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.

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Vol. 86, No. 147 

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary of Labor 

29 CFR Parts 10 and 23 

RIN 1235–AA41 

Increasing the Minimum Wage for 

Federal Contractors 

AGENCY: Wage and Hour Division, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Proposed rulemaking; extension 

of comment period. 

SUMMARY: This document extends the 

period for submitting written comments 

on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(NPRM), ‘‘Increasing the Minimum 

Wage for Federal Contractors.’’ The 

comment period now ends on August 

27, 2021. The Department of Labor 

(Department) is taking this action to 

provide interested parties additional 

time to submit comments in response to 

a request to extend the comment period. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published July 22, 2021, 

at 86 FR 38816, is extended. Comments 

must be received on this notice of 

proposed rulemaking on or before 

August 27, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Regulatory Information 

Number (RIN) 1235–AA41, by either of 

the following methods: Electronic 

Comments: Submit comments through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail: Address written submissions to 

Division of Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division, 

U.S. Department of Labor, Room S– 

3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210. Instructions: 

Please submit only one copy of your 

comments by only one method. 

Commenters submitting file attachments 

on www.regulations.gov are advised that 

uploading text-recognized documents— 

i.e., documents in a native file format or 

documents which have undergone 

optical character recognition (OCR)— 

enable staff at the Department to more 

easily search and retrieve specific 

content included in your comment for 

consideration. Anyone who submits a 

comment (including duplicate 

comments) should understand and 

expect that the comment will become a 

matter of public record and will be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. The 

Wage and Hour Division (WHD) posts 

comments gathered and submitted by a 

third-party organization as a group 

under a single document ID number on 

https://www.regulations.gov. Comments 

must be received by 11:59 p.m. on 

August 27, 2021 for consideration in 

this rulemaking. Commenters should 

transmit comments early to ensure 

timely receipt prior to the close of the 

comment period, as the Department 

continues to experience delays in the 

receipt of mail. Submit only one copy of 

your comments by only one method. 

Docket: For access to the docket to read 

background documents or comments, go 

to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy DeBisschop, Director of the 

Division of Regulations, Legislation, and 

Interpretation, Wage and Hour Division, 

U.S. Department of Labor, Room S– 

3502, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone: (202) 

693–0406 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Accessible Format: Copies of 

this notice of proposed rulemaking may 

be obtained in alternative formats (Rich 

Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), 

a thumb drive, an MP3 file, large print, 

braille, audiotape, compact disc, or 

other accessible format), upon request, 

by calling (202) 693–0675 (this is not a 

toll-free number). TTY/TDD callers may 

dial toll-free (877) 889–5627 to obtain 

information or request materials in 

alternative formats. 

Questions of interpretation or 

enforcement of the agency’s existing 

regulations may be directed to the 

nearest WHD district office. Locate the 

nearest office by calling the WHD’s tollfree help line at (866) 4US–WAGE ((866) 

487–9243) between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. in 

your local time zone, or log onto WHD’s 

website at https://www.dol.gov/ 

agencies/whd/contact/local-offices for a 

nationwide listing of WHD district and 

area offices. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On April 27, 2021, President Joseph 

R. Biden Jr. issued Executive Order 

14026, ‘‘Increasing the Minimum Wage 

for Federal Contractors.’’ This Executive 

order explains that increasing the 

hourly minimum wage paid to workers 

performing on or in connection with 

covered federal contracts to $15.00 

beginning January 30, 2022 will ‘‘bolster 

economy and efficiency in Federal 

procurement.’’ 86 FR 22835. The order 

builds on the foundation established by 

Executive Order 13658, ‘‘Establishing a 

Minimum Wage for Contractors,’’ which 

was signed by President Barack Obama 

on February 12, 2014. See 79 FR 9851. 

