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(v) Notify employers whose 

registrations are not initially chosen or 

placed on the wait list that they will not 

be eligible to file an H–1B petition for 

the applicable fiscal year. 

(D) H–1B petition filing following 

registration—(1) General. USCIS will 

consider properly filed only those H–1B 

petitions for beneficiaries subject to a 

numerical limitation or the exemption 

under section 214(g)(5)(C) from 

registered employers notified of 

selection and only for those alien 

beneficiaries named in the original 

registration, in addition to meeting all 

other filing requirements. Petitions filed 

by employers whose registrations were 

not selected by USCIS will be rejected. 

(2) Filing. Selected employers must 

file the H–1B petition with required 

supporting documentation and filing 

fees in accordance with the form 

instructions and applicable statutes and 

regulations. H–1B petitions must be 

filed within the time period stated on 

the selection notice and must include 

the selection notice issued under 

paragraph (h)(8)(ii)(C) of this section. 

The filing period on the selection notice 

will not be less than 60 days. Failure to 

meet these requirements will result in 

rejection of the H–1B petition and 

return of the filing fees. 

* * * * * 

PART 299—IMMIGRATION FORMS 

3. The authority citation for part 299 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1103; 8 CFR 

part 2. 

4. Section 299.1 is amended by 

adding the entry ‘‘H–1B Cap 

Registration’’ at the end of the table, to 

read as follows: 

§ 299.5 Display of control numbers. 

* * * * * 

Form No. Form title Currently assigned OMB 

control No. 

*******

H–1B Cap Registration. 

Janet Napolitano, 

Secretary. 

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[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0025] 

Notice of Retrospective Review of DOT 

Existing Regulations 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation (OST), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

tentative agenda; opportunities for 

public participation in review. 

SUMMARY: On February 16, 2011, 

Department of Transportation (DOT) 

published a notice of regulatory review 

of existing DOT regulations. This review 

is in accordance with Executive Order 

13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review.’’ As part of the 

notice of review, DOT announced it will 

hold a public meeting to discuss and 

consider the public’s comments. This 

notice provides information on how to 

participate in this meeting and 

opportunities for enhanced public 

participation in the review and the 

public meeting. Please note that the 

deadline for registering to speak at the 

public meeting has been extended to 

March 7, 2011. 

DATES:

Deadline to register to attend hearing in 

person/watch Web stream/listen by 

phone—March 7, 2011. 

Deadline to register to speak in person/ 

by phone at the meeting—March 7, 

2011. 

Agenda released on http://regs.dot.gov— 

March 9, 2011. 

Web streaming/call-in info distributed 

to registrants—March 10, 2011. 

Deadline to submit any digital 

presentation materials—March 10, 

2011. 

Public Meeting—March 14, 2011—9:30 

a.m.–4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: 

Public Meeting Location: The public 

meeting will be held in the DOT 

Conference Center’s Media Center, 

located on the ground floor of 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 

20590. 

DOT Regulatory Review IdeaScale 

Web site: http:// 

dotregreview.ideascale.com/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Abdul-Wali, Office of 

Regulation and Enforcement, 

Department of Transportation, (202) 

366–6322; e-mail: 

jennifer.abdulwali@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 18, 2011, President 

Obama issued Executive Order 13563, 

which outlined a plan to improve 

regulation and regulatory review (76 FR 

3821, January 31, 2011). Executive 

Order 13563 reaffirms and builds upon 

governing principles of contemporary 

regulatory review, including Executive 

Order 12866, ‘‘Regulatory Planning and 

Review’’ (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), 

by requiring Federal agencies to design 

cost-effective, evidence-based 

regulations that are compatible with 

economic growth, job creation, and 

competitiveness. The President’s plan 

recognizes that these principles should 

not only guide the Federal government’s 

approach to new regulation, but to 

existing ones as well. To that end, 

Executive Order 13563 requires agencies 

to review existing significant rules to 

determine if they are outmoded, 

ineffective, insufficient, or excessively 

burdensome. 

On February 16, 2011, DOT published 

a notice of regulatory review (76 FR 

8940) that invited public comment on 

how to effectively implement Executive 

Order 13563 and set forth a number of 

issues and questions. Our notice stated 

that we would hold a public meeting on 

March 14, 2011. The following section 

provides the procedures for 

participating in the meeting and our 

IdeaScale Web site that can also be used 

to submit comments to DOT. 

Public Meeting Procedures 

1. As stated in our February 16 notice, 

those who wish to make presentations at 

the meeting should submit initial 

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their registration to enable DOT to set an 

agenda and ensure that the appropriate 

officials are present for the discussions. 

We hope to be able to accommodate 

everyone who would like to speak at the 

meeting, but if there are more interested 

participants than time available, we will 

limit participants in order of date and 

time of registration. When registering to 

speak, please also estimate the amount 

of time that you would like to use for 

your presentation; final times will be 

allotted to participants based on the 

time available and the issues raised in 

their initial comments. Any person 

wishing to present an oral statement 

should notify Jennifer Abdul-Wali at the 

address above by March 7, 2011; any 

digital presentation materials for the 

meeting should be submitted to her by 

March 10, 2011. If available, time will 

be given for those people attending the 

meeting in person to speak, even if they 

had not previously registered to speak. 

