101820 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 241 / Monday, December 16, 2024 / Rules and Regulations 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

48 CFR Chapter 1 

[Docket No. FAR–2024–0051, Sequence No. 

7] 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; 

Federal Acquisition Circular 2025–02; 

Introduction 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Summary presentation of final 

rules. 

SUMMARY: This document summarizes 

the Federal Acquisition Regulation 

(FAR) rules agreed to by the Civilian 

Agency Acquisition Council and the 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

Council (Councils) in this Federal 

Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025–02. A 

companion document, the Small Entity 

Compliance Guide (SECG), follows this 

FAC. 

DATES: For effective dates see the 

separate documents, which follow. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

analyst whose name appears in the table 

below in relation to the FAR case. For 

information pertaining to status or 

publication schedules, contact the 

Regulatory Secretariat Division at 202– 

501–4755 or GSARegSec@gsa.gov. 

RULES LISTED IN FAC 2025–02 

Item Subject FAR case Analyst 

I ............................... Training to Prevent Human Trafficking For Certain Air Carriers ............................... 2019–017 Jones. 

II .............................. Certification of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses ........................ 2022–009 Moore. 

III ............................. Technical Amendments.

ADDRESSES: The FAC, including the 

SECG, is available at https://

www.regulations.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summaries for each FAR rule follow. 

For the actual revisions and/or 

amendments made by these FAR rules, 

refer to the specific item numbers and 

subjects set forth in the documents 

following these item summaries. FAC 

2025–02 amends the FAR as follows: 

Item I—Training To Prevent Human 

Trafficking For Certain Air Carriers 

(FAR Case 2019–017) 

This final rule amends the FAR to 

implement section 111 of the Frederick 

Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention 

and Protection Reauthorization Act of 

2018 (Pub. L. 115–425), enacted January 

8, 2019. Section 111 requires that 

domestic carriers who contract with the 

Federal Government to provide air 

transportation submit an annual report 

with certain information related to 

prevention of human trafficking to the 

Administrator of General Services, the 

Secretary of Transportation, the 

Secretary of Labor, the Administrator of 

the Transportation Security 

Administration, and the Commissioner 

of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 

Section 111 does not apply to contracts 

awarded by the Department of Defense. 

This rule creates a new contract 

clause at FAR 52.247–69, Reporting 

Requirement for U.S.-Flag Air Carriers 

Regarding Training to Prevent Human 

Trafficking, to implement the statutory 

reporting requirement. Contracting 

officers will include this clause in 

solicitations and contracts for the 

transportation by air of passengers. The 

reporting requirement applies to U.S.- 

flag air carriers, including small 

business air carriers. The final rule is 

not expected to have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities within the 

meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act. 

Item II—Certification of ServiceDisabled Veteran-Owned Small 

Businesses (FAR Case 2022–009) 

This FAR rule adopts, without 

change, an interim rule that amended 

the FAR to implement the 

Governmentwide certification 

requirement for service-disabled 

veteran-owned small business 

(SDVOSB) concerns seeking sole-source 

and set-aside awards under the SDVOSB 

Program. Effective January 1, 2024, an 

SDVOSB concern must have either been 

certified by the Small Business 

Administration (SBA), or have both 

submitted an application for 

certification to SBA on or before 

December 31, 2023, and represented 

that it is an SDVOSB in the System for 

Award Management (SAM), in order to 

be eligible for sole-source or set-aside 

awards under the SDVOSB Program. 

This rule required that an SDVOSB 

concern update its status in SAM no 

later than two days after the date of a 

final determination that the concern 

does not meet the requirements of the 

status the concern claims to hold. This 

rule also provided new SDVOSB protest 

and appeal procedures. 

Item III—Technical Amendments 

Administrative changes are made at 

FAR 13.302–5, 25.101, 36.603, 49.601– 

2, 52.204–2, 52.204–7, 52.204–8, 

52.204–19, 52.212–5, 52.225–3, 52.225– 

4, and 52.225–18. 

William F. Clark, 

Director, Office of Government-wide 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition 

Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy. 

Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 

2025–02 is issued under the authority of 

the Secretary of Defense, the 

Administrator of General Services, and 

the Administrator of National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

Unless otherwise specified, all 

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 

and other directive material contained 

in FAC 2025–02 is effective December 

16, 2024 except for Items I and III, 

which are effective January 3, 2025. 

John M. Tenaglia, 

Principal Director, Defense Pricing, 

Contracting, and Acquisition Policy, 

Department of Defense. 

Jeffrey A. Koses, 

Senior Procurement Executive/Deputy CAO, 

Office of Acquisition Policy, U.S. General 

Services Administration. 

Karla Smith Jackson, 

Assistant Administrator for Procurement, 

Senior Procurement Executive/Deputy CAO, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29372 Filed 12–13–24; 8:45 am] 

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