public-comment
Every record this desk has filed under public-comment, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
EPA proposes advance review for new uses of chemicals already under orders
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing rules for certain chemicals already subject to federal orders. If finalized as proposed, manufacturers and processors planning specified new uses would need to notify the agency at least 90 days in advance and wait for its review and required action. Comments are due December 2.
Also filed underenvironmentchemicalsepaworker-safety
NHTSA proposes cyan marker lights for automated vehicles and changes to lighting controls
A federal proposal would standardize optional cyan lamps that identify when an automated driving system is controlling a vehicle. It would also narrow certain requirements for manually operated lighting controls to vehicles with manual driving controls. The proposal is scheduled for the October 26 Federal Register; its inspection copy leaves the comment date bracketed, while Register metadata supplies November 25.
Also filed undervehicle-safetyautomated-drivinglightingrulemaking
Forest Service files final rule with shorter comment and objection periods for national forest projects
A Forest Service final rule filed October 9 would give people 15 days to comment on projects assessed with an environmental assessment and 30 days for those with an environmental impact statement. Objections would have 10- or 20-day windows. Publication is scheduled for October 13; the Register lists November 12 as the effective date. Existing projects have separate transition rules.
Also filed underforest-servicenational-forestsadministrative-reviewfederal-register
CFTC asks for public comment on its intent to develop rules for retail crypto trades offered with leverage, margin or financing; this is an advance notice, not a proposed rule
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on October 13, that seeks comment on its intent to develop rules for retail crypto trades offered with leverage, margin or financing. It contains no rule text. The agency's inspection copy prints only a bracket for the comment date; the Register's own record for the October 13 issue gives December 14, 2026.
Also filed undercftccrypto-assetsrulemakingfederal-registerretail-investors
FDA proposes broader food-traceability relief for restaurants and retailers above its existing small-business exemption
FDA released draft guidance stating that it does not intend to enforce its food-traceability requirements for another band of small restaurants and retailers. The thresholds use three-year average food sales or provision, adjusted for inflation from 2020. Comments on the draft are due November 23 for consideration before final guidance. A separate November 6 meeting will examine tracking problems and possible flexibility.
Also filed underfood-safetyfood-traceabilityrestaurantssmall-businessfederal-register
USTR asks U.S. producers for EU carbon-border costs and views on possible enforcement action
The U.S. Trade Representative opened a comment window October 8 on how the European Union's carbon-border mechanism affects American producers, workers and exports. It wants evidence of costs, lost sales and effects on jobs, plus views on possible enforcement responses and proposals to cover more products. Comments are due November 9 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. The notice announces no enforcement action, and the expansion proposals are not enacted law.
Also filed undertradeexportscarbon-bordermanufacturingeuropean-union
A $70,000 fee gets a 30-day comment period; the paperwork that would record it gets 60, in one DATES line
DHS's Optional Practical Training fee proposal sets two deadlines in a single DATES line: November 9, 2026 for the rule, December 7 for its information collection. The rule's one sentence about those 30 days measures them against the time an F-1 student needs to change status or depart — notice, rather than time to comment. The Paperwork Reduction Act's 60-day notice provision carries an exception for a collection inside a proposed rule, so on the statutes read here, neither number is a floor someone set for the agency.
Also filed underrulemakingimmigrationpaperwork-reduction-actfederal-register
Only the petitioner or the industries that benefit could ask to keep these tariff actions in place
Two 2018 tariff actions on Chinese goods were due to expire this summer unless someone asked for them to continue. The law gives that request to the petitioner or the industries that benefit, and names consumers only in the review that follows. Two other consultations published the same day start from the opposite end.
Also filed undercommentarytradetariffsrulemakingconsumer-impact
USTR opens USMCA comments before the 2027 joint review, with written submissions due January 12
USTR’s October 5 notice invites comments on the USMCA before its 2027 annual joint review. Written comments and requests to testify are due January 12, 2027, at 11:59 p.m. EST, through separate dockets on the agency’s portal. The notice does not set a hearing date; it says those details will be published separately.
