January 14, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register January 14, 2002

View all documents issued on January 14, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 14, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the depreciation rates for telecommunications plant for the period ending December 31, 2000.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Cotton research and promotion order:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the Department's view, based on a review by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), that it is not necessary to conduct a referendum among producers and importers on continuation of the 1990 amendments to the Cotton Research a...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On August 8, 2001, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Italy (66 FR 41517). This review covers one...
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Based on the finding of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce is revoking the antidumping duty order covering static random access memory semiconductors from Taiwan and terminating the antidumping duty administrative and...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS amends the emergency rule extension regulations governing the Atlantic highly migratory species (HMS) fisheries that closed the Northeast Distant Statistical Reporting (NED) area, required modifications in deploying pelagic longline fishing gear...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice serves the following purpose: To announce an opportunity for FY 2002 funding for the Global Carbon Cycle program area. Details of program emphases and topic areas can be found below in supplementary information, and in the GCC program inf...
Notice Jan 14, 2002
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (hereinafter "we" or "us") issues this document to solicit applications for Federal assistance under the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program (Prescott Stranding Grant Program). T...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that James Gilbert, Ph.D., University of Maine, Department of Wildlife Ecology, 210 Nutting Hall, Orono, Maine 04469 has been issued a permit to take harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) for purposes of scientific research.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are issuing amendments to FAC 2001-01, FAR Case 2000-302, Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999 published in the Federal Register a...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The National Reconnaissance Office is adding a system of records notice to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
The National Reconnaissance Office is adding a system of records notice to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
The National Reconnaissance Office is adding a system of records notice to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Privacy Act; implementation

Title Type Published
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is proposing to exempt one Privacy Act system of records. The system of records is QNRO-21, Personnel Security Files. The exemptions are intended to increase the value of the systems of records for law enforce...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

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 Jan 14, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
This notice is being issued under the authority of section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2160). The Department is providing notice of a proposed "subsequent arrangement" under the Agreement for Cooperation Between the Go...
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Algonquin LNG, Inc.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
East Tennessee Natural Gas Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
El Paso Electric Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Gulfstream Natural Gas System, L.L.C.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Maritimes Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Pacific Gas Electric Co. et al.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Questar Pipeline Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
SCG Pipeline, Inc.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Southern Natural Gas Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
TransColorado Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
PGE Dispersed Power Corp. et al.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Bonneville intends to prepare an EIS on the proposed construction, operation, and maintenance of an 84-mile-long 500- kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, and Spokane Counties, Washington. The new line would start at Bonneville...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs; State authority delegations:

Title Type Published
EPA has routinely approved most requests from state and local agencies in Region IX for delegation of New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs). This document is addressing general...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On January 2, 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD) announced an external peer review workshop to review the revised draft document entitled, "Perchlorate Environmental Contamination: Toxicolog...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Water supply:

Title Type Published
In this document, EPA is finalizing the Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT1ESWTR). The purposes of the LT1ESWTR are to improve control of microbial pathogens, specifically the protozoan Cryptosporidium, in drinking water and addres...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
The Commission, through this document, takes several steps towards implementation of 911 as the universal emergency assistance number for both wireline and wireless telephones. Specifically, the Commission adopts a maximum period for all carriers, se...
Rule Jan 14, 2002
This document completes the Commission's reexamination of the need for the Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) spectrum aggregation limit, or "spectrum cap," and cellular cross-interest rules as part of its 2000 biennial review of the Commission's...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This document advises interested persons of a meeting of the Public Safety National Coordination Committee ("NCC"), which will be held in Washington, DC. The Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, requires public notice of all...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
This document adopts streamlining procedures for processing applications for submarine cable landing licenses. The Commission initiated this proceeding to consider measures to facilitate the expansion of capacity and facilities-based competition in t...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Radio and television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
This document proposes new broadcast and cable Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) rules and policies. The document proposes to retain the Commission's ban on discrimination and to require broadcasters and cable entities to maintain an EEO program tha...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Radio frequency devices:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Commission's rules to allow the operation of fixed point-to-point transmitters in the 24.05-24.25 GHz band at field strengths of up to 2500 mV/m. Devices operating at these higher levels will be required to use highly directi...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Radio services, special:

