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22809). After receiving DOT
certification, the laboratory will be
included in the monthly list of HHScertified laboratories and participate in
the NLCP certification maintenance
program.
Charles LoDico,
Chemist.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Delay of Effective Date for the
Automated Commercial Environment
(ACE) Becoming the Sole CBPAuthorized Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) System for
Processing Electronic Drawback and
Duty Deferral Entry and Entry
Summary Filings
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Delay of effective date.
AGENCY:

On August 30, 2016, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
published a notice in the Federal
Register announcing plans to make the
Automated Commercial Environment
(ACE) the sole electronic data
interchange (EDI) system authorized by
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) for processing
electronic drawback and duty deferral
entry and entry summary filings. The
changes announced in that notice were
to have been effective on October 1,
2016. This notice announces that the
effective date for the transition to ACE
as the sole CBP-authorized EDI system
for electronic drawback and duty
deferral entry and entry summary filings
is delayed until further notice.
DATES: The effective date is delayed
until further notice: CBP will publish a
subsequent notice announcing the
effective date when ACE will be the sole
CBP-authorized EDI system for
processing electronic drawback and
duty deferral entry and entry summary
filings, and ACS will no longer be a
CBP-authorized EDI system for purposes
of processing these filings.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions related to this notice may be
emailed to ASKACE@cbp.dhs.gov with
the subject line identifier reading ‘‘ACS
to ACE Drawback and Duty Deferral
Entry and Entry Summary Filings
transition’’.

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On August
30, 2016, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) published a notice in
the Federal Register (81 FR 59644)
announcing plans to make the
Automated Commercial Environment
(ACE) the sole electronic data
interchange (EDI) system authorized by
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) for processing
electronic drawback and duty deferral
entry and entry summary filings,
effective on October 1, 2016. The
document also announced that, on
October 1, 2016, the Automated
Commercial System (ACS) would no
longer be a CBP-authorized EDI system
for purposes of processing these
electronic filings. Finally, the notice
announced a name change for the ACE
filing code for duty deferral and the
creation of a new ACE filing code for all
electronic drawback filings, replacing
the six distinct drawback codes
previously filed in ACS.
CBP has been assessing stakeholder
readiness for the mandatory transition
of post-release capabilities in ACE,
including the transition of electronic
drawback and duty deferral entry and
entry summary filings from ACS to ACE.
CBP has determined that industry
partners need additional time to prepare
for the transition to electronic postrelease capabilities in ACE.
Accordingly, the effective date for all
that was announced in the August 30,
2016 Federal Register notice, including
the transition to ACE as the sole CBPauthorized EDI system for electronic
drawback and duty deferral entry and
entry summary filings, is delayed until
further notice. CBP will publish a
subsequent notice announcing the
effective date.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dated: September 28, 2016.
Kevin K. McAleenan,
Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2016–0017; OMB No.
1660–0022]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request;
Community Rating System (CRS)
Program—Application Worksheets and
Commentary
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) will
submit the information collection
abstracted below to the Office of
Management and Budget for review and
clearance in accordance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The submission
will describe the nature of the
information collection, the categories of
respondents, the estimated burden (i.e.,
the time, effort and resources used by
respondents to respond) and cost, and
the actual data collection instruments
FEMA will use.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before November 2, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget. Comments
should be addressed to the Desk Officer
for the Department of Homeland
Security, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, and sent via
electronic mail to oira.submission@
omb.eop.gov.
SUMMARY:

