Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 20 / Tuesday, February 2, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 7799 

no way alters the legal effect of this 

document upon publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 27, 

2021. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02035 Filed 2–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 1061 

RIN 1990–AA50 

Procedures for the Issuance of 

Guidance Documents 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective 

date. 

SUMMARY: This document delays the 

effective date of a recently published 

final rule establishing procedures for the 

issuance of Department of Energy 

guidance documents. DOE also seeks 

comment on any further delay of the 

effective date, including the impacts of 

such delay, as well comment on the 

legal, factual, or policy issues raised by 

the rule. 

DATES: The effective date of the final 

rule published January 6, 2021, at 86 FR 

451, is delayed to March 21, 2021. 

Written comments and information will 

be accepted on or before March 4, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Matthew Ring, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

Forrestal Building, GC–33, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585, (202) 586–2555, Email: 

Guidance@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 20, 2021, the Assistant to the 

President and Chief of Staff (‘‘Chief of 

Staff’’) issued a memorandum outlining 

the President’s plan for managing the 

Federal regulatory process at the outset 

of the new Administration. In 

implementation of one of the measures 

directed by that memorandum, the 

United States Department of Energy 

(‘‘DOE’’) hereby temporarily postpones 

the effective date of its final rule 

establishing procedures for the issuance 

of DOE guidance documents published 

in the Federal Register on January 6, 

2021 (86 FR 451). The January 6, 2021 

rule implemented Executive Order 

13891, ‘‘Promoting the Rule of Law 

Through Improved Agency Guidance 

Documents’’ (84 FR 55235), which, 

among other things, required agencies to 

provide more transparency for their 

guidance documents by creating a 

searchable online database for current 

guidance documents, and by 

establishing procedures to allow the 

public to comment on significant 

guidance documents and to petition the 

agency to withdraw or modify guidance 

documents. Consistent with the 

memorandum, DOE is temporarily 

postponing the effective date of the final 

rule by 60 days, starting from January 

20, 2021. The temporary 60-day delay in 

the effective date is necessary to give 

DOE officials the opportunity for further 

review and consideration of new 

regulations, consistent with the Chief of 

Staff’s memorandum of January 20, 

2021. 

To the extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies 

to this action, it is exempt from notice 

and comment because it constitutes a 

rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(A). Alternatively, DOE’s 

implementation of this action without 

opportunity for public comment, 

effective immediately upon publication 

in the Federal Register, is based on the 

good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(B) and 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3). 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B), DOE has 

determined that good cause exists to 

forego the requirement to provide prior 

notice and an opportunity for public 

comment thereon for this rule as such 

procedures would be impracticable, 

unnecessary and contrary to the public 

interest. DOE is temporarily postponing 

for 60 days the effective date of this 

regulation pursuant to the previouslynoted memorandum of the Chief of Staff 

and is exercising no discretion in 

implementing this specific provision of 

the memorandum. As a result, seeking 

public comment on this delay is 

unnecessary and contrary to the public 

interest. For these same reasons, DOE 

finds good cause to waive the 30-day 

delay in effective date provided for in 5 

U.S.C. 553(d). DOE is, however, seeking 

comment on any further delay of the 

effective date, including the impacts of 

such delay, as well comment on the 

legal, factual, or policy issues raised by 

the rule. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 26, 2021, 

by John T. Lucas, Acting General 

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Acting Secretary of Energy. That 

document with the original signature 

and date is maintained by DOE. For 

administrative purposes only, and in 

compliance with requirements of the 

Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned DOE Federal Register 

Liaison Officer has been authorized to 

sign and submit the document in 

electronic format for publication, as an 

official document of the Department of 

Energy. This administrative process in 

no way alters the legal effect of this 

document upon publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 27, 

2021. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02036 Filed 2–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 25 

[Docket No. FAA–2020–0476; Special 

Conditions No. 25–780–SC] 

Special Conditions: TC InterInformatics A.S., Airbus Model A330– 

243 Airplane; Single-Occupant, 

Oblique (Side-Facing) Seats With 

Inflatable Lapbelts 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Final special conditions; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: These special conditions are 

issued for the Airbus Model A330–243 

series airplane. This airplane, as 

modified by TC Inter-Informatics A.S. 

(TC Inter-Informatics), will have a novel 

or unusual design feature when 

compared to the state of technology 

envisioned in the airworthiness 

standards for transport-category 

airplanes. This design feature is singleoccupant, oblique B/E Aerospace Super 

Diamond seats, equipped with inflatable 

lapbelts. The applicable airworthiness 

regulations do not contain adequate or 

appropriate safety standards for this 

design feature. These special conditions 

contain the additional safety standards 

that the Administrator considers 

necessary to establish a level of safety 

equivalent to that established by the 

existing airworthiness standards. 

DATES: This action is effective on TC 

Inter-Informatics on February 2, 2021. 

Send comments on or before March 19, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by Docket No. FAA–2020–0476 using 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRegulations Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/ and follow 


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