May 7, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register May 7, 2001

View all documents issued on May 7, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

113 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 7, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the intention of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection in...
Notice May 07, 2001
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the intention of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to request an extension of a currently approved information collection in support of custom...
Notice May 07, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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On March 26, 1999, Finger Lakes National Forest District Ranger, Martha Twarkins, set forth a proposal to amend the 1987 Finger Lakes National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan). In mid May of 2001, Acting Forest Supervisor Tamara...
Notice May 07, 2001
Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR parts 1500- 1508), and RUS Environmental Policies and Proce...
Notice May 07, 2001

Meat and poultry inspection:

Title Type Published
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Poultry Products Inspection Regulations (Part 381) and the Voluntary Poultry Inspection Regulations (Part 362) to include ratites and squabs under the mandatory poultry products inspection...
Rule May 07, 2001

Meetings:

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The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is informing the public of a meeting to be held on May 15, 2001, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to discuss the general U.S. negotiating objectives, particularly item-specific export priorities unde...
Notice May 07, 2001

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

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 the continuing information collections, as required b...
Notice May 07, 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 the continuing information collections, as required b...
Notice May 07, 2001

Antidumping:

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On March 22, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from Italy, for the period July 29, 1999, through January 31, 2001, pu...
Notice May 07, 2001
On March 22, 2001, in Allied Tube and Conduit, Corp. v. United States, Court No. 99-11-00715, Slip. Op. 01-31 (CIT 2001), a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce's ("the Department's") final results of administrative review of the antidumpin...
Notice May 07, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Endangered and threatened species:

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Notice is hereby given that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has submitted a Fisheries Management and Evaluation Plan (FMEP) pursuant to the protective regulations promulgated for Upper Willamette River (UWR) steelhead under the Enda...
Notice May 07, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS withdraws its proposal to extend the closure of the Charleston Bump area to pelagic longline fishing through May 31, 2001. Through a previously issued final rule, the Charleston Bump area remains closed to pelagic longline fishing annually from...
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) published in the Federal Register at 65 FR 80255, December 20, 2000, a final rule addressing contractor responsibility, labor relations costs and costs relating to legal and other proceedings....
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The 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 May 07, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Secretary announces a final funding priority for the FY 2001 grant competition under Parental Assistance Program (20 U.S.C. 5911 et seq.). This program provides grants to eligible non-profit organizations, and eligible non-profit organizations in...
Notice May 07, 2001
Parental Assistance Program
Notice May 07, 2001
The Secretary invites applications for new awards for FY 2001 under the Physical Education for Progress Grant Program competition (84.215F). The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program will administer this com...
Notice May 07, 2001
The Secretary announces the final priority and selection criteria under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title X, Part L, Physical Education for Progress Grant Program. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education will administ...
Notice May 07, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
AES Medina Valley Cogen, L.L.C.
Notice May 07, 2001
Carolina Power Light Co. et al.
Notice May 07, 2001
Chandeleur Pipe Line Co.
Notice May 07, 2001
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice May 07, 2001
PacifiCorp
Notice May 07, 2001
Sempra Energy Resources
Notice May 07, 2001
Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
Notice May 07, 2001
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice May 07, 2001
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice May 07, 2001
USG Pipeline Co.
Notice May 07, 2001
Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc.
Notice May 07, 2001

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., et al.
Notice May 07, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing advance notice of its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on the proposed construction, operation, and decontamination/decommiss...
Notice May 07, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (the Department or DOE) announces the initiation of a public comment period on the possible recommendation of the Yucca Mountain Site in Nevada by the Secretary of Energy to the President for development as a spent nuclear fu...
Notice May 07, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs; approval and promulgation; State plans for designated facilities and pollutants:

Title Type Published
EPA proposes to approve the Section 111(d)/129 Plan for the State of South Carolina submitted by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) on September 19, 2000, for implementing and enforcing the Emissions Guidelines a...
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the section 111(d)/129 Plan submitted by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) for the State of South Carolina on September 19, 2000, to implement...
Rule May 07, 2001

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

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action on revisions to the Maryland State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE). The revisions replace the existing regulation and adopt a new regulation for control of volatile...
Rule May 07, 2001
EPA proposes to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Maryland. The revisions replace the existing regulation and adopt a new regulation for control of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from expandable polystyrene...
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001
The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the approval of a State Implementation Plan revision submitted by New York. This revision consists of New York's demonstration of the effectiveness of the enhanced motor vehicle inspection and mainten...
Rule May 07, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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As mandated by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, EPA is implementing an Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). This notice proposes the establishment of an Endocrine Disruptor Meth...
Notice May 07, 2001

Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural commodities

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This regulation establishes a time-limited tolerance forresidues of Forchlorfenuron; N-(2-chloro-4-pyridinyl)-N '-phenylurea in or on almond, apple, blueberry, cranberry, fig, grapes, kiwifruit, olive, pear, and plums (fresh). Siemer & Associates Inc...
Rule May 07, 2001

Water supply:

Title Type Published
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a determination for all categories of Class V injection wells not included in the final rulemaking on Class V motor vehicle waste disposal wells and large-capacity cesspools (64 FR 68546,...
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice May 07, 2001

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 07, 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 May 07, 2001
Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and app...
Notice May 07, 2001
Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a req...
Notice May 07, 2001

Food additives:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of acidified sodium chlorite solutions as a component of a post-chill carcass spray or dip when applied to poultry meat, organs, or related p...
Rule May 07, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Injury Research Grant Review Committee
Notice May 07, 2001
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Notice May 07, 2001
National Center for Research Resources
Notice May 07, 2001
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice May 07, 2001
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice May 07, 2001
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice May 07, 2001
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice May 07, 2001
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice May 07, 2001
National Library of Medicine
Notice May 07, 2001
National Vaccine Advisory Committee
Notice May 07, 2001
Scientific Counselors Board
Notice May 07, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a publication containing modifications the agency is making to the list of standards FDA will recognize for use in premarket reviews (FDA Recognized Consensus Standards). This publication entitled...
Notice May 07, 2001

