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--- schema: federal-register doc_type: fedreg source_file: FR-2026-02-24.xml --- 91 36 Tuesday, February 24, 2026 Contents Agricultural Marketing Agricultural Marketing Service RULES Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills—Payment Rate, 8707-8708 2026-03645 Agriculture Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Service AIRFORCE Air Force Department NOTICES Adoption of Categorical Exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act, 8847-8851 2026-03624 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 8842-8845 2026-03620 2026-03621 2026-03622 2026-03623 Centers Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 8879-8886 2026-03599 2026-03596 2026-03597 2026-03598 Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.: National Center for Health Statistics, ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee, 8883-8884 2026-03627 Children Children and Families Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Office of Refugee Resettlement Services for Survivors of Torture Program Data Points and Performance Progress Report, 8886 2026-03617 Commerce Commerce Department See Foreign-Trade Zones Board See Industry and Security Bureau See International Trade Administration See National Institute of Standards and Technology See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Comptroller Comptroller of the Currency NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Reg E—Prepaid Accounts, 8966-8967 2026-03685 Consumer Product Consumer Product Safety Commission NOTICES Guidance: Estimating Value per Statistical Life; Withdrawal, 8845-8847 2026-03655 Defense Department Defense Department See Air Force Department See Engineers Corps Education Department Education Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: State Education Agency, Local Educational Agency, and School Data Collection and Reporting under ESEA, Title I, Part A, 8854 2026-03689 Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.:

National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, 8851-8853 2026-03656 Energy Department Energy Department See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 8854-8855 2026-03635 Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.: Implementation of Voluntary Agreements and Related Plans of Action under the Defense Production Act, 8855 2026-03687 Engineers Engineers Corps NOTICES Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.:

Mississippi River Commission, 8851 2026-03642 2026-03643 Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency RULES National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units: Final Repeal, 9088-9134 2026-03638 PROPOSED RULES Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act; Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention, 8970-9011 2026-03633 Prior Notice of Citizen Suits, 8810-8818 2026-03646 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Chemical Data Reporting under the Toxic Substances Control Act, 8872-8873 2026-03636 Federal Aviation Federal Aviation Administration RULES Airspace Designations and Reporting Points: Northern United States, 8729-8730 2026-03649 Vicinity of Muncie, IN, 8727-8729 2026-03651 Airworthiness Directives: Embraer S.A. Airplanes, 8723-8727 2026-03609 General Electric Company Engines, 8721-8723 2026-03613 The Boeing Company Airplanes, 8708-8720 2026-03615 Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures, 8731-8734 2026-03629 2026-03630 PROPOSED RULES Airspace Designations and Reporting Points:

United States Area Navigation Route T-550 and Revocation of Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range Federal Airway V-320, 8796-8797 2026-03650 Vicinity of Concord, CA, 8797-8799 2026-03652 Airworthiness Directives: The Boeing Company Airplanes, 8791-8796 2026-03612 2026-03704 Federal Communications Federal Communications Commission NOTICES Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.: Designation Order Issued to 97.5 Licensee TX, LLC, 8873-8876 2026-03588 Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program, 8876-8877 2026-03584 Federal Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission RULES Removal of Regulations Limiting Authorizations to Proceed with Construction Activities Pending Rehearing;

Confirmation, 8734-8737 2026-03658 PROPOSED RULES Categorical Exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act for Certain Terminations or Revocations of Water Power Licenses and Exemptions, 8799-8803 2026-03657 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 8860-8864 2026-03663 2026-03664 2026-03667 Categorical Exclusions from Tennessee Valley Authority under the National Environmental Policy Act, 8862-8863 2026-03668 Combined Filings, 8858-8860 2026-03669 2026-03670 Environmental Assessments;

Availability, etc.: Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, 8858-8859 2026-03662 PacifiCorp, 8861 2026-03666 Oil Pipeline Affiliate Committed Service; Withdrawal, 8856-8858 2026-03660 Order: North American Electric Reliability Corp.; Inverter-Based Resources and Generators Modeling Reliability Standards, 8864-8872 2026-03659 Proposed Settlement Agreement, Stipulation, Order, and Judgment, etc.: Village of Morrisville, VT, 8863 2026-03665 Waiver of Water Quality Certification: Erie Boulevard Hydropower, LP, 8862 2026-03661 Federal Housing Finance Agency Federal Housing Finance Agency NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 8877-8879 2026-03614 Federal Railroad Federal Railroad Administration NOTICES Requests for Nominations: Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, 8944-8945 2026-03634 Federal Transit Federal Transit Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Bus Testing Program, 8946-8947 2026-03590 Passenger Ferry Grant Program, Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program, and Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program, 8945-8946 2026-03591 Fish Fish and Wildlife Service NOTICES Permits;

