December 21, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register December 21, 2001

View all documents issued on December 21, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

156 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 21, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs ("OETCA"), International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an application to amend an Export Trade Certificate of Review ("Certificate"). This notice summarizes the proposed amendm...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Notice of final determinations of sales at less than fair value.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
India
Notice Dec 21, 2001
We are amending the antidumping ("AD") duty rate for imports of pasta from Delverde S.r.l. ("Delverde") calculated for the final determination of the antidumping duty less-than-fair-value ("LTFV") investigation (covering the period from May 1, 1994 t...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
On July 12, 2001, the Department of Commerce ("Department") published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Taiwan. This review covers one manufactur...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Taiwan
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Notice of final determinations of sales at not less than fair value.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
On May 14, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register its preliminary affirmative determination in the countervailing duty investigation on low enriched uranium (subject merchandise) from France for the period...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
On May 14, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register its preliminary affirmative determinations in the countervailing duty investigations of low enriched uranium (subject merchandise) from Germany, the Nether...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Export administration regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule removes two Russian entities from the Entity List: INOR Scientific Center, Moscow, Russia; and Polyus Scientific Production Association, 3 Ulitsa Vvedenskogo, 117342, Moscow. The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) provide that the Bure...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, and implementing regulations, notification is hereby given that a letter of authorization (LOA) to take a small number of marine mammals incidental to the production of offshore...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a public meeting of the Shrimp Advisory Panel (AP).
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene public meetings of the Standing and Special Reef Fish Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) and the Reef Fish Advisory Panel (AP) from January 7 through January 11, 2002.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Enforcement Committee and Advisory Panel, Red Crab Advisory Panel and Oversight Committee and Monkfish Oversight Committee in January, 2002 to consider actions...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Permits:

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes a rule that would allow the transfer of certain permits issued by NMFS under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended. This proposed rule would allow the transfer of permits associated with Habitat Conservation Plans, Safe H...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

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

Title Type Published
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.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Poison-preventing packaging:

Title Type Published
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) corrects the rule published in the Federal Register of August 2, 2001 that requires child-resistant (CR) packaging of certain previously prescription-only oral drug products approved by the...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
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Notice Dec 21, 2001
Notice.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2002.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Kinder Morgan Power Co. et al.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Electric utilities (Federal Power Act):

Title Type Published
On October 25, 2001, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) seeking comments on a standard generator interconnection agreement and procedures that would be applicable to all public utilities t...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research on Carbon Sequestration in the Oceans.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Los Alamos. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Fe...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to its authority under the Clean Air Act, EPA is publishing this Notice of Deficiency (NOD) for the District of Columbia's Clean Air Act title V operating permit program. The NOD is based upon EPA's finding that the District of Columbia's re...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA believes the data used in the Draft PEIS and the methods used to analyze and draw conclusions from that data were inadequate, thereby preventing a full disclosure of potentially significant environmental impacts of the proposal. EPA recommended t...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Weekly receipts
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

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

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of fluthiacet-methyl in or on field corn grain, field corn forage, field corn stover, pop corn grain, pop corn stover, sweet corn, kernels plus cob husk removed (K+CWHR), sweet corn forage, and swee...
Rule Dec 21, 2001
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of sodium thiosulfate when used as an inert ingredient (dechlorinator) in or on growing crops, or when applied to raw agricultural commodities after harvest. Ed...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
EPA has entered into a consent agreement with Comcast Corporation ("Comcast") to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), Clean Air Act ("CAA"), and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ("EPCRA") and their implementing regulat...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving final notice of its determination that numeric standards or management practices are not warranted for dioxin and dioxin-like compounds in sewage sludge that is disposed of at a surface disposal sit...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Water pollution control; discharge of pollutants (NPDES):

Title Type Published
Today's notice announces EPA's intention to issue a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit for storm water discharges from construction activities in Indian country within the State of Wisconsin. The general permit is...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Group of States Against Corruption; designation as a public international organization (EO 13240)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001

Government agencies and employees:

Title Type Published
Agriculture, Department of; designation of order of succession (EO 13241)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001
Commerce, Department of; designation of order of succession (EO 13242)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001
Housing and Urban Development, Department of; designation of order of succession (EO 13243)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001
Interior, Department of the; designation of order of succession (EO 13244)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001
Labor, Department of; designation of order of succession (EO 13245)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001
Treasury, Department of the; designation of order of succession (EO 13246)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 2001
Veterans Affairs, Department of; designation of order of succession (EO 13247)
Presidential Document Dec 21, 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, as required by the P...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
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 21, 2001
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 21, 2001

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
In a Public Notice in this proceeding released on December 4, 2001, the Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau) sought further comment on the $650 million support amount available under the interstate access support mechanism. Specifically, the Bureau sought...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
This document contains corrections to the final regulations in the Fourteenth Report and Order, which were published in the Federal Register of Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 66 FR 30080. Specifically, this correction revises the language in section 36.605(c...
Rule Dec 21, 2001
In this document, the Commission denies the request of the United States Telecom Association to reconsider portions of the Contribution Interval Order modifying the methodology used to assess contributions that carriers make to the federal universal...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Digital television stations; table of assignment:

Title Type Published
The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by Indiana Broadcasting, LLC, licensee of station WANE-TV, NTSC channel 15, Fort Wayne, Indiana, proposing the substitution of DTV channel 31 for station WANE-TV's assigned DTV channel 4. DTV Chann...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission, pursuant to staff recommendations of the 2000 Biennial Review Report, reviews the application procedures for Quiet Zones to determine whether they can be made more efficient while continuing to ensure that such zones...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
This document provides notice that the Mass Media Bureau has opened an additional settlement window for proposals filed during the limited low power television/television translator/Class A television auction filing window. That settlement window clo...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by Zavaletta Broadcasting of Pueblo, an applicant for a construction permit for a new television station to operate on channel 26+ at Pueblo, Colorado, requesting the substitution of channel 48 for...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The FDIC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the public and other Federal agencies to comment on a proposed information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Background. On June 15, 1984, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delegated to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) its approval authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act, as per 5 CFR 1320.16, to approve of and assign...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Extensions of credit by Federal Reserve banks (Regulation A)

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors has amended its Regulation A, Extensions of Credit by Federal Reserve Banks to reflect its approval of a decrease in the basic discount rate at each Federal Reserve Bank. The Board acted on requests submitted by the Boards of D...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration (GSA), in compliance with 41 U.S.C. 418b, is publishing the GSA Household Goods Tender of Service (HTOS) for comments. The HTOS combines the Domestic Tender of Service (DTOS), effective January 2, 1996 and the Inte...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) announces the availability of $1,000,000 annually for each of five years to support the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credentialing Program...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee to Director
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Southwest Regional Small Business Program (Small Business Program), Office of Regulatory Affairs, in collaboration with FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the State of Missouri Department of Pu...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites Citizens Advisory Committee
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Radiation and Worker Health Advisory Board
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "Major, Minor, and Telephone Amendments to Abbreviated New Drug Applications." This guidance is a second revision of the guidance entitled "Majo...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance document entitled "Exemptions from the Warning Label Requirement for Juice--Recommendations for Effectively Achieving a 5-Log Reduction." This draft document is...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing temporary fixed security zones in all waters extending 100 feet around all bridge supports and rocky outcroppings at the base of the supports for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay. These security zones are needed...
Rule Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The following applicants have applied for permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided pursuant to section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing its intention to request approval for the collections of information under 30 CFR parts 750 and 877 which relate the...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, we are submitting to OMB for review and approval an information collection request (ICR) titled "Accounting for Comparison (Dual Accounting)." We are also soliciting comments from the public o...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice of The Coteau Properties Company's Coal Lease. The Bureau of Land Management is providing notice of cancellation for the coal lease offering (NDM 90783) by sealed bid scheduled for December 11, 2001. According to Federal coal management regula...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Thomas and Elisa Kirchner (Applicants) have applied for an incidental take permit (TE-050153-0) pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act (Act). The requested permit would authorize the incidental take of the endangered Houston toad. Th...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Bruce and Myra Nicholson (Applicants) have applied for an incidental take permit (TE-049665-0) pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act (Act). The requested permit would authorize the incidental take of the endangered Houston toad. The...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Michael and Pamela Williams (Applicants) have applied for an incidental take permit (TE-049666-0) pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act (Act). The requested permit would authorize the incidental take of the endangered Houston toad....
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Roberto Angulo (Applicant) has applied for an incidental take permit (TE-049664-0) pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act (Act). The requested permit would authorize the incidental take of the endangered Houston toad. The proposed ta...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service announces the availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement and General Management Plan (FEIS/GMP) for Mount Rainier National Park, Washin...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Stiltsville Management Plan for Biscayne National Park. This effort will result...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
BLM received a competitive coal lease application on September 28, 2001, from Bridger Coal Company. The tract applied for is approximately 7,054.34 acres in size, and contains approximately 110 million tons of in-place coal reserves. The tract is adj...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Oil and gas leases:

Title Type Published
Per Public Law 97-451, the lessees timely filed a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas leases MSES 46775, MSES 46780, MSES 46782, MSES 46788, MSES 46798, MSES 46800, MSES 46803, MSES 46806, MSES 46809 MSES 47871, MSES 48069, MSES 48070 and MSES...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Per Pub.L. 97-451, the lessee timely filed a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease MTM 90089, Sheridan County, Montana. The lessee paid the required rental accruing from the date of termination. We haven't issued any leases affecting the la...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Wyoming
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Opening of public lands:

Title Type Published
Public Land Order No. 6091, which withdrew 13.42 acres of National Forest System land from location and entry under the United States mining laws for a fire guard station, expired November 22, 2001, by operation of law. This action will open the land...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma regulatory program (the Oklahoma program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Ac...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

