Federal Register December 14, 2017
View all documents issued on December 14, 2017. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.
90 documents were published on this date.
Agencies Publishing on December 14, 2017
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Agriculture Department
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Commerce Department
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Defense Department
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Education Department
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Energy Department
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Executive Office of the President
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Federal Communications Commission
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Federal Reserve System
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Health and Human Services Department
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Homeland Security Department
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Interior Department
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Justice Department
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
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NNational Labor Relations Board (1)
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PPostal Regulatory Commission (1)
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Postal Service
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Small Business Administration
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State Department
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Surface Transportation Board
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Transportation Department
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Veterans Affairs Department
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Agriculture Department
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| Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Requests for Information:
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The National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program (Child Nutrition Programs), which are administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutriti...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Commerce Department
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species:
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NMFS is adjusting the Swordfish (SWO) General Commercial permit retention limits for the Northwest Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and U.S. Caribbean regions for January through June of the 2018 fishing year, unless otherwise later noticed. The SWO General...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Meetings:
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The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) will host the Area 2A Pacific Halibut Managers Coordination Meeting via webinar. The meeting is open to the public.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Production Activities:
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Traxys Cometals Processing, Inc., Foreign-Trade Zone 158, Jackson, MS
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Consumer Product Safety Commission
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The Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act (CGBPA or the Act) adopted as a consumer product safety rule, the child-resistance requirements for closures on portable gasoline containers published in the ASTM voluntary standard, Standard Specification...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Defense Department
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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.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Department of Defense (Department) is amending its interpretive rule for the Military Lending Act (the MLA). The MLA, as implemented by the Department, limits the military annual percentage rate (MAPR) that a creditor may charge to a maximum of 3...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Meetings:
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Vietnam War Commemoration Advisory Committee will take place.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Education Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Teacher Cancellation Low Income Directory
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing an extension of an existing information collection.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing a new information collection.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing a new information collection.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Energy Department
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Combined Filings
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Combined Filings
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Engineering Guidelines for the Evaluation of Hydropower Projects:
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Chapter 11Arch Dams
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:
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Cimarron River Pipeline, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for Blanket Section 204 Authorizations:
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EnPowered
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Qualifying Conduit Hydropower Facilities:
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City of Fitchburg, MA
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Environmental Protection Agency
Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the comment period for a proposed rulemaking notice published in the Federal Register on October 13, 2017, which accompanied a direct final rulemaking published on the same date. The direct final...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action finding that Washington State failed to submit an infrastructure State Implementation Plan (SIP) to satisfy certain interstate transport requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) with res...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or "Agency") is taking final action to determine that the deficiency that formed the basis for a disapproval of the contingency measures submitted for the San Joaquin Valley nonattainment area for the 1997 fin...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Executive Office of the President
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Space Exploration Program, U.S.; Efforts To Reinvigorate (Space Policy Directive1 of December 11, 2017)
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Presidential Document | Dec 14, 2017 |
Federal Communications Commission
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The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) eliminates historic preservation review of replacement utility poles that support communications equipment, subject to conditions that ensure no effects on historic properties. The Commission also co...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this o...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this o...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this o...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Ancillary Terrestrial Component of Mobile Satellite Service Systems:
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In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's Terrestrial Use of the 2473-2495 MHz bands for Low-Power...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Terminations of Receivership:
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Bank of Wausau, Wausau, WI
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Federal Reserve System
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, without revision, the Reporting Requirements Associated with Regulation XX Concentration Limit (FR XX) and Financial Company (as defined) R...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("Board") is requesting comment on proposed changes to part II of the Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk ("PSR policy") related to procedures for determining the net debit cap and maximu...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Health and Human Services Department
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The invention listed below is owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and is available for licensing to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system for CY 2018 to implement changes arising from our continuing experience wi...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publis...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publis...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Meetings:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the following public workshop entitled "Patient-Focused Drug Development: Developing and Submitting Proposed Draft Guidance Relating to Patient Experience Data." The purpose of the public...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Food and Drug Administration is correcting a notice entitled "Safety Assessment for Investigational New Drug Safety Reporting; Public Workshop" that appeared in the Federal Register of November 27, 2017. The document announced a public workshop t...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Homeland Security Department
