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and gender classifications as those used 

on the Form EEO–1), without including 

personally identifiable information. 

Sections 1207.23(b)(9) and 1207.22(c) 

require that each Bank and the Office of 

Finance submit the baseline board 

demographic information collected to 

FHFA no later than September 30, 2015, 

and thereafter the information be 

included as part of the annual reports 

they are already required to submit 

under existing part 1207. 

Use: FHFA will use the information 

collected under § 1207.23(b)(9)(i) to 

assess the effectiveness of the policies 

and procedures that each of the Banks 

and the Office of Finance is required to 

implement to promote diversity in all of 

its business and activities ‘‘at all levels’’ 

and, specifically, to encourage diversity 

in the nomination and solicitation of 

nominees for members of its boards of 

directors. FHFA will also use the 

information to establish a baseline to 

analyze future trends relating to the 

diversity of the boards of directors of the 

Banks and the Office of Finance. 

Respondents: Respondents will be the 

approximately 210 individuals serving 

on the boards of directors of the Banks 

and the Office of Finance in any given 

year. 

Frequency: The information will be 

collected annually. 

Annual Burden Estimate: FHFA 

estimates the total annualized hour 

burden for all respondents to the 

proposed information collection to be 

21 hours. FHFA estimates that an 

average of 210 board directors will 

provide information annually and that 

each response will take approximately 

0.1 hours on average (210 respondents 

× 0.1 hours per response = 21 hours). 

There will be no annualized cost to the 

Federal government. 

V. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

(5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) requires that a 

regulation that has a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities, small 

businesses, or small organizations 

include an initial regulatory flexibility 

analysis describing the regulation’s 

impact on small entities. Such an 

analysis need not be undertaken if the 

agency has certified that the regulation 

will not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. 5 U.S.C. 605(b). FHFA has 

considered the impact of the final rule 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act. 

The General Counsel of FHFA 

certifies that the final rule is not likely 

to have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small entities 

because the regulation is applicable 

only to the Banks and the Office of 

Finance, which are not small entities for 

purposes of the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act. 

List of Subjects in 12 CFR Part 1207 

Discrimination, Diversity, Equal 

employment opportunity, Minority 

businesses, Office of Finance, Outreach, 

Regulated entities. 

Authority and Issuance 

For the reasons stated in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, and under 

the authority of 12 U.S.C. 4526, FHFA 

amends part 1207 of title 12 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations as follows: 

PART 1207—MINORITY AND WOMEN 

INCLUSION 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 1207 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 4520 and 4526; 12 

U.S.C. 1833e; E.O. 11478. 

Subpart C—Minority and Women 

Inclusion and Diversity at Regulated 

Entities and the Office of Finance 

■ 2. Amend § 1207.22 by adding a new 

sentence at the end of paragraph (c) to 

read as follows: 

§ 1207.22 Regulated entity and Office of 

Finance reports. 

* * * * * 

(c) * * * The data required to be 

reported by § 1207.23(b)(9) shall be 

submitted no later than September 30, 

2015, and thereafter included in each 

annual report. 

* * * * * 

■ 3. Amend § 1207.23 as follows: 

■ a. Redesignate paragraphs (b)(9) 

through (19) as paragraphs (b)(10) 

through (20); and 

■ b. Add new paragraph (b)(9) and 

revise newly redesignated paragraph 

(b)(10) to read as follows: 

§ 1207.23 Annual reports—format and 

contents. 

* * * * * 

(b) * * * 

(9)(i) Data showing for the reporting 

year by minority and gender 

classification, the number of individuals 

on the board of directors of each Bank 

and the Office of Finance— 

(A) Using data collected by each Bank 

and the Office of Finance through an 

information collection requesting each 

director’s voluntary self-identification of 

his or her minority and gender 

classification without personally 

identifiable information; 

(B) Using the same classifications as 

those on the Form EEO–1; and 

(ii) A description of the outreach 

activities and strategies executed during 

the preceding year to promote diversity 

in nominating or soliciting nominees for 

positions on boards of directors of the 

Banks (consistent with 12 CFR 1261.9) 

and the Office of Finance; 

(10) A comparison of the data 

reported by Fannie Mae and Freddie 

Mac under paragraphs (b)(1) through (8) 

of this section, and by the Banks and the 

Office of Finance under paragraphs 

(b)(1) through (9) of this section, to such 

data as reported in the previous year 

together with a narrative analysis; 

* * * * * 

Dated: April 28, 2015. 

Melvin L. Watt, 

Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2015–10374 Filed 5–1–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8070–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Parts 121 and 135 

[Docket No. FAA–2011–1136; Amdt. Nos. 

121–371A and 135–132A] 

RIN 2120–AJ33 

Air Carrier Contract Maintenance 

Requirements; Correction 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting a final 

rule published on March 4, 2015 (80 FR 

11537). In that rule, the FAA amended 

its maintenance regulations for 

domestic, flag, and supplemental 

operations, and for commuter and ondemand operations for aircraft type 

certificated with a passenger seating 

configuration of 10 seats or more 

(excluding any pilot seat). The FAA 

originally proposed to make the 

effective date of the rule one year after 

its publication date to give affected 

operators time to come into compliance 

with the new requirements, and to allow 

the FAA time to review information 

submitted by the operators under the 

rule. However, in the final rule, the FAA 

inadvertently overlooked the proposed 

one-year compliance time, and included 

an effective date of 60 days after 

publication. This document corrects the 

effective date of that document. 

DATES: This correction is effective on 

May 4, 2015. The effective date of the 

final rule published March 4, 2015 (80 

FR 11537), is corrected to March 4, 

2016. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For technical questions concerning this 

action, contact Wende T. DiMuro, 

AFS–330, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone (202) 267–1685; email 

wende.t.dimuro@faa.gov. 

