March 9, 2023 (Volume 88)

Federal Register March 9, 2023

View all documents issued on March 9, 2023. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

91 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 9, 2023

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 09, 2023
This final rule updates the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers for paper and paper-based packaging products in the Paper and Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order). In addition, this action adds new language th...
Rule Mar 09, 2023
The Forest Service (Forest Service or Agency), United States Department of Agriculture, is proposing to amend its special use regulations to update the processing and monitoring fee schedules based on current Agency costs; to provide for recovery of...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023

Decreased Assessment Rate:

Title Type Published
This final rule implements a recommendation from the Texas Valley Citrus Committee to decrease the assessment rate established for the 2022-23 and subsequent fiscal periods. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, susp...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Increased Assessment Rate:

Title Type Published
This rule implements a recommendation from the Prune Marketing Committee (Committee) to increase the assessment rate established for the 2022-23 crop year. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminat...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Intent to Certify Delegated Agencies:

Title Type Published
AMS is asking for comments on the quality of official services at export port locations provided by the following delegated states: Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (Alabama) and the Washington State Department of Agriculture (Washing...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Marketing Order:

Title Type Published
This rule implements a recommendation from the Citrus Administrative Committee (Committee) to exempt pummelos from requirements prescribed under the Florida citrus marketing order. This change exempts pummelos from all requirements under the marketin...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Codex Office is sponsoring a public meeting on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 1:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions to be discussed at...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

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 (FACA) that the California Advisory Committee (Committee) will hold a virtual b...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
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 Nebraska Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civi...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
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 Nevada Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
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 Nevada Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
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 Ohio Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil R...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) and its Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI\2\) are developing strategies to create a more equitable and diverse innovation ecosystem. As one strategy, the USPTO is implementing the Fir...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
This notice contains the preliminary results of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products (solar products) from the People's Republic of China...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain exporters/producers of ripe olives from Spain received countervailable subsidies during the period of review (POR) January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020.
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Approval of Subzone Expansion:

Title Type Published
Swagelok Co.; Valley City, OH
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is opening directed fishing for sablefish with fixed gear managed under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program and the Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program. The season will open 1200 hours, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), March 10, 2023, an...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Fisheries of the Northeastern United States:

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes specifications for the 2023 Atlantic spiny dogfish fishery, as recommended by the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils. This action is necessary to establish allowable harvest levels for the spiny dogfish fishery to...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023
This action implements 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-Atlantic Fishery Manag...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Proposed Production Activity:

Title Type Published
Foreign-Trade Zone 124; Valero Refining-New Orleans, LLC (Renewable Fuels and By-Products); Norco, LA
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Taking or Importing of Marine Mammals:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received a request from the U.S. Navy (Navy) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to the replacement of Pier 3 at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia over the course of five years (2023-2028). Pursuant to the M...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau or CFPB) is requesting the extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) approval for an existing information collection title...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The DoD is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Board of Visitors, Marine Corps University ("the Board") will take place.
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Department of the Army is publishing this notice to announce the Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Inland Waterways Users Board (Board). This meeting is open to the public. For additional information about th...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Election Assistance Commission logo Election Assistance Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is seeking public comments as a key component of its annual review of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG). The public comment period will last for 90 days. This will allow all stakeholders to pr...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 09, 2023
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Effectiveness of Exempt Wholesale Generator Status:

Title Type Published
Moss Landing Energy Storage 3, LLC, Chesapeake Solar Project, LLC, East Point Energy Center, LLC, et al.
Notice Mar 09, 2023

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

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) in 2009 for New Jersey's motor vehicle inspection and maintenance (I/M)...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

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

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of diglycerol when used as an inert ingredient (plasticizer) on growing crops and raw agricultural commodities pre- and post-harvest. This regulation eliminates...
Rule Mar 09, 2023
This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of mandestrobin in or on Vegetable, tuberous and corm, except potato, subgroup 1D. The Interregional Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks comment on ways to further improve E-Rate program rules and encourage greater Tribal participation in the E-Rate program. The Commission also seeks comment on whether there ar...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Change in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
This notice informs submitters who reported COVID-19 data in 2020 for the High-Impact Area Distribution that HRSA received a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for data reported to HHS that was used in determining COVID-19 High-Impact Area Dis...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking scientific information submissions from the public. Scientific information is being solicited to inform our review on Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause, which is currently being condu...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

