April 3, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register April 3, 2001

View all documents issued on April 3, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

108 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 3, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Willamette Province Advisory Committee (PAC) will meet on Thursday, April 19, 2001. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m., and will conclude at approximately 2:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Salem Office of the Bureau of Land Ma...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs ("OETCA"), International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an application to amend an Export Trade Certificate of Review ("Certificate"). This notice summarizes the proposed amendm...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Department of Commerce requests comments regarding the advantages accorded signatories of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT), in terms of immunities, market access, or otherwise, in the countries or regions ser...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Countervailing duties:

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The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the preliminary results of the fourth administrative reviews of the countervailing duty orders on Certain Pasta from Italy and Turkey. The period of review for both cases is January 1, 1999,...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
NMFS has completed an Endangered Species Act (ESA) status review for copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus), quillback rockfish (S. maliger), brown rockfish (S. auriculatus), and Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) populations in the eastern North Pacific...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has submitted four Hatchery and Genetic Management Plans (HGMP) for Salmon Creek, Chimacum Creek, Jimmycomelately Creek, and Big Beef Creek summer chum salmon pursuant to the protective regulation...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

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The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) has recommended to the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), management measures which would allow permit owners to register multiple limited entry fixed-gear permits with sablefish endorsements to a sing...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001
The Military Construction Appropriations Act for FY 2001 included an emergency supplemental appropriation for the Northeast multispecies fishery of $10.0 million. The emergency appropriation is intended to support a voluntary fishing capacity reducti...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001
NMFS proposes regulations to implement the Fishery Management Plan for Tilefish (FMP). The FMP was developed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and would initiate management of golden tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) pur...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001
NMFS announces that the commercial and recreational fisheries for all salmon except coho, in the areas from Cape Falcon, OR to Humbug Mountain, OR will open April 1, 2001, and continue through dates to be determined in the 2001 management measures fo...
Rule Apr 03, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council (FAR Council) published in the Federal Register at 65 FR 80255, December 20, 2000, a final rule addressing contractor responsibility and costs incurred in legal and other proceedings. After further review, t...
Rule Apr 03, 2001
The Federal Acquisition Regulations Council (FAR Council) published in the Federal Register at 65 FR 80255, December 20, 2000, a final rule addressing contractor responsibility and costs incurred in legal and other proceedings. The FAR Council is rec...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001
This document is issued under the joint authority of the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of General Services and the Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This Small Entity Compliance Guide has been prepared in...
Rule Apr 03, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Systems Technology for the Future U.S. Strategic Posture meeting scheduled for March 29-30, 2001, has been cancelled.
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Intelligence Needs for Homeland Defense closed meeting scheduled for April 24-25, 2001, has been changed to April 23-24-25-26, 2001. The location of the meeting has not changed; the meeting will be held at Stra...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board logo Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

Recommendations:

Title Type Published
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has made a recommendation to the Secretary of Energy pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2286a(a)(5) concerning high-level waste management at the Savannah River Site.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

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The Acting Leader, Regulatory Information Management, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Acting Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Escatawpa Funding, L.P., et al.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the American Statistical Association Committee on Energy Statistics, a utilized Federal Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these m...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
This notice announces a public meeting of the DOE Commission on Fire Safety and Preparedness. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770), requires that public notice of the meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Apr 03, 2001
This notice announces a meeting of the State Energy Advisory Board. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Clean Water Ac...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), EPA is seeking public comment and information on the following Information Collection Request (ICR): Partial Updating of TSCA Inventory Data Base, Production and Site Reports (EPA ICR No. 1011.05,...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Identification,...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the following proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Hazardous Waste Ge...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation;

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Through parallel processing, the EPA is proposing to approve a draft statewide rule to control the emissions of Oxides of Nitrogen ( NO<INF>X</INF>) from Electric Generating Units (EGUs) in the State of Illinois. Illinois submitted this rule for para...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001
EPA proposes to convert its conditional approval of the 15 Percent Reasonable Further Progress Plan (the 15% plan) and its associated 1990 base year volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions inventory for the Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley ozone nonattainm...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001

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

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action to convert its conditional approval of a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to a full approval. This revision satisfies the 15 percent reasonable further progress p...
Rule Apr 03, 2001