For legal questions concerning this 

action, contact Edmund Averman, 

AGC–200, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone (202) 267–3147, email 

ed.averman@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 4, 2015, the FAA published 

a final rule entitled, ‘‘Air Carrier 

Contract Maintenance Requirements’’ 

(80 FR 11537). 

In that final rule, the FAA revised its 

maintenance regulations for domestic, 

flag, and supplemental operations, and 

for commuter and on-demand 

operations for aircraft type certificated 

with a passenger seating configuration 

of 10 seats or more (excluding any pilot 

seat). The new rules require affected air 

carriers and operators to develop 

policies, procedures, methods, and 

instructions for performing contract 

maintenance that are acceptable to the 

FAA, and to include them in their 

maintenance manuals. The rules also 

require the air carriers and operators to 

provide a list to the FAA of all persons 

with whom they contract their 

maintenance, which also must include 

the physical address where the work 

will be carried out and a description of 

the type of work that is to be carried out 

at each location. 

In the notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM) (77 FR 67584; Nov. 13, 2012), 

the FAA proposed to make the effective 

date one year after the publication of the 

final rule. The stated reason for this was 

that the agency recognized that the 

affected operators would need time to 

fully develop the policies, procedures, 

methods, and instructions for contract 

maintenance and to provide them in an 

acceptable format to the FAA. We also 

noted that operators would need time to 

prepare the list with the required 

information of their contract 

maintenance providers and to provide 

them in an acceptable format to their 

Certificate Holding District Offices (77 

FR 67587). The FAA also noted that it 

would need time to review the 

information submitted by the operators. 

In publishing the final rule, the FAA 

inadvertently overlooked this proposed 

one-year compliance time, and included 

an effective date of 60 days after 

publication. This document corrects 

that oversight so that the effective date 

is one year after the publication of the 

final rule, or March 4, 2016. 

Correction 

In FR Doc. 2015–04179, beginning on 

page 11537 in the Federal Register of 

March 4, 2015, make the following 

corrections: 

Correction 

1. On page 11537, in the second 

column, in the paragraph entitled 

‘‘DATES:’’, correct ‘‘May 4, 2015’’ to read 

‘‘March 4, 2016.’’ 

Issued under authority provided by 49 

U.S.C. 106(f) in Washington, DC, on April 29, 

2015. 

John Barbagallo, 

Acting Director, Flight Standards Office. 

[FR Doc. 2015–10423 Filed 5–1–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

16 CFR Part 1120 

[CPSC Docket No. CPSC–2014–0024] 

Substantial Product Hazard List: 

Seasonal and Decorative Lighting 

Products 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (‘‘CPSC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) 

is issuing a final rule to specify that 

seasonal and decorative lighting 

products that do not contain any one of 

three readily observable characteristics 

(minimum wire size, sufficient strain 

relief, or overcurrent protection), as 

addressed in a voluntary standard, are 

deemed a substantial product hazard 

under the Consumer Product Safety Act 

(‘‘CPSA’’). Additionally, the 

Commission is making a technical 

amendment to reformat incorporations 

by reference in this part. 

DATES: Effective date: The rule takes 

effect on June 3, 2015. The 

incorporation by reference of the 

publication listed in this rule is 

approved by the Director of the Federal 

Register as of June 3, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Kroh, Office of Compliance and 

Field Operations, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; 

telephone: 301–987–7886; mkroh@

cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background and Statutory Authority 

A. Statutory Authority 

Section 223 of the Consumer Product 

Safety Improvement Act of 2008 

(‘‘CPSIA’’), amended section 15 of the 

CPSA, 15 U.S.C. 2064, to add a new 

subsection (j). Section 15(j) of the CPSA 

provides the Commission with the 

authority to specify, by rule, for any 

consumer product or class of consumer 

products, characteristics whose 

existence or absence are deemed a 

substantial product hazard under 

section 15(a)(2) of the CPSA. Section 

15(a)(2) of the CPSA defines a 

‘‘substantial product hazard,’’ in 

relevant part, as a product defect which 

(because of the pattern of defect, the 

number of defective products 

distributed in commerce, the severity of 

the risk, or otherwise) creates a 

substantial risk of injury to the public. 

A rule under section 15(j) of the CPSA 

(a ‘‘15(j) rule’’) is not a consumer 

product safety rule that imposes 

performance or labeling requirements 

for newly manufactured products. 

Rather, a 15(j) rule is a Commission 

determination of a product defect based 

upon noncompliance with specific 

product characteristics that are 

addressed in an effective voluntary 

standard. For the Commission to issue 

a 15(j) rule, the product characteristics 

involved must be ‘‘readily observable’’ 

and have been addressed by a voluntary 

standard. Moreover, the voluntary 

standard must be effective in reducing 

the risk of injury associated with the 

consumer products, and there must be 

substantial compliance with the 

voluntary standard. 

B. Background 

On October 16, 2014, the Commission 

issued a notice of proposed rulemaking 

(‘‘NPR’’) in the Federal Register to 

amend the substantial product hazard 

list in 16 CFR part 1120 (‘‘part 1120’’) 

to add seasonal and decorative lighting 

products that lack certain readily 

observable safety characteristics 

addressed by a voluntary standard 

because such products pose a risk of 

electrical shock or fire. 79 FR 62081. 

The comment period on the proposed 

rule closed on December 30, 2014. As 

detailed in section II of this preamble, 

the Commission received 62 comments 

on the proposed rule. 

The Commission is now issuing a 

final rule to amend part 1120 by adding 

three readily observable characteristics 

of seasonal and decorative lighting 

products: (1) Minimum wire size; (2) 

sufficient strain relief; and (3) 

overcurrent protection. After reviewing 

the comments, the Commission made 


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