WASHINGTON (CN) - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau has removed the 90-day state residency requirement for aliens lawfully present in the United States to buy a gun.
The Department of Justice has determined that the Gun Control Act does not permit the ATF to impose such a requirement when it is not applicable to U.S. citizens.
This is regulation and others, below.
Federal Regulation Brief
June 7, 2012
AGRICULTURE:
AGRICULTURE (USDA)
NEWLY PUBLISHED REGULATIONSHorse Protection Act, requiring horse industry organizations to assess and enforce minimum penalties for violations: Final rule, published June 7, 2012, effective July 9, 2012
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service amends the horse protection regulations to require horse industry organizations or associations that license Designated Qualified Persons to assess and enforce minimum penalties for violations of the Horse Protection Act. The regulations currently provide that such penalties will be set either by the horse industry organization or association or by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This action is intended to strengthen the enforcement of the act by ensuring that minimum penalties are assessed and enforced consistently by all horse industry organizations and associations certified under the regulations by the USDA.
COMMERCE:
COMMERCE (DOC)
PROPOSED REGULATIONS
INDUSTRY AND SECURITY BUREAU (BIS)
Export Administration Regulations, revisions to the Export Administration Regulations, control of personal protective equipment, shelters, and related items the President determines no longer warrant control under the U.S. Munitions List: Proposed rule, published June 7, 2012, comments by July 23, 2012
The Bureau of Industry and Security describes how articles the President determines no longer warrant export control under Category X (personal protective equipment and shelters) of the U.S. Munitions List (USML), would be controlled under the Commerce Control List (CCL) in new Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) 1A613, 1B613, 1D613, and 1E613. In conjunction with establishing these new ECCNs, this proposed rule would control military helmets (currently controlled under ECCNs 0A018 and 0A988) under new ECCN 1A613 and amend ECCN 1A005 for body armor. This proposed rule would also remove machetes from ECCN 0A988. This is one in a planned series of proposed rules describing how various types of articles the President determines, as part of the Administration’s Export Control Reform Initiative, no longer warrant control under the USML, would be controlled on the CCL and by the Export Administration Regulations. This proposed rule is published in conjunction with a proposed rule of the Department of State, which would amend the list of articles controlled by the USML Category X in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
COMMUNICATION (FCC)
NEWLY PUBLISHED REGULATIONSReview of the Emergency Alert System: Final rule, announcement of effective date, published June 7, 2012, effective June 7, 2012
The Federal Communications Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget has approved, for a period of six months, the information collection associated with the FCC’s Review of the Emergency Alert System.
Structure and practices of the Video Relay Service Program: Corrections, published June 7, 2012, effective June 7, 2012
The Federal Communications Commission corrects inadvertently omitted
regulatory text in the Aug. 5, 2011 interim regulation that requires Internet-based Telecommunications Relay Service providers to certify, under penalty of perjury, that their certification applications and annual compliance filings are truthful, accurate and complete.
PROPOSED REGULATIONS
Universal Service contribution methodology, a National Broadband Plan for Our Future: Proposed rule, published June 7, 2012, comments by July 9, 2012, reply comments by Aug. 6, 2012
The Federal Communications Commission requests public comments on approaches to reform and modernize how Universal Service Fund contributions are assessed and recovered. The FCC requests comments on ways to reform the USF contribution system in an effort to promote efficiency, fairness and sustainability. The FCC requests comments on four key areas regarding the contributions system, specifically, who should contribute to the fund, how contributions should be assessed, how the administration of the contribution system can be improved, and recovery of universal service contributions from consumers.
POSTAL SERVICE (USPS)
NEWLY PUBLISHED REGULATIONSInternational service change, Timor-Leste: Final rule, published June 7, 2012, effective June 24, 2012
At the request of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the U.S. Postal Service adds this country to the Mailing Standards of the U.S. Postal Service, International Mail Manual, to reflect Timor-Leste’s independence from Indonesia
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY & RESOURCES:
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (EPA)
NEWLY PUBLISHED REGULATIONSApproval and promulgation of air quality implementation plans, Illinois
The Environmental Protection Agency approves the addition of a new rule to the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted April 7, 2010. The rule being approved into the SIP is Title 35 Illinois Administrative Code Part 223, “Standards and Limitations for Organic Material Emissions for Area Sources.” The rule is approvable because it is at least as stringent, and in some cases more stringent than, the EPA's national consumer products and architectural and industrial maintenance coatings rules. However, the EPA conditionally approves four specific paragraphs in the rule, based on a Sept. 2, 2011, letter from Illinois
Regional haze, revisions to provisions governing alternatives to source-specific Best Available Retrofit Technology determinations, limited SIP disapprovals, and Federal Implementation Plans: Final rule, published June 7, 2012, effective Aug. 6, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency finalizes revisions regarding the regional haze program. In this action, the EPA is finalizes its finding that the trading programs in the Transport Rule, also known as the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, achieve greater reasonable progress towards the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas than source-specific Best Available Retrofit Technology in those states covered by the Transport Rule. In this action, the EPA also finalizes a limited disapproval of the regional haze State Implementation Plans (SIPs) submitted by Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and Texas because these states relied on requirements of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) to satisfy certain regional haze requirements. To address deficiencies in CAIR-dependent regional haze SIPs, in this action the EPA issues Federal Implementation Plans to replace reliance on the CAIR with reliance on the Transport Rule in the regional haze SIPs of Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee , Virginia and West Virginia
PROPOSED REGULATIONS
National emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for reciprocating internal combustion engines, new source performance standards for stationary internal combustion engines: Proposed rule, published June 7, 2012, comments by July 23, 2012, or 30 days after date of public meeting if later, if any requests to speak at a public meeting are received by June 14, 2012, a public meeting will be held June 22, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency proposes amendments to the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. The proposed amendments include alternative testing options for certain large spark ignition (generally natural gas-fueled) stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines, management practices for a subset of existing spark ignition stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines in sparsely populated areas and alternative monitoring and compliance options for the same engines in populated areas. The EPA also proposes to include a limited temporary allowance for existing stationary emergency area source engines to be used for peak shaving and non-emergency demand response. In addition, the EPA proposes to increase the hours that stationary emergency engines may be used for emergency demand response. The proposed amendments also correct minor mistakes in the pre-existing regulations.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)
NEWLY PUBLISHED REGULATIONSCertification of substance abuse experts: Petition for rulemaking, consideration in the rulemaking process, published June 7, 2012, the docket for the petition for rulemaking, PRM-26-7, is closed June 7, 2012
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will consider in the rulemaking process the issues raised in the petition for rulemaking (PRM), PRM-26-7, submitted by the American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders. The petitioner requested that the NRC amend its regulations to include the Academy as one of the organizations authorized to certify a substance abuse expert. The NRC determined that the issues raised in the PRM are appropriate for consideration and will consider them in the ongoing Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 26 Technical Issues rulemaking.
GOVERNMENT:
STATE DEPARTMENT (DOS)
PROPOSED REGULATIONS
