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REGULATORY INFORMATION 

SERVICE CENTER 

Introduction to the Unified Agenda of 

Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory 

Actions 

AGENCY: Regulatory Information Service 

Center. 

ACTION: Introduction to the Unified 

Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 

Deregulatory Actions. 

SUMMARY: Spring 2021 Unified Agenda 

of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory 

Actions. 

Publication of the Spring 2021 

Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory 

and Deregulatory Actions represents a 

key component of the regulatory 

planning mechanism prescribed in 

Executive Order (‘‘E.O.’’) 12866, 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review,’’ (58 

FR 51735) and reaffirmed in E.O. 13563, 

‘‘Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review,’’ (76 FR 3821). The Regulatory 

Flexibility Act requires that agencies 

publish semiannual regulatory agendas 

in the Federal Register describing 

regulatory actions they are developing 

that may have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities (5 U.S.C. 602). 

In the Unified Agenda of Federal 

Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 

(Unified Agenda) agencies report 

regulatory actions upcoming in the next 

year. Executive Order 12866 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review,’’ 

signed September 30, 1993 (58 FR 

51735), and Office of Management and 

Budget memoranda implementing 

section 4 of that Order establish 

minimum standards for agencies’ 

agendas, including specific types of 

information for each entry. 

The Unified Agenda helps agencies 

fulfill these requirements. All Federal 

regulatory agencies have chosen to 

publish their regulatory agendas as part 

of the Unified Agenda. The complete 

publication of the Spring 2021 Unified 

Agenda containing the regulatory 

agendas for 70 Federal agencies, is 

available to the public at http://

reginfo.gov. 

The Spring 2021 Unified Agenda 

publication appearing in the Federal 

Register consists of agency regulatory 

flexibility agendas, in accordance with 

the publication requirements of the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act. Agency 

regulatory flexibility agendas contain 

only those Agenda entries for rules that 

are likely to have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities and entries that have been 

selected for periodic review under 

section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act. 

ADDRESSES: Regulatory Information 

Service Center (M1RB), General Services 

Administration, 1800 F Street NW, Boris 

Arratia, Director, Washington, DC 

20405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about specific 

regulatory actions, please refer to the 

agency contact listed for each entry. To 

provide comment on or to obtain further 

information about this publication, 

contact: Boris Arratia, Director, 

Regulatory Information Service Center 

(M1RB), General Services 

Administration, 1800 F Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20405, 703–795–0816. 

You may also send comments to us by 

email at: RISC@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

Introduction to the Unified Agenda of 

Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory 

Actions 

I. What is the Unified Agenda? 

II. Why is the Unified Agenda Published? 

III. How is the Unified Agenda Organized? 

IV. What information appears for each entry? 

V. Abbreviations 

VI. How can users get copies of the plan and 

the Agenda? 

Agency Agendas 

Cabinet Departments 

Department of Agriculture 

Department of Commerce 

Department of Defense 

Department of Education 

Department of Energy 

Department of Health and Human Services 

Department of Homeland Security 

Department of the Interior 

Department of Labor 

Department of Transportation 

Department of the Treasury 

Other Executive Agencies 

Committee for Purchase From People Who 

Are Blind or Severely Disabled 

Environmental Protection Agency 

General Services Administration 

Office of Management and Budget 

Railroad Retirement Board 

Small Business Administration 

Joint Authority 

Department of Defense/General Services 

Administration/National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration (Federal 

Acquisition Regulation) 

Independent Regulatory Agencies 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

Consumer Product Safety Commission 

Federal Communications Commission 

Federal Reserve System 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

Surface Transportation Board 

Federal Permitting Improvement Steering 

Council 

Table of Contents 

Introduction to the Unified Agenda of 

Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory 

Actions 

I. What is the Unified Agenda? 

II. Why is the Unified Agenda published? 

III. How is the Unified Agenda organized? 

IV. What information appears for each entry? 

V. Abbreviations 

VI. How can users get copies of the plan and 

the Agenda? 

