December 15, 2022 (Volume 87)

Federal Register December 15, 2022

View all documents issued on December 15, 2022. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

88 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 15, 2022

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Commission on Civil Rights published a notice in the Federal Register concerning a meeting of the American Samoa Advisory Committee. The meeting scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 2022, at 12 p.m. (SST) is cancelled. The notice is in the Feder...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
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 Delaware Advisory Committee to the Commission will hold virtu...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
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 Hawai[revaps]i Advisory Committee to the Commissio...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of finished carbon steel flanges (flanges) from India during the period of review (POR), January 1, 2020, through Decem...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that producers and exporters of glycine from India received countervailable subsidies during the period of review (POR), January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020.
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Fisheries of the Northeastern United States:

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes regulations to implement Framework Adjustment 17 to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan and Framework Adjustment 6 to the Bluefish Fishery Management Plan. This framework was developed by the Mid-Atlant...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022

Meetings:

Title Type Published
: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT or Committee) will meet on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and Thursday, February 9, 2023, from 8:30 a.m....
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Requests for Nominations:

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Notice is hereby given that NOAA is establishing a sanctuary advisory council (council) for the proposed Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary to provide advice and recommendations to ONMS regarding the sanctuary's designation. With this notice, ON...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) is proposing to amend certain reporting and information regulations applicable to derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs). These proposed amendments would, among other things, update inf...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Title Type Published
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has received a written request to make a determination that the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) preempts a New York State commercial financing law with respect to certain provisions. The CFPB is publishing...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Request for Comments:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) has two mandatory rules that incorporate by reference applicable provisions of ASTM F406-19, Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Non-Full-Size Baby Cribs/Play Yards. These mandat...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
DoD, GSA, and NASA are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement regulatory changes made by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to update and clarify requirements associated with the 8(a) program.
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022
This document amends the previous notice published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 2, 2022. This notice respectively amends the total number of names from 87 to 89.
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 15, 2022
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Application:

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

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

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA is issuing a correction to a proposed rule that published in the Federal Register of Friday, December 2, 2022, in which EPA proposed significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for chemical substances that were...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022
EPA is taking final action to amend the Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries to reference a standard practice recently made available by ASTM International, a widely recognized standards developing organization. Specifically, this fi...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Application for Emergency Exemption:

Title Type Published
EPA has received a specific exemption request from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture for use of the pesticide DQB Males (Wolbachia pipientis, DQB strain, contained in live adult Culex quinquefasciatus males), to treat up to 20,000 acres of State,...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the Science Advisory Board BenMAP and Benefits Methods Panel. The purpose of the meeting is to receive a presentation on charge question...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to issue regulations to implement certain provisions of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, as enacted on December 27, 2020. This rulemaking proposes to: restrict the use of hydrofluoro...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), as a part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the public and other Federal Agencies to comment on the proposed information collection, as required by the...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
On March 10, 2022, the Media Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in response to a petition for rulemaking filed by Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC (Petitioner), the licensee of KXLF-TV (Station), channel 5,...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Television Broadcasting Services:

Title Type Published
On March 10, 2022, the Media Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in response to a petition for rulemaking filed by Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC (Petitioner), the licensee of KPAX-TV (Station), channel 7,...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

No documents available.

Acquisition Regulation:

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration (GSA) is issuing this final rule amending the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to make editorial changes. This technical amendment includes correcting GSAR provision and clause designat...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

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 Dec 15, 2022
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 Dec 15, 2022
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 the proposed information collection project "The AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Impr...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
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 Dec 15, 2022

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirement of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to provide opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) in the Office of Extramural Research will publish...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published a correction document in the Federal Register on December 7, 2022 concerning request for comments on Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records published November...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Dec 15, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is publishing a list of information collections that have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Funding Opportunity:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of intent to award supplemental funding to the SPRC recipient funded in FY 2020 under Funding Opportunity Announcement SM-20-011. This is to inform the public that the SAMHSA is supporting an administrative supplement up to $5.429 mi...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Developing Drugs for Treatment." The purpose of this draft guidance is to assist sponsors in the clinic...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Dec 15, 2022
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Dec 15, 2022
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Notice Dec 15, 2022
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Standards for Lowfat Yogurt and Nonfat Yogurt:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) received objections and requests for a hearing from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and Chobani, Inc. (Chobani) on the final rule titled "Milk and Cream Products and Yogurt Produc...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This notice announces that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will conduct a nationwide trial of planned changes to the naturalization test. The naturalization test is comprised of the civics test that evaluates a knowledge and underst...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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

Title Type Published
HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Funding Opportunity:

Title Type Published
Through this notice, HUD is announcing the publication of a preview of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Family Unification Program (FUP) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) in advance of publication on Grants.gov. HUD is making this preview available to al...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information collection with revisions.
Notice Dec 15, 2022
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing an information collection to publicly announce a request for information regarding natural-hazards resources and experts in U.S. Caribbean te...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), determine that whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), a high-elevation tree species found across western North America, is a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended....
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE), Harvard University intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated f...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Inventory Completion:

Title Type Published
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the huma...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affili...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE), Harvard University has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Importer, Manufacturer or Bulk Manufacturer of Controlled Substances; Application, Registration, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published a document in the Federal Register on August 9, 2022, concerning an application for an Importer of Controlled Substances. The document contained an incorrect drug schedule for coca leaves.
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, is exercising his time-limited Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 authority and increasing the total number of noncitizens who may receive an H-2B nonimmigrant visa by up to, but no...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

No documents available.

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National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Review Panel for Materials Research
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans to prescribe interest assumptions under the asset allocation regulation for plans with valuation dates in the first quarter...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing for the Commission's consideration concerning a negotiated service agreement. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
On October 7, 2022, the Postal Service (USPS[supreg]) filed a notice of mailing services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), effective January 22, 2023. This final rule contains the revisions to Mailing Standards of the Uni...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Product Change:

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 15, 2022
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 15, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Application:

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to amend the rules of practice of its Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) and the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program. Specifically, SBA proposes to implement procedures au...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022
The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) and Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) pursuant to Section 862 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, Public Law 116-283, 134 Stat. 3388 (January 1, 2021), amended 38 U.S....
Notice Dec 15, 2022

State Department logo State Department

Culturally Significant Objects Being Imported for Exhibition:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I hereby determine that certain objects being imported from abroad pursuant to agreements with their foreign owners or custodians for temporary display in the exhibition "New Photography 2023: K...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Designation as Specially Designated Global Terrorist:

Title Type Published
Osama Mehmood, Atif Yahya Ghouri, Muhammad Maruf, and Qari Amjad
Notice Dec 15, 2022

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Request for Comments:

Title Type Published
Each year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) conducts a review to identify countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property (IP) rights or deny fair and equitable market access to U.S. persons w...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Notice is being given that the FAA is considering a request from the Massachusetts Port Authority to dispose of 5.19 acres of land at Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA. The disposal of 2 parcels is associated with a land swap with an adjacent property. The...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Airspace Designations and Reporting Points:

Title Type Published
This action proposes to modify the Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Boswell Airport, CA. The radius is reduced, as there are no circling maneuvers authorized at the airport. This action also proposes the addition o...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022
This action modifies five VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Federal airways, and removes one airway. This action supports the FAA's VOR Minimum Operational Network (MON) program.
Rule Dec 15, 2022
This action proposes to establish Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Mefford Field Airport, CA. These actions will support instrument flight rules (IFR) arrival and departure operations at the airport.
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022
This action proposes to amend VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Federal airways V-169, V-170, and V-430, and Area Navigation (RNAV) route T-331; and establish RNAV route T-475. The FAA is proposing this action due to the planned decommissioning of the...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus SAS Model A350-941 and -1041 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by an in-service inspection that found overhead storage compartment (OHSC) crash rods that were disc...
Proposed Rule Dec 15, 2022
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Leonardo S.p.a. Model AW169 helicopters. This AD was prompted by a report of a protruding pushbutton screw (screw) on a cockpit door internal handle resulting in an interference with the...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Funding Opportunity:

Title Type Published
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for up to $500,000 in fiscal year (FY) 2021 funds for a single cooperative agreement for a research project to help transit agencies address operator and rider assaults. The...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Request for Comments:

Title Type Published
Notice is being given that the FAA is considering a request from the Mobile Airport Authority to waive the requirement that a 0.95<plus-minus> parcel of property, located on Mobile International Airport (BFM) in Mobile, Alabama, be used for aeronauti...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Request to Change Land Use:

Title Type Published
Notice is being given that the FAA is considering a request from Hancock County to change land use from aeronautical to non- aeronautical for 1.405 acres for non-aeronautical revenue generation at Hancock County Bar Harbor Airport, Trenton, ME. The p...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

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 OFAC's determinat...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
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 OFAC's determinat...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
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 OFAC's determinat...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons and vessel that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

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

Title Type Published
The Internal Revenue Service, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as requ...
Notice Dec 15, 2022
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other federal agencies to comment on the proposed information collections listed below, in accordance with the...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

Information Reporting:

Title Type Published
This document includes final regulations under the Internal Revenue Code that provide an automatic extension of time for providers of minimum essential coverage (including health insurance issuers, self-insured employers, and government agencies) to...
Rule Dec 15, 2022

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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

Title Type Published
Veterans Health Administration (VHA), 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 agenc...
Notice Dec 15, 2022

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