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1This report encompasses laws enacted between 

January 3, 2021 at noon and January 3, 2022 at 

11:56 a.m. (Pub. L. 116–285 through Pub. L. 117– 

81). 

2References to years on the PAYGO scorecards 

are to fiscal years. 

3Provisions in appropriations acts that affect 

direct spending in the years after the budget year 

(also known as ‘‘outyears’’) or affect revenues in any 

year are considered to be budgetary effects for the 

purposes of the PAYGO scorecards except if the 

provisions produce outlay changes that net to zero 

over the current year, budget year, and the four 

subsequent years. As specified in section 3 of the 

PAYGO Act, off-budget effects are not counted as 

budgetary effects. Off-budget effects refer to effects 

on the Social Security trust funds (Old-Age and 

Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance) and 

the Postal Service. 

TABLE 2—STANDARDS OSHA IS PROPOSING TO ADD TO THE NRTL PROGRAM’S LIST OF APPROPRIATE TEST

STANDARDS

Test standard Test standard title 

UL 122701 ..... Requirements for Process 

Sealing Between Electrical 

Systems and Flammable 

or Combustible Process 

Fluids. 

UL 248–19 ..... Standard for Low-Voltage 

Fuses—Part 19: Photovoltaic Fuses. 

IV. Preliminary Findings on the 

Application 

UL submitted an acceptable 

application for expansion of the scope 

of recognition. OSHA’s review of the 

application files and related material 

preliminarily indicate that UL can meet 

the requirements prescribed by 29 CFR 

1910.7 for expanding recognition to 

include the addition of the test 

standards listed above for NRTL testing 

and certification. This preliminary 

finding does not constitute an interim or 

temporary approval of UL’s application. 

OSHA also preliminarily determined 

that the test standards listed above are 

appropriate test standards. OSHA seeks 

public comment on these preliminary 

determinations. 

V. Public Participation 

OSHA welcomes public comment as 

to whether UL meets the requirements 

of 29 CFR 1910.7 for expansion of 

recognition as a NRTL and whether the 

test standards listed above are 

appropriate test standards that should 

be included in the NRTL Program’s List 

of Appropriate Test Standards. 

Comments should consist of pertinent 

written documents and exhibits. 

Commenters needing more time to 

comment must submit a request in 

writing, stating the reasons for the 

request by the due date for comments. 

OSHA will limit any extension to no 

longer than 10 days unless the requester 

justifies a longer time period. OSHA 

may deny a request for an extension if 

it is not adequately justified. 

To review copies of the exhibits 

identified in this notice, as well as 

comments submitted to the docket, 

contact the Docket Office, Occupational 

Safety and Health Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, listed in 

ADDRESSES. These materials also are 

generally available online at https://

www.regulations.gov under Docket No. 

OSHA–2009–0025 (for further 

information, see the ‘‘Docket’’ heading 

in the section of this notice titled 

ADDRESSES), 

OSHA staff will review all comments 

to the docket submitted in a timely 

manner and after addressing the issues 

raised by these comments, make a 

recommendation to the Assistant 

Secretary for Occupational Safety and 

Health on whether to grant UL’s 

application for expansion of its scope of 

recognition and to add the test 

standards listed above to the NRTL 

Program’s List of Appropriate Test 

Standards. The Assistant Secretary will 

make the final decision on granting the 

application and on adding the test 

standards listed above to the NRTL 

Program’s List of Appropriate Test 

Standards. In making these decisions, 

the Assistant Secretary may undertake 

other proceedings prescribed in 

Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. 

OSHA will publish a public notice of 

its final decision in the Federal 

Register. 

VI. Authority and Signature 

Douglas L. Parker, Assistant Secretary 

of Labor for Occupational Safety and 

Health, authorized the preparation of 

this notice. Accordingly, the agency is 

issuing this notice pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 

657(g)(2), Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 

8–2020 (85 FR 58393, Sept. 18, 2020), 

and 29 CFR 1910.7. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on January 14, 

2022. 

