December 18, 2017 (Volume 82)

Federal Register December 18, 2017

View all documents issued on December 18, 2017. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

86 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 18, 2017

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is making efforts to reduce the paperwork burden. USAID invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following proposed and/or continuing informatio...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to request approval to revise and extend a currently approved information collection, the Milk and Milk...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

National Organic Program:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule sets forth the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA or Department) intention to withdraw the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) final rule published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2017, by USDA's Agricultural...
Proposed Rule Dec 18, 2017

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), that a planning meeting of the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) that a meeting of the Oregon Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commi...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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

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The NMFS Southeast Region, in collaboration with the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council), intends to prepare a DEIS to describe and analyze management alternatives to be included in Amendment 9 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Fisheries of the Northeastern United States:

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NMFS announces that the Commonwealth of Virginia is transferring a portion of its 2017 commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This quota adjustment is necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea B...
Rule Dec 18, 2017

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a meeting of the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB). The members will discuss issues outlined in the section on Matters to be considered. Time and Date: The meeting will be held Tuesday, Febru...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

North American Free Trade Agreement:

Title Type Published
A Request for Panel Review was filed on behalf of the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, the Government of Qu[eacute]bec, British Columbia Lumber Trade Council ("BCLTC"), Conseil de l'Industrie forestiere du Qu[eacute]bec ("CIFQ"), Onta...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, DoD announces the proposed extension of a public information collection requirement and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. DoD invites comments on: Whether the proposed collection o...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 18, 2017
The Department of Energy (DOE) is amending the worker safety and health program regulations to update the safety and health standards and delete the obsolete directives currently incorporated by reference in the code of federal regulations. The regul...
Rule Dec 18, 2017

Petitions for Waivers:

Title Type Published
Alabama Municipal Electric Authority
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Requests for Information:

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on its Request for Information (RFI) on Identifying Opportunities to Address Barriers for Lowering the Cost and Risk of Geothermal Drilling. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Ener...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
As part of its implementation of, "Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs," (January 30, 2017) and, "Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda," (Feb. 24, 2017), the Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking comments and information from inter...
Proposed Rule Dec 18, 2017

Requests under Blanket Authorizations:

Title Type Published
Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC
Notice Dec 18, 2017
WBI Energy Transmission, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve several different revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted to EPA by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC). On May 23, 2017, Vermont submitted...
Proposed Rule Dec 18, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving Vermont's Regional Haze Five-Year Progress Report (Progress Report), submitted on February 29, 2016 as a revision to its State Implementation Plan (SIP). Vermont's SIP revision addresses requirem...
Rule Dec 18, 2017

Request for Ad Hoc Expert Nominations:

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The Agency is issuing this notice to announce the opportunity to provide additional nominations for experts to serve as ad hoc members for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) reviewing physiol...
Notice Dec 18, 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 of 1995 (PRA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this o...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, information requirements associated with the Commission's Order, FCC 17-15. In this Order, the Commission minimized t...
Rule Dec 18, 2017
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the non-substantive change request for the information collection requirements contained in FCC 17-137. This document is consistent with the Report...
Rule Dec 18, 2017
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts a regulatory framework to facilitate the delivery of broadband services through satellite constellation networks. The Commission updates, clarifies and streamlines the curren...
Rule Dec 18, 2017

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Petitions for Exemptions:

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Regulatory Capital Rules:

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The Board is providing notice of the aggregate global indicator amounts for purposes of a calculation for 2017, which is required under the Board's rule regarding risk-based capital surcharges for global systemically important bank holding companies...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The information collection requirements described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA"). The FTC is seeking public comments on its proposal to extend for...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces an opportunity for commercial manufacturers to work with CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) o...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Charter Renewals:

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This gives notice under the Federal Advisory Committee Act of October 6, 1972, that the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (BSC, NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health a...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Developing Targeted Therapies in Low-Frequency Molecular Subsets of a Disease." The purpose of this guidance is to describe the...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Drug Products, Including Biological Products, that Contain Nanomaterials." This draft guidance has been developed to provide in...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Information Requests and Discipline Review Letters Under GDUFA." This draft guidance explains how FDA will issue and use an inf...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled "Investigational IVDs Used in Clinical Investigations of Therapeutic Products." This draft guidance is intended to assist sponsors of clini...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled "Replacement Reagent and Instrument Family Policy for In Vitro Diagnostic Devices." FDA is issuing this draft guidance document to update a...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Meetings:

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Dec 18, 2017
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Safety and Occupational Health Study Section
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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

Title Type Published
The DHS NPPD Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C), SECIR, will submit the following information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, notice is hereby given that the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), provides public notice regarding a revision of its System of Records for th...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

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

Title Type Published
HUD submitted the proposed information collection requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 30 days of public commen...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
HUD submitted the proposed information collection requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 30 days of public commen...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
HUD submitted the proposed information collection requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 30 days of public commen...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Commonwealth of Virginia, through the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), is providing notice of its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Ohio Creek Watershed Project located in the City o...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we, the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), are proposing to renew an information collection.
Notice Dec 18, 2017

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review in part the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ") final initial determination ("Final ID") issued on September 1, 2017, finding a violation of section...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Justice Department logo Justice Department

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

Title Type Published
Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accor...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Decisions and Orders:

Title Type Published
Michel P. Toret, M.D.
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Expansion of Recognition; Applications:

Title Type Published
In this notice, OSHA announces the application of Canadian Standards Association (CSA) for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and presents the Agency's preliminary finding to grant the application.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
In this notice, OSHA announces the applications of MET Laboratories, Inc. (MET) for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and presents the Agency's preliminary finding to grant the applications.
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiation and Trade Policy has been postponed until further notice. This meeting, which was closed to the public, was scheduled for December 15, 2017, from 2 p.m. to 4...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Petitions for Modifications:

Title Type Published
This notice is a summary of petitions for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by the parties listed below.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
This notice is a summary of petitions for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by the parties listed below.
Notice Dec 18, 2017

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
Further to the NASA Federal Register notice of December 12, 2017 (see citation above), NASA announces an invitation for public nominations of U.S. citizens to serve as potential members of the National Space Council Users' Advisory Group (UAG). The U...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

N
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 Dec 18, 2017

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
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.
Notice Dec 18, 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 Dec 18, 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 Dec 18, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Bats BZX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Cboe EDGA Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Dec 18, 2017
NYSE American LLC
Notice Dec 18, 2017
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Dec 18, 2017
New York Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is publishing this notice to comply with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), which requires agencies to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, an...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Surrender of Licenses of Small Business Investment Companies:

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval for a new information collection, which is summarized below under Supplementary Information. We are required to publish this notice i...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain ATR-GIE Avions de Transport R[eacute]gional Model ATR42-300 and -500 airplanes and Model ATR72-202 and -212A airplanes. This AD requires identifying the serial number of the dual distribu...
Rule Dec 18, 2017
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A330-200 Freighter, -200, and -300 series airplanes; and Airbus Model A340-200, -300, -500, and -600 series airplanes. This AD was prompted by a report that the trimmable horizon...
Rule Dec 18, 2017
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Dassault Aviation Model FALCON 2000EX airplanes. This AD was prompted by a quality review of delivered airplanes, which identified a manufacturing deficiency of some engine air inlet anti-ice...
Rule Dec 18, 2017
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 reports of cracking in the webs of the stub beams at certain fuselage stations. T...
Rule Dec 18, 2017

Exemption Petitions; Summaries:

Title Type Published
This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of Federal Aviation Regulations. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, the FAA's exemption process. Neither pu...
Notice Dec 18, 2017
This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of Federal Aviation Regulations. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of the FAA's regulatory act...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Federal Agency Actions:

Title Type Published
The FHWA, on behalf of Caltrans, is issuing this notice to announce actions taken by Caltrans that are final within the meaning of agency law. The actions relate to a proposed highway project, Interstate 15, from post mile 18.3 to post mile 21.0, in...
Notice Dec 18, 2017

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Loan Guaranty:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announces that the aggregate amounts of assistance available under the Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) grant program will increase by 4.88 percent for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.
Notice Dec 18, 2017

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