Official Subscriptions to the Print Edition of the Federal Register
| Published date | 30 December 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 86514 |
| Record Number | 2020-28663 |
| Section | Proposed rules |
| Court | Administrative Committee Of The Federal Register |
This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains notices to the public of the proposed
issuance of rules and regulations. The
purpose of these notices is to give interested
persons an opportunity to participate in the
rule making prior to the adoption of the final
rules.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF
THE FEDERAL REGISTER
1 CFR Part 12
Official Subscriptions to the Print
Edition of the Federal Register
AGENCY
: Administrative Committee of
the Federal Register.
ACTION
: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY
: The Administrative
Committee of the Federal Register
proposes to update its regulations for
official requests for specific issues or
subscriptions to the print edition of the
Federal Register as required by the
Federal Register Printing Savings Act of
2017.
DATES
: Comments are due January 29,
2021.
ADDRESSES
: Docket materials are
available for review at the Office of the
Federal Register, 7 G Street NW, Suite
A–734, Washington, DC 20401, 202–
741–6030. Please contact the persons
listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT
section to schedule your
inspection of docket materials. The
Office of the Federal Register’s official
hours of business are Monday through
Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., excluding
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Katerina Horska, Director of Legal
Affairs and Policy, or Miriam Vincent,
Staff Attorney, Office of the Federal
Register, at Fedreg.legal@nara.gov, or
202–741–6030.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Background and Purpose
Under the Federal Register Act (44
U.S.C. Chapter 15), the Administrative
Committee of the Federal Register
(Administrative Committee, Committee,
ACFR, or we) is responsible for issuing
regulations governing Federal Register
publications. This includes establishing
the number of official print copies of the
Federal Register that can be distributed
to Members of Congress, officers and
employees of the United States, or
Federal agencies (44 U.S.C. 1506). The
ACFR sets out the number of official
copies that Members of Congress and
any other office of the United States are
entitled to receive without charge in 1
CFR 12.1. This section also establishes
how Federal offices of the United States
request subscriptions to print copies of
the Federal Register.
In January of 2018, the Federal
Register Printing Savings Act of 2017
(Pub. L. 115–120) (the Act) updated 44
U.S.C. 1506 by changing subscription
terms to yearly and placing other
requirements on requests for official
print copies of the Federal Register.
Specifically, the Act prohibits the
Government Publishing Office (GPO)
from distributing the Federal Register
without charge to Members of Congress
or any other office of the United States
unless they request a specific issue of
the Federal Register or a subscription to
the print edition of the Federal Register
for that year. The Act also limits
subscriptions to single-year terms. In
addition, the Act requires the ACFR to
issue regulations that notify Members of
Congress and any other office of the
United States of these restrictions and
provide information on requesting
official copies or subscriptions. We are
proposing to revise 1 CFR 12.1 to meet
the requirements of the Act by setting
out how Members of Congress and any
other office of the United States may
request an official copy or a
subscription to the print edition of the
Federal Register.
Other Actions Taken To Implement the
Act
Since the effective date of the Act,
GPO has issued two Circular Letters
related to its implementation. The first,
GPO Circular Letter 1001, announced to
official subscribers that GPO was
creating a database to help implement
the requirements of the Act (Gov’t
Publ’g Office, Circular Letter No. 1001
(2018), https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-
work-with-us/agency/circular-letters/
federal-register-printing-savings-act-of-
2017). The second, GPO Circular Letter
1021, announced GPO’s new online
subscription portal for official
distribution of the print edition of the
Federal Register located at https://
www.gpo.gov/frsubs (Gov’t Publ’g
Office, Circular Letter No. 1021 (2018),
https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-
us/agency/circular-letters/federal-
register-printing-savings-act-of-2017-2).
On the portal’s form, an office of the
United States may sign up for a yearly
subscription to the print edition of the
Federal Register, with an option for the
delivery of multiple copies to the office.
The subscription will be valid for one
calendar year. GPO will send
subscribers a reminder that they will
need to sign up for the next calendar
year if they wish to continue to receive
print copies of the daily Federal
Register. If official subscribers do not
use the portal to sign up, they will not
receive print copies of the Federal
Register at the start of the new calendar
year. Currently, the portal also provides
Members of Congress and other offices
of the United States an email address
(FRsubs@gpo.gov) for requesting
specific issues of the daily Federal
Register. However, future versions of
the portal’s form will allow Members of
Congress and other offices of the United
States to request specific issues of the
daily Federal Register, in addition to
subscriptions, directly through the
portal.
To highlight these developments,
GPO placed a direct link to the
subscription portal on its homepage
menu (Who We Are>Our
Agency>Official Federal Register
Subscription Form). We will also
provide updates on any changes to the
official distribution of print copies of
the Federal Register on
www.federalregister.gov and in the front
matter of Federal Register issues.
We are not proposing any changes to
the process for requesting quantity
overruns or extra copies. The
paragraphs of § 12.1 governing those
processes will be re-designated as
paragraphs (d) through (f) instead of
paragraphs (b) through (d), but the
processes themselves will remain the
same. We are also not proposing to
change the paid subscription process in
part 11. The Act did not affect the
process for paid subscriptions, so this
rule applies only to requests for
distribution of the Federal Register
without charge.
