Agencies and Commissions March 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Postal Service is proposing to revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to include a more flexible option for package addressees to provide an electronic signature indicating delivery of a package.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the request of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon) to withdraw its application dated August 10, 2018, as supplemented by letter dated December 21, 2018, for proposed amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66, issued to Exelon for operation of the Byron Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2. The proposed amendment would have extended the Completion Time for Technical Specification 3.8.1, ``AC Sources-Operating,'' Required Action A.2, on a one-time, temporary basis, based on a risk-informed approach.

This document requests comments on a Petition for Rule Making filed by SSR Communications Inc., proposing to amend the FM Table of Allotments, by allotting Channel 264A at Caliente, Nevada, as the first local service. A staff engineering analysis indicates that Channel 264A can be allotted to Caliente consistent with the minimum distance separation requirements of the Commission's rules without a site restriction. The reference coordinates are 37-36-02 NL and 114-30-32 WL.

The Commission will consider a First Report and Order that would adopt rules to make available 21.2 GHz of spectrum above 95 GHz for unlicensed operations and create a new class of experimental licenses for the 95 GHz to 3 THz spectrum range. 2................... Wireless Tele- Title: Review of the Communications. Commission's Rules Governing the 896-901/935-940 MHz Band (WT Docket No. 17-200). Summary: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would propose to reconfigure the 900 MHz band to create a broadband segment to facilitate technologies and services for a wide variety of businesses, including critical infrastructure, as well as seek comment on various transition mechanisms to achieve this goal. 3................... Public Safety & Title: Wireless E911 Location Homeland Accuracy Requirements (PS Security. Docket No. 07-114). Summary: The Commission will consider a Fourth Further Notice of Propose Rulemaking that proposes a vertical, or z- axis, location accuracy metric in connection with wireless E911 calls. 4................... Media............ Title: LPTV, TV Translator, and FM Broadcast Station Reimbursement (MB Docket No. 18-214): Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions (GN Docket No. 12-268). Summary: The Commission will consider a Report and Order that implements Congress's directive in the Reimbursement Expansion Act that the Commission reimburse certain low power television, television translator, and FM broadcast stations for costs incurred as a result of the Commission's broadcast television spectrum incentive auction. 5................... Media............ Title: Streamlined Reauthorization Procedures for Assigned or Transferred Television Satellite Stations (MB Docket No. 18-63); Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative (MB Docket No. 17-105). Summary: The Commission will consider a Report and Order that streamlines the reauthorization process for television satellite stations when they are assigned or transferred. 6................... Wireless Tele- Title: Partitioning, Communications. Disaggregation, and Leasing of Spectrum (WT Docket No. 19- 38). Summary: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would explore how potential changes to our partitioning, disaggregation, and leasing rules might better close the digital divide and increase spectrum access by small and rural carriers, fulfilling the Commission's requirement under the MOBILE NOW Act. 7................... Wireline Title: Rural Call Completion Competition. (WC Docket No. 13-39). Summary: The Commission will consider a Fourth Report and Order to implement the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2017 by establishing service quality standards for intermediate providers.

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

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) currently has contracts that are considered over-age and developed procedures that would enable the Agency to closeout these elapsed actions in an efficient and cost-effective manner. OPIC seeks to facilitate the closeout of these actions by requesting all OPIC contractors with contracts identified on this list submit any outstanding invoices.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will hold an additional seventeen meetings of the Humanities Panel, a federal advisory committee, during March and April 2019. NEH previously published notice in the Federal Register of twenty-seven Humanities Panel meetings to be held during March and April 2019. The purpose of the meetings is for panel review, discussion, evaluation, and recommendation of applications for financial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965.

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requests comments on a proposed extension of approval of a collection of information associated with the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 Through 6X; and the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 7 Through 14, approved previously under OMB Control No. 3041-0027. The CPSC will consider all comments received in response to this notice before requesting an extension of this collection of information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requests comments on a proposed extension of approval of a collection of information associated with the Commission's Safety Standard for Omnidirectional Citizens Band Base Station Antennas, approved previously under OMB Control No. 3041-0006. The CPSC will consider all comments received in response to this notice before requesting an extension of this collection of information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

The United States International Trade Commission (Commission) proposes to amend Part 220 of its Rules of Practice and Procedure. Part 220 governs the submission and consideration of petitions for duty suspensions and reductions under the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016. The amendments are necessary to clarify certain provisions and address concerns that have arisen in Commission practice.

The Commission proposes amending the Energy Labeling Rule (``Rule'') to make the Rule easier to use by reorganizing several sections, amending language to increase clarity, and eliminating several obsolete provisions. The proposed amendments have no substantive impact on the Rule's requirements. The Commission seeks comment regarding the proposed amendments and invites any suggestions to improve the Rule's format, organization, and clarity.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). We publish notice in the Federal Register and on regulations.gov for records schedules in which agencies propose to dispose of records they no longer need to conduct agency business. We invite public comments on such records schedules.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is terminating the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station (VCSNS), Units 2 and 3, Combined Licenses (COLs) designated as NPF-93, and NPF-94, and their included licenses to manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, possess, or use byproduct material. By letter dated December 27, 2017, the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G) requested that the NRC terminate the VCSNS COLs. Although construction was initiated for VCSNS Units 2 and 3, nuclear materials were never possessed under these licenses. Consequently, the VCSNS site is approved for unrestricted use.

The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of the final phase of antidumping and countervailing duty investigation Nos. 701-TA-607 and 731-TA-1417 and 1419 (Final) pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 (``the Act'') to determine whether an industry in the United States is materially injured or threatened with material injury, or the establishment of an industry in the United States is materially retarded, by reason of imports of steel propane cylinders from China and Thailand, provided for in subheading 7311.00.00 \1\ of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, preliminarily determined by the Department of Commerce (``Commerce'') to be subsidized and sold at less-than-fair-value.

On September 24, 2018, United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) requested an amendment to its reclamation plan for its Uranium Mill site near Gallup, New Mexico. UNC is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary corporation of the General Electric Company (GE). This amendment, if granted, would allow construction of a repository for mine-impacted soil. This mine waste would be removed from the Northeast Church Rock Mine Site and transported to be placed in the repository, located on and beside the existing Tailings Disposal Area.

As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested concerning: Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees. The Commission may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid OMB control number.