Rule published on Dec. 20 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Sea Turtle Conservation; Shrimp Trawling 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 Dec. 20

Title
Sea Turtle Conservation; Shrimp Trawling Requirements
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod Management in the Groundfish Fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska
Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe From the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Statement of Financial Interests, Regional Fishery Management Councils
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; North Pacific Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Cost Recovery Programs
Certain Pasta From Italy: Notice of Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
Acetone From Singapore and Spain: Antidumping Duty Orders
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti Under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), as Amended by the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership Encouragement Act (HOPE)
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
International Fisheries; Pacific Tuna Fisheries; Procedures for the Active and Inactive Vessel Register
Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Construction and Operation of the Liberty Drilling and Production Island, Beaufort Sea, Alaska