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safety equipment’’ and adding ‘‘Fire 

fighting, rescue, and safety equipment; 

and environmental protection 

equipment and materials’’ in its place; 

■ g. In newly redesignated entry PSG 44, 

adding a comma after ‘‘plant’’; 

■ h. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

45, removing ‘‘sanitation’’ and adding 

‘‘waste disposal’’ in its place; 

■ i. In newly redesignated entry PSG 47, 

removing ‘‘Piping, tubing, hose, and 

fitting’’ and adding ‘‘Pipe, tubing, hose, 

and fittings’’ in its place; 

■ j. In newly redesignated entry PSG 49, 

removing ‘‘(except 4920–4927, 4931– 

4935, 4960)’’ and adding ‘‘(except 4920– 

4927, 4931–4935, 4960, 4970)’’ in its 

place; 

■ k. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

63, removing ‘‘Alarm and signal 

systems’’ and adding ‘‘Alarm, signal, 

and security detection systems’’ in its 

place; 

■ l. In newly redesignated entry PSG 70, 

removing ‘‘General purpose ADPE, 

software, supplies, and support 

equipment’’ and adding ‘‘Automatic 

data processing equipment (including 

firmware), software, supplies and 

support equipment’’ in its place; 

■ m. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

74, removing ‘‘Office machines, visible 

record equipment and ADP equipment’’ 

and adding ‘‘Office machines, text 

processing systems and visible record 

equipment’’ in its place; 

■ n. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

77, removing ‘‘home type radios’’ and 

adding ‘‘home-type radios’’ in its place; 

■ o. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

81, adding a comma after ‘‘packaging’’; 

■ p. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

83, removing ‘‘flag staffs’’ and adding 

‘‘flagstaffs’’ in its place; and 

■ q. In newly redesignated entry PSG 

91, removing ‘‘Fuels, oils, and waxes’’ 

and adding ‘‘Fuels, lubricants, oils, and 

waxes’’ in its place. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

48 CFR Part 252 

RIN 0750–AI25 

Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement: Electronic 

Submission of Technical Reports 

(DFARS Case 2014–D001) 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: DoD is issuing a final rule 

amending the Defense Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Supplement 

(DFARS) to require that scientific and 

technical reports be submitted in 

electronic format. 

DATES: Effective January 29, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Veronica Fallon, telephone 571–372– 

6098. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

DoD published a proposed rule in the 

Federal Register at 79 FR 51293 on 

August 28, 2014, to require submission 

of scientific and technical reports online 

in electronic media to the Defense 

Technical Information Center. 

II. Discussion and Analysis 

There were no public comments 

submitted in response to the proposed 

rule. No changes were made to the 

proposed rule. 

III. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

Executive Orders (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. This is not a significant 

regulatory action and, therefore, was not 

subject to review under section 6(b) of 

E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and 

Review, dated September 30, 1993. This 

rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C. 

804. 

IV. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

A final regulatory flexibility analysis 

has been prepared consistent with the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601, 

et seq., and is summarized as follows: 

This rule amends the Defense Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Supplement 

(DFARS) to require electronic 

submission of scientific and technical 

reports (vice paper). Electronic 

submission of the report is required by 

DoD Instruction 3200.12, DoD Scientific 

and Technical Information Program. 

The rule revises DFARS clause 252.235– 

7011, Final Scientific or Technical 

Report, by requiring the contractor to 

submit an electronic copy of the 

approved final scientific or technical 

report. This change will lend efficiency 

to the submission process by no longer 

requiring the electronically initiated 

report to be printed for submission. It 

will also allow the report to be 

submitted in the same format as it was 

created, thereby streamlining and 

modernizing the report submission 

process. 

No public comments were submitted 

in response to the initial regulatory 

flexibility analysis. 

According to the Federal Procurement 

Data System, in fiscal year 2013 DoD 

made approximately 469,593 contract 

awards to small businesses, of which 

approximately 4,143 (less than one 

percent), were awarded as research, 

development, test and evaluation 

contracts. DoD does not expect this rule 

to have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small entities 

because it is not revising any report 

submission requirements, it is only 

modernizing the submission process. 

This rule does not impose any new 

reporting requirements. This rule does 

not impose any new requirements on 

small entities, and since the rule only 

changes the mode of submission of the 

reports from paper to electronic means, 

this change is expected to have only a 

negligible impact on small entities. 

V. Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act (44 

U.S.C chapter 35) does apply; however, 

these changes to the DFARS do not 

impose additional information 

collection requirements to the 

paperwork burden previously approved 

under OMB Control Number 0704–0188, 

entitled ASSIST Database, which 

expires on August 31, 2016. 

List of Subjects in 48 CFR Part 252 

Government procurement. 

Manuel Quinones, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

Therefore, 48 CFR part 252 is 

amended as follows: 

PART 252—SOLICITATION 

PROVISIONS AND CONTRACT 

CLAUSES 

■ 1. The authority citation for 48 CFR 

part 252 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1303 and 48 CFR 

chapter 1. 

■ 2. Section 252.235–7011 is revised to 

read as follows: 

252.235–7011 Final scientific or technical 

report. 

As prescribed in 235.072(d), use the 

following clause: FINAL SCIENTIFIC 

OR TECHNICAL REPORT (JAN 2015) 

The Contractor shall— 


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(a) Submit an electronic copy of the 

approved final scientific or technical report, 

not a summary, delivered under this contract 

to the Defense Technical Information Center 

(DTIC) through the web-based input system 

at http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/submit/ as 

required by DoD Instruction 3200.12, DoD 

Scientific and Technical Information 

Program (STIP). Include a completed 

Standard Form (SF) 298, Report 

Documentation Page, in the document, or 

complete the web-based SF 298. 

(b) For instructions on submitting multimedia reports, follow the instructions at 

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/submit. 

(c) Email classified reports (up to Secret) to 

TR@DTIC.SMIL.MIL. If a SIPRNET email 

capability is not available, follow the 

classified submission instructions at http://

www.dtic.mil/dtic/submit/. 

(End of clause) 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–R2–ES–2013–0056; 

FXES11130900000–156–FF09E42000] 

RIN 1018–AY46 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Revision to the 

Regulations for the Nonessential 

Experimental Population of the 

Mexican Wolf; Correction 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, published a final rule 

in the Federal Register on January 16, 

2015, that revises the regulations for the 

nonessential experimental population of 

the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi). 

In that rule, we made an error in our 

description of Phase 2 by stating that 

dispersal and occupancy of Mexican 

wolves west of Interstate 17 will be 

limited to the area west of Highway 89 

in Arizona. We intended to state that 

dispersal and occupancy of Mexican 

wolves west of Interstate 17 will be 

limited to the area east of Highway 89. 

With this document, we correct our 

error. 

DATES: This correction is effective 

February 17, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sherry Barrett, (505) 761–4704. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a final 

rule that published in the Federal 

Register on January 16, 2015, at 80 FR 

2512, the following correction is made: 

§ 17.84 [Corrected] 

■ 1. On page 2564, in the third column, 

the fourth sentence of 

§ 17.84(k)(9)(iv)(B) is amended by 

removing the words ‘‘west of Highway 

89’’ and adding in their place the words 

‘‘east of Highway 89.’’ 

Dated: January 26, 2015. 

Signed: 

Tina A. Campbell, 

Chief, Division of Policy and Directives 

Management. 

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