November 16, 2020 (Volume 85)

Federal Register November 16, 2020

View all documents issued on November 16, 2020. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

90 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 16, 2020

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Nov 16, 2020
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised sections of its Guidance for Grants and Agreements in August 2020. This final rule amends the regulations of several United States Department of Agriculture agencies to reflect the revised OMB guidanc...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Forest Service Manual 3800, Zero Code:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Forest Service (Agency), is issuing a proposed directive for the Agency's State and Private Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Program. The Landscape Scale Restoration Program (LSR) is...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Marketing Order:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends Marketing Order No. 966, which regulates the handling of Florida Tomatoes. The amendments will change the Florida Tomato Committee's (Committee) size, length of the terms of office, and quorum requirements.
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
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 that the Washington Advisory Committee (Committee) will hold a series of meetin...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
Utility Scale Wind Towers From India and Malaysia
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Authorization of Production Activity:

Fisheries Off West Coast States:

Title Type Published
This document announces the reapportionment of 40,000 metric tons of Pacific whiting from the tribal allocation to the non-tribal commercial fishery sectors via automatic action on September 16, 2020. This reapportionment is to allow full utilization...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

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

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes to implement management measures described in Regulatory Amendment 34 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (Snapper-Grouper FMP), as prepared and submitted by the South Atlant...
Proposed Rule Nov 16, 2020

Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations:

Title Type Published
Utility Scale Wind Towers From India, Malaysia, and Spain
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory committees will meet via webconference November 30, 2020 through December 12, 2020.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold its 138th Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC), Pelagic and International Standing Committee, Executive and Budget Standing Committee, and 184th Council meetings to take actions...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Pacific Island Fisheries:

Title Type Published
This temporary rule implements an interim catch limit (ICL) of 13,000 lb of American Samoa bottomfish for fishing years 2020 and 2021 during the effective period of the rule. NMFS will monitor catches, and if the fishery reaches the ICL within a fish...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation:

Title Type Published
DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a correction to FAC 2021-02; FAR Case 2020-003; Removal of FAR Appendix; Item I; which published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2020. This correction makes an editorial change to correct the amendatory language...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Nov 16, 2020
Combined Filings
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Spire Storage West, LLC; Proposed Clear Creek Expansion Project
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for Blanket Section 204 Authorizations:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for chemical substances which are the subject of premanufacture notices (PMNs). This action would require persons to notify EPA at least 90 days before c...
Proposed Rule Nov 16, 2020

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to find that five states failed to submit State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions required by the Clean Air Act (CAA) in a timely manner to address reasonably available control techno...
Rule Nov 16, 2020
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Missouri on January 15, 2019, and supplemented by letter on July 11, 2019. In the proposal, EPA pr...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Approval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is notifying the public that we have received CAA section 111(d)/129 negative declarations from Arkansas, New Mexico, and Albuquerque-Bernalillo County,...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Pesticide Tolerances:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of the insecticide indoxacarb in or on Almond, hulls at 8 parts per million (ppm) and Nut, tree, group 14-12 at 0.08 ppm. FMC Corporation requested tolerances for these commodities under the Federal...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Proposed De Minimis Administrative Order:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the De Minimis Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent, notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement concerning the Lane Street Ground Water Contamination Site in Elkhart, Indiana, with the follow...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
Veterans Day (Proc. 10118)
Presidential Document Nov 16, 2020

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) has approved the private sector adjustment factor (PSAF) for 2021 of $16.4 million and the 2021 fee schedules for Federal Reserve priced services and electronic access. These actions were t...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board ("FRTIB") is reducing paperwork burdens on participants who are eligible to make catch-up contributions by removing the regulation that requires them to submit two different contribution election forms.
Rule Nov 16, 2020

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation:

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Notice Nov 16, 2020
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is amending its regulations to make miscellaneous corrections, including correcting references to other regulations, misspellings and other typographical errors. This document is necessary to info...
Rule Nov 16, 2020
This document announces a public hearing to receive information and views on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) entitled "Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely."
Proposed Rule Nov 16, 2020

