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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1 2015, Public Law 113–235, 128 Stat. 2130, 2772 

(2014). 

2Under the Appropriations Act, a national party 

committee may use its presidential nominating 

convention account ‘‘solely to defray expenses 

incurred with respect to a presidential nominating 

convention (including the payment of deposits) or 

to repay loans the proceeds of which were used to 

defray such expenses, except that the aggregate 

amount of expenditures the national committee of 

a political party may make from such account may 

not exceed $20,000,000 with respect to any single 

convention.’’ 52 U.S.C. 30116(a)(9)(A). 

3A national party committee may use its party 

headquarters building account ‘‘solely to defray 

expenses incurred with respect to the construction, 

purchase, renovation, operation, and furnishing of 

one or more headquarters buildings of the party or 

to repay loans the proceeds of which were used to 

defray such expenses, or otherwise to restore funds 

used to defray such expenses.’’ Id. 30116(a)(9)(B). 

4A national party committee may use its election 

recounts or contests and other legal proceedings 

account to ‘‘defray expenses incurred with respect 

to the preparation for and the conduct of election 

recounts and contests and other legal proceedings.’’ 

Id. 30116(a)(9)(C). 

5 Id. 30116(a)(9). 

6See Petition for Rulemaking (Nov. 8, 2016) 

(‘‘Perkins Coie Petition’’), REG 2014–10 (Party 

Contribution Limits). 

7See Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, 

Public Law 113–94, 128 Stat. 1085 (2014). 

8See 26 U.S.C. 9001–9013 (2012); 11 CFR part 

9008. 

9Presidential Election Campaign Fund and 

Federal Financing of Presidential Nominating 

Conventions, 44 FR 63036, 63038 (Nov. 1, 1979). 

10 Implementing the Consolidated and Further 

Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, 81 FR 69722 

(Oct. 7, 2016). 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

11 CFR Parts 102, 104, 106, 109, 110, 

9008, and 9012 

[NOTICE 2024–05] 

Party Segregated Accounts 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

ACTION: Inquiry notification. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is 

considering whether to initiate a 

rulemaking in response to two petitions 

that asked the Commission to issue new 

rules and to revise its existing rules 

regarding the segregated accounts of 

national party committees. To assist in 

its consideration, the Commission 

invites comments on the issues raised in 

the petitions and this document. The 

Commission particularly requests 

comments from national party 

committees with experience 

administering party segregated 

accounts. The Commission has made no 

final decisions regarding the issues 

discussed in this document and may 

ultimately decide not to initiate a 

rulemaking in response to either 

petition. Further information is 

provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION that follows. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 15, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should be 

addressed to Ms. Amy L. Rothstein, 

Assistant General Counsel, and must be 

submitted in either written or electronic 

form. Commenters are encouraged to 

submit comments electronically via the 

Commission’s website at http://

sers.fec.gov/fosers, reference REG 2014– 

10 and REG 2019–04. Alternatively, 

comments may be submitted in paper 

form addressed to the Federal Election 

Commission, Attn.: Ms. Amy L. 

Rothstein, Assistant General Counsel, 

1050 First Street NE, Washington, DC. 

Each commenter must provide, at a 

minimum, the commenter’s first name, 

last name, city, and state. All properly 

submitted comments, including 

attachments, will become part of the 

public record, and the Commission will 

make comments available for public 

viewing on the Commission’s website 

and in the Commission’s Public Records 

Office. Accordingly, commenters should 

not provide in their comments any 

information that they do not wish to 

make public, such as a home street 

address, personal email address, date of 

birth, phone number, social security 

number, or driver’s license number, or 

any information that is restricted from 

disclosure, such as trade secrets or 

commercial or financial information 

that is privileged or confidential. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy L. Rothstein, Assistant General 

Counsel; Tony Buckley, Attorney; or 

Scarlett Rufener, Attorney; 1050 First 

Street NE, Washington, DC, (202) 694– 

1650 or (800) 424–9530. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act of 2015 (the 

