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.

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ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF 

THE FEDERAL REGISTER 

1 CFR Chapter I 

[RIN 3095–AB84] 

Revision of Regulations 

AGENCY: Administrative Committee of 

the Federal Register. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Administrative 

Committee of the Federal Register 

proposes to update its regulations for 

the Federal Register system to clarify 

certain policies and to reflect current 

procedures and technological advances. 

This proposal would also revise the 

regulatory text to make it more readable 

and consistent with plain language 

principles. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified using the subject line of this 

document, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: Fedreg.legal@nara.gov. 

Include the subject line of this 

document in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: The Office of the Federal 

Register (F), The National Archives and 

Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of the 

Federal Register, 800 North Capitol 

Street NW., Suite 700, Washington, DC 

20002. 

Docket materials are available at the 

Office of the Federal Register, 800 North 

Capitol Street NW., Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20002, 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: 

Amy P. Bunk, 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 (FRA 

or the Act), (44 U.S.C. Chapter 15), the 

Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register (Administrative 

Committee) is responsible for issuing 

regulations governing Federal Register 

publications. The Administrative 

Committee has general authority under 

44 U.S.C. 1506 to determine the manner 

and form for publishing the Federal 

Register and its special editions. The 

last major revision of Title 1 Chapter I 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

was completed November 4, 1972 (37 

FR 23602). Because of technological 

advances in the printing and 

publication industry, the Administrative 

Committee intends to update chapter I 

in its entirety. This action does not 

represent an increase in the burdens on 

agencies or the public. 

Many of the changes proposed are 

technical in nature and will bring the 

regulations in line with the Office of the 

Federal Register (OFR) document 

management system and other 

technologies not available in the early 

1970s. The Administrative Committee is 

also updating the text of many sections 

to meet plain language principles and to 

further the goals of the President’s 

memorandum on Transparency and 

Open Government. (74 FR 4685, January 

26, 2009). 

Proposed changes to 1 CFR chapter I 

are highlighted as follows: 

Proposed Changes to Parts 1 and 2 

Parts 1 and 2 would be combined to 

follow OFR guidance that parts should 

not contain only one section. In § 1.2, 

we would add a definition for the term 

‘‘Director’’ to mean the Director of the 

Federal Register. Other proposed 

changes to part 1 include updating the 

OFR’s mailing address and clarifying 

that materials appearing in the daily 

Federal Register or special editions of 

the Federal Register, with the exception 

of the National Archives and Records 

Administration’s official seal and OFR 

logos, may be reproduced. See 36 CFR 

part 1200. 

Proposed Changes to Parts 3, 5, 6 

and 8 

Many of the changes to these sections 

would be technical in nature, bringing 

the regulations in line with current 

technologies used at the OFR to carry 

out its mission. For example, §§ 3.1 and 

3.2 include proposed language 

addressing where readers can access 

information online. 

Proposed section 3.1 states that the 

Director of the Federal Register 

administers the format and availability 

of the OFR.gov Web site. Proposed 

section 3.2 specifies that documents 

placed on public inspection are posted 

online. The proposed regulation makes 

clear that the official public inspection 

version of the document is filed at the 

OFR and that the actual date and time 

of official filing is the point in time 

when the document is available at the 

OFR. It also clarifies that the online 

public inspection desk is only updated 

during official office hours. 

Sections 3.3 and 3.4 would be added 

to consolidate the regulations on 

ancillaries and indexes to the Federal 

Register (§ 3.3) and the Code of Federal 

Regulations (§ 3.4), currently set out in 

other parts. This consolidation would 

allow us to remove part 6, which 

currently deals with ancillaries and 

indexes to the daily Federal Register. It 

contains five regulations dealing 

specifically with a daily Federal 

Register Index (§ 6.1), a yearly 

cumulative Federal Register Index 

(§ 6.2), daily and monthly lists of parts 

and sections affected by rules published 

in the Federal Register (§§ 6.3 and 6.4), 

and a general section allowing the 

Director discretion to publish other 

indexes, digests, and guides, as needed 

(§ 6.5). The Administrative Committee 

believes that consolidating these 

sections into one general section allows 

the Director greater flexibility to publish 

user aids at a time when most users rely 

on the online version of the daily 

Federal Register. 

This proposed consolidation would 

also allow us to remove §§ 8.4 and 8.5, 

which deal with ancillaries and indexes 

to the CFR. These proposed changes 

allow readers to quickly find 

information on user aids in one part 

entitled ‘‘SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC’’ 

(part 3) instead of searching the entire 

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1 ‘‘[T]he Administrative Committee is updating its 

regulations to acknowledge the official status and 

availability of the Administrative Committee’s 

online editions of the Federal Register and The 

United States Government Manual. The 

Administrative Committee has resolved that the 

American public should have greater access to 

essential information on the structure, functions 

and actions of its Government through the Federal 

Register system.’’ 61 FR 68118 (December 27, 1996). 

2 65 FR 8841, 8842 (February 23, 2000). 

The Committee proposes to revise 

§ 5.9, entitled ‘‘Categories of 

documents.’’ The Committee created 

these categories to provide greater 

clarity under the FRA. These categories, 

which will correspond to sections in the 

daily Federal Register, are not intended 

as a determination as to a document’s 

legal status. 

The Committee proposes to revise 

§ 5.9 to clarify what types of documents 

are published in which categories of the 

daily Federal Register. To do this, the 

Committee is proposing to add a new 

category to the daily Federal Register as 

set out in § 5.9(d) and revise the list of 

documents types that publish in the 

Rules and Regulations category of the 

daily Federal Register. Certain types of 

documents that are currently required to 

be published in the Rules and 

Regulations category would be 

published in this new category of the 

daily issue, which would be called 

‘‘Regulatory Notices.’’ The Regulatory 

Notices category would include 

documents containing Regulation 

Identifier Numbers (RINs) that do not 

amend the CFR; Paperwork Reduction 

Act notices; statements of organization 

and function; and announcements of 

public meetings, Sunshine Act notices, 

other meeting notices that are related to 

specific agency regulations and 

rulemaking actions; and general policy 

statements concerning regulations. 

The Committee believes that adding a 

new category to the daily Federal 

Register will alleviate confusion 

regarding where documents will publish 

in the daily Federal Register and allow 

documents to be processed for 

publication more quickly. The 

Committee also believes that creating 

this category falls in line with current 

data-harmonization efforts across the 

federal government by providing a 

specific Federal Register category for 

these types of documents. 

The Committee also proposes to 

revise §§ 5.10 and 8.6, which discuss 

the official formats of the Federal 

Register and the CFR. Currently, both 

sections specifically identify the formats 

that are official formats of both the 

Federal Register and the CFR. Setting 

out the official formats within the CFR 

makes it difficult to keep pace with the 

rapidly changing technological 

developments in publishing. Therefore, 

the Committee is proposing to remove 

the list of official formats from the CFR 

in favor of regulations that describe in 

detail the factors the Committee uses to 

determine what is an official format of 

these publications. Once the Committee 

determines the formats of these 

publications that are official, based on 

the factors set out in the regulations, the 

Committee will publish a Notice in the 

Federal Register announcing those 

official formats. 

The Committee has determined that it 

may announce official formats in a 

published Notice rather than codify 

them in the CFR, and that it may do so 

without seeking public comment. In 

1996, through final rule with request for 

comments, the Committee chose to 

specify the official formats in the CFR.1

The Committee noted in a later rule that 

‘‘granting official status’’ of a format is 

a ‘‘procedural matter’’ and does ‘‘not 

. . . materially [affect] rights or 

obligations.’’ 2 Consistent with that 

determination, the Committee has 

concluded that it is unnecessary for 

future designations of official format to 

be subject to public comment or 

codified in the CFR because such 

designations are rules of agency 

procedure and practice. See 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(A). The Committee believes that 

the Administrative Procedure Act’s 

general requirement for rulemaking 

requires that the Committee codify the 

procedural requirements for 

determining an official format but does 

not require that the actual format be 

included within the CFR. 

Currently, § 8.3(c) requires that all 

rule documents amending the CFR be 

included in the annual soft-bound 

version of the CFR, even if the 

amendments to the CFR are not yet 

effective. In other words, a document 

amending the CFR that is published 

before July 1st (the publication date of 

the annual CFR volume) but is not 

effective until July 7th appears in the 

printed edition in a smaller font along 

with the currently effective regulation. 

While this practice was intended to alert 

readers to future changes in CFR text, 

displaying parallel codified text could 

sometimes be confusing. 

Now that there is an unofficial 

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations 

(e-CFR) that displays the current text of 

the CFR and links readers to pending 

Federal Register amendments, users 

have less need for future-effective 

amendments in printed editions. The 

proposed change to § 8.3(c) would 

eliminate potential confusion by 

providing that only the regulation 

currently in effect as of the date of 

publication of the soft-bound volume 

will be published in that volume. 

Other proposed changes to part 5 and 

part 8 not specifically mentioned in this 

preamble are technical in nature; they 

clarify requirements for publication in 

the Federal Register system and 

reformat sections to aid in the 

readability of this chapter. 

Proposed Changes to Parts 11 and 12 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes changing the language of parts 

11 and 12 to be more concise and clear 

and to meet the goals of the President’s 

transparency memorandum. In addition 

to these technical edits, the Committee 

proposes substantive changes to part 12. 

To fulfill the requirements of the Act, 

this part, entitled ‘‘OFFICIAL 

DISTRIBUTION WITHIN FEDERAL 

GOVERNMENT,’’ sets out the number of 

official copies of Federal Register 

publications that various Federal 

government entities are entitled to 

receive. Specifically, §§ 12.1 and 12.2 

address the number of printed copies of 

the Federal Register and the CFR 

available to Federal entities without 

charge. The Administrative Committee 

believes that publishing both these 

publications in a free, electronic-only 

format to Federal officials for their 

official use constitutes the distribution 

of the Federal Register and the CFR for 

official use without charge. However, 

the OFR will continue to provide one 

soft-bound copy of the Federal Register 

and CFR to Federal officials upon a 

written request to the Director. The 

proposed changes to parts 11 and 12 

will not change the page rate charged to 

agencies to publish documents in the 

Federal Register and CFR. The 

Administrative Committee intends that 

an official online version of both 

publications will remain available to 

both the public and Federal officials. 

Additionally, the Administrative 

Committee proposes to remove § 12.4. 

Section 12.4 establishes the number of 

printed copies of the Weekly 

Compilation of Presidential Documents 

(Weekly Compilation) available to 

Federal entities without charge. The 

Administrative Committee would 

remove and reserve this section because 

the Committee discontinued the 

publication of the Weekly Compilation 

in January 2009 and has received no 

negative feedback from Federal entities 

that previously received a printed copy 

of this publication (See 74 FR 3950, 

January 21, 2009). The Committee also 

believes that providing the Daily 

Compilation of Presidential Documents 

(Daily Compilation) online meets the 

requirement of the FRA that 

publications such as the Daily 


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use without charge. 

Proposed Changes to Part 15 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to amend part 15 to remove 

§ 15.1, concerning OFR assistance, 

because it duplicates the requirements 

in current §§ 15.3 and 15.10. In this 

document, the Committee proposes to 

redesignate current §§ 15.2, 15.3 and 

15.10 as §§ 15.1, 15.2, and 15.3 

respectively, and to make certain 

technical and clarifying changes to each 

redesignated section. Finally in part 15, 

the Committee proposes to remove 

§ 15.4 because agencies no longer 

request reproduction and certification of 

copies of acts or documents from the 

OFR. 