On July 22, 2021, the Department 

published a NPRM, ‘‘Increasing the 

Minimum Wage for Federal 

Contractors,’’ RIN 1235–AA41, and 

invited public comments. See 86 FR 

38816. The comment period was 

scheduled to close August 23, 2021. A 

request was made to extend the 

comment period. The Department is 

granting this request in part and 

extending the comment period to 

August 27, 2021. 

Signed at this 30th day of July, 2021. 

Jessica Looman, 

Acting Administrator, Wage and Hour 

Division. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–27–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

30 CFR Part 950 

[SATS No. WY–049–FOR; Docket ID: OSM– 

2021–0003; S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

212S180110; S1D1S SS08011000 

SX064A000 21XS501520] 

Wyoming Regulatory Program 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; opening of 

public comment period and opportunity 

for public hearing on proposed 

amendment. 

SUMMARY: We, the Office of Surface 

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 

(OSMRE), are announcing receipt of a 

proposed amendment to the Wyoming 

regulatory program (hereinafter, the 


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Wyoming program) under the Surface 

Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 

1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Wyoming 

proposes revisions to its program, which 

includes rules regarding the disposal of 

decommissioned wind turbine blades 

and towers as backfill, in response to 

legislative changes made during the 

2020 legislative session. In addition, 

revisions were made to Chapter 2: 

Permit Application Requirements for 

Surface Coal Mining Operations, to 

correct grammatical errors and provide 

consistency with the Secretary of State’s 

Rules on Rules. The revised rules 

address several national, state, and local 

issues associated with wind energy 

generation, maintenance, and upgrades, 

as well as the resulting stockpile of 

decommissioned wind turbine blades 

and towers. 

This document gives the times and 

locations that the Wyoming program 

and proposed amendment to that 

program are available for your 

inspection, the comment period during 

which you may submit written 

comments on the amendment, and the 

procedures that we will follow for the 

public hearing, if one is requested. 

DATES: We will accept written 

comments on this amendment until 4:00 

p.m., m.d.t. September 3, 2021. If 

requested, we may hold a public hearing 

or meeting on the amendment on 

August 30, 2021. We will accept 

requests to speak at a hearing until 4:00 

p.m., m.d.t. on August 19, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by SATS No. WY–050–FOR, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Mail/Hand Delivery: Mr. Jeffrey 

Fleischman, Director, Denver Field 

Division; Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement; Casper 

Area Office; 100 East ‘‘B’’ Street, Room 

4100, P.O. Box 11018, Casper, Wyoming 

82601. 

• Fax: (307) 261–6552. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: The 

amendment has been assigned Docket 

ID: OSM–2021–0003. If you would like 

to submit comments, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

We cannot ensure that comments 

received after the close of the comment 

period (see DATES) or sent to an address 

other than the ones listed above will be 

included in the docket for this 

rulemaking and considered. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this rulemaking. For 

detailed instructions on submitting 

comments and additional information 

on the rulemaking process, see the 

‘‘Public Comment Procedures’’ heading 

of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this document. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

review copies of the Wyoming program, 

this amendment, a listing of any 

scheduled public hearings or meetings, 

and all written comments received in 

response to this document, you must go 

to the address listed below during 

normal business hours, Monday through 

Friday, excluding holidays. You may 

receive one free copy of the amendment 

by contacting OSMRE’s Casper Area 

Office or the full text of the program 

amendment is available for you to read 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Jeffrey Fleischman, Director Denver 

Field Division, Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Dick 

Cheney Federal Building, 150 East B 

Street, Room 1018, Casper, Wyoming 

82601–1018. Telephone: (307) 261– 

6550. Email: jfleischman@osmre.gov. 

In addition, you may review a copy of 

the amendment during regular business 

hours at the following location: Kyle 

Wendtland, Administrator, Land 

Quality Division, Wyoming Department 

of Environmental Quality, 200 West 

17th Street, Suite 10, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming 82002. Telephone: 307–777– 

