7424 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 17 / Thursday, January 28, 2021 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice of availability of the 

OMB Final Sequestration Report to the 

President and Congress for FY 2021. 

SUMMARY: OMB is issuing the OMB 

Final Sequestration Report to the 

President and Congress for Fiscal Year 

2021 to report on status of 2021 

discretionary caps and compliance of 

enacted 2021 discretionary 

appropriations legislation with those 

caps. 

DATES: January 19, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The OMB Sequestration 

Reports to the President and Congress 

are available on-line on the OMB home 

page at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

omb/legislative/sequestration-reportsorders/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, 

Email address: ttobasko@omb.eop.gov, 

telephone number: (202) 395–5745, FAX 

number: (202) 395–4768. Because of 

delays in the receipt of regular mail 

related to security screening, 

respondents are encouraged to use 

electronic communications. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

254 of the Balanced Budget and 

Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 

requires the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) to issue a Final 

Sequestration Report 15 calendar days 

after the end of a congressional session. 

This report meets that requirement and 

finds that, for fiscal year 2021, enacted 

appropriations are at or below the 

defense and non-defense caps after 

accounting for cap adjustments. As a 

result, a sequestration of discretionary 

budget authority is not required in 2021. 

Russell T. Vought, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01568 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3110–01–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Memorandum for the Heads of 

Executive Departments and Agencies 

January 20, 2021. 

FROM: Ronald A. Klain, Assistant to the 

President and Chief of Staff. 

SUBJECT: Regulatory Freeze Pending 

Review. 

The President has asked me to 

communicate to each of you his plan for 

managing the Federal regulatory process 

at the outset of his Administration. In 

order to ensure that the President’s 

appointees or designees have the 

opportunity to review any new or 

pending rules, at the direction of the 

President, I ask that you immediately 

take the following steps: 

1. Subject to any exceptions the 

Director of the Office of Management 

and Budget (the ‘‘OMB Director’’) allows 

for emergency situations or other urgent 

circumstances relating to health, safety, 

environmental, financial, or national 

security matters, or otherwise, propose 

or issue no rule in any manner— 

including by sending a rule to the Office 

of the Federal Register (the ‘‘OFR’’)— 

until a department or agency head 

appointed or designated by the 

President after noon on January 20, 

2021, reviews and approves the rule. 

The department or agency head may 

delegate this power of review and 

approval to any other person so 

appointed or designated by the 

President, consistent with applicable 

law. 

2. With respect to rules that have been 

sent to the OFR but not published in the 

Federal Register, immediately withdraw 

them from the OFR for review and 

approval as described in paragraph 1, 

subject to the exceptions described in 

paragraph 1. This withdrawal must be 

conducted consistent with OFR 

procedures. 

3. With respect to rules that have been 

published in the Federal Register, or 

rules that have been issued in any 

manner, but have not taken effect, 

consider postponing the rules’ effective 

dates for 60 days from the date of this 

memorandum, consistent with 

applicable law and subject to the 

exceptions described in paragraph 1, for 

the purpose of reviewing any questions 

of fact, law, and policy the rules may 

raise. For rules postponed in this 

manner, during the 60-day period, 

where appropriate and consistent with 

applicable law, consider opening a 30- 

day comment period to allow interested 

parties to provide comments about 

issues of fact, law, and policy raised by 

those rules, and consider pending 

petitions for reconsideration involving 

such rules. As appropriate and 

consistent with applicable law, and 

where necessary to continue to review 

these questions of fact, law, and policy, 

consider further delaying, or publishing 

for notice and comment proposed rules 

further delaying, such rules beyond the 

60-day period. Following the 60-day 

delay in effective date: 

a. For those rules that raise no 

substantial questions of fact, law, or 

policy, no further action needs to be 

taken; and 

b. for those rules that raise substantial 

questions of fact, law, or policy, 

agencies should notify the OMB 

Director and take further appropriate 

action in consultation with the OMB 

Director. 

4. Exclude from the actions requested 

in paragraphs 1 through 3 any rules 

subject to statutory or judicial deadlines 

and identify such exclusions to the 

OMB Director as soon as possible. 

5. Notify the OMB Director promptly 

of any rules that, in your view, should 

be excluded from the directives in 

paragraphs 1 through 3 because those 

rules affect critical health, safety, 

environmental, financial, or national 

security matters, or for some other 

reason. The OMB Director will review 

any such notifications and determine 

whether such exclusion is appropriate 

under the circumstances. 

6. Comply in all circumstances with 

any applicable Executive Orders 

concerning regulatory management. 

As used in this memorandum, ‘‘rule’’ 

has the definition set forth in section 

551(4), title 5, United States Code. It 

also includes any ‘‘regulatory action,’’ as 

defined in section 3(e) of Executive 

Order 12866 of September 30, 1993, as 

amended, and any ‘‘guidance 

document’’ as defined in section 3(g) of 

Executive Order 13422 of January 18, 

2007, when that order was in effect. 

