March 16, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register March 16, 2001

View all documents issued on March 16, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

115 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 16, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Santa Fe National Forest will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposal to harvest trees killed by the Viveash Fire. The Viveash Fire burned approximately 29,000 acres on the Pecos Ranger District in late May through early Jun...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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As a collaborative, interagency effort, the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administratio...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the availability of housing funds for fiscal year (FY) 2001 for the Rural Housing Demonstration Program. For FY 2001, RHS has set aside $3 million for the Innovative Demonstration Initiatives and is solicitin...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Agency information collection activities:

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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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces the opening of directed fishing for sablefish with fixed gear managed under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program. The season will open 1200 hrs, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), March 15, 2001, and will close 1200 hrs, A.l.t., Novembe...
Rule Mar 16, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) published two documents in the Federal Register of March 5, 2001, entitled "National Oyster Disease Research Program and Gulf Oyster Industry Initiative: Request for Proposals" (pages 13295-13301) an...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
This notice announces that applications may be submitted for a Fellowship program which was initiated by the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO), NOAA, in fulfilling its broad educational responsibilities, to provide educational experience in the polici...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
The National Institute of Standards and Technology invites proposals from qualified organizations for funding projects which provide manufacturing extension services to small- and medium-sized manufacturers in the United States. These projects corres...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a curr...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a curr...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Consumer products; energy conservation program:

Title Type Published
On January 22, 2001, the Department of Energy published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) (66 FR 6768) to revise the test procedures for central air conditioners and heat pumps. The notice of proposed rulemaking announced that the closing date f...
Proposed Rule Mar 16, 2001

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
NEO California Power LLC et al.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Natural gas exportation and importation:

Title Type Published
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy gives notice that during February 2001, it issued Orders granting, amending, and terminating authority to import and export natural gas, including LNG. These Orders are summarized in the at...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Presidential permit applications:

Title Type Published
Vector Pipeline L.P.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs:

Title Type Published
Today EPA is requesting comment on the results of a gasoline additive emissions test program submitted to EPA for technical review by Infineum Corporation. Infineum conducted a test program to determine the effect of the gasoline fuel additive VEKTRO...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States:

Title Type Published
EPA is reopening the comment period for action proposed on December 18, 2000 (65 FR 79037) regarding revision to the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP).
Proposed Rule Mar 16, 2001
The EPA is approving revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions concern two separate actions. First, we are approving revisions to the Texas Nitrogen Oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) rules for electric generating facilities in East...
Rule Mar 16, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA expressed environmental objections to the preferred alternative, no. 5, (as well as no. 4) which would likely violate State of Alaska Water Quality Standard (WQSs) (turbidity and sediment criteria and the Antidegradation Policy) and not comply wi...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Weekly receipts
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Hazardous waste:

Title Type Published
The EPA is proposing to approve the request submitted by Astaris Idaho LLC for renewal of the current Case-by-Case (CBC) extension which established May 26, 2001, as the effective date of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) land disposa...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In the Federal Register of March 7, 2001 (66 FR 13733) (FRL- 6768-6), EPA announced a conference call meeting of the Inert Disclosure Stakeholder Workgroup. On page 13733, second column, under the DATES caption, the date of the conference call meetin...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing a notice of January 17, 2001 (66 FR 4021) describing draft plans for providing additional access to information about the potential off-site consequences of accidental chemical releases from in...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document seeks comment on reserve prices or minimum opening bids and other auction procedural issues.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Electronic fund transfers (Regulation E):

Title Type Published
The Board is adopting a final rule revising the Official Staff Commentary to Regulation E, which implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act. The commentary interprets the requirements of Regulation E, to facilitate compliance by financial institutio...
Rule Mar 16, 2001

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the renewal of certain FDA advisory committees by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (the Commissioner). The Commissioner has determined that it is in the public interest to renew the charters of t...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Microbiology Resident Postdoctoral Research Associates Program
Notice Mar 16, 2001

National vaccine injury compensation program:

Title Type Published
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ("the Program"), as required by section 2112(b)(2) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act,...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to modify or alter a system of records, "Record of Individuals Authorized Entry to HCFA Buildings Via A Card Key Access System (RICKS), HHS/HCFA/OBA, System No. 09-70-30...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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 information collection. In acco...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Endangered and threatened species permit applications
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Central Utah Water Conservancy District:

Title Type Published
The Uinta Basin Replacement Project is authorized in Section 203(a) of the Central Utah Project Completion Act (CUPCA). The Lake Fork Uinta Basin Replacement Project as described in the Draft Environmental Assessment includes: the enlargement of the...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The purpose of this announcement is to provide instructions to Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in carrying out their responsibilities when distributing Contract Support Funds (CSF) for contracts awarded under Public Law 93-638, as amended. The instruc...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice of availability is hereby given for a 45-day public comment period on the proposed set of Data Elements for Reporting Water Quality Results of Chemical and Microbiological Analytes developed by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council. Th...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or cont...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Nationally recognized testing laboratories, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces: (1) The application of Canadian Standards Association for renewal of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory under 29 CFR 1910.7, and (2) the application of Canadian Standards Association for expansion of...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
This notice announces the application of Entela, Inc., for renewal of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) under 29 CFR 1910.7, and presents the Agency's preliminary finding. This preliminary finding does not constitut...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
This notice announces the application of TUV Product Services GmbH for recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) under 29 CFR 1910.7, and presents the Agency's preliminary finding. This preliminary finding does not constitute a...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

M
Management and Budget Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Management and Budget revised Circular A-94 in 1992. The revised Circular specified certain discount rates to be updated annually when the interest rate and inflation assumptions used to prepare the budget of the United States Governmen...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. This is the required notice.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Biomolecular Processes Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Biomolecular Processes Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Biomolecular Structure and Function Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Biomolecular Structure and Function Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Cell Biology Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Cell Biology Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Civil and Mechanical Systems Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Civil and Mechanical Systems Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Cognitive, Psychological, and Language Sciences Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Education and Human Resources Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Experimental and Integrative Activities Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Genetics Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Genetics Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Geosciences Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Materials Research Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Materials Research Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Physiology and Ethology Advisory Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Undergraduate Education Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Undergraduate Education Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Revision...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will convene a meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) on April 18, 2001. The meeting will take place at the address provided below. The entire meeting will be open to the publi...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Petitions; Director's decisions:

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the availability of the draft document entitled: "Risk-Based Performance Indicators: Results of Phase-1 Development," dated January 2001 for review and comment by external stakeholders in a document publish...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing regulations implementing the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, to authorize Federal agencies to repay federally insured student loans when necessary to recru...
Proposed Rule Mar 16, 2001

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Domestic mail classifications and rates:

Title Type Published
This document informs the public that the Governors of the Postal Service have requested reconsideration of the Commission's further opinion and recommended decision in docket no. R2000-1 as it relates to the Service's revenue requirement. It invites...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Domestic Mail Manual:

Title Type Published
The Postal Service is seeking comments on the following proposed mail preparation changes to the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM): Packages of First-Class Mail Presorted rate flats and automation rate flats that are part of the same mailing job would be re...
Proposed Rule Mar 16, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Public utility holding company filings
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Meetings; district and regional advisory councils:

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval to renew the five information collections which are summarized below under Supplementary Information. We are required by the Paperwor...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) published a notice seeking public comments on a proposed renewal of an information collection for Incorporation by Reference of Industry Stand...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) is publishing its intention to combine two existing information collections into one. OPS is combining Manag...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
Boeing; correction
Correction Mar 16, 2001

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
This notice proposes special conditions for Gulfstream Model G-V airplanes. These airplanes, as modified by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, will have novel or unusual design features associated with a head-up display (HUD) system modified to displa...
Proposed Rule Mar 16, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On March 8, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved a Finding of No Significant Impact and Record of Decision (FONSI/ROD) for a proposed noise-abatement departure procedure at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. The change in d...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in City of East Wenatchee & Douglas County, Washington.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Insurer reporting requirements:

Title Type Published
This notice announces publication by NHTSA of the annual insurer report on motor vehicle theft for the 1995 reporting year. Section 33112(c) of Title 49 of the U.S. Code, requires this information to be compiled periodically and published by the agen...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
RSPA has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) to co-fund a two-year research program to identify and characterize mechanical damage, a leading cause of reportable accidents in both gas and hazardous liquid pipe...
Notice Mar 16, 2001
RTCA, Inc.
Notice Mar 16, 2001
Notice of meeting.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Pipeline safety; waiver petitions:

Title Type Published
The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) is approving a waiver of certain regulatory requirements relating to class location changes on four natural gas pipeline segments (the "waiver segments") operated by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP) and is perm...
Notice Mar 16, 2001

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Seaway regulations and rules:

Title Type Published
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) and the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) of Canada, under international agreement, jointly publish and presently administer the St. Lawrence Seaway Tariff of Tolls in their r...
Rule Mar 16, 2001

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 11 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 2000 Revision, published June 30, 2000, at 65 FR 40868.
Notice Mar 16, 2001

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