March 17, 2016 (Volume 81)

Federal Register March 17, 2016

View all documents issued on March 17, 2016. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

113 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 17, 2016

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Section 6025 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill) provides the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to give priority to projects that support strategic economic development or community development plans. The Agency has the authority to...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Air Quality Task Force (AAQTF) will meet for discussions on critical air quality issues relating to agriculture. Special emphasis will be placed on obtaining a greater understanding about the rel...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Hiawatha East Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Kincheloe, Michigan. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Commi...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Hiawatha East Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Kincheloe, Michigan. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Commi...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Requests for Applications:

Title Type Published
This notice is to invite applications for grants to provide technical assistance for rural transportation (RT) systems under the Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) program for fiscal year (FY) 2016. Funding shall be made available to qualified n...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This notice is to invite applications for loans and grants under the Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant (REDLG) programs for fiscal year (FY) 2016. Funding to support up to $37 million in loans and $11 million in grants is currently available....
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections,...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Department of Commerce ("Department") hereby publishes a list of scope rulings and anticircumvention determinations made between July 1, 2015, and September 30, 2015, inclusive. We intend to publish future lists after the close of the next calend...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) Tilefish Advisory Panel will hold a public meeting.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will convene a meeting of a multistakeholder process concerning privacy, transparency, and accountability issues regarding commercial and private use of unmanned aircraft systems o...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will convene a meeting of a privacy multistakeholder process concerning the commercial use of facial recognition technology on March 29, 2016.
Notice Mar 17, 2016

New England Fishery Management Council:

Title Type Published
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Whiting Committee on April 5, 2016, to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group w...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated July 21, 1996.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Office of Inspector General proposes to alter a system of records, CIG-16, Defense Case Activity Tracking System (D-CATS) to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. The OIG is statutorily directed...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Charter Renewals:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce that it is renewing the charter for the Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing ("the Committee").
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an existing information collection.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Secretary issues guidelines for States related to requirements under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). These guidelines address ways in which a State may (1) assi...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 17, 2016
Petitions for Declaratory Orders
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Energy Conservation Program for Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to amend the test procedure and applicable definitions for commercial packaged boilers, as well as modify the sampling plans for commercial packaged boilers in its regulations pertaining to energy efficien...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016

Energy Conservation Program:

Title Type Published
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended, prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including general service lamps (GSLs). EPCA also requires the...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to establish test procedures for certain categories of general service lamps (GSLs) to support the ongoing energy conservation standards rulemaking. Specifically, this rulemaking proposes new test procedur...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

License Transfer Applications:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule in the Federal Register of October 15, 2015, issuing critical use allowances for 2016 and making non-substantive corrections to the quarantine and preshipment recordkeeping and reportin...
Rule Mar 17, 2016
EPA is announcing its receipt of test data submitted pursuant to a test rule issued by EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). As required by TSCA, this document identifies each chemical substance and/or mixture for which test data have be...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "NSPS for Hospital/Medical/ Infectious Waste Incinerators (40 CFR part 60, subpart Ec) (Renewal)" (EPA ICR No. 1730.10, OMB Control No. 2060-0363) to the Offic...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
Due to an adverse comment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing the direct final rule to approve a state implementation plan revision submitted by the State of Iowa pertaining to the "Polk County Board of Health Rules and Regulati...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Requests for Applications:

Title Type Published
The Safer Choice Program reduces pollution and potential risk at its source by setting criteria that product manufacturers must meet to qualify to use the Safer Choice label. The Safer Choice label helps consumers, businesses, and purchasers find pro...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Defense and National Security:

Title Type Published
Revocation of Executive Order 13584 and Establishment of an Integrated Global Engagement Center and (EO 13721)
Presidential Document Mar 17, 2016

Trade:

Title Type Published
African Growth and Opportunity Act; Beneficiary Country Designations and Modifications (Proc. 9406)
Presidential Document Mar 17, 2016

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other feder...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
On June 15, 1984, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delegated to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) its approval authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), to approve of and assign OMB numbers to collection o...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Mar 17, 2016
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Savings and Loan Holding Companies
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Government Accountability Office logo Government Accountability Office

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Comptroller General's Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 17, 2016
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Off...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comm...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Electronic Study Data Submission; Data Standards:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA or Agency) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) are announcing the end of support for Version 1.0 of Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consort...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Requests for Comments:

Title Type Published
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is requesting public comment on the role of past, present, and future national bioethics bodies, such as this one, in the United States and elsewhere.
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the establishment of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030 (Committee) and invites nominations for membership.
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
New or modified Base (1-percent annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, and/or regulatory floodways (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard determinations) as shown...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This notice lists communities where the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
New or modified Base (1-percent annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, and/or regulatory floodways (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard determinations) as shown...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This rule identifies communities where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with th...
Rule Mar 17, 2016
This rule identifies communities where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with th...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0040, abstracted below to OMB for review and approval of an...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), OMB control number 1652-0035, abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval of...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on a revision of a currently approved infor...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites public comment on a new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval in compliance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), OMB control number 1652-0032, abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval of...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Commercial Gaugers and Laboratories; Accreditations and Approvals:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Altol Chemical and Environmental Laboratory, Inc., has been approved to gauge and accredited to test petroleum and petroleum products for customs purposes for the next three years as of July 2...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Chemical and Petrochemical Inspections has been approved to gauge petroleum and certain petroleum products and accredited to test petroleum and certain petroleum products for customs purposes...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Board of Visitors for the National Fire Academy (Board) will meet via teleconference on April 7, 2016. The meeting will be open to the public.
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Privacy Act; Systems of Records:

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to exempt portions of newly established system of records titled, "Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, DHS/CBP-001, Import Info...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
Section 106 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly Federal Register notices of all regulatory waivers that HUD has approved. Each notice covers the quarterly period...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. HUD is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal. The Rent...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public that the Assistant Secretary-- Indian Affairs proclaimed approximately 2.00 acres, more or less, an addition to the reservation of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota on March 11, 2016.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This notice informs the public that the Assistant Secretary-- Indian Affairs proclaimed approximately 24.69 acres, more or less, an addition to the reservation of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota on March 11, 2016.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This notice informs the public that the Assistant Secretary-- Indian Affairs proclaimed approximately 20.00 acres, more or less, an addition to the reservation of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota on March 11, 2016.
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM), Las Cruces District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet as indicated below.
Notice Mar 17, 2016

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Changes under National Cooperative Research and Production Act:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (Department), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on propos...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
This document provides the final text of regulations governing the employee protection (whistleblower) provisions of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, Section 1057 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 17, 2016

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the following information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. This is the second notice for public comment; the first...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning the addition of First-Class Package Service Contract 45 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other admini...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning the addition of Priority Mail Contract 196 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative step...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is approving a proposed rule change filed by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation ("SIPC"). The rule change adds SIPC Rule 600, entitled "Rules Relating to Supplemental Report of SIPC Me...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
NASDAQ BX, Inc.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NASDAQ PHLX, LLC
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
NYSE MKT, LLC
Notice Mar 17, 2016

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Private International Law
Notice Mar 17, 2016
International Telecommunication Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 17, 2016
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), PHMSA is publishing the following list of special permit applications that have been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the expected completion date for action on eac...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The DOT has extended the contracting initiative pilot program for a period of 1 year until March 6, 2017.
Notice Mar 17, 2016
FRA recently completed its investigation into a fatal accident that occurred when an on-track roadway maintenance machine traveling on main track collided with a motor vehicle at a highway-rail grade crossing. FRA is issuing this Safety Advisory 2016...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given of the actions on spec...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Mar 17, 2016
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) and the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) of Canada, under international agreement, jointly publish and presently administer the St. Lawrence Seaway Tariff of Tolls in their r...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2003-25- 07 for certain Airbus Model A319 and A320 series airplanes; and AD 2005-13-39 for certain Airbus Model A321 series airplanes. AD 2003-25- 07 currently requires a revision to the airplane f...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for The Boeing Company Model 777-200 and -300 series airplanes equipped with Rolls-Royce Model Trent 800 engines. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of damage to the upper bifurcation forwa...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016
We are superseding airworthiness directive (AD) 2006-23-17 for certain Turbomeca S.A. Turmo IV A and IV C turboshaft engines. AD 2006- 23-17 required repetitive inspections of the centrifugal compressor intake wheel (inducer) blades for cracks and co...
Rule Mar 17, 2016

Meetings:

Title Type Published
FRA announces the twentieth anniversary and fifty-fifth meeting of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC), a Federal Advisory Committee that develops railroad safety regulations through a consensus process. The RSAC meeting topics will include...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Requests for Administrative Waivers of the Coastwise Trade Laws:

Title Type Published
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
On February 8, 2016, the Department of the Treasury published an interim rule (hereafter, the interim rule) implementing the Capital Magnet Fund (CMF), administered by the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). The interim rul...
Rule Mar 17, 2016
This document withdraws FinCEN's finding that JSC CredexBank ("Credex"), renamed JSC InterPayBank ("InterPay"), is a financial institution of primary money laundering concern, pursuant to Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act ("Section 311"). Because of...
Rule Mar 17, 2016
This document withdraws FinCEN's proposed rulemaking to impose the first and fifth special measure regarding JSC CredexBank ("Credex"), renamed JSC InterPayBank ("InterPay"), as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern, pursuant to...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2016

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee; Correction
Notice Mar 17, 2016

Volume Information

This date's documents are part of Volume 81 of the Federal Register.

Browse All Documents from 2016 (Volume 81)

Looking for other issues from March 2016 or the full 2016 Federal Register Archive ?