Agencies and Commissions September 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) is issuing a public notification of its intent to rescind the Privacy Act System of Records Notice (SORN) on the Staff Time and Activity Reporting (STAR) System-FTC (FTC-II-13) and remove it from its existing inventory of SORNs.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection request, Request for Arbitration Panel, FMCS Form R-43. This information collection request was previously approved by the Office of Management Budget (OMB) and FMCS is requesting a revision of a currently approved collection. The Request for Arbitration Panel, FMCS Form R-43, allows FMCS to comply with its statutory obligation pursuant to statute to make governmental facilities available for voluntary arbitration. To carry out this policy, FMCS have issued regulations which provide for the operation and maintenance of a roster of professional arbitrators. The arbitrators are private citizens, not employees of FMCS, and are paid by the parties for hearing and deciding the issues submitted under a collective bargaining agreement and in other circumstances. The Request for Arbitration Panel (FMCS Form R-43) is used by the parties, labor and management individually or jointly, to request that FMCS furnish a list of arbitrators.

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.

This action adds service(s) to the Procurement List that will be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.

The Commission is proposing rules related to service performance and customer satisfaction reporting. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.

In a final rule published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register (final rule), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopts a new ``Mandatory Disaster Response Initiative'' (MDRI). The final rule requires providers to file reports with the Commission following the MDRI's activation, including testing of their roaming capabilities and reporting on the performance of their implementation of the MDRI to the Commission after the events. In the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), the Commission seeks comment on whether reports submitted under the final rule would benefit from standardization, and what that should entail.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (``SBA'' or ``Agency'') amends its small business size regulations to incorporate the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) revision for 2022, identified as NAICS 2022, into its table of small business size standards. The NAICS 2022 revision created 111 new industries by reclassifying, combining, or splitting 156 NAICS 2017 industries or their parts. SBA's size standards for these 111 new industries under NAICS 2022 have resulted in an increase to the size standards for 22 industries and 29 parts of two industries under NAICS 2017, a decrease to size standards for seven industries and 53 parts of two industries, a change in the size standard measure from average annual receipts to number of employees for one industry, a change in the size standard measure from number of employees to average annual receipts for a part of one industry, and no change in size standards for 117 industries and 19 parts of seven industries.

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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.

This is a Notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (FEMA-4670-DR), dated 09/20/2022. Incident: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Incident Period: 05/02/2022 through 05/08/2022.

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), as part of a continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on the following extension of a currently approved collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The United States Postal Service[supreg] (Postal Service) is proposing to revise a Customer Privacy Act System of Records (SOR). These modifications are being made to support an initiative to identify population mobility trends in the aggregate.

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.