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The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy designated 13 additional areas as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 1706(b)(1). The new areas are (1) Anderson County in Tennessee, Boyd County in Kentucky, and Fayette County in West Virginia as part of the Appalachia HIDTA; (2) Floyd County in Georgia as part of the Atlanta/Carolinas HIDTA; (3) Allen County in Indiana as part of the Indiana HIDTA (4) Gloucester County in New Jersey and Bucks County in Pennsylvania as part of the Liberty Mid- Atlantic HIDTA; (5) Oswego County in New York as part of the New York/ New Jersey HIDTA; (6) Olmsted and St. Louis Counties in Minnesota as part of the North Central HIDTA (7) Josephine County in Oregon as part of the Oregon/Idaho HIDTA and (8) Worcester County in Maryland and Warren County in Virginia as part of the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA. The Director of ONDCP also removed six areas as HIDTAs pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 1706(c), effective September 10, 2019. The six areas removed from HIDTA designation are (1) Breathitt and McCreary Counties in Kentucky and Macon and Unicoi Counties in Tennessee as part of the Appalachia HIDTA; (2) Marion County in Missouri as part of the Midwest HIDTA; and (3) the Confederated Tribe of Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon as part of the Oregon-Idaho HIDTA. The Executive Boards of each of these HIDTAs requested removal of these areas from designation after assessing the threat and determining that these areas no longer met the statutory criteria necessary for designation as HIDTA counties. ONDCP evaluated and accepted the request.

On June 26, 2019, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published draft guidance on how National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis and documentation should address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The CEQ is extending the comment period on the draft guidance, which was scheduled to close on July 26, 2019, for 31 days until August 26, 2019. The CEQ is making this change in response to public requests for an extension of the comment period.

As part of implementing the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publishes the final procedures for the 2020 Census Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Appeals process, as described in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Tribal, state and local governments participating in the 2020 Census LUCA Operation may appeal determinations made by the Census Bureau with respect to their suggested changes to the 2020 Census Address List. Proposed procedures were published as a notice for public comment in the Federal Register on May 21, 2018. This final notice summarizes the comments received on the proposed procedures, and provides responses to those comments. For informational purposes, this final notice further describes the 2020 Census LUCA Feedback materials that the Census Bureau will provide to participating governments and how those governments can use the materials as the basis for an appeal. Electronic Availability: Federal Register notices are available electronically at https://www.federalregister.gov/.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Cost Accounting Standards Board (CAS Board) is publishing this notice to advise the public of planned meetings on July 25, 2019, and August 21, 2019. The notice is published pursuant to section 820(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, which requires the CAS Board to publish agendas of its meetings in the Federal Register. The meetings are closed to the public.