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

Title Type Published
On April 17, 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to approve or, in the alternative, disapprove the Illinois and Missouri 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plans (SIP) for the St. Louis moderate ozone nona...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the Federal Advisory Act, Public Law 92463, EPA gives notice of a meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Program (GMP) Policy Review Board (PRB).
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This action is part of EPA's ongoing effort to make information publicly available and to seek public input on the potential health risks to humans from consuming foods made from StarLink corn. StarLink is a variety of Bt corn that has been genetical...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of a proposed Prospective Purchaser Agreement and Covenant Not To Sue, executed between the United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), and Pulaski Industrial Corporation ("Purchaser") in accor...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc.:

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its 47\th\ ITC Report to the Administrator of the EPA on November 30, 2000. In the 47\th\ ITC Report, which is included in this notice, the ITC adds 37 indium che...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document informs the public that the deadline for filing oppositions to petitions for reconsideration of the Third Report and Order in the Commission's 700 MHz band proceeding (published on February 14, 2001) is April 10, 2001, and the deadline...
Rule Apr 03, 2001

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Deposit Insurance Act:

Title Type Published
As part of the Financial Regulatory Relief and Economic Efficiency Act of 2000, Congress repealed section 29A of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ("FDI Act"). Section 29A imposed certain requirements on deposit brokers and authorized the FDIC to iss...
Rule Apr 03, 2001

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) hereby gives notice that it has submitted the information collection entitled "Members of the Banks" to the Office of Manage...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Commission is updating and making other technical corrections and changes to its regulations on Organization, Procedures and Rules of Practice.
Rule Apr 03, 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

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet standards of Subpart C of Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (59 FR 29916, 29925). A similar notice li...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The inventions listed below are owned by agencies of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Fo...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The inventions listed below are owned by agencies of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Fo...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Apr 03, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Apr 03, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Apr 03, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Nation's public health infrastructure improvement; applied research, training, and technical assistance
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) to identify novel candidate genes for obesi...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the cumulative list of orphan drug and biological designations as of December 31, 2000. FDA has announced the availability of previous lists, which are updated monthly, identify...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Medicaid:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would modify the Medicaid upper payment (UPL) limit provisions to establish a new transition period for States that submitted plan amendments before March 13, 2001 that do not comply with the new UPLs effective on that date (but do...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001

Medical care and examinations:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Health and Human Services has established a Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Joint Tribal and Federal Self- Governance (Committee) to negotiate and develop a proposed rule implementing the Tribal Self-Governance Amendments of 2000...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001

Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

Title Type Published
This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of a exclusive license worldwide to practice the inven...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
This notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health. Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license to practice the inventions embodied in...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of a exclusive license worldwide to practice the inven...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of a exclusive license worldwide to practice the inven...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Administration for Children and Families announces the availability of the Biennial Report to Congress on the Status of Children in Head Start Programs. This report is required by Section 650 of the Head Start Act, as amended, which requires the...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Endangered and threatened species permit applications
Notice Apr 03, 2001
Marine mammal permit applications
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Supplement to the Notice of Intent. The Bureau of Land Management is providing updated information on the process, note the change in name of the plan, cooperating agencies status, planning criteria, and the area covered by the plan. There are no new significant issues to present. A separate notice of availability will be issued for the Draft Plan, in the near future.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:

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Outer Continental Shelf operations:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Director of the Minerals Management Service by the joint bidding provisions of 30 CFR 256.41, each entity within one of the following groups shall be restricted from bidding with any entity in any other of the...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Resource management plans, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved a proposal to amend the California Desert Conservation Area Plan (CDCA) to partially exempt the proposed Level 3 Communications, L.L.C., fiber optic cable right-of-way from...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 03, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:

Title Type Published
Joliet Medical Group, Ltd.; withdrawn
Notice Apr 03, 2001
This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (th...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Foreign insurance or pension systems:

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 Apr 03, 2001

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This action withdraws a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (BHTI) Model 412 high landing gear aft crosstube assembly (crosstube assembly) that would have require...
Proposed Rule Apr 03, 2001

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the FMCSA's receipt of applications from 38 individuals for an exemption from the vision requirements in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). If granted, the exemptions will enable these individuals to qualify...
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
Hankook Tire Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Notice Apr 03, 2001

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Apr 03, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Apr 03, 2001

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