Executive Office of the President January 2014 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This report is being published as required by the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, 2 U.S.C. 931 et seq. The Act requires that OMB issue (1) an annual report as specified in 2 U.S.C. 934(a) and (2) a sequestration order, if necessary.

On November 26, 2013, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) invited public comments on the Technical Support Document entitled Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866. That request may be found at 78 FR 70586. This notice extends the public comment period for another 30 days. OMB requests that comments be submitted electronically to OMB by February 26, 2014 through www.regulations.gov.

The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy designated thirteen additional counties as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 1706. The new counties are (1) Bradley County in Tennessee, Dickenson County in Virginia, and Wyoming and Raleigh Counties in West Virginia as part of the Appalachia HIDTA; (2) Rockingham County in North Carolina, and Florence and Horry Counties in South Carolina as part of the Atlanta-Carolinas HIDTA (formerly known as ``Atlanta HIDTA''); (3) Forrest County in Mississippi as part of the Gulf Coast HIDTA; (4) Williams County in North Dakota as part of the Midwest HIDTA; (5) Humboldt County in California as part of the Northern California HIDTA; and (6) Cecil and Frederick Counties in Maryland and Roanoke County in Virginia as part of the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA.