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Open for Comment: Update to EPAAR Text of Provisions and Clauses, Signing of Uniform Hazardous Wastes Manifests

Environmental Protection Agency — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a new EPAAR, Provision and Clause in Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses, and Environmental, Conservation, Occupational Safety, and Drug-Free Workplace. The EPA currently has a local clause, which involves the signing of Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests for Superfund sites. The new clause will enable contractors to sign the Waste Manifest at EPA worksites for the removal of hazardous and non- hazardous materials at both Superfund and non-Superfund sites. The addition of the new clause will allow work to continue when EPA personnel are not present at the worksite. (61 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Airworthiness Directives; Bell Textron Canada Limited Helicopters

Transportation Department — The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) AD 2024-02-55, which applies to certain Bell Textron Canada Limited (BTCL) Model 505 helicopters. AD 2024-02-55 requires initial and recurring inspections of the vertical stabilizer top end cap assembly and corrective action if a crack is found. Since the FAA issued AD 2024-02- 55, the manufacturer introduced a new one-piece vertical stabilizer machined top end cap assembly, which is implemented during production, and designed a new replacement for the vertical stabilizer machined top end cap assembly currently in service. This proposed AD would continue to require the inspection requirements of AD 2024-02-55 and would limit the applicability to exclude certain serial numbered BTCL Model 505 helicopters with an improved design vertical stabilizer top end cap installed at production. This proposed AD would also require replacing the vertical stabilizer top end cap assembly with an improved design top end cap assembly, which would constitute terminating action for the recurring detailed visual inspections. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products. (48 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes

Transportation Department — The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all The Boeing Company Model 787-8, 787-9, and 787-10 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of fatigue cracks found on the thrust reverser (TR) outer V-blade (OVB) during scheduled maintenance and inspections. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections of the upper, center, and lower segments of the OVB and the inner radius of the OVB for any crack and applicable on-condition actions. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products. (43 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Quality Reporting Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2027

Health and Human Services Department — This rule proposes changes and updates to the policies and payment rates used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for fiscal year 2027. This proposed rule also updates the requirements for the SNF Quality Reporting Program and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program. (54 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Establishment of Class E Airspace; Jewett, TX

Transportation Department — The FAA is correcting an NPRM that published in the Federal Register on April 1, 2026, proposing to establish Class E airspace at Jewett, TX. Subsequent to publication, it was discovered that the NPRM was published with the wrong docket number used in two instances. This action corrects those typographic errors. (44 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Airworthiness Directives; Bell Textron Canada Limited Helicopters

Transportation Department — The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2025-09-03, which applies to certain Bell Textron Canada Limited (Bell) Model 430 helicopters. AD 2025-09-03 reduced the life limits on the main rotor (M/R) clevises, universal bearings, universal to pitch link bolts, the tube assembly, and the rod end assembly and requires replacing the M/R pitch link assemblies with re-identified part numbered assemblies. Since the FAA issued AD 2025-09-03, the FAA received comments proposing changes to the actions of AD 2025-09-03. This proposed AD proposes changes to actions in AD 2025-09-03 and addresses the comments received. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products. (44 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Medicare Program; FY 2027 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System-Rate Update

Health and Human Services Department — This rulemaking proposes to update the prospective payment rates, the outlier threshold, and the wage index for Medicare inpatient hospital services provided by Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (IPFs), which include psychiatric hospitals and excluded psychiatric units of an acute care hospital or critical access hospital. This rulemaking also proposes refinement of the IPF PPS outlier policy. These changes would be effective for IPF discharges occurring during the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2027. We are also proposing the implementation of a standardized IPF patient assessment instrument, and the removal of two measures used in the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Quality Reporting Program. (55 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement

Transportation Department — FMCSA proposes amendments to its regulations governing the annual Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) Plan and Agreement registration fees that participating States collect from motor carriers, motor private carriers of property, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies. The UCR Board of Directors (Board) did not recommend any change in fees for the 2026 registration year, therefore the fees remained the same as the 2025 registration year. However, on September 18, 2025, the Board recommended a fee increase for the 2027 registration year and subsequent registration years. This recommended increase averages 20 percent, with varying increases between $9 and $9,329 per entity, depending on the applicable fee bracket. Even after the proposed increase, the fees for registration year 2027 are still less than those in effect during registration years 2019 through 2022. FMCSA proposes to adopt the recommended fee increase. (30 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 6-Draft

Environmental Protection Agency — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a draft list of contaminants that are currently not subject to any proposed or promulgated national primary drinking water regulations for public review and comment. These contaminants are known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and may require regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in the future. The draft list provided in this document is the sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) published by the Agency since the SDWA amendments of 1996. The draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6 or the list) includes 75 chemicals, 4 chemical groups (disinfection byproducts (DBPs), microplastics, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and pharmaceuticals) and 9 microbes. The EPA seeks public comment on the draft CCL 6 and the process used to develop the draft CCL 6. The EPA will consider all information and comments received in response to this notice of availability for determining the final CCL 6. (59 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Special Local Regulation; 4th of July Fireworks, East River and Upper New York Bay, Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, NY