Proposed Changes to Part 16 

In § 16.2, the Administrative 

Committee proposes to add a new 

paragraph (b) requiring agencies to 

provide the OFR and officials at their 

agencies specific information for 

continuity of operations (COOP) 

purposes. Over the past several years, 

Federal agencies have developed 

contingency plans to maintain 

operations in the case of a broad range 

of emergency circumstances. The FRA 

authorizes the President to activate the 

Emergency Federal Register (EFR) 

system in place of the daily Federal 

Register in certain limited 

circumstances. (See 44 U.S.C. 1505(c) 

and E.O. 12656, as amended (http://

www.archives.gov/Federal-register/

executive-orders/1988.html)). The 

purpose of the EFR is to support the 

preservation of the rule of law and a 

constitutional form of government, 

following National Security Presidential 

Directive-51/Homeland Security 

Presidential Directive-20 (https://

www.hsdl.org/?view&did=476323). 

Under almost all types of 

emergencies, the OFR would continue 

to carry out its basic functions at 

alternate locations. Therefore, this 

proposed change to § 16.2 would require 

agencies to provide the Director of the 

Federal Register with the names of 

liaison officers who are agency officials 

authorized to act for the agency in the 

event of an emergency (COOP liaisons). 

It also would require liaison officers to 

provide these officials with information 

on drafting and submitting documents 

to the OFR in emergency situations. 

These COOP liaisons would be 

responsible for certifying to OFR staff 

that documents in their possession are 

official agency actions, signed and 

authorized for publication. These 

officers would maintain custody of 

original documents, unedited or 

otherwise unchanged in a safe location 

during an emergency, and submit 

original documents to the OFR as soon 

as practicable. This change would allow 

OFR and the agencies to facilitate 

information exchange in the event of an 

emergency that closes the OFR office in 

Washington, DC. The OFR has posted 

online a Federal Register Bulletin with 

information on submitting documents 

when its Washington, DC office location 

is closed in an emergency. The Bulletin 

can be found online at http://

www.archives.gov/Federal-register/

write/newsletter/. The Administrative 

Committee believes that this proposed 

change to its regulations would provide 

the mechanisms to allow the OFR to 

publish the Emergency Federal Register 

under emergency circumstances. 

Proposed Changes to Part 17 

Most of the proposed changes to part 

17 are non-substantive and technical in 

nature. They update the language of the 

sections in an effort to make the 

regulations more understandable. They 

also make minor formatting changes to 

the sections. One substantive change the 

Administrative Committee proposes is 

to remove paragraph 17.2(d). This 

proposed change would discontinue the 

long-standing practice of placing 

meeting notices issued under the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ on 

immediate public inspection and 

publishing them on an expedited (2- 

day) publication schedule. Most 

agencies submit these notices for 

publication well in advance and do not 

need the expedited filing. If an agency 

does need a shorter filing period, it can 

use the emergency procedures in part 

17, subpart C. The underlying policy for 

this unique publication schedule for 

Sunshine Act meeting notices was 

established at a time when filing a 

document for public inspection simply 

required the OFR to put a paper copy on 

the table at the OFR. 

Proposed Changes to Part 18 

Sections 18.1, 18.4, and 18.10 

In §§ 18.1 and 18.4, the 

Administrative Committee proposes to 

remove footnotes requesting that 

agencies wishing to submit computer 

processed data contact the OFR staff. In 

the 20 years since this section was last 

amended, the submission of electronic 

files has become routine and these 

footnotes are no longer necessary. 

In addition to removing footnotes 

from §§ 18.1 and 18.4, the 

Administrative Committee also 

proposes removing language related to 

the specific format of original 

documents submitted in hard copy from 

§ 18.4 and § 18.10. Section 18.10 

currently requires that illustrations, 

tabular materials, and forms be 

submitted for publication by a legible 

reproduction on 81⁄2 by 11-inch paper. 

The OFR is now able to accept 

illustrations, tabular materials, and 

forms imbedded in electronically 

submitted files or as part of an original 

document. Therefore, the 

Administrative Committee is proposing 

to revise this section to require that the 

submitted form or illustration be legible 

when reproduced in an 81⁄2- by 11-inch 

format instead of requiring that agencies 

submit a legible reproduction 

themselves. Agencies with questions 

related to the submission of documents 

with forms, graphics, tables, or 

illustrations should contact the editorial 

staff of the OFR. 

Section 18.2 

In § 18.2, the Committee proposes to 

clarify that the Director will not accept 

for publication a document if it seeks to 

combine material that must appear 

under separate categories in the Federal 

Register, as set forth in § 5.9. For 

example, documents may not serve as 

both rules and proposed rules nor may 

they serve as rules and notices. 

Agencies are not prohibited from 

discussing their commitments under 

specific statutes or Executive Orders, 

including periodic regulatory review. 

Section 18.5 

Under this proposal, § 18.5 would be 

removed. This section merely states the 

explicit statutory requirement that 

agencies submit certified copies or 

duplicate originals when they submit an 

original document for publication in the 

Federal Register. That requirement is 

already addressed in § 18.1. 

Section 18.8 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to remove § 18.8. This section 

states that agencies may put their seal 

on original documents and certified 

copies submitted for publication. Since 

very few agencies put their seal on 

documents submitted for publication 

and because it is not a requirement for 

submission of documents to the OFR for 

publication, the Administrative 

Committee believes that this section is 

unnecessary and should be removed. 

Section 18.11 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to add new section § 18.11. By 

adding the requirement that all 

documents contain standard headings, 

and not just rules and proposed rules (as 

discussed in § 18.12), the content that 

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documents, so appropriately belongs in 

part 18. The Administrative Committee 

proposes to add a paragraph to account 

for agency docket numbers and 

Regulation Identifier Numbers (RINs), as 

applicable. A RIN is a code assigned by 

the Regulatory Information Service 

Center. Documents that are related to 

such regulatory actions, including 

Regulatory Notice documents, can carry 

a RIN. 

Section 18.12 

Currently, agencies are only required 

to submit rules and proposed rules 

using a standardized preamble format. 

The Administrative Committee proposes 

to revise § 18.12 to require that agencies 

submit all documents for publication 

using the standardized preamble format. 

Publishing unorganized notice 

documents without informative 

headings and guideposts can make vital 

information difficult to find. For 

example, advisory committee meeting 

notices, information collection requests, 

and grant announcements can be 

confusing if written in an unorganized 

manner, without the informative 

headings and distinct paragraphs that 

alert readers to comment opportunities, 

meeting dates, contact information, 

addresses, and document identification 

numbers. Requiring preambles for all 

notice documents will increase public 

understanding by clearly setting out 

essential elements of documents that 

alert readers to various agency actions. 

This provision will not affect the many 

agencies that already voluntarily use the 

standardized preamble format for 

notices. 

Section 18.13 

The advent of the online public 

inspection desk greatly expanded public 

access to the documents filed for public 

inspection as required by 44 U.S.C. 1503 

and 1504, but it also added technical 

complexities to the production process. 

When agencies withdraw or modify 

documents already placed on public 

inspection, they disrupt production and 

increase costs as the Federal Register is 

reassembled and repaginated. Therefore, 

the Administrative Committee is 

proposing to revise § 18.13 to more 

narrowly specify when agencies may 

withdraw and correct documents on 

public inspection. 

The proposed changes in this section 

would clarify that documents can be 

withdrawn or modified only when 

agencies submit a timely letter stating 

that the document is being withdrawn 

to address an emergency or to prevent 

a violation of law. This proposal does 

not change the requirement that the 

withdrawal request letter stay on public 

inspection through the day on which 

the document would have been 

published in the Federal Register. 

However, it would change OFR 

procedure so that a withdrawn 

document will be removed from public 

inspection on the business day on 

which the document was withdrawn 

from publication. The revised regulation 

will continue to require that the OFR 

provide public notice that a document 

was withdrawn from publication after 

being filed for public inspection, but 

will eliminate possible confusion 

concerning which documents will be 

published in the daily Federal Register. 

Also, the proposed changes to § 18.13 

would clarify that, even with a written 

request, the OFR will correct or 

withdraw documents on public 

inspection only when the request does 

not impose a burden on the production 

of the Federal Register. The proposed 

changes also provide that corrected 

documents and the request letters will 

remain on public inspection until the 

end of the business day on which the 

corrections were made to the document. 

Section 18.17 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to revise § 18.17 to add a new 

paragraph (e). This new paragraph 

explicitly states that in order to extend 

the effective period of a temporary rule, 

agencies must submit a document 

extending the effective date of that rule 

before the expiration of the original 

effective date. The Committee reminds 

agencies that once the effective date of 

a temporary rule expires, the provisions 

of § 18.16 apply, and they must then set 

out the full text of the temporary rule to 

reinstate it. 

Proposed Changes to Part 19 

Part 19, which is based on several 

Executive Orders, has been amended to 

reflect changes to those Orders made by 

E.O. 13403 (71 FR 28543, May 12, 2006). 

The Administrative Committee proposes 

to revise the current authority citation 

for part 19 and the regulations in this 

part to reflect the addition of this 

Executive Order. 

Proposed Changes to Part 20 and 

Addition of New Part 24 

The United States Government 

Manual (Manual) regulations in part 20 

are proposed to be redesignated as new 

part 24. The redesignation would 

separate instructions for Manual 

submissions from Federal Register 

drafting requirements. 

As the OFR develops a new electronic 

format for both the submission of 

agency information and the publication 

format of the Manual, the 

Administrative Committee proposes to 

redesignate § 20.7 and revise the new 

§ 24.7 to remove references to printspecific publication deadlines because 

the Manual will be a currently updated 

online publication. This will allow 

agencies to provide updated information 

through an electronic web-based 

submission process whenever 

information in the Manual needs to be 

updated. Submission of updated 

information through an OFR web-based 

submission portal will qualify as an 

official draft under § 24.2. 

Proposed Changes to Part 21 

The proposed changes to part 21 

include reformatting the entire part to 

eliminate undesignated center headings. 

The Administrative Committee believes 

that undesignated center headings are 

no longer useful or needed since most 

users read the CFR online instead of in 

book format. Thus, the Administrative 

Committee proposes that part 21 be 

formatted as set out below, and that the 

section headings be revised to provide 

information formerly in the 

undesignated center headings. 

While the Administrative Committee 

is proposing to remove undesignated 

center headings from our regulations, 

we understand that some agencies still 

use them. Therefore, the Administrative 

Committee proposes to add a new 

definitions section (§ 21.1) to define 

terms used within this part that are not 

common, namely, the terms 

‘‘undesignated center headings,’’ and 

‘‘words of issuance.’’ 

Sections 21.6 and 21.9 

In § 21.6, the Administrative 

Committee proposes to add the phrases 

‘‘or by court order’’ and ‘‘a rule 

document’’ to clarify that if a court 

vacates an agency’s regulations, the 

issuing agency must remove those 

vacated CFR sections by publishing a 

document in the rules section of the 

daily Federal Register, thus 

implementing the court order. 

Section 21.9 

In § 21.9, the Administrative 

Committee proposes to codify the 

existing practice that agencies may use 

undesignated center headings. 

Section 21.11 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to revise § 21.11 to limit 

paragraph designations to four levels. 

Most agencies do not designate 

paragraphs below level four because it 

is difficult to read sections with material 

designated below this level. The 

Administrative Committee believes that 

codifying this practice in this section 


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adds to the readability and clarity of the 

entire CFR. Agencies with existing CFR 

sections containing paragraph 

designations to six levels do not need to 

restructure a six-level section until the 

entire section is revised. 

Section 21.14 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to revise § 21.14 to clarify the 

procedures and timeframe for agencies 

to request deviations from the standard 

format of the CFR. Under 44 U.S.C. 

1510, the Administrative Committee is 

charged with issuing regulations to 

maintain the orderly codification of 

regulations within the Federal Register 

publication system. To ensure the 

orderly development of the CFR, the 

Administrative Committee issued 

regulations in title 1 chapter I of the 

CFR. The Administrative Committee 

understands that sometimes it is not 

possible to maintain the single 

codification structure, so it issued a 

regulation that established the 

procedure for agencies to request that 

certain regulatory provisions be codified 

in a nonstandard manner into the CFR. 