Withdrawal and reservation of lands:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, has filed an application to withdraw 40 acres of public land for the United States Air Force to use as a safe zone for departing and arriving aircraft at the Nellis Air Force Base. The land was previous...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the President signed the "September 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001" (the "Fund") into law as Title IV of Public Law 107-42 ("Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act") (the "A...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice of information collection under review; application for certificate of citizenship.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
American Radiolabeled Chemical, Inc.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Genesis 1:29 Corp.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Research Triangle Institute
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Title Type Published
3D Systems Corp. et al.
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Premdor Inc. et al.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is publishing this notice to inform the public that it will postpone publication of its FY 2002 Final Program Plan to accommodate any written comments sent through the U.S. mail which...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Immigration:

Title Type Published
This rule adjusts the fee schedule of the Immigration Examinations Fee Account (IEFA) for certain immigration and naturalization applications and petitions, as well as the fee for the fingerprinting of applicants who apply for certain immigration and...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Systems of records
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Dec 21, 2001

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 Dec 21, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (CEQ) (40 CFR part 1500-08) implementing procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

N
National Council on Disability

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule of meetings/conference calls for working groups of NCD's advisory committees--International Watch. Notice of this meeting is required under section 10(a)(1)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463)...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

N
National Labor Relations Board

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with respect to the potential environmental impact related to the request by Alaron Corporation to utilize a wet waste processing system...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Southern California Edison Co.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 21, 2001

R
Railroad Retirement Board

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries o...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries o...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board will publish periodic summaries of prop...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request; correction
Correction Dec 21, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request; correction
Correction Dec 21, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Temporary order and notice of application for a permanent order under section 9(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act").
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
Inspector General Office, Audit Office
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Rail carriers:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Board is instituting a proceeding to determine the railroad industry's cost of capital for 2001. The decision solicits comments on: (1) The railroads' 2001 cost of debt capital; (2) the railroads' 2001 current cost of preferred stock equity capit...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Railroad services abandonment:

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Unfair trade practices, petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
The United States Trade Representative (Trade Representative) has decided to extend his investigation of the wheat trading practices of the Government of Canada and the Canadian Wheat Board until January 22, 2002. The Office of the United States Trad...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
We are proposing procedures for certain operators to apply for reimbursement of allowable costs incurred to comply with certain security requirements imposed by the FAA or Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on or after September 11, 2001. T...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001
This action establishes a Class E enroute domestic airspace area beginning at 1,200 feet above ground level (AGL) in the vicinity of Iron Mountain, CA, to replace existing Class G uncontrolled airspace.
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Maritime Administration's (MARAD's) intentions to request extension of approval for three years of a currently approved information collection.
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to CFE Company model CFE738-1-1B turbofan engines. This action requires the removal of certain fan rotor disks from service. This amendment is prompted by a report from a for...
Rule Dec 21, 2001
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to Eurocopter France Model AS 332C, L, L1, and L2 helicopters. That AD requires conducting a filter clogging warning test, and, if necessary, replacing a jammed valve wit...
Rule Dec 21, 2001
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that supersedes Airworthiness Directive (AD) 99-19-32, which applies to certain Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Models PC-12 and PC-12/45 airplanes. AD 99-19-32 currently requires you to inspec...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in cooperation with the Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) and Utah Transit Authority (UTA), is issuing this notice to advise interested agencies and the public that, in accordance with the National Enviro...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in cooperation with the Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) and Utah Transit Authority (UTA), is issuing this notice to advise interested agencies and the public that, in accordance with the National Enviro...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Insurer reporting requirements:

Title Type Published
This notice announces publication by NHTSA of the annual insurer report on motor vehicle theft for the 1996 reporting year. Section 33112(c) of Title 49 of the U.S. Code, requires this information to be compiled periodically and published by the agen...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Coordinating Council on Tuesday, January 15, 2001, at its headquarters. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. The General Session includes the following items: (1) Hous...
Notice Dec 21, 2001
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, January 17, 2002. The meeting begins at 1:00 p.m. The session includes the following items: (1) Welcome & Introductions, & ITS...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document announces decisions by NHTSA that certain motor vehicles not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards are eligible for importation into the United States because they are substantially...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
This document proposes a regulation that would implement the "early warning reporting requirements" of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act. Under this proposal, motor vehicle and motor vehicle equipmen...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

Rail carriers:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Traffic control systems; discontinuance or modification:

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) is amending its regulations to incorporate a number of technical and conforming amendments. They include clarifications, updated statutory and other references, and corrections of typographical errors.
Rule Dec 21, 2001

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 Dec 21, 2001
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing efforts 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 collectio...
Notice Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 2001

General program test:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the quota preprocessing program test, which provides for the electronic processing of certain quota- class apparel merchandise prior to arrival of the carrier, will be expanded to the following additional ports: Atlanta; Bo...
Notice Dec 21, 2001

Lending and investment:

Title Type Published
The Office of Thrift Supervision ("OTS") is revising and clarifying its lending and investment regulations to give savings associations greater flexibility in a changing marketplace. Today's regulatory amendments are intended to help thrifts take bet...
Rule Dec 21, 2001

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Board of Veterans Appeals:

Title Type Published
This document proposes to amend the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Rules of Practice at the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) to clarify that the general rule that the Board is not bound by prior dispositions during the veteran's lifetime of i...
Proposed Rule Dec 21, 2001

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