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.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

995 

Vol. 83, No. 6 

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 

POSTAL SERVICE 

39 CFR Part 111 

Green & Secure Alternative Move 

Update Method Option 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service is 

proposing to amend Mailing Standards 

of the United States Postal Service, 

Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), to 

introduce a new alternative method to 

meet the Move Update standard for 

mailers who enter eligible letter- and 

flat-size pieces of First-Class Mail® and 

USPS Marketing Mail® (formerly 

Standard Mail®) that meet the 

requirements for Basic or Full-Service 

mailings. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

February 8, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written 

comments to the manager, Product 

Classification, U.S. Postal Service, 475 

L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4446, 

Washington, DC 20260–5015. If sending 

comments by email, include the name 

and address of the commenter and send 

to ProductClassification@usps.gov, with 

a subject line of ‘‘Green & Secure.’’ 

Faxed comments are not accepted. You 

may inspect and photocopy all written 

comments, by appointment only, at 

USPS® Headquarters Library, 475 

L’Enfant Plaza SW, 11th Floor North, 

Washington, DC, 20260. These records 

are available for review on Monday 

through Friday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., by 

calling 202–268–2906. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Dyer at (207) 482–7217, or 

Garry Rodriguez at (202) 268–7281. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Pursuant to Postal Service regulations, 

compliance with the Move Update 

standard is a basic eligibility 

requirement for mailers of USPS 

Marketing Mail and First-Class Mail 

letters and flats using commercial 

automation and presort rates. The Move 

Update standard requires mailers to 

update addresses for which a change of 

address (COA) order exists within a 

specified period of time. By requiring 

mailers to comply with the Move 

Update standard, the Postal Service 

aims to improve address quality and 

ensure mailpieces reach their intended 

recipients, which benefits both the 

Postal Service and its customers. The 

Move Update standard also is intended 

to reduce mail processing and delivery 

costs for the Postal Service. 

Today, mailers can meet the Move 

Update standard using the USPSapproved methods of Address Change 

Service (ACSTM), NCOALink®, or 

Ancillary Service Endorsements. In 

addition, mailers of First-Class Mail 

may apply to use one of two alternative 

methods, 99 Percent Accuracy or Legal 

Restraint, which are available under the 

following limited circumstances: 

D 99 Percent Accuracy Method: This 

method is available to mailers who enter 

First-Class Mail and demonstrate that 

their internal list management 

maintains address quality at 99 percent 

or greater accuracy for COAs. 

D Legal Restraint Method: This 

method is available to mailers who enter 

First-Class Mail pieces and demonstrate 

that a legal restriction prevents them 

from updating their customer’s address 

without direct contact from the 

customer. 

The overarching goal of the Move 

Update standard is to reduce the 

incidence of undeliverable-as-addressed 

(UAA) mail, which is costly for the 

Postal Service because UAA pieces must 

be forwarded, returned, or discarded, 

and costly for mailers because these 

pieces fail to reach their intended 

recipients. The Postal Service incurs the 

most costs returning pieces, while 

discarding UAA pieces imposes the 

lowest cost. The 2016 per-piece cost for 

each disposition type (FCM only) is 

shown below: 

Disposition 

type 

Per-piece 

cost—letters 

Per-piece 

cost—all 

shapes 

Return ....... $0.394 $0.427 

Forward ..... 0.193 0.198 

Discard ...... 0.110 0.111 

First-Class Mail UAA pieces represent 

most of the Postal Service’s costly 

return-to-sender volume; a First-Class 

Mail mailpiece must be returned-tosender if it is associated with a COA 

record that is more than 12 months old, 

or if it is otherwise identified as UAA 

as specified in DMM 507.1.5.1. In 2017, 

the Postal Service discarded only 3 

percent of First-Class Mail UAA pieces; 

in comparison, 98.5 percent of USPS 

Marketing Mail UAA pieces were 

discarded. The reason for this 

discrepancy is that UAA USPS 

Marketing Mail pieces are destroyed 

unless the mailers pays for forwarding 

or return after requesting those services 

using an ancillary service endorsement. 

