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a. Revising the date of the clause and
paragraphs (b)(33)(i) and (e)(1)(xi)(A);
and
■ b. In alternate II, revising the date and
paragraph (e)(1)(ii)(J)(1).
The revisions read as follows:
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52.212–5 Contract Terms and Conditions
Required to Implement Statutes or
Executive Orders—Commercial Items.
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Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—
Commercial Items (DATE)
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ll(33)(i) 52.222–50, Combating Trafficking
in Persons (DATE) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78
and E.O. 13627).
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ll(A) 52.222–50, Combating Trafficking in
Persons (DATE) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78 and
E.O 13627).
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(J) ll(1) 52.222–50, Combating
Trafficking in Persons (DATE) (22 U.S.C.
chapter 78 and E.O 13627).
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5. Amend section 52.213–4 by
revising the date of the clause and
paragraphs (a)(2)(viii) and (b)(1)(viii)(A)
to read as follows:
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52.213–4 Terms and Conditions—
Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than
Commercial Items).
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Terms and Conditions—Simplified
Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Items)
(DATE)
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(viii) 52.244–6, Subcontracts for
Commercial Items (DATE).
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(viii)(A) 52.222–50, Combating Trafficking
in Persons (DATE) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78 and
E.O 13627) (Applies to all solicitations and
contracts).
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6. Amend section 52.222–50 by—
a. Revising the date of the clause;
b. Adding to paragraph (a), in
alphabetical order, the definition
‘‘Recruitment fees’’;
■ c. Revising paragraph (b)(5)(i);
■ d. Removing from paragraph (b)(6) the
word ‘‘employees’’ and adding
‘‘employees or potential employees’’ in
its place; and
■ e. Removing from paragraph (h)(3)(iii)
the word ‘‘employee,’’ and adding
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‘‘employee or potential employee,’’ in
its place.
The revisions and addition read as
follows:
52.222–50
Persons.
Combating Trafficking in
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(5)(i) Using misleading or fraudulent
practices during the recruitment of
employees or offering of employment, such
as failing to disclose, in a format and
language understood by the employee or
potential employee, basic information or
making material misrepresentations during
the recruitment of employees regarding the
key terms and conditions of employment,
including wages and fringe benefits, the
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7. Amend section 52.244–6 by
revising the date of the clause and
paragraph (c)(1)(x)(A) to read as follows:
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Combating Trafficking in Persons (DATE)
(a) * * *
Recruitment fees means the following:
(1) Recruitment fees include, but are not
limited to, fees, charges, costs, assessments,
or other financial obligations assessed against
employees or potential employees, associated
with the recruiting process, regardless of the
manner of their imposition or collection—
(i) For soliciting, identifying, considering,
interviewing, referring, retaining,
transferring, selecting, testing, training,
providing new-hire orientation,
recommending, or placing employees or
potential employees;
(ii) For covering the cost, in whole or in
part, of advertising;
(iii) For any activity related to obtaining
permanent or temporary labor certification;
(iv) For processing petitions;
(v) For visas and any fee that facilitates an
employee obtaining a visa such as
appointment and application fees;
(vi) For government-mandated costs such
as border crossing fees;
(vii) For procuring photographs and
identity documentation, including any
nongovernmental passport fees;
(viii) Charged as a condition of access to
the job opportunity, including procuring
medical examinations and immunizations
and obtaining background, reference and
security clearance checks and examinations;
additional certifications;
(ix) For an employer’s recruiters, agents or
attorneys, or other notary or legal fees, and
(x) For language interpreters or translators.
(2) Any fee, charge, cost, or assessment
may be a recruitment fee regardless of
whether the payment is in property or
money, deducted from wages, paid back in
wage or benefit concessions, paid back as a
kickback, bribe, in-kind payment, free labor,
tip, or tribute, remitted in connection with
recruitment, or collected by an employer or
a third party, including, but not limited to—
(i) Agents;
(ii) Recruiters;
(iii) Staffing firms (including private
employment and placement firms);
(iv) Subsidiaries/affiliates of the employer;
(v) Any agent or employee of such entities;
and
(vi) Subcontractors at all tiers.
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location of work, the living conditions,
housing and associated costs (if employer or
agent provided or arranged), any significant
costs to be charged to the employee or
potential employee, and, if applicable, the
hazardous nature of the work;
52.244–6
Items.
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Subcontracts for Commercial Items (DATE)
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(x)(A) 52.222–50, Combating Trafficking in
Persons (DATE) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78 and
E.O. 13627).
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
49 CFR Parts 190, 191, 192, 195, and
199
[Docket No. PHMSA–2016–0032]
Pipeline Safety: Meeting of the Gas
Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee
and the Liquid Pipeline Safety
Advisory Committee
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of advisory committee
meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice announces a
public meeting of the Gas Pipeline
Advisory Committee (GPAC), also
known as the Technical Pipeline Safety
Standards Committee, and the Liquid
Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC),
also known as the Technical Hazardous
Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards
Committee. The GPAC will meet to
discuss a proposed rulemaking to
address regulatory requirements
involving plastic piping systems used in
gas services and both committees will
meet jointly to discuss a proposed
rulemaking to strengthen the federal
pipeline safety regulations and to
address sections 9 (accident and
incident reporting) and 13 (cost
recovery for design-review work) of the
Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty,
and Job Creation Act of 2011 (2011 Act).
