Agencies and Commissions February 4, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Arbitration Services
Document Number: C1-2018-27759
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Agencies and Commissions
Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2019-01167
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Election Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Temporary Emergency Committee of the Board of Governors; Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2019-01105
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Postal Service, Agencies and Commissions
Sunshine Act Meetings
Document Number: 2019-01043
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
IP CTS Modernization and Reform
Document Number: 2019-00967
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Communications Commission, Agencies and Commissions
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with rules adopted in the Commission's document Misuse of internet Protocol (IP) Captioned Telephone Service et al. Report and Order and Declaratory Ruling (Order). This document is consistent with the Order, which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of those rules.
Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes: Meeting Notice
Document Number: 2019-00908
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will convene a teleconference meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) on February 26, 2019, to discuss the draft report of the ACMUI Training and Experience Subcommittee. This report will include the subcommittee's recommendation on training and experience requirements for authorized users under title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 35.300, ``Use of unsealed byproduct material for which a written directive is required,'' that is necessary for safety. Meeting information, including a copy of the agenda and handouts, will be available at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acmui/ meetings/2019.html. The agenda and handouts may also be obtained by contacting Ms. Kellee Jamerson using the information below.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2019-00904
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Trade Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The FTC intends to ask the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') to extend for an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'') clearance for the information collection requirements in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (``COPPA Rule'' or ``Rule''), which will expire on January 31, 2019.
Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB
Document Number: 2019-00903
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Reserve System, Agencies and Commissions
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, without revision, the Basel II Interagency Pillar 2 Supervisory Guidance (Pillar 2 Guidance) (FR 4199; OMB No. 7100-0320).
Governing Bodies
Document Number: 2019-00896
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Legal Services Corporation, Agencies and Commissions
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is adopting a final rule amending its regulation related to recipient governing bodies. This final rule changes two requirements and gives increased flexibility to recipient governing bodies in how they recruit, appoint, and retain client-eligible members. First, LSC is revising the definition of the term eligible client to remove the requirement that a client-eligible board member be financially eligible at the time of reappointment to a governing body. Second, LSC is eliminating the requirement that client- eligible members be appointed by outside groups. The final rule gives each recipient governing body the discretion to continue applying these provisions if it wishes but eliminates the requirement to do so.
Income Level for Individuals Eligible for Assistance
Document Number: 2019-00889
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Legal Services Corporation, Agencies and Commissions
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is required by law to establish maximum income levels for individuals eligible for legal assistance. This document updates the specified income levels to reflect the annual amendments to the Federal Poverty Guidelines issued by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR); Transition to SBA Mentor-Protégé Program
Document Number: 2019-00882
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: General Services Administration, Agencies and Commissions
This direct final rule amends the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to remove the GSAR subpart GSA Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Program and associated clauses that are duplicative of the Small Business Administration (SBA) governmentwide Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] program, and to remove several subcontracting provisions that are duplicative of the requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause pertaining to the Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978
Document Number: 2019-00879
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: National Science Foundation, Agencies and Commissions
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act in the Code of Federal Regulations. This is the required notice of permit applications received.
U.S. Department of the Army; Jefferson Proving Ground
Document Number: 2019-00878
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft environmental assessment (EA) and draft finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for a proposed amendment of NRC source materials license SUB-1435 for the Jefferson Proving Ground (JPG) from ``possession only for decommissioning'' to ``possession only.'' The proposed amendment of the U.S. Department of the Army (Army)'s license would also include an exemption from the NRC's decommissioning timeliness requirements in the regulations. The draft EA, ``Draft Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Amendment of Materials License SUB-1435, Jefferson Proving Ground, Southeastern Indiana (Jefferson, Ripley, and Jennings Counties),'' documents the NRC staff's environmental review of the license amendment application.
Copyright Restoration of Works in Accordance with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
Document Number: 2019-00874
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Library of Congress, Agencies and Commissions, Copyright Office
The U.S. Copyright Office is publishing a list of works for which it has received and processed a Notice of Intent to Enforce copyrights restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. The Office is required by law to publish such lists to provide a public record of works in which copyrights have been restored and whose owners have notified the Office of their intent to enforce those copyrights. In addition, publication triggers the statutory 12-month grace period within which reliance parties may continue to exploit existing copies of the identified works.
U.S.-UK Trade Agreement: Advice on the Probable Economic Effect of Providing Duty-free Treatment for Currently Dutiable Imports
Document Number: 2019-00866
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: International Trade Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The Commission has cancelled the hearing scheduled for January 31, 2019 due to the lapse of appropriation between December 22, 2018 and January 25, 2019 and the inability to receive or accept requests to appear or prehearing briefs.
Notice of Public Hearing and Business Meeting; February 13 and March 13, 2019
Document Number: 2019-00851
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Delaware River Basin Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Civil Penalties Adjustment for 2019
Document Number: 2019-00843
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, Agencies and Commissions, National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is adjusting the maximum civil monetary penalties (CMPs) that may be imposed for violations of the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act (PFCRA) and the NEA's Restrictions on Lobbying to reflect the requirements of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (the 2015 Act). The 2015 Act further amended the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (the Inflation Adjustment Act) to improve the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties and to maintain their deterrent effect. This final rule provides the 2019 annual inflation adjustments to the initial ``catch-up'' adjustments made on June 15, 2017, and reflects all other inflation adjustments made in the interim.
Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To Renew an Information Collection
Document Number: 2019-00834
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: National Science Foundation, Agencies and Commissions
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew clearance of this collection. In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing opportunity for public comment on this action. After obtaining and considering public comment, NSF will prepare the submission requesting OMB clearance of this collection for no longer than 3 years.
Final Guidance for the 2019
Document Number: 2019-00800
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Agencies and Commissions, Federal Reserve System
The Board and the FDIC (together, the ``Agencies'') are adopting this final guidance for the 2019 and subsequent resolution plan submissions by the eight largest, complex U.S. banking organizations (``Covered Companies'' or ``firms''). The final guidance is meant to assist these firms in developing their resolution plans, which are required to be submitted pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''). The final guidance, which is largely based on prior guidance issued to these Covered Companies, describes the Agencies' expectations regarding a number of key vulnerabilities in plans for an orderly resolution under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (i.e., capital; liquidity; governance mechanisms; operational; legal entity rationalization and separability; and derivatives and trading activities). The final guidance also updates certain aspects of prior guidance based on the Agencies' review of these firms' most recent resolution plan submissions.
Rules of Practice and Procedure; Adjusting Civil Money Penalties for Inflation
Document Number: 2019-00789
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Farm Credit Administration, Agencies and Commissions
This regulation implements inflation adjustments to civil money penalties (CMPs) that the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) may impose or enforce pursuant to the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended (Farm Credit Act), and pursuant to the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (Reform Act), and further amended by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Biggert-Waters Act).
Competitive Postal Products
Document Number: 2019-00665
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Postal Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
The Commission seeks comments on whether to update its regulations to address proposed classification changes to product descriptions in the Mail Classification Schedule that may modify the market and/or competitive products lists. This document informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
Limited Exception for a Capped Amount of Reciprocal Deposits From Treatment as Brokered Deposits
Document Number: 2018-28137
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-02-04
Agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Agencies and Commissions
The FDIC is amending its regulations that implement brokered deposits and interest rate restrictions to conform with recent changes to section 29 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act made by section 202 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act related to reciprocal deposits, which took effect on May 24, 2018. The FDIC is also making conforming amendments to the FDIC's regulations governing deposit insurance assessments.
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