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

Title Type Published
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) intends to request from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) an extension of approval for an umbrella generic clearance for information collections related to ACF program office monitoring activ...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Administration for Community Living is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed above has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance as required under section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Pape...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Emergency Use Authorization:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the revocation of the Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) (the Authorizations) issued to Babson Diagnostics, Inc., for the Babson Diagnostics aC19G1, and Twist Bioscience Corporation for the SARS-C...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
On May 3, 2021, DHS published an interim final rule (IFR) extending the card-based enforcement deadline to May 3, 2023. This rule finalizes that IFR and further extends the date for card-based enforcement of the REAL ID regulations from May 3, 2023 u...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment upon this proposed revision of a currently approved collection of information. In accordance...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0074, abstracted below, to OMB for an extension of the curre...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment upon this proposed extension of a currently approved collection of information. In accordanc...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment upon this proposed revision of a currently approved collection of information. In accordance...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer (OCHCO) is issuing a public notice of its intent to establish a Privacy Act System...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing a public notice of its intent to modify the Multifamily Housing Privacy Act system of records for the Comprehensiv...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program:

Title Type Published
The United States Housing Act of 1937 requires that certain assistance contracts signed by owners participating in the Department's Section 8 housing assistance payment programs provide annual adjustments to monthly rentals for units covered by the c...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) is issuing notice of its intent to establish a new system of records entitled, "Payroll, Attendance, Retirement, and Leave Records--NIGC-3." This system of recor...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the NIGC is issuing public notice of its intent to modify an existing system of records entitled, Management Contract Individuals Record System. This system of records is used to maintain inform...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the NIGC is issuing public notice of its intent to modify an existing system of records entitled, Indian Gaming Individuals Record System. This system of records includes information submitted t...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 12-month finding on a petition to list Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana) as endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). Afte...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), determine threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended, for the longsolid (Fusconaia subrotunda) and round hickorynut (Obovaria subrotunda), freshwater mussels....
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Plats of Survey:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to file plats of survey 30 calendar days from the date of this publication in the BLM Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming. These surveys, which were executed at the request of the U.S. Forest Servi...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 09, 2023

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. 32) granting complainants' motion for leave to amend the complaint and notice of investigation...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
Notice is hereby given that, on October 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("Federal Circuit") issued a mandate with instructions to dismiss as moot the portion of the complaint filed in the above-captioned investigation rela...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 09, 2023

M
Management and Budget Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing to revise the information collection 0348-0065 that it uses for members of the public who request a meeting with OIRA on rules under...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Guidance:

Title Type Published
This document corrects the Action caption to a notification of proposed guidance published in the Federal Register of February 9, 2023. The proposed revisions to the OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements were limited in scope to support implementati...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Astrophysics Advisory Committee. This Committee reports to the Director, Astrophysics Division, Science Mission...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Postal Service logo Postal Service

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 Mar 09, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission" or "SEC") is proposing a new rule under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ("Advisers Act" or "Act") to address how investment advisers safeguard client assets. To effect our redesignation of the...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023

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

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Exemption:

Title Type Published
Trackage Rights; Grainbelt Corp., BNSF Railway Co.
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This rule establishes, amends, suspends, or removes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPS) and associated Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure procedures (ODPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed becau...
Rule Mar 09, 2023
This rule amends, suspends, or removes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) and associated Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption o...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the BTS to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) approval for a new information collection related to the nation's Batt...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
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 collection of information is necessary to do...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Airspace Designations and Reporting Points:

Title Type Published
This action delays the effective date of a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 28, 2022, establishing area navigation (RNAV) route T-380 in the vicinity of Emmonak, AK. The FAA is delaying the effective date to allow sufficient t...
Rule Mar 09, 2023
This action proposes to revoke Alaskan VOR Federal Airway V- 489. The FAA is taking this action due to automated flight plan conflicts between New York Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) and Anchorage ARTCC when pilots file V-489 in flight plan...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023
This action proposes to amend Class D airspace and Class E surface airspace and establish Class E airspace designated as an extension to a Class D surface area for Hudson Valley Regional Airport, Poughkeepsie, NY, as an airspace evaluation determined...
Proposed Rule Mar 09, 2023

Exemption Application:

Title Type Published
FMCSA clarifies its March 3, 2023, notice announcing an application from Waymo LLC (Waymo) and Aurora Operations, Inc. (Aurora) for a 5-year exemption from the required placement of warning devices around stopped commercial motor vehicles (CMVs); the...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Positive Train Control Safety Plan and Request for Positive Train Control System Certification:

Title Type Published
This document provides the public with notice that, on February 28, 2023, Brightline Trains Florida, LLC (BLF) submitted its Positive Train Control Safety Plan (PTCSP), Version 1.0, dated January 30, 2023, to FRA's Secure Information Repository. BLF...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to a temporary regulation (TD 9953) that was published in the Federal Register on September 10, 2021. These temporary regulations authorize the assessment of any erroneous refund of the tax credits paid under sectio...
Rule Mar 09, 2023

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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

Title Type Published
The 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 agenc...
Notice Mar 09, 2023
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, this notice announces that the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, will submit the collection of information abstracted below to the Office of Managemen...
Notice Mar 09, 2023

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