Agency Agendas 

Cabinet Departments 

Department of Agriculture 

Department of Commerce 

Department of Defense 

Department of Energy 

Department of Health and Human Services 

Department of Homeland Security 

Department of Interior 

Department of Labor 

Department of Transportation 

Department of Treasury 

Other Executive Agencies 

Committee for Purchase from People Who 

Are Blind or Severely Disabled 

Environmental Protection Agency 

General Services Administration 

Office of Management and Budget 

Railroad Retirement Board 

Small Business Administration 

Joint Authority 

Department of Defense/General Services 

Administration/National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration (Federal 

Acquisition Regulation) 

Independent Regulatory Agencies 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

Consumer Product Safety Commission 

Federal Communications Commission 

Federal Permitting Improvement Steering 

Council 

Federal Reserve System 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

Surface Transportation Board 

Introduction to the Unified Agenda of 

Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory 

Actions 

I. What is the Unified Agenda? 

The Unified Agenda provides 

information about regulations that the 

Government is considering or 

reviewing. The Unified Agenda has 

appeared in the Federal Register twice 

each year since 1983 and has been 

available online since 1995. The 

complete Unified Agenda is available to 

the public at http://reginfo.gov. The 

online Unified Agenda offers userfriendly flexible search tools and a vast 

historical database. 

The Spring 2021 Unified Agenda 

publication appearing in the Federal 

Register consists of agency regulatory 

flexibility agendas, in accordance with 

the publication requirements of the 


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Regulatory Flexibility Act. Agency 

regulatory flexibility agendas contain 

only those Agenda entries for rules that 

are likely to have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities and entries that have been 

selected for periodic review under 

section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act. Printed entries display only the 

fields required by the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. Complete agenda 

information for those entries appears, in 

a uniform format, in the online Unified 

Agenda at http://reginfo.gov. 

These publication formats meet the 

publication mandates of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act and Executive Order 

12866. The complete online edition of 

the Unified Agenda includes regulatory 

agendas from Federal agencies. 

Agencies of the United States Congress 

are not included. 

The following agencies have no 

entries identified for inclusion in the 

printed regulatory flexibility agenda. 

The regulatory agendas of these agencies 

are available to the public at http://

reginfo.gov. 

Cabinet Departments 

Department of Education 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development 

Department of Justice 

Department of State 

Department of Veterans Affairs 

Other Executive Agencies 

Architectural and Transportation 

Barriers Compliance Board 

Agency for International Development 

American Battle Monuments 

Commission 

Commission on Civil Rights 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Court Services and Offender 

Supervision Agency for the District 

of Columbia 

Federal Mediation and Conciliation 

Service 

Institute of Museum and Library 

Science 

Inter-American Foundation 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration 

National Archives and Records 

Administration 

National Endowment for the Arts 

National Endowment for the Humanities 

National Mediation Board 

National Science Foundation 

Office of Government Ethics 

Office of National Drug Control Policy 

Office of Personnel Management 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative 

Peace Corps 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 

Presidio Trust 

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight 

Board 

Social Security Administration 

Tennessee Valley Authority 

U.S. Agency for Global Media 

Independent Agencies 

Council of the Inspectors General on 

Integrity and Efficiency 

Farm Credit Administration 

Farm Credit System Insurance 

Corporation 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

Federal Housing Finance Agency 

Federal Maritime Commission 

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review 

Commission 

Federal Trade Commission 

National Credit Union Administration 

National Transportation Safety Board 

Postal Regulatory Commission 

The Regulatory Information Service 

Center compiles the Unified Agenda for 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs (OIRA), part of the Office of 

Management and Budget. OIRA is 

responsible for overseeing the Federal 

Government’s regulatory, paperwork, 

and information resource management 

activities, including implementation of 

Executive Order 12866 (incorporated by 

reference in Executive Order 13563). 

The Center also provides information 

about Federal regulatory activity to the 

President and his Executive Office, the 

Congress, agency officials, and the 

public. 

The activities included in the Unified 

Agenda are, in general, those that will 

have a regulatory action within the next 

12 months. Agencies may choose to 

include activities that will have a longer 

timeframe than 12 months. Agency 

agendas also show actions or reviews 

completed or withdrawn since the last 

Unified Agenda. Executive Order 12866 

does not require agencies to include 

regulations concerning military or 

foreign affairs functions or regulations 

related to agency organization, 

management, or personnel matters. 