See 1 CFR 21.14. 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to revise § 21.14 to add more 

time for the Director and OFR staff to 

review requests for a deviation from the 

standard CFR structure and also to 

remove language that suggests that an 

agency could only make a request at the 

final rule stage of the rulemaking 

process. The Administrative Committee 

believes that these slight changes will 

provide the OFR needed time to review 

requests and will allow greater 

communication between OFR and 

agencies during the initial phase of the 

rulemaking process so that codification 

issues can be discussed and settled 

before the final rule stage. 

Section 21.16 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to move the content of 

paragraph (a) to new § 18.11, as 

discussed in the summary for part 18. 

Sections 21.21 and 21.23 

The Administrative Committee is 

proposing to revise § 21.21 on cross 

references to make clear the distinction 

between cross references within an 

agency’s own regulations (§ 21.21) and 

cross references to another agency’s 

regulations (§ 21.23). The 

Administrative Committee considers 

these proposed changes structural in 

nature. They are intended to clarify 

current requirements. There is no intent 

to change substantively an agency’s 

ability to cross-reference under these 

regulations. The Administrative 

Committee also proposes to remove 

regulatory language addressing parallel 

citation of the CFR and Federal 

Register. The Administrative Committee 

agrees with OFR policy that does not 

allow Federal Register citations in 

codified CFR text. Appropriate citation 

in CFR text is to CFR sections only. 

Federal Register citations are 

appropriate for preambles of rulemaking 

documents. 

Subpart B of Part 21 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to restructure the provisions 

found in subpart B of part 21. The 

proposed § 21.40 combines the 

provisions of the current §§ 21.40 and 

21.51 without substantive changes and 

we are combining §§ 21.45 and 21.53 in 

the proposed § 21.44. Currently these 

two sets of provisions deal generally 

with authority citations and their form. 

The Administrative Committee believes 

that combining these two sets of general 

provisions will clarify basic authority 

citation requirements by placing all the 

general requirements together in two 

CFR sections, one for statutory and one 

for nonstatutory authorities. 

Additionally, this consolidation allows 

the Administrative Committee to make 

other usability changes, including 

redesignating, as § 21.45, the current 

§ 21.42 regarding exceptions. The 

Administrative Committee believes that 

moving the exceptions provision to the 

end of the subpart allows the reader to 

understand the basic CFR requirements 

on authority citations before reading 

about exceptions. 

Under this proposal, the current 

§§ 21.43 and 21.52 would be 

redesignated as §§ 21.42 and 21.43, 

respectively, to consolidate the 

numbering sequence of this subpart. 

When this subpart was initially 

developed there was a substantial gap in 

numbering to allow for additional 

sections. Over the past 30 years, no new 

sections have been added to this subpart 

so the Administrative Committee 

believes that renumbering the 

provisions to remove gaps is reasonable. 

In addition to redesignating § 21.43 as 

§ 21.42, the Administrative Committee 

proposes to revise this section so the 

broader requirements currently set out 

in paragraph (b) become paragraph (a) 

and the more specific requirements of 

this section become paragraph (b). 

Proposed Changes to Part 22 and New 

Part 23 

The Administrative Committee 

proposes to revise part 22 by removing 

sections related to publishing notice 

documents in the Federal Register and 

moving those sections to new part 23. 

The Administrative Committee believes 

that this change will clarify the 

distinction between the ‘‘Notices’’ and 

‘‘Proposed Rules’’ sections of the daily 

issue of the Federal Register. 

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 

statutes and executive orders with 

respect to this rulemaking proceeding. 

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

The 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 a significant regulatory 

action as defined under section 3(f) of 

Executive Order 12866. The proposed 

rule has been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget under section 

6(a)(3)(A) of Executive Order 12866. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

This proposed rule will not have a 

significant impact on small entities 

since it imposes no requirements on the 

public. Members of the public can 

access Federal Register publications for 

free through the Government Printing 

Office’s Web site. 

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 

1 CFR Part 1 

Administrative practice and 

procedure. 

1 CFR Part 2 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Authority delegations 

(Government agencies), Organization 

and functions (Government agencies). 

1 CFR Part 3 

Government publications, 

Organization and functions 

(Government agencies). 

1 CFR Part 5 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Federal Register, 

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1 CFR Part 6 

Federal Register, Government 

publications. 

1 CFR Part 8 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Code of Federal Regulations, 

Government publications. 

1 CFR Part 11 

Code of Federal Regulations, Federal 

Register, Government publications, 

Public Papers of Presidents of United 

States, United States Government 

Manual, Daily Compilation of 

Presidential Documents. 

1 CFR Part 12 

Code of Federal Regulations, Federal 

Register, Government publications, 

Public Papers of Presidents of United 

States, United States Government 

Manual, Daily Compilation of 

Presidential Documents. 

1 CFR Part 15 

Organization and functions 

(Government agencies). 

1 CFR Part 16 

Federal Register. 

1 CFR Part 17 

Federal Register. 

1 CFR Part 18 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Federal Register. 

1 CFR Part 19 

Executive orders, Federal Register, 

Proclamations 

1 CFR Part 20 

United States Government Manual. 

1 CFR Part 21 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Code of Federal Regulations, 

Federal Register. 

1 CFR Part 22 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Federal Register. 

1 CFR Part 23 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Federal Register. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, under the authority at 44 

U.S.C. 1506 and 1510, the 

Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register, with the approval of 

the Archivist of the United States and 

the Attorney General, proposes to 

amend chapter I of title 1 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations as set forth 

below: 

TITLE 1—General Provisions 

CHAPTER I—ADMINISTRATIVE 

COMMITTEE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER 

SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL 

■ 1. Revise part 1 to read as follows: 

PART 1—GENERAL INFORMATION 

Sec. 

1.1 Scope and purpose. 

1.2 Definitions. 

1.3 Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register. 

1.4 Office of the Federal Register; location; 

office hours. 

1.5 General authority of Director. 

1.6 Authorized use. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189; 1 U.S.C. 112, 113. 

§ 1.1 Scope and purpose. 

(a) This chapter sets forth the policies, 

procedures, and delegations under 

which the Administrative Committee of 

the Federal Register carries out its 

general responsibilities. 

(b) A primary purpose of this chapter 

is to inform the public and government 

agencies of the nature and uses of 

Federal Register publications. 

§ 1.2 Definitions. 

Definitions of terms as used in this 

chapter: 

Administrative Committee means the 

Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register, as set forth in § 1.3 of 

this chapter. 

Agency means an executive 

department, independent board, 

establishment, bureau, agency, 

institution, commission, or separate 

office of the administrative branch of 

the Government of the United States, 

whether or not within or subject to 

review by another agency, but not the 

legislative or judicial branches of the 

Government. 

Director means the Director of the 

Federal Register. 

Document means any Presidential 

proclamation or Executive order, and 

any order, regulation, rule, certificate, 

code of fair competition, license, notice, 

or similar instrument, issued, 

prescribed, or promulgated by a Federal 

agency. 

Document having general 

applicability and legal effect means any 

document issued under proper authority 

prescribing a penalty or course of 

conduct, conferring a right, privilege, 

authority, or immunity, or imposing an 

obligation, and relevant or applicable to 

the general public, members of a class, 

or persons in a locality, as distinguished 

from named individuals or 

organizations. 

Filing means making a document 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Federal Register and online 

during official business hours. The 

Office of the Federal Register files a 

document only after it has been 

received, processed, and assigned a 

publication date according to the 

schedule in part 17 of this chapter. 

OFR is the Office of the Federal 

Register. 

Regulation and rule have the same 

meaning. 

§ 1.3 Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register. 

(a) The Administrative Committee 

includes: 

(1) The Archivist, or Acting Archivist, 

of the United States, who is the 

Chairman; 

(2) An officer of the Department of 

Justice designated by the Attorney 

General; and 

(3) The Public Printer or Acting 

Public Printer. 

(b) The Director serves as the 

Secretary of the Committee, including at 

all official proceedings and executive 

sessions of the committee. 

(c) Any material required by law to be 

filed with the Committee, and any 

correspondence, inquiries, or other 

material intended for the Committee or 

that relate to Federal Register 

publications must be sent to the 

Director. 

§ 1.4 Office of the Federal Register; 

location; office hours. 

(a) The Office of the Federal Register 

(the Office) is an office of the National 

Archives and Records Administration. 

(b) The Office is located in 

Washington, DC. 

(c) The mailing address is: Office of 

the Federal Register (F), National 

Archives and Records Administration, 

8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 

20740–6001. 

(d) The courier or non-postal service 

delivery address is: The Office of the 

Federal Register, 800 North Capitol 

Street NW., Suite 700, Washington, DC 

20002. 

(e) Office hours are 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except for 

official Federal holidays. 

§ 1.5 General authority of Director. 

(a) The Director is delegated authority 

to administer this chapter, the related 

provisions of the Federal Register Act, 

the pertinent provisions of other 

statutes, and any regulations issued 

pursuant to the Federal Register Act. 

(b) The Director may return to the 

issuing agency any document submitted 

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or special editions of the Federal 

Register, if, in the Director’s judgment, 

the document does not meet the 

minimum requirements of this chapter. 

§ 1.6 Authorized use. 

Any person may reproduce or 

republish any material appearing in any 

regular or special edition of the Federal 

Register, except as provided in 36 CFR 

part 1200, which restricts the use of the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration’s official seals and 

stylized Office of the Federal Register 

logos. 

PART 2—[REMOVED] 

■ 2. Remove part 2. 

■ 3. Revise part 3 to read as follows: 

PART 3—SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC 

Sec. 

3.1 Information services. 

3.2 Public inspection of documents. 

3.3 Indexes and other ancillary guides to 

the Federal Register. 

3.4 Indexes and other ancillary guides to 

the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506, 1510; sec. 6, 

E.O. 10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 

Comp., p. 189. 

§ 3.1 Information services. 

(a) The Office of the Federal Register 

(the Office) provides information 

concerning the publications described 

in this chapter and the original acts and 

documents filed with the Office of the 

Federal Register as time permits. 

(b) The Director administers the 

format and availability of the OFR.gov 

Web site in accordance with the Federal 

Register Act and the related public 

information statutes of the United 

States. 

(c) The Office will not summarize or 

interpret substantive text of any statute 

or document. 

§ 3.2 Public inspection of documents. 

(a) Documents filed with the Office of 

the Federal Register for publication are 

available for public inspection at 800 

North Capitol Street NW., Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20002 during the Office 

of the Federal Register office hours, 

unless the OFR has been relocated to the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration’s continuity of 

operations facility, see § 1.4 of this 

chapter. 

(b) Documents are filed for public 

inspection at least one business day 

before publication in the Federal 

Register. 

(c) Each document has a notation of 

the day and hour when it was filed and 

made available for public inspection. 

(d)(1) The legally controlling version 

of a public inspection document is the 

official record filed at the Office of the 

Federal Register. 

(2) OFR posts a full-text version of the 

filed document to its public inspection 

Web site shortly after making the 

document publicly available at its 

office. 

(3) The filed document reflects the 

date and time of the official filing, 

which is when the document is 

available to the public at the OFR’s 

office in Washington, DC. The official 

filing time is indicated on the document 

with a date/time stamp. The online 

posting time may vary, depending upon 

server usage and other factors, so it may 

be later than the official filing. 

(4) The OFR updates the online public 

inspection site during official office 

hours only. 

§ 3.3 Indexes and other ancillary guides to 

the Federal Register. 

OFR provides ancillary indexes, 

guides, digests, user aids, lists, and 

search tools to help the public access 

the contents of the Federal Register. 

§ 3.4 Indexes and other ancillary guides to 

the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). 

(a) The OFR publishes a subject index 

to the CFR that is annually revised and 

separately published. 

(b) Other ancillary indexes, guides, 

digests, user aids, lists, and search tools 

may be provided as the Director 

considers appropriate, such as a parallel 

table of authorities and rules, a parallel 

table of agency documents and rules, 

and the ‘‘List of CFR Sections Affected.’’ 