Bill
Lesser, Program Specialist, Federal
Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, (202) 646–2807. You
may contact the Records Management
Division for copies of the proposed
collection of information at email
address: FEMA-Information-CollectionsManagement@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposed information collection
previously published in the Federal
Register on July 14, 2016, at 81 FR
45517, with a 60 day public comment
period. No comments were received.
The purpose of this notice is to notify
the public that FEMA will submit the
information collection abstracted below
to the Office of Management and Budget
for review and clearance.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Collection of Information
Title: Community Rating System
(CRS) Program—Application
Worksheets and Commentary.
Type of Information Collection:
Extension, without change, of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0022.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 086–0–35,
Community Rating System Application
Letter and Quick Check; FEMA Form
086–0–35A, Community Annual
Recertifications, and FEMA Form 086–
0–35B, Environmental and Historic
Preservation Certifications.
Abstract: The CRS Application Letter
& Quick Check, the CRS certification
forms, and accompanying guidance are
used by communities that participate in
the National Flood Insurance Program’s
(NFIP) Community Rating System
(CRS). The CRS is a voluntary program
where flood insurance costs are reduced
in communities that implement
practices, such as building codes and
public awareness activities, which are
considered to reduce the risks of
flooding and promote the purchase of
flood insurance.
Affected Public: State, local, or Tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 1,579.
Number of Responses: 1,579.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 41,936 hours.
Estimated Cost: The estimated annual
cost to respondents for the hour burden
is $2,442,795.30. There are no annual
costs to respondents’ operations and
maintenance costs for technical
services. There are no annual start-up or
capital costs. The cost to the Federal
Government is $5,425,600.00.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as
indicated in the ADDRESSES caption
above. Comments are solicited to (a)
evaluate whether the proposed data
collection is necessary for the proper
performance of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) evaluate 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) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
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Dated: September 22, 2016.
Richard W. Mattison,
Records Management Program Chief, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2016–23820 Filed 9–30–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Request To Submit Invoices for OverAge Firm-Fixed-Price Contracts
Office of the Chief Procurement
Officer, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) currently has contracts
that are considered over-age, as the
period of performance or final delivery
date of these actions has expired and the
time allowed for contract file closeout
has elapsed. To clear the backlog of
over-age contracts, DHS developed
procedures that would enable the
Agency to closeout these elapsed
actions in an efficient and cost effective
manner. These procedures required the
Agency to identify those expired
contracts that could more easily be
closed-out based on certain criteria that
would deem them low-risk, such as
firm-fixed-price contracts containing no
outstanding issues and no invoice or
payment activity within the past year.
These contracts are listed at https://
dhs.gov/publication/low-risk-closeout.
To facilitate the closeout of these
actions, DHS requests that contractors
with contracts identified on this list
submit any outstanding invoices to the
cognizant DHS Component contracting
activities within 60 days after the
publication of this notice.
DATES: For the contract actions listed at
https://dhs.gov/publication/low-riskcloseout, submit all outstanding
invoices to the cognizant DHS
Component contracting activities on or
before December 2, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Go to https://dhs.gov/
publication/low-risk-closeout for
guidance on where to submit invoices.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric
Cho, Office of the Chief Procurement
Officer, Department of Homeland
Security, 245 Murray Lane SW.,
Building 410, Washington, DC 20528,
telephone: 202–447–0271; email:
Eric.Cho@hq.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DHS’s
contract closeout backlog not only poses
a significant burden to various
acquisition and financial systems, but it
also impedes DHS’s on-going efforts to
strengthen and modernize its financial
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management practices. The procedures
DHS developed to significantly reduce
the number of expired contracts with
unliquidated funds will enable DHS to
expeditiously close these actions. DHS
developed the procedures using riskbased management principles by first
identifying and classifying open,
expired contracts as low-risk based on
the following criteria: (i) The contract is
firm-fixed-price; (ii) the contract expired
and the additional time allowed for
contract file closeout under Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 4.804–1(a)
has elapsed; and (iii) the contract had
no invoice or payment activity within
the past 12 months.
Notwithstanding DHS’s intention to
expeditiously closeout the actions
identified at the aforementioned list,
contractors’ rights are protected under
41 U.S.C. chapter 71 Contract Disputes
(commonly known as the Contract
Disputes Act of 1978), which establishes
procedures for filing claims against
Federal Government contracts. Normal
contract file retention requirements will
apply after closeouts (See FAR 4.805,
Storage, handling, and disposal of
contract files.) This notice will also be
published to FedBizOpps.
Dated: September 8, 2016.
Soraya Correa,
Chief Procurement Officer.
Chip Fulghum,
Deputy Under Secretary for Management and
Chief Financial Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–22118 Filed 9–30–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5913–N–28]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Utility Allowance
Adjustments for Rental Assistance
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 60 days of public
comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: December
2, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
SUMMARY:

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