7046. Email: Kyle.Wendtland@wyo.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffrey Fleischman, Division Chief, 

Casper Area Office. Office of Surface 

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 

Dick Cheney Federal Building, P.O. Box 

11018, 150 East B Street Casper, 

Wyoming 82601–1018. Telephone: (307) 

261–6555. Email: jfleischman@

osmre.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background on the Wyoming Program 

II. Description of the Proposed Amendment 

III. Public Comment Procedures 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Background on the Wyoming 

Program 

Section 503(a) of the Act permits a 

State to assume primacy for the 

regulation of surface coal mining and 

reclamation operations on non-Federal 

and non-Indian lands within its borders 

by demonstrating that its approved, 

State program includes, among other 

things, State laws and regulations that 

govern surface coal mining and 

reclamation operations in accordance 

with the Act and consistent with the 

Federal regulations. See 30 U.S.C. 

1253(a)(1) and (7). On the basis of these 

criteria, the Secretary of the Interior 

approved the Wyoming program on 

November 26, 1980. You can find 

background information on the 

Wyoming program, including the 

Secretary’s findings, the disposition of 

comments, and conditions of approval 

in the November 26, 1980, Federal 

Register (45 FR 78637). You can also 

find later actions concerning Wyoming’s 

program and program amendments at 30 

CFR 950.11, 950.12, 950.15, 950.16, and 

950.20. 

II. Description of the Proposed 

Amendment 

By letter dated June 4, 2021 

(Administrative Record No. WY–054– 

01), Wyoming sent us an amendment to 

its program under SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 

1201 et seq.). Wyoming submitted the 

amendment in response to legislative 

changes made, through Wyoming House 

Bill HB0129 during the 2020 legislative 

session, to Wyoming Statute (W.S.) 

§ 35–11–402(a)(xiii), which outlined 

rules regarding how decommissioned 

wind turbine blades and towers could 

be used as backfill in open surface coal 

mine pits in order to facilitate disposal. 

Due to the large volume of 

decommissioned wind turbine blades 

and towers, a lack of scalable recycling 

methods to facilitate their disposal, and 

the absence of guidance in SMCRA 

regarding the disposal of non-mininggenerated, solid wastes at a coal mine, 

the Wyoming Legislature provided the 

Land Quality Division with the 

authority to develop rules and 

regulations regarding such disposal. The 

revised rules address local, state, and 

national issues associated with the 

resulting stockpile of decommissioned 

wind turbine blades and towers, as a 

result of wind energy generation, 

upgrades, and routine maintenance. 

In addition, revisions were made to 

Chapter 2: Permit Application 

Requirements for Surface Coal Mining 

Operations, to provide consistency with 

the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Rules 

on Rules, as well as correct grammatical 

errors. The full text of the program 

amendment is available for you to read 

at the locations listed above under 

ADDRESSES or at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

III. Public Comment Procedures 

Under the provisions of 30 CFR 

732.17(h), we are seeking your 

comments on whether the amendment 

satisfies the applicable program 

approval criteria of 30 CFR 732.15. If we 

approve the amendment, it will become 

part of the State program. 

Electronic or Written Comments 

If you submit written or electronic 

comments on the proposed rule during 

the 30-day comment period, they should 

be specific, confined to issues pertinent 

to the proposed regulations, and explain 

the reason for any recommended 


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change(s). We appreciate any and all 

comments, but those most useful and 

likely to influence decisions on the final 

regulations will be those that either 

involve personal experience or include 

citations to and analyses of SMCRA, its 

legislative history, its implementing 

regulations, case law, other pertinent 

State or Federal laws or regulations, 

technical literature, or other relevant 

publications. 

We cannot ensure that comments 

received after the close of the comment 

period (see DATES) or sent to an address 

other than those listed (see ADDRESSES) 

will be included in the docket for this 

rulemaking and considered. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment including your 

personal identifying information, may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Public Hearing 

If you wish to speak at the public 

hearing, contact the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT by 

4:00 p.m., m.d.t. on August 19, 2021. If 

you are disabled and need reasonable 

accommodations to attend a public 

hearing, contact the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. We 

will arrange the location and time of the 

hearing with those persons requesting 

the hearing. If no one requests an 

opportunity to speak, we will not hold 

a hearing. 

