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.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 85, No. 250 

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-towork-with-us/agency/circular-letters/ 

federal-register-printing-savings-act-of2017). 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-withus/agency/circular-letters/federalregister-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 

Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 250 / Wednesday, December 30, 2020 / Proposed Rules 86515 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28663 Filed 12–29–20; 8:45 am] 

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