Agencies and Commissions November 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commission has prepared and published annual reports in this series under Investigation No. 332-345, Recent Trends in U.S. Services Trade, since 1996. The 2022 report, which the Commission plans to publish in May 2022, will provide aggregate data on cross-border trade in services for the period ending in 2020, and transactions by affiliates based outside the country of their parent firm for the period ending in 2019. The report's analysis will focus on electronic and digital services (including audio-visual services, computer services, and telecommunications services). The Commission is inviting interested members of the public to furnish information and views in connection with the 2022 report.

This direct final rule amends NASA's rule on Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to make nomenclature changes to update acronyms, network names, and office designations cited in the rule.

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Oregon dated 10/28/2021. Incident: Bootleg Fire. Incident Period: 07/06/2021 through 08/15/2021.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-4611-DR), dated 08/29/ 2021. Incident: Hurricane Ida. Incident Period: 08/26/2021 through 09/03/2021.

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has vacated its final determination following dismissal of the appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (``Federal Circuit'') challenging various aspects of that determination.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued an exemption in response to a September 23, 2020, request from the Tennessee Valley Authority to allow for the use of Optimized ZIRLOTM fuel rod cladding at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2.

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.

Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on September 27, 2021, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on behalf of Bell Northern Research, LLC of Chicago, Illinois. A supplement was filed on October 15, 2021. The complaint alleges violations of section 337 based upon the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, and the sale within the United States after importation of certain electronic devices having wireless communication capabilities and components thereof by reason of infringement of certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,204,554 (``the `554 patent''); U.S. Patent No. 7,319,889 (``the `889 patent''); U.S. Patent No. RE 48,629 (``the `629 patent''); and U.S. Patent No. 8,416,862 (``the `862 patent''). The complaint further alleges that an industry in the United States exists as required by the applicable Federal Statute. The complainant requests that the Commission institute an investigation and, after the investigation, issue a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders.

Pursuant to section 189.a.(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing this regular monthly notice. The Act requires the Commission to publish notice of any amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, and grants the Commission the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating license or combined license, as applicable, upon a determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no significant hazards consideration (NSHC), notwithstanding the pendency before the Commission of a request for a hearing from any person. This monthly notice includes all amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, from September 17, 2021, to October 14, 2021. The last monthly notice was published on October 5, 2021.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission is extending the time to file reply comments in response to the 2021 ICS Further Notice in this proceeding in order to afford interested parties sufficient time to prepare them.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) is proposing to use a 24-month average to calculate a business concern's number of employees for eligibility purposes in all of SBA's programs. SBA also proposes to permit business concerns in its Business Loan, Disaster Loan, and Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Programs to use a 5-year averaging period, in addition to the existing 3-year averaging period, for the purposes of calculating annual average receipts. These proposed changes will allow larger small businesses to retain their small business size status for longer, and some mid-sized businesses to regain small business status.

This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of California dated 10/26/2021. Incident: Hopkins Fire. Incident Period: 09/12/2021 through 09/20/2021.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is soliciting nominations for appointment to the Advisory Committee of the PBGC.

Patent applications on the invention listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office under the Patent Cooperation Treaty and are available for licensing as listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.

In this document, the Commission seeks to gather updated information and propose how best to fulfill Congress' goal of protecting Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) from disruptive robocalls in a manner that avoids the potential security risks of making registered PSAP numbers available to those claiming to be autodialer operators. Specifically, the Commission proposes that voice service providers be required to block autodialed calls made to PSAP telephone numbers on the PSAP Do-Not-Call registry. The Commission takes this action to satisfy its statutory obligations under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Tax Relief Act).

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of California (FEMA-4610-DR), dated 08/24/2021. Incident: Wildfires. Incident Period: 07/14/2021 and continuing.

The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 (``the Act''), as amended, to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on seamless refined copper pipe and tube from China and Mexico would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. Pursuant to the Act, interested parties are requested to respond to this notice by submitting the information specified below to the Commission.