Rule2021-23825
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)
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Published
November 3, 2021
Effective
January 3, 2022
Issuing agencies
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Abstract
This direct final rule amends NASA's rule on Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to make nomenclature changes to update acronyms, network names, and office designations cited in the rule.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 210 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60565-60566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23825]
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
14 CFR Part 1215
[Document Number NASA-21-058; Docket Number-NASA-2021-0005]
RIN 2700-AE62
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)
AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
ACTION: Direct final rule; nomenclature change.
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SUMMARY: This direct final rule amends NASA's rule on Tracking and Data
Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to make nomenclature changes to update
acronyms, network names, and office designations cited in the rule.
DATES: This direct final rule is effective on January 3, 2022. Comments
due on or before December 3, 2021. If adverse comments are received,
NASA will publish a timely withdrawal of the rule in the Federal
Register.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be identified with RINs 2700-AE62 and may be
sent to NASA via the Federal E-Rulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Please note that NASA will post all comments on the internet
with changes, including any personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Salvas, 202-358-2330,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#85e6f7e4ece2abf6e4e9f3e4f6c5ebe4f6e4abe2eaf3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4122332028266f32202d372032012f2032206f262e37">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Direct Final Rule and Significant Adverse Comments
NASA has determined this rulemaking meets the criteria for a direct
final rule because it makes non-substantive changes to make
nomenclature changes to update acronyms, network names, and office
designations cited in the rule. No opposition to the changes and no
significant adverse comments are expected. However, if NASA receives
significant adverse comments, it will withdraw this direct final rule
by publishing a notice in the Federal Register. A significant adverse
comment is one that explains: (1) Why the direct final rule is
inappropriate, including challenges to the rule's underlying premise or
approach; or (2) why the direct final rule will be ineffective or
unacceptable without a change. In determining whether a comment
necessitates withdrawal of this direct final rule, NASA will consider
whether it warrants a substantive response in a notice and comment
process.
II. Background
TDRSS is a network of U.S. communication satellites and ground
stations used by NASA for space communications near the Earth. The
system was designed to increase the time spacecraft were in
communication with the ground and improve the amount of data that could
be transferred. The primary goal of TDRSS is to provide improved
tracking and data acquisition services capability to spacecraft in low-
Earth orbit or to mobile terrestrial users such as aircraft or
balloons. NASA is amending this rule to make nomenclature changes to
update acronyms, network names, and office designations cited in
Sec. Sec. 1215.103, 1215.108, and 1215.109.
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III. Regulatory Analysis
Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review and Executive
Order 13563, Improvement Regulation and Regulation Review
Executive Orders (E.O.) 13563 and 12866 direct agencies to assess
all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize
net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public
health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). E.O.
13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and benefits,
of reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, and of promoting flexibility.
This rule has been designated as ``not significant'' under section 3(f)
of E.O. 12866.
Review Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) requires an
agency to prepare an initial regulatory flexibility analysis to be
published at the time the proposed rule is published. This requirement
does not apply if the agency ``certifies that the rule will not, if
promulgated, have a significant economic impact on a substantial number
of small entities'' (5 U.S.C. 603). This rule makes nomenclature
changes and, therefore, does not have a significant economic impact on
a substantial number of small entities.
Review Under the Paperwork Reduction Act
These nomenclature changes do not contain any information
collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Review Under E.O. 13132
E.O. 13132, ``Federalism,'' 64 FR 43255 (August 4, 1999), requires
regulations to be reviewed for Federalism effects on the institutional
interest of states and local governments, and, if the effects are
sufficiently substantial, preparation of the Federal assessment is
required to assist senior policy makers. The amendments will not have
any substantial direct effects on state and local governments within
the meaning of the E.O. Therefore, no Federalism assessment is
required.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 1215
Satellites.
Accordingly, under the authority of the National Aeronautics and
Space Act, as amended, 51 U.S.C. 20113, NASA amends 14 CFR part 1215 as
follows:
PART 1215--TRACKING AND DATA RELAY SATELLITE SYSTEM (TDRSS)
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1. The authority citation for part 1215 continues to read as follows:
Authority: Sec. 203, Pub. L. 85-568, 72 Stat. 429, as amended;
42 U.S.C. 2473.
Sec. Sec. 1215.103 1215.108, and 1215.109 [Amended]
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2. In the table below, for each section indicated in the left column,
remove the acronym, network name, or office designation indicated in
the middle column from wherever it appears in the section, and add the
acronym, network name, or office designation indicated in the right
column:
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Section Remove Add
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1215.103........................ Space Network..... Near Space
Network.
1215.103........................ SNUG.............. NSNUG.
1215.103........................ Networks Commercialization,
Integration Innovation, and
Management Office. Synergies.
1215.108........................ SNUG.............. NSNUG.
1215.108........................ NIMO.............. Near Space
Network.
1215.108........................ Networks Commercialization,
Integration Innovation, and
Management Office. Synergies.
1215.109........................ NIMO.............. Near Space
Network.
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Nanette Smith,
Team Lead, NASA Directives and Regulations.
[FR Doc. 2021-23825 Filed 11-2-21; 8:45 am]
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