dkt. No. C-4154, Order Reopening and Setting Aside Order (May 25, 2006), at 4 (finding that “there is no reason to keep the Order in place” where there is no longer any reason to be concerned about the potential harm to competition that formed the “basic premise of the Order”).

The elimination of Enbridge's indirect ownership interest in the Discovery Pipeline constitutes a changed condition of fact that justifies the Commission to set aside the Order. The Order was entered to ensure that, after its merger with Spectra, Enbridge's indirect interest in the Discovery Pipeline would not reduce competition between the Discovery Pipeline and the Walker Ridge Pipeline. Enbridge no longer has an interest in the Discovery Pipeline. Thus, the need for an Order to restrict the conduct of Enbridge and its employees is no longer necessary to ensure the independent operation of, and competition between, the Discovery Pipeline and the Walker Ridge Pipeline.

Because changed circumstances warrant reopening and setting aside the order here, it is not necessary for the Commission to consider whether setting aside the Order would serve the public interest. See Entergy Corp., Order Reopening and Setting Aside Order, at 3 (“[W]e do not need to assess the sufficiency of Entergy's and EKLP's public interest showing because the Commission has determined that Entergy and EKLP have made the requisite satisfactory showing that changed conditions of fact require the Order to be reopened and set aside.”). However, should the Commission deem it necessary to assess the public interest in setting aside the Order, it would be in the public interest.

Enbridge meets the public interest requirement of § 2.51(b) because, among other reasons, “the order in whole or in part is no longer needed.” Requests to Reopen, 65 FR 50,636, 50,637 (Aug. 21, 2000) (amending 16 CFR 2.51(b)). As a result of Williams's acquisition, Enbridge no longer has an interest in the Discovery Pipeline, and thus, the public interest is no longer served by the Order. At the same time, setting aside the Order would eliminate the unnecessary costs and burdens to Enbridge and the Commission during the remainder of the term of the Order.

Enbridge respectfully requests that the Commission reopen and set aside the Order. Setting aside the Order is justified by changed conditions of fact and is consistent with the public interest.

This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on November 26, 2024, at 89 FR 93350, allowing for a 60 day comment period. Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points:

Written comments and recommendations for this 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 information collection or the OMB Control Number 1117-0034. This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Justice, information collections currently under review by OMB.

DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than three (3) years without renewal. The DOJ notes that information collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.

1. Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently Approved Collection.

2. Title of the Form/Collection: The National Forensics Laboratory Information System Collection of Analysis Data.

3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: No Form number is associated with this collection. The applicable component within the Department of Justice is the Drug Enforcement Administration, Diversion Control Division.

4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract:

Affected public (Primary): Business or other for-profit.

Affected public (Other): Not-for-profit institutions; Federal, State, Local, and tribal governments.

Abstract: This collection provides the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with a national database on analyzed drug evidence from non-federal laboratories. Information from this database is combined with the other existing databases to develop more accurate, up-to-date information on abused drugs. This database represents a voluntary, cooperative effort on the part of participating laboratories to provide a centralized source of analyzed drug data.

5. Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.

6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,640.

7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.32003 hours.

8. Frequency: 2.2015 per year.

9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 1,860 hours. In the 60 Day notice, 4,860 hours is listed, which is incorrect. The correct number is 1,860 hours.

10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.

If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo, Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Justice Management Division, United States Department of Justice, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218 Washington, DC 20530.

The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on November 20, 2024, allowing a 60-day comment period. Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points:

Written comments and recommendations for this 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 information collection or the OMB Control Number 1125-0009. This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Justice, information collections currently under review by OMB.

DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than three (3) years without renewal. The DOJ notes that information collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.

1. Type of Information Collection: Renewal, with change, of a currently approved collection. EOIR is making a few non-substantive changes to the current Form EOIR-40, to include typographical and grammatical edits, adding appropriate spacing between words, and removing unnecessary spacing and symbols between words. EOIR is also making several minor but substantive changes to the current Form EOIR-40, to include removing the word “alien” from the document, and replacing it with the word “noncitizen”; clarifying the description of the dimension of an applicant's facial image for passport photographs; modifying the sentence explaining the purpose and instructions of this form; changing the word “home” phone number to “cell” phone number; and including a privacy act statement.