Regulatory Analysis
The Administrative Committee
developed this proposed rule after
considering numerous statutes and
Executive orders related to rulemaking.
Below is a summary of the Committee’s
determinations after analysis of these
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statutes and Executive orders with
respect to this rulemaking.
Executive Orders 12866, 13563, and
13771
This proposed rule has been drafted
in accordance with Executive Order
12866, section 1(b), ‘‘The Principles of
Regulation,’’ and Executive Order
13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and
Regulatory Review.’’ The
Administrative Committee has
determined that this proposed rule is
not a significant regulatory action as
defined under section 3(f) of Executive
Order 12866. Thus, this proposed rule
has not been reviewed by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), and it
is exempt under OMB guidance from
the requirements of Executive Order
13771 (see Office of Mgmt. & Budget,
Guidance Implementing Executive
Order 13771, Titled ‘‘Reducing
Regulation and Controlling Regulatory
Costs’’ (2017)).
Regulatory Flexibility Act
This proposed rule will not have a
significant impact on small entities
because it imposes no requirements on
the public. Members of the public can
access Federal Register publications for
free through GPO’s website, https://
www.govinfo.gov/.
Federalism
This proposed rule has no federalism
implications under Executive Order
13132. It does not impose compliance
costs on state or local governments or
preempt state law.
List of Subjects in 1 CFR Part 12
Code of Federal Regulations,
Compilation of Presidential Documents,
Federal Register, Government
publications, Public papers of
Presidents of U.S., U.S. Government
Manual.
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, under the authority at 44
U.S.C. 1506, the Administrative
Committee of the Federal Register
proposes to amend 1 CFR part 12 as
follows:
PART 12—OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION
WITHIN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
■1. The authority citation for part 12
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O.
10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp.,
p. 189.
■2. Amend § 12.1 by:
■a. Revising paragraph (a),
■b. Redesignating paragraphs (b)
through (e) as (d) through (g), and
■c. Adding new paragraphs (b) and (c).
The revision and additions read as
follows:
§ 12.1 Federal Register.
(a) The Federal Register, issued under
the authority of the Administrative
Committee, is officially maintained
online and is available on at least one
Government Publishing Office website.
(b) Requests for subscriptions to the
Federal Register may be made as
follows:
(1) Requests from a Member of
Congress or any other office of the
United States for a specific issue or a
subscription may be submitted via a
Government Publishing Office website
or by email to an email address
provided on that website.
(2) Official subscription requests:
(i) May be made in the current year
for that year or for the upcoming year,
(ii) Will expire at the end of each
calendar year, and
(iii) Will not automatically continue
into a new calendar year.
(c) Notifications regarding procedures
for requesting official copies of specific
issues or print subscriptions are
available:
(1) On a Government Publishing
Office website dedicated to official
subscriptions,
(2) On www.federalregister.gov, and
(3) In the front matter of the Federal
Register, which is the text that precedes
the main text of the daily issue of the
Federal Register.
* * * * *
Oliver A. Potts,
Secretary, Administrative Committee of the
Federal Register.
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BILLING CODE 1301–00–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 39
[Docket No. FAA–2020–1022; Project
Identifier AD–2020–01101–T]
RIN 2120–AA64
Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing
Company Airplanes
AGENCY
: Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION
: Notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM).
SUMMARY
: The FAA proposes to adopt a
new airworthiness directive (AD) for
certain The Boeing Company Model
757–200, –200CB, and –300 series
airplanes. This proposed AD was
prompted by a report indicating the
passenger service units (PSUs) and life
vest panels became separated from their
attachments during several survivable
accident sequences. This proposed AD
would require installing lanyard
assemblies on the PSUs, and, for certain
airplanes, on the life vest panels and
video panels as applicable. The FAA is
proposing this AD to address the unsafe
condition on these products.
DATES
: The FAA must receive comments
on this proposed AD by February 12,
2021.
ADDRESSES
: You may send comments,
using the procedures found in 14 CFR
11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following
methods:
•Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
•Fax: 202–493–2251.
•Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590.
•Hand Delivery: Deliver to Mail
address above between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
For service information identified in
this NPRM, contact Boeing Commercial
Airplanes, Attention: Contractual & Data
Services (C&DS), 2600 Westminster
Blvd., MC 110–SK57, Seal Beach, CA
90740–5600; phone: 562–797–1717;
internet: https://
www.myboeingfleet.com. You may view
this referenced service information at
the FAA, Airworthiness Products
Section, Operational Safety Branch,
2200 South 216th St., Des Moines, WA.
For information on the availability of
this material at the FAA, call 206–231–
3195. It is also available on the internet
at https://www.regulations.gov by
searching for and locating Docket No.
FAA–2020–1022.
Examining the AD Docket
You may examine the AD docket on
the internet at https://
www.regulations.gov by searching for
and locating Docket No. FAA–2020–
1022; or in person at Docket Operations
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
The AD docket contains this NPRM, any
comments received, and other
information. The street address for
Docket Operations is listed above.
Comments will be available in the AD
docket shortly after receipt.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Scott Craig, Aerospace Engineer, Cabin
Safety and Environmental Systems
Section, FAA, Seattle ACO Branch, 2200
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