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Conditions #4A, #9C, and #13D for 

boiler 3 (Source ID 033); conditions 

#4A, #9C, and #13D for boiler 5 (Source 

ID 035); conditions #4B and #9 for the 

gas turbine (Source ID 039); conditions 

#6A, #6B, and #6D for any remaining 

shell freezers (Source ID 105); 

conditions #6A and #6D for air 

emissions (disinfection; Source IDs 105, 

107, 108, and 111); conditions #4C and 

#9 for any remaining generators (various 

Source IDs); condition #8 for research 

and development (Section C); and 

condition #11 for any remaining 

deminimus sources (Section C). See also 

§ 52.2063(c)(154)(i)(D) for prior RACT 

approval. 

(7) Letterkenny Army Depot— 

Incorporating by reference Permit No. 

28–05002, effective June 1, 2018, as 

redacted by Pennsylvania, which 

supersedes the prior RACT Permit No. 

28–02002, effective February 3, 2000 

except for conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 

11, 12, and 14 which also remain as 

RACT requirements. See also 

§ 52.2063(d)(1)(g) for prior RACT 

approval. 

(8) Fairless Energy, LLC— 

Incorporating by reference Permit No. 

09–00124, effective December 6, 2016 as 

redacted by Pennsylvania. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

48 CFR Part 570 

[GSAR Case 2021–G524; Docket No. GSA– 

GSAR 2021–0019; Sequence No. 1] 

RIN 3090–AK49 

General Services Administration 

Acquisition Regulation (GSAR); 

Updates to Certain Online References 

in the GSAM 

AGENCY: Office of Acquisition Policy, 

General Services Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The General Services 

Administration (GSA) is issuing a final 

rule amending the General Services 

Administration Acquisition Regulation 

(GSAR) to update an outdated reference 

to a legacy website. 

DATES: Effective October 1, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Tyler Piper or Mr. Stephen Carroll at 

817–253–7858 or gsarpolicy@gsa.gov, 

for clarification of content. For 

information pertaining to status or 

publication schedules, contact the 

Regulatory Secretariat at 202–501–4755. 

Please cite GSAR Case 2021–G524. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

GSA’s Integrated Award Environment 

integrated the legacy SAM.gov into the 

beta.SAM.gov environment on May 24, 

2021, migrating the functionality of 

SAM.gov into beta.SAM.gov. The term 

‘‘beta’’ is retired, and there is now only 

one SAM.gov. 

II. Authority for This Rulemaking 

Title 40 of the United States Code 

(U.S.C.) Section 121 authorizes GSA to 

issue regulations, including the GSAR, 

to control the relationship between GSA 

and contractors. 

III. Discussion and Analysis 

The System for Award Management 

(SAM) has officially gone live, and as 

such the URL to reach it has changed 

from https://beta.sam.gov to https://

www.sam.gov. This rule simply updates 

an outdated URL reference to the new 

website. 

IV. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and 

13563 direct agencies to assess all costs 

and benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, distributive impacts, and 

equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the 

importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, of reducing costs, of 

harmonizing rules, and of promoting 

flexibility. This rule has been reviewed 

and determined by OMB not to be a 

significant regulatory action and, 

therefore, was not subject to review 

under section 6(b) of E.O. 12866, 

Regulatory Planning and Review, dated 

September 30, 1993. 

V. Congressional Review Act 

The Congressional Review Act, 5 

U.S.C. 801 et seq., as amended by the 

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides 

that before a ‘‘major rule’’ may take 

effect, the agency promulgating the rule 

must submit a rule report, which 

includes a copy of the rule, to each 

House of the Congress and to the 

Comptroller General of the United 

States. A major rule cannot take effect 

until 60 days after it is published in the 

Federal Register. This rule has been 

reviewed and determined by OMB not 

to be a ‘‘major rule’’ under 5 U.S.C. 

804(2). 