Agencies prepared entries for this 

publication to give the public notice of 

their plans to review, propose, and issue 

or withdraw regulations. They have 

tried to predict their activities over the 

next 12 months as accurately as 

possible, but dates and schedules are 

subject to change. Agencies may 

withdraw some of the regulations now 

under development, and they may issue 

or propose other regulations not 

included in their agendas. Agency 

actions in the rulemaking process may 

occur before or after the dates they have 

listed. The Unified Agenda does not 

create a legal obligation on agencies to 

adhere to schedules in this publication 

or to confine their regulatory activities 

to those regulations that appear within 

it. 

II. Why is the Unified Agenda 

published? 

The Unified Agenda helps agencies 

comply with their obligations under the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act and various 

Executive orders and other statutes. 

Executive Order 12866 

Executive Order 12866 entitled 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review,’’ 

signed September 30, 1993, (58 FR 

51735), requires covered agencies to 

prepare an agenda of all regulations 

under development or review. The 

Order also requires that certain agencies 

prepare annually a regulatory plan of 

their ‘‘most important significant 

regulatory actions,’’ which appears as 

part of the fall Unified Agenda. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

requires agencies to identify those rules 

that may have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities (5 U.S.C. 602). Agencies meet 

that requirement by including the 

information in their submissions for the 

Unified Agenda. Agencies may also 

indicate those regulations that they are 

reviewing as part of their periodic 

review of existing rules under the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 

610). Executive Order 13272 entitled 

‘‘Proper Consideration of Small Entities 

in Agency Rulemaking,’’ signed August 

13, 2002, (67 FR 53461), provides 

additional guidance on compliance with 

the Act. 

Executive Order 13132 

Executive Order 13132 entitled 

‘‘Federalism,’’ signed August 4, 1999, 

(64 FR 43255), directs agencies to have 

an accountable process to ensure 

meaningful and timely input by State 

and local officials in the development of 

regulatory policies that have 

‘‘federalism implications’’ as defined in 

the Order. Under the Order, an agency 

that is proposing a regulation with 

federalism implications, which either 

preempt State law or impose nonstatutory unfunded substantial direct 

compliance costs on State and local 

governments, must consult with State 

and local officials early in the process 

of developing the regulation. In 

addition, the agency must provide to the 

Director of the Office of Management 

and Budget a federalism summary 

impact statement for such a regulation, 

which consists of a description of the 


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extent of the agency’s prior consultation 

with State and local officials, a 

summary of their concerns and the 

agency’s position supporting the need to 

issue the regulation, and a statement of 

the extent to which those concerns have 

been met. As part of this effort, agencies 

include in their submissions for the 

Unified Agenda information on whether 

their regulatory actions may have an 

effect on the various levels of 

government and whether those actions 

have federalism implications. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 

The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4, title II) requires 

agencies to prepare written assessments 

of the costs and benefits of significant 

regulatory actions ‘‘that may result in 

the expenditure by State, local, and 

tribal governments, in the aggregate, or 

by the private sector, of $100,000,000 or 

more . . . in any 1 year. . . .’’ The 

requirement does not apply to 

independent regulatory agencies, nor 

does it apply to certain subject areas 

excluded by section 4 of the Act. 

Affected agencies identify in the Unified 

Agenda those regulatory actions they 

believe are subject to title II of the Act. 

Executive Order 13211 

Executive Order 13211 entitled 

‘‘Actions Concerning Regulations That 

Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 

Distribution, or Use,’’ signed May 18, 

2001, (66 FR 28355), directs agencies to 

provide, to the extent possible, 

information regarding the adverse 

effects that agency actions may have on 

the supply, distribution, and use of 

energy. Under the Order, the agency 

must prepare and submit a Statement of 

Energy Effects to the Administrator of 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, for ‘‘those matters identified as 

significant energy actions.’’ As part of 

this effort, agencies may optionally 

include in their submissions for the 

Unified Agenda information on whether 

they have prepared or plan to prepare a 

Statement of Energy Effects for their 

regulatory actions. 

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act 

The Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act (Pub. L. 104– 

121, title II) established a procedure for 

congressional review of rules (5 U.S.C. 