(c) Agency-prepared indexes within 

CFR chapters may be published with the 

approval of the Director. 

SUBCHAPTER B—THE FEDERAL 

REGISTER 

■ 4. Revise part 5 to read as follows: 

PART 5—PUBLICATION AND 

DELIVERY 

Sec. 

5.1 Publication policy. 

5.2 Documents required to be filed for 

public inspection and published. 

5.3 Publication of other documents. 

5.4 Publication not authorized. 

5.5 Supplement to the Code of Federal 

Regulations. 

5.6 Daily publication. 

5.7 Distribution. 

5.8 Form of citation. 

5.9 Categories of documents. 

5.10 Forms of publication. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506, 1510; sec. 6, 

E.O. 10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 

Comp., p. 189. 

§ 5.1 Publication policy. 

(a) The Director publishes a serial 

publication called the Federal Register 

to contain the following: 

(1) Executive orders, proclamations, 

and other Presidential documents. 

(2) Documents required to be 

published by law. 

(3) Documents accepted for 

publication under § 5.3 of this part. 

(b) Each document required or 

authorized to be filed for publication 

will publish according to the schedules 

in part 17 of this chapter. 

(c) In issuing regulations governing 

headings, preambles, effective dates, 

authority citations, and similar matters 

of form, the Administrative Committee 

does not affect the substance and 

validity of any document that is filed 

and published under law. 

§ 5.2 Documents required to be filed for 

public inspection and published. 

The following documents are required 

to be filed for public inspection with the 

Office of the Federal Register and 

published in the Federal Register: 

(a) Presidential proclamations and 

Executive orders in the numbered 

series, and each other document that the 

President orders for publication. 

(b) Each document or class of 

documents required to be published by 

act of Congress. 

(c) Each document having general 

applicability and legal effect. 

§ 5.3 Publication of other documents. 

Whenever the Director determines 

that it is in the public interest to publish 

a document not covered by § 5.2 of this 

part, the Director may allow that 

document to be filed for public 

inspection with the Office of the Federal 

Register and published in the Federal 

Register to the extent that such 

publication is consistent with the 

Federal Register Act or otherwise 

authorized by law. 

§ 5.4 Publication not authorized. 

(a) Comments and news items will not 

be published in the Federal Register. 

(b) The Director will not accept any 

document for filing and publication 

unless it is the official action of the 

submitting agency. 

§ 5.5 Supplement to the Code of Federal 

Regulations. 

The Federal Register serves as a daily 

supplement to the Code of Federal 

Regulations. Each document that is 

subject to codification and published in 

a daily issue is incorporated into the 

Code of Federal Regulations. 

§ 5.6 Daily publication. 

The daily Federal Register is 

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day. 

§ 5.7 Distribution. 

The Government Printing Office will 

promptly distribute the Federal Register 

on each Federal business day. Monday 

editions of the Federal Register will be 

produced and distributed on the 

preceding Saturday. 

§ 5.8 Form of citation. 

Citations to the Federal Register 

within Federal Register documents 

must cite volume and page number, and 

use the short form ‘‘FR’’ for ‘‘Federal 

Register.’’ For example, ‘‘37 FR 6803’’ 

refers to material beginning on page 

6803 of volume 37 of the daily issue. 

§ 5.9 Categories of documents. 

Each document published in the 

Federal Register will be placed under 

one of the following categories, as 

indicated: 

(a) The President. This category 

contains each Executive order or 

Presidential proclamation and other 

Presidential documents or orders that 

the President submits for publication. 

(b) Rules and regulations. This 

category contains documents having 

general applicability and legal effect, 

except those covered by paragraph (a) of 

this section, including documents 

subject to codification in the Code of 

Federal Regulations. It also includes 

interpretative rules and denials of 

petitions for rulemaking. 

(c) Proposed rules. This category 

includes: 

(1) Documents that propose changes 

to regulations in the Code of Federal 

Regulations; and 

(2) Documents that begin a 

rulemaking proceeding through advance 

notices of proposed rulemaking, 

petitions for rulemaking, or similar 

agency actions. 

(d) Regulatory notices. This category 

includes: 

(1) Documents containing Regulation 

Identifier Numbers that do not amend 

the Code of Federal Regulations; 

(2) General policy statements 

concerning regulations; 

(3) Paperwork Reduction Act notices; 

(4) Announcements of public 

meetings, Sunshine Act notices, and 

other meeting notices that are directly 

related to agency regulations; and 

(5) Statements of organization and 

function. 

(e) Notices. This category: 

(1) Contains other documents 

applicable to the public and not covered 

by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this 

section; and 

(2) Includes announcements of public 

meetings and other information of 

public interest. 

§ 5.10 Forms of publication. 

(a) The Administrative Committee 

determines the official formats of the 

Federal Register. During an official 

meeting of the Administrative 

Committee, the Committee will review a 

request from the Director of the Federal 

Register to authorize specific official 

formats of the Federal Register. Each 

request will be a separate determination 

by the Administrative Committee. 

(b) Factors considered by the 

Administrative Committee when 

determining a specific official format 

include: 

(1) Availability; 

(2) Cost; 

(3) Technical capabilities; and 

(4) Permanence of public access to the 

current and historical content. 

(c) The Administrative Committee 

will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register announcing the manner and 

form of official formats of the Federal 

Register. 

PART 6—[REMOVED] 

■ 5. Remove part 6. 

SUBCHAPTER C—SPECIAL EDITIONS OF 

THE FEDERAL REGISTER 

■ 6. Revise part 8 to read as follows: 

PART 8—CODE OF FEDERAL 

REGULATIONS 

Sec. 

8.1 Policy. 

8.2 Orderly development. 

8.3 Periodic updating. 

8.6 Forms of publication. 

8.7 Agency cooperation. 

8.9 Form of citation. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506, 1510; sec. 6, 

E.O. 10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 

Comp., p. 189. 

§ 8.1 Policy. 

(a) The Director of the Federal 

Register periodically publishes a special 

edition of the Federal Register called 

the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

containing each Federal regulation of 

general applicability and legal effect. 

(b) The Administrative Committee 

intends to use every practical means to 

keep the CFR as current, complete, 

reliable, and readily usable as possible, 

within limitations imposed by 

reasonable costs. 

§ 8.2 Orderly development. 

(a) To ensure orderly development of 

the CFR along practical lines, the 

Director may establish new titles in the 

CFR and rearrange existing titles and 

subordinate assignments. 

(b) Before taking an action under this 

section, the Director will consult with 

each agency directly affected by the 

proposed change. 

§ 8.3 Periodic updating. 

(a) Timeframe. (1) Each annual 

volume of the CFR is updated at least 

once each calendar year. 

(i) If no change in its contents has 

occurred during the year, a simple 

volume cover notation to that effect may 

serve as the supplement for that year. 

(ii) If no change in its contents has 

occurred during the year, a simple 

notation appearing online to that effect 

may serve as the supplement for that 

year. 

(2) The Director may provide for any 

unit of the CFR to be updated as 

frequently as necessary to maintain a 

current, complete, and readily usable 

codification, consistent with the intent 

and purpose of the Administrative 

Committee as stated in § 8.1 of this part. 

(b) Periodic publication. The annual 

edition of the CFR will be produced 

over a 12-month period under a 

publication system to be determined by 

the Director. 

(c) Cutoff dates. Each updated title of 

the CFR will include each amendment 

to that title published in the Federal 

Register and effective as a codified 

regulation on or before the ‘‘As of’’ date. 

For example, each title updated as of 

July 1 each year will include all 

amendatory documents that appeared in 

the daily Federal Register and became 

effective on or before July 1. 

§ 8.6 Forms of publication. 

(a) The Administrative Committee 

determines the official format of the 

CFR. During an official meeting of the 

Administrative Committee, the 

Committee will review a request from 

the Director of the Federal Register to 

authorize specific official formats of the 

CFR. Each request will be a separate 

determination by the Administrative 

Committee. 

(1) Factors considered by the 

Administrative Committee when 

determining a specific official format 

include: 

(i) Availability; 

(ii) Cost; 

(iii) Technical capabilities; and 

(iv) Permanence of public access to 

the current and historical content. 

(2) The Administrative Committee 

will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register announcing the manner and 

form of official formats of the CFR. 

(b) The Director is authorized to 

regulate the style and layout of the Code 

of Federal Regulations according to the 

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the facilities of the Government Printing 

Office. The Director: 

(1) May provide for the Code of 

Federal Regulations to be published in 

as many volumes as necessary; and 

(2) Will oversee the organization and 

layout of the material in the online 

edition. 

§ 8.7 Agency cooperation. 

Each agency must cooperate in 

keeping publication of the CFR current 

by complying promptly with deadlines 

set by the Director. 

§ 8.9 Form of citation. 

Citations to the CFR within Federal 

Register documents must cite the CFR 

title and section using the short form 

‘‘CFR.’’ For example, ‘‘1 CFR 10.2’’ 

refers to Title 1, Code of Federal 

Regulations, part 10, section 2. 

SUBCHAPTER D—AVAILABILITY OF 

OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER 

PUBLICATIONS 

■ 7. Revise part 11 to read as follows: 

PART 11—SUBSCRIPTIONS 

Sec. 

11.1 Subscription by the public. 

11.2 Federal Register. 

11.3 Code of Federal Regulations. 

11.5 Public Papers of the Presidents of the 

United States. 

11.7 Federal Register Index. 

11.8 LSA (List of CFR Sections Affected). 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709, 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 11.1 Subscription by the public. 

The Government Printing Office 

produces the paper edition of the 

publications described in § 2.5 of this 

chapter, and the Superintendent of 

Documents, Government Printing 

Office, Washington, DC 20402, sells 

them to the public. All fees are payable 

in advance to the Superintendent of 

Documents, Government Printing 

Office. They are not available for free 

distribution to the public. 

§ 11.2 Federal Register. 

(a) The subscription price for the 

paper edition of the daily Federal 

Register is $749 per year. A combined 

subscription to the daily Federal 

Register, the monthly Federal Register 

Index, and the monthly LSA (List of CFR 

Sections Affected) is $808 per year for 

the paper edition. Six-month 

subscriptions for the paper edition are 

also available at one-half the annual 

rate. Those prices exclude delivery 

costs. Delivery rates will be applied to 

orders according to the delivery method 

requested. The price of a single copy of 

the daily Federal Register, including 

delivery costs, is based on the number 

of pages: $11 for an issue containing less 

than 200 pages; $22 for an issue 

containing 200 to 400 pages; and $33 for 

an issue containing more than 400 

pages. 

(b) The online edition of the Federal 

Register, issued under the authority of 

the Administrative Committee, is 

available through the Government 

Printing Office’s Web site. 

§ 11.3 Code of Federal Regulations. 

(a) The subscription price for a 

complete set of the Code of Federal 

Regulations is $1,019 per year for the 

bound, paper edition. Those prices 

exclude delivery costs. Delivery rates 

will be applied to orders according to 

the delivery method requested. The 

Government Printing Office sells 

individual volumes of the paper edition 

of the Code of Federal Regulations at 

prices determined by the 

Superintendent of Documents under the 

general direction of the Administrative 

Committee. 

(b) The online edition of the Code of 

Federal Regulations, issued under the 

authority of the Administrative 

Committee, is available through the 

Government Printing Office’s Web site. 

§ 11.5 Public Papers of the Presidents of 

the United States. 

Copies of annual clothbound volumes 

are sold at a price determined by the 

Superintendent of Documents under the 

general direction of the Administrative 

Committee. 

§ 11.7 Federal Register Index. 

The annual subscription price for the 

monthly Federal Register Index, 

purchased separately, in paper form, is 

$29. The price excludes delivery costs. 

Delivery rates will be applied to orders 

according to the delivery method 

requested. 