VI. Notice for Public Comment 

The statute that applies to the 

publication of the GSAR is the Office of 

Federal Procurement Policy statute 

(codified at title 41 of the United States 

Code). Specifically, 41 U.S.C. 1707(a)(1) 

requires that a procurement policy, 

regulation, procedure or form (including 

an amendment or modification thereof) 

must be published for public comment 

if it relates to the expenditure of 

appropriated funds, and has either a 

significant effect beyond the internal 

operating procedures of the agency 

issuing the policy, regulation, 

procedure, or form, or has a significant 

cost or administrative impact on 

contractors or offerors. This rule is not 

required to be published for public 

comment, because it does not have a 

significant effect or impose any new 

requirements on contractors or offerors. 

The rule simply replaces website 

references. 

VII. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.) does not apply to this 

rule, because an opportunity for public 

comment is not required to be given for 

this rule under 41 U.S.C. 1707(a)(1) (see 

Section VI. of this preamble). 

Accordingly, no regulatory flexibility 

analysis is required and none has been 

prepared. 

VIII. Paperwork Reduction Act 

This rule does not contain any 

information collection requirements that 

require the approval of the Office of 

Management and Budget under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

List of Subjects in 48 CFR Part 570 

Government procurement. 

Jeffrey Koses, 

Senior Procurement Executive, Office of 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration. 

Therefore, GSA amends 48 CFR part 

570 as set forth below: 

PART 570—ACQUIRING LEASEHOLD 

INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 570 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c). 

570.106 [Amended] 

■ 2. Amend section 570.106 in 

paragraph (a) by removing 

‘‘Governmentwide Point of Entry (GPE) 

at https://beta.sam.gov or successor 

system’’ and adding ‘‘System for Award 


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1A WCPFC Observer means a person authorized 

by the Commission in accordance with any 

procedures established by the Commission to 

undertake vessel observer duties as part of the 

Commission’s Regional Observer Programme, 

including an observer deployed as part of a NMFSadministered observer program or as part of another 

national or sub-regional observer program, provided 

that such program is authorized by the Commission 

to be part of the Commission’s Regional Observer 

Programme. See 50 CFR 300.211. 

Management Contract Opportunities at 

https://www.sam.gov’’ in its place. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 300 

[Docket No. 210603–0121; RTID 0648– 

XB334] 

International Fisheries; Western and 

Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly 

Migratory Species; Extension of 

Emergency Decisions of the Western 

and Central Pacific Fisheries 

Commission 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary specifications. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is extending the 

effective date of temporary 

specifications that implement three 

short-notice decisions of the 

Commission on the Conservation and 

Management of Highly Migratory Fish 

Stocks in the Western and Central 

Pacific Ocean (Commission or WCPFC). 

NMFS issued temporary specifications 

on June 11, 2021, to implement shortnotice WCPFC decisions regarding 

purse seine observer coverage, purse 

seine transshipments at sea, and 

transshipment observer coverage. NMFS 

is extending the effective date of those 

temporary specifications until January 

13, 2022. NMFS is undertaking this 

action under the authority of the 

Western and Central Pacific Fisheries 

Convention Implementation Act 

(WCPFC Implementation Act) to satisfy 

the obligations of the United States as a 

Contracting Party to the Convention on 

the Conservation and Management of 

Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the 

Western and Central Pacific Ocean 

(Convention). 

DATES: The temporary specifications are 

in effect from September 1, 2021 until 

January 13, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rini 

Ghosh, NMFS Pacific Islands Regional 

Office, 808–725–5033. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

authority of the WCPFC Implementation 

Act (16 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), NMFS 

published an interim final rule that 

established a framework to implement 

short-notice WCPFC decisions. Also in 

this rule, NMFS simultaneously issued 

temporary specifications to implement 

three short-notice WCPFC decisions; 

those temporary specifications are in 

effect until September 14, 2021. 

