{"description":"Documents matching 'product problem quality material integrity'","count":6225,"total_pages":50,"next_page_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents?conditions%5Bterm%5D=product+problem+quality+material+integrity&format=json&page=2","results":[{"title":"EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022; Ensuring the Integrity of the EB-5 Program; Automatic Revocation of Petitions for Immigrant Classification","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would implement the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA), which the President signed on March 15, 2022. The RIA substantially reforms and adds significant integrity provisions to the employment-based, fifth preference (EB-5) visa category for alien investors and the associated Regional Center Program. In general, under the EB-5 program, aliens are eligible to apply for lawful permanent resident status in the United States if they make the necessary investment in a new commercial enterprise in the United States and create 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.","document_number":"2026-13392","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/02/2026-13392/eb-5-reform-and-integrity-act-of-2022-ensuring-the-integrity-of-the-eb-5-program-automatic","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-07-02/pdf/2026-13392.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-13392.pdf?1782909918","publication_date":"2026-07-02","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","name":"Homeland Security Department","id":227,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/homeland-security-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/227","parent_id":null,"slug":"homeland-security-department"}],"excerpts":"they may not be necessary.\n \n Criminal Misuse, Deceit, Fraud, and Intentional <span class=\"match\">Material</span> Misrepresentation \n \n DHS proposes to separately codify the definitions of “criminal misuse,” “deceit,” “fraud,” and “intentional <span class=\"match\">material</span> misrepresentation.” \n See \n proposed 8 CFR 204.401, \n Criminal misuse, Deceit, \n \n Fraud, \n and \n Intentional <span class=\"match\">material</span> misrepresentation. \n The statutory language of section 203(b)(5)(O) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)(O), differs from fraud and <span class=\"match\">material</span> misrepresentation findings otherwise made by USCIS during admissibility determinations"},{"title":"Program Integrity and Institutional Quality: Distance Education and Return of Title IV, HEA Funds","type":"Rule","abstract":"The Secretary amends the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations governing participation in the student financial assistance programs authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to promote program integrity and institutional quality. These regulations clarify, update, and consolidate certain provisions that apply to distance education and the return of title IV, HEA funds. They also make technical changes to the TRIO program regulations to reflect the current status of the Republic of Palau as a member of the Freely Associated States. This document provides notice that the Department fully closes out the Program Integrity and Institutional Quality: Distance Education and Return of Title IV, HEA Funds notice of proposed rulemaking. That is, we will not be finalizing the remainder of the Federal TRIO program provisions but may promulgate through future rulemaking efforts.","document_number":"2024-31031","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/03/2024-31031/program-integrity-and-institutional-quality-distance-education-and-return-of-title-iv-hea-funds","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-03/pdf/2024-31031.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-31031.pdf?1735566312","publication_date":"2025-01-03","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION","name":"Education Department","id":126,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/education-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/126","parent_id":null,"slug":"education-department"}],"excerpts":"of 1965, as amended (HEA), to promote program <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> and institutional <span class=\"match\">quality</span>. These regulations clarify, update, and consolidate certain provisions that apply to distance education and the return of title IV, HEA funds. They also make technical changes to the TRIO program regulations to reflect the current status of the Republic of Palau as a member of the Freely Associated States. This document provides notice that the Department fully closes out the Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> and Institutional <span class=\"match\">Quality</span>: Distance Education and Return of Title IV, HEA"},{"title":"Modernizing NRC Regulations for Byproduct Material Use","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations for the licensing of byproduct material, some source material, and some special nuclear material. The NRC's goal in amending these regulations is to modernize the safe, effective, and efficient use of licensed material. This action would reduce the burden of the NRC's licensing process, eliminate the need for certain exemptions from existing regulations, and eliminate unnecessary requirements. The NRC is seeking public comment on this proposed rule and draft interim guidance.","document_number":"2026-09877","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/18/2026-09877/modernizing-nrc-regulations-for-byproduct-material-use","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-18/pdf/2026-09877.