February 21, 2017 (Volume 82)

Federal Register February 21, 2017

View all documents issued on February 21, 2017. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

106 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 21, 2017

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending by 30 days the deadline to submit comments on the proposed rule to designate 12 product categories for federal procurement, which was published on January 13, 2017 (82 FR 4206) under the authorit...
Proposed Rule Feb 21, 2017

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's ("AMS") intention to request an extension for the form currently used by marketers to apply for exemption from market promotion assessm...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection. This collection is a revision to a currently approved information collection...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Butte County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Oroville, California. 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 Feb 21, 2017
The Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory Committee (LTBFAC) will meet in South Lake Tahoe, California. The Committee is established pursuant to Executive Order 13057, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972. Additional information concerning the...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Land Between The Lakes Advisory Board (Board) will meet in Golden Pond, Kentucky. The Board is authorized under Section 450 of the Land Between The Lakes Protection Act of 1998 (Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Siskiyou (OR) Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Brookings, Oregon. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committ...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program:

Title Type Published
Consistent with the memorandum of January 20, 2017, to the heads of executive departments and agencies from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff entitled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review", the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrit...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, and Reviews:

Title Type Published
On December 12, 2016, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on seamless refined copper pipe and tube from Mexico. The review covers three producers/exp...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes to implement management measures described in Framework Amendment 4 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Coastal Migratory Pelagics Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Region (FMP) as prepared and submitted jointly by the Gulf...
Proposed Rule Feb 21, 2017

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by vessels using pot gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the A season allowance of the 2017 Pacific cod total allowable ca...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Materials Processing Equipment Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Materials Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 21, 2017
This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the Board. Board members will discuss and provide advice on the National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP) in the areas of program evaluation, strategic planning, edu...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a joint public meeting of its Whiting Committee and Advisory Panel to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Kristen Hart, Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey, 3205 College Ave., Davie, Florida, 33314 has applied in due form for a permit to take green (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), and loggerhead (Caretta caretta...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Notice is hereby given that permits and permit amendments have been issued to the following entities: RIN 0648-XA888; Permit No. 15682-01: Mithriel MacKay, Ph.D., 1394 Alameda Ave., Spring Hill, FL 34609; RIN 0648-XA599; Permit No. 16094-04: Alaska D...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Notice is hereby given that the NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) Marine Mammal Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE., Seattle, WA 98115-6349 (Responsible Party: Dr. John Bengtson), has applied in due form for a permit to conduct research on...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Snapper-Grouper Fishery of South Atlantic:

Title Type Published
NMFS is hereby making a technical amendment to our regulations without altering the substance of the regulations. These changes will clarify our regulations to make them more easily understood by the public. As a result of a previously published fina...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Requests for Information:

Title Type Published
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) seeks information about the use or potential use of alternative data and modeling techniques in the credit process. Alternative data and modeling techniques are changing the way that some fina...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is modifying a system of records, entitled, "Defense User Registration System (DURS) Records, DTIC 01" to be compliant with the OMB Circular A-108 and make other administrative changes. This system of records re...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) San Francisco District is canceling the notice of availability issued on February 10, 2017 (82 FR 10346) for the Draft Detailed Project Report with Integrated Environmental Assessment (DPR/EA) and dra...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Exclusive Licenses; Approvals:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to JFD Limited a revocable, non-assignable, exclusive license to practice in the United States, the Government-owned invention described in U.S. Patent No. 6,868,360, entitled "SMA...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to PhareTech located at 4720 Chevy Chase Drive, Apartment 406, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license throughout the United States (U.S.) in all...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB) will take place.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery is an independent Federal advisory committee chartered to provide the Secretary of Defense, through the Secretary of the Army, independent advice and recommendations on Arlington National Cemetery...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Education Department logo Education Department

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the National Coal Council (NCC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Presidential directive as expressed in the memorandum of January 20, 2017, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review", this action delays until March 21, 2017, the effect...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, has determined that adequate facilities for the safe and sanitary removal and treatment of sewage from all vessels are reasonably available for all marine waters of Washing...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document the Incentive Auction Task Force and the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts: Updates to the categories of eligible equipment and services, as well as updated baseline costs, in the catalog of el...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Proposals to Engage in or to Acquire Companies Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking Activities
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), federal agencies are required to...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), federal agencies are required to publ...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is establishing a public docket to collect comments related to the pediatric postmarketing pharmacovigilance and drug utilization reviews of products posted between September 17, 2016, and February 24,...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance entitled "Q11 Development and Manufacture of Drug Substances--Questions and Answers (regarding the selection and justification of starting materials)....
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Feb 21, 2017
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 21, 2017
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 21, 2017
National Human Genome Research Institute
Notice Feb 21, 2017
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Feb 21, 2017
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 21, 2017
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice Feb 21, 2017
This notice announces the next two meeting dates for the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (hereafter referred to as "the Committee") which will be held in Washington, DC. All meetings will be open to the public.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a forthcoming public advisory committee meeting of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. The general function of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the Agency on FD...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

World Trade Center Health Program:

Title Type Published
On September 29, 2016, the Administrator of the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program received a petition to add autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, to the List of WTC-Related Health Conditions (List). Upon reviewing the informatio...
Proposed Rule Feb 21, 2017

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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

Title Type Published
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedule that governs the S.R. 74 Bridge across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, mile 283.1, at Wrightsville Beach, NC. The deviation is necessary to accommodate the free movement...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
The Coast Guard is modifying the operating regulation that governs the Bayview (State Route 42/57) Bridge, Mile 3.0, Maple-Oregon Bridge, Mile 4.17, and Michigan Street Bridge, Mile 4.3, all over Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Sturgeon Bay, WI, to allow...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Decisions and Orders:

Title Type Published
Frank D. Li, M.D.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Importers of Controlled Substances; Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of application.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) sponsored information collection request (ICR) revision titled, "Complaint Involving Employment Discrimination by a Federal Contractor or Subcontra...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) sponsored information collection request (ICR) titled, "Default Investment Alternatives under Participant Directed Individual Account Plans," to the Offi...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) sponsored information collection request (ICR) revision titled, "Occupational Requirements Survey," to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the information collection request (ICR) proposal titled, "Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth Program National Evaluation," to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and app...
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) sponsored information collection request (ICR) proposal titled, "Pre-Implementation Planning Checklist Report for State Unemployment Insurance Information Te...
Notice Feb 21, 2017

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Petitions for Rulemaking; Denials:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is denying a petition for rulemaking (PRM), dated September 10, 2015, submitted by Dr. Alexander DeVolpi (the petitioner). The petition was docketed by the NRC on September 21, 2015, and was assigned Docke...
Proposed Rule Feb 21, 2017

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Federal Employees Health Benefits:

Title Type Published
This rule delays the effective date of the final rule titled, Access to Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) for Employees of Certain Indian Tribal Employers, published in the Federal Register on December 28, 2016, to a date 60 days from January...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing recent Postal Service filings for the Commission's consideration concerning negotiated service agreements. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Commission is noticing recent Postal Service filings for the Commission's consideration concerning negotiated service agreements. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Product Changes:

Title Type Published
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Act") for an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f-2 under the Act, as well as from certain disclosure requirements in rule 20a-1 under the Act, Item 19(a)(3) of Form N-1A, Items 22(c)(1)(ii), 22(c)(1)(iii), 22(c)(8) and 22(c)(9) of Schedule 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Sections 6- 07(2)(a), (b), and (c) of Regulation S-X ("Disclosure Requirements"). The requested exemption would permit an investment adviser to hire and replace certain sub-advisers without shareholder approval and grant relief from the Disclosure Requirements as they relate to fees paid to the sub-advisers.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Notice of an application for an order under section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from sections 12(d)(1)(A), (B), and (C) of the Act and under sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from sections 17(a)(1) and (2) of the Act. The requested order would permit certain registered open-end investment companies to acquire shares of certain registered open-end investment companies, registered closed-end investment companies, business development companies, as defined in section 2(a)(48) of the Act, and unit investment trusts (collectively, "Underlying Funds") that are within and outside the same group of investment companies as the acquiring investment companies, in excess of the limits in section 12(d)(1) of the Act.
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Bats BZX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Bats EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 21, 2017
MIAX PEARL, LLC
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 21, 2017

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A321 series airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by a full scale fatigue test campaign on these airplanes in the context of the extended service goal. This proposed AD wo...
Proposed Rule Feb 21, 2017
We are superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2011-10-17 for all Airbus Model A300 and A310 series airplanes, and Model A300 B4-600, B4-600R, and F4-600R series airplanes, and Model C4-605R Variant F airplanes (collectively called A300-600 series a...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
We are superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2014-23-06 for certain Bombardier, Inc. Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 & 440) airplanes. AD 2014-23-06 required modifying the main landing gear (MLG) by installing a new bracket on the left...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Model GVI airplanes. This AD was prompted by a report indicating that there are design deficiencies in the software used for monitoring the disconnect for...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 757 airplanes. This AD was prompted by reports of single and multiple uncommanded spoiler panel extensions during flight when there was a hydraulic system failure...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
We are superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2012-16-07 for certain The Boeing Company Model 737-500 series airplanes. AD 2012-16- 07 required inspections of the fuselage skin at the chem-milled steps, and repair if necessary. This new AD adds new...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all The Boeing Company Model 737-300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. This AD was prompted by reports of intergranular cracks on the front spar chord lugs of the outboard horizontal stabilizer....
Rule Feb 21, 2017

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2017, an interim final rulemaking adding a new section authorizing in vitro fertilization (IVF) for a veteran with a service-connected disability that results in the...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
On June 15, 2010, VA published a document in the Federal Register eliminating redundant provisions from its loan guaranty regulations following the implementation of a new electronic reporting system and redesignating the section numbers of these reg...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2017, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," this action delays the effective date of the final rule ("Recognition of Tribal Organizations...
Rule Feb 21, 2017
This document implements a portion of the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006, which requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to verify ownership and control of veteran-owned small businesses (VOSB), includi...
Rule Feb 21, 2017

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