2. The Title of the Form/Collection: Application for Suspension of Deportation.

3. The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: The form number is EOIR-40; the sponsoring component is Executive Office for Immigration Review, United States Department of Justice.

4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as the obligation to respond: Primary: Individual noncitizens determined to be deportable from the United States. Other: None. Abstract: This information collection is necessary to determine the statutory eligibility of individual noncitizens, who have been determined to be deportable from the United States, for suspension of their deportation pursuant to former section 244 of the INA and 8 CFR 1240.55.

5. Obligation to Respond: The information requested on this form is authorized by 8 CFR 1240.55-.58 to adjudicate a noncitizen's request for suspension of deportation under Section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in effect prior to April 1, 1997. This is a mandatory collection of information because EOIR requires it to adjudicate the request for suspension of deportation. Failure to provide the requested information may affect the individual's ability to establish his/her eligibility for suspension of deportation and to determine his/her legal right to remain in the United States.

6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: It is estimated that 147 respondents will complete the form annually.

7. Estimated Time per Respondent: It is estimated that it will take an average of 5 hour and 45 minutes per response.

8. Frequency: It is estimated that respondents will complete the form annually.

9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: The estimated public burden associated with this collection is 845.25 hours.

10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: The estimated annual cost burden associated with this collection is $73,935.12.

If additional information is required contact: Darwin Arceo, Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC.

Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points:

1. Type of Information Collection: Extension of a currently approved collection.

2. The Title of the Form/Collection: Federal Coal Lease Form.

3. The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: The form numbers are ATR-139 and ATR-140. The applicable component within the Department of Justice is the Antitrust Division.

4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Business or other for profit. Other: None. The Department of Justice evaluates the competitive impact of issuances, transfers and exchanges of Federal coal leases. These forms seek information regarding a prospective coal lessee's existing coal reserves. The Department uses this information to determine whether the issuance, transfer or exchange of the Federal coal lease is consistent with the antitrust laws.

5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: It is estimated that 10 respondents will complete each form, with each response taking approximately two hours.

6. An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated with the collection: There are an estimated 20 annual burden hours associated with this collection, in total.

If additional information is required contact: Darwin Arceo, Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC 20530.

Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points:

Abstract: Under title 34, United States Code (U.S.C.) section 41303 and 28 U.S.C. 534, this collection requests demographics associated with the number of full and part-time law enforcement employees, both officers and civilians, from federal, state, county, city, university/college, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies in order for the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program to serve as the national clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of police employee data and to publish these statistics in Crime in the Nation and on the Crime Data Explorer.

1. Type of Information Collection: Extension of a currently approved collection.

2. The Title of the Form/Collection: Number of Law Enforcement Employees as of October 31.

3. The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: 1-77. FBI CJIS Division.

4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as the obligation to respond: Affected Public federal, state, county, city, university/college, tribal and territorial law enforcement agencies. The obligation to respond is voluntary.

5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: There are approximately 15,080 law enforcement agency respondents submitting once a year for a total of 15,080 responses with an estimated response time of eight minutes each.

6. An estimate of the total annual burden (in hours) associated with the collection: There are approximately 2,311 annual burden hours associated with this information collection. This total is comprised of 2,011 hours estimated burden for completion of the survey and an additional 300 hours for review and any potential expansion of participating agencies.

7. An estimate of the total annual cost burden associated with the collection, if applicable : $0.

If additional information is required contact: Darwin Arceo, Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC.

This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on November 26, 2024, at 89 FR 93348, allowing for a 60-day comment period. The 60-day notice was also mistitled as Revision without Change of a Previously Approved Collection. The correct title for the 60-Day notice is Extension without Change of a Previously Approved Collection. Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points:

Written comments and recommendations for this 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 information collection or the OMB Control Number 1117-0049. This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Justice, information collections currently under review by OMB.

DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than three (3) years without renewal. The DOJ notes that information collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.

1. Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently Approved Collection.

2. Title of the Form/Collection: Recordkeeping for Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances.

3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: No Form number is associated with this collection. The applicable component within the Department of Justice is the Drug Enforcement Administration, Diversion Control Division.

4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract:

Affected public (Primary): Business or other for-profit.

Affected public (Other): Not-for-profit institutions; Federal, State, Local, and tribal governments.

Abstract: DEA is requiring that each registered practitioner apply to an approved credential service provider approved to obtain identity proofing and a credential. Hospitals and other institutional practitioners may conduct this process in-house as part of their credentialing. For practitioners currently working at or affiliated with a registered hospital or clinic, the hospital/clinic have to check a government-issued photographic identification. This may be done when the hospital/clinic issues credentials to new hires or newly affiliated physicians. For individual practitioners, two people need to enter logical access control data to grant permissions for practitioners authorized to approve and sign controlled substance prescriptions using the electronic prescription application. For institutional practitioners, logical access control data is entered by two people from an entity within the hospital/clinic that is separate from the entity that conduct identity proofing in-house. Similarly, pharmacies have to set logical access controls in the pharmacy application so that only authorized employees have permission to annotate or alter prescription records. Finally, if the electronic prescription or pharmacy application generates an incident report, practitioners, hospitals/clinics, and pharmacies have to review the incident report to determine if the event identified by the application represents a security incident.

5. Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.

6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 158,884.

7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 1.043 hours.

8. Frequency: 1 per year.

9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 107,733 hours.

10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.

If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo, Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Justice Management Division, United States Department of Justice, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218 Washington, DC 20530.

This report can be found at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/paygo/.

Authority: 2 U.S.C. 934.

This Report is being published pursuant to section 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, Public Law 111-139, 124 Stat. 8, 2 U.S.C. 934, which requires that OMB issue an annual PAYGO report, including a sequestration order if necessary, no later than 14 working days after the end of a congressional session.

This Report describes the budgetary effects of all PAYGO legislation enacted during the second session of the 118th Congress and presents the 5-year and 10-year PAYGO scorecards maintained by OMB. 1 Because neither the 5-year nor 10-year scorecard shows a debit for the budget year, which for purposes of this Report is fiscal year 2025, 2 a sequestration order under subsection 5(b) of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 934(b) is not required.

The budget year balance on each of the PAYGO scorecards is zero because the American Relief Act, 2025 (Public Law 118-158) set the balances on both scorecards to zero for all years. The change directed by Public Law 118-158 is discussed in more detail in section IV of this report.

During the second session of the 118th Congress, no laws with PAYGO effects were enacted with emergency requirements under section 4(g) of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 933(g). Seven laws had estimated budgetary effects on direct spending and/or revenues that were excluded from the calculations of the PAYGO scorecards due to provisions excluding part of the law from section 4(d) of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 933(d).

PAYGO legislation is authorizing legislation that affects direct spending or revenues, and appropriations legislation that affects direct spending in the years after the budget year or affects revenues in any year. 3 For a more complete description of the PAYGO Act, see Chapter 4, “Budget Process,” of the Analytical Perspectives volume of the 2025 President's Budget, found on the website of the U.S. Government Printing Office ( https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/budget/2025/BUDGET-2025-PER ).

The PAYGO Act's requirement of deficit neutrality is based on two scorecards that tally the cumulative budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation as averaged over rolling 5- and 10-year periods starting with the budget year. The 5-year and 10-year PAYGO scorecards for each congressional session begin with the balances of costs or savings carried over from previous sessions and then tally the costs or savings of PAYGO laws enacted in the most recent session.

The 5-year PAYGO scorecard for the second session of the 118th Congress began with balances of $1,697,668 million in 2025, $441,949 million in 2026, $71,317 million in 2027, and −$1,188 million in 2028. The 10-year PAYGO scorecard for the second session of the 118th Congress began with balances of $913,423 million in 2025, $241,837 million per year for 2026-3031, $54,818 million in 2032, and −$891 million for 2033.

