December 5, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register December 5, 2001

View all documents issued on December 5, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

146 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 5, 2001

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations governing the importat...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request a reinstatement of an information collection in support of activities to prevent the introduction and...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Appealable decisions; legal notice:

Title Type Published
Deciding Officers in the Southern Region will publish notice of decisions subject to administrative appeal under 36 CFR part 217 in the legal notice section of the newspapers listed in the Supplementary Information section of this notice. As provided...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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We are advising the public that an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact have been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to a demonstration project to eradicate and prevent the spread of the aquat...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

Title Type Published
We are amending the regulations by adding new areas to the list of areas regulated because of Karnal bunt, a fungal disease of wheat, due to the detection during the 2000 harvest of bunted kernels in grain grown in these areas. We are also removing c...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The International Cooperation on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for the Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products (VICH) has developed two draft guidelines titled "Pharmacovigilance of Veterinary Medicinal Products: Management of Periodi...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
We published in the Federal Register our final determination for the investigation of certain folding gift boxes from the People's Republic of China on November 20, 2001. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cer...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain steel concrete reinforcing bars from Turkey. The period of review is April 1, 2000,...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Deep seabed mining exploration licenses:

Title Type Published
On September 20, 2001, Ocean Minerals Company (OMCO) submitted to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) an application for a five-year extension of Deep Seabed Mining Exploration License USA-1, pursuant to sections 105(c)(2) and...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces a 1,000 lb (454 kg)/trip limit of Dover sole in the limited entry trawl fishery coastwide for the month of December. This action, which is authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP) and its implementing re...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Title Type Published
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs adjusting limits.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs adjusting limits.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT):

Title Type Published
Issuing a Directive to the Commissioner of Customs amending export visa requirements.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Education Department logo Education Department

Postsecondary education:

Title Type Published
We announce our intention to establish two negotiated rulemaking committees to prepare proposed regulations under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). Each committee will include representatives with interests that are sign...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with 18 CFR 381.104, the Commission issues this update of its filing fees. This notice provides the yearly update using data in the Commission's Management, Administrative, and Payroll System to calculate the new fees. The purpose of up...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Dec 05, 2001

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 provisions of Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 199...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Copiah County Storage Co.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
El Dorado Irrigation District
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
KO Transmission Co.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice Dec 05, 2001
PSEG Energy Resources Trade LLC
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Portland General Electric Co. et al.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Southern Indiana Gas Electric Co.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Transok, LLC
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Allegheny Energy Supply Co., LLC, et al.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
John C. Jones Project, Waldo County, ME; facilitators improving fish habitat
Notice Dec 05, 2001
St. Louis, MI
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
EPA is taking final action to fully approve the operating permits program submitted by the State of Alaska. Alaska's operating permits program was submitted in response to the directive in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments that permitting authorities...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
EPA is taking final action to fully approve the operating permits programs submitted by the State of Arizona (collectively "the Arizona programs") on behalf of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality ("ADEQ" or "State"), Maricopa County Envir...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
EPA is taking final action to fully approve the Pinal County Air Quality Control District (Pinal or District) operating permits program. The Pinal program was submitted in response to the directive in the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments that perm...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The purpose of this notice is to announce that on December 1, 2001, a Federal operating permits program consistent with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (the Act) and the applicable Federal regulations will be effective in the State of Maryland....
Notice Dec 05, 2001
EPA is taking final action to fully approve the operating permits program of the Clark County Department of Air Quality Management ("Clark County"), the Washoe County District Health Department ("Washoe County"), and the Nevada Division of Environmen...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The EPA is promulgating final full approval of the operating permit program submitted by the State of New Jersey in accordance with Title V of the Clean Air Act (the Act) and its implementing regulations. This approved program allows New Jersey to is...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The EPA is promulgating final full approval of the operating permit program submitted by the State of New York in accordance with Title V of the Clean Air Act (the Act) and its implementing regulations codified. This approved program allows New York...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The EPA is promulgating full approval of 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...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

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

Title Type Published
EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the state of Missouri for the Doe Run primary lead smelters in Herculaneum and Glover, Missouri (Doe Run-Herculaneum and Doe Run-Glover). The SIP submitted by the state...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2001

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
Companies that hold the pesticide registrations of end-use pesticide products containing chlorpyrifos [O,O-diethyl O-(3,5,6- trichloro-2-pyridinyl)phosphorothioate] have asked EPA to cancel their registrations. Pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Fede...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

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

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes, modifies, and revokes specific tolerances for residues of the herbicides dichlobenil, metribuzin, pendimethalin, and terbacil; the plant growth regulator diphenylamine, and the insecticide sulprofos. EPA is revoking certa...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
World AIDS Day (Proc. 7510)
Presidential Document Dec 05, 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 Dec 05, 2001

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
In response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 66 FR 42622 (August 14, 2001), this document allots Channel 227A to Wadley, Georgia, and provides Wadley with its first local aural transmission service. The coordinates for Channel 227A at Wadley are...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by Green Bay 44, L.L.C., an applicant for a construction permit for a new television station operating on channel 44 at Green Bay, Wisconsin, requesting the substitution of Channel 50 for channel 4...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2001

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (the "agencies") may not conduct o...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Banks and bank holding companies:

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Pfizer, Inc. The supplemental NADA provides for a once daily, 2-milligram per pound (mg/l...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) filed by First Priority, Inc. The ANADA provides for oral use of ivermectin solution in horses fo...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) filed by Virbac AH, Inc. The ANADA provides for topical use of ivermectin on cattle for treatment...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect a change of sponsor's address for Merial Ltd.
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
Hazardous substances priority list (toxicological profiles); correction
Notice Dec 05, 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 Dec 05, 2001
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 Dec 05, 2001

