February 15, 2023 (Volume 88)

Federal Register February 15, 2023

View all documents issued on February 15, 2023. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

104 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 15, 2023

Administrative Conference of the United States logo Administrative Conference of the United States

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The Office of the Chairman of ACUS is requesting public input on how agencies can identify and reduce unnecessary procedural burdens that members of the public face when they engage with administrative programs or participate in administrative proces...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with the export of animal products fr...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is requesting comments from all interested individuals and organizations on an extension with a revision of a current information collection request for Inventory P...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension (with no revision) of a currently approved information collection, Standard Form-299 (SF...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Imports:

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We are advising the public of our decision to authorize the importation into the United States of fresh mango (Mangifera indica L.) fruit from Grenada. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, which we made available to the public for review an...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
We are advising the public of our decision to authorize the importation of fresh Oha leaves (Pterocarpus mildbraedii) from Nigeria into the continental United States. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, which we made available to the publi...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

List of Regions Affected With African Swine Fever:

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We are advising the public that we added the Kingdom of Thailand and the Republic of North Macedonia to the list of regions that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service considers to be affected by African swine fever (ASF). We have taken these...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act that the Iowa Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil Ri...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (ITA), is announcing one upcoming trade mission that will be recruited, organized, and implemented by ITA. This mission is: Global Diversity Export Initiative (GDEI) Busines...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

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As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that revocation of the countervailing duty (CVD) orders on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (CTL plate...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines Daejin Steel Company (Daejin) and Korea Wire Co., Ltd. (KOWIRE), the producers and/or exporters subject to this administrative review, made sales of certain steel nails (steel nails) from the Repu...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (aka Inner Mongolia Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd.), Shandong Fufeng Fermentation Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (collectively, Fu...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

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NOAA's Uncrewed Systems Research Transition Office (UxSRTO) in OAR has prepared a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Funding, Procurement, and Operation of NOAA Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). We are making the draft EA available for...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Meetings:

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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a three-day in-person meeting of its Standing, Reef Fish, Shrimp, Socioeconomic, and Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical Committees (SSC).
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will hold a meeting.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) Subcommittee of the Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council's) Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will hold an online meeting to review revisions to the habitat model for the northern subpopulat...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel will hold one public meeting.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team will hold one public meeting.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Permits; Applications, Issuances, etc.:

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The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that an Exempted Fishing Permit (EFP) application contains all of the required information and warrants further consid...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Notice is hereby given that Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, 175 Edward Foster Road, Scituate, MA 02066 (Responsible Party: David Wiley, Ph.D.) has applied in due form for a permit to conduct research on seven species of cetaceans.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

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The Department of the Army is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Board of Visitors for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). This meeting is open to the public.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Combined Filings
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Guidance:

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of availability of a Draft Guidance and requests comment on the Draft Guidance to inform its implementation of hydroelectric incentives in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA). The...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Request for Information:

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) publishes the following questions regarding potential engagement with the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation (FESI), directed to be established under the CHIPS and Science Act. The purpose of this RFI is...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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The Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2021 is available for public review. EPA requests recommendations for improving the overall quality of the inventory report to be finalized in April 2023, as well as subsequent inve...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

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

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this document announces the availability of and solicits public comment on an Information Collection Request (ICR) that EPA is planning to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions to the Eastern Kern Air Pollution Control District (EKAPCD or "District") portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This r...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine that the West Pinal County, Arizona nonattainment area did not attain the 1987 24-hour national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS or "standards") for particulate matter with a dia...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

Pesticide Tolerance; Exemptions, Petitions, Revocations, etc.:

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This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of pydiflumetofen in or on caneberry subgroup 13-07A. The Interregional Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).
Rule Feb 15, 2023

Request for Nominations:

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking nominations for technical experts to serve as Special Government Employees (SGEs) on a review panel under the authority of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), a federal advisory committ...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts final rules to ensure that 911 special facilities, including Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), receive timely and actionable information about 911 service outages that...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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Agreements Filed
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Feb 15, 2023

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Acquisition Regulation:

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The General Services Administration is issuing this technical amendment to amend the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to make a needed technical amendment. In error, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) was not fully upd...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

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 Feb 15, 2023

Guidance:

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled "Compounding Certain Ibuprofen Oral Suspension Products Under Section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act." Th...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Medicare and Medicaid Programs:

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This proposed rule would implement portions of section 6101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act), which require the disclosure of certain ownership, managerial, and other information regarding Medicare skilled nursi...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

Meetings:

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Center for Scientific Review
Notice Feb 15, 2023
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Feb 15, 2023
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 15, 2023
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice Feb 15, 2023

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program:

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HRSA is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (the Program), as required by the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended. While the Secretary of HHS is named as the respondent in all pr...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Acquisition Regulation:

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DHS adopts, as final, with minor editorial changes, the proposed rule amending the Homeland Security Acquisition Regulation (HSAR). This rule implements a new subpart and new contract clause to establish contract termination policies for the United S...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

