This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains regulatory documents having general

applicability and legal effect, most of which

are keyed to and codified in the Code of

Federal Regulations, which is published under

50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.

The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by

the Superintendent of Documents.

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Vol. 87, No. 86 

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF 

THE FEDERAL REGISTER 

1 CFR Part 12 

Official Subscriptions to the Print 

Edition of the Federal Register 

AGENCY: Administrative Committee of 

the Federal Register. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Administrative 

Committee of the Federal Register is 

updating its regulations for official 

requests for specific issues or 

subscriptions to the print edition of the 

Federal Register as required by the 

Federal Register Printing Savings Act of 

2017. 

DATES: Effective May 4, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Docket materials are 

available for review at the Office of the 

Federal Register, 7 G Street NW, Suite 

A–734, Washington, DC 20401, 202– 

741–6030. Please contact the persons 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section to schedule your 

inspection of docket materials. The 

Office of the Federal Register’s official 

hours of business are Monday through 

Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., excluding 

Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katerina Horska, Director of Legal 

Affairs and Policy, or Miriam Vincent, 

Staff Attorney, Office of the Federal 

Register, at Fedreg.legal@nara.gov, or 

202–741–6030. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background and Purpose 

Under the Federal Register Act (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 15), the Administrative 

Committee of the Federal Register 

(Administrative Committee, Committee, 

ACFR, or we) is responsible for issuing 

regulations governing Federal Register 

publications. This includes establishing 

the number of official print copies of the 

Federal Register that can be distributed 

to Members of Congress, officers and 

employees of the United States, or 

Federal agencies (44 U.S.C. 1506). The 

ACFR sets out the number of official 

copies that Members of Congress and 

any other office of the United States are 

entitled to receive without charge in 1 

CFR 12.1. This section also establishes 

how Federal offices of the United States 

request subscriptions to print copies of 

the Federal Register. 

In January of 2018, the Federal 

Register Printing Savings Act of 2017 

(Pub. L. 115–120) (the Act) updated 44 

U.S.C. 1506 by changing subscription 

terms to yearly and placing other 

requirements on requests for official 

print copies of the Federal Register. 

Specifically, the Act prohibits the 

Government Publishing Office (GPO) 

from distributing the Federal Register 

without charge to Members of Congress 

or any other office of the United States 

unless they request a specific issue of 

the Federal Register or a subscription to 

the print edition of the Federal Register 

for that year. The Act also limits 

subscriptions to single-year terms. In 

addition, the Act requires the ACFR to 

issue regulations that notify Members of 

Congress and any other office of the 

United States of these restrictions and 

provide information on requesting 

official copies or subscriptions. 

On December 30, 2020, we published 

a notice of proposed rulemaking (85 FR 

86514), proposing to revise 1 CFR 12.1 

to meet the requirements of the Act by 

setting out how Members of Congress 

and any other office of the United States 

may request an official copy or a 

subscription to the print edition of the 

Federal Register. 

We received no comments. 

Other Actions Taken To Implement the 

Act 

Since the effective date of the Act, 

GPO has issued two Circular Letters 

related to its implementation. The first, 

GPO Circular Letter 1001, announced to 

official subscribers that GPO was 

creating a database to help implement 

the requirements of the Act (Gov’t 

Publ’g Office, Circular Letter No. 1001 

(2018), www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-withus/agency/circular-letters/federalregister-printing-savings-act-of-2017). 

The second, GPO Circular Letter 1021, 

announced GPO’s new online 

subscription portal for official 

distribution of the print edition of the 

Federal Register located at 

www.gpo.gov/frsubs (Gov’t Publ’g 

Office, Circular Letter No. 1021 (2018), 

www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/ 

agency/circular-letters/federal-registerprinting-savings-act-of-2017-2). On the 

portal’s form, an office of the United 

States may sign up for a yearly 

subscription to the print edition of the 

Federal Register, with an option for the 

delivery of multiple copies to the office. 

The subscription will be valid for one 

calendar year, but must be renewed 

each January regardless of when 

initially requested. GPO will send 

subscribers a reminder that they will 

need to sign up for the next calendar 

year if they wish to continue to receive 

print copies of the daily Federal 

Register. If official subscribers do not 

use the portal to sign up, they will not 

receive print copies of the Federal 

Register at the start of the new calendar 

year. Currently, the portal also provides 

Members of Congress and other offices 

of the United States an email address 

(FRsubs@gpo.gov) for requesting 

specific issues of the daily Federal 

Register. However, future versions of 

the portal’s form will allow Members of 

Congress and other offices of the United 

States to request specific issues of the 

daily Federal Register, in addition to 

subscriptions, directly through the 

portal. 

To highlight these developments, 

GPO placed a direct link to the 

subscription portal on its homepage 

menu (Who We Are > Our Agency > 

Official Federal Register Subscription 

Form). We will also provide updates on 

any changes to the official distribution 

of print copies of the Federal Register 

on www.federalregister.gov and in the 

front matter of Federal Register issues. 

We did not propose any changes to 

the process for requesting quantity 

overruns or extra copies. The 

paragraphs of § 12.1 governing those 

processes are re-designated as 

paragraphs (d) through (f) instead of 

paragraphs (b) through (d), but the 

processes themselves will remain the 

same. We also did not propose to 

change the paid subscription process in 

part 11. The Act did not affect the 

process for paid subscriptions, so this 

rule applies only to requests for 

distribution of the Federal Register 

without charge. 

Regulatory Analysis 

The Administrative Committee 

developed this rule after considering 

numerous statutes and Executive orders 


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related to rulemaking. Below is a 

summary of the Committee’s 

determinations after analysis of these 

statutes and Executive orders with 

respect to this rulemaking. 