§ 11.8 LSA (List of CFR Sections Affected). 

The annual subscription price for the 

monthly LSA (List of CFR Sections 

Affected), purchased separately, in 

paper form, is $30. The price excludes 

delivery costs. Delivery rates will be 

applied to orders according to the 

delivery method requested. 

8. Revise part 12 to read to read as 

follows: 

PART 12—OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION 

WITHIN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 

Sec. 

12.1 Federal Register. 

12.2 Code of Federal Regulations. 

12.5 Public Papers of the Presidents of the 

United States. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 12.1 Federal Register. 

(a) The Federal Register, issued under 

the authority of the Administrative 

Committee, is officially maintained 

online and is available on the 

Government Printing Office’s Web sites. 

(b) Copies of the daily Federal 

Register in paper will be made available 

to the following without charge: 

(1) Members of Congress. Each 

Senator and each Member of the House 

of Representatives will be provided with 

one copy of each daily issue in response 

to a written request to the Director. 

(2) Congressional committees. Each 

committee of the Senate and the House 

of Representatives will be provided with 

one copy for official use in response to 

a written request from the chairperson, 

or authorized delegate, to the Director. 

(3) Supreme Court. The Supreme 

Court will be provided with one copy 

for official use in response to a written 

request to the Director. 

(4) Other courts. Other constitutional 

or legislative courts of the United States 

will be provided with one copy for 

official use in response to a written 

request from the Director of the 

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 

or authorized delegate, to the Director. 

(5) Executive agencies. Each Federal 

executive agency will be provided with 

one copy for official use in response to 

a written request from the agency 

Federal Register authorizing officer, or 

the alternate, designated under § 16.1 of 

this chapter, to the Director. 

(c) Requisitions for quantity overruns 

of specific issues to be paid for by the 

agency are available as follows: 

(1) To meet its needs for special 

distribution of the Federal Register in 

substantial quantity, any agency may 

request an overrun of a specific issue. 

(2) An advance printing and binding 

requisition on Standard Form 1 must be 

submitted by the agency directly to the 

Government Printing Office, to be 

received not later than noon on the 

Federal business day before publication. 

(d) Requisitions for quantity overruns 

of separate part issues to be paid for by 

the agency are available as follows: 

(1) Whenever the Director determines 

it to be in the public interest, one or 

more documents may be published as a 

separate part (that is, Part II, Part III) of 

the Federal Register. 

(2) Advance arrangements for this 

service must be made with the Office of 

the Federal Register. 

(3) Any agency may request an 

overrun of such a separate part by 

submitting an advance printing and 


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directly to the Government Printing 

Office, to be received not later than 12 

noon on the Federal business day before 

the publication date. 

(e) An agency may order limited 

quantities of extra copies of a specific 

issue of the Federal Register for official 

use, from the Superintendent of 

Documents, to be paid for by that 

agency. 

§ 12.2 Code of Federal Regulations. 

(a)(1) The CFR, issued under the 

authority of the Administrative 

Committee, is officially maintained 

online and is available through the 

Government Printing Office’s Web site. 

(2) One copy of the CFR means one 

complete set of the annual paper edition 

of the codification of the general and 

permanent rules. 

(b) Copies of the CFR in paper will be 

made available to the following without 

charge: 

(1) Congressional committees. Each 

committee of the Senate and House of 

Representatives will be provided with 

one copy for official use in response to 

a written request to the Director from 

the committee chairperson, or 

authorized delegate. 

(2) Supreme Court. The Supreme 

Court will be provided with one copy 

for official use in response to a written 

request to the Director of the Federal 

Register. 

(3) Other courts. Other constitutional 

and legislative courts of the United 

States will be provided with one copy 

for official use in response to a written 

request to the Director from the Director 

of the Administrative Office of the U.S. 

Courts. 

(4) Executive agencies. Each Federal 

executive agency will be provided with 

one copy for official use in response to 

a written request to the Director from 

the agency Federal Register authorizing 

officer, or the alternate, designated 

under § 16.1 of this chapter. 

(c) Legislative, judicial, and executive 

agencies of the Federal Government may 

obtain additional copies of selected 

units of the CFR, at cost, for official use, 

by submitting a printing and binding 

requisition to the Government Printing 

Office on Standard Form 1 before the 

press run. 

(d) After the press run, each request 

for extra copies of selected units of the 

CFR must be addressed to the 

Superintendent of Documents, to be 

paid for by the agency making the 

request. 

§ 12.5 Public Papers of the Presidents of 

the United States. 

(a) Copies of the Public Papers of the 

Presidents of the United States will be 

made available to the following without 

charge: 

(1) Members of Congress. Each 

Senator and each Member of the House 

of Representatives will be provided with 

one copy of each annual publication 

published during the Member’s term in 

office, in response to a written request 

to the Director. 

(2) Supreme Court. The Supreme 

Court will be provided with 1 copy of 

each publication in response to a 

written request to the Director. 

(3) Executive agencies. Each head of a 

Federal executive agency will be 

provided with one copy of each annual 

publication in response to a written 

request to the Director from the agency 

Federal Register authorizing officer, or 

the alternate, designated under § 16.1 of 

this chapter. 

(b) Legislative, judicial, and executive 

agencies of the Federal Government may 

obtain additional copies, at cost, for 

official use, by submitting a printing 

and binding requisition to the 

Government Printing Office on Standard 

Form 1 before the press run. 

(c) After the press run, each request 

for extra copies must be addressed to 

the Superintendent of Documents, to be 

paid for by the agency making the 

request. 

SUBCHAPTER E—PREPARATION, 

TRANSMITTAL, AND PROCESSING OF 

DOCUMENTS 

■ 9. Revise part 15 to read to read as 

follows: 

PART 15—SERVICES TO FEDERAL 

AGENCIES 

Sec. 

15.1 Information services. 

15.2 Staff assistance. 

15.3 Information on drafting and 

publication. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 15.1 Information services. 

The Director of the Federal Register 

answers appropriate inquiries presented 

in person, by telephone, or in writing. 

Send written communications, 

including those involving the 

Administrative Committee, to the 

Director, Office of the Federal Register, 

National Archives and Records 

Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, 

College Park, MD 20740–6001, 

telephone number: 202–741–6000. For 

delivery by courier, send 

communications to 800 North Capitol 

Street NW., Suite 700, Washington DC 

20002. Send emails to fedreg.info@

nara.gov. 

§ 15.2 Staff assistance. 

The staff of the OFR provides 

informal assistance and advice to 

officials of the various agencies with 

respect to general or specific programs 

of regulatory drafting, procedures, and 

promulgation practices. 

Communications related to unpublished 

documents remain confidential under 

§ 17.1 of this chapter. 

§ 15.3 Information on drafting and 

publication. 

(a) The Director may prepare and 

distribute to agencies information and 

instructions on drafting documents for 

publication. 

(b) The Director may develop and 

conduct programs of technical 

instruction. 

■ 10. Revise part 16 to read to read as 

follows: 

PART 16—AGENCY 

REPRESENTATIVES 

Sec. 

16.1 Designation. 

16.2 Liaison and COOP liaison duties. 

16.3 Certifying duties. 

16.4 Authorizing duties. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 16.1 Designation. 

(a) Each agency must designate 

officers or employees of that agency to 

serve as Federal Register contacts. The 

same person may be designated to serve 

in one or more of these contact 

positions: 

(1) A liaison officer and at least one 

alternate. 

(2) A certifying officer and at least one 

alternate. 

(3) An authorizing officer and at least 

one alternate. 

(4) A COOP liaison officer and any 

alternates. 

(b) In choosing its liaison officer, each 

agency should consider that this officer 

will be the main contact between that 

agency and the OFR and that the liaison 

officer will be charged with the duties 

set forth in § 16.2 of this part. The 

agency should choose a person who is 

directly involved in the agency’s 

regulatory program. 

(c) Each agency must notify the 

Director of the name, title, mailing 

address, telephone number, and email 

address of each person it designates 

under this section. Each agency must 

promptly notify the Director of any 

changes. 

§ 16.2 Liaison and COOP liaison duties. 

(a) Each agency liaison officer and 

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(1) Represent the agency in all matters 

relating to the submission of documents 

to the OFR, and respecting general 

compliance with this chapter; 

(2) Coordinate with their agency 

billing authority and ensure that the 

correct agency billing address code is 

included with each document submitted 

to the OFR for publication; 

(3) Be responsible for the effective 

distribution and use within the agency 

of Federal Register information on 

document drafting and publication 

assistance authorized by § 15.3 of this 

chapter; 

(4) Promote the agency’s participation 

in the technical instruction authorized 

by § 15.3 of this chapter; and 

(5) Be available to discuss documents 

submitted for publication with the 

editors of the Federal Register. 

(b) For continuity of operations 

purposes, each agency must: 

(1) Provide the Director with the 

names of agency officials authorized to 

act as liaisons during an emergency 

(COOP liaisons); and 

(2) Ensure that the COOP liaisons 

designated under (b)(1) of this section 

know how to contact staff of the OFR 

and to draft and submit documents to 

the OFR. 

(i) During an emergency, COOP 

liaisons will be responsible for: 

(A) Certifying to OFR staff that 

documents in their possession are 

official agency actions, signed, and 

authorized for publication; 

(B) Maintaining custody of original 

documents, unedited or otherwise 

unchanged in a safe location during an 

emergency; and 

(C) Submitting original documents to 

the OFR as soon as practicable during 

an emergency. 

(ii) [Reserved] 

§ 16.3 Certifying duties. 

The agency certifying officer is 

responsible for attaching the required 

number of true copies of each original 

document submitted by the agency to 

the OFR and for making the certification 

required by § 18.6 of this chapter. 

§ 16.4 Authorizing duties. 

The agency authorizing officer is 

responsible for furnishing to the 

Director a current mailing list of officers 

or employees of the agency who are 

authorized to receive the Federal 

Register and the Code of Federal 

Regulations. 

■ 11. Revise part 17 to read as follows: 

PART 17—FILING FOR PUBLIC 

INSPECTION AND PUBLICATION 

SCHEDULES 

Subpart A—Receipt and Processing 

Sec. 

17.1 Receipt and processing. 

Subpart B—Regular Schedule 

17.2 Procedure and timing for regular 

schedule. 

Subpart C—Emergency Schedule 

17.3 Criteria for emergency publication. 

17.4 Procedure and timing for emergency 

publication. 

17.5 Criteria for emergency filing for public 

inspection. 

17.6 Procedure and timing for emergency 

filing for public inspection. 

Subpart D—Deferred Schedule 

17.7 Criteria for deferred schedule. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

Subpart A—Receipt and Processing 

§ 17.1 Receipt and processing. 

(a) The OFR receives documents only 

during official business hours unless, in 

the judgment of the Director, the public 

interest is served by receiving a 

document at some other time. 

(b) Upon receipt, each document is 

held for confidential processing until it 

is filed for public inspection. 

Subpart B—Regular Schedule 

§ 17.2 Procedure and timing for regular 

schedule. 

(a) Each document received is filed 

for public inspection only after it has 

been received, processed, and assigned 

a publication date. 

(b)(1) Each document received by 2:00 

p.m. that meets the requirements of this 

chapter will be assigned to the regular 

schedule. Unless the issuing agency 

makes special arrangements otherwise, 

or the OFR determines that the 

document requires a deferred schedule 

(see § 17.7 of this part), we consider 

receipt of a document by 2:00 p.m. to be 

a request for filing for public inspection 

and publication on the regular schedule. 

(2) Documents received after 2:00 

p.m. that meet the requirements of this 

chapter will be assigned to the next 

Federal business day’s regular schedule. 

(c) The regular schedule for filing for 

public inspection and publication is 

found in Table 1 of this section. Where 

a legal Federal holiday intervenes, one 

additional business day is added. 

TABLE 1 

Received before 2:00 p.m. Filed for public inspection Published 

Monday ................................................................................. Wednesday .......................................................................... Thursday. 