Applications, Issuances, etc.: Foreign Endangered Species, 8897-8898 2026-03681 Food and Drug Food and Drug Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packaging, Labeling, or Holding Operations for Dietary Supplements, 8886-8889 2026-03589 Charter Amendments, Establishments, Renewals and Terminations: Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee, 8889-8891 2026-03587 Foreign Assets Foreign Assets Control Office NOTICES Sanctions Action, 8968 2026-03585 2026-03637 Foreign Trade Foreign-Trade Zones Board NOTICES Proposed Production Activity:

Alder SOL Holdings LLC dba StayOnline, Foreign-Trade Zone 93, Henderson, NC, 8820 2026-03682 Ultra Clean Technology Systems and Service, Inc., Foreign-Trade Zone 183, Manor, TX, 8819-8820 2026-03683 Health and Human Health and Human Services Department See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention See Children and Families Administration See Food and Drug Administration See Health Resources and Services Administration See National Institutes of Health NOTICES Findings of Research Misconduct;

Correction, 8894 2026-03593 Health Resources Health Resources and Services Administration NOTICES Medical Student Education Program Non-Competitive Supplement; Correction, 8891 2026-03639 National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: List of Petitions Received, 8891-8894 2026-03631 Industry Industry and Security Bureau NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Foreign Availability Procedures, 8821-8822 2026-03675 Reporting of Violations of the Export Administration Regulations, 8820-8821 2026-03676 Interior Interior Department See Fish and Wildlife Service See Ocean Energy Management Bureau See Reclamation Bureau RULES National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations, 8738-8762 2026-03708 International Trade Adm International Trade Administration NOTICES Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from Taiwan, 8822-8823 2026-03680 Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from India, 8827-8829 2026-03679 Sodium Nitrite from India, 8826-8827 2026-03611 Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products from the People's Republic of China, 8823-8826 2026-03678 North American Free Trade Agreement: Binational Panel Review: Panel Decision, 8829 2026-03653 International Trade Com International Trade Commission NOTICES Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Unwrought Palladium from Russia, 8899-8901 2026-03600 Investigations; Determinations, Modifications, and Rulings, etc.: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, and Trinidad and Tobago, 8899 2026-03608 Legal Legal Services Corporation NOTICES Competitive Grant Funds: Technology Initiative Grant Program, Calendar Year 2026, 8901-8903 2026-03618 Management Management and Budget Office PROPOSED RULES Managing Senior Professional Performance, 8763-8780 2026-03610 Maritime Maritime Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Requirements for Establishing U.S. Citizenship, 8947 2026-03677 National Highway National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NOTICES Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., 8947-8948 2026-03616 National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology NOTICES Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.: Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, 8829-8830 2026-03586 National Institute National Institutes of Health NOTICES Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.:

Center for Scientific Review, 8894-8896 2026-03647 2026-03671 Office of the Secretary, 8896-8897 2026-03684 National Oceanic National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PROPOSED RULES Taking and Importing Marine Mammals: Incidental to Geophysical Surveys in the Gulf of America, 9014-9086 2026-03691 NOTICES Hearings, Meetings, Proceedings, etc.: Caribbean Fishery Management Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee, 8830-8831 2026-03641 Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf and Atlantic;

Southeast Data, Assessment, and Review, 8831 2026-03644 Commission Northern Border Regional Commission NOTICES Integrating the National Environmental Policy Act into the Northern Border Regional Commission's Decision-making Processes, 8831-8842 2026-03697 Nuclear Regulatory Nuclear Regulatory Commission NOTICES Facility Operating and Combined Licenses: Applications and Amendments Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations, etc., 8916-8920 2026-03625 Applications and Amendments Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations, etc.;

Constellation Energy Generation, LLC, Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center, 8910-8916 2026-03626 Privacy Act; Systems of Records, 8903-8910 2026-03592 Ocean Energy Management Ocean Energy Management Bureau PROPOSED RULES Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Other than Oil, Gas, and Sulphur: Administrative Revisions, 8803-8810 2026-03690 Personnel Personnel Management Office PROPOSED RULES Managing Senior Professional Performance, 8763-8780 2026-03610 Performance Appraisal for General Schedule, Prevailing Rate, and Certain Other Employees, 8780-8791 2026-03619 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions

(CSRS)and Current/Former Spouse's Notification of Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions under CSRS, 8920-8921 2026-03692 Application to Make Deposit or Redeposit