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

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The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduct...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Ac...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Meetings:

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This document announces that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will convene the Forced Labor Technical Expo in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, and Wednesday, March 15, 2023. The event will feature industry presentations on the late...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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This rule provides for 2023 inflation adjustments of civil monetary penalty amounts required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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BOEM proposes to require lessees and operators to submit an archaeological report with any oil and gas exploration or development plan they submit to BOEM for approval of activities proposed on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). An archaeological rep...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment:

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This final rule implements the 2023 inflation adjustments to the maximum daily civil monetary penalties contained in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) regulations for violations of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the Oil...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

Endangered and Threatened Species:

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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to remove the Southeast U.S. distinct population segment (DPS) of the wood stork (Mycteria americana) from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife due to recovery. This determin...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

Inventory Completion:

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In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Laboratory has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between t...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Auburn University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Forests in Alabama (National Forests in Alabama) have completed an inventory of...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field Museum of Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas State University has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2006. This notice amends the minimum numbe...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas State University has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on September 22, 2017. This notice amends the minimum numbe...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Seminole Tribe of Florida has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and In...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human re...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Meetings:

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives notice of a teleconference/web meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize Advisory Council, in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Taking or Importing of Marine Mammals:

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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in response to a request under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended, from BP America Production Company, propose to authorize nonlethal incidental take by harassment of small numbers of Southern...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork R...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Occupational Safety and Health:

Title Type Published
OSHA is withdrawing its proposed reconsideration of the Arizona State Plan's final approval status.
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
We have submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval to continue to use a currently approved information collection used by researchers who wish to do biomedical statistical research in archival records containing hig...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

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

Meetings:

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will hold one additional meeting, by video conference, of the Humanities Panel, a federal advisory committee, in February 2023, and forty-two meetings during March 2023. Additionally, NEH rescheduled tw...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

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National Labor Relations Board

RepresentationCase Procedures:

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The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register on November 4, 2022, seeking comments from the public regarding its proposed rule concerning Representation--Case Procedures: Election Ba...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

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National Science Foundation

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

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the following information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This is the second notice for public comment; the first was published in t...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

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

Title Type Published
The 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 contained in PBGC's regulation on special financial ass...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2023

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

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Cboe Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Investors Exchange, LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2023
Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2023
NYSE American, LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2023
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
NYSE Chicago, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023
NYSE National, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Disaster Declaration:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) declaration for the State of Alaska dated 02/09/2023. Incident: 2022/2023 Bering Sea Snow Crab and Bristol Bay Red King Crab Fisheries Closures. Incident Period: 10/10/2022 through 05/31/202...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Louisiana dated 02/09/2023. Incident: Severe Storms and Tornadoes. Incident Period: 12/13/2022 through 12/14/2022.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Exemption Under the Small Business Investment Act, Conflicts of Interest:

Title Type Published
LFE Growth Fund III, LP; LFE Growth Fund IV, LP
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Small Business Size Standards:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or the Agency) is increasing its employee-based small business size definitions (commonly referred to as "size standards") for North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) sectors related to Mining...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

Surrender of License of Small Business Investment Company:

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
We propose to update our regulations to remove food from the calculation of In-Kind Support and Maintenance (ISM). We also propose to add conforming language to our definition of income, excluding food from the ISM calculation. Accordingly, Supplemen...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Under this matching program, the IRS will disclose IRS t...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

State Department logo State Department

Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls:

Title Type Published
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and the Department of State give notice that the attached Notifications of Proposed Commercial Export Licenses were submitted to the Congress on the dates indicated.
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Since 2010, FMCSA has used its Safety Measurement System (SMS) to identify motor carriers for safety interventions. The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recommended on June 27, 2017, that FMCSA develop and test a ne...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics invites the general public, industry and other governmental parties to comment on the continuing need for and usefulness of DOT requiri...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Airport Property:

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The FAA is considering a proposal to change approximately 0.145 acres or 6,319.8 square feet of airport land from aeronautical use to non-aeronautical use and to authorize the granting of a permanent easement of airport property located at Crystal Ai...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2019-24-13, which applies to certain Airbus SAS Model A318 series airplanes; Model A319-111, -112, -113, -114, -115, -131, -132, and -133 airplanes; Model A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -2...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 747-8 series airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by a report of stress corrosion cracking in certain stringers and end stringer splice assemblies....
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2023

Exemption Applications:

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FMCSA announces its decision to renew exemptions for seven individuals from the requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) that interstate commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers have "no established medical history or clinic...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Hazardous Materials:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has r...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has r...
Notice Feb 15, 2023
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has r...
Notice Feb 15, 2023

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing three general licenses (GLs) issued pursuant to the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations: GLs 6C, 28B, and 54A, each of which were previously m...
Rule Feb 15, 2023

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 Feb 15, 2023

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