To assist the transcriber and ensure an 

accurate record, we request, if possible, 

that each person who speaks at the 

public hearing provide us with a written 

copy of his or her comments. The public 

hearing will continue on the specified 

date until everyone scheduled to speak 

has been given an opportunity to be 

heard. If you are in the audience and 

have not been scheduled to speak and 

wish to do so, you will be allowed to 

speak after those who have been 

scheduled. We will end the hearing after 

everyone scheduled to speak and others 

present in the audience who wish to 

speak, have been heard. 

Public Meeting 

If only one person requests an 

opportunity to speak, we may hold a 

public meeting rather than a public 

hearing. If you wish to meet with us to 

discuss the amendment, please request 

a meeting by contacting the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. All such meetings are open to 

the public and, if possible, we will post 

notices of meetings at the locations 

listed under ADDRESSES. We will make 

a written summary of each meeting a 

part of the administrative record. 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Executive Order 12866—Regulatory 

Planning and Review and Executive 

Order 13563—Improving Regulation 

and Regulatory Review 

Executive Order 12866 provides that 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs in the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) will review all significant 

rules. Pursuant to OMB guidance, dated 

October 12, 1993, the approval of State 

program amendments is exempted from 

OMB review under Executive Order 

12866. Executive Order 13563, which 

reaffirms and supplements Executive 

Order 12866, retains this exemption. 

Other Laws and Executive Orders 

Affecting Rulemaking 

When a State submits a program 

amendment to OSMRE for review, our 

regulations at 30 CFR 732.17(h) require 

us to publish a notice in the Federal 

Register indicating receipt of the 

proposed amendment, its text or a 

summary of its terms, and an 

opportunity for public comment. 

We conclude our review of the 

proposed amendment after the close of 

the public comment period and 

determine whether the amendment 

should be approved, approved in part, 

or not approved. At that time, we will 

also make the determinations and 

certifications required by the various 

laws and executive orders governing the 

rulemaking process and include them in 

the final rule. 

List of Subjects in 30 CFR Part 950 

Intergovernmental relations, Surface 

mining, Underground mining. 

David Berry, 

Regional Director, Western Region. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 100 

[Docket Number USCG–2021–0546] 

RIN 1625–AA08 

Special Local Regulation; Ohio River, 

Louisville, KY 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is proposing 

to establish a special local regulation on 

the Ohio River at mile marker 596. This 

action is necessary to provide for the 

safety of life on these navigable waters 

during the Captain’s Quarters Sailing 

Regatta from October 9, 2021 through 

October 10, 2021. This proposed 

rulemaking would prohibit persons and 

vessels from being in the limited access 

area unless authorized by the Captain of 

the Port Ohio Valley or a designated 

representative. We invite your 

comments on this proposed rulemaking. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must be received by the Coast Guard on 

or before August 24, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2021–0546 using the Federal Decision 

Making Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. See the ‘‘Public 

Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

further instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this proposed 

rulemaking, call or email Petty Officer 

Taylor Mudrock, Sector Ohio Valley, 

U.S. Coast Guard 502–779–5337, 

Taylor.A.Mudrock@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Table of Abbreviations 

CFR Code of Federal Regulations 

COTP Captain of the Port Sector Ohio 

Valley 

DHS Department of Homeland Security 

FR Federal Register 

NPRM Notice of proposed rulemaking 

§ Section 

U.S.C. United States Code 

II. Background, Purpose, and Legal 

Basis 

On July 5, 2021, River Cities 

Community Sailing Program notified the 

Coast Guard that it will be conducting 

a sailing regatta from noon through 5 

p.m. on October 9, 2021 and October 10, 

2021. The regatta will consist of 


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