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-09877.pdf?1778849121","publication_date":"2026-05-18","agencies":[{"raw_name":"NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION","name":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission","id":383,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/nuclear-regulatory-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/383","parent_id":null,"slug":"nuclear-regulatory-commission"}],"excerpts":"the National <span class=\"match\">Materials</span> Program, the NRC regulates the use of byproduct <span class=\"match\">material</span>, source <span class=\"match\">material</span>, and special nuclear <span class=\"match\">material</span> in quantities not sufficient to form a critical mass for a variety of uses as authorized by Sections 53, 63, and 81 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA) and pursuant to 10 CFR parts 19, 20, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 70 and 150. For the purposes of this document, “byproduct <span class=\"match\">material</span>,” “source <span class=\"match\">material</span>,” and “special nuclear <span class=\"match\">material</span>” describe three broad categories of radioactive <span class=\"match\">material</span> regulated under"},{"title":"Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Fuel System Integrity of Hydrogen Vehicles; Compressed Hydrogen Storage System Integrity; Incorporation by Reference","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule establishes two new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) specifying performance requirements for all motor vehicles that use hydrogen as a fuel source. The final rule is based on Global Technical Regulation (GTR) No. 13, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles. FMVSS No. 307, \"Fuel system integrity of hydrogen vehicles,\" specifies requirements for the integrity of the fuel system in hydrogen vehicles during normal vehicle operations and after crashes. FMVSS No. 308, \"Compressed hydrogen storage system integrity,\" specifies requirements for the compressed hydrogen storage system to ensure the safe storage of hydrogen onboard vehicles. These two standards will reduce deaths and injuries from fires due to hydrogen fuel leakages and/or explosion of the hydrogen storage system.","document_number":"2024-31367","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/17/2024-31367/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards-fuel-system-integrity-of-hydrogen-vehicles-compressed","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-17/pdf/2024-31367.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-31367.pdf?1737035114","publication_date":"2025-01-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","name":"Transportation Department","id":492,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/transportation-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/492","parent_id":null,"slug":"transportation-department"},{"raw_name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","id":345,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/345","parent_id":492,"slug":"national-highway-traffic-safety-administration"}],"excerpts":"part of a proposed rule that includes <span class=\"match\">material</span> incorporated by reference, must summarize <span class=\"match\">material</span> that is proposed to be incorporated by reference and discuss the ways the <span class=\"match\">material</span> is reasonably available to interested parties or how the agency worked to make <span class=\"match\">materials</span> available to interested parties. At the final rule stage, regulations require that the agency seek formal approval, summarize the <span class=\"match\">material</span> that it incorporates by reference in the preamble of the final rule, discuss the ways that the <span class=\"match\">materials</span> are reasonably available to interested"},{"title":"Restoring Integrity to the Issuance of Non-Domiciled Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL)","type":"Rule","abstract":"FMCSA amends the Federal regulations for State Driver's Licensing Agencies (SDLAs) issuing commercial driving credentials to non-domiciled individuals. This final rule reaffirms, with minor changes, the provisions of the interim final rule (IFR) published on September 29, 2025. Specifically, this final rule limits eligibility for non-domiciled Commercial Learner's Permits (CLPs) and Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDLs) for foreign-domiciled individuals to those who hold specific, verifiable employment-based nonimmigrant status. This rule reaffirms the IFR requirements, aligning the issuance of non- domiciled CDLs with FMCSA's statutory mandate to ensure the fitness of all drivers who operate a CMV. By limiting eligibility to statuses subject to enhanced consular vetting of driver history and interagency screening, FMCSA restores the integrity of the CDL system, closes a significant safety gap, and enhances the safety of the traveling public.","document_number":"2026-02965","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/13/2026-02965/restoring-integrity-to-the-issuance-of-non-domiciled-commercial-drivers-licenses-cdl","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-02-13/pdf/2026-02965.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02965.pdf?1770844509","publication_date":"2026-02-13","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","name":"Transportation Department","id":492,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/transportation-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/492","parent_id":null,"slug":"transportation-department"},{"raw_name":"Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration","name":"Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration","id":181,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/181","parent_id":492,"slug":"federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration"}],"excerpts":"cases. \n Lujan, et al. \n v. \n Fed. Motor Carrier Safety Admin., et al., \n No. 25-1215 (D.C. Cir.).