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 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 continuing information c...
Notice May 07, 2001
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 the proposed new information collections...
Notice May 07, 2001

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Mississippi, (FEMA-1365-DR), dated April 17, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice May 07, 2001

Flood insurance; communities eligible for sale:

Title Type Published
This rule identifies communities, where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), that are suspended on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with the floodplain...
Rule May 07, 2001

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject propos...
Notice May 07, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Endangered and threatened species permit applications
Notice May 07, 2001

Comprehensive conservation plans; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region, has made available for public review and comment the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for each refuge. The Service plans to conduct a public meeting in the...
Notice May 07, 2001
This notice advises the public that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to gather information necessary to prepare a Comprehensive Conservation Plan and associated environmental documents for this refuge in pursuant to the National Environment...
Notice May 07, 2001

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), designate critical habitat pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (Act) of 1973, as amended for the Great Lakes breeding population of the piping plover. The Great Lakes breeding population of the pip...
Rule May 07, 2001
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 12-month finding for a petition to list the Washington population of western sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus phaios) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). We fi...
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce a 60-day delay in making our final determination of critical habitat for wintering piping plovers, subject to further court proceedings. This additional time will allow us to complete the analyses requ...
Proposed Rule May 07, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Wild, Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act (Pub. L. 92-195), as amended, provides, among other things, that excess wild horses shall be removed from public lands. The Bureau of Land Management plans to complete removal operations in August and Septem...
Notice May 07, 2001

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice of information collection under review; revision of a currently approved collection.
Notice May 07, 2001
Notice of information collection under review; reinstatement, without change, of a previously approved collection for which approval has expired.
Notice May 07, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
OSHA solicits public comment concerning its request to decrease and extend the information-collection requirements specified in the standard on Powered Platforms for Building Maintenance (29 CFR 1910.66).
Notice May 07, 2001
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or co...
Notice May 07, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 07, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 07, 2001

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 May 07, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Nuclear Management Co., LLC
Notice May 07, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
By letter dated March 20, 2001, as supplemented April 6, 2001, NMC requested a scheduler exemption from the implementation date of April 5, 2001, for the revised 10 CFR 72.48. NMC plans to implement its revised 10 CFR 50.59 and 10 CFR 72.48 programs simultaneously. The planned date for implementing the revised 10 CFR 50.59 requirements is September 7, 2001.
Notice May 07, 2001

Public records:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its regulations to permit its contractor to increase the charges for copying publicly available documents at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR). The increases are necessary to adjust for inflation...
Rule May 07, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 07, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice May 07, 2001
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice May 07, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Public utility holding company filings
Notice May 07, 2001

Securities:

Title Type Published
The Commission is publishing guidance on the operation of its rule permitting electronic storage of broker-dealer records in light of the recently enacted Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000. In particular, we are publis...
Rule May 07, 2001

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 07, 2001
Government Securities Clearing Corp.
Notice May 07, 2001
(1) call up the appropriate page for that particular option on the class display; (2) highlight the appropriate series (e.g., March 30 calls); (3) enter either the buy key or the sell key; (4) enter either the put key or the call key; (5) type in the number of contracts to be purchased or sold; (6) enter the floor member's acronym (e.g., MO1) and; (7) press the "enter" key to execute at the limit price or, alternatively, to improve the limit price, enter the better price (e.g., 4\7/8\) and press the "enter" key.
Notice May 07, 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 approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Comments should be submitted to OMB within 30 days of...
Notice May 07, 2001

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

Title Type Published
On December 26, 2000, Notice was published on page 81555 of the Federal Register (Volume 65, Number 248) by the Department of State pursuant to Pub. L. 89-259 relating to the exhibit "Rediscovering Caesarea Philippi, the Ancient City of Pan or The Ba...
Notice May 07, 2001

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") has submitted the annual report on discrimination in foreign government procurement, published herein, to the Committees on Finance and on Governmental Affairs of the United...
Notice May 07, 2001
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice that it submitted the report on U.S. trade expansion priorities published herein to the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate and Committee on Ways and Means of the United S...
Notice May 07, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This rule requires design approval holders of certain turbine- powered transport category airplanes, and of any subsequent modifications to these airplanes, to substantiate that the design of the fuel tank system precludes the existence of ignition s...
Rule May 07, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that FMCSA intends to submit a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewed approval of the information collection described below. This information collection is needed to ensure that motor carriers and the...
Notice May 07, 2001

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Airbus Model A310-324, A310-325, and A300 B4- 622R series airplanes equipped with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 series engines. This action requires revising the Airplane...
Rule May 07, 2001
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain serial-numbered Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (Bell) Model 412 helicopters and Agusta S.p.A. (Agusta) Model AB412 helicopters. That AD currently requires a tem...
Rule May 07, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 727-100, -100C, and -200 series airplanes, that, for certain airplanes, requires a one-time inspection of certain fuselage circumferential skin joints to det...
Rule May 07, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all CASA Model CN-235 series airplanes, that requires installing a second electrical connector in the electrical Master Central Unit. The actions specified by this AD are intende...
Rule May 07, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document provides implementation guidance on sections 1118 and 1119 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). These sections established the National Corridor Planning and Development Program (NCPD program) and the Coordina...
Notice May 07, 2001
This notice invites State or local governments or other public authorities to make applications for participation in the Value Pricing Pilot Program (Pilot Program) authorized by section 1012(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act...
Notice May 07, 2001

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice May 07, 2001
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice May 07, 2001

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