September 24, 2020 (Volume 85)

Federal Register September 24, 2020

View all documents issued on September 24, 2020. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

102 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on September 24, 2020

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Sep 24, 2020
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, is proposing to revise its directives to update and clarify guidance on management of electric bicycle (e-bike) use on National Forest System (NFS) lands. E-bikes have become increas...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Guidance:

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In July 2017, FSIS published and requested comment on guidance for importing meat, poultry, and egg products into the United States. FSIS is announcing updates to this guidance and responding to comments received on the guidance. FSIS intends for thi...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Commission on Civil Rights published a notice in the Federal Register on Friday, September 18, 2020, concerning a meeting of the Hawai[revaps]i Advisory Committee. The document contained an incorrect day of the week, which now has changed to Mond...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Pursuant to Executive Order 13942, the Secretary of Commerce is publishing the list of prohibited transactions by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd. (a.k.a. Z[igrave]ji[e...
Rule Sep 24, 2020
NMFS announces the availability of a list of the rules it is reviewing, as required, under section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. We are required to notify the public of our review of existing regulations that we have determined had, or will...
Rule Sep 24, 2020
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) has received petitions for certification of eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance from the firms listed below. Accordingly, EDA has initiated investigations to determine whether increased i...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Application for Subzone:

Title Type Published
Sager Electronics, Carrollton, TX; Foreign-Trade Zone 168, Dallas, TX
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species:

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NMFS announces the availability of Draft Amendment 14 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP). Draft Amendment 14 is being undertaken to revise the mechanism or "framework" used in establishing q...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Authorization of Production Activity:

Title Type Published
FN America, LLC (Disassembly of Machine Guns), Dulles, VA; Foreign-Trade Zone 137, Washington Dulles International Airport, VA
Notice Sep 24, 2020

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program:

Title Type Published
The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is issuing a final rule amending the regulations pertaining to the operation of the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) and the operation of its accredi...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

Order Denying Export Privileges:

Title Type Published
Walid Chehade
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Proposed Production Activity:

Title Type Published
Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations, LLC (Passenger Motor Vehicles), Chattanooga, TN; ForeignTrade Zone 134, Chattanooga, TN
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), of the Office of Managem...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describ...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
In April of 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "Commission") proposed amendments to its regulations governing bankruptcy proceedings of commodity brokers. In light of comments on the proposed amendments, the Commission is proposing a...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Qualified Mortgage Definition under the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z):

Title Type Published
On August 28, 2020, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Seasoned QM Proposal) proposing to create a new category of qualified mortgages in Regulation Z for first-lien...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requireme...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Education Department logo Education Department

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Federal Student Aid (FSA), as required by the Public Health Service Act (the Act), is publishing this list of Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) borrowers who have defaulted on their loans as of August 1, 2020. This information is also made avai...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

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

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the agenda for a National Assessment Governing Board (hereafter referred to as Governing Board) meeting in September 2020. This notice provides information to members of the public who may be interested in attending the meeting...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Perkins Innovation and Modernization Grant Program:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education proposes priorities, requirements, a definition, and selection criteria under the Perkins Innovation and Modernization Grant Program, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) num...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (Department) invites public comment on the 2020 National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2020 Congestion Study) and is seeking comments on all aspects of the 2020 Congestion Study.
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Combined Filings
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards:

Title Type Published
In response to a petition for rulemaking submitted on October 18, 2018 (Gas Industry Petition), the Department of Energy (DOE) published that petition in the Federal Register on November 1, 2018, for public review and input, and DOE subsequently publ...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020

Request under Blanket Authorization:

Title Type Published
Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This document announces our approval of the alternative means of emission limitation (AMEL) request under the Clean Air Act (CAA) submitted by Lyondell Chemical Company (Lyondell) to operate multi- point ground flares (MPGFs) at its Channelview chemi...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

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

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Generic Clearance for TSCA Section 4 Test Rules, Test Orders, Enforceable Consent Agreements (ECAs), Voluntary Data Submissions, and Exemptions from Test...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Pesticide Product Registration:

Title Type Published
EPA has received applications to register pesticide products containing active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide products. Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is hereby providi...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Guidance:

Title Type Published
On September 14, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued guidance, CEQ-NEPA-2020-01, in a memorandum to the heads of Federal departments and agencies (agencies) to assist agencies with compliance with the National Environmental Policy...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and Constitution Week (Proc. 10077)
Presidential Document Sep 24, 2020
National POW/MIA Recognition Day (Proc. 10078)
Presidential Document Sep 24, 2020

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Meetings; Sunshine Act:

Title Type Published
The Export-Import Bank of the United States published a document in the Federal Register of September 17, 2020 concerning a Sunshine Act meeting. The Notice provided incorrect information. A correct notice will be published immediately.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Connect America Fund:

Title Type Published
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) adopts the Alaska Population Distribution Model. The model provides a methodology for estimating the number of Alaskans who receive mobile service within census blocks in remote areas of Alaska, allowin...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service logo Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Title Type Published
This is notice of the succession plan for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) provided by the Director of FMCS at the request of the Federal Transition Coordinator at the General Services Administration and the Office of Management...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), federal agencies are required to publ...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), federal agencies are required to...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve proposed updates to the approved information collection project "Safety Program in Perinata...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Delegation of Authority
Notice Sep 24, 2020
The subcommittees listed below are part of AHRQ's Health Services Research Initial Review Group Committee. Grant applications are to be reviewed and discussed at these meetings. Each subcommittee meeting will be closed to the public.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Charter Renewal:

Title Type Published
This gives notice under the Federal Advisory Committee Act of October 6, 1972, that the Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel (SEP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Se...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Equivalence Determination:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing a final determination that the adoption and implementation by Spain and the Netherlands of the European Union's (EU's) system of food safety control measures for raw bivalve molluscan shellfi...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Sep 24, 2020
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the CDC announces the following meeting for the Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory Committee (MSHRAC). This is a virtual meeting. It is open to the public, limited only by web conference li...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
National Human Genome Research Institute
Notice Sep 24, 2020
National Human Genome Research Institute
Notice Sep 24, 2020
National Human Genome Research Institute
Notice Sep 24, 2020
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Office of The Director; Cancellation
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent Commercialization License:

Title Type Published
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent commercialization license to Petragen, Inc., a...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Safety Zone:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is proposing a temporary safety zone for all navigable waters of the Ohio River from mile marker (MM) 452.0 to MM 454.0. This action is necessary to provide for the safety of life on these navigable waters near New Richmond, OH, durin...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
HUD has long interpreted the Fair Housing Act ("the Act") to create liability for practices with an unjustified discriminatory effect, even if those practices were not motivated by discriminatory intent. This rule amends HUD's 2013 disparate impact s...
Rule Sep 24, 2020
This document designates "Difficult Development Areas" (DDAs) and "Qualified Census Tracts" (QCTs) for purposes of the Low- Income Housing Credit (LIHTC) under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 42. The United States Department of Housing and Urban...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

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

Title Type Published
HUD has 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 an additional 30 day...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) regulatory restrictions on joint bidding, the Director of BOEM is publishing a List of Restricted Joint Bidders. Each entity within one of the following groups is restricted from bidding with a...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) are proposing to renew an information collection.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items:

Title Type Published
The Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Art & Culture, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition o...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
The Oshkosh Public Museum, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural item listed in this notice meets the definition of object of cultural patrimony. Lineal descendants or re...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Inventory Completion:

Title Type Published
Michigan State University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remai...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Plats of Survey:

Title Type Published
The plats of survey for the lands described in this notice are scheduled to be officially filed 30 calendar days after the date of this publication in the BLM Montana State Office, Billings, Montana. The surveys, which were executed at the request of...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Complaint:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled Certain Digital Video- Capable Devices and Components Thereof, DN 3492; the Commission is soliciting comments on any public interest issues raised b...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