\n \n \n \n \n 5 \n  See \n e.g., https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/newsroom/interim-final-ruling-restoring-<span class=\"match\">integrity</span>-issuance-non-domiciled-drivers-licenses-cdl \n ; \n https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/newsroom/order-granting-administrative-stay-interim-final-rule-titled-restoring-<span class=\"match\">integrity</span>-issuance. \n \n \n B. Comments and Responses \n FMCSA solicited comments concerning the IFR for 60 days ending November 28, 2025. By that date, 8,010 comments were received. A summary of the comments"},{"title":"Modernizing Materials Licensing","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations for byproduct, source, and special nuclear material to modernize the NRC's materials licensing requirements. This proposed action is responsive to several executive orders and the NRC's mission to enable safe, efficient, and reliable licensing. These changes are deregulatory in nature and include streamlining the process for existing and certain new applicants to enable bringing power to the grid. Unnecessary regulations are being eliminated, and reporting and recordkeeping requirements are being changed. The NRC is proposing several other changes to clarify regulations that are confusing or ambiguous to make the overall licensing process more efficient. Finally, regulations governing the storage of radioactive material are being amended to accommodate new and advanced nuclear fuels.","document_number":"2026-12702","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/24/2026-12702/modernizing-materials-licensing","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-24/pdf/2026-12702.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-12702.pdf?1782218718","publication_date":"2026-06-24","agencies":[{"raw_name":"NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION","name":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission","id":383,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/nuclear-regulatory-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/383","parent_id":null,"slug":"nuclear-regulatory-commission"}],"excerpts":"Nuclear <span class=\"match\">materials</span>, Penalties, Radiation protection, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Whistleblowing. \n \n Byproduct <span class=\"match\">material</span>, Criminal penalties, Exports, Hazardous <span class=\"match\">materials</span> transportation, Imports, Licensed <span class=\"match\">material</span>, Nuclear <span class=\"match\">materials</span>, Penalties, Radioactive <span class=\"match\">materials</span>, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Security measures. \n \n Criminal penalties, Exports, Government contracts, Hazardous <span class=\"match\">materials</span> transportation, Hazardous waste, Nuclear energy, Nuclear <span class=\"match\">materials</span>, Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Source <span class=\"match\">material</span>, Uranium"},{"title":"Applications for New Awards; Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for Individuals With Disabilities-National Center To Improve Faculty Capacity To Use Educational Technology in Special Education Personnel and Leadership Preparation Programs","type":"Notice","abstract":"The Department of Education (Department) is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for Individuals with Disabilities--National Center to Improve Faculty Capacity to Use Educational Technology in Special Education Personnel and Leadership Preparation Programs.","document_number":"2025-11612","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/25/2025-11612/applications-for-new-awards-educational-technology-media-and-materials-for-individuals-with","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-25/pdf/2025-11612.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-11612.pdf?1750769112","publication_date":"2025-06-25","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION","name":"Education Department","id":126,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/education-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/126","parent_id":null,"slug":"education-department"}],"excerpts":"effectiveness and <span class=\"match\">quality</span> of the Educational Technology, Media, and <span class=\"match\">Materials</span> for Individuals with Disabilities program. These measures are:\n \n \n • \n Program Performance Measure #1: \n The percentage of Educational Technology, Media, and <span class=\"match\">Materials</span> Program <span class=\"match\">products</span> and services judged to be of high <span class=\"match\">quality</span> by an independent review panel of experts qualified to review the substantial content of the <span class=\"match\">products</span> and services.\n \n \n • \n Program Performance Measure #2: \n The percentage of Educational Technology, Media, and <span class=\"match\">Materials</span> Program <span class=\"match\">products</span> and services"},{"title":"Powertech USA, Inc.; Dewey-Burdock In Situ Uranium Recovery Project; Environmental Assessment, Finding of No Significant Impact, and Final Programmatic Agreement","type":"Notice","abstract":"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the renewal of source and byproduct materials license SUA-1600 for Powertech USA, Inc.'s (Powertech or licensee) Dewey-Burdock in situ uranium recovery (ISR) project in Custer and Fall River counties, South Dakota, for an additional 20 years. Powertech plans to recover uranium from the ore body and produce yellowcake using the ISR process. Yellowcake, the uranium oxide product of the ISR process, is used in the production of fuel for commercially operated nuclear power reactors. The NRC staff is issuing an environmental assessment (EA), finding of no significant impact (FONSI), and Section 106 Programmatic Agreement (PA) associated with the proposed licensing action.","document_number":"2026-12215","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/17/2026-12215/powertech-usa-inc-dewey-burdock-in-situ-uranium-recovery-project-environmental-assessment-finding-of","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-17/pdf/2026-12215.