801 et seq.), which defers, unless 

exempted, the effective date of a 

‘‘major’’ rule for at least 60 days from 

the publication of the final rule in the 

Federal Register. The Act specifies that 

a rule is ‘‘major’’ if it has resulted, or is 

likely to result, in an annual effect on 

the economy of $100 million or more or 

meets other criteria specified in that 

Act. The Act provides that the 

Administrator of OIRA will make the 

final determination as to whether a rule 

is major. 

III. How is the Unified Agenda 

organized? 

Agency regulatory flexibility agendas 

are printed in a single daily edition of 

the Federal Register. A regulatory 

flexibility agenda is printed for each 

agency whose agenda includes entries 

for rules which are likely to have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities or 

rules that have been selected for 

periodic review under section 610 of the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act. Each printed 

agenda appears as a separate part. The 

parts are organized alphabetically in 

four groups: Cabinet departments; other 

executive agencies; the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation, a joint 

authority; and independent regulatory 

agencies. Agencies may in turn be 

divided into sub-agencies. Each 

agency’s part of the Agenda contains a 

preamble providing information specific 

to that agency. Each printed agency 

agenda has a table of contents listing the 

agency’s printed entries that follow. 

The online, complete Unified Agenda 

contains the preambles of all 

participating agencies. In the online 

Agenda, users can select the particular 

agencies whose agendas they want to 

see. Users have broad flexibility to 

specify the characteristics of the entries 

of interest to them by choosing the 

desired responses to individual data 

fields. To see a listing of all of an 

agency’s entries, a user can select the 

agency without specifying any 

particular characteristics of entries. 

Each entry in the Unified Agenda is 

associated with one of five rulemaking 

stages. The rulemaking stages are: 

1. Prerule Stage—actions agencies 

will undertake to determine whether or 

how to initiate rulemaking. Such actions 

occur prior to a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NPRM) and may include 

Advance Notices of Proposed 

Rulemaking (ANPRMs) and reviews of 

existing regulations. 

2. Proposed Rule Stage—actions for 

which agencies plan to publish a Notice 

of Proposed Rulemaking as the next step 

in their rulemaking process or for which 

the closing date of the NPRM Comment 

Period is the next step. 

3. Final Rule Stage—actions for which 

agencies plan to publish a final rule or 

an interim final rule or to take other 

final action as the next step. 

4. Long-Term Actions—items under 

development but for which the agency 

does not expect to have a regulatory 

action within the 12 months after 

publication of this edition of the Unified 

Agenda. Some of the entries in this 

section may contain abbreviated 

information. 

5. Completed Actions—actions or 

reviews the agency has completed or 

withdrawn since publishing its last 

agenda. This section also includes items 

the agency began and completed 

between issues of the Agenda. 

Long-Term Actions are rulemakings 

reported during the publication cycle 

that are outside of the required 12- 

month reporting period for which the 

Agenda was intended. Completed 

Actions in the publication cycle are 

rulemakings that are ending their 

lifecycle either by Withdrawal or 

completion of the rulemaking process. 

Therefore, the Long-Term and 

Completed RINs do not represent the 

ongoing, forward-looking nature 

intended for reporting developing 

rulemakings in the Agenda pursuant to 

Executive Order 12866, section 4(b) and 

4(c). To further differentiate these two 

stages of rulemaking in the Unified 

Agenda from active rulemakings, LongTerm and Completed Actions are 

reported separately from active 

rulemakings, which can be any of the 

first three stages of rulemaking listed 

above. A separate search function is 

provided on http://reginfo.gov to search 

for Completed and Long-Term Actions 

apart from each other and active RINs. 

A bullet (•) preceding the title of an 

entry indicates that the entry is 

appearing in the Unified Agenda for the 

first time. 

In the printed edition, all entries are 

numbered sequentially from the 

beginning to the end of the publication. 

The sequence number preceding the 

title of each entry identifies the location 

of the entry in this edition. The 

sequence number is used as the 

reference in the printed table of 

contents. Sequence numbers are not 

used in the online Unified Agenda 

because the unique RIN is able to 

provide this cross reference capability. 