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Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries

Charter Renewal:

Title Type Published
The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries announces the renewal of the charter of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Request for Applications:

Title Type Published
The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries (Joint Board), established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), is responsible for the enrollment of individuals who wish to perform actuarial services under ERISA. To assi...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

J
Judicial Conference of the United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The following remote public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure has been canceled: Appellate Rules Hearing on October 19, 2020.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Importer of Controlled Substances; Application:

Title Type Published
Fisher Clinical Services, Inc. has applied to be registered as an importer of basic class(es) of controlled substance(s). Refer to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION listed below for further drug information.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Extended Benefit Program for Kentucky:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

Title Type Published
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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 inf...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). We publish notice in the Federal Register and on regulations.gov for records schedules...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 24, 2020
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Proposal Review
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a proposed collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The information collection is entitled, "Comprehensive Decommissioning Program Annual Site Lis...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to amend Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program (FEGLI) regulations to clarify the definition of annual rates of pay for insured employees and to address the status of judges o...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing 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 Sep 24, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Major Disaster Declaration:

Title Type Published
This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Alabama (FEMA-4563-DR), dated 09/20/2020. Incident: Hurricane Sally. Incident Period: 09/14/2020 and continuing.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

State Department logo State Department

Culturally Significant Object Being Imported for Exhibition:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I hereby determine that one object being imported from abroad pursuant to an agreement with the foreign owner or custodian for temporary display in the exhibition "Rubens: Picturing Antiquity" a...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Acquisition Exemption:

Title Type Published
Cattaraugus Local Development Corp.; Rail Line in Cattaraugus County, NY
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Title Type Published
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) issues this final rule to implement procedures for the issuance of TVA guidance documents in accordance with Executive Order 13891. This final rule would, among other things, establish internal agency requirements...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FAA is adopting a policy for the prompt settlement of legal enforcement actions against individuals who have violated FAA regulations proscribing any: Fraudulent or intentionally false statement on an application for a medical certificate or othe...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

Airspace Designations and Reporting Points:

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This action proposes to amend Federal airways J-502, and J-511 in Alaska. It also proposes to establish 2 Q routes, Q-902, and Q-811. The modifications are necessary due to the decommissioning of the Burwash Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) in Yukon Terr...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020
This action proposes to establish Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface for New Garden Airport, Toughkenamon, PA, to accommodate new instrument procedures designed for the airport. Controlled airspace is necessary for the...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain GEnx-1B64, 1B64/P1, -1B64/P2, -1B67, -1B67/P1, -1B67/P2, - 1B70, -1B70/75/P1, -1B70/75/P2, -1B70/P1, -1B70/P2, -1B70C/P1, -1B70C/ P2, -1B74/75/P1, -1B74/75/P2, -1B76/P2, -1B76A/...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020
The FAA is reopening the comment period for an earlier proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for certain Pacific Scientific Aviation Services seat restraint rotary buckle assemblies (buckles). The NPRM proposed to require inspecting each buckle and buckle handl...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. Model PC-7 airplanes. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another countr...
Proposed Rule Sep 24, 2020
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 737-600, -700, -700C, -800, -900, and -900ER series airplanes. This AD was prompted by the FAA's analysis of the Model 737 fuel system reviews conducted by th...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

Land Release Request of Airport Property:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the request to release and sell a 0.73 acre parcel and a 12.72 acre parcel of federally obligated airport property at the Malden Regional Airport & Industrial Park (MAW), Malden, Missouri.
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on the determination...
Notice Sep 24, 2020
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is amending the Cuban Assets Control Regulations to further implement portions of the President's foreign policy toward Cuba to deny the Cuban regime sources of revenue. Specifi...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

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

Title Type Published
The OCC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on the renewal of an information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA...
Notice Sep 24, 2020

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Acquisition Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending and updating its VA Acquisition Regulation (VAAR) in phased increments to revise or remove any policy superseded by changes in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), to remove procedural guidance...
Rule Sep 24, 2020

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