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-12215.pdf?1781613918","publication_date":"2026-06-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION","name":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission","id":383,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/nuclear-regulatory-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/383","parent_id":null,"slug":"nuclear-regulatory-commission"}],"excerpts":"SUMMARY: \n The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the renewal of source and byproduct <span class=\"match\">materials</span> license SUA-1600 for Powertech USA, Inc.'s (Powertech or licensee) Dewey-Burdock in situ uranium recovery (ISR) project in Custer and Fall River counties, South Dakota, for an additional 20 years. Powertech plans to recover uranium from the ore body and produce yellowcake using the ISR process. Yellowcake, the uranium oxide <span class=\"match\">product</span> of the ISR process, is used in the production of fuel for commercially operated nuclear power reactors."},{"title":"Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act","type":"Rule","abstract":"The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA or Department) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS or the Agency) amends its Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, regulations to prohibit undue prejudice and unjust discrimination against individuals on a prohibited basis unrelated to the quality of the service or product provided. The rule also identifies retaliatory practices that interfere with lawful communications, assertion of rights, and associated participation, among other protected activities, as unjust discrimination prohibited by the law. Finally, the rule identifies deceptive practices that violate the Packers and Stockyards Act with respect to contract formation, contract performance, contract termination, and contract refusal. The purpose of this rule is to promote inclusive competition and market integrity in the livestock, meats, poultry, and live poultry markets.","document_number":"2024-04419","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/03/06/2024-04419/inclusive-competition-and-market-integrity-under-the-packers-and-stockyards-act","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-03-06/pdf/2024-04419.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-04419.pdf?1709646316","publication_date":"2024-03-06","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","name":"Agriculture Department","id":12,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/agriculture-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/12","parent_id":null,"slug":"agriculture-department"},{"raw_name":"Agricultural Marketing Service","name":"Agricultural Marketing Service","id":9,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/agricultural-marketing-service","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/9","parent_id":12,"slug":"agricultural-marketing-service"}],"excerpts":"of sufficiently high <span class=\"match\">quality</span> or that formula market arrangements are necessary to incentivize such <span class=\"match\">quality</span>, when the cattle being offered were of no less <span class=\"match\">quality</span> than those the packer procured under other marketing arrangements.\n 83 \n \n \n \n \n 81 \n  \n See, e.g., Midwest Farmers \n v. \n United States, \n 64 F. Supp. 91, 95 (D. Minn. 1945); \n In re: Frosty Morn Meats, Inc., \n 7 B.R. 988, 1020 (M.D. Tenn. 1980).\n \n \n \n \n 82 \n  Other Association or Non-Profit, “Comment on AMS-FTPP-21-0045: Inclusive Competitive and Market <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> Under the Packers and"},{"title":"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule revises standards relating to denial of coverage for failure to pay past-due premium; excludes Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of \"lawfully present;\" establishes the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance; revises the Exchange automatic reenrollment hierarchy; revises standards related to the annual open enrollment period and special enrollment periods; revises standards relating to failure to file and reconcile, income eligibility verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, annual eligibility redeterminations, de minimis thresholds for the actuarial value for plans subject to essential health benefits (EHB) requirements, and income-based cost-sharing reduction plan variations. This final rule also revises the premium adjustment percentage methodology and prohibits issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for specified sex-trait modification procedures as an EHB.","document_number":"2025-11606","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/25/2025-11606/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-25/pdf/2025-11606.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-11606.pdf?1750709712","publication_date":"2025-06-25","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"enroll in a QHP through an Exchange, PTC, APTC, CSRs, and to enroll in a BHP in States that elect to operate a BHP.\n \n 3. Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> \n \n We have finalized program <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> standards related to the Exchanges and premium stabilization programs in two rules: the “Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span>: Exchange, SHOP, and Eligibility Appeals Rule” published in the August 30, 2013, \n Federal Register \n (78 FR 54069), and the “Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span>: Exchange, Premium Stabilization Programs, and Market Standards; Amendments to the HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters"},{"title":"Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; Quality Reporting Programs; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating; Hospital Price Transparency; and Notice of Closure of a Teaching Hospital and Opportunity To Apply for Available Slots","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for calendar year 2026 based on our continuing experience with these systems. We also describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare services paid under the OPPS and those paid under the ASC payment systems. In addition, this final rule with comment period announces the closure of a teaching hospital and the opportunity to apply for available slots, and updates and refines the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program, Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Program, Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program, Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, and hospitals to make public their standard charge information and enforcement of hospital price transparency, as well as summarizes comments received in response to a request for information on measure concepts regarding Well-Being and Nutrition for consideration in future years for the OQR, REHQR, and ASCQR programs.","document_number":"2025-20907","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-20907/medicare-program-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-and-ambulatory-surgical-center-payment","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-20907.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-20907.pdf?1763759710","publication_date":"2025-11-25","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"},{"raw_name":"Office of the Secretary"}],"excerpts":"Blood <span class=\"match\">Products</span> \n Since the implementation of the OPPS in August 2000, we have made separate payments for blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span> through APCs rather than packaging payment for them into payments for the procedures with which they are administered. Hospital payments for the costs of blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span>, as well as for the costs of collecting, processing, and storing blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span>, are made through the OPPS payments for specific blood <span class=\"match\">product</span> APCs. \n We proposed to continue to establish payment rates for blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span> using"},{"title":"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of \"lawfully present\"; the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance; failure to file and reconcile; income eligibility verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions; annual eligibility redetermination; the automatic reenrollment hierarchy; the annual open enrollment period; special enrollment periods; de minimis thresholds for the actuarial value for plans subject to essential health benefits (EHB) requirements and for income-based cost-sharing reduction plan variations; and the premium adjustment percentage methodology; and prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB.","document_number":"2025-04083","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-19/pdf/2025-04083.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04083.pdf?1741810509","publication_date":"2025-03-19","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"to operate a BHP.\n \n 3. Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> \n \n We have finalized program <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> standards related to the Exchanges and premium stabilization programs in two rules: the “first Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> Rule” published in the August 30, 2013 \n Federal Register \n (78 FR 54069), and the “second Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> Rule” published in the October 30, 2013 \n Federal Register \n (78 FR 65045). We also refer readers to the 2019 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Exchange Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> final rule (2019 Program <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> Rule) published in the December"},{"title":"Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Fuel System Integrity of Hydrogen Vehicles; Compressed Hydrogen Storage System Integrity; Incorporation by Reference","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This notice proposes to establish two new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) specifying performance requirements for all motor vehicles that use hydrogen as a fuel source. The proposed standards are based on Global Technical Regulation (GTR) No. 13. FMVSS No. 307, \"Fuel system integrity of hydrogen vehicles,\" which would specify requirements for the integrity of the fuel system in hydrogen vehicles during normal vehicle operations and after crashes. FMVSS No. 308, \"Compressed hydrogen storage system integrity,\" would specify requirements for the compressed hydrogen storage system to ensure the safe storage of hydrogen onboard vehicles. The two proposed standards would reduce deaths and injuries that could occur as a result of fires due to hydrogen fuel leakages and/or explosion of the hydrogen storage system.","document_number":"2024-07116","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/17/2024-07116/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards-fuel-system-integrity-of-hydrogen-vehicles-compressed","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-17/pdf/2024-07116.