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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 189 / Monday, October 4, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
41 CFR Parts 30090, 30174, Appendix E to Chapter 301
FTR Case 202130101; Docket No. GSA
FTR20210011, Sequence No. 2
RIN 3090AK41

Federal Travel Regulation; Removal and Reservation Telework Travel Expenses Test Programs and Suggested Guidance for Conference Planning Office of Government-wide Policy OGP, General Services Administration GSA.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:

GSA is amending the Federal Travel Regulation FTR to remove and reserve the regulations implementing the Administrator of General Services authority to authorize agencies to conduct telework travel expenses test programs. The Administrators authority to authorize agencies to conduct such test programs expired in accordance with the William M. Mac Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. GSA is also removing and reserving regulations, that contain suggested guidance for conference planning.
DATES: Effective November 3, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Jill Denning, Program Analyst, at 202
2087642 or travelpolicy@gsa.gov for clarification of content. For information pertaining to status or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory Secretariat Division at 2025014755 or GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite FTR
Case 202130101.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Background This final rule, published as a proposed rule on May 14, 2021 86 FR
26455, first amends the FTR to remove and reserve part 30090. Originally, this part was included in the FTR due to the enactment of Public Law Pub. L. 111
292, the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, codified at 5 U.S.C. 5711, which authorized the creation of agency telework travel expenses test programs subject to approval by the Administrator of General Services.
When submitting a test program proposal to GSA, agencies were directed to include an analysis of the expected cost and benefits and a set of criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the program. Once approved, participating agencies were required to submit an annual report on the results of the test
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program, including overall costs and benefits.
Only one Federal agency, the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO, requested and then implemented a telework travel expenses test program under this authority. When Public Law 116283 became effective on January 1, 2021, it made the USPTO
telework travel expenses program permanent. At that time, the law did not extend the Administrator of General Services authority to approve telework travel expenses test programs, so it expired as of December 31, 2020, making part 30090 no longer necessary.
GSA is also removing and reserving Appendix E to Chapter 301 of the FTR, Suggested Guidance for Conference Planning, first published January 10, 2000 65 FR 1329. As noted in the title, the guidance is suggested, not a mandatory set of instructions agencies must follow when planning a conference. Some readers have found the word suggested in the title confusing and duplicative, considering similar regulatory instructions regarding conference planning are located in FTR
part 30174. GSA believes that general information on how to plan a conference, the focus of Appendix E, is now more widely available through non-Governmental and professional resources than it was when the Appendix was first published.
Finally, one reference to Appendix E
that was in regulatory text is also removed in accordance with the above.

IV. Congressional Review Act
II. Discussion of Final Rule
List of Subjects in 41 CFR Parts 30090
and 30174, and Appendix E to Chapter 301

This rule removes and reserves both part 30090 and Appendix E to Chapter 301 of the FTR. GSA received no comments in response to the proposed rule.
III. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
Executive Orders E.O.s 12866 and 13563 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 is not a significant regulatory action and, therefore, is not subject to review under Section 6b of E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review, dated September 30, 1993.

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Subtitle E of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 codified at 5 U.S.C. 801808, also known as the Congressional Review Act or CRA, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. OIRA has determined that this rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C. 8042, therefore, GSA did not submit a rule report.
V. Regulatory Flexibility Act This final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities within the meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601, et seq. This final rule is also exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553a2 because it applies to agency management or personnel.
Therefore, an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis was not performed.
VI. Paperwork Reduction Act The Paperwork Reduction Act does not apply because the changes to the FTR do not impose recordkeeping or information collection requirements, or the collection of information from offerors, contractors, or members of the public that require the approval of the Office of Management and Budget OMB under 44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.

Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Travel and transportation expenses.
Robin Carnahan, Administrator of General Services.

Therefore, under the authority 5
U.S.C. 5707 and 5711, GSA removes 41
CFR parts 30090, amends 30174, and removes Appendix E to Chapter 301 as set forth below:
PART 30090REMOVED AND
RESERVED

1. Remove and reserve part 30090.

PART 30174CONFERENCE
PLANNING
2. The authority citation for 41 CFR
30174 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5707.

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