December 21, 2017 (Volume 82)

Federal Register December 21, 2017

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

96 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 21, 2017

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Land Management Plans; Revisions and Amendments:

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Santa Fe National Forest, located in New Mexico, prepared a nonsignificant, programmatic forest plan amendment to allow the use of herbicides in municipal watersheds and on soils with low revegetation potential to accompany its Supplemental Environme...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Requests for Applications:

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The Rural Housing Service (RHS or Agency), an agency within Rural Development, announces that it is soliciting competitive lender submissions (responses) regarding proposed projects for the Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program (GRRHP)....
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

Meetings:

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The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) plans to hold its regular committee and Board meetings in Washington, DC, Monday, January 8, and Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at the times and location listed below.
Notice Dec 21, 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 meeting of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the Commission wil...
Notice Dec 21, 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 West Virginia Advisory Committee to the Commissio...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Notice is hereby given that the Stewardship Division, Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce is announcing a thirty (30) day public comment period for the re...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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

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Applications for Trademark Registration
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Patent and Trademark Resource Center Metrics
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value:

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On October 31, 2017, the Department published its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of carbon and alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from Italy in the Federal Register. The Department is amending this preliminary determinat...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Fisheries Off West Coast States:

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This action corrects the 2017-18 harvest specifications and management measures final rule that published on February 7, 2017. That rule established 2017-18 harvest specifications and management measures for groundfish taken in the U.S. exclusive eco...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

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

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NMFS issues regulations to implement Amendment 17B to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico U.S. Waters, (FMP), as prepared and submitted by the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) Fishery Management Council (Council). This final...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation Determinations:

Permit Applications:

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Notice is hereby given that Christopher Marshall, Ph.D., Texas A&M University at Galveston, 200 Seawolf Parkway, Galveston, TX 77553, has applied in due form for a permit to take Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), green (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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 Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces (DAC-IPAD)...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Defense Policy Board (DPB). This meeting will be closed to the public.
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Education Department logo Education Department

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

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting the information collection FERC-725U (Mandatory Reliability Standards: Reliability Standard...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Filings:

Title Type Published
FirstEnergy Service Co.
Notice Dec 21, 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 approving a portion of the revision to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) on March 24, 2017. The revision updates the definition o...
Rule Dec 21, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a portion of the revision to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) on March 24, 2017. The revision modifies the...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2017
Due to the receipt of an adverse comment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing the November 2, 2017, direct final rule approving changes to the Illinois Administrative Code definition of volatile organic material, otherwise known...
Rule Dec 21, 2017
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing an approval of revisions to the Louisiana State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Louisiana through the Louisiana Depart...
Rule Dec 21, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the state of Ohio on March 11, 2016. Ohio's SIP revision addresses requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules that require sta...
Rule Dec 21, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to take action under the Clean Air Act (CAA) on an Ohio State Implementation Plan (SIP) submittal addressing regional haze. This proposed action is based on a final determination by EPA that a st...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2017
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Texas. The Texas SIP submission revises rules for control of vol...
Rule Dec 21, 2017
Due to the receipt of an adverse comment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing the November 7, 2017, direct final rule approving a revision to the Wisconsin State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revision replaces the definition of...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

Pesticides:

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EPA is providing notice to the public that it has initiated a rulemaking process to revise certain requirements in the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard. EPA expects to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in FY 2018 to solicit public input...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2017

Registration Reviews:

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This notice announces the availability of EPA's (or Agency) draft ecological non-pollinator risk assessment for the registration review of imidacloprid, along with draft human health and non- pollinator ecological risk assessments for the registratio...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revisions; Final Authorizations:

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Arizona applied to the EPA for final authorization of changes corresponding to certain federal hazardous waste rules promulgated between May 26, 1998, and July 28, 2006 (also known as RCRA Cluster VIII (checklist 167D) and Clusters IX through XVII) t...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
Wright Brothers Day (Proc. 9686)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2017

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
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 requirements adopted in the Commission's document Transition from TTY to R...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

Meetings:

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In this document, the Commission announces and provides an agenda for the fourth meeting of Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC).
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council logo Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

Appraisal Subcommittee Rules of Operation:

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The Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is amending section 3.06(e) of the ASC Rules of Operation, which addresses the scheduling of regular Meetings of the ASC. As amended, the ASC will meet at leas...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, without revision, the Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Disclosure Requirements Associated with Proprietary Trading and Certain Interests in an...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a p...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a p...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
In accordance with subsection (e)(12) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Support Enforcement (HHS/ACF/OCSE), is providing notice of a re-estab...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
In accordance with subsection (e)(12) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Support Enforcement (HHS/ACF/OCSE), is providing notice of a re-estab...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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

Title Type Published
Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System for title IVB and title IVE; Correction
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Debarment Orders:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is issuing an order under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act) debarring Dr. Keith J. Pierce for a period of 5 years from providing services in any capacity to a person that has...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Dec 21, 2017
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Notice Dec 21, 2017
National Institute on Aging
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
By operation of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the Resource Management Planning Rule (Planning 2.0 Rule) shall be treated as if it had never taken effect. The BLM issues this document to effect the removal of any amendments, deletions or other m...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service, we), are proposing to renew an information collection with revisions.
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Public Land Orders:

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This order extends the duration of the withdrawal created by Public Land Order No. 7306 for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary to continue the protection of the 3,805.87 acre Howell Canyon Recreation Complex located in Cassia C...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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

Complaints:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled Certain Load Supporting Systems, Including Composite Mat Systems, and Components Thereof, DN 3281; the Commission is soliciting comments on any publ...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Registrants listed below have applied for and been granted registration by the Drug Enforcement Administration as bulk manufacturers of various classes of schedule I and II controlled substances.
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Pap...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Pape...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Administration, 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 Reduction Act of 1...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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Justice Programs Office

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

No documents available.

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Trade Adjustment Assistance; Determinations
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Worker Adjustment Assistance; Investigations
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (DOL or Department), as part of its effort to streamline information collection, clarify statutory and regulatory requirements, and provide greater transparency and oversight in the H-2B nonimmigrant visa application processes...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Labor Certification Process for Temporary Employment of Aliens in Agriculture in United States:

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The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (Department) is issuing this notice to announce the 2018 Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs) for the employment of temporary or seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers (H-2A work...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

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NARA is issuing a new set of General Records Schedules (GRS) via GRS Transmittal 29. The GRS provides mandatory disposition instructions for administrative records common to several or all Federal agencies. Transmittal 29 announces changes we have ma...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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National Science Foundation

Penalty Inflation Adjustments:

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The National Science Foundation (NSF or Foundation) is providing notice of its adjusted maximum civil monetary penalties, effective January 15, 2018. These adjustments are required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft project plan, "Draft Project Plan to Prepare the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to License and Regulate Accident Tolerant Fuel." The NRC has established a steering...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Guidance:

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On October 19, 2017, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requested public comment on the draft revision to its guidance document for alternative disposal requests entitled, "Guidance for the Reviews of Proposed Disposal Procedures and Transf...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Meetings:

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will convene a meeting of the Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel (LSNARP) on January 30-31, 2018, at the NRC's Headquarters Offices in Room 01C3, Three White Flint North Building, 11601 Landsd...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

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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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 21, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee is providing notice that it will hold a public meeting on Thursday, January 11, 2018, in Multi-Purpose Room LL- 006 at the Commission's headquarters, 100 F Street...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Cboe Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 21, 2017
NYSE American, LLC
Notice Dec 21, 2017
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Dec 21, 2017
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Nasdaq PHLX, LLC
Notice Dec 21, 2017
Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
Interest Rates
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Rule Dec 21, 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 21, 2017

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Models G-1159A (GIII), G-IV, and GIV-X airplanes. This AD was prompted by a report that certain flap tracks were manufactured with the upper flange thickn...
Rule Dec 21, 2017

Applications for Approvals to Discontinue or Modify Railroad Signal Systems:

Petitions for Modifications:

Title Type Published
Single Car Air Brake Test Procedures
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Requests for Administrative Waivers of the Coastwise Trade Laws:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by M...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by M...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by M...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by M...
Notice Dec 21, 2017

Tribal Transportation Self-Governance Program:

Title Type Published
As required by the Negotiated Rulemaking Act, the Secretary of Transportation announces a meeting of the Tribal Transportation Self- Governance (TTSGP) Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. The meeting is open to the public.
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2017

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Internal Revenue Service intends to re-establish the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee for a period of one year. The final conference report for the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (H.R. 3299) recommended that the Interna...
Notice Dec 21, 2017
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is adding regulations to implement certain provisions of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.
Rule Dec 21, 2017

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