2. Due to security requirements, all 

public attendees must register to ensure 

their access to the building. To register, 

contact Jennifer Abdul-Wali. Foreign 

National registrants must provide your 

full name, title, country of citizenship, 

date of birth, passport number, and 

passport expiration date when 

registering. Because seating space is 

limited, we may have to limit attendees 

in order of date and time of registration. 

3. Attendees are encouraged to arrive 

early for processing through security. 

All participants and attendees must 

enter through the New Jersey Avenue 

entrance (West Building—at the corner 

of New Jersey Avenue and M Street, 

SE.). Photo identification is required 

and Foreign National attendees must 

bring their passports with them. 

Participants or attendees who have 

Federal government identification will 

still need to register to attend. To 

facilitate security screening, all 

participants and attendees are 

encouraged to limit the bags and other 

items (laptops, cameras, etc.) they bring 

into the building. Anyone exiting the 

building for any reason will be required 

to re-enter through the security 

checkpoint at the New Jersey Avenue 

entrance. 

4. DOT does not offer visitor parking; 

we suggest that attendees consider using 

alternative means of transportation to 

the building. DOT Headquarters is 

served by Metrorail (Navy Yard station), 

Metrobus, DC Circulator, and taxi 

service. There are a number of private 

parking lots near the DOT building, but 

the DOT cannot guarantee the 

availability of parking spaces. 

5. For information on facilities or 

services for persons with disabilities, or 

to request special assistance at the 

meeting, contact Ms. Abdul-Wali as 

soon as possible. 

6. For those unable to attend the 

public meeting in person, it will be 

broadcast via Web streaming (with 

captioning) and over a listen-only phone 

line. Registrants will be given the Web 

URL or phone number on March 10, 

2011. Because the number of people 

who can participate in Web streaming 

and by phone is limited, we will 

provide access in order of date and time 

of registration. 

7. We will post an Agenda for the 

public meeting at http://regs.dot.gov by 

March 9, 2011. 

8. DOT’s General Counsel will preside 

over the public meeting. Senior officials 

of DOT’s operating administrations also 

will attend this meeting as part of a 

panel with the General Counsel to 

receive comments from the public. 

During the hearing, we may ask 

questions that will clarify statements or 

gather more information or data to help 

us understand the problems or issues 

raised by commenters. 

9. The meeting is designed to solicit 

public views and gather additional 

information for our regulatory review. 

Therefore, the meeting will be 

conducted in an informal and nonadversarial manner. In developing 

prepared remarks, participants should 

leave time during their remarks for 

questions and discussion by the panel. 

10. We plan to make a record of the 

meeting available to the public; 

information about how to access the 

record will be placed in the docket and 

posted on http://regs.dot.gov. 

DOT IdeaScale Web Site 

In order to provide the public with 

alternative means of providing feedback 

to DOT in ways that may better suit 

their needs, we have created a Web site 

using IdeaScale that will allow 

submissions to DOT in a less formal 

manner. This Web site will provide 

members of the public an opportunity to 

submit their ideas about our regulatory 

review, categorized by the DOT 

Operating Administration that 

administers the regulation. Participants 

in this site may discuss one another’s 

ideas and agree/disagree with others. 

This Web site may be particularly useful 

for individuals and small entities 

(including State, local, and Tribal 

governments) who prefer a less formal 

method of submitting ideas to DOT. It 

may also assist participants in refining 

their suggestions and gathering 

additional information or data to 

support those suggestions. 

To ensure that ideas are most useful 

in informing our deliberation and 

decision process, you should include 

the citation to the regulation on which 

you are commenting (e.g. 49 CFR 1.69), 

a description of any concerns regarding 

the regulation (e.g. it is duplicative, too 

costly, etc.), and any supporting 

information (e.g., the citation to a 

duplicative regulation or actual cost or 

benefit data) that would assist DOT in 

making a decision. Please also include 

in your comment whether you found 

this Web site useful for your purposes, 

so that we can best plan how to deploy 

DOT’s scarce resources to most 

effectively reach the public in the 

future. To go directly to the IdeaScale 

Web site use the following link: 

http://dotregreview.ideascale.com/. 

Follow-Up Action by DOT 

The comments received during our 

review will provide meaningful and 

significant information for DOT senior 

officials, including those in the Office of 

the Secretary and each of DOT’s 

operating administrations. As soon as 

possible after the public meeting and 

the close of the comment period, taking 

account of the number of comments 

received and the complexity of issues 

raised, DOT will publish a report 

providing at least a brief response to the 

comments we receive, including a 

description of any further action we 

intend to take. 

Privacy Act Statement 

Anyone is able to search all comments 

entered into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19476, 04/11/2011) or at http:// 

www.dot.gov/privacy.html. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 610; E.O. 13563, 76 FR 

3821, Jan. 21 2011; E.O. 12866, 58 FR 51735, 

Oct. 4, 1993.) 

Issued on February 25, 2011, in 

Washington, DC. 

Robert S. Rivkin, 

General Counsel. 

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