Both committees will also be briefed on
the ‘‘Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas
SUMMARY:
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Transmission and Gathering Pipelines’’
proposed rulemaking.
DATES: The committees will meet as
follows:
• Wednesday, June 1, 2016, from 1:00
p.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET—GPAC only
• Thursday, June 2, 2016, from 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET—Joint Meeting
(GPAC/LPAC)
• Friday, June 3, 2016, from 8:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., ET.—LPAC only
The meetings will not be webcast;
however, presentations will be available
on the meeting Web site and posted on
the E-Gov Web site: https://
www.regulations.gov under docket
number PHMSA–2016–0032 within 30
days following the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
a location yet to be determined in the
Washington, DC Metropolitan area. The
meeting location, agenda and any
additional information will be
published on the following pipeline
advisory committee meeting and
registration page at https://
primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/
MtgHome.mtg?mtg=113.
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Public Participation
This meeting will be open to the
public. Members of the public who wish
to attend in person are asked to RSVP
to cheryl.whetsel@dot.gov with your
name and affiliation no later than May
23, 2016, in order to facilitate entry and
guarantee seating. Members of the
public who attend in person will also be
provided an opportunity to make a
statement during the meeting.
Services for Individuals with
Disabilities: The public meeting is
physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Individuals requiring
accommodations, such as sign language
interpretation or other ancillary aids, are
asked to notify Cheryl Whetsel at
cheryl.whetsel@dot.gov by May 23,
2016.
Written comments: Persons who wish
to submit written comments on the
meeting may be submitted to the docket
in the following ways:
E-Gov Web site: https://
www.regulations.gov. This site allows
the public to enter comments on any
Federal Register notice issued by any
agency.
Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
West Building, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–001.
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Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the
ground level of the DOT West Building,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and
5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except on Federal holidays.
Instructions: Identify the docket
number PHMSA–2016–0032 at the
beginning of your comments. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. You
should know that anyone is able to
search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
Therefore, you may want to review
DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement
in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or view
the Privacy Notice at https://
www.regulations.gov before submitting
any such comments.
Docket: For access to the docket or to
read background documents or
comments, go to https://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the DOT West Building, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
If you wish to receive confirmation of
receipt of your written comments,
please include a self-addressed,
stamped postcard with the following
statement: ‘‘Comments on PHMSA–
2016–0032.’’ The Docket Clerk will date
stamp the postcard prior to returning it
to you via the U.S. mail. Please note that
due to delays in the delivery of U.S.
mail to federal offices in Washington,
DC, we recommend that persons
consider an alternative method
(Internet, fax, or professional delivery
service) of submitting comments to the
docket and ensuring their timely receipt
at DOT.
Privacy Act Statement
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c),
DOT solicits comments from the public
to better inform its rulemaking process.
DOT posts these comments, without
edit, including any personal information
the commenter provides, to
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
www.dot.gov/privacy.
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For
information about the meeting, contact
Cheryl Whetsel by phone at 202–366–
4431 or by email at cheryl.whetsel@
dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Meeting Details and Agenda
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration will hold
meetings of the GPAC and LPAC. The
GPAC will be considering and voting on
the notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM) titled: Pipeline Safety: Plastic
Pipe Rule (80 FR 29263; May 21, 2015),
and in a joint meeting of the GPAC and
LPAC, members will consider and vote
on the NPRM titled: Pipeline Safety:
Operator Qualification, Cost Recovery,
Accident and Incident Notification, and
Other Pipeline Safety Proposed Changes
(80 FR 39916; July 10, 2015). Other
topics of discussion will include the
regulatory agenda and agency and
stakeholder priorities. A briefing on the
NPRM, titled: Pipeline Safety: Safety of
Gas Transmission and Gathering
Pipelines (81 FR 20722; April 8, 2016),
will also be presented to both
committees and the public.
The agenda will be published to
include committee discussions and
votes on the two rules mentioned above.
PHMSA staff will also brief the
committees on several regulatory and
policy initiatives.
II. Committee Background
The GPAC and LPAC are statutorilymandated advisory committees that
advise PHMSA on proposed safety
standards, risk assessments, and safety
policies for natural gas pipelines and for
hazardous liquid pipelines. Both
committees were established under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.
L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C. App. 1) and the
Pipeline Safety Law (49 U.S.C. Chap.
601). Each committee consists of 15
members—with membership evenly
divided among the federal and state
government, the regulated industry, and
the public. The committees advise
PHMSA on the technical feasibility,
practicability, and cost-effectiveness of
each proposed pipeline safety standard.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2016,
under authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline
Safety.
[FR Doc. 2016–11119 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am]
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 11, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 29247-29248]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-11119]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
49 CFR Parts 190, 191, 192, 195, and 199
[Docket No. PHMSA-2016-0032]
Pipeline Safety: Meeting of the Gas Pipeline Safety Advisory
Committee and the Liquid Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
DOT.