Tuesday ................................................................................ Thursday .............................................................................. Friday. 

Wednesday ........................................................................... Friday ................................................................................... Monday. 

Thursday ............................................................................... Monday ................................................................................. Tuesday. 

Friday .................................................................................... Tuesday ................................................................................ Wednesday. 

Subpart C—Emergency Schedule 

§ 17.3 Criteria for emergency publication. 

The emergency schedule is designed 

to provide the fastest possible 

publication of a document involving the 

prevention, alleviation, control, or relief 

of an emergency situation. 

§ 17.4 Procedure and timing for 

emergency publication. 

(a)(1) Each agency requesting 

publication on the emergency schedule 

must briefly describe the emergency and 

the benefits to be attributed to 

immediate publication in the Federal 

Register. 

(2) The request must be made by letter 

to the Director. 

(b) The Director assigns a document to 

the emergency schedule whenever the 

Director agrees that there is a need for 

the document to publish outside of the 

regular publication schedule and it is 

feasible. 

(c) Each document assigned to the 

emergency schedule is published as 

soon as possible. 

(d) Each document assigned to the 

emergency schedule for publication will 

be filed for public inspection on the 

Federal business day before publication 

unless emergency filing for public 

inspection is also requested. 

§ 17.5 Criteria for emergency filing for 

public inspection. 

(a) An agency may request emergency 

filing for public inspection for 

documents to be published under the 

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(b) Emergency filing for public 

inspection is considered a special 

arrangement under § 17.2 of this part 

that results in deviation from the regular 

schedule for filing for public inspection. 

(c) A document receiving emergency 

filing for public inspection remains on 

public inspection until it is published 

according to the schedule for 

publication. 

§ 17.6 Procedure and timing for 

emergency filing for public inspection. 

(a)(1) Each agency requesting 

emergency filing for public inspection 

must briefly describe the emergency and 

the benefits to be attributed to 

immediate public access. 

(2) The request must be made by letter 

to the Director. 

(b) The Director approves an 

emergency filing for public inspection 

request whenever the Director agrees 

with the need for that action and it is 

feasible. 

(c) Each document approved for 

emergency filing for public inspection is 

filed as soon as possible following 

processing and scheduling. 

Subpart D—Deferred Schedule 

§ 17.7 Criteria for deferred schedule. 

(a) OFR staff may assign a document 

to the deferred schedule when a 

document meets one of the following 

conditions: 

(1) Conditions exist that require 

extraordinary processing time. These 

conditions may exist if the document: 

(i) Is lengthy; 

(ii) Contains technical problems; or 

(iii) Contains unusual or lengthy 

tables, or illustrations; or 

(2) The issuing agency requests a 

deferred publication date. 

(b) OFR staff notifies the agency if its 

documents must be assigned to a 

deferred schedule. 

■ 12. Revise part 18 to read as follows: 

PART 18—PREPARATION AND 

TRANSMITTAL OF DOCUMENTS 

GENERALLY 

Sec. 

18.1 Original and copies required. 

18.2 Prohibition on combined category 

documents. 

18.3 Submission of documents and letters of 

transmittal. 

18.4 Form of document. 18.5 [Reserved] 

18.6 Form of certification. 

18.7 Signature. 

18.8 [Reserved] 

18.9 Style. 

18.10 Illustrations, tabular material, and 

forms. 

18.11 Required document headings. 

18.12 Preamble requirements. 

18.13 Withdrawal or correction of filed 

documents. 

18.15 Correction of errors in printing. 

18.16 Reinstatement of expired regulations. 

18.17 Effective dates and time periods. 

18.20 Identification of subjects in agency 

regulations. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 18.1 Original and copies required. 

Each agency submitting a document 

to be filed and published in the Federal 

Register must submit: 

(a) An originally signed document; 

and 

(b) Two duplicate signed originals or 

two certified copies, unless submitted 

under the terms of § 18.4(b) of this part. 

§ 18.2 Prohibition on combined category 

documents. 

(a) The Director will not accept a 

document for filing and publication if it 

seeks to combine regulatory material 

that must appear under separate 

categories in the Federal Register, as set 

forth in 1 CFR 5.9 of this chapter. For 

example, a document may not serve as 

both a rule and a notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 

(b) When two related documents are 

to be published in the same Federal 

Register issue, the agency may insert a 

cross-reference in each document. 

§ 18.3 Submission of documents and 

letters of transmittal. 

(a) Each document authorized or 

required by law to be filed for public 

inspection with the OFR and published 

in the Federal Register must be sent to 

the Director. 

(b) A letter of transmittal is required 

in cases involving special handling or 

treatment of documents submitted for 

publication. 

§ 18.4 Form of document. 

(a) A document in the form of a letter 

or press release will not be accepted for 

filing for public inspection or 

publication in the Rules and 

Regulations, Proposed Rules, Regulatory 

Notices, or Notices categories of the 

Federal Register. 

(b) Original documents submitted 

electronically and authenticated by 

digital signatures that are consistent 

with applicable Federal standards and 

OFR technical specifications may be 

accepted for publication. 

§ 18.5 [Reserved] 

§ 18.6 Form of certification. 

(a) Each paper copy of every 

document submitted for filing and 

publication under the terms of § 18.1(b) 

of this part, except a Presidential 

document or a duplicate original, must 

be certified as follows: 

(Certified to be a true copy of the 

original) 

(b) The certification must be signed by 

a certifying officer designated under 

§ 16.1 of this chapter. 

§ 18.7 Signature. 

(a) The original and each duplicate 

original document must be signed in 

ink, with the name and title of the 

official signing the document typed or 

stamped beneath the signature. 

(b) Initialed or impressed signatures 

will not be accepted. 

(c) Documents submitted under 

§ 18.4(b) of this part may be 

authenticated as original documents by 

digital signatures. 

§ 18.8 [Reserved] 

§ 18.9 Style. 

Each document submitted by an 

agency for filing and publication should 

conform to the current edition of the 

U.S. Government Printing Office Style 

Manual in punctuation, capitalization, 

spelling, and other matters of style. The 

U.S. Government Printing Office Style 

Manual is available on the Government 

Printing Office’s Web site. 

§ 18.10 Illustrations, tabular material, and 

forms. 

(a) If it is necessary to publish a form 

or illustration, a clear and legible 

original form or illustration must be 

included in the original document and 

each certified copy. 

(b) A document that includes tabular 

material may be assigned to the deferred 

publication schedule. See § 17.7 of this 

subchapter. 

§ 18.11 Required document headings. 

(a) Each document submitted to the 

OFR must contain the following 

headings, when appropriate, on separate 

lines in the following order: 

(1) Agency name; 

(2) Subagency name; 

(3) Numerical references to the title 

and parts of the CFR affected; 

(4) Agency docket numbers and 

identification numbers in brackets (such 

as RINs), as applicable. 

(5) Central information system 

identification numbers, as applicable. 

(6) Brief subject heading describing 

the document. 

§ 18.12 Preamble requirements. 

(a) All documents submitted for 

publication must include a preamble 

that will inform the reader, who is not 

an expert in the subject area, of the basis 

and purpose for the rule or proposal, or 

a basic explanation of the notice 

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(b) The preamble must be in the 

following format and contain the 

following information: 

AGENCY: lllllllllllll

(Name of issuing agency.) 

ACTION: llllllllllllll

(Possible ACTION lines include: Notice, 

Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking, Proposed rule, Rule, and 

Final rule.) 

SUMMARY: llllllllllll

(Brief statements, in simple language, 

describing the action being taken, the 

circumstances which created the need 

for the action, and the intended effect 

of the action.) 

DATES: llllllllllllll

(Possible DATES include: Comments 

must be received on or before: l, 

Proposed effective date: l, Effective 

date: l, and Hearing: l.) 

ADDRESSES llllllllllll

(Any relevant addresses.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: lllllllllllllll

(For Executive departments and 

agencies, the name, telephone 

number, and email address of a 

person in the agency to contact for 

additional information about the 

document.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: l

(c) The agency may include the 

following information in the 

supplementary information section of 

the preamble, as applicable: 

(1) A discussion of the background 

and major issues involved; 

(2) In the case of a final rule, any 

significant differences between it and 

the proposed rule; 

(3) A response to substantive public 

comments received; 

(4) Any other information the agency 

considers appropriate; and 

(5) Any determination or analysis 

required by law or order. 

§ 18.13 Withdrawal or correction of filed 

documents. 

(a) Withdrawing documents. (1) A 

document that has been filed for public 

inspection with the OFR but not yet 

published may be withdrawn from 

publication by the submitting agency 

only when the agency certifies that 

withdrawal is necessary to address an 

emergency or avert a violation of law. 

(2) An agency requesting withdrawal 

of a document on file for public 

inspection must submit a timely letter 

signed by an authorized representative 

of the agency certifying that the 

withdrawal is necessary under 

paragraph (a)(1) of this section. 

(3) Agency requests for withdrawal of 

a document on file for public inspection 

will be accommodated only when the 

request does not impose a burden on the 

production of the daily Federal 

Register. 

(4) The originally-filed document will 

be removed from public inspection on 

the business day OFR receives the 

withdrawal letter. 

(5) The withdrawing letter will 

remain on file for public inspection 

through the date the document would 

have been published in the Federal 

Register. 

(6) The original document and the 

withdrawing letter will be retained by 

the OFR after the public inspection 

period expires. 

(b) Correcting documents. (1) A 

document that has been filed for public 

inspection with the OFR, but has not yet 

published, may be corrected only if the 

submitting agency certifies that 

correction is necessary to address an 

emergency or avert a violation of law. 

(2) An agency requesting corrections 

to a document on file for public 

inspection must submit a timely letter 

signed by an authorized representative 

of the agency certifying that the 

correction is necessary under paragraph 

(b)(1) of this section. 

(3) Agency correction requests will be 

accommodated only when the request 

does not impose a burden on the 

production of the daily Federal 

Register. 

(4) The originally-filed document will 

be removed from public inspection at 

the close of business the day OFR 

receives the letter requesting 

corrections. 

(5) The letter requesting corrections 

will remain on file for public inspection 

through the date the document 

publishes in the Federal Register. 

(6) The original document and the 

correcting letter will be retained by the 

OFR after the public inspection period 

expires. 

§ 18.15 Correction of errors in printing. 

(a) Typographical or clerical errors 

made in the printing of the Federal 

Register will be corrected by insertion 

of an appropriate notation or a 

reprinting in the Federal Register 

published without further agency 

documentation, if the Director 

determines that: 

(1) The error would tend to confuse or 

mislead the reader; or 

(2) The error would affect text subject 

to codification. 

(b) The issuing agency must review 

published documents and notify the 

OFR of printing errors found in 

published documents. 

(c) If the error was in the document 

as submitted by the agency or certified 

electronic file submitted with the 

original document, the issuing agency 

must prepare and submit a correction 

document for publication in the Federal 

Register. 

§ 18.16 Reinstatement of expired 

regulations. 

To reinstate expired regulations 

agencies must republish the regulations 

in full text in the Federal Register. 

§ 18.17 Effective dates and time periods. 

(a) Each document submitted for 

publication in the Federal Register that 

includes an effective date or time period 

should either set forth a date certain or 

a time period measured by a certain 

number of days after publication in the 

Federal Register. 

(b) When a document sets forth a time 

period measured by a certain number of 

days after publication, OFR staff will 

compute the date to be inserted in the 

document as set forth in paragraph (c) 

of this section. 

(c) Dates will be computed by 

counting the day after the publication 

day as one, and by counting each 

succeeding day, including Saturdays, 

Sundays, and Federal holidays. Where 

the final count would fall on a Saturday, 

Sunday, or Federal holiday, the date 

certain will be the next Federal business 

day. 

(d) If an effective date depends on 

Congressional action, or if an act of 

Congress or a Federal court decision 

establishes or changes the effective date 

of an agency’s rule, the issuing agency 

must promptly publish a document in 

the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of 

the Federal Register announcing the 

effective date. 