Low income housing:

Title Type Published
This notice corrects the designation of 2002 Qualified Census Tracts for Guam, published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2001.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Public and Indian housing:

Title Type Published
On November 26, 2001, HUD published two notices that advised of interim scoring processes under HUD's Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) for the PHAS Physical Condition Indicator and for the PHAS Financial Condition Indicator. The notices also s...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The following applicants have applied for a scientific research permit to conduct certain activities with endangered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The following applicants have applied for a scientific research permit to conduct certain activities with endangered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 USC 1531 et seq.).
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the requirements of the Paper Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, we are submitting to OMB for review and approval an information collection request (ICR) for the Department of the Interior (DOI) to conduct voluntary customer satisfaction sur...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces availability for public review of a technical/agency draft recovery plan for the endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). The Karner blue butterfly is known to presently occ...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is extending the public review period for the Draft EIS/EIR for the PCWA American River Pump Station Project to December 13, 2001. The notice of availability for the Draft EIS/EIR was published in the Federal R...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Office of the Secretary, along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, and Office of Indian Trust Transition will conduct meetings on Indian trust asset management. The purpose is to discuss a propos...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The Steens Mountain Advisory Council (SMAC) will meet at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Burns District Office, 28910 Hwy 20 West, Hines, Oregon 97738, on December 17 and 18, 2001; January 24 and 25, 2002; February 28 and March 1, 2002; April 4...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
The U.S. International Trade Commission (the Commission) hereby gives notice of the court-ordered remand of its final antidumping investigation in Top-of-Stove Stainless Steel Cooking Ware from Korea and Taiwan No. 731-TA-267 and 268 (Review).
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Systems of records
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Adjustment assistance and NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:

Adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
Atofina Chemicals, Inc.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Borg Warner Air/Fluid Systems Corp.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Chiquola Fabrics, LLC
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Elizabeth Webbing, Inc.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
ISB Fashion, Inc.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
International Wire Insulated
Notice Dec 05, 2001
JPS Converter Industrial Corp.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Joint Venture Tool Mold, LLC
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Northwestern Steel Wire Co.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Outboard Marine Corp.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Outboard Marine Corp.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Pillowtech Corp.
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Thrall Car North American Rail
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Tridelta Industries, Inc.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Aliens:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor is amending its regulations governing the filing and processing of labor condition applications (LCAs) for the employment of nonimmigrant aliens on H-1B visas in specialty occupations and as fashion models. The amendments will...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Copyright office and procedures:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to newly promulgated 37 CFR 201.8, the Register of Copyrights announces her determination that there has been a general disruption or suspension of postal services that has delayed the receipt by the Copyright Office of deposits, application...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

M
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission will hold its next public meeting on Thursday, December 13, 2001, and Friday, December 14, 2001, at the Ronald Reagan Building, International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The meeting is tentatively sched...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Nuclear Management Co., LLC; correction
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Announcement of meeting location.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
Foreign Service posts; designation for special fee payment procedures
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Division of the NIS Secondary School Initiative of the United States Information Agency's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, announces an open competition for the Computer Training of Trainers Workshop for th...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Jackson County Port Authority Railroad
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of dispositions of certain petitions p...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of dispositions of certain petitions p...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:

Title Type Published
Previous notice of intent of waiver with respect to land was published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2001 (page 59297). The notice provided that comments must be received on or before November 27, 2001 and did not provide 30 days for public...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the release of approximately 183.30 acres of land at the Safford Municipal Airport, Safford, Arizona, from certain restrictions contained in the Patent dated April 3, 1956. The purpose of the rel...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.:

Title Type Published
On April 4, 2000, the FAA published two final rules regarding commercial air tour operations over Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP). The first rule, Commercial Air Tour Limitation in Grand Canyon National Park Special Flight Rules Area, limited the n...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting airworthiness directive (AD) 2001-23-51 that was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of certain Airbus Model A300 B4-600, B4-600R, and F4-600R (collectively call...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Fokker Model F.28 Mark 0100 series airplanes. This action requires repetitive inspections of certain main landing gear (MLG) main fittings to detect forging defect...
Rule Dec 05, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-8-33, -43, -51, - 52, -53, and -55 series airplanes; Model DC-8F-54, and -55 series airplanes; and Model DC-8-61, -61F, -62, -62F, -63,...
Rule Dec 05, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA, in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Transportation and King County Department of Transportation, is issuing this notice to advise the public that a supplemental to the final environmental impact statement (EIS) will be pr...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Notice is hereby given that the Federal Highway Administration and the New Jersey Department of Transportation will be holding a Scoping Forum for the purpose of soliciting public comments on the scope of work to be performed for the Penns Neck Area...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for transportation improvements in the State Trunk Highway (STH) 83 corridor between County Trunk Highway (CTH) "NN" at the north limits of t...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the FMCSA's decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10) for 18 individuals.
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose/use the revenue from a PFC at Binghamton Regional Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose a PFC at Dayton International Airport for use at Dayton International Airport and Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Duluth International Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Bu...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Orlando International Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus B...
Notice Dec 05, 2001
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and par...
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Dec 05, 2001

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document provides notice of cancellation of a public hearing on proposed regulations relating to the tax treatment of certain redemptions, during marriage or incident to divorce, of stock owned by a spouse or former spouse.
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2001

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee
Notice Dec 05, 2001
Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs Advisory Committee
Notice Dec 05, 2001

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