I would say (Greg to confirm/deny) that it's OK to submit such clearances, but perhaps wait until November.  Maybe mention in one of the notes-to-clearance-team fields that the finished ebook won't be submitted to PG until Jan/2020.
 
DPCanada has a similar general policy. 
 
DPCanada/Fadedpage (https://www.fadedpage.com/) should also be checked, just in case the book is already there.  (DPC follows Canadian copyright law, not American.)  DPC has a copyright clearances spreadsheet (similar to David Price's In-progress list) at:
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lU5VeCLMIPhkqqGc-g0iE7Ld5EU5b-sI7DcoKiUwZPo/pub?output=html
 
Green entries are projects that have been posted to Fadedpage; black ones are active DPC projects.  (Be patient--the sheet can take a bit of time to load and respond.)
 
 
Al
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: gutvol-d [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Adcock
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2019 5:04 PM
To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion; gbnewby@pglaf.org
Subject: [gutvol-d] End-of-year [Pre]-clearance

I seem to remember that you start accepting clearance requests a bit ahead of time -- end-of-year 2019 look-ahead for "2020" [1924] items?

When can we start submitting clearance requests for "2020" [1924] items -- realizing that these don't actually "clear" until 2020?

Thanks, jimad