Agencies and Commissions – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') recently published a notice of proposed rulemaking (``NPRM'') in the Federal Register, titled ``Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees,'' which would prohibit unfair or deceptive practices relating to fees for goods or services, specifically, misrepresenting the total costs of goods and services by omitting mandatory fees from advertised prices and misrepresenting the nature and purpose of fees. The NPRM announced the opportunity for interested parties to present their positions orally at an informal hearing. Seventeen commenters requested to participate at the informal hearing. The Commission's Chief Presiding Officer, the Chair, has appointed an Administrative Law Judge for the Federal Trade Commission, the Honorable Jay L. Himes to serve as the presiding officer of the informal hearing.

We are updating our Supplemental Security Income (SSI) regulations to remove food from the calculations of In-Kind Support and Maintenance (ISM). We are also adding conforming language to our definition of income. These changes simplify our rules by making them less cumbersome to administer and easier for the public to understand and follow, and they improve the equitable treatment of food assistance within the SSI program. This final rule also includes other minor revisions to our regulations related to income, including clarifying our longstanding position that income may be received ``constructively.''

This is a notice of an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) declaration for the State of Louisiana dated 03/21/2024. Incident: Severe or Extreme Drought. Incident Period: 09/19/2023 through 12/05/2023.

The Peace Corps will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comment in the Federal Register preceding submission to OMB. We are conducting this process in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is making a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for a proposed issuance of exemptions to Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC, the licensee), for Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant (Hatch), Units 1 and 2, Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant (Farley), Units 1 and 2, and Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (Vogtle), Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 (SNC Fleet), located in Appling County, Georgia, Houston County, Alabama, and Burke County, Georgia, respectively. The proposed action would grant the licensee partial exemption from the physical barrier requirements in the NRC's regulations, to allow SNC to continue using vertical, rather than angled, barbed wire fence toppings in certain limited protected area sections onsite. The NRC is considering exemptions to Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-57, and No. NPF-5, at Hatch, Units 1 and 2, issued on January 15, 2002, Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF- 2, and No. NPF-8, at Farley, Units 1 and 2, issued on May 12, 2005, Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-68, and No. NPF-81, at Vogtle, Units 1 and 2, issued on June 3, 2009, and Facility Combined License No. NPF-91, and NPF-92, at Vogtle, Units 3 and 4, issued on February 10, 2012, and held by SNC for the operation of the SNC Fleet.

The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') requests that the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') extend for an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'') clearance for information collection requirements contained in the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act regulations (``FPLA Rules''). That clearance expires on May 31, 2024.

GSA is issuing a final rule amending the Federal Travel Regulation to allow agencies greater flexibility for authorizing shipment of a relocating employee's alternative fueled privately-owned vehicle or extending driving times of these types of vehicles if necessary.

The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') has clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') to send information requests, pursuant to compulsory process, to a combined ten or more of the largest cigarette manufacturers and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. The information sought includes, among other things, data on the manufacturers' annual sales and marketing expenditures for cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products, and electronic devices used to heat non-combusted cigarettes, and sales of tobacco-free nicotine lozenges and pouches. The current OMB clearance expires on August 31, 2024. The Commission plans to ask OMB for renewed three-year clearance to collect this information, and to modify its existing clearance to allow for the collection of additional information concerning annual marketing expenditures for tobacco-free nicotine lozenges and pouches by smokeless tobacco manufacturers or related companies.