ACTION: Notice of advisory committee meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a public meeting of the Gas Pipeline
Advisory Committee (GPAC), also known as the Technical Pipeline Safety
Standards Committee, and the Liquid Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC),
also known as the Technical Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards
Committee. The GPAC will meet to discuss a proposed rulemaking to
address regulatory requirements involving plastic piping systems used
in gas services and both committees will meet jointly to discuss a
proposed rulemaking to strengthen the federal pipeline safety
regulations and to address sections 9 (accident and incident reporting)
and 13 (cost recovery for design-review work) of the Pipeline Safety,
Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 (2011 Act). Both
committees will also be briefed on the ``Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas
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Transmission and Gathering Pipelines'' proposed rulemaking.
DATES: The committees will meet as follows:
Wednesday, June 1, 2016, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET--
GPAC only
Thursday, June 2, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET--
Joint Meeting (GPAC/LPAC)
Friday, June 3, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., ET.--
LPAC only
The meetings will not be webcast; however, presentations will be
available on the meeting Web site and posted on the E-Gov Web site:
https://www.regulations.gov under docket number PHMSA-2016-0032 within
30 days following the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at a location yet to be determined
in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. The meeting location, agenda
and any additional information will be published on the following
pipeline advisory committee meeting and registration page at https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/MtgHome.mtg?mtg=113.
Public Participation
This meeting will be open to the public. Members of the public who
wish to attend in person are asked to RSVP to cheryl.whetsel@dot.gov
with your name and affiliation no later than May 23, 2016, in order to
facilitate entry and guarantee seating. Members of the public who
attend in person will also be provided an opportunity to make a
statement during the meeting.
Services for Individuals with Disabilities: The public meeting is
physically accessible to people with disabilities. Individuals
requiring accommodations, such as sign language interpretation or other
ancillary aids, are asked to notify Cheryl Whetsel at
cheryl.whetsel@dot.gov by May 23, 2016.
Written comments: Persons who wish to submit written comments on
the meeting may be submitted to the docket in the following ways:
E-Gov Web site: https://www.regulations.gov. This site allows the
public to enter comments on any Federal Register notice issued by any
agency.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, Room W12-140,
Washington, DC 20590-001.
Hand Delivery: Room W12-140 on the ground level of the DOT West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m.
and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays.
Instructions: Identify the docket number PHMSA-2016-0032 at the
beginning of your comments. Note that all comments received will be
posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. You should know that anyone is able to
search the electronic form of all comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). Therefore, you may want to review DOT's
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or view the Privacy Notice at https://www.regulations.gov before submitting any such comments.
Docket: For access to the docket or to read background documents or
comments, go to https://www.regulations.gov at any time or to Room W12-
140 on the ground level of the DOT West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
If you wish to receive confirmation of receipt of your written
comments, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard with the
following statement: ``Comments on PHMSA-2016-0032.'' The Docket Clerk
will date stamp the postcard prior to returning it to you via the U.S.
mail. Please note that due to delays in the delivery of U.S. mail to
federal offices in Washington, DC, we recommend that persons consider
an alternative method (Internet, fax, or professional delivery service)
of submitting comments to the docket and ensuring their timely receipt
at DOT.
Privacy Act Statement
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments from the
public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT posts these
comments, without edit, including any personal information the
commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the system
of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
www.dot.gov/privacy.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about the meeting,
contact Cheryl Whetsel by phone at 202-366-4431 or by email at
cheryl.whetsel@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Meeting Details and Agenda
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will
hold meetings of the GPAC and LPAC. The GPAC will be considering and
voting on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) titled: Pipeline
Safety: Plastic Pipe Rule (80 FR 29263; May 21, 2015), and in a joint
meeting of the GPAC and LPAC, members will consider and vote on the
NPRM titled: Pipeline Safety: Operator Qualification, Cost Recovery,
Accident and Incident Notification, and Other Pipeline Safety Proposed
Changes (80 FR 39916; July 10, 2015). Other topics of discussion will
include the regulatory agenda and agency and stakeholder priorities. A
briefing on the NPRM, titled: Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas
Transmission and Gathering Pipelines (81 FR 20722; April 8, 2016), will
also be presented to both committees and the public.
The agenda will be published to include committee discussions and
votes on the two rules mentioned above. PHMSA staff will also brief the
committees on several regulatory and policy initiatives.
II. Committee Background
The GPAC and LPAC are statutorily-mandated advisory committees that
advise PHMSA on proposed safety standards, risk assessments, and safety
policies for natural gas pipelines and for hazardous liquid pipelines.
Both committees were established under the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C. App. 1) and the Pipeline Safety Law (49
U.S.C. Chap. 601). Each committee consists of 15 members--with
membership evenly divided among the federal and state government, the
regulated industry, and the public. The committees advise PHMSA on the
technical feasibility, practicability, and cost-effectiveness of each
proposed pipeline safety standard.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2016, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Alan K. Mayberry,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2016-11119 Filed 5-10-16; 8:45 am]
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