Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION <CFR>48 CFR Ch. 1</CFR> <SUBJECT>Semiannual Regulatory Agenda</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> This agenda provides summary descriptions of regulations being developed by the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council in compliance with Executive Order 12866 “Regulatory Planning and Review, as reaffirmed and amended in Executive Order 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” and Executive Order 14094, “Modernizing Regulatory Review.” This agenda is being published to allow interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rulemaking process. Additionally, members of the public can track the progress of any open and pending FAR rule via the “Open FAR Cases” report, which is publicly available at <E T="03">https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/far_case_status.html.</E> The Regulatory Secretariat Division has attempted to list all regulations pending at the time of publication, except for minor and routine or repetitive actions; however, unanticipated requirements may result in the issuance of regulations that are not included in this agenda. There is no legal significance to the omission of an item from this listing. Also, the dates shown for the steps of each action are estimated and are not commitments to act on or by the dates shown. Published proposed rules may be reviewed in their entirety at the Government's rulemaking website at <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov.</E> </SUM> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Lois Mandell, Division Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division, 1800 F Street NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20405-0001, 202-501-4755 or by email at <E T="03">lois.mandell@gsa.gov.</E> </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> DoD, GSA, and NASA, under their several statutory authorities, jointly issue and maintain the FAR through periodic issuance of changes published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> and produced electronically as Federal Acquisition Circulars (FACs). The electronic version of the FAR, including changes, can be accessed on the FAR website at <E T="03">https://www.acquisition.gov/far.</E> <SIG> <NAME>William F. Clark,</NAME> Director, Office of Government-wide Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy. </SIG> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="xs60,r100,14"> <TTITLE>DOD/GSA/NASA (FAR)—Proposed Rule Stage</TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Sequence No.</CHED> <CHED H="1">Title</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Regulation Identifier No. </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">237</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2017-016, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)</ENT> <ENT>9000-AN56</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">238</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2021-016, Minimizing the Risk of Climate Change in Federal Acquisitions</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO33</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">239</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2023-002, Supply Chain Software Security</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO49</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="xs60,r100,14"> <TTITLE>DOD/GSA/NASA (FAR)—Final Rule Stage</TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Sequence No.</CHED> <CHED H="1">Title</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Regulation Identifier No. </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">240</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2018-017, Prohibition on Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment</ENT> <ENT>9000-AN83</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">241</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2019-009, Prohibition on Contracting With Entities Using Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment</ENT> <ENT>9000-AN92</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">242</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2021-015, Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO32</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">243</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2021-017, Cyber Threat and Incident Reporting and Information Sharing</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO34</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">244</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2023-010, Prohibition on a ByteDance Covered Application</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO58</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">245</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2023-021, Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO69</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="xs60,r100,14"> <TTITLE>DOD/GSA/NASA (FAR)—Long-Term Actions</TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Sequence No.</CHED> <CHED H="1">Title</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Regulation Identifier No. </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">246</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2020-011, Implementation of Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA) Orders</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO13</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="xs60,r100,14"> <TTITLE>DOD/GSA/NASA (FAR)—Completed Actions</TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Sequence No.</CHED> <CHED H="1">Title</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Regulation Identifier No. </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">247</ENT> <ENT>Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2022-006, Sustainable Procurement</ENT> <ENT>9000-AO43</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> <E T="0742">DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE/GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (FAR)</E> </HD> <HD SOURCE="HD3">Proposed Rule Stage</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">237. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2017-016, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) [9000-AN56]</HD> <E T="03">Legal Authority:</E> 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. ch. 4; 10 U.S.C. ch. 137 legacy provisions; 10 U.S.C. 3016; 51 U.S.C. 20113 <E T="03">Abstract:</E> This rule will apply the controlled unclassified information (CUI) program requirements in Federal contracts in a uniform manner to protect CUI. This rule is one element of a larger strategy to improve the Government's efforts to identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to increasing sophisticated threat actions targeting Federal contractors. This rule is being issued in accordance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regulations implementing the CUI program per Executive Order 13556 issued November 4, 2010, as implemented in NARA's implementing regulations. <E T="03">Timetable:</E> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,8,xs48"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Action</CHED> <CHED H="1">Date</CHED> <CHED H="1">FR Cite</CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">NPRM</ENT> <ENT>10/00/24</ENT> <ENT/> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">NPRM Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>12/00/24</ENT> <ENT/> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <E T="03">Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required:</E> Yes. <E T="03">Agency Contact:</E> Michael O. Jackson, Procurement Analyst, DOD/GSA/NASA (FAR), 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20405, <E T="03">Phone:</E> 202 208-4949, <E T="03">Email: michaelo.jackson@gsa.gov.</E> <E T="03">RIN:</E> 9000-AN56 <HD SOURCE="HD1">238. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2021-016, Minimizing the Risk of Climate Change in Federal Acquisitions [9000-AO33]</HD> <E T="03">Legal Authority:</E> 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. ch. 4; 10 U.S.C. ch. 137 legacy provisions; 10 U.S.C. 3016; 51 U.S.C. 20113 <E T="03">Abstract:</E> This rule will allow agencies to: (1) provide a preference for proposed solutions that have lower life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions; and (2) require a Federal contractor to identify and manage climate risks that may impact contract performance. This rule is being issued in accordance with section 5(b)(ii) of the Executive Order 14030 titled “Climate-Related Financial Risk.” DoD, GSA, and NASA published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in October of 2021 seeking feedback from the public on ways in which the Government could consider greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks in Federal procurement. The feedback is being considered in the development of the proposed rule. <E T="03">Timetable:</E> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,8,xs48"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Action</CHED> <CHED H="1">Date</CHED> <CHED H="1">FR Cite</CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">ANPRM</ENT> <ENT>10/15/21</ENT> <ENT>86 FR 57404</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Comment Period Extended</ENT> <ENT>12/07/21</ENT> <ENT>86 FR 69218</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">ANPRM Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>01/13/22</ENT> <ENT/> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">NPRM</ENT> <ENT>07/00/24</ENT> <ENT I="01">NPRM Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>09/00/24</ENT> <ENT/> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <E T="03">Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required:</E> Yes. <E T="03">Agency Contact:</E> Jennifer Hawes, Procurement Analyst, DOD/GSA/NASA (FAR), 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20405, <E T="03">Phone:</E> 202 969-7386, <E T="03">Email: jennifer.hawes@gsa.gov.</E> <E T="03">RIN:</E> 9000-AO33 <HD SOURCE="HD1">239. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2023-002, Supply Chain Software Security [9000-AO49]</HD> <E T="03">Legal Authority:</E> 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. ch. 4; 10 U.S.C. ch. 137 legacy provisions; 10 U.S.C. 3016; 51 U.S.C. 20113 <E T="03">Abstract:</E> This rule will require suppliers of software available for purchase by Federal agencies to comply with the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Sec ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 27k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━