Douglas L. Parker, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Notice; 2021 Statutory Pay-As-You-Go 

Act Annual Report 

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This report is being published 

as required by the Statutory Pay-AsYou-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010. The Act 

requires that OMB issue an annual 

report and a sequestration order, if 

necessary. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

O’Brien. 202–395–3106. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

report can be found at https://

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/paygo/. 

Authority: 2 U.S.C. 934. 

Kelly A. Kinneen, 

Assistant Director for Budget. 

This Report is being published 

pursuant to section 5 of the Statutory 

Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, 

Public Law 111–139, 124 Stat. 8, 2 

U.S.C. 934, which requires that OMB 

issue an annual PAYGO report, 

including a sequestration order if 

necessary, no later than 14 working days 

after the end of a congressional session. 

This Report describes the budgetary 

effects of all PAYGO legislation enacted 

during the first session of the 117th 

Congress and presents the 5-year and 

10-year PAYGO scorecards maintained 

by OMB.1 Because neither the 5-year 

nor 10-year scorecard shows a debit for 

the budget year, which for purposes of 

this Report is fiscal year 2022,2 a 

sequestration order under subsection 

5(b) of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C 934(b) 

is not required. 

The budget year balance on each of 

the PAYGO scorecards is zero because 

the Protecting Medicare and American 

Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act (Pub. 

L. 117–71) shifted the debits on both 

scorecards from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal 

year 2023. The change directed by 

Public Law 117–71 is discussed in more 

detail in section IV of this report. 

During the first session of the 117th 

Congress, two laws with PAYGO effects 

were enacted with emergency 

requirements under section 4(g) of the 

PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 933(g). Four laws 

had estimated budgetary effects on 

direct spending and/or revenues that 

were excluded from the calculations of 

the PAYGO scorecards due to 

provisions excluding all or part of the 

law from section 4(d) of the PAYGO 

Act, 2 U.S.C. 933(d). 

I. PAYGO Legislation With Budgetary 

Effects 

PAYGO legislation is authorizing 

legislation that affects direct spending 

or revenues, and appropriations 

legislation that affects direct spending 

in the years after the budget year or 

affects revenues in any year.3 For a more 

complete description of the Statutory 

PAYGO Act, see Chapter 6, ‘‘Budget 

Concepts,’’ of the Analytical 


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4Section 2201 of Public Law 117–70 excluded the 

budgetary effects of Division C from the PAYGO 

scorecards. There were no PAYGO budgetary effects 

for Divisions A and B of Public Law 117–70, so the 

scorecards do not include an entry for Public Law 

117–70. 

Perspectives volume of the 2022 

President’s Budget, found on the 

website of the U.S. Government Printing 

Office (https://www.govinfo.gov/app/ 

collection/budget/2022/BUDGET-2022- 

PER). 

The PAYGO Act’s requirement of 

deficit neutrality is based on two 

scorecards that tally the cumulative 

budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation 

as averaged over rolling 5- and 10- year 

periods starting with the budget year. 

The 5-year and 10-year PAYGO 

scorecards for each congressional 

session begin with the balances of costs 

or savings carried over from previous 

sessions and then tally the costs or 

savings of PAYGO laws enacted in the 

most recent session. 

The 5-year and 10-year PAYGO 

scorecards for the first session of the 

117th Congress began with balances of 

zero in each year because Section 

1401(d) of Public Law 116–260 set each 

year of the scorecards to zero at the end 

of the second session of the 116th 

Congress. Laws enacted during the first 

session of the 117th Congress created 

balances on the 5- and 10-year 

scorecards of $370,633 million and 

$187,020 million in each year, 

respectively. Public Law 117–71 shifted 

the fiscal year 2022 debits on both 

scorecards to fiscal year 2023. 

Therefore, the 2022 balance on both the 

5- and 10-year scorecards is zero and the 

2023 balances on the 5- and 10-year 

scorecards are $741,265 million and 

$374,039 million, respectively. The 

debit for the remaining years on the 5- 

year scorecard, 2024–2026, is $370,633 

million per year and the debit for the 

remaining years on the 10-year 

scorecard, 2024–2031, is $187,020 

million per year. 