Editions of the Unified Agenda prior 

to fall 2007 contained several indexes, 

which identified entries with various 

characteristics. These included 

regulatory actions for which agencies 

believe that the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act may require a Regulatory Flexibility 

Analysis, actions selected for periodic 

review under section 610(c) of the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, and actions 

that may have federalism implications 

as defined in Executive Order 13132 or 

other effects on levels of government. 

These indexes are no longer compiled, 

because users of the online Unified 


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Agenda have the flexibility to search for 

entries with any combination of desired 

characteristics. 

IV. What information appears for each 

entry? 

All entries in the online Unified 

Agenda contain uniform data elements 

including, at a minimum, the following 

information: 

Title of the Regulation—a brief 

description of the subject of the 

regulation. In the printed edition, the 

notation ‘‘Section 610 Review’’ 

following the title indicates that the 

agency has selected the rule for its 

periodic review of existing rules under 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 

610(c)). Some agencies have indicated 

completions of section 610 reviews or 

rulemaking actions resulting from 

completed section 610 reviews. In the 

online edition, these notations appear in 

a separate field. 

Priority—an indication of the 

significance of the regulation. Agencies 

assign each entry to one of the following 

five categories of significance. 

(1) Economically Significant 

As defined in Executive Order 12866, 

a rulemaking action that will have an 

annual effect on the economy of $100 

million or more or will adversely affect 

in a material way the economy, a sector 

of the economy, productivity, 

competition, jobs, the environment, 

public health or safety, or State, local, 

or tribal governments or communities. 

The definition of an ‘‘economically 

significant’’ rule is similar but not 

identical to the definition of a ‘‘major’’ 

rule under 5 U.S.C. 801 (Pub. L. 104– 

121). (See below.) 

(2) Other Significant 

A rulemaking that is not 

Economically Significant but is 

considered Significant by the agency. 

This category includes rules that the 

agency anticipates will be reviewed 

under Executive Order 12866 or rules 

that are a priority of the agency head. 

These rules may or may not be included 

in the agency’s regulatory plan. 

(3) Substantive, Nonsignificant 

A rulemaking that has substantive 

impacts but is neither Significant, nor 

Routine and Frequent, nor 

Informational/Administrative/Other. 

(4) Routine and Frequent 

A rulemaking that is a specific case of 

a multiple recurring application of a 

regulatory program in the Code of 

Federal Regulations and that does not 

alter the body of the regulation. 

(5) Informational/Administrative/Other 

A rulemaking that is primarily 

informational or pertains to agency 

matters not central to accomplishing the 

agency’s regulatory mandate but that the 

agency places in the Unified Agenda to 

inform the public of the activity. 

Major—whether the rule is ‘‘major’’ 

under 5 U.S.C. 801 (Pub. L. 104–121) 

because it has resulted or is likely to 

result in an annual effect on the 

economy of $100 million or more or 

meets other criteria specified in that 

Act. The Act provides that the 

Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs will 

make the final determination as to 

whether a rule is major. 

Unfunded Mandates—whether the 

rule is covered by section 202 of the 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–4). The Act requires that, 

before issuing an NPRM likely to result 

in a mandate that may result in 

expenditures by State, local, and tribal 

governments, in the aggregate, or by the 

private sector of more than $100 million 

in 1 year, agencies, other than 

independent regulatory agencies, shall 

prepare a written statement containing 

an assessment of the anticipated costs 

and benefits of the Federal mandate. 

Legal Authority—the section(s) of the 

United States Code (U.S.C.) or Public 

Law (Pub. L.) or the Executive order 

(E.O.) that authorize(s) the regulatory 

action. Agencies may provide popular 

name references to laws in addition to 

these citations. 

CFR Citation—the section(s) of the 

Code of Federal Regulations that will be 

affected by the action. 

Legal Deadline—whether the action is 

subject to a statutory or judicial 

deadline, the date of that deadline, and 

whether the deadline pertains to an 

NPRM, a Final Action, or some other 

action. 

Abstract—a brief description of the 

problem the regulation will address; the 

need for a Federal solution; to the extent 

available, alternatives that the agency is 

considering to address the problem; and 

potential costs and benefits of the 

action. 

