2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is submitting the following extensions and revisions of currently approved collections to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (TCGM) Program: Applications for Subawards, Public Outreach Information Collections, and Post-Award Reporting (EPA ICR Number 2795.01, OMB Control Number 2035-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on January 8, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

This action serves as a notice that NMFS, on behalf of the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), has found that Puerto Rico Caribbean spiny lobster and Mid-Atlantic Coast golden tilefish are now subject to overfishing, Klamath River fall Chinook salmon and Queets Spring/Summer Chinook salmon continue to be overfished, and the Western and Central North Pacific Ocean Striped Marlin continues to be subject to overfishing. NMFS, on behalf of the Secretary, is required to provide this notice whenever it determines that a stock or stock complex is subject to overfishing, overfished, or approaching an overfished condition.

The FHWA has forwarded the information collection request described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve a new information collection. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.

The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.

The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will hold a half-day virtual meeting of its Law Enforcement Technical Committee (LETC).

The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Committee via webinar to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate.

The United States, as a Party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), may propose amendments to the CITES Appendices for consideration at meetings of the Conference of the Parties. The twentieth regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP20) is scheduled to be held in Uzbekistan, November 24-December 5, 2025. With this notice, we respond to recommendations received from the public concerning proposed amendments to the CITES Appendices (species proposals) and proposed resolutions, decisions, and agenda items that the United States might submit for consideration at CoP20; invite your comments and information on these potential proposals and working documents; and provide information on how U.S. nongovernmental organizations can attend CoP20 as observers.

Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing an antidumping duty (AD) order on frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from Indonesia and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on shrimp from Ecuador, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).

In accordance with the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA), this notice advises that HUD is proposing to issue a temporary, limited non-availability partial waiver of the manufactured product requirements in BABA included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for domestically assembled solar modules used in Federal financial assistance (FFA) awarded for infrastructure projects. This waiver covers multiple projects that HUD anticipates will involve the installation of solar modules with the intent of addressing multiple project specific non-availability waivers into one document to reduce paperwork and support administrative efficiency. The narrowly tailored BABA waiver proposed in this notice would support the establishment of a domestic solar supply chain, increase benefits for domestic solar manufacturing, and help reduce risks for vulnerable populations. HUD is seeking public comments on this proposed waiver.

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.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is extending the comment period for the request for information, published in the Federal Register of November 8, 2024. In that notice, FDA invited comment relating to the listing requirements of other countries and FDA's approach to facilitating U.S. industry compliance with these requirements through the issuance of export certification for human food products provided in the form of lists (export lists). We are extending the comment period to allow interested persons additional time to submit comments on FDA's approach.

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is modifying an existing departmentwide system of records, "Federal Advisory Committee Membership Files," System No. 09-90-0059. The modifications include, among other things, adding records about any prospective guest speakers at Federal advisory committee meetings who disclose financial interests and professional relationships related to the matter they will be speaking on, and changing the name of the system of records to "Federal Advisory Committee/Subgroup Member, Subscriber/Registrant, and Guest Speaker Records."

This notice announces an open meeting of the Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.