Thus, the requirements of this 

memorandum apply not only to ‘‘rules’’ 

as defined in section 551(4) of title 5, 

but also to: 

a. Any substantive action by an 

agency (normally published in the 

Federal Register) that promulgates or is 

expected to lead to the promulgation of 

a final rule or regulation, including 

notices of inquiry, advance notices of 

proposed rulemaking, and notices of 

proposed rulemaking; and 

b. any agency statement of general 

applicability and future effect that sets 

forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory, 

or technical issue or an interpretation of 

a statutory or regulatory issue. 

The OMB Director will implement 

this regulatory review, and any 

communications regarding any matters 

pertaining to this review should be 

addressed to the OMB Director. The 

OMB Director is also authorized to 

establish a process to review pending 

collections of information under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as 

codified in chapter 35, title 44, United 

States Code, and to take actions that the 

OMB Director deems appropriate based 

on that review, consistent with 

applicable law. 

Should actions be identified that were 

undertaken before noon on January 20, 

2021, to frustrate the purpose 

underlying this memorandum, I may 

modify or extend this memorandum, 

pursuant to the direction of the 

President, to request that agency heads 

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consider taking steps to address those 

actions. 

The OMB Director is authorized and 

directed to publish this memorandum in 

the Federal Register. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01868 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3110–01–M 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Submission for Review: 3206–0194, 

Annuity Supplement Earnings Report, 

RI 92–22 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Retirement Services, Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM) offers the 

general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a revised information collection request 

(ICR), RI 92–22—Annuity Supplement 

Earnings Report. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until March 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 17th Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 

Officer for the Office of Personnel 

Management or sent via electronic mail 

to: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or 

faxed to (202) 395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

copy of this ICR with applicable 

supporting documentation, may be 

obtained by contacting the Retirement 

Services Publications Team, Office of 

Personnel Management, 1900 E Street 

NW, Room 3316–L, Washington, DC 

20415, Attention: Cyrus S. Benson, or 

sent via electronic mail to 

Cyrus.Benson@opm.gov or faxed to 

(202) 606–0910 or via telephone at (202) 

606–4808. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 OPM is soliciting comments 

for this collection. The information 

collection (OMB No. 3206–0194) was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on April 7, 2020 at 85 FR 

19518, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. Comments were 

received; however, they were not related 

to this Information Collection Request. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

that: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of functions 

of the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Form RI 92–22, Annuity Supplement 

Earnings Report, is used to annually 

obtain the earned income of Federal 

Employees Retirement System (FERS) 

annuitants receiving an annuity 

supplement. The annuity supplement is 

paid eligible FERS annuitants who are 

not retired on disability and are not yet 

age 62. The supplement approximates 

the portion of a full career Social 

Security benefits earned while under 

FERS and ends at age 62. Like Social 

Security benefits, the annuity 

supplement is subject to an earnings 

limitation. 

Analysis 

Agency: Retirement Operations, 

Retirement Services, Office of Personnel 

Management. 

Title: Annuity Supplement Earnings 

Report. 

OMB Number: 3206–0194. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Number of Respondents: 13,000. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 15 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 3,250. 

Office of Personnel Management. 

Alexys Stanley, 

Regulatory Affairs Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01826 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6325–38–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Submission for Review: 3206–0226, It’s 

Time To Sign Up for Direct Deposit or 

Direct Express, RI 38–128 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Retirement Services, Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM) offers the 

general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a revised information collection request 

(ICR), RI 38–128—It’s Time to Sign Up 

for Direct Deposit or Direct Express. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until March 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 17th Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 

Officer for the Office of Personnel 

Management or sent via electronic mail 

to: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or 

faxed to (202) 395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

copy of this ICR with applicable 

supporting documentation, may be 

obtained by contacting the Retirement 

Services Publications Team, Office of 

Personnel Management, 1900 E Street 

NW, Room 3316–L, Washington, DC 

20415, Attention: Cyrus S. Benson, or 

sent via electronic mail to 

Cyrus.Benson@opm.gov or faxed to 

(202) 606–0910 or via telephone at (202) 

606–4808. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 OPM is soliciting comments 

for this collection. The information 

collection (OMB No. 3206–0226) was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on April 27, 2020 at 85 FR 

23383, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. One comment was 

received: ‘‘Recommend that paragraph 

4 (page 1) be updated for the Direct 

Debit program. (The provided hyperlink 

for Direct Express cards— 

www.godirect.org—is not a valid URL. 

The correct URL is www.godirect.gov.)’’. 

Our response is: ‘‘We have updated the 

hyperlink as requested’’. The Office of 

Management and Budget is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of functions 

of the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and