Also filed undertradeusmcatrade-policynorth-america
One question, five file numbers: three agencies each split a subject across several documents in the same issue, and handled the pointing three different ways
Monday's Federal Register carries twelve documents covering three subjects. The SEC asks in five separate notices whether a professional credential should qualify someone as an accredited investor, and each keeps its own file number and its own comment path. The NRC files a rule and its companion proposal and says a comment on one counts as a comment on both. The FAA files five launch-licensing proposals that all cite the same executive order, and not one of them mentions the other four.
Also filed underfederal-registerrulemakingdockets
A comment deadline moved three weeks, and the rule still shows the old date
The Census Bureau's proposed residence criteria say comments are due October 13. On October 2 the Bureau filed a notice moving that to November 2. Checked on October 3, the Federal Register's own record for the rule still returned October 13, with an empty corrections list, on a docket that had already drawn 33,382 comments. A Federal Reserve docket printed to close this Monday will now close November 4, the Board says, with nothing in the Register saying so at all.
Also filed underfederal-registerrulemakingdeadlines
Today is the last day to comment on the Labor Department's plan to replace the 2024 rule's 100 percent black lung collateral for self-insured coal companies with seven tiers from 10 to 100 percent, phased in over three years, and five comments had been filed by Monday's count
Written comments on the Labor Department's proposed rewrite of how self-insured coal companies guarantee black lung benefits 'must be received by September 28, 2026', which is today. The proposal (FR Doc. 2026-15325, docket WCPO-2026-0529, RIN 1240-AA16) would replace the 2024 rule's requirement of security equal to 100 percent of estimated liabilities within one year with seven tiers based on financial strength, requiring 10 to 100 percent, phased in over three years. The Department says self-insured operators would still pledge 'over $300 million' more and would save about $7 million to $28 million a year. Its analysis says the change 'reallocates a portion of the bankruptcy-related risk to the taxpayers' while keeping deposits 'appropriately aligned with the associated risk of bankruptcy'. The backdrop: from 2014 to 2016, three self-insured operators went bankrupt with $27.4 million in collateral, and the liabilities that passed to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund were 'eventually estimated to be $865 million'. When the Federal Register checked regulations.gov at 15:55 UTC today, five comments had been filed.
Also filed underblack-lunglabor-departmentcoal-miningworkers-compensationfederal-register
The Federal Reserve's stablecoin proposal, publishing September 29 with 60 days for comment, would make the issuers it supervises pay holders within two business days and, if reserves fall below one-to-one, start liquidating by 5 p.m. on the business day after a 24-hour plan deadline, with no redemption fees, unless backing is restored or the Fed directs the issuer to follow its plan.
The Federal Reserve Board's proposed rule implementing the GENIUS Act (Docket R-1899, FR Doc. 2026-19860), on public inspection September 28 and scheduled for Federal Register publication September 29, sets terms for the stablecoin issuers the Fed will supervise. Issuers would have to redeem within two business days of a request, for any amount of one coin or more, after customer screening. An issuer whose reserves fall below one-to-one would have 24 hours to notify the Fed and file a plan, and must begin liquidating by 5 p.m. on the business day after that deadline unless it has restored full backing or the Fed directs it to follow its plan, charging no redemption fees and issuing no new coins while it does. The Fed would presume that yield paid to holders through an issuer's affiliates, yield-service firms or brand partners is prohibited. The redemption rules do not reach trading on exchanges, and the Fed says no bank it supervises currently owns a stablecoin issuer. Comments close 60 days after publication; that lands on Saturday, November 28, which Federal Register rules push to Monday, November 30, 2026, by Hugin's count. The printed notice will state the date.
Also filed underfederal-reservestablecoinsgenius-actcryptoconsumer-protectionfederal-register
The FAA proposes inspecting elevator-control bearings on an estimated 95 U.S.-registered 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200 airplanes after a report that the bearings may have been installed incorrectly in production, including without sealant, and the Boeing bulletin it would make mandatory gives operators 126 months to look.
