Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 250 / Monday, December 31, 2012 / Rules and Regulations 76861 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

20 CFR Parts 626, 627, 628, 631, 632, 

633, 634, 636, 637, and 638 

RIN 1205–AB68 

Removal of Job Training Partnership 

Act Implementing Regulations 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Direct final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA) of the 

Department of Labor (Department) is 

removing the regulations at 20 CFR 

parts 626, 627, 628, 631, 632, 633, 634, 

636, 637, and 638, which implemented 

the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA 

or the Act). These regulations were 

designed to improve the employment 

status of disadvantaged youth, adults, 

dislocated workers, and other 

individuals facing barriers to 

employment. In 1998, Congress passed 

the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), 

which required the Secretary of Labor to 

transition any authority under the JTPA 

to the system created by WIA. 

Therefore, the Department is taking this 

action to remove regulations for a 

program that is no longer operative. 

DATES: This Direct Final Rule is 

effective April 1, 2013 without further 

action, unless significant adverse 

comment is received by January 30, 

2013. If significant adverse comment is 

received, the Department of Labor will 

publish a timely withdrawal of the rule 

in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 1205–AB68, by one of 

the following methods: 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the Web 

site instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Mail and hand delivery/courier: 

Written comments, disk, and CD–ROM 

submissions may be mailed to Michael 

S. Jones, Acting Administrator, Office of 

Policy Development and Research, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room N–5641, 

Washington, DC 20210. 

Instructions: Label all submissions 

with ‘‘RIN 1205–AB68.’’ 

Please submit your comments by only 

one method. Please be advised that the 

Department will post all comments on 

this Direct Final Rule on http:// 

www.regulations.gov without making 

any change to the comments or 

redacting any information. The http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site is the 

Federal e-rulemaking portal and all 

comments posted there are available 

and accessible to the public. Therefore, 

the Department recommends that 

commenters remove personal 

information such as Social Security 

Numbers, personal addresses, telephone 

numbers, and email addresses included 

in their comments as such information 

may become easily available to the 

public via the http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site. It is the 

responsibility of the commenter to 

safeguard their personal information. 

Also, please note that due to security 

concerns, postal mail delivery in 

Washington, DC may be delayed. 

Therefore, the Department encourages 

the public to submit comments on 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: All comments on this Direct 

Final Rule will be available on the 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site, 

posted without change, and can be 

found using RIN 1205–AB68. The 

Department also will make all the 

comments it receives available for 

public inspection by appointment 

during normal business hours at the 

above address. If you need assistance to 

review the comments, the Department 

will provide you with appropriate aids 

such as readers or print magnifiers. The 

Department will make copies of the rule 

available, upon request, in large print 

and electronic file on computer disk. To 

schedule an appointment to review the 

comments and/or obtain the rule in an 

alternative format, contact the Office of 

Policy Development and Research at 

(202) 693–3700 (this is not a toll-free 

number). You may also contact this 

office at the address listed below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael S. Jones, Acting Administrator, 

Office of Policy Development and 

Research, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room N–5641, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210; 

telephone: (202) 693–3700 (this is not a 

toll-free number). This notice is 

available through the printed Federal 

Register, and electronically at http:// 

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/ 

collection.action?collectionCode=FR. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Direct Final Rule Procedure 

Since removal of the Job Training 

Partnership Act implementing 

regulations is not controversial, and the 

authorizing legislation for these 

regulations has been repealed, these 

regulations govern a program that is no 

longer in operation. The Department 

therefore has determined that good 

cause exists to remove these regulations 

using a Direct Final Rule. No significant 

adverse comments are anticipated. All 

interested parties should comment at 

this time because we will not initiate an 

additional comment period. 

If significant adverse comments are 

received, we will publish a timely 

notice in the Federal Register 

withdrawing this Direct Final Rule. For 

purposes of withdrawing this Direct 

Final Rule, a significant adverse 

comment is one that explains: (1) why 

the Direct Final Rule is inappropriate, 

including challenges to the rule’s 

underlying premise or approach; or (2) 

why the Direct Final Rule will be 

ineffective or unacceptable without a 

change. In determining whether a 

significant adverse comment 

necessitates withdrawal of this Direct 

Final Rule, we will consider whether 

the comment raises an issue serious 

enough to warrant a substantive 

response through the notice and 

comment process. 

II. Background 

Through this Direct Final Rule, the 

Department is removing and reserving 

the JTPA regulations at 20 CFR parts 

626, 627, 628, 631, 632, 633, 634, 636, 

637, and 638, which were designed to 

improve the employment status of 

disadvantaged young adults, dislocated 

workers, and individuals facing barriers 

to employment. These regulations have 

been superseded by the regulations 

promulgated under the Workforce 

Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), 29 U.S.C. 

2801 et seq. 

The statutory purpose of the JTPA 

was to establish programs that prepared 

disadvantaged youth and adults who 

faced serious barriers to employment for 

participation in the labor force by 

providing job training and other services 

that would result in increased 

employment and earnings, increased 

educational and occupational skills, and 

decreased welfare dependency. See 20 

CFR part 626. To carry out this purpose, 

the Department published regulations 

that implemented adult and youth 

training programs, summer youth 

employment and training programs, 

provided employment and training 

assistance for dislocated workers, and 

authorized programs for other 

individuals facing barriers to 

employment. See 20 CFR parts 628, 631. 

