August 15, 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In this notice, OSHA announces the application of TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc., for expansion of the scope of recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and presents the agency's preliminary finding to grant the application.

In this notice, OSHA announces the application of CSA Group Testing & Certification, Inc., for expansion of the scope of recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and presents the agency's preliminary finding to grant the application.

These special conditions are issued for The Boeing Company (Boeing) Model 737-10 series airplane. This airplane will have a novel or unusual design feature when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport-category airplanes. This design feature is oblique (side-facing) single-occupant seats equipped with airbag devices or 3-point restraints. The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate or appropriate safety standards for this design feature. These special conditions contain the additional safety standards that the Administrator considers necessary to establish a level of safety equivalent to that established by the existing airworthiness standards.

New Hampshire has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for final authorization of revisions to its hazardous waste program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended. The EPA has reviewed New Hampshire's application and has determined that these revisions satisfy all requirements needed to qualify for final authorization. Therefore, we are taking direct final action to authorize the State's changes. In the ``Proposed Rules'' section of this issue of the Federal Register, the EPA is also publishing a separate document that serves as the proposal to authorize these revisions. Unless the EPA receives written comments that oppose this authorization during the comment period, the decision to authorize New Hampshire's revisions to its hazardous waste program will take effect.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to abolish the Allegheny, Pennsylvania, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and redefine Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to the Macomb, Michigan, NAF wage area; Trumbull County, OH, to the Niagara, New York, NAF wage area; Allegheny and Butler Counties, PA, to the Cumberland, PA, NAF wage area; Harrison County, West Virginia, to the Prince William, Virginia, NAF wage area; and Westmoreland County, PA, will no longer be defined. These changes are necessary because NAF FWS employment in the survey area is now below the minimum criterion of 26 wage employees to maintain a wage area, and the local activities no longer have the capability to conduct local wage surveys.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve three state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of California addressing the nonattainment new source review (NNSR) requirements for the 2015 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). These SIP revisions address the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD or ``District''), Imperial County Air Pollution Control District (ICAPCD or ``District''), and Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (VCAPCD or ``District'') portions of the California SIP. This action is being taken pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or ``Act'') and its implementing regulations.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve, under the Clean Air Act (CAA), revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on October 22, 2020, and February 14, 2023. The revisions address the emissions inventory requirements for the Chicago and Metro-East nonattainment areas under the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The Chicago nonattainment area includes Cook, DuPage, Grundy (Aux Sable and Goose Lake Townships), Kane, Kendall (Oswego Township), Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. The Metro- East nonattainment area includes Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair counties. The CAA requires emissions inventories for all ozone nonattainment areas.

NMFS announces Federal management measures for the 2023 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass recreational fisheries. The implementing regulations for these fisheries require NMFS to publish recreational measures for the fishing year. The intent of this action is to set management measures that allow the recreational fisheries to achieve, but not exceed, the recreational harvest targets and thereby prevent overfishing of the summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass stocks.

This document invites comments on a proposed amendment to the plant records requirement for the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Dairy Grading and Inspection program. The proposal would allow butterfat tests to be performed at an in-house or approved third party laboratory and add a requirement for plants to maintain and make such records available for examination by a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector. This amendment would increase efficiency by conforming to current industry practice.

Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the July 20, 2021, revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) requirements for sources covered by the 2016 Oil and Natural Gas Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG or CTGs) for the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and the Houston- Galveston-Brazoria (HGB) nonattainment areas (NAAs) for the 2008 8-hour ozone National Air Quality Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

The Department of Homeland Security will submit the following Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

This notice seeks comments on how the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Tribal Transit competitive program and technical assistance to Tribes is administered. This notice also introduces FTA's consultation process and schedule for implementation.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the information collection pertaining to the registration of human drug compounding outsourcing facilities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) and associated fees.

In April 2023, the Commission issued a revised proposed rule refining proposed changes to the ``primary management official'' and ``key employee'' definitions as well as the newly proposed definitions for ``Gaming Enterprise'' and ``Tribal Gaming Regulatory Authority'' (TGRA). The revised proposal, like the 2022 original, also proposed: modernizing retention requirements for background investigations and licensing applications; vesting revocation hearing rights upon license issuance as well as in accordance with tribal law, regulation, or policy; and augmenting revocation decision notification and submission requirements. After closely considering comments received, this final rule permits tribes to designate other gaming enterprise employees as key employees and other employed gaming enterprise management officials as primary management officials, including TGRA personnel. These optional designations occur by any documentary means. Further, the key employee definition no longer sets forth a wage threshold but includes in the definition a gaming operation's four most highly compensated persons. And the terms ``independent'' and ``governmental'' have been struck from the TGRA definition, aligning it with a corresponding definition in NIGC regulations, part 547. Lastly, license revocation decisions only require notifying the Commission of the revocation along with a copy of the revocation decision.

For the period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending on December 31, 2023, the prompt payment interest rate is 4-7/8 per centum per annum.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins. This data collection allows CDC to continue to collect information and ensure compliance under the Select Agent regulations.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing an order under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) debarring Ildiko M. Knoll for a period of 5 years from importing or offering for import any drug into the United States. FDA bases this order on a finding that Ms. Knoll engaged in a pattern of importing or offering for import misbranded drugs (i.e., in an amount, frequency, or dosage that is inconsistent with personal or household use) that are not designated in an authorized electronic data interchange system as products regulated by FDA. Ms. Knoll was given notice of the proposed debarment and was given an opportunity to request a hearing to show why she should not be debarred. As of May 29, 2023 (30 days after receipt of the notice), Ms. Knoll had not responded. Ms. Knoll's failure to respond and request a hearing constitutes a waiver of her right to a hearing concerning this matter.

On July 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT or Court) issued its final judgment in China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC v. United States, Consol. Court No. 15-00124, Slip Op. 23-105 (CIT 2023) (China Mfr. Alliance VI), sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) prior remand redeterminations pertaining to the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires (OTR tires) from the People's Republic of China (China) covering the period September 1, 2012, through August 31, 2013, which: (1) effectuated the mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's (Federal Circuit) ruling to assign mandatory respondent Double Coin Holdings Ltd. (Double Coin) the 105.31 percent China-wide rate initially assigned in the final results of this review (overturning the prior final results of redetermination pursuant to the CIT's directive to calculate a rate for Double Coin on the basis of its own information); and (2) sustained the prior final results of redetermination pursuant to remand with respect to mandatory respondent Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Tyre Export and Import Co., Ltd. (collectively GTC). Commerce is notifying the public that it is amending the final results with respect to the dumping margin assigned to Double Coin.