A rule published Oct. 28 raised the thresholds for executive branch employees to report gifts and travel reimbursements, the US Office of Government Ethics said in the Federal Register.
The disclosure changes reflect a retroactive increase required by law. The rule also raises a related ceiling on gifts connected with widely attended gatherings, but that change does not apply retroactively.
The rule took effect Oct. 28. It updates both the executive branch's financial disclosure regulation and its standards governing ethical conduct, with different treatment of the two changes' application to past gifts.
The gatherings provision concerns an exception for gifts from someone other than the event's sponsor. Its dollar ceiling is tied to the reporting thresholds for gifts and travel reimbursements.
The supplied abstract gives no dollar amounts for the revised thresholds or the gatherings ceiling. It also gives no starting date for the retroactive disclosure changes and no comment deadline.
A separate Federal Communications Commission rule published Oct. 28 replaced channel 20 with channel 10 in the television channel allocation for Elko, Nevada. That rule took effect the same day.
Reno (KENV-TV) Licensee, Inc., which holds the license for full-power television station KENV-DT, requested the change. The company said it could not finish building its channel 20 facility by its construction permit deadline.
The commission's Media Bureau had previously approved the company's request to replace channel 10 with channel 20 and later granted a construction permit. The new rule reverses that earlier channel substitution.
Two fisheries rules published Oct. 28 adjusted commercial fishing quotas between states. Both took effect Oct. 27, according to the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
New York transferred part of its commercial bluefish quota for 2026 to North Carolina. Virginia transferred part of its commercial summer flounder quota for the same year to New Jersey.
The transfers follow provisions in the management plans governing those fisheries. The supplied abstracts give neither the amounts transferred nor the revised state quotas, leaving the size of both adjustments unspecified.
The Transportation Department's Federal Aviation Administration also published two corrections Oct. 28 to rules establishing Class E airspace at Illinois heliports. The corrections address typographical errors in the legal descriptions of that airspace.
One covers OSF St Elizabeth Medical Center Heliport in Ottawa. The other covers Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Heliport in DeKalb. Both corrections carry an effective date of Sept. 22, when the original final rules were published.
