Rule2025-02868
Visitor Experience Improvements Authority Contracts; Delay of Effective Date
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Published
February 20, 2025
Effective
March 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from President Donald J. Trump, titled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," this action temporarily delays the effective date of a rule published on January 17, 2025, until March 21, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 33 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 9953-9954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02868]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
36 CFR Part 52
[NPS-WASO-39552; PPWOBSADC0; PPMVSCS1Y.Y00000]
RIN 1024-AE47
Visitor Experience Improvements Authority Contracts; Delay of
Effective Date
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from
President Donald J. Trump, titled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,''
this action temporarily delays the effective date of a rule published
on January 17, 2025, until March 21, 2025.
DATES: As of February 14, 2025, the effective date of the final rule
adding part 52 to title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
published at 90 FR 5639, January 17, 2025, is delayed to March 21,
2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt Rausch, Chief of Commercial
Services Program, National Park Service; (202) 513-7202;
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e08b959294bf928195938388a08e9093ce878f96"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4b203e393f14392a3e3828230b253b38652c243d">[email protected]</span></a>. For questions regarding the NPS's information
collection request contact <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#087860696c7a6d69577867666c7b4866787b266f677e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e4948c8580968185bb948b8a8097a48a9497ca838b92">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Park Service (NPS) is taking
this action in response to the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from the
President, titled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review.'' The memorandum
directed the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies to consider
postponing for 60 days from the date of the memorandum the effective
date for any rules that have been published in the Federal Register but
had not yet taken effect for the purpose of reviewing any questions of
fact, law, and policy that the rules may raise. The NPS has determined
the Visitor Experience Improvements Authority Contracts final rule
meets the criteria for delaying the effective date. The new effective
date for this regulation is March 21, 2025.
The NPS is taking this action, without opportunity for public
comment and effective immediately, based on the good cause exceptions
in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3), in that seeking public comment is
impracticable, unnecessary, and contrary to the public interest. The
temporary delay in effective date until March 21, 2025, is necessary to
give Agency officials the opportunity for further review and
consideration of new regulations, consistent with the memorandum of the
President dated January 20, 2025. Given the imminence of the effective
date of this regulation, seeking prior public comment on this temporary
delay is impractical, as well as contrary to the public interest in the
orderly promulgation and implementation of regulations.
For the foregoing reasons, the good cause exception in 5 U.S.C.
553(d)(3) also applies to NPS's decision to make this action effective
immediately. Moreover, to the extent that extending the effective date
of this rule would grant an exception or relieve a restriction, an
exception also applies under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1).
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Where appropriate, the Agency may consider further delaying the
effective date of the above-referenced regulations beyond March 21,
2025. If the Agency were to do so, consistent with the memorandum of
the President, the Agency would consider whether to propose any later
effective date for public comment.
Maureen D. Foster,
Chief of Staff, Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Assistant
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. 2025-02868 Filed 2-14-25; 4:15 pm]
BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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