(CSRS)and Application to Make Service Credit Payment for Civilian Service (FERS), 8923 2026-03694 Program Services Evaluation Surveys and Leadership Assessment Surveys, 8921-8922 2026-03695 Reinstatement of Disability Annuity Previously Terminated Because of Restoration to Earning Capacity, 8922 2026-03693 Request to Disability Annuitant for Information on Physical Condition and Employment, 8922-8923 2026-03696 Pipeline Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration NOTICES Permits; Applications, Issuances, etc.: Pipeline Safety; Sable Offshore Corp., 8949-8950 2026-03686 Postal Regulatory Postal Regulatory Commission NOTICES New Postal Products, 8923-8924 2026-03674 Reclamation Reclamation Bureau NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Diversions, Return Flow, and Consumptive Use of Colorado River Water in the Lower Colorado River Basin, 8898-8899 2026-03654 Securities Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: 24X National Exchange LLC, 8937-8944 2026-03607 Cboe Exchange, Inc., 8928-8929 2026-03601 ICE Clear Credit LLC, 8930-8932 2026-03603 MIAX PEARL, LLC, 8924-8926 2026-03602 Nasdaq ISE, LLC, 8929-8930 2026-03605 New York Stock Exchange LLC, 8926-8928 2026-03604 NYSE Arca, Inc., 8932-8937 2026-03606 Transportation Department Transportation Department See Federal Aviation Administration See Federal Railroad Administration See Federal Transit Administration See Maritime Administration See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration See Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Aircraft Accident Liability Insurance, 8966 2026-03672 Use and Change of Names of Air Carriers, Foreign Air Carriers, and Commuter Air Carriers, 8965-8966 2026-03673 Guidance: Multimodal State Freight Plans and State Freight Advisory Committees, 8950-8965 2026-03648 Treasury Treasury Department See Comptroller of the Currency See Foreign Assets Control Office Separate Parts In This Issue Part II Environmental Protection Agency, 8970-9011 2026-03633 Part III Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 9014-9086 2026-03691 Part IV Environmental Protection Agency, 9088-9134 2026-03638 Reader Aids Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this issue for phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, and notice of recently enacted public laws. To subscribe to the Federal Register Table of Contents electronic mailing list, go to https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USGPOOFR/subscriber/new, enter your e-mail address, then follow the instructions to join, leave, or manage your subscription. 91 36 Tuesday, February 24, 2026 Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Marketing Service 7 CFR Part 870 [Doc. No. AMS-FTPP-25-0683] RIN 0581-AE48 Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills—Payment Rate AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), USDA. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills (EAATM) program provides qualified domestic users of upland cotton financial assistance that can be used to acquire, construct, install, modernize, develop, convert, or expand land, plant, buildings, equipment, facilities, or machinery used in the manufacture of final cotton products. Under the program, the Commodity Credit Corporation

(CCC)makes payments to eligible domestic users who have entered into an Upland Cotton Domestic User Agreement with AMS to participate in the EAATM. In this final rule, AMS is revising the payment rate from three cents per pound to five cents per pound, applicable August 1, 2025, as provided for in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). DATES: *Effective:* This final rule is effective February 24, 2026. *Applicable:* This final rule is applicable August 1, 2025. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian Edmonds, Deputy Director, Warehouse and Commodity Management Division, Fair Trade Practices Program, AMS, USDA; telephone:

(816)926-6638; email: *ian.edmonds@usda.gov.* SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 10311 of OBBBA (Pub. L. 119-21) increases the EAATM payment rate to five cents per pound beginning on August 1, 2025. Accordingly, AMS is revising 7 CFR 870.9(a) to reflect this change. Section 1207(c) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-234) directed the Secretary of Agriculture to provide economic adjustment assistance to domestic users of upland cotton. The EAATM program was initially authorized with a payment rate of four cents per pound, which was reduced effective August 1, 2013, to three cents per pound. EAATM was further authorized in the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-79), and the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-334) changed the name of the program to “The Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills” or “EAATM”. No payment rate changes have been enacted until passage of the OBBBA. The Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to make EAATM payments to eligible participants. Eligible participants are domestic users who are regularly engaged in the business of opening bales of eligible upland cotton for the purpose of spinning such cotton into yarn, papermaking, or production of non-woven cotton products. Justification for Final Rule and Immediate Effective Date The EAATM program is authorized under title I of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9037(c)). As such, regulations for EAATM are without regard to the notice and comment provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act at 5 U.S.C. 553 (see 7 U.S.C. 9091(c)(2)(A)). Further, AMS finds there is good cause for making this final rule effective immediately. Under the OBBBA, the payment rate change was effective August 1, 2025; this final rule merely updates the text of the implementing regulation to align with the statute. Paperwork Reduction Act The EAATM program is exempt from the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act at 44 U.S.C. chapter 35 (see 7 U.S.C. 9091(c)(2)(B)). Regulatory Flexibility Act Pursuant to the requirements set forth in the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 *et seq.* ), AMS considered the economic impact of the action on small entities, and, accordingly, prepared this Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (RFA). AMS concluded this rule will not have a significant impact on small entities, and to the extent it may create a burden, the program is voluntary, and the impacts are economically advantageous. The purpose of the Regulatory Flexibility Act is to fit regulatory actions to the scale of businesses subject to such actions so that small businesses will not be unduly or disproportionately burdened. AMS certifies that this rule will not have a significant economic impact or burden on small textile mill entities. In making this determination, AMS considered the current and possible participant base of the EAATM program and the nature of this action. The EAATM program is authorized by various “Farm Bills:” first in 2008 (Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (Pub. L. 110-246)) and reauthorized in 2014 (Agricultural Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-79)); in 2018 (Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-334)); and again in 2025 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Pub. L. 119-21)). This program is funded through the Commodity Credit Corporation with administrative oversight and operational authority delegated to the Agricultural Marketing Service. In conducting its analysis, AMS used the Small Business Administration's