(e) To extend the effective period of 

a temporary rule, agencies must submit 

a document extending the effective date 

before the expiration of the original 

effective date. 

§ 18.20 Identification of subjects in agency 

regulations. 

(a) Federal Register documents. 

Each agency that submits a document 

for publication in the Rules and 

Regulations section or the Proposed 

Rules section of the Federal Register 

must: 

(1) Include a list of index terms for 

each Code of Federal Regulations part 

affected by the document; and 

(2) Place the list of index terms as the 

last item in the Supplementary 

Information portion of the preamble for 

the document. 

(b) Federal Register Thesaurus. To 

prepare its list of index terms, each 

agency must use terms contained in the 

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Terms. Agencies may also include 

additional terms not contained in the 

Thesaurus as long as they are 

appropriate. 

■ 13. Revise part 19 to read as follows: 

PART 19—EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND 

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS 

Sec. 

19.1 Form. 

19.2 Routing and approval of drafts. 

19.3 Routing and certification of originals 

and copies. 

19.4 Proclamations calling for the 

observance of special days or events. 

19.5 Proclamations of treaties excluded. 

19.6 Definition. 

Authority: Secs. 1 to 6 of E.O. 11030, 27 

FR 5847, 3 CFR, 1959–1963 Comp., p. 610; 

E.O. 11354, 32 FR 7695, 3 CFR, 1966–1970 

Comp., p. 652; and E.O. 12080, 43 FR 42235, 

3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 224; E.O. 12608, 52 

FR 34617, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 245; E.O. 

13403, 71 FR 28543, 3 CFR, 2006 Comp., p. 

228. 

§ 19.1 Form. 

Proposed Executive orders and 

proclamations shall be prepared in 

accordance with the following 

requirements: 

(a) The order or proclamation shall be 

given a suitable title. 

(b) The order or proclamation shall 

contain a citation of the authority under 

which it is issued. 

(c) Punctuation, capitalization, 

spelling, and other matters of style shall, 

in general, conform to the most recent 

edition of the U.S. Government Printing 

Office Style Manual. 

(d) The spelling of geographic names 

shall conform to the decisions of the 

Board on Geographic Names, 

established by section 2 of the Act of 

July 25, 1947, 61 Stat. 456 (43 U.S.C. 

364a). 

(e) Descriptions of tracts of land shall 

conform, so far as practicable, to the 

most recent edition of the 

‘‘Specifications for Descriptions of 

Tracts of Land for Use in Executive 

Orders and Proclamations,’’ prepared by 

the Bureau of Land Management, 

Department of the Interior. 

(f) Proposed Executive orders and 

proclamations shall be prepared on 

paper approximately 81⁄2 x 14 inches, 

shall have a left-hand margin of 

approximately 1 inch and a right-hand 

margin of approximately 1 inch, and 

shall be double-spaced except that 

quotations, tabulations, and 

descriptions of land may be singlespaced. 

(g) Proclamations issued by the 

President shall conclude with the 

following-described recitation: 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have 

hereunto set my hand this l day of 

ll, in the year of our Lord ll, and 

of the Independence of the United 

States of America the ll. 

§ 19.2 Routing and approval of drafts. 

(a) A proposed Executive order or 

proclamation shall first be submitted to 

the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget, together with 

a letter, signed by the head or other 

properly authorized officer of the 

originating Federal agency, explaining 

the nature, purpose, background, and 

effect of the proposed Executive order or 

proclamation and its relationship, if 

any, to pertinent laws and other 

Executive orders or proclamations. 

(b) If the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget approves the 

proposed Executive order or 

proclamation, he shall transmit it to the 

Attorney General for his consideration 

as to both form and legality. 

(c) If the proposed Executive order or 

proclamation is disapproved by the 

Director of the Office of Management 

and Budget or by the Attorney General, 

it shall not thereafter be presented to the 

President unless it is accompanied by a 

statement of the reasons for such 

disapproval. 

§ 19.3 Routing and certification of 

originals and copies. 

(a) If the order or proclamation is 

signed by the President, the original and 

two copies shall be forwarded to the 

Director of the Federal Register for 

publication in the Federal Register. 

(b) The Office of the Federal Register 

shall cause to be placed upon the copies 

of all Executive orders and 

proclamations forwarded as provided in 

paragraph (a) of this section the 

following notation, to be signed by the 

Director or by some person authorized 

by him to sign such notation: ‘‘Certified 

to be a true copy of the original.’’ 

§ 19.4 Proclamations calling for the 

observance of special days or events. 

Except as may be otherwise provided 

by law, responsibility for the 

preparation and presentation of 

proposed proclamations calling for the 

observance of special days, or other 

periods of time, or events, shall be 

assigned by the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget to such 

agencies as he may consider 

appropriate. Such proposed 

proclamations shall be submitted to the 

Director at least 60 days before the date 

of the specified observance. 

Notwithstanding the provisions of 

§ 19.2, the Director shall transmit any 

approved commemorative 

proclamations to the President. 

§ 19.5 Proclamations of treaties excluded. 

Consonant with the provisions of 

chapter 15 of title 44 of the United 

States Code (44 U.S.C. 1511), nothing in 

these regulations shall be construed to 

apply to treaties, conventions, protocols, 

or other international agreements, or 

proclamations thereof by the President. 

§ 19.6 Definition. 

The term ‘‘Presidential proclamations 

and Executive orders,’’ as used in 

chapter 15 of title 44 of the United 

States Code (44 U.S.C. 1505(a)), shall, 

except as the President or his 

representative may hereafter otherwise 

direct, be deemed to include such 

attachments thereto as are referred to in 

the respective proclamations or orders. 

PART 20—[REMOVED] 

■ 14. Remove part 20. 

■ 15. Revise part 21 to read as follows: 

PART 21—PREPARATION OF 

DOCUMENTS FOR CODIFICATION 

Subpart A—General 

Sec. 

21.1 Definitions. 

21.2 Codification and amendatory language. 

21.6 Notice of expiration of codified 

material. 

21.7 Titles and subtitles. 

21.8 Chapters and subchapters. 

21.9 Parts, subparts, and undesignated 

center headings. 

21.10 Sections and paragraphs. 

21.11 Standard organization of the Code of 

Federal Regulations. 

21.12 Reserving part or section numbers. 

21.14 Deviations from standard 

organization of the Code of Federal 

Regulations. 

21.16 Required document headings. 

21.18 Tables of contents. 

21.19 Composition of part headings. 

21.20 Amendment drafting requirements. 

21.21 Internal reference drafting 

requirements. 

21.23 Cross-reference drafting 

requirements. 

21.24 References to 1938 edition of Code of 

Federal Regulations. 

21.30 Effective date statement. 

21.35 OMB control numbers. 

Subpart B—Citations of Authority 

21.40 General authority citation 

requirements. 

21.41 Agency responsibility. 

21.42 Placing and amending authority 

citations. 

21.43 Citation to statutory material. 

21.44 Citation to nonstatutory materials. 

21.45 Exceptions to placement and form. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

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Subpart A—General 

§ 21.1 Definitions. 

As used in this part: 

Undesignated center heading means 

the heading given to a portion of text 

where the heading has no numerical 

designation or reference, and appears 

after the part heading to a group-related 

section. 

Words of issuance are the tie between 

the document and the CFR units 

affected and the bridge between the 

preamble of the document and the 

regulatory changes. 

§ 21.2 Codification and amendatory 

language. 

(a) Each agency that prepares a 

document that is subject to codification 

must draft it as an amendment to the 

Code of Federal Regulations, in 

accordance with this subchapter, before 

submitting it to the OFR. 

(b) Each agency that prepares a 

document that is subject to codification 

must include words of issuance and 

amendatory language that precisely 

describe the relationship of the new 

provisions to the CFR. 

§ 21.6 Notice of expiration of codified 

material. 

Whenever a codified regulation 

expires after a specified period by law 

or by court order, the issuing agency 

must submit a rule document for 

publication in the Federal Register 

removing the expired regulations. 

§ 21.7 Titles and subtitles. 

(a) The major divisions of the CFR are 

titles, each of which brings together 

broadly related Government functions. 

(b)(1) Subtitles may be used to 

distinguish between materials 

emanating from an overall agency and 

the material issued by its various 

components. 

(2) Subtitles may also be used to 

group chapters within a title. 

§ 21.8 Chapters and subchapters. 

(a) The normal divisions of a title are 

chapters, assigned to the various 

agencies within a title descriptive of the 

subject matter covered by the agencies’ 

regulations. 

(b) Subchapters may be used to group 

related parts within a chapter. 

(c) Chapter and subchapter 

assignments are made by the OFR after 

agency consultation. 

§ 21.9 Parts, subparts, and undesignated 

center headings. 

(a) The normal divisions of a chapter 

are parts, consisting of a unified body of 

regulations applying to a specific 

function or program of an issuing 

agency or devoted to specific subject 

matter under the control of that agency. 

(b)(1) Subparts or undesignated center 

headings may be used to group related 

sections within a part. 

(2) Undesignated center headings may 

also be used to group sections within a 

subpart. 

§ 21.10 Sections and paragraphs. 

(a) The normal divisions of a part are 

sections. Sections are the basic units of 

the CFR. 

(b) A section may be divided into 

paragraphs. Paragraphs may be further 

subdivided using the system provided 

in § 21.11 of this part. 

§ 21.11 Standard organization of the Code 

of Federal Regulations. 

The standard organization consists of 

the following structural units: 

(a) Titles are numbered consecutively 

using Arabic numerals throughout the 

CFR; 

(b) Subtitles are lettered consecutively 

using capital letters throughout the title; 

(c) Chapters are numbered 

consecutively using capitalized Roman 

numerals throughout each title; 

(d) Subchapters are lettered 

consecutively using capital letters 

throughout the chapter; 

(e) Parts are numbered using Arabic 

numerals throughout each title; 

(f) Subparts are lettered using capital 

letters; 

(g)(1) Sections are numbered using 

Arabic numerals throughout each part. 

(2) A section number includes the 

number of the part followed by a period 

and the number of the section. For 

example, the section number for section 

15 of part 21 is ‘‘§ 21.15’’; and 

(h) Paragraphs are designated as 

follows: 

(1) Level 1: (a), (b), (c), etc. 

(2) Level 2: (1), (2), (3), etc. 

(3) Level 3: (i), (ii), (iii), etc. 

(4) Level 4: (A), (B), (C), etc. 

§ 21.12 Reserving part or section 

numbers. 

Chapters or structural units within 

chapters may be reserved to allow for 

expansion. 

§ 21.14 Deviations from standard 

organization of the Code of Federal 

Regulations. 

(a) The Director may approve a 

deviation from standard Code of Federal 

Regulations designations. 

(b) Agencies must submit written 

requests for approval, along with a draft 

copy of the document, at least ten 

Federal business days before the agency 

intends to submit the document for 

publication. 

(c) The Director may allow section 

numbers to correspond to a particular 

numbering system requested by an 

agency only if the alternative numbering 

system will benefit the public. 

§ 21.16 Required document headings. 

Each section in the regulatory text of 

the document must have a brief 

descriptive heading, preceding the text, 

on a separate line. 

§ 21.18 Tables of contents. 

(a) A table of contents must be used 

at the beginning of the part whenever: 

(1) A new part is introduced; 

(2) An existing part is completely 

revised; or 

(3) A group of sections is revised or 

added and set forth as a subpart or 

otherwise separately grouped under a 

center head. 

(b) The table of contents follows the 

part heading before the text of the 

regulations in that part. 

(c) The table of contents lists the 

headings for the subparts, undesignated 

center headings, sections in the part, 

and appendix headings to the part and 

subpart, as applicable. 

§ 21.19 Composition of part headings. 

(a) Each part heading indicates briefly 

the general subject matter of the part. 

