March 17, 2021 (Volume 86)

Federal Register March 17, 2021

View all documents issued on March 17, 2021. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 17, 2021

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Black Hills Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will conduct a virtual meeting. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The U.S. Codex Office is sponsoring a public meeting on May 11, 2021. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States (U.S.) positions to be discussed at the 52nd Sessi...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The El Dorado County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a series of virtual meetings. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advis...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Ketchikan Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a virtual meeting. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act....
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Lincoln Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a virtual meeting. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. T...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Missoula Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a virtual meeting by phone and/or video conference. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with th...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Missoula Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a virtual meeting by phone and/or video conference. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with th...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The North Central Idaho Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will conduct virtual attendance only meetingss. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Fe...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Revolving Fund Program:

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is issuing a final rule to implement statutory provisions of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). The intent of this rule is to modify an existing regulation to include the statutory revision aut...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Title Type Published
Notice of Commission public business meeting.
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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 (FACA) that the Nevada Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will ho...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
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 the Nevada Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will ho...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
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 the Nevada Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will ho...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
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 the South Dakota State Advisory Committee to the Commission will...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit renewal application from the Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association contains all o...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of Commerce, is correcting an interim final rule, "Expansion of Certain End-Use and End-User Controls and Controls on Specific Activities of U.S. Persons," that appeared in the Federal Register of...
Rule Mar 17, 2021
The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit application contains all of the required information and warrants further consideratio...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The U.S. Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) Program, which is managed by NOAA and assisted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast Guard, requests input from all interested persons...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from Brazil for the period of review (POR) January 1, 2019, through Dece...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act Provisions:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit renewal application from the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation contains all of...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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

Title Type Published
NMFS announces the re-opening of the commercial longline component for golden tilefish in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the South Atlantic through this temporary rule. NMFS closed the commercial longline component on February 10, 2021; however...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) Enforcement Committee will meet March 31, 2021.
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Permit Application:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the NMFS Office of Protected Resources, Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (Responsible Party: Teri Rowles, D.V.M., Ph.D.), 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 has applied for an amendment to S...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Proposed Production Activity:

Request for Applications:

Title Type Published
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is seeking applications from persons interested in serving on the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC or committee) for two-year terms. The CSMAC p...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received a request from the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to the Port San Luis Breakwater Repair Project in Avila Beach, California. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NM...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
In accordance with the regulations implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued a Renewal incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to the Chesapeake Tunnel Joint Venture (CTJV) t...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
In accordance with the regulations implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued a renewal incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to the U.S. Navy (Navy) to take small numbers of...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Education Department logo Education Department

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing an extension without change of a currently approved collection.
Notice Mar 17, 2021
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection.
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Request for Information:

Title Type Published
Consistent with the President's Executive order titled "Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers," the U.S. Department of Education (Department) is requesting information to enable teachers,...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is inviting public comments on the currently approved information collection FERC-725HH (RF Reliability Standard...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 17, 2021
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Energy Conservation Program:

Title Type Published
In this notice, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is forecasting the representative average unit costs of five residential energy sources for the year 2021 pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (Act). The five sources are electricity,...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Inviting Post-Technical Conference Comments:

Title Type Published
Offshore Wind Integration in RTOs/ISOs
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an online virtual combined meeting of the Consent Order Committee and Risk Evaluation and Management Committee of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Com...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Improved Software
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Missouri on January 15, 2019, and supplemented by letter on June 14, 2019. Missouri requests that the EPA...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is initiating further data collection and analysis to support potential future rulemaking, under the Clean Water Act (CWA), relating to the effluent limitations guidelines, pretreatment standar...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of the final guidance document entitled "Guidance for Waiving Acute Dermal Toxicity Tests for Pesticide Technical Chemicals & Supporting Retrospective Analysis." Guidance docume...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of a series of virtual meetings of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Health Communities (SHC) Subcommittee to discuss contaminat...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes to rescind two systems of records, FCC/OMD-20, Inter-office and Internet Email Systems, and FCC/OMD-22, Equipment Loan Records. The systems contained information concerning the names, email address...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Commission will consider a Second Report and Order that would provide state and federal agencies with direct, read-only access to communications outage data for public safety purposes while also preserving the confidentiality of that data. 2........
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Mar 17, 2021
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Savings and Loan Holding Companies
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Change in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Board Meeting
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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 (the PRA), federal agencies are required to...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Medicare Program:

Title Type Published
Consistent with the memorandum of January 20, 2021, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, titled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," this document delays the effective date of the final rule titled, "Medicare Program; Medicare Cover...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Medicare and Medicaid Programs:

Title Type Published
This quarterly notice lists CMS manual instructions, substantive and interpretive regulations, and other Federal Register notices that were published from October through December 2020, relating to the Medicare and Medicaid programs and other program...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the next meeting of the APOE (the Panel) in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The Panel advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretar...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Mar 17, 2021
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice announces that the Secretary's National Advisory Council on Migrant Health (NACMH or Council) has scheduled a public meeting. Information about NACMH and the agenda for this meeting c...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Mar 17, 2021

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program:

Title Type Published
HHS proposes rescinding the final rule entitled "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table," published in the Federal Register on January 21, 2021. That final rule, if it were to go into effect, would amend o...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This rule identifies communities where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with th...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Interior Department logo Interior Department

