March 1, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register March 1, 2001

View all documents issued on March 1, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

93 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 1, 2001

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Meetings:

Title Type Published
International Food and Agricultural Development Board
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the continuing information collections, as required b...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, a...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the preliminary determinations of the antidumping duty investigations on honey from Argentina and the People's Republic of China (the PRC). These investigations cover manufacturers and exporte...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Canada
Notice Mar 01, 2001
On August 16, 2000 the Department published in the Federal Register (65 FR 49965) a notice announcing the initiation of a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from the People's Republic of China (PRC), covering Groupstars...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
In response to a letter from Hyundai Pipe Co., Ltd. ("HDP") notifying the Department of Commerce that its corporate name would be changing to Hyundai Steel Company ("Hyundai Hysco"), the Department of Commerce is initiating a changed circumstances ad...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
On October 24, 2000, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the thirteenth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel cookware from Mexico. The review covers two manufacturers/exporters. The per...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Export administration regulations:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by removing the additional license requirements imposed on Serbia in May 1999. However, a license is required for all exports and reexports by U.S. persons of any item subject to the...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for groundfish by vessels using hook-and-line gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), except for sablefish or demersal shelf rockfish. This action is necessary because the first seasonal bycatch mortality allowance of P...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
NMFS issues final specifications for the 2001 scup and black sea bass fisheries and makes preliminary adjustments to the 2001 commercial quotas for these fisheries. The annual specifications for the scup fishery modify the Gear Restricted Areas (GRAs...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Commission of Fine Arts logo Commission of Fine Arts

Title Type Published
Meetings
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Civilian health and medical program of uniformed services (CHAMPUS):

Title Type Published
On October 23, 2000 (65 FR 63202), the Department of Defense published a final rule on TRICARE Family Member Dental Plan. The rule had an effective date that began during the Presidential Moratium on Rules, therefore, this rule is republished to chan...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

D
Delaware River Basin Commission

Title Type Published
The Delaware River Basin Commission ("Commission") will hold a public hearing to receive comments on revised proposed amendments to its Water Code and Comprehensive Plan to establish water usage reporting requirements for source water withdrawals and...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Financial Assistance Solicitation DE-PS26-01NT15263 entitled "Technology Development with Independents." The Department of Energy announces that it intends to conduct a competitive Program Solicitation an...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is amending the EPA Acquisition Regulation (EPAAR) to provide for the use, in certain circumstances and under certain conditions, of a letter contract known as a Notice to Proceed (NTP), to carry out emergenc...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final action to remove the provision for the industrial utility-units exemption in the regulations for the Acid Rain Program under title IV of the Clean Air Act (Act). The purpose of the Acid...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to remove the provision for the industrial utility-units exemption in the permits rule for the Acid Rain Program under title IV of the Clean Air Act (Act). The purpose of the Acid Rain Program is...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Air programs:

Title Type Published
EPA is updating the Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") Air Regulations as they apply to OCS sources off the coast of Alaska. Requirements applying to OCS sources located within 25 miles of states' seaward boundaries must be updated periodically to remai...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
EPA is proposing to update a portion of the Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") Air Regulations. Requirements applying to OCS sources located within 25 miles of states' seaward boundaries must be updated periodically to remain consistent with the require...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Air programs; State authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Knox County Department of Air Quality Management located in Knoxville, Tennessee has requested that EPA delegate authority for implementation and enforcement of existing New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) which have been previously adopted b...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Clean Air Act:

Title Type Published
We, the EPA, are proposing to amend the State Operating Permits Program and the Federal Operating Permits Program. The amendments are in response to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals October 29, 1999, decision to remand to us part of the Oct...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001
We, the EPA, are taking direct final action to amend the State Operating Permits Program and the Federal Operating Permits Program. The amendments are in response to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals October 29, 1999, decision to remand to u...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
American Red Cross Month (Proc. 7408)
Presidential Document Mar 01, 2001
Irish-American Heritage Month (Proc. 7409)
Presidential Document Mar 01, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission adopts rules proposed in the Second Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement the slamming provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996....
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Digital television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission, at the request of WWL-TV, Inc., licensee of station WWL-TV, substitutes DTV channel 36 for DTV channel 30 at New Orleans, Louisiana. See 65 FR 60163, October 10, 2000. DTV channel 36 can be allotted to New Orleans in compliance with t...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
The Commission, at the request of Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises, licensee of station KHSDTV, substitutes DTV 10 for DTV 30 at Lead, South Dakota. See 65 FR 71079, November 29, 2000. DTV channel 10 can be allotted to Lead in compliance with the pri...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
The Commission, at the request of QueenB Television, LLC, licensee of station WKBT-TV, substitutes DTV channel 41 for DTV channel 53 at La Crosse, Wisconsin. See 65 FR 71291, November 30, 2000. DTV channel 41 can be allotted to La Crosse in complianc...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document substitutes Channel 285C2 for Channel 274C3 at Window Rock, Arizona, and modifies the license of Station KWIM accordingly, as requested by Western Indian Ministries, Inc. See 65 FR 71080, November 29, 2000. Coordinates used for Channel...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
The Commission grants a petition filed by Roaring Forks Broadcasting, Inc., requesting the allotment of Channel 228A at Aspen, Colorado, as the community's third local FM transmission service. See 65 FR 67691 (November 13, 2000). Channel 228A can be...
Rule Mar 01, 2001
The Commission requests comments on a petition for rule making filed by Bishop Community Radio, Inc., seeking the allotment of Channel 295A to Junction City, MO, as its first local aural service. Petitioner is requested to provide a showing demonstra...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001
Graham Tollway Broadcasting Company proposed the allotment of Channel 253A at Graham, Texas. See 64 FR 36322, July 6, 1999. The proposal for Graham has been withdrawn with no other interest expressed in an allotment at Graham. A counterproposal was f...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001
The Commission requests comments on a petition for rule making filed by Valley Mills Radio Broadcasting Company seeking the allotment of Channel 237C2 at Valley Mills, TX, as the community's first local aural service. Channel 237C2 can be allotted to...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001
This document grants six proposals that allot new channels to Burke, South Dakota; Marietta, Mississippi; Lake City, Colorado; Glenville, West Virginia; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Lincolnton, Georgia. See Supplementary Information, infra.
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission published in the Federal Register of February 13, 2001 (66 FR 9962), a document revising rules governing attribution of ownership interests. This document contains a correction to those rules.
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by Northwest Television, Inc., an applicant for a construction permit for a new TV station on channel 67 at Galesburg, Illinois, requesting the substitution of channel 53 for channel 67 at Galesbur...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Trade regulation rules:

Title Type Published
On December 22, 2000, the Federal Trade Commission (the "Commission") commenced a rulemaking proceeding and requested public comments on a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to amend its Rule relating to Power Output Claims for Amplifiers Uti...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Administrative practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled "Regulatory Review Plan," published in the Federal Register of January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7702), this action temporarily stays until...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Mar 01, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Biological Products: Reporting of Biological Product Deviations in Manufacturing" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Substances Approved for Use in the Preparation of Meat and Poultry Products" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Pape...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Substantial Evidence of Effectiveness of New Animal Drugs" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Ac...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth final eligibility, funding criteria, payment methodology and performance measures for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment (CHGME) program, authorized by section 340E of the Public Health Service Act (42...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Military deployments among military personnel, veterans, family members, and health care providers; health risk communication improvement strategies
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance activities
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is further delaying, until April 1, 2002, the effective date regarding certain requirements of the final rule published in the Federal Register of December 3, 1999 (64 FR 67720). The final rule implements the Pr...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, White House Commission
Notice Mar 01, 2001
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice Mar 01, 2001
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled "Guidance for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Criteria for Waiver." FDA is issuing this draft guidance to propose alternati...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are inviting comments on a collection of information that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The information collection request (ICR) is ti...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Closure of public lands:

Title Type Published
This order, issued under the authority of 43 CFR 8364.1 closes public lands along the North Hardscrabble Access Road to recreational target shooting for the purpose of enhancing public safety. For this closure order, recreational target shooting is d...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Management contract provisions:

Title Type Published
On November 27, 2000, the National Indian Gaming Commission (Commission) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (65 FR 70673, November 27, 2000) proposing to revise its regulations establishing minimum internal control standards (MICS) for g...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Eastern Montana Resource Advisory Council will have a meeting on April 5, 2001 at the Hampton Inn Conference Room, 5110 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana starting at 8 a.m. Primary agenda topics include off-highway vehicle use and travel managem...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Outer Continental Shelf; oil, gas, and sulphur operations:

Title Type Published
MMS has scheduled its annual Industry Awards Program and Luncheon to honor outstanding companies for their exemplary safety and pollution prevention records during the year 2000.
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
The following land has been found suitable for direct sale under Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2750, 43 U.S.C. 1713), at no less than the appraised fair market value of $9,000.00. The land will not be off...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
The Commission hereby gives notice of the institution of an investigation and commencement of preliminary phase antidumping investigation No. 731-TA-921 (Preliminary) under section 733(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673b(a)) (the Act) to de...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Italy and Japan
Notice Mar 01, 2001
Upon request of counsel for the Wheat Gluten Industry Council, the Commission has determined to conduct a portion of its hearing in the above-captioned investigation scheduled for February 27, 2001, in camera. See Commission rules 201.13(m) and 201.3...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Alcoholic beverages:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the regulations in 27 CFR Parts 19 and 21 by updating the information relating to the formulation of completely denatured alcohol (CDA), specially denatured alcohol (SDA), and specially denatured rum (SDR); the denaturants auth...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

National Instant Criminal Background Check System:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled "Regulatory Review Plan," published in the Federal Register on January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7702), this action temporarily delays for 6...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
This action delays the effective date of the amendments to the Privacy Act notice for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (Justice/FBI-018) published on January 22, 2001, at 66 FR 6676.
Notice Mar 01, 2001

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instru...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Stork/Twin City Testing
Notice Mar 01, 2001
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposes to amend NRC Source Material License SUA-648 to authorize the licensee, Umetco Minerals Corporation (Umetco), to decommission the contaminated land associated with the operation of the uranium mil...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to issue program announcement #SBDC-01-0002 to invite applications from eligible intermediaries in accordance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1998 (Act). The authorizing legislation is the Small...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

State Department logo State Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of State has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the emergency review procedures of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Type of...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Model A320 series airplanes, that currently requires repetitive measurements of the deflection of the elevator trailing edge; inspections of the ele...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation G-1159 airplanes modified by DaimlerChrysler Aviation, Inc. These modified airplanes will have a novel or unusual design feature when compared to the state of technology envisio...
Rule Mar 01, 2001

Coastwise trade laws; administrative waivers:

Title Type Published
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Mar 01, 2001
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Mar 01, 2001

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Alcoholic beverages:

No documents available.

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to final regulations that were published in the Federal Register on Friday, January 12, 2001 (66 FR 2811), relating to reopenings of Treasury securities, other debt instruments, and original issue discount.
Rule Mar 01, 2001
This document changes the date of the public hearing on the proposed regulations under section 863(d) governing the source of income from certain space and ocean activities. It also extends the time to submit outlines of oral comments for the hearing...
Proposed Rule Mar 01, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Brooklyn District Citizen Advocacy Panel will be held in Brooklyn, New York.
Notice Mar 01, 2001
This notice announces the date, time, and location for the quarterly meeting of the Treasury Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC), and the provisional agenda for consideration by the Committee.
Notice Mar 01, 2001

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