October 16, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register October 16, 2001

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

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 16, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to increase the fees that it charges meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, importers, and exporters for providing voluntary inspection services, overtime and holiday inspectio...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
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 Oct 16, 2001

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

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We are amending the regulations by adding Japan to the list of regions where bovine spongiform encephalopathy exists because the disease has been detected in a native-born animal in that region. The effect of this action is restriction on the importa...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On April 4, 2001, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) published a Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) in the Federal Register (66 FR 17857, April 4, 2001) announcing a new grant program, and the availability of grant funds under this program, to financ...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Meat and poultry inspection:

Title Type Published
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending its regulations governing the certification for accuracy of scales used in federally inspected meat and poultry establishments. Under the final rule, official establishments may rely on State...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Meetings:

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The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee (IAC) will meet on November 1, 2001, at the Embassy Suites, 319 SW. Pine Street, Portland, Oregon 97204, in the Gevertz Ceremonial Room on the Mezzanine Level. The purpose of the meeting is to continue discuss...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On June 12, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel wire rod (SSWR) from Taiwan (66 FR 31613). This review covers one manufacturer/e...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Cross Huller-North America; metal-working equipment manufacturing facility
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the "Department") preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers or exporters of individually quick frozen ("IQF") red raspberries in Chile.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received an application for an incidental take permit (Permit) from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). As required by the ESA, WDFW has also prepared a cons...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to he Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C., App. 2, Sec. 10(a)(b)), the Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is giving notice of a meeting of the Decennial Census Advisory Committee. The Committee will address issues related to the 2010...
Notice Oct 16, 2001
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a public meeting of the Law Enforcement Advisory Panel (LEAP).
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following actions regarding permits for takes of endangered and threatened species for the purposes of scientific research and/or enhancement under the Endangered Species Act (ESA): NMFS has received a request to modify...
Notice Oct 16, 2001
Notice is hereby given that Scott D. Kraus, Ph.D., Edgerton Research Laboratory, New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110-3309, has applied in due form for a permit to take North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) for purposes o...
Notice Oct 16, 2001
Notice is hereby given that Dan Tapster, BBC Natural History Unit, Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2LR, United Kingdom, has been issued a permit to take by Level B harassment one species, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), o...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 16, 2001
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Fort Irwin proposes to expand upon existing maneuver land in order to meet training needs for force-on-force and live fire training of heavy brigade and battalion-sized task forces. The advances in weapon systems (e.g., longer engagement ranges) requ...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), announcement is made of the forthcoming meeting of the Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board (EAB). The meeting is open to the public.
Notice Oct 16, 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 Oct 16, 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 Oct 16, 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 Oct 16, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
New York Independent System Operator, Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Rocky Flats. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meeting be announced in the Fe...
Notice Oct 16, 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 for renewal the following two current Information Collection Requests (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
EPA proposes to fully approve the operating permit program of the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia's operating permit program was submitted in response to the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 that required States to develop, and s...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is taking direct final action to fully approve the operating permit program of the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia's operating permit program was submitted in response to the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 that required Sta...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

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

Title Type Published
EPA proposes to approve the sections 111(d)/129 negative declaration submitted by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) on June 5, 2001. This negative declaration adequately certifies that there are no small municipal waste combustors (small...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA publishes regulations under sections 111(d) and 129 of the Clean Air Act requiring states to submit plans to EPA. These plans show how states intend to control the emissions of designated pollutants from designated facilities. On June 5, 2001, th...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

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

Title Type Published
Due to the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and the resulting temporary closure of the Region 2 office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in New York City and the disruption of mail delivery and telephone service, the EPA is extending th...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
Due to the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and the resulting temporary closure of the Region 2 office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in New York City and the disruption of mail delivery and telephone service, the EPA is extending an...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is taking final action to approve revisions to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions were submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to establish and require reasonably...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is taking final action to approve a revision to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revision was submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to establish and require reasonably...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is taking final action to approve revisions to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions were submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to establish and require reasonably...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is taking final action to approve revisions to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions were submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to establish and require reasonably...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is removing the limited status of its approval of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision that requires all major sources of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) to implement reas...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
EPA is taking final action to approve revisions to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions were submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to establish and require reasonably...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Clean Air Act:

Title Type Published
The EPA proposes to fully approve the Operating Permit Program of the State of Oklahoma. Oklahoma's Operating Permit Program was submitted in response to the directive in the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments that States develop, and submit to EPA,...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice provides information on the availability of fiscal year 2002 investigator-initiated grants program announcements, in which the areas of research interest, eligibility and submission requirements, evaluation criteria, and implementation sc...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Hazardous waste:

Title Type Published
This document contains technical corrections to the final site-specific rule published in the Federal Register of Wednesday, June 27, 2001 for the Weyerhaeuser Company's Flint River Operations in Oglethorpe, Georgia (Weyerhaeuser). The June 27, 2001...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This action announces the rescheduled public meeting on the Draft Strategy for Waterborne Microbial Disease. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a meeting on November 6, 2001, to present to interested parties the Draft Strategy for W...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisi...
Notice Oct 16, 2001
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisi...
Notice Oct 16, 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-01-12. The test marketing conditi...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Digital television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission, at the request of Alamo Public Telecommunications Council, licensee of noncommercial station KLRN-TV, NTSC channel *9, substitutes DTV channel *8 for DTV channel *20 at San Antonio, Texas. See 65 FR 36809, June 12, 2000. DTV channel *...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document requests comments on a petition filed by Katherine Pyeatt proposing the allotment of Channel 278A at La Pryor, Texas, as that community's first local FM service. The coordinates for Channel 278A at La Pryor are 28-58-09 and 99-56-05. Th...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001
The Commission requests comments on a five petitions for rulemaking proposing new channels. A petition filed by Maurice Salsa, proposing the allotment of Channel 292A at Juntion,Texas as that community's second commercial FM transmission service. Cha...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on whether modification of the license of WQEX(TV), to specify operation on nonreserved Channel 16, will promote the public interest, convenience and necessity, and also, whether the channel, if dereserv...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve Bank services:

Title Type Published
The Board has approved modifications to the method for calculating the Private Sector Adjustment Factor (PSAF), which imputes the costs that would have been incurred and profits that would have been earned had the Federal Reserve Banks' priced servic...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Premerger notification waiting periods; early terminations
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Coment describes both the allegations in the compla...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Oct 16, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Oct 16, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 16, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Harmonisation International Conference; guidelines availability:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of guidance entitled "M4 Organization of the Common Technical Document for the Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use" (M4 CTD). The guidance was developed under the auspice...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Office
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS) Social Science Program has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for clearance of an extended program of surveys of the public related to the mission of the NPS. The NPS is publishing this no...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public, other agencies, and Tribes that the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has received a request to add Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) and bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) to the list of species covered by Endangered S...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Land resource management:

Title Type Published
This document amends the final regulations published in the Federal Register on Friday, June 30, 2000 (65 FR 16648). The regulation allows certain Alaska Native veterans another opportunity to apply for a Native allotment under the repealed Native Al...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
60-day Notice of information collection under review: revision of a currently approved collection workplace risk supplement.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

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

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National Council on Disability

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedules and proposed agendas of the upcoming open house and quarterly meeting of the National Council on Disability (NCD). Notice of these meetings is required under Section 522b(e)(1) of the Government in the Sunshine Ac...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

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

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National Transportation Safety Board

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

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
International Uranium (USA) Corp.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing; and radiation protection standards:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering an amendment to its regulations that would clarify the use of entombment for power reactors. The NRC has determined that entombment of power reactors is a technically viable decommissioning alter...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

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

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations revising the NAC-UMS Universal Storage System listing within the "List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks" to include Amendment No. 2 to Certificate of Compliance Number 1015. Amen...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations revising the NAC-UMS Universal Storage System listing within the "List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks" to include Amendment No. 2 to Certificate of Compliance Number 1015. Amen...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Postal Service seeks a limited extension of the ride-along experiment, which allows qualifying Standard mail to travel for a flat fee when included in a host Periodicals publication. This would allow the experiment to continue without disruption...
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Postal Service logo Postal Service

International Mail Manual:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to its authority under 39 U.S.C. 407, the Postal Service is proposing changes in international postal rates for International Priority Airmail, International Surface Air Lift, and publishers' periodical mail. As required under the Postal Reo...
Proposed Rule Oct 16, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f-2 under the Act, as well as from certain disclosure requirements.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Securities Exchange Act; emergency orders:

Title Type Published
Government securities reconciliations
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

License surrenders:

Title Type Published
First American Capital Funding, Inc.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
The Department issued an interim rule dated March 17, 2000, establishing a training and employment program in the United States for certain residents of Northern Ireland and designated counties of the Republic of Ireland. This program was mandated by...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Visas; nonimmigrant documentation:

Title Type Published
This rule removes from the existing interim regulation on the issuance of visas in the Q-2 nonimmigrant visa category the requirements for qualification of a program participant in the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program (IPPCTP) to be...
Rule Oct 16, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 757 series airplanes, that requires revising the Airworthiness Limitations Section of the maintenance manual (757 Airworthiness Limitations Instructions (ALI...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737 series airplanes, that requires inspection of wire bundles in certain junction boxes in the main wheel well to detect chafing or damage, and follow-on ac...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2001-18-51, which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of Eurocopter France (ECF) Model SA.315B, SA.316C, SA 3180, SA 318B, SA 31...
Rule Oct 16, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model MD-90-30 series airplanes. This action requires a visual inspection for heat damage, arcing, and loose terminal screws of the ground servic...
Rule Oct 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 Bertie and Hertford Counties, North Carolina.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

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 Oct 16, 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 Oct 16, 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 Oct 16, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Bonds, Treasury;

Title Type Published
7- 5/8 percent bonds (2002-2007); call for redemption
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Treasury Department has determined that it is in the public interest to renew the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities. The Department has filed a charter for an additional two-year term for the Committee.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the New York Metro Citizen Advocacy Panel will be held in Brooklyn, New York.
Notice Oct 16, 2001
Notice is given of a meeting of the Special Enrollment Examination Advisory Committee.
Notice Oct 16, 2001

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