Title Type Published
In this Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), the FCC proposes to amend Commission's rules to authorize Family Radio Service (FRS) units to transmit an additional emission type and to revise the permissible communications rule that applies to FRS un...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document requests comments on a petition filed by Starboard Broadcasting, Inc. proposing the allotment of Channel 244C3 at Boscobel, Wisconsin, as the community's first local transmission service. The coordinates for Channel 244C3 at Boscobel ar...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
This document makes a number of minor corrections to various part 76 rules pertaining to the public file, notice, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements which were published in the Federal Register of Tuesday, September 5, 2000 (65 FR 53610). This...
Rule Jan 14, 2002
This document announces the procedures and minimum opening bids for the upcoming auction of licenses in the Construction Permits for New Analog Television Stations scheduled for February 5, 2002.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission logo Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Title Type Published
This action withdraws a notice of proposed rulemaking that proposed adding a new procedural rule setting forth settlement procedures for cases that come before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. The new procedures were to be instit...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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 Jan 14, 2002
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 (the PRA)...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reclassifying the automated differential cell counter (ADCC) from class III (premarket approval) into class II (special controls). FDA is also identifying the guidance document entitled "Class II Special Cont...
Rule Jan 14, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is publishing a list of premarket approval applications (PMAs) that have been approved. This list is intended to inform the public of the availability of safety and effectiveness summaries of approved PMAs throu...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a document entitled "Guidance for Industry: Recommendations for Assessment of Donor Suitability and Blood and Blood Product Safety in Cases of Possible Exposure to Anthrax" date...
Notice Jan 14, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a publication containing modifications the agency is making to the list of standards FDA will recognize for use in premarket reviews (FDA Recognized Consensus Standards). This publication entitled...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Mississippi, (FEMA-1398-DR), dated December 7, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District, has approved a temporary deviation from the regulations governing the operation of the 63rd Street Bridge across Indian Creek, mile 4.0, Miami Beach, Miami- Dade County, Florida. This deviation allows the...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Flood elevation determinations:

Title Type Published
Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations and modified Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) are made final for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each community is required...
Rule Jan 14, 2002
This interim rule lists communities where modification of the Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. New flood insurance premium rates will be calculated from the modified BF...
Rule Jan 14, 2002
Modified Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) are finalized for the communities listed below. These modified elevations will be used to calculate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings and their contents.
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing temporary safety and security zones around the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Cape Cod Bay, Plymouth, MA from November 15, 2001 until June 15, 2002. The safety and security zones will temporarily close all waters withi...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, we are inviting comments on a collection of information that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The information collection request (ICR) is ti...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the re-opening of the comment period on the proposed listing of Lomatium cookii (Cook's lomatium) and Limnanthes floccosa ssp. grandiflora (large-flowered wooly meadowfoam) as endangered spec...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are reclassifying Scutellaria montana (large-flowered skullcap) from its present endangered status to threatened status under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), bec...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, this notice advises the public that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Portland Gen...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore Advisory Commission
Notice Jan 14, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Revised schedule for the subject investigations.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
In accordance with the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Commission has submitted a request for emergency processing for review and clearance of questionnaires to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Commission has requested OMB approval of this submission by COB March 11, 2002.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
The Commission has announced the schedule for its second annual report in investigation No. 332-427, U.S. Market Conditions for Certain Wool Articles, instituted under section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1332(g)) on February 12, 2001,...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
60-day notice of information collection under review: Extension of a currently approved collection; Procedures for the Administration of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Notice Jan 14, 2002
30-day notice of information collection under review: Medical Certification for Disability Exception.
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Immigration:

Title Type Published
On July 24, 1998, at 64 FR 39759, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register proposing to establish procedures for processing juveniles in Service custody. Specifically, the proposed rule se...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 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 p...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

N
National Science Foundation

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the following information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments regarding (a) whether the collection of inform...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Meetings:

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Transportation, in accordance with 49 CFR 1.47, delegated responsibility for aviation safety oversight to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA has proposed the development of Advisory Circular (AC) 00-xx, Internet Comm...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes, that requires initial and repetitive inspections of the elevator tab assembly to find any damage...
Rule Jan 14, 2002
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to certain Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon) Model 58P, 60, A60, B60, and 65-88 airplanes. This proposed AD would require you to install new exterior operating ins...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration proposes to amend the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes concerning miscellaneous flight requirements. Adopting this proposal would eliminate regulatory differences between the airworthiness s...
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Antidrug and alcohol misuse prevention programs for personnel engaged in specified aviation activities:

Title Type Published
The FAA has determined that the minimum random drug and alcohol testing percentage rates for the period January 1, 2002, through December 31, 2002, will remain at 25 percent of covered aviation employees for random drug testing and 10 percent of cove...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), as lead agency, in cooperation with the Trinity County Department of Transportation (TCDOT) and the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS), intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (E...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On December 6, 2000, the FAA issued proposed program guidance on Section 304 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation and Investment Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21), which authorizes a pilot program for cost-sharing of air traffic modernization proje...
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Pipeline safety:

Title Type Published
This final rule finalizes repair provisions for hazardous liquid pipelines. These provisions were initially proposed in the previous rulemaking action which addressed requirements for pipeline integrity management programs in high consequence areas f...
Rule Jan 14, 2002

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

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 Jan 14, 2002
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 Jan 14, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 14, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 14, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains a notice of public hearing on proposed rulemaking by cross-reference to temporary regulations relating to certain transfers of property to regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts.
Proposed Rule Jan 14, 2002

Merchandise, special classes:

Title Type Published
Bolivia; archaeological and ethnological materials; correction
Correction Jan 14, 2002

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