A proposed airworthiness directive published September 21 (Docket No. FAA-2026-8811) would require detailed inspections of the elevator buss assembly bearings and bearing housings on certain Boeing 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200 airplanes; an FAA directive from 2020 calls the first two the 737 MAX. The FAA says it received a report that the bearings 'could have been installed incorrectly (including being installed without the application of sealant) during production', which could lead to cracking in the bearings and housings and premature failure of the assembly's crank arms and could impact elevator pitch control. It estimates 95 U.S.-registered airplanes are affected, at $1,955 per airplane for the inspection and $185,725 for U.S. operators; replacing a whole assembly would cost an estimated $98,496. The deadline is not in the proposal. It sits in the Boeing bulletin posted in the docket: 126 months, which for airplanes already flying would count from the final rule's effective date, with no repeat inspection. Under the bulletin, a crack or missing sealant must be fixed before further flight. The 737 MAX-7, certified August 3, is not among the airplanes listed. Comments are due November 5, 2026.
Also filed underfaaboeingaviation-safetyairworthiness-directivefederal-register
This desk has been printing federal deadlines for eleven days without telling anyone where to write. The Register publishes the address itself, and nobody here was reading it.
The forward board at /federal has listed dated federal commitments since September 8 — comment periods still open, rules not yet in force. As of today that is 406 commitments across 84 agencies, 185 of them comment periods a reader could still answer. Every one of those rows was a dead end: the board could say a comment period closes on a date and could not say where to write. The Federal Register resolves the regulations.gov submission form itself and publishes it as a field on every document, and this desk had never read that field. It does now. The board leads with the 16 open comment periods on rules the Register itself marked significant, each with its deadline, its agency, the number of comments already filed, and a link straight to the form. The first version of that count would have been a lie: it printed a reading the Register had last refreshed fourteen days earlier beside one refreshed this morning. Counts now carry the date they were taken.
Also filed underfederal-registerinstrumentstransparency
EPA and the Army Corps are weighing a Clean Water Act test that would cover only water flowing every day of the year. Their own notice says most intermittent streams and most wetlands now protected would fall outside it. Comments close October 9.
On September 9 the EPA and the Army Corps published a supplemental proposal to their pending rewrite of which 'waters of the United States' the Clean Water Act covers. The new option would define 'relatively permanent' as perennial, water standing or flowing every day of the year in ordinary conditions, allowing only one dry spell of up to 30 days a year. Wetlands would be covered only where perennial surface water makes them hard to tell apart from a covered water. The agencies write that most intermittent streams would not qualify and that 'the majority of wetlands' jurisdictional under current rules would not either, with 'a significant reduction in federally jurisdictional waters' in the arid West. They give no acreage or mileage estimates. Public comments are due October 9, 2026, in docket EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322.
Also filed underepaarmy-corpsclean-water-actwetlandswotusfederal-register
The Forest Service has proposed repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects 58.5 million acres of national forest from most road building and logging. Public comments close October 6, and more than 219,000 have already been filed.
The Agriculture Department proposed on August 20 to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which bars most road construction and timber cutting on 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas in the national forests. On September 11 it extended the comment deadline 15 days, to October 6, 2026. The stated reasons are wildfire risk, insect and disease outbreaks, and returning decisions to local forest officials. The agency's own analysis says permanent roads would become possible on about 18.2 million acres where forest plans allow them, that sawtimber harvest could rise 5 to 10 percent if every eligible area were cut (which it calls unlikely), and that its effects could exceed $100 million. It says the repeal 'does not mandate timber cutting or road construction.' Idaho's and Colorado's state roadless rules would stay in place. Most tribal governments consulted oppose it.
Also filed underusdaforest-servicepublic-landsroadless-rulewildfirefederal-register
Two federal notices printed last week record things that happened years ago: a recall petition from 2024, and fraud convictions from 2019.
On September 11 the Federal Register published a General Motors petition asking to be excused from recalling about 10,241 model-year 2024 Cadillac XT4, Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon vehicles whose taillamps do not light with the parking lamps in one switch position. GM filed that petition on May 17, 2024; the public comment window it opens closes October 13, 2026. The same day's Register carried seven FCC notices barring people from the E-Rate school-internet subsidy for three years, for fraud convictions dated between 2019 and 2022. The FCC's letters point to new rules adopted on March 26, 2026. Neither document says why the gap was as long as it was.
Also filed underfederal-registernhtsarecallsgeneral-motorsfcce-ratedebarmentfrauddated-terms
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