In the first session of the 117th 

Congress, 35 laws were enacted that 

were determined to constitute PAYGO 

legislation. Of the 35 enacted PAYGO 

laws, 12 laws were estimated to have 

PAYGO budgetary effects (costs or 

savings) in excess of $500,000 over one 

or both of the 5-year or 10-year PAYGO 

windows. These were: 

• Public Law 116–286, 1921 Silver 

Dollar Coin Anniversary Act; 

• Public Law 116–313, To deem an 

urban Indian organization and 

employees thereof to be a part of the 

Public Health Service for the purposes 

of certain claims for personal injury, 

and for other purposes.; 

• Public Law 116–315, Johnny 

Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans 

Health Care and Benefits Improvement 

Act of 2020; 

• Public Law 116–325, Bankruptcy 

Administration Improvement Act of 

2020; 

• Public Law 117–2, American 

Rescue Plan Act of 2021; 

• Public Law 117–7, To prevent 

across-the-board direct spending cuts, 

and for other purposes.; 

• Public Law 117–27, VOCA Fix to 

Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 

2021; 

• Public Law 117–43, Extending 

Government Funding and Delivering 

Emergency Assistance Act; 

• Public Law 117–58, Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act; 

• Public Law 117–61, Protecting 

America’s First Responders Act of 2021; 

• Public Law 117–71, Protecting 

Medicare and American Farmers from 

Sequester Cuts Act; and 

• Public Law 117–76, Responsible 

Education Mitigating Options and 

Technical Extensions Act. 

In addition to the laws identified 

above, 23 laws enacted in this session 

were estimated to have negligible 

budgetary effects on the PAYGO 

scorecards—costs or savings of less than 

$500,000 over both the 5-year and 10- 

year PAYGO windows—including the 

two laws enacted with emergency 

designations discussed below. 

II. Budgetary Effects Excluded From the 

Scorecard Balances 

A. Legislation Designated as Emergency 

Requirements 

As shown on the scorecards, two laws 

were enacted in the first session of the 

117th Congress with an emergency 

designation under the Statutory PAYGO 

Act, and that had PAYGO effects: 

• Public Law 117–31, Emergency 

Security Supplemental Appropriations 

Act, 2021; and 

• Public Law 117–39, Emergency 

Repatriation Assistance for Returning 

Americans Act. 

The effects of the provisions in these 

laws that are designated as emergency 

requirements appear on the scorecard, 

but are subtracted before computing the 

scorecard totals. 

B. Statutory Provisions Excluding 

Legislation From the Scorecards 

Four laws enacted in the first session 

of the 117th Congress had estimated 

budgetary effects on direct spending and 

revenues that were excluded from the 

calculations for the PAYGO scorecards 

due to provisions in law excluding all 

or part of the law from section 4(d) of 

the PAYGO Act. 

One law was excluded entirely from 

the scorecards: 

• Public Law 117–6, PPP Extension 

Act of 2021. 

In addition, budgetary effects in three 

laws were excluded by provisions 

excluding certain portions of those laws 

from the scorecards: 

• Public Law 117–43, Extending 

Government Funding and Delivering 

Emergency Assistance Act; 

• Public Law 117–58, Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act; and 

• Public Law 117–70, Further 

Extending Government Funding Act.4

III. PAYGO Scorecards 

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STATUTORY PAY-AS-YOU-GO SCORECARDS 

(In millions of dollars; negative amounts portray decreases in deficits) 

2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 

First Session of the 117"1 Congress 370,633 370,633 370,633 370,633 370,633 

Balances from Previous Sessions 0 0 0 0 0 

Change in balances pursuant to Sec. 7 of P .L. 117-71 -370,633 370,633 0 0 0 

5-year PAY GO Scorecard 0 741,265 370,633 370,633 370,633 

2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 202

First Session of the 117"1 Congress 187,020 187,020 187,020 187,020 187,020 187,020 187,02

Balances from Previous Sessions 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Change in balances pursuant to Sec. 7 of P.L. 117-71 -187,020 187,020 0 0 0 0 

10-yearPAYGO Scorecard 0 374,039 187,020 187,020 187,020 187,020 187,02
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5Sequestration reductions pursuant to the 

Balanced Budget and Deficit Control Act (BBEDCA) 