‘‘Appropriations Act’’) 1 amended the 

Federal Election Campaign Act, 52 

U.S.C. 30101–45 (‘‘FECA’’), by 

authorizing separate limits on 

contributions to three types of 

segregated accounts established by 

national party committees (collectively, 

‘‘party segregated accounts’’). Under the 

Appropriations Act, national party 

committees may receive up to three 

times the usual amount of contributions 

into segregated accounts to defray 

expenses incurred with respect to (1) 

presidential nominating conventions; 2

(2) party headquarters buildings; 3 and 

(3) election recounts or contests and 

other legal proceedings.4 These party 

segregated accounts are in addition to 

any other Federal accounts that the 

committees may lawfully maintain.5

REG 2014–10 (Party Contribution 

Limits) 

On January 8, 2016, the Commission 

received a Petition for Rulemaking from 

the Perkins Coie LLP Political Law 

Group (‘‘Perkins Coie Petition’’).6 The 

Perkins Coie Petition asked the 

Commission to adopt new regulations 

and to revise its existing regulations to 

implement the Appropriations Act’s 

amendments to FECA. The Perkins Coie 

Petition asked the Commission to adopt 

a ‘‘new regulatory framework’’ for each 

type of party segregated account and to 

amend current regulations or adopt new 

regulations for all such accounts. 

The Perkins Coie Petition also 

addressed convention committees. In 

2014, Congress had passed legislation to 

terminate the public funding of 

presidential nominating conventions.7

Previously, national party committees 

could receive public funds to defray the 

costs of their presidential nominating 

conventions,8 and Commission 

regulations had established convention 

committees ‘‘as a necessary requirement 

in order to enable the Commission to 

know who has initial responsibility for 

handling public funds and incurring 

expenditures.’’ 9 The Perkins Coie 

Petition asked the Commission, in part, 

to remove regulations that had been 

rendered obsolete by the termination of 

public funds. 

The Commission published a Notice 

of Availability for the Perkins Coie 

Petition on October 27, 2016.10 The 

Commission received four timely, 

substantive comments in response: two 

comments from national party 

committees opposed initiating a 

rulemaking with respect to party 


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11Comment by Republican National Committee; 

Comment by NRSC and NRCC. 

12Comment by Center for Competitive Politics; 

Comment by Campaign Legal Center and 

Democracy 21. 

13See Petition to Promulgate Rules on Reporting 

of ‘‘Cromnibus’’ Accounts (Aug. 5, 2019), (‘‘CLC/ 

CRP Petition’’), REG 2019–04 (Reporting Party 

Segregated Accounts), https://sers.fec.gov/fosers/ 

showpdf.htm?docid=408347. 

14 Id. at 6. 

15 52 U.S.C. 30104(a); 11 CFR 104.3(a) (reporting 

of receipts), (b) (reporting of disbursements). 

16See https://www.fec.gov/updates/fec-issuesinterim-reporting-guidance-for-national-partycommittee-accounts/. 

17CLC/CRP Petition at 2–3. 

18 Id. at 2. 

19Requiring Reporting of Party Segregated 

Accounts, 84 FR 45117 (Aug. 28, 2019). 

20Comment from David Himes. 

21Comment from Campaign Legal Center and 

Center for Responsive Politics; Comment from 

Democracy 21; Comment from Public Citizen. 

22Comment from Perkins Coie LLP Political Law 

Group. 

segregated accounts, while supporting 

the removal of regulations rendered 

obsolete by Congress’s termination of 

public funding for national party 

committees’ presidential nominating 

conventions; 11 and two comments from 

advocacy organizations supported 

initiating a rulemaking on party 

segregated accounts, without separately 

addressing the termination of public 

funds for presidential nominating 

conventions.12

REG 2019–04 (Reporting Party 

Segregated Accounts) 