(b) Phrases that are not descriptive of 

the subject matter, such as ‘‘Regulations 

under the Act of July 28, 1955’’ or other 

expressions, may not be used. 

(c) Non-descriptive introductory 

expressions such as ‘‘Regulations 

governing’’ and ‘‘Rules applicable to’’ 

may not be used. 

§ 21.20 Amendment drafting requirements. 

(a) Each document that amends or 

includes regulatory text that proposes to 

amend the CFR must identify in specific 

terms the unit amended and the extent 

of the changes made. 

(b) The number and heading of each 

section amended must be set forth in 

full on a separate line. 

§ 21.21 Internal reference drafting 

requirements. 

(a)(1) Each reference to the Code of 

Federal Regulations must be in terms of 

the specific titles, chapters, parts, 

sections, and paragraphs involved. 

(2) Ambiguous references such as 

‘‘herein,’’ ‘‘above,’’ ‘‘below,’’ ‘‘now,’’ 

‘‘today,’’ and similar expressions may 

not be used. 

(b) Each document that contains a 

reference to material published in the 

CFR must include the CFR citation as a 

part of the reference. 

§ 21.23 Cross-reference drafting 

requirements. 

(a) Each agency publishes its own 

regulations in full text in the Code of 

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(b) Cross-references to the regulations 

of another agency may not be used as a 

substitute for publication in full text, 

unless the OFR finds that the regulation 

meets any of the following exceptions: 

(1) The reference is required by court 

order, statute, Executive order or 

reorganization plan. 

(2) The reference is to regulations 

promulgated by an agency with the 

exclusive legal authority to regulate in 

a subject matter area, but the referencing 

agency needs to apply those regulations 

in its own programs. 

(3) The reference is informational or 

improves clarity rather than being 

regulatory. 

(4) The reference is to Federal agencyproduced test methods or standards that 

have replaced or preempted private 

sector-produced voluntary test methods 

or consensus standards in a subject 

matter area and the referenced Federal 

agency test methods or standards are 

published in full in the CFR. 

(5) The reference is to the Department 

level from a subagency. 

§ 21.24 References to 1938 edition of Code 

of Federal Regulations. 

When reference is made to material 

codified in the 1938 edition of the Code 

of Federal Regulations, or a supplement 

thereto, the following forms may be 

used, as appropriate: 

l CFR, 1938 Ed., l. 

l CFR, 1943, Cum. Supp., l. 

l CFR, 1946 Supp., l. 

§ 21.30 Effective date statement. 

Each document subject to codification 

must include a clear statement as to the 

date or dates upon which its contents 

become effective following the 

procedures found in § 18.17 of this 

subchapter. 

§ 21.35 OMB control numbers. 

To display required OMB control 

numbers in agency regulations, those 

numbers must be placed parenthetically 

at the end of the section or displayed in 

a table or codified section. 

Subpart B—Citations of Authority 

§ 21.40 General authority citation 

requirements. 

(a) Each section subject to codification 

in a document must include a complete 

citation of the authority under which 

the section is issued, including: 

(1) General or specific authority 

delegated by statute; and 

(2) Executive delegations, if any, 

necessary to link the statutory authority 

to the issuing agency. 

(b) Formal citations of authority must 

be in the shortest citation format for 

easy reference. 

(c) The OFR will assist agencies in 

developing model citations. 

§ 21.41 Agency responsibility. 

(a) Each issuing agency is responsible 

for the accuracy and integrity of the 

citations of authority in the documents 

it issues. 

(b) Each issuing agency must formally 

amend the citations of authority in its 

codified material to reflect any changes. 

§ 21.42 Placing and amending authority 

citations. 

(a) The agency must publish a 

centralized authority citation in the 

CFR. 

(1) The authority citation must appear 

at the end of the table of contents for a 

part or after each subpart heading 

within the text of a part. 

(2) Citations of authority for particular 

sections may be specified within the 

centralized authority citation. 

(b) The requirements for placing 

authority citations in a document 

published in the Federal Register vary 

with the type of amendment the agency 

is making in a document. The agency 

must set out the full text of the authority 

citation for each part affected by the 

document. 

(1) If a document sets out an entire 

part of the CFR, the agency must place 

the complete authority citation directly 

after the table of contents and before the 

regulatory text. 

(2) If a document amends only certain 

sections within a CFR part, the agency 

must place the complete authority 

citation to this part as the first item in 

the list of amendments. 

(i) If the authority for issuing an 

amendment is the same as the authority 

listed for the whole part of the CFR, the 

agency must restate the authority. 

(ii) If the authority for issuing an 

amendment changes the authority 

citation for the whole part of the CFR, 

the agency must revise the authority 

citation in its entirety. The agency may 

specify the particular authority under 

which certain sections are amended in 

the revised authority citation. 

(c) Citation in the CFR to a 

nonstatutory document as authority 

must be placed after the statutory 

citations. 

§ 21.43 Citation to statutory material. 

(a) United States Code. All citations to 

statutory authority must include a 

United States Code citation, where 

available. Citations to titles of the 

United States Code may be cited 

without Public Law or U.S. Statutes at 

Large citation. For example: 

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 501. 

(b) Public Laws and U.S. Statutes at 

Large. (1) Citations to Public Laws and 

U.S. Statutes at Large are optional when 

the United States Code is cited. 

(2) Citations to current Public Laws 

and to the U.S. Statutes at Large must 

refer to the section of the Public Law 

and the volume and page of the U.S. 

Statutes at Large to which they have 

been assigned. The page number must 

refer to the page on which the section 

cited begins. For example: 

Authority: Sec. 5, Pub. L. 89–670, 80 Stat. 

935 (49 U.S.C. 1654); sec. 313, Pub. L. 85– 

726, 72 Stat. 752 (49 U.S.C. 1354). 

§ 21.44 Citation to nonstatutory materials. 

(a) Form. Nonstatutory documents 

must be cited by document designation 

and by Federal Register volume and 

page, followed, if possible, by the 

parallel citation to the Code of Federal 

Regulations. For example: 

Authority: Special Civil Air Reg. SR–422A, 

28 FR 6703, 14 CFR part 4b; E.O. 11130, 28 

FR 12789; 3 CFR 1959–1963 Comp. 

(b) Placement. Citation to a 

nonstatutory document as authority 

must be placed after the statutory 

citations. For example: 

Authority: Sec. 9, Pub. L. 89–670, 80 Stat. 

944 (49 U.S.C. 1657). E.O. 11222, 30 FR 6469, 

3 CFR, 1965 Comp., p. 10. 

§ 21.45 Exceptions to placement and form. 

The Director may make exceptions to 

the requirements of this subpart relating 

to placement and form of citations of 

authority. 

■ 16. Revise part 22 to read as follows: 

PART 22—PREPARATION OF 

PROPOSED RULES 

Sec. 

22.1 General requirements. 

22.2 Code designation. 

22.3 Proposed codification. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 22.1 General requirements. 

Each proposed rule required by 

section 553 of title 5, United States 

Code, or any other statute, and any 

similar document voluntarily issued by 

an agency must include a statement of: 

(a) The time, place, and nature of 

public rulemaking proceedings; and 

(b) Reference to the authority under 

which the regulatory action is proposed. 

§ 22.2 Code designation. 

The area of the Code of Federal 

Regulations directly affected by a 

proposed regulatory action must be 

identified by placing the appropriate 

Code citation immediately below the 

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§ 22.3 Proposed codification. 

Any part of a proposed rule document 

that contains the full text of a proposed 

regulation must conform to part 21 of 

this subchapter, except for § 21.30. 

■ 17. Add part 23 to read as follows: 

PART 23—PREPARATION OF 

NOTICES AND REGULATORY 

NOTICES 

Sec. 

23.1 Exception to required document 

headings. 

23.2 Authority citation. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 23.1 Exception to required document 

headings. 

Documents are not required to have 

numerical references to the title and 

parts of the CFR affected. 

§ 23.2 Authority citation. 

The authority under which an agency 

issues a notice must be cited in 

narrative form within text or in 

parentheses on a separate line following 

text. 

■ 18. Add part 24 to read as follows: 

PART 24—HANDLING OF THE UNITED 

STATES GOVERNMENT MANUAL 

STATEMENTS 

Sec. 

24.1 Liaison officers. 

24.2 Preparation of agency statements. 

24.3 Information about an organization. 

24.4 Description of program activities. 

24.5 Sources of information. 

24.6 Form, style, arrangement and 

apportionment of space. 

24.7 Deadline dates. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

§ 24.1 Liaison officers. 

(a) Each of the following must appoint 

an officer to maintain liaison with the 

OFR on matters relating to The United 

States Government Manual: 

(1) Agencies of the legislative and 

judicial branches. 

(2) Executive agencies that do not 

have a liaison officer designated under 

§ 16.1 of this chapter or who wish to 

appoint a liaison officer for Manual 

matters other than the one designated 

under such § 16.1. 

(3) Quasi-official agencies represented 

in the Manual. 

(4) Any other agency that the Director 

believes should be included in the 

Manual. 

(b) Each liaison officer will ensure 

agency compliance with part 9 of this 

chapter, and this part. 

§ 24.2 Preparation of agency statements. 

In accordance with schedules 

established under § 24.7 of this part, 

each agency must submit an official 

draft of the information required by 

§ 9.2 of this chapter and this part. 

§ 24.3 Information about an organization. 

(a) Information about lines of 

authority and organization may be 

reflected in a chart if the chart clearly 

delineates the agency’s organizational 

structure. 

(b) Listings of heads of operating units 

should be arranged whenever possible 

to reflect relationships between units. 

(c) Narrative descriptions of 

organizational structure or hierarchy 

that duplicate information conveyed by 

charts or by lists of officials will not be 

published in the Manual. 

§ 24.4 Description of program activities. 

(a) Descriptions should clearly state 

the public purposes that the agency 

serves, and the programs that carry out 

those purposes. 

(b) Descriptions of the responsibilities 

of individuals or of administrative units 

common to most agencies will not be 

accepted for publication in the Manual. 

§ 24.5 Sources of information. 

Each agency statement should include 

pertinent sources of information useful 

to the public, covering areas such as 

employment, consumer activities, 

contracts, services to small business, 

and other topics of public interest. 

These sources of information must 

plainly identify the places where the 

public may obtain information or make 

submittals or requests. 

§ 24.6 Form, style, arrangement, and 

apportionment of space. 

(a) The Director determines the form, 

style, arrangement, and space 

apportionment of agency statements and 

other materials included in the Manual. 

(b) Agencies must use the U.S. 

Government Printing Office Style 

Manual to determine style. 

§ 24.7 Deadline dates. 

Agencies must promptly notify the 

Director of major organizational changes 

and comply with periodic deadlines set 

by the OFR for agency statements, 

charts, and other materials to be 

included in the Manual. Failure to do so 

may result in publication of an outdated 

statement or the omission of important 

material. 

By Order of the Committee. 

Charles A. Barth, 

Secretary, Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25520 Filed 10–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1505–02–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 37 

[Docket No. PRM–37–1; NRC–2014–0172] 

Physical Protection of Category 1 and 

Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive 

Material 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Petition for rulemaking; notice 

of docketing and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has received a 

petition for rulemaking from Anthony R. 

Pietrangelo on behalf of the Nuclear 

Energy Institute (NEI or the petitioner) 

dated June 12, 2014, requesting that the 

NRC amend its regulations to ‘‘remove 

unnecessary and burdensome 

requirements on licensees with 

established physical security programs.’’ 

The petition was docketed by the NRC 

on July 17, 2014, and has been assigned 

Docket No. PRM–37–1. The NRC is 

requesting public comments on this 

petition for rulemaking. 

DATES: Submit comments by January 12, 

2015. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the NRC is able to assure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2014–0172. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

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email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

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INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

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• Email comments to: 

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confirming receipt, then contact us at 

301–415–1677. 

• Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– 

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• Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

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