Department of Homeland Security September 29, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for State of North Dakota (FEMA-3318-EM), dated April 7, 2011, and related determinations.

This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of New York (FEMA-4031-DR), dated September 13, 2011, and related determinations.

This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Connecticut (FEMA-4023-DR), dated September 2, 2011, and related determinations.

This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of New Hampshire (FEMA-4026-DR), dated September 3, 2011, and related determinations.

This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an emergency for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (FEMA-3326-EM), dated August 22, 2011, and related determinations.

This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Iowa (FEMA-4016-DR), dated August 24, 2011, and related determinations.

This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Missouri (FEMA-4012-DR), dated August 12, 2011, and related determinations.

This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for the State of New York (FEMA-3341-EM), dated September 8, 2011, and related determinations.

On March 30, 2011, the Coast Guard published a direct final rule that notified the public of the Coast Guard's intent to harmonize structural and performance standards for inflatable recreational personal flotation devices (PFDs) with current voluntary industry consensus standards, and to slightly modify regulatory text in anticipation of a future rulemaking addressing the population for which inflatable recreational PFDs are approved (76 FR 17561). As discussed below, we have received an adverse comment on the direct final rule, and have withdrawn the direct final rule in a notice of withdrawal published separately in this issue of the Federal Register. The Coast Guard seeks comment on the issues raised by the commenters and proposes to make the same changes to the current regulatory text, as modified below.

The Department of Homeland Security is giving concurrent notice of a newly established system of records pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 for the ``Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency-012 Suspicious Activity Reporting System of Records'' and this proposed rulemaking. In this proposed rulemaking, the Department proposes to exempt portions of the system of records from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act because of criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement requirements.

This Notice announces that CBP is discontinuing the H-2A and H-2B Temporary Worker Visa Exit Program Pilot, effective September 29, 2011. The pilot began on December 8, 2009. It required temporary workers in H-2A or H-2B nonimmigrant classifications who enter the United States at the port of San Luis, Arizona, or the port of Douglas, Arizona, to depart (at the time of their final departure) from these respective ports and to submit certain biographical and biometric information at one of the kiosks established for this purpose.