Timetable—the dates and citations (if 

available) for all past steps and a 

projected date for at least the next step 

for the regulatory action. A date 

displayed in the form 06/00/14 means 

the agency is predicting the month and 

year the action will take place but not 

the day it will occur. In some instances, 

agencies may indicate what the next 

action will be, but the date of that action 

is ‘‘To Be Determined.’’ ‘‘Next Action 

Undetermined’’ indicates the agency 

does not know what action it will take 

next. 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required—whether an analysis is 

required by the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) because the 

rulemaking action is likely to have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities as 

defined by the Act. 

Small Entities Affected—the types of 

small entities (businesses, governmental 

jurisdictions, or organizations) on which 

the rulemaking action is likely to have 

an impact as defined by the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. Some agencies have 

chosen to indicate likely effects on 

small entities even though they believe 

that a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

will not be required. 

Government Levels Affected—whether 

the action is expected to affect levels of 

government and, if so, whether the 

governments are State, local, tribal, or 

Federal. 

International Impacts—whether the 

regulation is expected to have 

international trade and investment 

effects, or otherwise may be of interest 

to the Nation’s international trading 

partners. 

Federalism—whether the action has 

‘‘federalism implications’’ as defined in 

Executive Order 13132. This term refers 

to actions ‘‘that have substantial direct 

effects on the States, on the relationship 

between the national government and 

the States, or on the distribution of 

power and responsibilities among the 

various levels of government.’’ 

Independent regulatory agencies are not 

required to supply this information. 

Included in the Regulatory Plan— 

whether the rulemaking was included in 

the agency’s current regulatory plan 

published in fall 2019. 

Agency Contact—the name and phone 

number of at least one person in the 

agency who is knowledgeable about the 

rulemaking action. The agency may also 

provide the title, address, fax number, 

email address, and TDD for each agency 

contact. 

Some agencies have provided the 

following optional information: 

RIN Information URL—the internet 

address of a site that provides more 

information about the entry. 

Public Comment URL—the internet 

address of a site that will accept public 

comments on the entry. 

Alternatively, timely public 

comments may be submitted at the 

government-wide e-rulemaking site, 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

Additional Information—any 

information an agency wishes to include 

that does not have a specific 

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Compliance Cost to the Public—the 

estimated gross compliance cost of the 

action. 

Affected Sectors—the industrial 

sectors that the action may most affect, 

either directly or indirectly. Affected 

sectors are identified by North 

American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS) codes. 

Energy Effects—an indication of 

whether the agency has prepared or 

plans to prepare a Statement of Energy 

Effects for the action, as required by 

Executive Order 13211 ‘‘Actions 

Concerning Regulations That 

Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 

Distribution, or Use,’’ signed May 18, 

2001 (66 FR 28355). 

Related RINs—one or more past or 

current RIN(s) associated with activity 

related to this action, such as merged 

RINs, split RINs, new activity for 

previously completed RINs, or duplicate 

RINs. 

Some agencies that participated in the 

fall 2017 edition of The Regulatory Plan 

have chosen to include the following 

information for those entries that 

appeared in the Plan: 

Statement of Need—a description of 

the need for the regulatory action. 

Summary of the Legal Basis—a 

description of the legal basis for the 

action, including whether any aspect of 

the action is required by statute or court 

order. 

Alternatives—a description of the 

alternatives the agency has considered 

or will consider as required by section 

4(c)(1)(B) of Executive Order 12866. 

Anticipated Costs and Benefits—a 

description of preliminary estimates of 

the anticipated costs and benefits of the 

action. 

Risks—a description of the magnitude 

of the risk the action addresses, the 

amount by which the agency expects the 

action to reduce this risk, and the 

relation of the risk and this risk 

reduction effort to other risks and risk 

reduction efforts within the agency’s 

jurisdiction. 

V. Abbreviations 

The following abbreviations appear 

throughout this publication: 

ANPRM—An Advance Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking is a preliminary 

notice, published in the Federal 

Register, announcing that an agency is 

considering a regulatory action. An 

agency may issue an ANPRM before it 

develops a detailed proposed rule. An 

ANPRM describes the general area that 

may be subject to regulation and usually 

asks for public comment on the issues 

and options being discussed. An 

ANPRM is issued only when an agency 

believes it needs to gather more 

information before proceeding to a 

notice of proposed rulemaking. 

