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that they may voluntarily submit credit
card price and availability data through
the CFPB’s Terms of Credit Card Plans
(TCCP) Survey.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sarah Schwartzberg, Office of Markets,
at 202–435–7000 or CFPB_collect_
support@cfpb.gov. If you require this
document in an alternative electronic
format, please contact CFPB_
Accessibility@cfpb.gov.
When
shopping online or in a brick-andmortar store, people like to weigh the
costs and benefits of different products
before they make a purchase, but this
can be a challenge for consumers
seeking to compare interest rates across
credit cards.1 The lack of transparency
in credit card terms and conditions is
not new. In 1988, Congress passed the
Fair Credit and Charge Card Disclosure
Act to provide for a more detailed and
uniform disclosure of credit card rates
and fees by issuers.
Twice per year, at least 150 credit
card issuers submit information to the
CFPB on their largest credit card plans,
including interest rates and fees,
through our TCCP Survey.2 This notice
is part of our efforts to invite a broader
range of credit card issuers to contribute
information on their credit card
offerings to this data set. Our goal is to
spur competition and give Americans
the power to shop around and choose
the best credit card for their needs. This
open call is just one step in our plan to
update the TCCP Survey to make it a
more useful resource on credit card
price and availability for consumers.
Credit card issuers are invited to
voluntarily contribute credit card price
and availability data. Get started now:
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/dataresearch/credit-card-data/terms-creditcard-plans-survey/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Rohit Chopra,
Director, Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2024–31229 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am]

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1 Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau, Examining the
factors driving high credit card interest rates (Aug.
12, 2022), https://www.consumerfinance.gov/aboutus/blog/examining-the-factors-driving-high-creditcard-interest-rates/.
2 Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau, Terms of Credit
Card Plans (TCCP) survey, https://www.consumer
finance.gov/data-research/credit-card-data/termscredit-card-plans-survey/.

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request;
AmeriCorps Member Application,
Enrollment, and Exit Forms
Corporation for National and
Community Service.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Corporation for National and
Community Service, operating as
AmeriCorps (AmeriCorps) is proposing
to revise the information collection for
its application, enrollment, and exit
forms. The revisions add an option for
members to share their information with
other entities for additional service
opportunities.

SUMMARY:

Written comments must be
submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by
February 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by the title of the information
collection activity, by any of the
following methods:
(1) Electronically through
www.regulations.gov (preferred
method).
(2) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps,
Attention: Sharron Tendai, 250 E Street
SW, Washington, DC 20525.
(3) By hand delivery or by courier to
the AmeriCorps mailroom at the mail
address given in paragraph (1) above,
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through regulations.gov. For this
reason, please do not include in your
comments information of a confidential
nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information.
If you send an email comment, your
email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comment that
may be made available to the public,
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Borgstrom 202–422–2781or by
email at aborgstrom@americorps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:

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Title of Collection: Enrollment, Exit,
and Member Application Form.
OMB Control Number: 3054–0054.
Type of Review: Revision.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 225,000.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 168,750.
Abstract: This collection of
information includes AmeriCorps’
member application, enrollment, and
exit forms. The application form is used
by applicants interested in serving as
AmeriCorps members. The enrollment
form is used by AmeriCorps members to
enroll in the National Service Trust to
earn Eli Segal Education Awards. The
exit form is used to document the
completion of a member’s term of
service with AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps
seeks to revise the exit form to add
options for granting AmeriCorps
permission to share the outgoing
member’s name and email address with
other Federal partners to help the
outgoing member stay engaged in
service. AmeriCorps also seeks to
continue using the currently approved
information collection until the revised
information collection is approved by
OMB. The currently approved
information collection is due to expire
on April 30, 2025.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train

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personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. All written comments will
be available for public inspection on
regulations.gov.
Carly Bruder,
Acting Chief Program Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024–31193 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am]
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COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY
Emergencies and the National
Environmental Policy Act Guidance
Council on Environmental
Quality.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

On December 18, 2024, the
Council on Environmental Quality
(CEQ) issued guidance in a
memorandum to the heads of Federal
departments and agencies (agencies) to
assist agencies with compliance with
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) during emergencies. The CEQ
regulations implementing NEPA
provide for alternative arrangements
during emergencies when an agency’s
action is likely to have significant
effects and would require preparation of
an environmental impact statement.
This guidance also addresses
compliance with NEPA when the action
is unlikely to have significant effects
and might require preparation of an
environmental assessment or
application of a categorical exclusion.
DATES: This guidance was issued on
December 18, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jomar Maldonado, Director for NEPA,
202–395–5750,
Jomar.MaldonadoVazquez@ceq.eop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

Memorandum for Heads of Federal
Departments and Agencies
FROM: Brenda Mallory, Chair
SUBJECT: Emergencies and the National
Environmental Policy Act Guidance
This guidance 1 updates and replaces
previous guidance from the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) on the
environmental review of proposed
1 The contents of this guidance do not have the
force and effect of law and are not meant to bind
the public in any way. This guidance does not
establish new requirements. This memorandum is
intended only to provide clarity to the public
regarding existing requirements under the law or
agency policies.

