1 CFR 51.3 - When will the Director approve a publication?

§ 51.3 When will the Director approve a publication?

(a)

(1) The Director will informally approve the proposed incorporation by reference of a publication when the preamble of a proposed rule meets the requirements of this part (See § 51.5(a)).

(2) If the preamble of a proposed rule does not meet the requirements of this part, the Director will return the document to the agency (See 1 CFR 2.4).

(b) The Director will formally approve the incorporation by reference of a publication in a final rule when the following requirements are met:

(1) The publication is eligible for incorporation by reference (See § 51.7).

(2) The preamble meets the requirements of this part (See § 51.5(b)(2)).

(3) The language of incorporation meets the requirements of this part (See § 51.9).

(4) The publication is on file with the Office of the Federal Register.

(5) The Director has received a written request from the agency to approve the incorporation by reference of the publication.

(c) The Director will notify the agency of the approval or disapproval of an incorporation by reference in a final rule within 20 working days after the agency has met all the requirements for requesting approvals (See § 51.5).

[ 79 FR 66278, Nov. 7, 2014]

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United States Code

U.S. Code: Title 5 - GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES

§ 552 - Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings

Title 1 published on 16-Mar-2017 03:04

The following are ALL rules, proposed rules, and notices (chronologically) published in the Federal Register relating to 1 CFR Part 51 after this date.

2014-11-07; vol. 79 # 216 - Friday, November 7, 2014

79 FR 66267 - Incorporation by Reference

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Additional Documents

type	regulations.gov
FR Doc.	2014-26445
RIN	3095-AB78
Docket No.	OFR-2013-0001

OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER, National Archives and Records Administration

Final rule.

This rule is effective January 6, 2015.

1 CFR Part 51

Summary

In this document, we are revising our regulations on incorporation by reference to require that agencies seeking the Director of the Federal Register's approval of their incorporation by reference requests add more information regarding materials incorporated by reference to the preambles of their rulemaking documents. Specifically, agencies must set out, in the preambles of their proposed and final rules, a discussion of the actions they took to ensure the materials are reasonably available to interested parties and that they summarize the contents of the materials they wish to incorporate by reference.

2013-11-20; vol. 78 # 224 - Wednesday, November 20, 2013

78 FR 69594 - Incorporation by Reference

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Additional Documents

type	regulations.gov
FR Doc.	2013-27987
RIN	3095-AB78
Docket No.	OFR-2013-0001

OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER, National Archives and Records Administration

Extension of comment period; correction.

Comments must be received on or before January 31, 2014.

1 CFR Part 51

Summary

On November 18, 2013, the Office of the Federal Register published an extension of the comment period for our proposal to amend our regulations governing the approval of agency requests to incorporate material by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations. We are correcting the date of that extension.

2013-11-18; vol. 78 # 222 - Monday, November 18, 2013

78 FR 69006 - Incorporation by Reference

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Additional Documents

type	regulations.gov
FR Doc.	2013-27541
RIN	3095-AB78
Docket No.	OFR-2013-0001

OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER, National Archives and Records Administration

Extension of comment period; correction.

Comments must be received on or before January 31, 2013.

1 CFR Part 51

Summary

On October 2, 2013, the Office of the Federal Register published a proposal to amend our regulations governing the approval of agency requests to incorporate material by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations. Given the recent government shutdown and technical issues with Regulations.gov, we are extending the comment period. We are also correcting the docket number and adding a link to the docket.

2013-10-02; vol. 78 # 191 - Wednesday, October 2, 2013

78 FR 60784 - Incorporation By Reference

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Additional Documents

type	regulations.gov
FR Doc.	2013-24217
RIN	3095-AB78
Docket No.	OFR-13-0001

OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER, National Archives and Records Administration

Partial grant of petition, notice of proposed rulemaking.

Comments must be received on or before December 31, 2013.

1 CFR Part 51

Summary

On February 13, 2012, the Office of the Federal Register received a petition to amend our regulations governing the approval of agency requests to incorporate material by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations. We agree with the petitioners that our regulations need to be updated, however the petitioners proposed changes to our regulations that go beyond our statutory authority. In this document, we propose that agencies seeking the Director's approval of their incorporation by reference requests add more information regarding materials incorporated by reference to the preambles of their rulemaking documents. We propose that they set out in the preambles a discussion of the actions they took to ensure the materials are reasonably available to interested parties or summarize the contents of the materials they wish to incorporate by reference.

2012-03-22; vol. 77 # 56 - Thursday, March 22, 2012

77 FR 16761 - Incorporation by Reference

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Additional Documents

type	regulations.gov
FR Doc.	2012-6935
RIN
	NARA-12-0002

OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER, National Archives and Records Administration

Extension of the comment period.

We are extending the comment period until June 1, 2012. We will not accept late comments.

1 CFR Part 51

Summary

On February 13, 2012, the Office of the Federal Register (OFR or we) received a petition to amend our regulations governing the approval of agency requests to incorporate material by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations. We published an announcement of the petition and request for comments on February 27, 2012. Since that time we have received one formal and several informal requests to extend the comment period. We are extending the comment period until June 1, 2012. We will not accept late comments.

2012-02-27; vol. 77 # 38 - Monday, February 27, 2012

77 FR 11414 - Incorporation by Reference

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Additional Documents

type	regulations.gov
FR Doc.	2012-4399
RIN
NARA	12-0002

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION, Office of the Federal Register

Announcement of a petition for rulemaking and request for comments.

Comments must be received on or before March 28, 2012.

1 CFR Part 51

Summary

On February 13, 2012, the Office of the Federal Register (OFR or we) received a petition to amend our regulations governing the approval of agency requests to incorporate material by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations. We've set out the petition in this document. We would like comments on the broad issues raised by this petition.