(SBA)definition of “small business” applicable to textile mills, found at 13 CFR 121.201. The affected industry falls under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as Subsector 313, with most current participants classified as code 313110—Textile Mills, Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills. This classification includes firms that process raw cotton into cotton products. SBA determines firm size for this industry by number of employees, but on a per firm basis, with “small firms” defined as having fewer than 1,500 employees. The EAATM program has fewer than 30 participants, and AMS does not anticipate any surge in participation due to this action. Current participants of the EAATM program are required to be registered with the System for Awards Management, however none of the current participants appear to have the small business registration denoted on the entity profile. EAATM participants do not disclose the number of employees in the agreements or applications submitted to CCC but based on familiarity with the industry and information from SBA's Dynamic Small Business Search Database, AMS estimates that 21 out of the 23 current participants can be considered “small entities.” In analyzing the current economic impact on small entities, AMS could only deduce positive economic impact based on rate of eligible consumption. That is, this program does not impose new regulations on textile mills; rather, it is designed to provide them with economic assistance. Small textile mill participants in the EAATM program will not be unduly or disproportionately burdened. Textile mills of all sizes benefit proportionately from the program, as it provides a payment per pound of cotton consumed to encourage domestic consumption of cotton. This action merely increases the payment rate from $0.03 to $0.05 per pound of eligible consumption and does not impose any new requirements. The definition of an eligible participant in reference to the EAATM program is someone regularly engaged in opening bales of eligible upland cotton for the purposes of spinning cotton into yarn, paper making, or production of non-woven cotton products in the United States, and who has entered into an agreement with the CCC to participate in the upland cotton user program. Participants may be public or private nonprofit entities. All entities that meet the program's definition of “eligible domestic user” and submit a monthly application indicating consumed bales of upland cotton, regardless of size, can voluntarily participate and benefit from the EAATM program. The application asks only for information that is part of normal business records. Program provisions are administered without regard for business size. The information collection burden for eligible participants is minimal as they must only complete the domestic user agreement with the textile mill's monthly consumption report. The voluntary nature of the program allows any eligible participant to stop participating if they find program participation causes an undue or disproportionate burden. Executive Order 12866 The Office of Management and Budget

(OMB)designated this rule as not significant under Executive Order 12866, “Regulatory Planning and Review.” Therefore, OMB has not reviewed this rule. Executive Order 12988 This final rule was reviewed under Executive Order 12988, “Civil Justice Reform.” This rule will not preempt State or local laws, regulations, or policies unless they represent an irreconcilable conflict with this rule. The final rule is not intended to have retroactive effect. Before any judicial actions may be brought regarding the provisions of this rule, administrative appeal provisions of 7 CFR parts 11 and 780 must be exhausted. Executive Order 13175 This final rule was reviewed under Executive Order 13175, “Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments,” which requires agencies to consider whether their rulemaking actions have Tribal implications. AMS has determined that this final rule is unlikely to have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian Tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian Tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian Tribes. E-Government Act USDA is committed to complying with the E-Government Act (44 U.S.C. 3601 *et seq.* ) by promoting the use of the internet and other information technologies to provide increased opportunities for citizen access to Government information and services, and for other purposes. List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 870 Agricultural commodities, Cotton, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements. For the reasons set forth in the preamble, AMS amends 7 CFR part 870 as follows: PART 870—ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR TEXTILE MILLS 1. The authority citation for part 870 continues to read as follows: Authority: 7 U.S.C. 9037(c). § 870.9 [Amended] 2. Amend § 870.9(a) by removing the number “3” and adding the number “5” in its place. Melissa Bailey, Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service. [FR Doc. 2026-03645 Filed 2-23-26; 8:45 am]

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