Future Process 

While the focus of the Postal Service’s 

Move Update program has been to 

reduce the amount of UAA mail, the 

Postal Service recognizes that not all 

UAA mail can be eliminated. The Postal 

Service wants to reduce the cost to the 

Postal Service of the remaining UAA 

mail. The Postal Service therefore is 

proposing to introduce a new alternative 

method to meet the Move Update 

standard, Green & Secure, which would 

both reduce the volume of return-tosender mail and reduce mailers’ risk of 

assessment through the Address Quality 

Census Measurement and Assessment 

Process (AQCMAP), a new method of 

verifying that mailers have adopted a 

USPS-approved Move Update method 

which starts February 1, 2018. An 

exemption from AQCMAP fees would 

provide a needed incentive for more 

mailers to mark their mail for 

destruction rather than return to the 

mailer. 

Green & Secure would be a USPSapproved Move Update alternative 

option for First-Class Mail and USPS 

Marketing Mail letter and flat-size 

pieces that meet the requirements for 

Basic and Full Service mailings. Under 

Green & Secure, mailers would need to 

(1) use either an ACS Change Service 

Requested Service Type ID (STID) or a 

Secure Destruction STID, the latter of 

which is limited to First-Class Mail 

only, and (2) would need to seek preapproval from the Postal Service in 

certain circumstances. 

The ACS Change Service Requested 

STID would be available for use on 

First-Class Mail and USPS Marketing 

Mail pieces. Full-Service mailers would 

not need pre-approval to use Green & 

Secure if using an ACS Change Service 

Requested STID on eligible mailpieces. 


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Mailers that do not participate in FullService would need to apply for ACS 

notice fulfillment services with the 

Postal Service ACS Department at the 

National Customer Support Center in 

Memphis, Tennessee, (877–640–0724 

(Option 1) or acs@usps.gov) in order to 

participate in Green & Secure using the 

ACS Change Service Requested STID. 

First-Class Mail and USPS Marketing 

Mail pieces that have an ACS Change 

Service Requested STID in the 

Intelligent Mail barcode (IMb) and are 

identified as UAA would be discarded 

and recycled rather than returned-tosender. 

The Secure Destruction STID would 

continue to be available for use on FirstClass Mail pieces only. First-Class Mail 

mailers already participating in Secure 

Destruction service and utilizing an 

approved Secure Destruction STID 

would continue to have their UAA 

mailpieces destroyed and recycled in a 

secure manner. Secure Destruction 

participation requires mailers to register 

their Mailer ID with the Postal Service’s 

ACS Department prior to using the 

Secure Destruction STID in their IMbs. 

This pre-approval requirement applies 

to Full-Service mailers. Under Secure 

Destruction, mailpieces are shredded by 

Postal Service employees at Postal 

Service facilities, which renders the 

pieces unreadable prior to recycling. 

Secure Destruction shreds mailpieces to 

a size that is more stringent than the 

standards set forth by the National 

Association for Information Destruction 

and common industry practice in the 

United States for documents with 

sensitive and/or confidential 

information. 

For each Green & Secure STID type, 

the Postal Service would provide 

mailers with an electronic ACS 

notification indicating that the piece is 

UAA. Green & Secure would continue 

the process of providing First-Class Mail 

mailers that use the Secure Destruction 

STID with an additional electronic 

notification to indicate when and where 

the mailpiece was processed and 

securely shredded. 

Green & Secure would continue to 

provide mailers using either STID with 

two disposition options for their 

mailpieces: 

• Option 1: Postal Service discards or 

securely destroys all UAA mailpieces. 

• Option 2: Postal Service provides 

forwarding if the mailpiece corresponds 

with a valid COA record that is less than 

1-year old. All other UAA mail is 

discarded or securely destroyed, subject 

to the corresponding conditions 

described in DMM Section 507.1.0. 

While there is no additional charge 

for forwarding of First-Class Mail, USPS 

Marketing Mail that is forwarded under 

Option 2 will be charged the 

appropriate per piece forwarding fee for 

the mail shape. 

Address Quality Census Measurement 

and Assessment Process 

In August 2017, the Postal Service 

gained regulatory approval from the 

Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for 

the Address Quality Census 

Measurement and Assessment Process 

in PRC Docket No. R2017–7 (available 

on-line at prc.gov). The Postal Service 

followed-up the PRC’s approval with a 

final rule adopting conforming changes 

to the DMM that was published in the 

Federal Register on October 24, 2017 

(82 FR 49123–49128). The Postal 

Service plans to begin verifying and 

assessing mailers under this new 

verification method in March 2018 for 

COA errors incurred in February 2018. 