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-07116.pdf?1713271514","publication_date":"2024-04-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","name":"Transportation Department","id":492,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/transportation-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/492","parent_id":null,"slug":"transportation-department"},{"raw_name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","name":"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","id":345,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/345","parent_id":492,"slug":"national-highway-traffic-safety-administration"}],"excerpts":"current scarcity in the on-road fleet, NHTSA made the same determination about the safety need for fuel system and container <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> systems when it adopted FMVSS No. 301, \n Fuel system <span class=\"match\">integrity</span>, \n with the initial FMVSSs adopted in 1968,\n 23 \n \n and in 1994 when NHTSA adopted FMVSS No. 303, \n Fuel system <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> of compressed natural gas vehicles, \n 24 \n \n and FMVSS No. 304, \n \n Compressed natural gas fuel container \n \n <span class=\"match\">integrity</span>.\n \n 25 \n \n NHTSA faced a similar crossroads when developing FMVSS Nos. 303 and 304. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles"},{"title":"Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; Quality Reporting Programs; Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings; and Hospital Price Transparency","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would revise the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for calendar year 2026 based on our continuing experience with these systems. We also describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare services paid under the OPPS and those paid under the ASC payment systems. This proposed rule would also update and refine the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program, Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Program, Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program, Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, and hospitals to make public their standard charge information and enforcement of hospital price transparency. This rule also contains requests for information on measure concepts regarding Well-Being and Nutrition for consideration in future years for all three programs (OQR, REHQR, and ASCQR; expanding the method to control for unnecessary increases in the volume of covered OPD services to on- campus clinic visits; software as a service; and adjusting payment under the OPPS for services predominately performed in the ambulatory surgical center or physician office settings.","document_number":"2025-13360","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/17/2025-13360/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-and-ambulatory-surgical","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-17/pdf/2025-13360.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-13360.pdf?1752610509","publication_date":"2025-07-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"},{"raw_name":"Office of the Secretary"}],"excerpts":"Blood <span class=\"match\">Products</span> \n Since the implementation of the OPPS in August 2000, we have made separate payments for blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span> through APCs rather than packaging payment for them into payments for the procedures with which they are administered. Hospital payments for the costs of blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span>, as well as for the costs of collecting, processing, and storing blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span>, are made through the OPPS payments for specific blood <span class=\"match\">product</span> APCs. We propose to continue to establish payment rates for blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span> using"},{"title":"National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Plywood and Composite Wood Products","type":"Rule","abstract":"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing amendments to the national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the Plywood and Composite Wood Products (PCWP) source category. Specifically, the EPA is finalizing maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards in the form of emission limitations and work practices as appropriate for total hazardous air pollutants (HAP) (including acetaldehyde, acrolein, formaldehyde, methanol, phenol, propionaldehyde), non-mercury (non-Hg) HAP metals, mercury (Hg), hydrogen chloride (HCl), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), dioxin/furan (D/F), and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI). Sources affected by the amendments include PCWP process units and lumber kilns located at facilities that are major sources of HAP emissions. These final amendments address the 2007 partial remand and vacatur of the 2004 final rule that promulgated the PCWP NESHAP (\"2004 rule\"). The final amendments also respond to issues raised in a petition for reconsideration regarding the 2020 residual risk and technology review (RTR) and other amendments to the 2020 PCWP NESHAP.","document_number":"2026-13550","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/06/2026-13550/national-emission-standards-for-hazardous-air-pollutants-plywood-and-composite-wood-products","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-07-06/pdf/2026-13550.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-13550.pdf?1782996317","publication_date":"2026-07-06","agencies":[{"raw_name":"ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY","name":"Environmental Protection Agency","id":145,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/environmental-protection-agency","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/145","parent_id":null,"slug":"environmental-protection-agency"}],"excerpts":"from Plywood and Composite Wood <span class=\"match\">Products</span> Reconstituted Wood <span class=\"match\">Products</span> Presses, Tube Dryers, and Miscellaneous Coating Operations, \n available in the docket for this rulemaking.