The most telling document in today’s Federal Register wasn’t the day’s flashiest order but a two-paragraph notice from the Justice Department: the reestablishment, from scratch, of a federal advisory committee that had merely been renewed routinely for over a decade — a small, concrete data point on how advisory infrastructure inside an agency can lapse and have to be rebuilt.
- Justice Department (Office of Justice Programs) — Notice, Notice of Submission of Charter for the Reestablishment of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Advisory Committee. Past Federal Register filings for this committee, which advises the Attorney General on justice-information-sharing policy, were titled “charter renewal” (2020, 2022); today’s is a “reestablishment,” meaning the committee lapsed rather than simply came up for renewal — a quiet marker of attrition in DOJ’s advisory-committee structure. Read the document.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (DHS) — Proposed Rule, Heightened Import Disclosures for Supply Chain Visibility. CBP is proposing to require importers and foreign exporters to disclose far more supply-chain data and adopt new tracing technology — a real expansion of the agency’s regulatory reach into private trade data, justified as a tool against illegal transshipment. Read the document.
- Executive Office of the President — Presidential Document, Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Foreign Interference in or Undermining Public Confidence in United States Elections. The renewal keeps intact the legal basis — first invoked in 2018 — for Treasury, DHS, and the intelligence community to sanction and investigate election interference; without it, that enforcement authority lapses automatically under the National Emergencies Act. Read the document.
- Federal Aviation Administration (DOT) — Proposed Rule, Establishment of Special Air Traffic Rules in the Vicinity of President Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT). At the Secret Service’s request, FAA is proposing to restrict aircraft operations near the newly renamed Palm Beach-area airport to secure the President’s private property — a compact case study in how one residence can reshape a federal agency’s regulatory footprint. Read the document.
- Department of Energy — Final Rule, Repeal of Fossil Fuel Restrictions for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings. DOE is staying the compliance date on provisions it adopted itself, pending a “review” of its own implementation guidance — a rule un-adopting a rule, and an early marker of how far the department intends to walk back the prior administration’s building-efficiency standards. Read the document.
- Executive Office of the President — Presidential Document, Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America. The rename bypasses the U.S. Board on Geographic Names’ normal review process and hands NOAA, USGS, and the State Department — which co-manages the lake with Canada through the International Joint Commission — the job of updating charts, treaty references, and diplomatic correspondence. Read the document.
Editorial note: all 85 documents published in today’s issue were reviewed against our institutional-health criteria; the six above are the ones that met the bar. Excluded as routine: 13 SEC self-regulatory-organization rule filings, a dozen-plus Paperwork Reduction Act/OMB information-collection notices, three antidumping/countervailing-duty sunset reviews, four Coast Guard safety zones, three FERC hydropower pre-filing notices, and assorted single-agency meeting notices, disaster declarations, and guidance documents — none of which showed signs of reorganization, leadership change, funding action, or litigation.
Bureaucracy Times 