2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Coast Guard will enforce regulations for the Medina Days safety zone in Medina Beach Park on Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington to provide for the safety of life on navigable waters during an annual fireworks display. This safety zone will consist of all navigable waters within a 450-yard radius surrounding the event's launch site. Our regulation for safety zones within the Captain of the Port, Puget Sound Area of Responsibility identifies the specific location for this launch site and the corresponding safety zone for the event.

The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to issue coastwise endorsement eligibility determinations for foreign-built vessels which will carry no more than twelve passengers for hire. A request for such a determination has been received by MARAD. By this notice, MARAD seeks comments from interested parties as to any effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. Information about the requestor's vessel, including a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below.

The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to issue coastwise endorsement eligibility determinations for foreign-built vessels which will carry no more than twelve passengers for hire. A request for such a determination has been received by MARAD. By this notice, MARAD seeks comments from interested parties as to any effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. Information about the requestor's vessel, including a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below.

The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing for the Commission's consideration concerning a negotiated service agreement. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.

The charter of the Task Force on Research on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women (hereinafter "the Task Force") has been reestablished.

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing an information collection activity for the Child Abuse and Neglect Background Checks for Child Care and Early Education (CAN Checks for CCEE) Project. The goal of the project is to better understand how states and territories use findings from CAN registry background checks, as required by the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 (CCDBG), to make child care employment eligibility determinations. The study will also be used to understand state and territory variation, facilitators, and challenges in implementing CAN registry background checks; and explore any resulting within- or across-state/territory equity implications.

On June 13, 2024, the FAA published in the Federal Register a notification of availability for draft Policy Statement PS-AIR-21.17- 01, "Safety Continuum for Powered-lift". The comment period for this document expires on August 12, 2024. By letter dated August 1, 2024, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) requested that the FAA extend the public-comment deadline to September 12, 2024, for GAMA member organizations to conduct a more thorough review and contribute constructively to the proposed criteria facilitating the development of robust, harmonized standards that maximize safety for powered-lift operations.

The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to issue coastwise endorsement eligibility determinations for foreign-built vessels which will carry no more than twelve passengers for hire. A request for such a determination has been received by MARAD. By this notice, MARAD seeks comments from interested parties as to any effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. Information about the requestor's vessel, including a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below.

The Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) is proposing to amend its regulation governing the use of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network by Federal agencies. Our regulation incorporates, with some exceptions, updates to the Nacha Operating Rules and the Nacha Operating Guidelines (Operating Rules & Guidelines), which govern the use of the ACH Network by Federal agencies. This proposed rule addresses changes that Nacha has made since the publication of the 2021 Operating Rules & Guidelines, including Supplement #1-2021. These changes include amendments in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Operating Rules & Guidelines, including supplements thereto, issued before the date of this notice.

On August 29, 2011, the Department of Homeland Security published a final rule titled "Immigration Benefits Business Transformation, Increment I," which, in part, amended DHS regulations to remove references to form numbers and titles. Two of the amendatory instructions were inadvertently not followed, resulting in errors in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This document describes those errors and corrects the CFR to incorporate the amendments as instructed in the 2011 final rule. This action makes no substantive regulatory changes.

The FDIC is amending its regulations to clarify that it insures the deposits of legacy branches of U.S. insured depository institutions operating in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is proposing to require U.S. and foreign air carriers to seat children aged 13 and under adjacent to at least one accompanying adult at no additional cost beyond the fare, subject to limited exceptions. The Department considers family seating to be a basic service, essential for the provision of adequate air transportation, that must be included in the advertised fare. Under this proposal, a carrier's failure to provide family seating would subject it to civil penalties on a per passenger (child) basis, and if the carrier charged families a fee beyond the fare to secure family seating, the carrier would be subject to civil penalties for each fee imposed.

The Commission is acknowledging a recent Postal Service response to Order No. 7049 regarding proposed changes to analytical principles relating to periodic reports (Proposal Eight). This document informs the public of the filing, invites public comment on the Postal Service response, and takes other administrative steps.

The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2023-21-08, which applies to certain Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (RRD) Model Trent 1000 engines. AD 2023-21-08 requires revisions to the airworthiness limitation section (ALS) of the operator's existing approved aircraft maintenance program (AMP). Since the FAA issued AD 2023-21-08, the manufacturer revised the time limits manual (TLM) to introduce new or more restrictive tasks and limitations and associated thresholds and intervals for life-limited parts, which prompted this AD. This proposed AD would require revisions to the ALS of the operator's existing approved AMP, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD, which is incorporated by reference. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is adopting amendments to Volume II of the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system Filer Manual ("EDGAR Filer Manual" or "Filer Manual") and related rules and forms. EDGAR Release 24.2 will be deployed in the EDGAR system on July 1, 2024.

In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office has prepared a Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) and associated Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and by this notice is announcing the start of a 30-day protest period of the Proposed RMP.

The Commission adopts amendments to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations. The final rules: improve readability and clarity for the public; better align the Commission's existing FOIA regulations with the practices of other agencies subject to the FOIA (as necessarily adapted to the Commission's size and area of regulatory oversight); and improve the efficiency of the Commission's FOIA administration.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on July 12, 2024. The rule added five species of freshwater turtles to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The preamble included literature citation errors, and the regulatory text included paragraph designation errors. This document corrects those errors.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the new information collection as a result of changes adopted in a Report and Order titled "Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age" (Orbital Debris Report and Order) and a Second Report and Order titled "Space Innovation; Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age" (Orbital Debris Second Report and Order), and affirmed and further clarified in an Order on Reconsideration titled "Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age" (Orbital Debris Reconsideration Order). This document announces the effective date of rules adopted in those orders that contained new or modified information collection requirements that required review and approval by OMB and that had not already been announced as effective. This document also summarizes and makes effective the rules adopted in the Orbital Debris Second Report and Order, which required space stations ending their mission in, or passing through, the low-Earth orbit region below 2000 km altitude and planning disposal through uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry to complete disposal as soon as practicable following end of mission, and no later than five years after the end of the mission.