Proposed rule published by Commerce Department on July 25

The US Commerce Department published a six page proposed rule on July 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Electronic Reporting Requirements.

The Department includes the Census Bureau, which is used to determine many factors about American life. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department is involved in misguided foreign trade policies and is home to many unneeded programs.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Commerce Department on July 25

Title
Marine Mammals; File No. 782-1438
Marine Mammals; File No. 998-1678
Certain Cased Pencils from the People's Republic of China; Final Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; Amendment 5 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery off the Southern Atlantic States
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Electronic Reporting Requirements
Listing Endangered and Threatened Species: Findings on a Delisting Petition, and Two Listing Petitions, Concerning 16 Evolutionarily Significant Units of Pacific Salmon and Steelhead
Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Western Pacific Pelagic Fisheries; Pelagic Longline Gear Restrictions, Seasonal Area Closure, and Other Sea Turtle Take Mitigation Measures; Correction
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off the West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Groundfish Fishery Management Measures; Corrections