CFR—The Code of Federal 

Regulations is an annual codification of 

the general and permanent regulations 

published in the Federal Register by the 

agencies of the Federal Government. 

The Code is divided into 50 titles, each 

title covering a broad area subject to 

Federal regulation. The CFR is keyed to 

and kept up to date by the daily issues 

of the Federal Register. 

E.O.—An Executive order is a 

directive from the President to 

Executive agencies, issued under 

constitutional or statutory authority. 

Executive orders are published in the 

Federal Register and in title 3 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations. 

FR—The Federal Register is a daily 

Federal Government publication that 

provides a uniform system for 

publishing Presidential documents, all 

proposed and final regulations, notices 

of meetings, and other official 

documents issued by Federal agencies. 

FY—The Federal fiscal year runs from 

October 1 to September 30. 

NPRM—A Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking is the document an agency 

issues and publishes in the Federal 

Register that describes and solicits 

public comments on a proposed 

regulatory action. Under the 

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 

553), an NPRM must include, at a 

minimum: 

A statement of the time, place, and 

nature of the public rulemaking 

proceeding; a reference to the legal 

authority under which the rule is 

proposed; and either the terms or 

substance of the proposed rule or a 

description of the subjects and issues 

involved. 

Pub. L.—A public law is a law passed 

by Congress and signed by the President 

or enacted over his veto. It has general 

applicability, unlike a private law that 

applies only to those persons or entities 

specifically designated. Public Laws are 

numbered in sequence throughout the 2- 

year life of each Congress; for example, 

Public Law 110–4 is the fourth public 

law of the 110th Congress. 

RFA—A Regulatory Flexibility 

Analysis is a description and analysis of 

the impact of a rule on small entities, 

including small businesses, small 

governmental jurisdictions, and certain 

small not-for-profit organizations. The 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq.) requires each agency to prepare 

an initial RFA for public comment when 

it is required to publish an NPRM and 

to make available a final RFA when the 

final rule is published, unless the 

agency head certifies that the rule 

would not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. 

RIN—The Regulation Identifier 

Number is assigned by the Regulatory 

Information Service Center to identify 

each regulatory action listed in the 

Unified Agenda, as directed by 

Executive Order 12866 (section 4(b)). 

Additionally, OMB has asked agencies 

to include RINs in the headings of their 

Rule and Proposed Rule documents 

when publishing them in the Federal 

Register, to make it easier for the public 

and agency officials to track the 

publication history of regulatory actions 

throughout their development. 

Seq. No.—The sequence number 

identifies the location of an entry in the 

printed edition of the Unified Agenda. 

Note that a specific regulatory action 

will have the same RIN throughout its 

development but will generally have 

different sequence numbers if it appears 

in different printed editions of the 

Unified Agenda. Sequence numbers are 

not used in the online Unified Agenda. 

U.S.C.—The United States Code is a 

consolidation and codification of all 

general and permanent laws of the 

United States. The U.S.C. is divided into 

50 titles, each title covering a broad area 

of Federal law. 

VI. How can users get copies of the 

Agenda? 

Copies of the Federal Register issue 

containing the printed edition of the 

Unified Agenda (agency regulatory 

flexibility agendas) are available from 

the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 

Government Publishing Office, P.O. Box 

371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954. 

Telephone: (202) 512–1800 or 1–866– 

512–1800 (toll-free). 

Copies of individual agency materials 

may be available directly from the 

agency or may be found on the agency’s 

website. Please contact the particular 

agency for further information. 

All editions of The Regulatory Plan 

and the Unified Agenda of Federal 

Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 

since fall 1995 are available in 

electronic form at http://reginfo.gov, 

along with flexible search tools. The 

Government Publishing Office’s GPO 

FDsys website contains copies of the 

Agendas and Regulatory Plans that have 

been printed in the Federal Register. 

These documents are available at http:// 

www.fdsys.gov. 

Dated: June 3, 2021. 

Boris Arratia, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15272 Filed 7–29–21; 8:45 am] 

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