The JTPA regulations also established 

corrective action and sanctions for 

instances of noncompliance, provided 

procedures for hearings, and established 

standards and expectations for the 

programs authorized under the Act. See 

20 CFR part 627. 


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76862 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 250 / Monday, December 31, 2012 / Rules and Regulations 

On August 7, 1998, Congress passed 

WIA. Under WIA, which superseded the 

JTPA, Congress required the Secretary of 

Labor to develop and publish interim 

final regulations (IFR) to implement this 

transition no later than 180 days after 

WIA’s enactment date. See 20 U.S.C. 

9276(c)(1). The Department published 

the WIA IFR on April 15, 1999. See 64 

FR 18662. In that IFR, the Department 

explicitly provided for the phased 

transition of the JTPA programs to WIA, 

to be fully completed by July 1, 2000. 

See 64 FR 18662, 18663 (Apr. 15, 1999). 

The final rule implementing WIA was 

published on August 11, 2000. See 65 

FR 49293 (Aug. 11, 2000). 

Initially, although the JTPA 

authorizing legislation was repealed, the 

Department retained the JTPA 

regulations in the Code of Federal 

Regulations for grant closeout and 

auditing purposes. However, now that 

the JTPA programs have been 

transitioned to WIA for over a decade, 

the Department finds no reason to retain 

the JTPA regulations. Furthermore, the 

Department has previously removed 

several other JTPA regulatory 

provisions. Parts 629 and 630 were 

removed at 57 FR 62004 (Dec. 29, 1992). 

Part 635 was re-designated as 20 CFR 

part 1005 at 54 FR 39352 (Sept. 26, 

1989), and the Department later 

removed part 1005 at 59 FR 26601 (May 

23, 1994). Finally, the Department notes 

that it re-designated part 684 as part 638 

at 55 FR 12992 (Apr. 6, 1990). Those 

JTPA regulatory provisions that remain 

are subject to this removal notice. 

List of Subjects 

20 CFR Parts 626, 627, 628, 631 and 637 

Accounting, Administrative practice 

and procedure, Disaster assistance, 

Grant programs—Labor, Manpower 

training programs, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements, Youth. 

20 CFR Part 632 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Fraud, Grant programs— 

Indians, Grant programs—labor, 

Hawaiian Natives, Manpower training 

programs, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements Youth. 

20 CFR Part 633 

Grant programs—labor, Manpower 

training programs, Migrant labor, 

Recording and record keeping 

requirements. 

20 CFR Part 634 

Grant Programs—labor, Manpower 

training programs, Statistics. 

20 CFR Part 636 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Grant programs—labor, 

Manpower training programs. 

20 CFR Part 638 

Grant programs—labor, Job Corps, 

Lobbying, Manpower training programs, 

Recording and record keeping 

requirements, Youth. 

Accordingly, under the authority of 

the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 

(WIA), 29 U.S.C. 9276(a), and for the 

reasons discussed in the preamble, the 

Department amends 20 CFR Chapter V 

by removing Parts 626, 627, 628, 631, 

632, 633, 634, 636, 637, and 638 as 

follows: 

PART 626—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 1. Remove and reserve part 626, 

consisting of §§ 626.1 through 626.5. 

PART 627—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 2. Remove and reserve part 627, 

consisting of §§ 627.100 through 

627.906. 

PART 628—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 3. Remove and reserve part 628, 

consisting of §§ 628.100 through 

628.804. 

PART 631—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 4. Remove and reserve part 631, 

consisting of §§ 631.1 through 631.87. 

PART 632—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 5. Remove and reserve part 632, 

consisting of §§ 632.1 through 632.263. 

PART 633—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 6. Remove and reserve part 633, 

consisting of §§ 633.102 through 

633.322. 

PART 634—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 7. Remove and reserve part 634, 

consisting of §§ 634.1 through 634.5. 

PART 636—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 8. Remove and reserve part 636, 

consisting of §§ 636.1 through 636.11. 

PART 637—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 9. Remove and reserve part 637, 

consisting of §§ 637.100 through 

637.310. 

PART 638—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ 10. Remove and reserve part 638, 

consisting of §§ 638.100 through 

638.815. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

December, 2012. 

Jane Oates 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

21 CFR Parts 520, 522, 529, and 558 

[Docket No. FDA–2012–N–0002] 

New Animal Drugs; Enrofloxacin; 

Melengestrol; Meloxicam; 

Pradofloxacin; Tylosin 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) is amending the 

animal drug regulations to reflect 

approval actions for new animal drug 

applications (NADAs) and abbreviated 

new animal drug applications 

(ANADAs) during November 2012. FDA 

is also informing the public of the 

availability of summaries the basis of 

approval and of environmental review 

documents, where applicable. 

DATES: This rule is effective December 

31, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George K. Haibel, Center for Veterinary 

Medicine (HFV–6), Food and Drug 

Administration, 7519 Standish Pl., 

Rockville, MD 20855, 240–276–9019, 

email: george.haibel@fda.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FDA is 

amending the animal drug regulations to 

reflect original and supplemental 

approval actions during November 

2012, as listed in table 1 of this 

document. In addition, FDA is 

informing the public of the availability, 

where applicable, of documentation of 

environmental review required under 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) and, for actions requiring 


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