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service is soliciting electronic comments on the significance of properties nominated before February 27, 2021, for listing or related actions in the National Register of Historic Places.
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The National Park Service is soliciting electronic comments on the significance of properties nominated before March 6, 2021, for listing or related actions in the National Register of Historic Places.
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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 ("Commission") has determined not to review an initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 8) of the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ"), granting a motion by Complainant Skull Sh...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Proposed Settlement Agreement:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor is withdrawing the proposed rule that accompanied its direct final rule (DFR) that requires electronic filing (e-filing) and electronic service (e-service) for attorneys and lay representatives representing parties in proceedi...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021
The Department of Labor is reopening for 15 days the comment period on the January 11, 2021, notice of proposed rulemaking that would have required electronic filing (e-filing) and acceptance of electronic service (e-service) for persons represented...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021
The Department of Labor is withdrawing the proposed rule that accompanied its direct final rule (DFR) that requires electronic filing (e-filing) and makes acceptance of electronic service (e-service) automatic for attorneys and non-attorney represent...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021
The Department of Labor is reopening for 15 days the comment period on the January 11, 2021, notice of proposed rulemaking that would have provided for electronic filing (e-filing) and electronic service (e-service) of papers, required e-filing for p...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (the Department) is soliciting comments concerning a proposed extension of the information collection request (ICR) titled "Information Collections Pertaining to Special Employment Under the Fair Labor Standards Act." This com...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduc...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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 request for renewal of an existing collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, "Fitness-for-Duty Prog...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, "Licensing Requirement...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Draft Regulatory Guide:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1357, "Emergency Response Planning and Preparedness for Nuclear Power Reactors." This DG is proposed Revision 6 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.10...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
The Postal Service is amending the Code of Federal Regulations to state rules that govern compliance with subpoenas, summonses, and court orders served on employees of the Office of Inspector General where neither the Postal Service, the United State...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

State Department logo State Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on this collection from all intereste...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 we are requesting comments on this collection from all...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Abandonment Exemption:

Title Type Published
CSX Transportation, Inc., Boone County, West Virginia
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the request to release and sell a 14.1 acre parcel of federally obligated airport property at the Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (CBF), Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Airspace Designations and Reporting Points:

Title Type Published
This action proposes to amend the Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Sac City Municipal Airport, Sac City, IA. The FAA is proposing this action as the result of an airspace review due to the decommissioning of the Sa...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2018-16- 02, which applied to all Airbus SAS Model A318-111 and -112 airplanes; Model A319-111, -112, -113, -114, and -115 airplanes; Model A320-211, - 212, -214, and -216 airplanes; and Model A321-...
Rule Mar 17, 2021
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Bombardier, Inc., Model CL-600-1A11 (600), CL-600-2A12 (601), and CL-600-2B16 (601-3A, 601-3R and 604 Variants) airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of corrosion on t...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Leonardo S.p.a. (Leonardo) Model AW189 helicopters. This AD was prompted by two reported failures of the tail plane installation forward bolts (bolts). This AD requires inspecting the bolts a...
Rule Mar 17, 2021
The FAA is correcting a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that published in the Federal Register. The NPRM proposed to issue an airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to certain Mooney International Corporation (Mooney) Model M20V airplanes...
Proposed Rule Mar 17, 2021

Denial of Petition for Decision:

Title Type Published
G&K Automotive Conversion, Inc. (G&K or Petitioner) has petitioned NHTSA for a decision that model year 2017-2019 Mercedes-Benz Maybach S600 Pullman vehicles that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle sa...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces its decision to renew exemptions for 27 individuals from the hearing requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) for interstate commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers. The exemptions enable these hard of heari...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
FMCSA announces receipt of applications from nine individuals for an exemption from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) to operate a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in interstate commerce. If granted, the ex...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

Special Conditions:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for the Leonardo S.p.A. (Leonardo) Model A119 and AW119 MKII helicopters. These helicopters as modified by AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation (AWPC) will have a novel or unusual design feature when compared to...
Rule Mar 17, 2021

Waiver of Aeronautical Land Use Assurance:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering a proposal from the City of Independence, KS, to release a 10.675 acre parcel of land from the federal obligation dedicating it to aeronautical use and to authorize this parcel to be used for r...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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 Mar 17, 2021
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is issuing this final rule to adjust certain civil monetary penalties for inflation pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the F...
Rule Mar 17, 2021
This document contains a notice that the IRS has made available a supplemental grant opportunity in Grants.gov for organizations interested in applying for an 18-month Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) matching grant. The budget and the period of per...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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 take this opportunity to comment on a continuing information collection as required by the Paperwork Reducti...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The OCC, 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 a continuing information collection as required by the Paperwork Reducti...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The OCC, 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 a continuing information collection as required by the Paperwork Reducti...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The OCC, 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 a new information collection as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act...
Notice Mar 17, 2021
The OCC, 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 a continuing information collection as required by the Paperwork Reducti...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

U
Unified Carrier Registration Plan

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 Mar 17, 2021
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 Mar 17, 2021
Veteran's Benefits Administration (VBA), 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 ag...
Notice Mar 17, 2021

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