2384 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 10 / Friday, January 14, 2022 / Proposed Rules 

1Petition of the United States Postal Service for 

the Initiation of a Proceeding to Consider Proposed 

Changes in Analytical Principles (Proposal One), 

January 5, 2022 (Petition). The Petition was 

accompanied by a study supporting its proposal. 

See Michael D. Bradley (Bradley), On the 

Estimation of a Top-Down Model for City Carrier 

Street Time *, January 5, 2022. The Postal Service 

also filed a notice of filing of public and non-public 

materials relating to Proposal One. Notice of Filing 

of USPS–RM2022–3–1 and USPS–RM2022–3–NP1 

and Application for Nonpublic Treatment, January 

5, 2022. 

2See Docket No. RM2015–7, Order Approving 

Analytical Principles Used in Periodic Reporting 

(Proposal Thirteen), October 29, 2015, at 66 (Order 

No. 2792). 

3See Docket No. PI2017–1, Interim Order, 

November 2, 2018, at 16 (Order No. 4869). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Hoenig, 202–632–7003. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of December 2, 

2021, in proposed rule FR Doc. 2021– 

25838, on page 68445, in the first 

column, change the DATES caption to 

read: 

DATES: Written comments on this 

proposed rule must be received on or 

before January 31, 2022. 

Dated: January 6, 2022. 

Michael Hoenig, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00630 Filed 1–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7565–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Indian Gaming Commission 

25 CFR Part 559 

RIN 3141–AA73 

Submission of Gaming Ordinance or 

Resolution; Correction 

AGENCY: National Indian Gaming 

Commission, Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: This document corrects the 

preamble to a proposed rule published 

in the Federal Register of December 9, 

2021, regarding the Submission of 

Gaming Ordinances or Resolutions. The 

document contained incorrect dates for 

submitting comments. This correction 

clarifies that comments are due 

February 7, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Hoenig, 202–632–7003. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of December 1, 

2021, in proposed rule FR Doc. 2021– 

25843, on page 70067, in the third 

column, change the DATES caption to 

read: 

DATES: Written comments on this 

proposed rule must be received on or 

before February 7, 2022. 

Dated: January 6, 2022. 

Michael Hoenig, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00636 Filed 1–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7565–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

39 CFR Part 3050 

[Docket No. RM2022–3; Order No. 6090] 

Periodic Reporting 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is 

acknowledging a recent filing requesting 

the Commission initiate a rulemaking 

proceeding to consider changes to 

analytical principles relating to periodic 

reports (Proposal One). This document 

informs the public of the filing, invites 

public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: 

Comments are due: March 14, 2022. 

Reply comments are due: March 28, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Proposal One 

III. Notice and Comment 

IV. Ordering Paragraphs 

I. Introduction 

On January 5, 2022, the Postal Service 

filed a petition pursuant to 39 CFR 

3050.11 requesting that the Commission 

initiate a rulemaking proceeding to 

consider changes to analytical 

principles relating to periodic reports.1

The Petition identifies the proposed 

analytical changes filed in this docket as 

Proposal One. 

II. Proposal One 

Background. In Docket No. RM2015– 

7,2 the Postal Service proposed, and the 

Commission accepted, an approach to 

estimating variabilities for city carrier 

street time that relied upon three 

separate econometric equations, one for 

letters and flats, one for in-receptacle 

parcels, and one for deviation parcels 

and accounts. Petition, Proposal One at 

1. The Commission directed the Postal 

Service to undertake an effort to 

investigate what data would be needed 

to estimate a unified, or ‘‘top-down,’’ 

model. Id. Subsequent to Docket No. 

RM2015–7, the Commission opened a 

public inquiry case, Docket No. PI2017– 

1,3 to follow the Postal Service’s 

progress in updating its data capabilities 

and modeling efforts for city carrier 

street time and specified the type and 

structure of the data set that would be 

appropriate to estimate a top-down 

model. Id. at 2. In response to the 

Commission’s directives, the Postal 

Service compiled the appropriate data, 

investigated alternative methods of 

estimating a top-down model, and 

specified a model that includes an 

estimation of new variabilities for city 

carrier, letter route, and street time. Id. 

at 2–3. 

Proposal. Proposal One would update 

the methodology for calculating 

attributable city carrier, letter route, 

street time costs by employing an 

overall top-down model that replies 

upon expanded operational carrier data. 

Id. at 1, 3. The Postal Service proposes 

that the new top-down study would 

improve the previous analysis of letter 

route street time by making use of 

ongoing operation data systems; 

incorporating seasonality effects and 

controls for day-of-week effects; 

including new characteristic variables 

that help control for non-volume 

variations in hours across ZIP Codes; 

relying upon a new econometric 

technique, called a correlated random 

effects model, that controls for 

unobserved differences across ZIP 

Codes while explicitly recognizing those 

differences are correlated with volume; 

taking a holistic approach to analyzing 

city street time; and producing marginal 

delivery and collection times that 

comport with current carrier street time 

operational practice. Id. at 3–4. 

The overall levels of variabilities 

produced by the top-down model is 

lower than the current model because a 


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