March 13, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register March 13, 2001

View all documents issued on March 13, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

134 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 13, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The inventions listed below are owned by the U.S. Government as represented by the Department of Agriculture, and are available for licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR 404 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of feder...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, announces members appointed to the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics. Twelve open positions were filled on the twenty-five...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulations (7 CFR part 650); the Natural Resources Co...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR Part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulations (7 CFR Part 650); the Natural Resources Co...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Forest Service will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze and disclose the environmental impacts of fire recovery activities. The project is located on the Three Rivers Ranger District, Kootenai National Forest, Lincoln Count...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Field office technical guides; changes:

Title Type Published
It is the intention of NRCS in Wisconsin to issue a revised conservation practice standard in Section IV of the FOTG. The revised standard is Filter Strip (Code 393). This practice may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) announces the availability of grant funds and requests proposals for the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program--National Integrated Food Safe...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) announces the availability of grant funds and requests proposals for the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program--Pest Management for fiscal yea...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) requests proposals for competitive grant awards under the Special Research Grants Program titled "Pest Management Alternatives Program: Addressing Food Quality Protection Act I...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) announces the availability of grant funds and requests proposals for the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program--Water Quality for fiscal year...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Loan and purchase programs:

Title Type Published
This rule sets forth the regulations for the Limited California Cooperative Insolvency Payment Program authorized by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (the Act). Fruit and...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

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The Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on March 27, 2001 at North Tahoe Conference, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, CA. This Committee, established by the Secretary of Agriculture on December 15, 1998, (64 FR 2876) is ch...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Superfund program; proposed settlement agreements, etc.:

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Notice is hereby given that a proposed Settlement Agreement in the matter of: USDA Cotton Research Station, Shafter, Kern County, California, Kern County Agt. #1098-2000, was entered into by the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural R...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

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Amtrak Reform Council

Title Type Published
As provided in section 203 of the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997 (Reform Act), the Amtrak Reform Council (Council) gives notice of a special public meeting of the Council. The business meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. The Council's agend...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
On March 6, 2001, the Secretary of Commerce announced his acceptance of the recommendations of the Census Bureau and made a final determination that unadjusted data should be used in calculating the tabulations of population to be reported to States...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On September 7, 2000, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on petroleum wax candles from the People's Republic of China (PRC) (65 FR 54224) (Prelimina...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
On July 5, 2000, the Department of Commerce ("the Department"), pursuant to sections 751(c) and 752 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended ("the Act"), determined that revocation of the antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from the People's Republic...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
In accordance with 19 CFR 351.216(b), Cray Inc. ("Cray") filed a request for changed circumstances review of the antidumping order on vector supercomputers from Japan. Domestic producers of the like product have expressed no interest in continuation...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
In accordance with 19 CFR 351.216(b), Dana Glacier Daido America, LLC ("Dana") filed a request for a changed circumstances review of the antidumping order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan with respect to the carbon...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended ("the Act"), the United States International Trade Commission ("the Commission") determined that revocation of the antidumping duty order on aramid fiber formed of poly para-phenylene t...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
We determine that sales of the subject merchandise have not been made below normal value ("NV").
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Various countries
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
On November 29, 1999, the President signed into law the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act (the "Act"), Pub. L. 106-113, Appendix I, Title IV, Subtitle G, 113 Stat. 1501A-572, which, among other things, established two Public Advisory Committ...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
On September 7, 2000, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate (CTL Plate) from Mexico...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Point- No-Point Treaty Tribes submitted a jointly developed Resource Management Plan (RMP), Summer Chum Salmon Conservation Initiative - An Implementation Plan to Recover Summer Chum Salmon in th...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS issues regulations to modify the management measures applicable to the American lobster fishery. This action exempts black sea bass fishers who concurrently hold limited access lobster and limited access black sea bass permits from the more rest...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee
Notice Mar 13, 2001

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 111 of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is proposing to adopt a new rule allowing futures commission merchants to offer certain customers the right...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Agricultural Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation) announces an increase in the allowable cost per FTE for Indian Tribes applying for 2001 AmeriCorps funds. The Corporation will consider applications with a cost per FTE of up to $15,000...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This announces the availability of the Fort Bliss Mission and Master Plan Final PEIS. The Final PEIS describes potential environmental impacts and mitigation actions associated with land use and management proposals regarding installation assets, cap...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
This announces the availability of the DEIS that assesses the effects of future development and operations at Fort Meade on the natural and human environment. The Proposed Action is the preferred alternative of the DEIS, and includes future developme...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Army is amending a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The Department of the Army is amending a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Education Department logo Education Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice provides the proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. This notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this meeting is required under Sectio...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The EIA is soliciting comments concerning proposed revisions and a three-year extension to December 31, 2004, for the Form EIA-767, "Steam-Electric Plant Operation and Design Report."
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The EIA is soliciting comments concerning proposed revisions to existing electric power survey forms, the creation of new forms, and a three-year extension to December 31, 2004, approval for all EIA electric power surveys. EIA's current electric powe...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Badger Windpower, LLC
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Northern Border Pipeline Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
PG E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Sempra Energy Resources
Notice Mar 13, 2001
South Carolina Public Service Authority, et al.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
TransColorado Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Transwestern Pipeline Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Transwestern Pipeline Co.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Metropolitan Edison Co. et al.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the International Energy Agency (IEA) will meet on March 20, 2001, at the headquarters of the IEA in Paris, France, and during March 21-23, 2001, in connection with the "IEA Millennium Conference on Oil Security S...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Natural gas companies (Natural Gas Act):

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the authority delegated by 18 CFR 375.308(x)(1), the Director of the Office of Energy Projects (OEP) computes and publishes the project cost and annual limits for natural gas pipelines blanket construction certificates for each calendar y...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the EPA Administrator has dismissed portions of a petition as moot and denied the remainder of a petition to object to a State operating permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for Borden Chemical...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Air programs:

Title Type Published
EPA has determined that it is appropriate to provide an exemption for laboratory and analytical essential uses for calendar year 2001. EPA has determined that an allowance for laboratory and analytical essential uses, which allows for the production...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001
EPA is taking direct final action to provide an exemption for laboratory and analytical essential uses for calendar year 2001. EPA has determined that an allowance for laboratory and analytical essential uses, which allows for the production and impo...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the Kent, Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington PM-10 area maintenance plan and redesignation request from nonattainment to attainment as revisions to the Washington State Implementation Plan (S...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) approves the maintenance plan and request for redesignation from nonattainment to attainment for three Washington areas in the Puget Sound region, (Kent, Seattle, and Tacoma) that are currently desi...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availablity, etc:

Title Type Published
The comment period for the preliminary administrative determination document on the question of whether ferric ferrocyanide is one of the "cyanides" within the meaning of the list of toxic pollutants under the Clean Water Act was scheduled to end on...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document requests comment on a Petition for Rule Making filed on behalf of Radio South, Inc., licensee of Station WLXY, Channel 264C3, Northport, Alabama, proposing the removal of Channel 263A from Macon, Mississippi. In the event a party expres...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission logo Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the compl...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Notice of program exclusions.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Injury Prevention and Control Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an amendment to the notice of a meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee. This meeting was announced in the Federal Register of February 14, 2001 (66 FR 10304)....
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry (No. 89) entitled "Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA's) for Veterinary Medicinal Products (VMP's)-Phase I" (VICH GL6). This final guidance docu...
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a final guidance entitled "Acceptance of Foreign Clinical Studies." This final guidance is intended to clarify the ethical principles with which a sponsor must comply before FDA...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District, has approved a temporary deviation from the regulations governing the operation of the Crescent Beach Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, mile 788.6, Crescent Beach, St. Johns County, Florida. This de...
Rule Mar 13, 2001
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary final rule governing the operation of the Lincoln Highway Bridge, at mile 1.8, across the Hackensack River at Jersey City, New Jersey. This temporary final rule requires vessels to provide a one-hour daytim...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is amending the regulations for floating safety zones around Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vessels transiting the waters of Tampa Bay. This action is necessary due to the opening of a new LPG facility in Port Sutton. This rule will en...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone for a fireworks display located on the East River. This action is necessary to provide for the safety of life on navigable waters during the event. This action is intended to restrict vessel tra...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Endangered and threatened species permit applications
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Marine mammal permit applications
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), designate critical habitat for the California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). A total of approximately 1,674,582 hectares (4,1...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

Royalty management:

Title Type Published
Minerals Management Service (MMS) will post on MMS's Internet Home Page the Wyoming Oil Royalty-In-Kind Pilot Report--18 Months and Counting. Comments will be accepted electronically or in hard copy.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Extension of a currently approved collection; Application for Individual Manufacturing Quota for a Basic Class of Controlled Substance. (DEA Form 189).
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Announcement of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention meeting.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Pollution control; consent judgments:

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
NARA is giving public notice that the agency proposes to request extension of a currently approved information collection used by customers/researchers for ordering reproductions of NARA's motion picture, audio, and video holdings that are housed in...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Ac...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The NRC is preparing a submittal to OMB for review of continued approval of information collections under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Information pertaining to the requirement to be submitted: 1. The...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; independent storage; licensing requirements:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations by revising the Holtec International HI-STAR 100 cask system listing within the "List of approved spent fuel storage casks" to include Amendment No. 2 to the Certificate of...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations by revising the Holtec International HI-STAR 100 cask system listing within the "List of approved spent fuel storage casks" to include Amendment No. 2 to the Certificate of Complianc...
Rule Mar 13, 2001

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Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Yucca Mountain NV; repository
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice of application for an order of approval under Section 26(b) and order of exemption under Sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act").
Notice Mar 13, 2001
Notice of application for an order under sections 6(b) and 6(e) of the Investment Company Act of 1949 (the "Act") exempting applicant from all provisions of the Act, except section 9, section 17 (other than certain provisions of paragraphs (a), (d), (f), (g), and (j)), section 30 (except for certain provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), (e), and (h)), and sections 36 through 53, and the rules and regulations under the Act.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airport Privatization Pilot Program; applications:

Title Type Published
On March 5, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a notice in the Federal Register (66 FR 133366) seeking information and comments from interested parties on the final application by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
This action proposes to amend special conditions issued to The Boeing Company for Model 777-200 series airplanes, modified by Flight Structures, Inc. This airplane has a novel or unusual design feature associated with the installation of a crew rest...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a public meeting of the FAA's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) to discuss occupant safety issues.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
This notice announces a public meeting of the FAA's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) to discuss transport airplane and engine (TAE) issues.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
RTCA, Inc.
Notice Mar 13, 2001
RTCA, Inc.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Regattas and marine parades:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Automation program test:

Title Type Published
This document announces several changes to the Customs Automated Commercial System (ACS) Reconciliation prototype test. They include a reduction of data required for "no-change" Aggregate Reconciliation entries, a new fee-for-service procedure for re...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to a notice of proposed rulemaking and notice of public hearing that was published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, October 10, 2000 (65 FR 60136) relating to the exclusion of gain from the sale or exchange of ta...
Proposed Rule Mar 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Closed meeting of the Art Advisory Panel will be held in Washington, DC.
Notice Mar 13, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The report is now available. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. I section 10(d), of the Federal Advisory Committee Act; and 5 U.S.C. section 552b, the Government in the Sunshine Act: A report summarizing the closed meeting activities of the Art Advisory Panel...
Notice Mar 13, 2001

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