Additional background information on 

the Commission, the Convention, the 

interim final rule, and temporary 

specifications, is available in the 

Federal Register document that 

includes the interim final rule and 

temporary specifications (86 FR 31178; 

June 11, 2021). 

Background on WCPFC Emergency 

Decisions 

On April 8, 2020, in response to the 

international concerns over the health of 

observers and vessel crews due to 

COVID–19, the Commission made an 

intersessional decision to suspend the 

requirements for observer coverage on 

purse seine vessels on fishing trips in 

the Convention Area through May 31, 

2020. The Commission subsequently 

extended that decision several times, 

and the current extension is effective 

until December 15, 2021. 

On April 20, 2020, in response to the 

international concerns over the health of 

vessel crews and port officials due to 

COVID–19, the Commission made an 

intersessional decision to modify the 

prohibition on at-sea transshipment for 

purse seine vessels as follows—purse 

seine vessels can conduct at-sea 

transshipment in an area under the 

jurisdiction of a port State, if 

transshipment in port cannot be 

conducted, in accordance with the 

domestic laws and regulations of the 

port State. The Commission 

subsequently extended that decision 

and the current extension is effective 

until December 15, 2021. 

On May 13, 2020, in response to the 

international concerns over the health of 

observers and vessel crews due to 

COVID–19, the Commission made an 

intersessional decision to suspend the 

requirements for observer coverage for 

at-sea transshipments. The Commission 

subsequently extended that decision 

and the current extension is effective 

until December 15, 2021. 

Extension of Temporary Specifications 

NMFS is using the framework as set 

forth at 50 CFR 300.228 to extend the 

effective date of the temporary 

specifications implementing the three 

recent WCPFC intersessional decisions 

(WCPFC decisions dated April 8, 2020, 

April 20, 2020, and May 13, 2020), 

described above, that are in effect until 

December 15, 2021. The regulations to 

implement short-notice WCPFC 

decisions at 50 CFR 300.228 provide 

that temporary specifications to 

implement such short-notice decisions 

will remain in effect no longer than 30 

days after the expiration of the 

underlying Commission decision. 

Accordingly, the requirements of the 

following regulations are waived. Such 

waiver shall remain in effect until 

January 13, 2022, unless NMFS earlier 

rescinds or extends this waiver by 

publication in the Federal Register: 

• 50 CFR 300.223(e)(1). During the 

term of this waiver, U.S. purse seine 

vessels are not required to carry WCPFC 

observers 1 on all fishing trips in the 

Convention Area. However, the 

regulations at 50 CFR 300.215(c)(1) that 

require all vessels with WCPFC Area 

Endorsements or for which WCPFC 

Area Endorsements are required to carry 

WCPFC observers when directed by 

NMFS remain in effect; 

• 50 CFR 300.216(b)(1). During the 

term of this waiver, U.S. purse seine 

fishing vessels are not prohibited from 

at-sea transshipment conducted within 

the national waters of the coastal state, 

in accordance with applicable national 

laws. Transshipment on the high seas 

remains prohibited; and 

• 50 CFR 300.216(b)(2) and 50 CFR 

300.215(d). During the term of this 

waiver, owners and operators of U.S. 

commercial fishing vessels fishing for 

highly migratory species in the 

Convention Area are not prohibited 

from at-sea transshipment without a 

WCPFC observer on board the 

offloading or receiving vessel. 

Classification 

NMFS issues this action pursuant to 

the WCPFC Implementation Act and the 

regulations at 50 CFR 300.228. This 

action is exempt from review under 

Executive Order 12866. 

There is good cause under 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(B) to waive prior notice and the 

opportunity for public comment on the 

interim final rule and temporary 

measures included in this action, 

because prior notice and the 

opportunity for public comment is 

unnecessary and would be contrary to 

the public interest. Opportunity for 

public comment is unnecessary because 

the regulations establishing the 

framework and providing notice of the 

Commission’s decisions described 

above have already been subject to 

notice and public comment, and all that 


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