Administrative Procedure Act 

The Administrative Procedure Act 

(APA) requires a 30-day delay in the 

effective date of a rule unless the 

promulgating agency finds ‘‘good cause’’ 

for dispensing with the delay or another 

exception applies. 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3). 

The Administrative Committee has 

determined that the good-cause 

exception applies to this rule. 

The ‘‘primary purpose’’ for deferring 

the effective date of a rule is ‘‘to afford 

persons affected a reasonable time to 

prepare for the effective date of a rule 

or rules or to take other action which 

the issuance may prompt.’’ N. Arapahoe 

Tribe v. Hodel, 808 F.2d 741, 752 (10th 

Cir. 1987) (quotation marks omitted); 

Am. Fed’n of Gov’t Emp., AFL–CIO v. 

Block, 655 F.2d 1153, 1156 (D.C. Cir. 

1981) (noting that a delay in the 

effective date ‘‘serve[s] the laudable 

purpose of informing affected parties 

and affording them a reasonable time to 

adjust to the new regulation’’). The 

regulatory changes at issue in this 

rulemaking will not require any 

significant time for affected parties to 

alter their behavior because Members of 

Congress or other offices will 

immediately be able to use the online 

portal at www.gpo.gov/frsubs to request 

print subscriptions to the Federal 

Register. In addition, this rule has no 

effect on paid subscriptions, and it does 

not affect public access to the Federal 

Register, as the publication will remain 

freely available online at 

www.GovInfo.gov and 

www.federalregister.gov. Because the 

rule will have no significant effect on 

either requesting offices or the public 

more generally, regulated parties will 

not need time to come into compliance 

with the rule, and the good-cause 

exception under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) 

applies. 

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

This rule has been drafted in 

accordance with Executive Order 12866, 

section 1(b), ‘‘The Principles of 

Regulation,’’ and Executive Order 

13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review.’’ The 

Administrative Committee has 

determined that this rule is not a 

significant regulatory action as defined 

under section 3(f) of Executive Order 

12866. Thus, this rule has not been 

reviewed by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB). 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

This rule will not have a significant 

impact on small entities because it 

imposes no requirements on the public. 

Members of the public can access 

Federal Register publications for free 

through GPO’s website, 

www.govinfo.gov/. 

Federalism 

This rule has no federalism 

implications under Executive Order 

13132. It does not impose compliance 

costs on State or local governments or 

preempt State law. 

Congressional Review 

This rule is not a major rule as 

defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). The 

Administrative Committee will submit a 

rule report, including a copy of this 

final rule, to each House of the Congress 

and to the Comptroller General of the 

United States as required under the 

congressional review provisions of the 

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act of 1986. 5 U.S.C. 801(a). 

List of Subjects in 1 CFR Part 12 

Code of Federal Regulations, Federal 

Register, Government publications, 

Public Papers of Presidents of U.S., U.S. 

Government Manual, Daily Compilation 

of Presidential Documents. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, under the authority at 44 

U.S.C. 1506, the Administrative 

Committee of the Federal Register 

amends 1 CFR part 12 as follows: 

PART 12—OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTION 

WITHIN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 12 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 

10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., 

p. 189. 

■ 2. Amend § 12.1 by: 

■ a. Revising paragraph (a); 

■ b. Redesignating paragraphs (b) 

through (e) as (d) through (g); and 

■ c. Adding new paragraphs (b) and (c). 

The revision and additions read as 

follows: 

§ 12.1 Federal Register. 

(a) The Federal Register, issued under 

the authority of the Administrative 

Committee, is officially maintained 

online and is available on at least one 

Government Publishing Office website. 

(b) Requests for subscriptions to the 

Federal Register may be made as 

follows: 

(1) Requests from a Member of 

Congress or any other office of the 

United States for a specific issue or a 

subscription may be submitted via a 

Government Publishing Office website 

or by email to an email address 

provided on that website. 

(2) Official subscription requests: 

(i) May be made in the current year 

for that year or for the upcoming year; 

(ii) Will expire at the end of each 

calendar year; and 

(iii) Will not automatically continue 

into a new calendar year. 

(c) Notifications regarding procedures 

for requesting official copies of specific 

issues or print subscriptions are 

available: 

(1) On a Government Publishing 

Office website dedicated to official 

subscriptions; 

(2) On www.federalregister.gov; and 

(3) In the front matter of the Federal 

Register, which is the text that precedes 

the main text of the daily issue of the 

Federal Register. 

* * * * * 

David S. Ferriero, 

Chairperson, Administrative Committee of 

the Federal Register. 

Hugh N. Halpern, 

Member, Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register. 

Rosemary Hart, 

Member, Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register. 

Approved: 

Merrick B. Garland, 

Attorney General. 

David S. Ferriero, 

Archivist of the United States. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09563 Filed 5–3–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1301–00–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

20 CFR Part 404 

[Docket No. SSA–2022–0016] 

RIN 0960–AI66 

Extension of Expiration Dates for 

Three Body System Listings 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: We are extending the 

expiration dates of the following body 

systems in the Listing of Impairments 

(listings) in our regulations: Special 

Senses and Speech, Hematological 

Disorders, and Congenital Disorders 

That Affect Multiple Body Systems. We 

are making no other revisions to these 

body systems in this final rule. This 

extension ensures that we will continue 

to have the criteria we need to evaluate 

impairments in the affected body 

systems at step three of the sequential 

evaluation processes for initial claims 

and continuing disability reviews. 


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