Laws enacted during the second session of the 118th Congress created balances on the 5- and 10-year scorecards of −$230 million and −$275 million in each year, respectively. Public Law 118-158 set the balances in all years of both scorecards to zero at the end of the second session of the 118th Congress.

In the second session of the 118th Congress, 46 laws were enacted that were determined to constitute PAYGO legislation. Of the 46 enacted PAYGO laws, 14 laws were estimated to have PAYGO budgetary effects (costs or savings) in excess of $500,000 over one or both of the 5-year or 10-year PAYGO windows.

These were:

• Public Law 118-38, Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2023;

• Public Law 118-44, Disaster Assistance Deadlines Alignment Act;

• Public Law 118-47, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024;

• Public Law 118-50, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes;

• Public Law 118-63, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024;

• Public Law 118-124, Fiscal Year 2024 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act;

• Public Law 118-146, VSO Equal Tax Treatment Act;

• Public Law 118-148, Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2023;

• Public Law 118-159, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025;

• Public Law 118-164, Mountain View Corridor Completion Act;

• Public Law 118-183, Colorado River Salinity Control Fix Act;

• Public Law 118-185, Swanson and Hugh Butler Reservoirs Land Conveyances Act;

• Public Law 118-203, Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024; and

• Public Law 118-210, Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act.

In addition to the laws identified above, 32 laws enacted in this session were estimated to have negligible budgetary effects on the PAYGO scorecards—costs or savings of less than $500,000 over both the 5-year and 10-year PAYGO windows.

No laws were enacted in the second session of the 118th Congress with an emergency designation under the PAYGO Act.

Seven laws enacted in the second session of the 118th Congress had estimated budgetary effects on direct spending and revenues that were excluded from the calculations for the PAYGO scorecards due to provisions in law excluding part of the law from section 4(d) of the PAYGO Act.

Budgetary effects in seven laws were excluded from the scorecards:

• Public Law 118-35, Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024;

• Public Law 118-40, Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2024;

• Public Law 118-42, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024;

• Public Law 118-47, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024;

• Public Law 118-50, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes;

• Public Law 118-83, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025; and

• Public Law 118-158, American Relief Act, 2025.

Additionally, Division A of Public Law 118-47 included a rescission of $20.2 billion of funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) enforcement and compliance activities, which is estimated to result in decreases to revenue collections. This decrease in revenues is excluded from the PAYGO estimate by scoring rules established under the requirements of Section 252(d)(5) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

Section 21306(4) of Division B of Public Law 118-158, the American Relief Act, 2025, states, “Effective on the date of the adjournment of the second session of the 118th Congress, and for the purposes of the annual report issued pursuant to section 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 934) after such adjournment and for determining whether a sequestration order is necessary under such section, the balances on the PAYGO scorecards established pursuant to paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 4(d) of such Act shall be zero.” Accordingly, all years on both the 5- and 10-year scorecards are zero.

As shown on the scorecards, the budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation enacted in the second session of the 118th Congress, combined with section 21306(4) of Division B of Public Law 118-158, resulted in no costs on either the 5-year or the 10-year scorecard in the budget year, which is 2025 for the purposes of this Report. Because the costs for the budget year, as shown on the scorecards, were set to zero for the budget year, there is no “debit” on either scorecard under section 3 of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 932, and a sequestration order is not required. 4

Pursuant to 39 CFR 3041.405, the Commission gives notice that the Postal Service filed request(s) for the Commission to consider matters related to Competitive negotiated service agreement(s). The request(s) may propose the addition of a negotiated service agreement from the Competitive product list or the modification of an existing product currently appearing on the Competitive product list.

The public portions of the Postal Service's request(s) can be accessed via the Commission's website ( http://www.prc.gov ). Non-public portions of the Postal Service's request(s), if any, can be accessed through compliance with the requirements of 39 CFR 3011.301. 1

Section II identifies the docket number(s) associated with each Postal Service request, if any, that will be reviewed in a public proceeding as defined by 39 CFR 3010.101(p), the title of each such request, the request's acceptance date, and the authority cited by the Postal Service for each request. For each such request, the Commission appoints an officer of the Commission to represent the interests of the general public in the proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 and 39 CFR 3000.114 (Public Representative). Section II also establishes comment deadline(s) pertaining to each such request.