\n \n \n 1. Reconstituted Wood <span class=\"match\">Product</span> Presses \n a. What reconstituted wood <span class=\"match\">product</span> press MDI standards did we propose? \n The EPA proposed MDI emission standards for reconstituted wood <span class=\"match\">product</span> presses that produce OSB and for reconstituted wood <span class=\"match\">product</span> presses that produce particleboard or MDF (PB/MDF). We developed separate standards because <span class=\"match\">product</span> differences affect MDI emissions"},{"title":"Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; and Quality Reporting Programs; Including the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program and Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Program; Request for Information on Strengthening the Standardization and Comparability of Hospital Price Transparency (HPT) Data; Prior Authorization; Accrediting Organization (AO) Deeming for Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA); and Notices of Closure of Teaching Hospitals and Opportunities To Apply for Available Slots","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would revise the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for calendar year 2027 based on our continuing experience with these systems. We also describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare services paid under the OPPS and those paid under the ASC payment systems. In addition, this proposed rule would update and refine the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program. There are no changes to the Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Program. We propose to expand the prior authorization requirement to include additional Botulinum Toxin Injection services. We also propose to implement certain provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, for off-campus outpatient departments of a provider. In addition, this proposed rule announces notices of closure of teaching hospitals and opportunities to apply for available slots. This rule also requests information regarding potential approaches to improve comparability and standardization, particularly for complex contracting methodologies, of the HPT information reported in machine- readable files and consumer-friendly displays. We propose hospital AOs with deeming authority to assess compliance with certain Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) administrative requirements during accreditation and reaccreditation surveys. Finally, we are soliciting comments on a potential separate payment under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for domestic procurement of personal protective equipment and essential medicines.","document_number":"2026-13656","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/07/2026-13656/medicare-program-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-and-ambulatory-surgical-center-payment","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-07-07/pdf/2026-13656.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-13656.pdf?1782996328","publication_date":"2026-07-07","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"}],"excerpts":"Blood <span class=\"match\">Products</span> \n Since the implementation of the OPPS in August 2000, we have made separate payments for blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span> through APCs rather than packaging payment for them into payments for the procedures with which they are administered. Hospital payments for the costs of blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span>, as well as for the costs of collecting, processing, and storing blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span>, are made through the OPPS payments for specific blood <span class=\"match\">product</span> APCs. \n \n We propose to continue to establish payment rates for blood and blood <span class=\"match\">products</span> using"},{"title":"Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority Racetrack Safety Rule Modification","type":"Notice","abstract":"As required by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020, the Federal Trade Commission publishes a proposed modification of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's rules addressing horseracing in the United States. The proposed rule modification would amend the Rule Series 2000 Racetrack Safety Rule, which establishes rules concerning racetrack safety and the safety of Covered Horses and Covered Persons. This document contains the Authority's proposed rule modification's text and explanation, and it seeks public comment on whether the Commission should approve the proposed rule modification.","document_number":"2024-06911","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/08/2024-06911/horseracing-integrity-and-safety-authority-racetrack-safety-rule-modification","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-08/pdf/2024-06911.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-06911.pdf?1712321116","publication_date":"2024-04-08","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION","name":"Federal Trade Commission","id":192,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-trade-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/192","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-trade-commission"}],"excerpts":"a Racetrack is in <span class=\"match\">material</span> non-compliance with the Accreditation requirements. In addition to stylistic changes, a new provision is added which states that the Authority may consider all factors that it deems important, including factors established in Rule 8360(e)(1)-(5). \n \n Commenters suggested that the factors for <span class=\"match\">material</span> non-compliance should be clearly established in the rules.