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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the U.S. Coast Guard intends to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), requesting an ex...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
| Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Safety Zones:
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This interim rule modifies and extends the effective period of the existing temporary safety zone encompassing all navigable waters within a 250-yard radius of Commerce Construction vessels and machinery conducting diving and pipeline removal operati...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Interior Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) are proposing to renew an information collection with revisions relating to abandoned mine reclamation funds.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) are proposing to renew an information collection relating to Subsidence insurance program grants.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Exclusive Patent Liceses; Approvals:
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license in the United States of America, its territories, possessions and commonwealths, to USGS's interest in the invention embodied in U.S. Pr...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Justice Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, Federal Bureau of Investigation, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Meetings:
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The National Endowment for the Humanities will hold three meetings of the Humanities Panel, a federal advisory committee, during January, 2018. The purpose of the meetings is for panel review, discussion, evaluation, and recommendation of application...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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National Labor Relations Board
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The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) is seeking information from the public regarding its representation election regulations (the Election Regulations), with a specific focus on amendments to the Board's representation case procedures adop...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Postal Regulatory Commission
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The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing for the Commission's consideration concerning a negotiated service agreement. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Postal Service
Product Changes:
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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.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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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.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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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.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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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.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Securities and Exchange Commission
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The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is publishing this document to inform the public that it has set a compliance date for its previously-adopted exhibit hyperlinking requirements for Form 10-Ds that require hyperlinks to any exhibi...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") is adopting a temporary final rule that requires funds in larger fund groups to maintain in their records the information that is required to be included in Form N-PORT, in lieu of filing repo...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
| Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:
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Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Cboe EDGA Exchange, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Investors Exchange LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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MIAX PEARL, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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NYSE MKT LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Nasdaq BX, Inc.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Nasdaq GEMX, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Nasdaq PHLX LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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Nasdaq PHLX LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Options Clearing Corp.
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Small Business Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is submitting a Generic Information Collection Request (Generic ICR): ``Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery'' to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
State Department
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This proposed rule provides various changes and updates to the Department of State passport rules. The proposed rule incorporates statutory passport denial and revocation requirements for certain convicted sex offenders. It notes that, notwithstandin...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Surface Transportation Board
Acquisition Exemptions:
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City and County of Denver; Western Stock Show Association in the City and County of Denver, CO
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Transportation Department
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This action amends the Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) that prohibits certain flights in specified areas of the Sanaa (OYSC) Flight Information Region (FIR) by all: United States (U.S.) air carriers; U.S. commercial operators; persons exer...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Department of Transportation (the Department) is withdrawing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on July 15, 2011 that proposed to collect detailed revenue information regarding airline imposed fees from those air carriers meeting th...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Department is withdrawing the supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) on Transparency of Airline Ancillary Service Fees issued on January 9, 2017. The SNPRM proposed to require air carriers, foreign air carriers, and ticket agents to c...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Airworthiness Directives:
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We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A330-200, A330-200 Freighter, and A330-300 series airplanes; and Airbus Model A340-200, A340-300, A340-500, and A340-600 series airplanes. This AD requires repetitive inspections...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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We propose to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2015-15- 13, which applies to certain Airbus Model A319 series airplanes; Model A320-211, -212, -214, -231, -232, and -233 airplanes; and Model A321- 111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, and -2...
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Proposed Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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We are superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2012-21-04, which applied to all Airbus Model A300 series airplanes; Model A310 series airplanes; and Model A300 B4-600, B4-600R, and F4-600R series airplanes, and Model A300 C4-605R Variant F airplanes...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co. Segelflugzeugbau Models ASH 25M and ASH 26E gliders. This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation authority...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Fokker Services B.V. Model F28 Mark 0070 and 0100 airplanes. This AD requires contacting the FAA to obtain instructions for addressing the unsafe condition on these products, and doing the action...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
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We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all The Boeing Company Model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. This AD was prompted by a report indicating that wear of the bearing plate slider bushings could cause di...
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Rule | Dec 14, 2017 |
Surface Transportation Project Delivery Program:
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The Surface Transportation Project Delivery Program allows a State to assume FHWA's environmental responsibilities for review, consultation, and compliance for Federal highway projects. When a State assumes these Federal responsibilities, the State b...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
Veterans Affairs Department
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This Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) notice updates the data for calculating the ``Reasonable Charges'' collected or recovered by VA for medical care or services. This notice also updates the ``National Average Administrative Prescription Costs''...
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Notice | Dec 14, 2017 |
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