The Commission invites comments on whether the Postal Service's request(s) identified in Section II, if any, are consistent with the policies of title 39. Applicable statutory and regulatory requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633, 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and 39 CFR part 3041. Comment deadline(s) for each such request, if any, appear in Section II.

Section III identifies the docket number(s) associated with each Postal Service request, if any, to add a standardized distinct product to the Competitive product list or to amend a standardized distinct product, the title of each such request, the request's acceptance date, and the authority cited by the Postal Service for each request. Standardized distinct products are negotiated service agreements that are variations of one or more Competitive products, and for which financial models, minimum rates, and classification criteria have undergone advance Commission review. See 39 CFR 3041.110(n); 39 CFR 3041.205(a). Such requests are reviewed in summary proceedings pursuant to 39 CFR 3041.325(c)(2) and 39 CFR 3041.505(f)(1). Pursuant to 39 CFR 3041.405(c)-(d), the Commission does not appoint a Public Representative or request public comment in proceedings to review such requests.

1. Docket No(s).: K2025-123; Filing Title: USPS Request Concerning Amendment One to Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 508, with Materials Filed Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: January 24, 2025; Filing Authority: 39 CFR 3041.505, 39 CFR 3035.105, and 39 CFR 3041.310; Public Representative: Jennaca Upperman; Comments Due: February 3, 2025.

2. Docket No(s).: MC2025-1155 and K2025-1155; Filing Title: USPS Request to Add Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage & Parcel Select Contract 8 to the Competitive Product List and Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: January 24, 2025; Filing Authority: 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 3035.105, and 39 CFR 3041.310; Public Representative: Jennaca Upperman; Comments Due: February 3, 2025.

3. Docket No(s).: MC2025-1156 and K2025-1156; Filing Title: USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 604 to the Competitive Product List and Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: January 24, 2025; Filing Authority: 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 3035.105, and 39 CFR 3041.310; Public Representative: Maxine Bradley; Comments Due: February 3, 2025.

None. See Section II for public proceedings.

This Notice will be published in the Federal Register .

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 13, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 598 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1147, K2025-1147.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 23, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 601 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1151, K2025-1151.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 23, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 1318 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1145, K2025-1145.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 24, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage® & Parcel Select Contract 8 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1155, K2025-1155.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 24, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 604 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1156, K2025-1156.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 22, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 599 to Competitive Product List . Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1149, K2025-1149.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 21, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 1319 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1146, K2025-1146.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 22, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 600 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1150, K2025-1150.

In the Federal Register of January 24, 2025, in FR Doc. 2025-01748, on page 8165, in the third column, correct the “Matters to be Considered” caption to read:

1. Strategic Matters.

2. Financial and Operational Matters.

3. Compensation and Personnel Matters.

4. Administrative Items.

1. Remarks of the Chairman of the Board of Governors.

2. Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO.

3. Approval of the Minutes.

4. Committee Reports.

5. Quarterly Financial Report.

6. Quarterly Service Performance Report.

7. Approval of Tentative Agenda for the May 8, 2025 Meeting.

8. Adjournment

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 22, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 1320 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1148, K2025-1148.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 23, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 603 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-XXXX, K2025-XXXX.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 23, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 602 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1153, K2025-1153.

The United States Postal Service® hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 23, 2025, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS Request to Add Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 1321 to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025-1152, K2025-1152.

Sec. 4314(c) (1) through (5) of title 5, U.S.C., requires each agency to establish, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management, one or more performance review boards. The board shall review and evaluate the initial appraisal of a senior executive's performance by the supervisor, along with any recommendations to the appointing authority relative to the performance of the senior executive. President's Memorandum on Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives, dated January 20, 2025, directs Agency heads to rescind their Performance Review Board and re-constitute membership with individuals committed to full enforcement of SES performance evaluations that promote and assure an SES of the highest caliber. The SSS PRB will be established at a later date once the Agency's appointees are in place.