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

Title Type Published
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...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
In compliance with of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a final guidance entitled "Certificates of Confidentiality; Guidance for Sponsors, Sponsor-Investigators, Researchers, Industry, and Food and Drug Administration Staff...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Nov 16, 2020
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Nov 16, 2020
Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee
Notice Nov 16, 2020
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 16, 2020
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 16, 2020
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 16, 2020
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 16, 2020
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 16, 2020
As stipulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice that the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) will hold a virtual meeting. The meeting will be open to the public and...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security 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 of 1995.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
The Department of Homeland Security 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 of 1995.
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
This rule revises National Park Service regulations to comply with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Sturgeon v. Frost. In the Sturgeon decision, the Court held that National Park Service regulations apply exclusively to public lands (meaning...
Rule Nov 16, 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 Land Management (BLM) are proposing to renew an information collection.
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), recently proposed to reclassify the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) as a threatened species with a rule issued under section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), a...
Proposed Rule Nov 16, 2020
In this document, known as a Candidate Notice of Review (CNOR), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), present an updated list of domestic plant and animal species that we regard as candidates for or have proposed for addition to the Lists...
Proposed Rule Nov 16, 2020

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service is soliciting electronic comments on the significance of properties nominated before October 31, 2020, for listing or related actions in the National Register of Historic Places.
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Justice Department logo Justice Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Proposed Final Judgment and Competitive Impact Statement:

Title Type Published
United States v. Liberty Latin America Ltd., et al.
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
This final regulation establishes the requirements for registering with the Department of Labor as a "pooled plan provider" for "pooled employer plans" under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA). The Setting Every C...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
This direct final rule removes information on NASA's Cooperative Agreements with Commercial Firms because this information is already available in another section of the Code of Federal Regulations and in NASA's Grant and Cooperative Agreements Manua...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Federal Acquisition Regulation:

No documents available.

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National Council on Disability

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 16, 2020

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Title Type Published
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announces the following information collection has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This program helps to...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Draft Regulatory Guide:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1360, "Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection for Existing Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants." This regulatory guide (RG) describes an...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1359, "Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants." This regulatory guide (RG) describes an approach that is acceptable to the NRC staff to meet...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

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

Title Type Published
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") intends to request that the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") extend approval, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, of a collection of information on the disclosure of termination information under it...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
Nasdaq BX, Inc.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
Nasdaq BX, Inc.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
National Securities Clearing Corp.
Notice Nov 16, 2020
New York Stock Exchange, LLC
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
The Small Business Administration (SBA) intends to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the collection of information described below. The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) requires federal agencies to publish a notice in t...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on October 16, 2020. This rule merged the 8(a) Business Development (BD) Mentor- Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Program and the All Small Mentor- Pro...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
We are revising our rules to clarify when and how administrative appeals judges (AAJ) on our Appeals Council may hold hearings and issue decisions. The Appeals Council already has the authority to hold hearings and issue decisions under our existing...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Foreign Affairs Policy Board
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FHWA has forwarded the information collection request described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval of a new (periodic) information collection. We published a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day public comme...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
This action allows States to use the Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) method of contracting, including job order contracting (JOC), on Federal-aid highway projects, under certain circumstances, on a permanent basis.
Rule Nov 16, 2020
This final rule establishes metrics and minimum standards for measuring the performance and service quality of intercity passenger train operations.
Rule Nov 16, 2020
Petition for Waiver of Compliance
Notice Nov 16, 2020

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The Advanced Qualification Program uses data dri...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comments. A Federal Register N...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comments. A Federal Register N...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA invites comments on an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number pertaining to hazardous materials transportation. This notice follows the publication of a PHMSA final rule titl...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Airspace Designations and Reporting Points:

Title Type Published
This action modifies the Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Bear Lake County Airport, Paris, ID, to accommodate new Area Navigation (RNAV) procedures at the airport. This action will ensure the safety and management...
Rule Nov 16, 2020
This action withdraws the final rule published in the Federal Register on October 26, 2020. In that action, the FAA amends VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Federal airways V-5 and V-178 in the vicinity of New Hope, KY, and removes V-513 in its entiret...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

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 requirements of the coastwise trade laws to allow the carriage of no more than twelve passengers for hire on vess...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The 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 based on OFAC's determination that one or...
Notice Nov 16, 2020
This document contains corrections to the final regulations (Treasury Decision 9909) that were published in the Federal Register on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Treasury Decision 9909 contained final regulations under sections 245A and 954 of the Inter...
Rule Nov 16, 2020

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

Title Type Published
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, FinCEN invites comments on the proposed renewal, without change, of a currently approved information collection found in existing Bank Secrecy Act regulations. Specifically,...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance ("Committee") will meet via video conference on Thursday, December 3, 2020 from 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The meeting is open to the pub...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

U
Unified Carrier Registration Plan

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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

Title Type Published
Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies...
Notice Nov 16, 2020

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans
Notice Nov 16, 2020

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