New regs for Friday: Military, prisoners, energy conservation standards

Friday’s edition of the Federal Register contains new rules for military commissary stores, using body imaging devices to search prisoners for contraband, and energy conservation standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts.

Here’s what is happening:

Military: The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled is moving forward with new rules for military commissary stores.

{mosads}These stores buy groceries and other goods from nonprofit organizations and resell them to soldiers. The new rules would impact how the military tracks these groceries.

The new rules go into effect on June 5.

Efficiency: The Department of Energy is moving forward with new energy conservation standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts.

The Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy proposed the rules last December before moving to finalize them on Thursday.

The rule goes into effect in 30 days.

Inmates: The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with new rules screening inmates.

Prison officials will be allowed to use body imaging search devices for routine and random searches of inmates, the agency said Thursday.

The rule goes into effect in 30 days.