On August 5, 2019, the Commission 

received a Petition for Rulemaking from 

Campaign Legal Center and Center for 

Responsive Politics (‘‘CLC/CRP 

Petition’’).13 The CLC/CRP Petition 

asked the Commission to ‘‘promulgate 

rules and forms requiring national party 

committees to delineate within their 

reports the individual and aggregate 

transactions involving’’ the accounts 

created by the Appropriations Act.14

FECA and Commission regulations 

require a political committee to report 

its receipts and disbursements.15 On 

February 13, 2015, the Commission 

issued interim guidance on how 

national party committees should report 

the activities of their party segregated 

accounts.16 The Commission noted that 

‘‘[a]lthough party committees normally 

disclose their contributions on Form 3X, 

Line 11(a), the Commission[’s] forms 

currently do not provide a clear way to 

distinguish between contributions 

deposited into the committees’ separate 

accounts.’’ The Commission instructed 

committees to report contributions to 

their party segregated accounts on Line 

17 of Form 3X titled ‘‘Other Federal 

Receipts.’’ When itemizing 

contributions in excess of $200 on 

Schedule A, the committees were 

instructed to enter ‘‘Convention 

Account,’’ ‘‘Headquarters Account,’’ or 

‘‘Recount Account,’’ as appropriate, in 

the description field. The Commission 

instructed committees to report 

administrative or operating expenses 

paid from the accounts on Line 21(b) of 

Form 3X titled ‘‘Other Federal 

Operating Expenditures’’ (for expenses 

paid from a convention or headquarters 

account) and Line 29 of Form 3X titled 

‘‘Other Disbursements’’ (for expenses 

paid from a recount account). When 

itemizing disbursements on Schedule B, 

the committees were instructed to enter 

‘‘Convention Account,’’ ‘‘Headquarters 

Account,’’ or ‘‘Recount Account,’’ as 

appropriate, in the Purpose of 

Disbursement field along with the 

required purpose of the disbursement. 

Notwithstanding this guidance, the 

CLC/CRP Petition asserted that ‘‘there is 

no consistent location or terminology 

that committees use to denote 

transactions involving’’ party segregated 

accounts.17 The CLC/CRP Petition 

claimed that ‘‘it is effectively impossible 

for the public to track the large 

quantities of funds flowing into and out 

of the [party segregated] accounts’’ 

under current Commission 

regulations.18

On August 28, 2019, the Commission 

published a Notice of Availability for 

the CLC/CRP Petition.19 The 

Commission received six timely, 

substantive comments in response. One 

comment opposed the petition; 20 three 

comments, including one from the 

petitioners, supported the petition; 21

and one comment, from the petitioner in 

REG 2014–10 (Party Contribution 

Limits), urged the Commission to 

engage in a comprehensive rulemaking 

and not to address the CLC/CRP Petition 

before acting on the Perkins Coie 

Petition.22 No national party committees 

commented on the CLC/CRP Petition. 

Request for Comments 

The Commission is continuing to 

consider whether to initiate a 

rulemaking on the issues raised in the 

Perkins Coie Petition and the CLC/CRP 

Petition (collectively, the ‘‘Petitions’’). 

Given the relatively small number of 

comments received and the party 

committees’ and the public’s additional 

experience in administering and 

interpreting the information about party 

segregated accounts, the Commission 

invites comments on the Petitions and 

any other issues pertaining to party 

segregated accounts. Have commenters’ 

or petitioners’ additional experiences 

with party segregated accounts resulted 

in further development of their 

positions? Have the national party 

committees or the public encountered 

any further challenges during election 

cycles that a rulemaking on party 

segregated accounts could help to 

resolve? 

If the Commission decides to initiate 

a rulemaking, are there any issues not 

reflected in the Petitions that the 

Commission should nonetheless 

address? Should the Commission 

consider prioritizing certain issues over 

others and, if so, which ones? The 

Commission welcomes comments on 

any other matter that could affect its 

consideration of whether to engage in a 

rulemaking. 

Dated: February 8, 2024. 

On behalf of the Commission, 

Sean J. Cooksey, 

Chairman, Federal Election Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2024–0227; Project 

Identifier MCAI–2023–00886–T] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Bombardier, 

Inc., Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: The FAA proposes to adopt a 

new airworthiness directive (AD) for 

certain Bombardier, Inc., Model BD– 

700–2A12 airplanes. This proposed AD 

was prompted by a report indicating 

that the fan in a transformer rectifier 

unit (TRU) can become inoperative in a 

manner that is not detectable by the fan 

monitoring circuit. This proposed AD 

would require replacement of the 

existing TRU Number 2 with a new part 

number that incorporates a correction to 

the fan and the monitoring circuit. This 

proposed AD would also prohibit the 

installation of affected parts. The FAA 

is proposing this AD to address the 

unsafe condition on these products. 

DATES: The FAA must receive comments 

on this proposed AD by April 1, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

using the procedures found in 14 CFR 

11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following 

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