March 1, 2017 (Volume 82)

Federal Register March 1, 2017

View all documents issued on March 1, 2017. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

87 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 1, 2017

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program:

Title Type Published
The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is re-opening the comment period for the proposed rule published December 1, 2016. The proposed action would implement four sections of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill), af...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2017

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The NOAA Office of Coast Survey has released a draft National Charting Plan. The plan describes the current set of NOAA nautical chart products and their distribution, as well as some of the steps Coast Survey is taking to improve NOAA charts, includ...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

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

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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 proposed and/or continuing information collections, a...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

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The Department of Commerce (the Department) is rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain oil country tubular goods from Taiwan for the period September 1, 2015, through August 31, 2016.
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from Brazil. The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2015, through January 31, 2016. The review covers one...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from India. The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2015, through January 31, 2016. This review covers two...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of Commerce (the Department) preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from the Republic of Turkey (Turkey). The period of investigat...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value:

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The Department of Commerce ("Department") determines that 1,1,1,2 Tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) ("R134a") from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value ("LTFV"). The final wei...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

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

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes to implement management measures described in Framework Amendment 5 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Coastal Migratory Pelagic Resources of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Region (FMP) as prepared and submitted jointly by the Gulf...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2017

Meetings:

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The Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP) will hold a meeting that will be open to the public and public comments are requested in advance or during the meeting. Information about the HSRP meeting, agenda, presentations, webinar and background do...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Wednesday, March 29, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Thursday, March, 30, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, and Friday, March 31, 2017 from 9:0...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Reorganizations under Alternative Site Framework:

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as part of the environmental planning process for the East Campus Integration Program at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland (hereafter referred t...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing a revision of an existing information collection.
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Applications for New Awards:

Title Type Published
On January 13, 2017, we published in the Federal Register (82 FR 4322) a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2017 for the CSP Grants to Charter Management Organizations for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Ch...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Combined Filings
Notice Mar 01, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Confidentiality Pledges; Revisions:

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration invites public comment on the recent revisions that have been made to the confidentiality pledge it provides to its respondents. These revisions became effective upon publication of an emergency Federal Regi...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Filings:

Title Type Published
Brian Fitzgerald
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Electricity Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that it is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for a three-year extension without change of the D...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Government Agencies and Employees:

Title Type Published
Regulatory Reform Agenda; Enforcement Procedures (EO 13777)
Presidential Document Mar 01, 2017

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, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this o...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this o...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the annual reporting and certification requirement, consumer disclosure requirement, and one-time data collection ass...
Rule Mar 01, 2017

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is reopening the comment period for the notice entitled "Fruit Juice and Vegetable Juice as Color Additives in Food; Draft Guidance for Industry" that appeared in the Federal Register of December 14, 2016....
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2017

HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities List:

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies federal agencies of the laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities (IITF) currently certified to meet the standards of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testin...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Medical Devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the identification of manual gastroenterology-urology surgical instruments and accessories to reflect that the device does not include specialized surgical instrumentation for use with urogyencologic...
Rule Mar 01, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a forthcoming public advisory committee meeting of the Blood Products Advisory Committee. The general function of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the Agency on FDA's regulator...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Mar 01, 2017
In accordance with section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, this notice announces a meeting of the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Notice Mar 01, 2017

New Animal Drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect application-related actions for new animal drug applications (NADAs) and abbreviated new animal drug applications (ANADAs) during November and December 20...
Rule Mar 01, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is withdrawing approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) and an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) at the sponsors' requests because the products are no longer manufactured or marketed.
Rule Mar 01, 2017

Patient Safety Organization Delistings:

Title Type Published
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C. 299b-21 to b-26, (Patient Safety Act) and the related Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Final Rule, 42 CFR part 3 (Patient Safety Rule), published in the Federal Register on Novem...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Commercial Gaugers and Laboratories; Accreditations and Approvals:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Inspectorate America Corporation has been approved to gauge petroleum and certain petroleum products for customs purposes for the next three years as of June 21, 2016.
Notice Mar 01, 2017
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Inspectorate America Corporation has been approved to gauge petroleum and certain petroleum products and accredited to test petroleum and certain petroleum products for customs purposes for th...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedule that governs the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge which carries US 17 across the Cape Fear River, mile 26.8, at Wilmington, NC. The deviation is necessary to facilitate routine bie...
Rule Mar 01, 2017
The Coast Guard proposes to modify the operating schedule that governs the Route 82 Bridge (East Haddam Swing Bridge) across the Connecticut River, mile 16.8, at East Haddam, Connecticut. The bridge owner submitted a request to reduce scheduled openi...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2017

