NIST Sends CHIPS Act NPRM to OMB

Yesterday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had received a notice of proposed rulemaking from the DOC’s National Institute of Standards and Technology for “Preventing the Improper Use of CHIPS Act Funding”. This rulemaking was not listed in the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda, so it is hard to determine what will actually be included in this rulemaking.

NOTE: OIRA has been having problems with their Reginfo.gov web site for the last couple of weeks. The display of new rulemakings is frequently ‘hidden’ behind the footer of the web page. Probably some simple HTML coding issue, but it indicates that the web site manager is not reviewing the actual display of the page when updating the page.