Homeland Security Department — The Coast Guard is proposing to establish a temporary special local regulation (SLR) for certain navigable waters of the East River and Upper New York Bay in New York Harbor, NY. The SLR is needed to provide for the safety of life on these highly congested waterways immediately before, during, and after a 4th of July fireworks display. The rule would control vessel movement, prohibit entry into moving protection zones around transiting fireworks barges, establish exclusion zones near launch sites, and create spectator zones. The Coast Guard invites public comment on this proposed rulemaking. (28 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Work Participation Rate Calculation Changes: Recalibration of the Caseload Reduction Credit and Prohibition of Small Checks in Work Participation Rate Calculation

Health and Human Services Department — ACF proposes to make changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program regulations to reset the base year of the caseload reduction credit from fiscal year (FY) 2005 to the new year established by Congress, which is currently FY 2015, and to exclude from the TANF work participation rate calculations certain cases that receive assistance payments benefits of less than $35 for a month. These changes are required by the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023. The docket on https://www.regulations.gov will include a plain language summary of the NPRM as required by 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4). (28 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Walking-Working Surfaces

Labor Department — This proposed rule removes a deadline in OSHA's Walking- Working Surfaces standard by which all fixed ladders that extend more than 24 feet above a lower level must be equipped with personal fall arrest systems or ladder safety systems. Additionally, OSHA is seeking comment on repealing or revising the requirement that employers use personal fall arrest systems on all fixed ladders over 24 feet tall and instead permitting employers to continue to use ladder cages or wells. (59 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Medicare Program; FY 2027 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements

Health and Human Services Department — This proposed rule would update the hospice wage index, payment rates, and aggregate cap amount for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. This proposed rule also includes an analysis of Medicare non-hospice spending, including details regarding a hospice service and spending variation index (SSVI), and proposes to require that hospices provide the hospice election statement addendum to all Medicare beneficiaries at the time of hospice election. Additionally, this rule proposes conforming regulation text changes to discharge from hospice care regulations; regulation text changes to the face-to-face encounter regulations; and includes requests for information on community palliative care services; the construction of a hospice specific wage index; and the overlap between hospice and medical aid in dying (MAID). Finally, this rule proposes changes to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program. (55 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2027 and Updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program

Health and Human Services Department — This proposed rule would update the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2027. As required by statute, this proposed rule includes the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's case-mix groups and a description of the methodologies and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for FY 2027. It also continues the third year of the 3-year phaseout of the rural adjustment, which began in FY 2025. This proposed rule includes a solicitation for public comments on alternative data sources for the IRF PPS wage index; proposes to require all therapy treatments or therapy evaluations to begin within 36-hours from midnight on the day of admission; proposes to require a patient's current functional status be documented on the preadmission screening; proposes requirements for the initial Interdisciplinary Team meeting; and includes a request for information on potential future IRF PPS payment reform. Additionally, the proposed rule includes updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program. Furthermore, the proposed rule includes changes to the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program. (55 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing of Substitutes Under the Significant New Alternatives Policy Program in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning and Fire Suppression; Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Environmental Protection Agency — Pursuant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Significant New Alternatives Policy program, this action proposes to list the refrigerant 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, also known as HFO- 1234yf, as acceptable, subject to use conditions, in the motor vehicle air conditioning end-use for retrofit of heavy-duty pickup trucks and complete heavy-duty vans. This action supplements the Agency's November 10, 2025, proposal with respect to the proposed listings in the motor vehicle air conditioning end-use for retrofit of heavy-duty pickup trucks and heavy-duty vans (both complete and incomplete vans). The EPA is also supplementing that proposal to clarify the intended scope of that proposed rule. The EPA is providing an opportunity for public comment on the additional listing and the clarification. The EPA is not reopening the comment period for any portions of the November 10, 2025, proposal which are not explicitly addressed in this supplemental proposal. (29 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Airworthiness Directives; Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. Airplanes

Transportation Department — The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2021-11-08, which applies to all Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Model PC-6, PC-6-H1, PC-6-H2, PC-6/350, PC-6/350-H1, PC-6/350-H2, PC-6/A, PC- 6/A-H1, PC-6/A-H2, PC-6/B-H2, PC-6/B1-H2, PC-6/B2-H2, PC-6/B2-H4, PC-6/ C-H2, and PC-6/C1-H2 airplanes. AD 2021-11-08 requires revising the airworthiness limitation section (ALS) of the existing aircraft maintenance manual (AMM) or instructions for continued airworthiness (ICA) to incorporate new airworthiness limitations and adding an additional eddy current inspection of the fuselage wing fittings and wing-to-fuselage fittings if the last inspection was performed using an earlier version of the material. Since the FAA issued AD 2021-11-08, the FAA has determined that new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations are necessary. This proposed AD would require revising the ALS of the existing AMM or ICA for these airplanes. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products. (45 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden in Family Violence and Prevention Services

Health and Human Services Department — The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, proposes to remove duplicative or unnecessary Sections from the Family Violence Prevention and Services program regulations (45 CFR part 1370). These amendments will streamline the Family Violence Prevention and Services regulations and make them more accessible to the public. The docket on https:// www.regulations.gov will include a plain language summary of the NPRM. (30 days remaining)

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Open for Comment: Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Children, Youth, and Family Programs

Health and Human Services Department — The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families proposes to remove duplicative or unnecessary sections from the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program regulations (45 CFR part 1351). These amendments will streamline the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program regulations to make them more accessible to the public. The docket on https://www.regulations.gov will include a plain language summary of the NPRM. (30 days remaining)