Section 251A for 2022 were calculated and ordered 

in a separate report and are not affected by this 

determination. See: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BBEDCA_251A_

Sequestration_Report_FY2022.pdf 

IV. Legislative Revisions to the PAYGO 

Scorecards 

Section 7 of Public Law 117–71, the 

Protecting Medicare and American 

Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act, states, 

‘‘For the purposes of the annual report 

issued pursuant to section 5 of the 

Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 

U.S.C. 934) after adjournment of the first 

session of the 117th Congress, and for 

determining whether a sequestration 

order is necessary under such section, 

the debit for the budget year on the 5- 

year scorecard, if any, and the 10-year 

scorecard, if any, shall be deducted from 

such scorecard in 2022 and added to 

such scorecard in 2023.’’ Accordingly, 

both the 5- and 10-year scorecards 

deduct the debit from 2022 and add that 

debit to 2023. 

V. Sequestration Order 

As shown on the scorecards, the 

budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation 

enacted in the first session of the 117th 

Congress, combined with section 7 of 

Public Law 117–71, resulted in no costs 

on either the 5-year or the 10-year 

scorecard in the budget year, which is 

2022 for the purposes of this Report. 

Because the costs for the budget year, as 

shown on the scorecards, were set to 

zero for the budget year, there is no 

‘‘debit’’ on either scorecard under 

section 3 of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 

932, and a sequestration order is not 

required.5

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BILLING CODE 3110–01–C 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2021–0087] 

Preparing Probabilistic Fracture 

Mechanics Submittals 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing a new 

Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.245 (Revision 

0), ‘‘Preparing Probabilistic Fracture 

Mechanics Submittals’’ and 

accompanying NUREG/CR–7278, 

‘‘Technical Basis for the use of 

Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics in 

Regulatory Applications.’’ This RG 

describes a framework to develop the 

contents of a licensing submittal that the 

staff of the NRC considers acceptable 

when performing probabilistic fracture 

mechanics (PFM) analyses in support of 

regulatory applications. The NUREG 

provides the technical basis for RG 

1.245. 

DATES: Revision 0 to RG 1.245 is 

available on January 26, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2021–0087 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0087. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS 

accession number for each document 

referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that it is 

mentioned in this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), Room P1 B35, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To 

make an appointment to visit the PDR, 

please send an email to PDR.Resource@

nrc.gov or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301– 

415–4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 

p.m. (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Revision 0 to RG 1.245, the associated 

regulatory analysis, and NUREG/CR– 

7278 may be found in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML21334A158, 

ML21034A261, and ML22014A406, 

respectively. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patrick Raynaud, telephone: 301–145– 

1987, email: Patrick.Raynaud@nrc.gov 

and Kyle Song, telephone: 301–415– 

3612, email: Kyle.Song@nrc.gov. Both 

are staff in the Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research at the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing a new guide in the 

NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This 

series was developed to describe and 

make available to the public information 

regarding methods that are acceptable to 

the NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the NRC staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the NRC staff 

needs in its review of applications for 

permits and licenses. 

RG 1.245 was issued with a temporary 

identification of Draft Regulatory Guide, 

DG–1382, ADAMS Accession No. 

ML21034A328. 

II. Additional Information 

The NRC published a notice of the 

availability of DG–1382 in the Federal 

Register on September 23, 2021 (86 FR 

52927) for a 30-day public comment 

period. The public comment period 

closed on October 25, 2021. Public 

comments and the staff responses to the 

public comments on DG–1382 are 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML21306A292. 

III. Congressional Review Act 

This RG is a rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 

801–808). However, the Office of 

Management and Budget has not found 

it to be a major rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act. 

IV. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

RG 1.245 and NUREG/CR–7278 do 

not constitute backfitting as defined in 

section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC 

Management Directive (MD) 8.4, 

‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward 

Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information 

Requests;’’ do not constitute forward 

fitting as that term is defined and 

described in MD 8.4; and do not affect 

the issue finality of any approval issued 

under 10 CFR part 52. As explained in 

RG 1.245, applicants and licensees are 

not be required to comply with the 

positions set forth in the RG. 

Dated: January 20, 2022. 


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