As proposed, mailpieces that use the 

Green & Secure alternative Move Update 

method would not be subject to 

verification and possible assessment 

under the Address Quality Census 

Measurement and Assessment Process. 

Move Update validations, however, 

would still be performed to provide 

visibility into mail quality, and the 

results of the validations would be 

reported in the Mailer Scorecard. 

Mailer Scorecard 

The Mailer Scorecard is currently 

available to mailers, providing data that 

allow mailers to gauge address quality 

on their mailpieces. Under Green & 

Secure, the Mailer Scorecard would 

continue to be a valuable tool in 

assisting mailers to improve their 

address quality. The total number of 

mailpieces using the Green & Secure 

alternative method would be reported 

under the eDoc Submitter CRID through 

a dedicated field on the Mailer 

Scorecard. In addition, if a mailpiece is 

associated with a COA that is between 

95 and 18 months old, and the address 

has not been updated, a COA warning 

for the associated IMb would be logged 

and allocated under the CRID of the 

eDoc submitter in the Mailer Scorecard. 

Criteria 

Mailers would be able to use the 

Green & Secure Alternative Move 

Update Method when they: 

D Use a unique Basic or Full Service 

IMb on mailings of letter- and flat-size 

pieces for First-Class Mail and USPS 

Marketing Mail; 

D Use eDoc to submit mailing 

information and include piece level 

detail (by piece or piece range); 

D Contact the Postal Service ACS 

Department, for non-Full-Service 

mailers who wish to use a Basic ACS 

Change Service Requested STID, and all 

mailers seeking to use the Secure 

Destruction STID. 

Specification 

The Postal Service is proposing the 

specifications for meeting the Move 

Update requirements through an 

alternative method. Once the Postal 

Service implements the proposed 

process, mailers may meet the Move 

Update standard using Green & Secure 

as follows: 

D Mailers would utilize an ACS 

Change Service Requested STID on 

First-Class Mail or USPS Marketing 

Mail, or a Secure Destruction STID on 

First-Class Mail. 

D Mailpieces bearing these STID types 

would be verified separately from the 

Address Quality Census Measurement 

and Assessment Process and would not 

be subject to Move Update assessment 

charges. 

D Mailpieces bearing these STIDs that 

are UAA would be discarded or securely 

destroyed by the Postal Service; 

electronic notification and information 

via the Mailer Scorecard would be 

provided. 

Mailpiece Results 

Once qualifying mailings are 

processed on mail processing 

equipment, the data from mailpieces 

would be reconciled with eDoc. These 

results would be available on the 

Business Customer Gateway, and 

displayed on the Electronic Verification 

tab of the Mailer Scorecard, which 

would be easily accessible at https://

gateway.usps.com/eAdmin/view/signin. 

Mailers would be able to review the 

Mailer Scorecard and corresponding 

detailed reports to identify any 

anomalies or issues. 

To resolve Mailer Scorecard 

irregularities, mailers would continue to 

be able to contact the PostalOne! Help 

Desk at 800–522–9085 or their local 

Business Mail Entry Unit (BMEU). 

List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Postal Service. 

Although exempt from the notice and 

comment requirements of the 

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 

553(b), (c)) regarding proposed 

rulemaking by 39 U.S.C. 410(a), the 

Postal Service invites public comments 

on the following proposed revisions to 

Mailing Standards of the United States 

Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual 

(DMM), incorporated by reference in the 

Code of Federal Regulations. See 39 CFR 

111.1. Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is 

proposed to be amended as follows: 


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PART 111—[AMENDED] 

■ 1. The authority citation for 39 CFR 

part 111 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301– 

307; 18 U.S.C. 1692–1737; 39 U.S.C. 101, 

401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001–3011, 3201– 

3219, 3403–3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 

3633, and 5001. 

■ 2. Revise the following sections of 

Mailing Standards of the United States 

Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual 

(DMM), as follows: 

Mailing Standards of the United 

States Postal Service, Domestic Mail 

Manual (DMM) 

* * * * * 

602 Addressing 

* * * * * 

5.0 Move Update Standards 

* * * * * 

[Revise the heading and text of 5.2 to 

read as follows:] 

5.2 Authorized Methods 

Mailer Move Update Process 

Certification and USPS-approved 

alternative methods are authorized for 

meeting the Move Update standard. The 

National Customer Support Center 

administers and approves both Mailer 

Move Update Process Certification and 

alternative methods. 

5.2.1 Mailer Move Update Process 

Certification 

Mailer Move Update Process 

Certification methods are as follows: 

a. Address Change Service (ACS). 

b. National Change of Address 

Linkage System (NCOALink). This 

includes both pre-mail NCOALink 

processing systems and the physical 

mailpiece processing equipment system: 

National Change of Address Linkage 

System Mail Processing Equipment 

(NCOALink MPE). See the NCOALink 

page (NCOALink MPE Solutions) on 

www.postalpro.usps.com for more 

information on the MPE application. 

c. Applicable ancillary service 

endorsements under 507.1.5.1 or 

507.1.5.3, except ‘‘Forwarding Service 

Requested.’’ 

5.2.2 Alternate Methods 

Alternate Move Update methods are 

as follows: 

a. Green & Secure: Mailpieces using 

the Green & Secure alternative method 

will be excluded from the Address 

Quality Census Measurement and 

Assessment Process under 5.3. Details 

are available in Publication 685, 

Publication for Streamlined Mail 

Acceptance for Letters and Flats, 

available at www.postalpro.usps.com. 

b. For First-Class Mail only: Mailer 

Move Update Process Certification and 

USPS-approved alternative methods for 

mailers with legitimate restrictions on 

incorporating USPS-supplied change-ofaddress information into their mailing 

lists. Refer to the Guide to Move Update 

available at www.postalpro.usps.com or 

contact the National Customer Support 

Center (see 608.8.1 for address) for 

additional information. 

* * * * * 

We will publish an appropriate 

amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect 

these changes, if this proposal is 

adopted. 

Stanley F. Mires, 

Attorney, Federal Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2017–0416; FRL–9972–

76—Region 7] 

Approval of Iowa’s Air Quality 

Implementation Plan; Muscatine Sulfur 

Dioxide Nonattainment Area; 

Availability of Supplemental 

Information and Reopening of the 

Comment Period 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; availability of 

supplemental information and 

reopening of the comment period. 

SUMMARY: On August 24, 2017, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

published a notice of proposed 

rulemaking to approve the Iowa State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision for 

attaining the 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) 

primary National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard (NAAQS) for the Muscatine 

nonattainment area (herein called a 

‘‘nonattainment plan’’) in the Federal 

Register. EPA received several 

comments, including one suggesting 

that insufficient information was 

provided in the docket to allow the 

reviewer the ability to fully evaluate the 

nonattainment plan and EPA’s proposed 

action to approve it and another 

comment that insufficient emissions 

inventory information for the 2018 

attainment year was provided for the 

action. As a result, we are: Providing 

additional information in the docket 

and clarifying that all information, 

including files that are too large to be 

provided in the docket, are available 

upon request; providing an updated 

2018 projected emissions inventory; and 

reopening the public comment period to 

afford stakeholders an opportunity to 

comment on these specific additions of 

information only. EPA has updated 

Document A, ‘‘Index of Docket 

Documents’’ in the docket to this 

rulemaking. EPA will address all 

comments received on the original 

proposal and on this supplemental 

action in our final action. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published on August 24, 

2017 (82 FR 40086) (FRL–9966–60– 

Region 7) is reopened. Comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–RO7–OAR–2017–0416 

must be received on or before February 

8, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

pertaining to this supplemental action, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2017–0416 to https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

EPA may publish any comment received 

to its public docket. Do not submit 

electronically any information you 

consider to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Multimedia submissions (audio, video, 

etc.) must be accompanied by a written 

comment. The written comment is 

considered the official comment and 

should include discussion of all points 

you wish to make. EPA will generally 

not consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tracey Casburn, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Air Planning and 

Development Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219 at 

(913) 551–7016, or by email at 

casburn.tracey@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA. This section 

provides additional information by 

addressing the following: 

I. What action is EPA taking? 

II. What is the background for this action? 

III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 


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