June 8, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register June 8, 2001

View all documents issued on June 8, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

125 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on June 8, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to request a Reinstatement and Revision of a Previously Approved Information Collection. These collection reinstatem...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on proposed information collection for the FNS-583, Employment and Training Program Report. The proposed collection is...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Appealable decisions; legal notice:

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This is a list of those newspapers that will be used to publish notice of all decisions which are subject to appeal under 36 CFR 217, notice of the opportunity to comment on certain proposed actions pursuant to 36 CFR 215.5, and notice of decisions s...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) to establish management direction for the land and resources within the Giant Sequoia National Monument (GSNM) created by Presidential Proclamation on...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Loan and purchase programs:

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This interim rule amends 7 CFR Chapter XIV to establish a two- year program to assist U.S. producers to pay for certain costs incurred in developing products and markets for value-added wheat gluten and wheat starch products.
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Fishery conservation and management:

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The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) Advisory Panels will meet on June 15 and 16, 2001; the Standing Committees will meet on June 18, 2001; and the Council will hold its 110th meeting June 18 through June 21, 2001, in Honolulu, HI...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene scoping meetings to obtain public comments on essential fish habitat (EFH) issues to be discussed in and potentially added to a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) fo...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001
NMFS proposes a rule to implement portions of Amendment 14 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). Amendment 14 would create a permit stacking program for limited entry permits with sablefish endorsements. This permit stacking...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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On Friday, April 13, 2001, the National institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced in the Federal Register the availability of fiscal year 2001 funds for the Critical Infrastructure Protection Grants Program (CIPGP). The purpose of this n...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Meetings:

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites interested parties to attend a three-day Telecommunication Certification Body (TCB) training workshop on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rules, the FCC's TCB Program and relate...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Ocean and coastal resource management:

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In accordance with section 304(e) of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, as amended, (NMSA) (16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.), the Marine Sanctuaries Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is initiating a review of the Florida...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001

Patent and trademark cases:

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office published a proposed rule in the Federal Register of May 9, 2001, revising certain patent fee amounts and a trademark fee amount for fiscal year 2002, changing the maintenance fee correspondence address,...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given of the following actions regarding permits for takes of marine mammal species for the purposes of scientific research: NMFS has received a permit application from: Ocean Alliance/Whale Conservation Institute, 191 Weston Road, L...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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This action adds to the Procurement List a commodity to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List commodities previously furnished by such agencies.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete commodities previously furnished by such agencies. Comments Must...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

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

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation) announces the availability of funds for an organization selected under this Notice to provide information concerning available resources and training and technical assistance, to assist...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The San Francisco District and the Counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey, California intend to prepare a combined EIS/EIR to support a cost shared study for flood damage reduction of lands surrounding the Pajaro River in the Lower Pajaro River Watershe...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

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Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Meetings:

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In Accordance with 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law (92-463), announcement is made of the next meeting of the Inland Waterways Users Board. The meeting will be held on July 18, 2001, in Davenport, Iowa, River Center, Iowa an...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

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

Title Type Published
The Department of the Army announces the general availability of exclusive, partially exclusive or non-exclusive licenses relative to a novel optical switching technologies as described in U.S. Patent# 6,075,254, Shen, et al., June 13, 2000, "Polariz...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

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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 Jun 08, 2001
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 Jun 08, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) has submitted the energy information collection listed in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review under the provisions of section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this technical amendment amends the table that lists the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control numbers issued under the PRA for Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources (NSPS) S...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

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 the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: "Collect...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: TSCA Sec...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Air pollution control:

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This document announces that the EPA Administrator has partially granted and partially denied petitions to object to a State operating permit issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) to the Orange Recycling and E...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Air pollution control; new motor vehicles and engines:

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Today's action proposes modifications to EPA's Service Information regulations for light-duty vehicles and trucks, including requiring vehicle manufacturers to; make full text emissions-related service information and training information available v...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001

Air pollution; standards of performance for new stationary sources; and air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

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This notice announces applicability determinations, alternative monitoring decisions, and regulatory interpretations that EPA has made under the new source performance standards (NSPS)(40 CFR part 60), and the national emission standards for hazardou...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Air programs; State authority delegations:

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EPA is proposing to approve the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's (DNREC's) request to implement and enforce its accidental release prevention program in place of similar Federal requirements. In the Final Rules sec...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001
EPA is taking direct final action to approve the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's (DNREC's) request to implement and enforce its accidental release prevention program in place of similar Federal requirements. EPA i...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

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

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EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department (MCESD) portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP), and the Placer County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) and South Coast Air Quality M...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department (MCESD) portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP), and the Placer County Air Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) and South Co...
Rule Jun 08, 2001
The EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Rhode Island. This revision establishes a post-1996 rate-of-progress (ROP) plan for the Providence serious ozone nonattainment area. In the Final Rul...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001
EPA is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Rhode Island. This revision establishes a post-1996 rate of progress (ROP) emission reduction plan for the Providence serious ozone nonattainment area in Rhode Isla...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board is announcing the formation of an Arsenic Rule Benefits Review Panel (hereinafter, the "Panel") and soliciting nominations to this Panel. The EPA Science Advisory Board was establi...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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EPA expressed concerns regarding purpose and need, alternatives, environmental monitoring, cumulative impacts, prescribed burning, and Clean Water Act TMDL protocols. EPA has requested inclusion of a more easy to follow statement of overriding purpos...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Weekly receipts
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Meetings:

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

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This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the methyl anthranilate on corn and sunflower when applied/used as a bird repellent. Bird Shield Repellent Corporation submitted a petition to EPA under the...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars A-21, A- 87, and A-122, which establish the principles for determining allowable costs under Federal assistance agreements, prohibit the use of Federal assistance funds for certain lobbying and liti...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
This notice announces EPA's approval of an application for test marketing exemption (TME) under section 5(h)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and 40 CFR 720.38. EPA has designated this application as TME-01-11. The test marketing conditi...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
This notice announces EPA's approval of an application for test marketing exemption (TME) under section 5(h)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and 40 CFR 720.38. EPA has designated this application as TME-01-0010. The test marketing condi...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Water pollution control:

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EPA has entered into a consent agreement with WorldCom, Inc. to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), and its implementing regulations. WorldCom failed to prepare Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure ("SPCC") plans for seventy-fiv...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Water pollution; effluent guidelines for point source categories:

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EPA is correcting minor errors in the preamble and the effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the oil and gas extraction point source category, which was published as a final rule in the Federal Register on January 22, 2001 (66 FR 6850).
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Water supply:

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In this document, EPA is finalizing the Filter Backwash Recycling Rule (FBRR). The purpose of the FBRR is to further protect public health by requiring public water systems (PWSs), where needed, to institute changes to the return of recycle flows to...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio stations; table of assignments:

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The Commission, on its own motion, editorially amends the Table of FM Allotments to specify the actual classes of channels allotted to various communities. The changes in channel classifications have been authorized in response to applications filed...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The FDIC, 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, as required by the...
Notice Jun 08, 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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revising its regulation for its delegations of authority, to improve information retrieval, ensure consistency, clarify redelegation statements, update the legal citations and position and organizational titl...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project
Notice Jun 08, 2001
The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) announces the anticipated availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 family planning services grants under the authority of Title X of the Public Health Service Act and solicits applications for competing g...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces that about $1.2 million in fiscal year (FY) 2001 funds is available for up to 14 State Grants for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) awards. Grant programs for TBI provide health and other s...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Medicare:

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This proposed notice discusses changes to work relative value units (RVUs) affecting payment for physicians' services. Section 1848(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Social Security Act requires that we review RVUs no less often than every 5 years. This is the seco...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Meetings:

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Advisory Committee to Director
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Notice.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Guide to Community Preventive Services Task Force
Notice Jun 08, 2001
In accordance with section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice announces a meeting of the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council. This meeting is open to the public.
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the drawbridge operation regulations for the SR 127 Bridge, mile 0.0, across the Annisquam River, Blynman Canal, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. This deviation from the re...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
We (FEMA) give notice of the Cooperating Technical Partners initiative that will recognize and encourage participation by states, regional agencies, and communities in the flood hazard mapping process.
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), we (FEMA) give notice that we are establishing a new system of records under the authority of the Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4100, et seq. That Act established the Nat...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
Temporary Special Local Regulations are being adopted for the Skull Creek July 4th celebration Fireworks Display, Skull Creek, Hilton Head, SC. These regulations are needed to provide for the safety of life on navigable waters during the event.
Rule Jun 08, 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 Jun 08, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing its intention to automate the collection of training applications and provide an optional alternative application specifically for the training conducted by the USFWS National Conservation Training Cen...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to reintroduce two federally listed endangered fishes--the duskytail darter (Etheostoma percnurum) and smoky madtom (Noturus baileyi)--and two federally listed threatened fishes--the yellowfin madt...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to remove Potentilla robbinsiana, commonly called Robbins' cinquefoil, from the List of Endangered and Threatened Plants. We propose this action because the available data indicate that this s...
Proposed Rule Jun 08, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to extend until June 25, 2001, the deadlines for determining whether to review two initial determinations ("IDs") issued by the presiding administrative law judge (ALJ...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Adjustment assistance and NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:

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 Jun 08, 2001
OSHA solicits comments concerning its request to decrease the existing burden-hour estimates for, and to extend OMB approval of, the information-collection requirements specified in the gear-certification forms required by 29 CFR part 1919 ("Gear Cer...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (Pub. L. 92-463), as amended, and section 166(h)(4) of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) [29 U.S.C. 2911(h)(4)], notice is hereby given of the next meeting of the Native Ameri...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

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 prepared by organizations that want to make paper-to-paper copies of archival holdings with their personal copiers. The public i...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

N
National Science Foundation

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Biological Infrastructure Proposal Review Panel et al.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Earth Sciences Proposal Review Panel et al.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Small Business Industrial Innovation Advisory Committee et al.
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

O
Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC et al.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jun 08, 2001
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Surety Bond Guarantee Program:

Title Type Published
SBA revises our Surety Bond Guarantee Program rules to conform them to two recently-enacted statutory changes. First, the law increases the eligible contract amount from $1.25 million to $2 million. Second, the law extends the authorization period of...
Rule Jun 08, 2001

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Announcement of meeting location and time change.
Notice Jun 08, 2001

State Department logo State Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Europe/Eurasia Division in the Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the Ukrainian Media Partnership Program. Public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provis...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
International Economic Policy Advisory Committee
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The FMCSA announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) described in this notice is being sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The FMCSA is requesting OMB's continued approval of the information that is...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal and comm...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a supplement to a final environmental impact statement will be prepared to identify a recommended route for the US-31 freeway between Napier Avenue and I-94 in Berrien County, Michigan.
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announces a discretionary cooperative agreement program to assist states in the development and use of Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) and solicits applications for projects unde...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Hazardous materials transportation:

Title Type Published
Federal hazardous material transportation law preempts N.J.S.A. 21:1A-137F and N.J.A.C. 12:190-6.5(d) when those provisions are interpreted and applied to prohibit the transportation of blasting caps (including electric blasting caps) on the same mot...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenues from a PFC at Central Illinois Regional Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omni...
Notice Jun 08, 2001
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Delta County Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Rec...
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Regattas and marine parades:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jun 08, 2001

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

No documents available.

U
United States Institute of Peace

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jun 08, 2001

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