\n 37 \n \n The Authority prefers to leave “<span class=\"match\">material</span> non-compliance” as an open term; the circumstances under which a Racetrack might be in <span class=\"match\">material</span> non-compliance are"},{"title":"Medicare Program; CY 2027 Changes to the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System, Acute Kidney Injury Dialysis (AKI) Payment, and ESRD Quality Incentive Program","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would update and revise the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System for calendar year 2027. This rule also proposes to update the payment rate for renal dialysis services furnished by an ESRD facility to individuals with acute kidney injury. In addition, this rule proposes to update the requirements for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program.","document_number":"2026-12925","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/26/2026-12925/medicare-program-cy-2027-changes-to-the-end-stage-renal-disease-esrd-prospective-payment-system","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-26/pdf/2026-12925.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-12925.pdf?1782332109","publication_date":"2026-06-26","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"}],"excerpts":"settings. We likewise removed this measure from several program measure sets: the Hospital Inpatient <span class=\"match\">Quality</span> Reporting Program (90 FR 37010 through 37012), the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility <span class=\"match\">Quality</span> Reporting Program (90 FR 37657 through 37658), the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility <span class=\"match\">Quality</span> Reporting Program (90 FR 37701 through 37702), the Ambulatory \n \n Surgical Center <span class=\"match\">Quality</span> Reporting Program (90 FR 53917 through 53919), and the Hospital Outpatient <span class=\"match\">Quality</span> Reporting Program (90 FR 53917 through 53919). We did not initially remove this measure from other"},{"title":"Applications for New Awards; From Seedlings to Scale Grant Program and Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice","type":"Notice","abstract":"The Department of Education (Department) is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for the Education Research Grant Programs.","document_number":"2024-13268","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/06/17/2024-13268/applications-for-new-awards-from-seedlings-to-scale-grant-program-and-research-networks-focused-on","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-06-17/pdf/2024-13268.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-13268.pdf?1718369125","publication_date":"2024-06-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION","name":"Education Department","id":126,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/education-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/126","parent_id":null,"slug":"education-department"}],"excerpts":"not responsible.\n \n \n 4. \n <span class=\"match\">Integrity</span> and Performance System: \n If you are selected under these competitions to receive an award that over the course of the project period may exceed the simplified acquisition threshold (currently $250,000), under 2 CFR 200.206(a)(2) we must make a judgment about your <span class=\"match\">integrity</span>, business ethics, and record of performance under Federal awards—that is, the risk posed by you as an applicant—before we make an award. In doing so, we must consider any information about you that is in the <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> and performance system (currently"},{"title":"Promoting Fair and Open Competitive Bidding in the E-Rate Program; Schools and Libraries Universal Service Support Mechanism","type":"Rule","abstract":"In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) takes action to reinforce the success and integrity of the E-Rate program by establishing a competitive bidding portal and document repository to strengthen the E-Rate program's competitive bidding rules as well as other actions to simplify and streamline program processes and procedures for E-Rate participants. In addition, the Commission adopts changes to streamline and simplify the E-Rate program while maintaining the integrity of the program and grant an Order on Reconsideration. These actions will provide greater transparency into the applicants' competitive bidding and bid evaluation and selection processes, and protect the program against waste, fraud, and abuse.","document_number":"2026-10011","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/19/2026-10011/promoting-fair-and-open-competitive-bidding-in-the-e-rate-program-schools-and-libraries-universal","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-19/pdf/2026-10011.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10011.pdf?1779108315","publication_date":"2026-05-19","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION","name":"Federal Communications Commission","id":161,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-communications-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/161","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-communications-commission"}],"excerpts":"cornerstone of and fundamental to the <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> of the E-Rate program. In addition, we adopt changes to \n \n streamline and simplify the E-Rate program while maintaining the <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> of the program and grant an Order on Reconsideration. These actions will provide greater transparency into the applicants' competitive bidding and bid evaluation and selection processes, and protect the program against waste, fraud, and abuse.\n \n II. Report and Order \n \n In this \n Report and Order, \n we take steps to both strengthen the <span class=\"match\">integrity</span> of the E-Rate program and simplify"}]}