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GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

41 CFR Part 102–84 

[FMR Case 2018–102–8; Docket 2018–0009; 

Sequence 1] 

RIN 3090–AJ72 

Federal Management Regulation; 

Annual Real Property Inventories 

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide 

Policy (OGP), General Services 

Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Direct final rule; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The General Services 

Administration (GSA) is issuing a direct 

final rule to remove and reserve 

regulations regarding the Federal 

Management Regulation (FMR). The 

regulations contain ambiguous and 

outdated provisions regarding reporting 

requirements, as well as references to 

systems and forms that are no longer 

used by agencies or GSA. The 

regulations are also unnecessary as a 

result of the Federal Assets Sale and 

Transfer Act of 2016 and the Federal 

Property Management Reform Act of 

2016, which require executive agencies 

to report real property data annually to 

GSA. 

DATES: Effective date: October 22, 2018. 

Comment date: Interested parties 

should submit written comments to the 

Regulatory Secretariat Division at one of 

the addresses shown below on or before 

September 21, 2018. If an adverse 

comment or notice of intent to file an 

adverse comment is received within the 

specified comment period, GSA will 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register withdrawing this rule prior to 

the effective date. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments in 

response to FMR Case 2018–102–8 by 

any of the following methods: 

• Regulations.gov: http://

www.regulations.gov. Submit comments 

via the Federal Rulemaking Portal by 

entering ‘‘FMR Case 2018–102–8’’ under 

the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ and 

select ‘‘Search’’. Select the link ‘‘Submit 

a Comment’’ that corresponds with 

‘‘FMR Case 2018–102–8’’ and follow the 

instructions provided at the ‘‘Comment 

Now’’ screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any), and ‘‘FMR Case 

2018–102–8’’ on your attached 

document. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), ATTN: Ms. Lois Mandell, 1800 

F Street NW, Washington, DC 20405. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite FMR Case 2018–102–8 in 

all correspondence related to this case. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and business confidential 

information provided. To confirm 

receipt of your comment(s), please 

check http://www.regulations.gov 

approximately two to three days after 

submission to verify posting (except 

allow 30 days for posting of comments 

submitted by mail). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

clarification of content, contact Ms. 

Aluanda Drain, Director, Real Property 

Policy Division, Office of Governmentwide Policy, at 202–501–1624, or 

aluanda.drain@gsa.gov. For information 

pertaining to status or publication 

schedules, contact the Regulatory 

Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20405, 202– 

501–4755. Please cite FMR Case 2018– 

102–8. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

Federal agencies annually reported 

real property assets as a result of the 

Senate Committee on Appropriations 

request that the Government maintain 

an Annual Real Property Inventory. 

Executive Order (E.O.) 12411, 

Government Work Space Management 

Reforms, dated March 29, 1983 (48 FR 

13391, 3 CFR, 1983 Comp., p. 155), 

requires Executive agencies to produce 

and maintain a total inventory of work 

space and related furnishings, and 

declare excess to the Administrator of 

General Services all such holdings that 

are not necessary to satisfy existing or 

known and verified planned programs. 

It further requires agencies to establish 

information systems, implement 

inventory controls and conduct surveys 

in accordance with procedures 

established by the Administrator of 

General Services, so that a governmentwide reporting system may be 

developed. 

E.O. 13327, Federal Real Property 

Asset Management, dated February 4, 

2004 (69 FR 5897), required that the 

Administrator of General Services, in 

consultation with the Federal Real 

Property Council, establish and 

maintain a single, comprehensive and 

descriptive database of all real property 

under the custody and control of all 

executive branch agencies, except when 

otherwise required for reasons of 

national security. This E.O. authorized 

the Administrator to collect from each 

Executive agency such descriptive 

information, except for classified 

information, as the Administrator 

considers will best describe the nature, 

use, and extent of real property holdings 

of the Federal Government. 

Since the last part 102–84 regulatory 

update in January 2008 to incorporate 

the guidance of E.O. 13327, the E.O. has 

been amended. More recently two laws 

were enacted, the Federal Assets Sales 

and Transfer Act of 2016 (Pub. L. 114– 

287) and the Federal Property 

Management Reform Act of 2016 (Pub. 

L. 114–318) that create a statutory 

requirement for a publicly accessible 

federal real property database and 

require executive agencies to report real 

property data annually to GSA. 

Therefore, part 102–84, Annual Real 

Property Inventories, is unnecessary and 

outdated, and under the authority of 40 

U.S.C. 121(c), GSA is removing part 

102–84, Annual Real Property 

Inventories, and reserving it. 

B. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

E.O.s 12866 and 13563 direct agencies 

to assess all costs and benefits of 

available regulatory alternatives and, if 

regulation is necessary, to select 

regulatory approaches that maximize 

net benefits (including potential 

economic, environmental, public health 

and safety effects, distributive impacts, 

and equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the 

importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, of reducing costs, of 

harmonizing rules, and of promoting 

flexibility. GSA has determined that this 

direct final rule is not a significant 

regulatory action and is not subject to 

review under section 6(b) of E.O. 12866. 

GSA has further determined that this 

direct final rule is not a major rule 

under 5 U.S.C. 804. 

C. Executive Order 13771 

This direct final rule is not subject to 

the requirements of E.O. 13771 because 

it is related to agency organization, 

management, or personnel. 

D. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

This direct final rule will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of entities within 

the meaning of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq. This 

direct final rule is also exempt from the 

Administrative Procedures Act per 5 

U.S.C. 553(a)(2), because it applies to 

agency management or personnel. 

E. Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act does 

not apply because the changes to the 

FMR do not impose recordkeeping or 

information collection requirements, or 

the collection of information from 

offerors, contractors, or members of the 

public that require the approval of the 


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Office of Management and Budget under 

44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

F. Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act 

This direct final rule is exempt from 

Congressional review under 5 U.S.C. 

801 since it relates solely to agency 

management and personnel. 

List of Subjects in 41 CFR Part 102–84 

Federal buildings and facilities, 

Government property management. 

Dated: August 14, 2018. 

Emily W. Murphy, 

Administrator. 

PART 102–84—[REMOVED AND 

RESERVED] 

■ For the reasons stated in the preamble, 

and under the authority of 40 U.S.C. 

121(c), GSA is removing and reserving 

41 CFR part 102–84, consisting of 

sections 102–84.5 through 102–84.55. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 622 

[Docket No. 140501394–5279–02] 

RIN 0648–XG424 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; 2018 

Commercial Accountability Measure 

and Closure for South Atlantic Blueline 

Tilefish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. 

SUMMARY: NMFS implements an 

accountability measure (AM) for 

commercial blueline tilefish in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the 

South Atlantic. Commercial landings of 

blueline tilefish are projected to reach 

the commercial annual catch limit 

(ACL) by August 22, 2018. Therefore, 

NMFS is closing the commercial sector 

for blueline tilefish in the South 

Atlantic EEZ at 12:01 a.m., local time, 

on August 22, 2018, and it will remain 

closed until the start of the next fishing 

year on January 1, 2019. This closure is 

necessary to protect the blueline tilefish 

resource. 

DATES: This temporary rule is effective 

at 12:01 a.m., local time, on August 22, 

2018, until 12:01 a.m., local time, on 

January 1, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Vara, NMFS Southeast Regional 

Office, telephone: 727–824–5305, email: 

mary.vara@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

snapper-grouper fishery of the South 

Atlantic includes blueline tilefish and is 

managed under the Fishery 

Management Plan for the SnapperGrouper Fishery of the South Atlantic 

Region (FMP). The South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council and 

NMFS prepared the FMP, and the FMP 

is implemented by NMFS under the 

authority of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) by 

regulations at 50 CFR part 622. 

As specified at 50 CFR 

622.193(z)(1)(i), the commercial ACL for 

blueline tilefish is 87,521 lb (39,699 kg), 

round weight. The commercial AM for 

blueline tilefish requires NMFS to close 

the commercial sector when the 

commercial ACL is reached, or is 

projected to be reached, by filing a 

notification to that effect with the Office 

of the Federal Register (50 CFR 

622.193(z)(1)(i)). NMFS has projected 

that the commercial ACL for South 

Atlantic blueline tilefish will be reached 

by August 22, 2018. Accordingly, the 

commercial sector for South Atlantic 

blueline tilefish is closed effective at 

12:01 a.m., local time, on August 22, 

2018, until 12:01 a.m., local time, on 

January 1, 2019. 

The operator of a vessel with a valid 

Federal commercial vessel permit for 

South Atlantic snapper-grouper having 

blueline tilefish on board must have 

landed and bartered, traded, or sold 

such blueline tilefish prior to August 22, 

2018. During the commercial closure, all 

sale or purchase of blueline tilefish is 

prohibited. The harvest or possession of 

blueline tilefish in or from the South 

Atlantic EEZ is limited to the bag and 

possession limits specified in 50 CFR 

622.187(b)(2) and 622.187(c)(1), 

respectively, while the recreational 

sector for blueline tilefish is open. 

These bag and possession limits apply 

in the South Atlantic on board a vessel 

with a valid Federal commercial or 

charter vessel/headboat permit for 

South Atlantic snapper-grouper, and 

apply to the harvest of blueline tilefish 

in both state and Federal waters. 

Classification 

The Regional Administrator for the 

NMFS Southeast Region has determined 

this temporary rule is necessary for the 

conservation and management of 

blueline tilefish and the South Atlantic 

snapper-grouper fishery and is 

consistent with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act and other applicable laws. 

This action is taken under 50 CFR 

622.193(z)(1)(i) and is exempt from 

review under Executive Order 12866. 

These measures are exempt from the 

procedures of the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act because the temporary rule is issued 

without opportunity for prior notice and 

comment. 

This action responds to the best 

scientific information available. The 

Assistant Administrator for NOAA 

Fisheries (AA) finds that the need to 

immediately implement this action to 

close the commercial sector for blueline 

tilefish constitutes good cause to waive 

the requirements to provide prior notice 

and opportunity for public comment 

pursuant to the authority set forth in 5 

U.S.C. 553(b)(B), as such prior notice 

and opportunity for public comment are 

unnecessary and contrary to the public 

interest. Such procedures are 

unnecessary because the regulations at 

50 CFR 622.193(z)(1)(i) have already 

been subject to notice and comment, 

and all that remains is to notify the 

public of the closure. Prior notice and 

opportunity for public comment are 

contrary to the public interest because 

there is a need to immediately 

implement this action to protect 

blueline tilefish, since the capacity of 

the fishing fleet allows for rapid harvest 

of the commercial ACL. Prior notice and 

opportunity for public comment would 

require time and would potentially 

result in a harvest well in excess of the 

established commercial ACL. 

For the aforementioned reasons, the 

AA also finds good cause to waive the 

30-day delay in the effectiveness of this 

action under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3). 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: August 17, 2018. 

Alan D. Risenhoover, 

Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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