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is extending the effective period of a safety zone in the vicinity of the Eastport Breakwater Terminal, Eastport, Maine. This safety zone was established on January 9, 2015 (80 FR 1344). This rule will extend the effective period of t...
Rule Mar 01, 2017

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the National Indian Gaming Commission has adopted its 2017 preliminary annual fee rates of 0.00% for tier 1 and 0.062% (.00062) for tier 2, which remain the same as the 2016 final fee rates. The tier 2 annual fee rate repr...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Title Type Published
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received three applications for incidental take permits (ITPs) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), in Lake County, Florida. We request public comment on the permit applications...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Investigations; Determinations, Modifications, and Rulings, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act"), as amended, to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on brass sheet and strip from France, Germany, Italy, and Jap...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of expedited reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act") to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on helical spring lock washers from China and Taiwan would be like...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted a review pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act"), as amended, to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from China would be likely to lead to contin...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of expedited reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act") to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on welded ASTM A-312 stainless steel pipe from Korea and Taiwan wo...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Schedules of Controlled Substances:

Title Type Published
With the issuance of this final rule, the Drug Enforcement Administration places 10 synthetic cathinones: 4-methyl-N-ethylcathinone (4-MEC); 4-methyl-alpha- pyrrolidinopropiophenone (4-MePPP); alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone ([alpha]-PVP); 1-(1,3-benz...
Rule Mar 01, 2017

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Title Type Published
This document withdraws a portion of the final rule that would revise the Office's Privacy Act regulations, because that section will have already been amended in a separate document by the time this rule is effective.
Rule Mar 01, 2017

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Management and Budget Office

Revision of Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity:

Title Type Published
OMB requests comments on the proposals that it has received from the Federal Interagency Working Group for Research on Race and Ethnicity (Working Group) for revisions to OMB's Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Rac...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. This is the required notice.
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Meetings:

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The goal of the FASTER CoP is to enhance collaboration and accelerate agencies' adoption of advanced IT capabilities developed by Government-sponsored IT research. FASTER, seeks to accelerate deployment of promising research technologies; share proto...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The JET, established in 1997, provides for information sharing among Federal agencies and non-Federal participants with interest in high performance research networking and networking to support science applications. The JET reports to the Large Scal...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The MAGIC Team, established in 2002, provides a forum for information sharing among Federal agencies and non-Federal participants with interests and responsibility for middleware, Grid, and cloud projects. The MAGIC Team reports to the Large Scale Ne...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

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National Transportation Safety Board

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
The Postal Service will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to add an option to streamline the processing of drop shipments and expedited plant load mailings.
Rule Mar 01, 2017
The Postal Service will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to add the mail preparation requirements governing participation in the Seamless Acceptance Program.
Rule Mar 01, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of the Investor Advocate will host a public conference, characterized as an "Evidence Summit," to discuss, among other things, potential strategies for enhancing retail investors' understanding of key i...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Mar 01, 2017
NASDAQ BX, Inc.
Notice Mar 01, 2017
NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Notice Mar 01, 2017
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 01, 2017
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 01, 2017
NYSE MKT, LLC
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Rulings:

Title Type Published
We are giving notice of SSR 17-1p. This SSR explains how we apply our reopening rules when we have applied a Federal or State law to a claim for benefits that the Supreme Court of the United States later determines to be unconstitutional, and we find...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

State Department logo State Department

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition:

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Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), E.O. 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Acquisitions and Operation Exemptions:

Title Type Published
BG and CM Railroad, Inc.; Rail Line of Great Northwest Railroad, Inc.
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the time, date, and location of the third meeting of the Emergency Route Working Group (ERWG).
Notice Mar 01, 2017

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the OCC, the Board, and the FDIC (the agencies) may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displa...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury, 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 proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Mar 01, 2017
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of 2 individuals whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, "Blocking Property and Pro...
Notice Mar 01, 2017

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