Agencies and Commissions October 20, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') issues amendments to update the comparability ranges and sample labels for central air conditioners in the Energy Labeling Rule (``Rule'').

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.

The Commission instituted the subject five-year review on July 1, 2021 (86 FR 35127) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel cooking ware from China would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. On September 29, 2021, the Department of Commerce issued notice that it was revoking the order effective August 11, 2021, because no domestic interested party filed a timely notice of intent to participate. Accordingly, the subject review is terminated.

The National Labor Relations Board is issuing this notice that the individuals whose names and position titles appear below have been appointed to serve as members of performance review boards in the National Labor Relations Board for the rating year beginning October 1, 2020 and ending September 30, 2021.

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission (the ``Commission'') has determined that: (i) The respondents have violated section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, by importing, selling for importation, or selling in the United States after importation certain laparoscopic surgical staplers, reload cartridges, and components thereof that infringe complainants' U.S. Patent No. 9,844,379 (``the '379 patent''); (2) the appropriate remedies are a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders; and (3) enforcement of said remedial orders will be suspended pending final resolution of a Final Written Decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (``PTAB'') that the asserted claims of the '379 patent are unpatentable. This investigation is terminated.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of New Jersey (FEMA-4614-DR), dated 09/05/2021. Incident: Remnants of Hurricane Ida. Incident Period: 09/01/2021 through 09/03/2021.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will hold twenty-six meetings, by videoconference, of the Humanities Panel, a federal advisory committee, during November 2021. 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 the Humanities Act of 1965.

In this document, the Commission announces the effective date of an information collection associated with a rule contained in the Commission's Call Authentication Trust Anchor, Second Report and Order (Order). This document is consistent with the Commission's Call Authentication Trust Anchor, Second Report and Order (Order) which stated that the Commission would publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date of that rule.