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emergency response actions under the
National Environmental Policy Act, 42
U.S.C. 4321–4347 (NEPA).2 Federal
departments and agencies (agencies)
should distribute this guidance as part
of their general guidance on emergency
actions to agency offices that are or may
become involved in developing and
taking actions in response to
emergencies.
As agencies respond to situations
involving immediate threats to human
health or safety, or immediate threats to
valuable natural resources, they must
consider whether there is sufficient time
to follow the procedures for
environmental review established in
CEQ’s National Environmental Policy
Act Implementing Regulations, 40 CFR
parts 1500 through1508 (CEQ NEPA
regulations),3 and their agency NEPA
procedures.
CEQ established the regulation
addressing alternative arrangements in
emergency circumstances in 1978 4 and
amended it in 2020 and 2024 5 to clarify
that it provides for alternative
arrangements for agencies to comply
with section 102(2)(C) of NEPA (42
U.S.C. 4332(C)). See 40 CFR1506.11.
Alternative arrangements do not waive
the requirement to comply with NEPA.
Rather, they establish an alternative
means for NEPA compliance. CEQ has
approved, and agencies have applied
successfully, numerous alternative
arrangements to allow a wide range of
proposed actions in emergency
circumstances including natural
disasters, catastrophic wildfires, threats
to species and their habitat, economic
crises, infectious disease outbreaks,
potential dam failures, and insect
infestations.6
This guidance includes two
attachments with step-by-step guides to
help agencies when planning for and
responding to emergencies. Attachment
1 provides agencies with a process for
determining the appropriate path
forward for the NEPA environmental
review of all actions proposed in
response to an emergency situation and
what steps to take depending on the
appropriate level of NEPA review.
Attachment 2 provides guidance for
preparing a concise and focused EA for
emergency actions.
2 This guidance replaces guidance issued by CEQ
on September 14, 2020 (85 FR 60137 (Sept. 29,
2020)), September 29, 2016, May 12, 2010, and
September 8, 2005. CEQ rescinds the prior
guidance.
3 See https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/
chapter-V/subchapter-A.
4 43 FR 55977 (Nov. 29, 1978).
5 85 FR 43304 (July 16, 2020); 89 FR 35442 (May
1, 2024).
6 A synopsis of previous alternative arrangements
is available at www.NEPA.gov.

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Environmental Impact Statements
The CEQ regulations, at 40 CFR
1506.11, provide for alternative
arrangements for NEPA compliance in
emergency situations when the agency
proposal has the potential for significant
environmental effects and would
require an environmental impact
statement (EIS) if the situation were not
an emergency:
Where emergency circumstances
make it necessary to take an action with
significant effects without observing the
provisions of the regulations in [40 CFR
parts 1500 through 1508], the Federal
agency taking the action shall consult
with the Council about alternative
arrangements for compliance with
section 102(2)(C) of NEPA. Agencies
and the Council shall limit such
arrangements to actions necessary to
control the immediate impacts of the
emergency; other actions remain subject
to NEPA review consistent with [40 CFR
parts 1500 through 1508]. Alternative
arrangements do not waive the
requirement to comply with the statute,
but establish an alternative means for
NEPA compliance.
Agencies develop these alternative
arrangements, based on emergencyspecific facts and circumstances, during
consultation with CEQ. The alternative
arrangements developed by an agency
address the actions necessary to control
the immediate impacts of an emergency.
The long-term response to the
emergency, including recovery actions,
remains subject to the regular NEPA
process set forth in the statute and the
CEQ NEPA regulations.
Here again, alternative arrangements
do not waive the requirement to comply
with the statute, but establish an
alternative means for NEPA compliance
from the process set forth in the CEQ
NEPA regulations. Alternative
arrangements for NEPA compliance do
not satisfy or alter other legal
requirements, including other
environmental legal requirements
(except as provided by other applicable
statutes or regulations); however,
engaging other resource and regulatory
agencies about other environmental
requirements during development and
implementation of alternative
arrangements for NEPA compliance can
potentially facilitate meeting other
environmental compliance
requirements. Final agency action taken
pursuant to alternative arrangements for
compliance with NEPA under 40 CFR
1506.11 may be subject to judicial
review if a statute, such as the
Administrative Procedure Act, provides
for such review.

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