January 24, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register January 24, 2002

View all documents issued on January 24, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

117 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 24, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is increasing the fees that it charges meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, importers, and exporters for providing voluntary inspection services, overtime and holiday inspection services,...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

Cherries (tart) grown in

Title Type Published
This recommended decision invites written exceptions to proposed amendments to the marketing agreement and order for tart cherries grown in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. The amendments are based on those pr...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that it will hold a two-day public meeting on the use of epidemiological data, principles, and techniques, and other public health tools to help the Agency achieve its public health goals. T...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Caribou-Targhee National Forest's Eastern Idaho Resource Advisory...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), are sponsoring a publi...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
The Northwest Sacramento Provincial Advisory Committee (PAC) will meet on March 7, 2002 at Bureau of Land Management, 355 Hemsted Drive, Redding, California. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss issues relating to implementing the Northwest Fores...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

Title Type Published
We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the Karnal bunt regulations by adding Archer and Baylor Counties in Texas to the list of regulated areas. The interim rule, which followed the detection of bunted kernels i...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

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Amtrak Reform Council

Title Type Published
As provided in Section 203 of the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997 (Reform Act), the Amtrak Reform Council (Council) gives notice of a special public meeting of the Council. On Thursday, February 7, 2002, the Council will hold a Business...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
On November 19, 2001, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) published a Notice in the Federal Register inviting the public to submit comments on broadband deployment in the United States.\1\ Interested parties were req...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on petroleum wax candles from the People's Republic of China (PRC) in response to a request from Shanghai New Star Im/Ex Co., Ltd. (New Star)...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
On December 27, 2001, the United States Court of International Trade issued a final judgment with respect to the litigation in Nippon Steel Corp. v. United States, Consol. Ct. No. 99-08-00466. Slip Op. 01- 152 ("Nippon IV"). This case arises out of t...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit of the preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigations of certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products from Argentina, Brazil, France, and the Republic of Korea from Januar...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Atka mackerel with gears other than jig in the Eastern Aleutian District (Statistical Area (area) 541) and the Bering Sea subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is n...
Rule Jan 24, 2002
NMFS is notifying operators of registered vessels of their platoon assignments for the Atka mackerel fishery in harvest limit areas (HLA) in Statistical Area (area) 542 and/or 543 of the Aleutian Islands subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands...
Rule Jan 24, 2002
NMFS issues final specifications for the 2002 Atlantic herring fishery. The intent of the specifications is to conserve and manage the herring resource and provide for sustainable fisheries, and to comply with the provisions in the Fishery Management...
Rule Jan 24, 2002
NMFS issues this final rule to implement management measures contained in Framework Adjustment 1 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This final rule modifies the annual specification of herring quota for Management Area 1A by estab...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
Commercial items; subcontracts; CFR correction
Rule Jan 24, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The EIA has submitted the energy information collections listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and a three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 1...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to section 3506(c)(1)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend for three years, an information collection package with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The package covers collecti...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Environmental Management Advisory Board
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Consumer products; energy conservation program:

Title Type Published
This document publishes a Petition for Waiver to the Department of Energy (DOE or Department) water heater test procedure from the American Water Heater Company (American) regarding an adaptive thermostat control. American's Petition for Waiver reque...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho Operations Office (ID) is seeking applications for cost shared research and development (R&D) of technologies which will reduce energy consumption, enhance economic competitiveness, and reduce environmental i...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Fernald. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Feder...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs:

Title Type Published
With this action, due to the receipt of adverse comments, EPA is withdrawing two of the amendments to the requirements on variability in the composition of additives certified under the gasoline deposit control program that were included in the direc...
Rule Jan 24, 2002
In this action, EPA is proposing approval of the State of Colorado's request to relax the Federal Reid Vapor Pressure ("RVP") gasoline standard that applies to gasoline that is supplied to the Denver/Boulder area (hereafter "Denver area") from June 1...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002
In this direct final action, EPA is approving the State of Colorado's request to relax the federal Reid Vapor Pressure ("RVP") gasoline standard that applies to gasoline supplied to the Denver/ Boulder area (hereafter "Denver area") from June 1st to...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On January 2, 2002, EPA published a Federal Register notice (67 FR 75) announcing: the public availability, expected on January 9, 2002, of the revised draft document entitled, "Perchlorate Environmental Contamination: Toxicological Review and Risk C...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday (Proc. 7518)
Presidential Document Jan 24, 2002
National Mentoring Month (Proc. 7519)
Presidential Document Jan 24, 2002
National Sanctity of Human Life Day (Proc. 7520)
Presidential Document Jan 24, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission waives its procedures for filing requests for review from decisions of the Universal Service Administrative Company (Administrator) and petitions for reconsideration and applications for review that arise from such pr...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
US Rich Long, Inc., et al.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Jan 24, 2002

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

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Medical monitoring for New York personnel engaged in emergency response activities related to September 11, 2001 disaster
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is classifying the ingestible telemetric gastrointestinal capsule imaging system device into class II (special controls). The special controls that will apply to this device are set forth below. The agency is ta...
Rule Jan 24, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the regulatory review period for T-Scan 2000 and is publishing this notice of that determination as required by law. FDA has made the determination because of the submission of an application to t...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panels
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Genetic Testing, Secretary's Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Cancer Institute
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Cancer Institute
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Notice Jan 24, 2002

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 will be 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 proposa...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
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 Jan 24, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Management contract provisions:

Title Type Published
This document corrects part 542 of a proposed rule published in the Federal Register on December 26, 2001, regarding the Minimum Internal Control Standards. This correction remedies formatting changes made to the proposed rule and clarifies with whic...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002
Minimum internal control standards; correction
Correction Jan 24, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice of Information collection under review (extension of a currently approved collection); nomination for Young American Medal for Bravery.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Notice of information collection under review (extension of a currently approved collection); nomination for Young American Medal for Service.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Adjustment assistance and NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:

NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
A.O. Smith Electrical Products Co.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
CTI Audio, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Chemical Lime et al.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Collis, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Dunlap Sales, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Emerson Process Management
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Freightliner LLC
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Henry Manufacturing
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Intervet, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Lexmark International
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Midwest Garment Co.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Safety and health standards:

Title Type Published
The Agency is re-opening the record in the TB rulemaking to allow interested persons to review the National Academy of Sciences/ Institute of Medicine (NAS/IOM) report, "Tuberculosis in the Workplace" and the comments by the peer reviewers on OSHA's...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
LSC is conducting a Negotiated Rulemaking to consider revisions to its alien representation regulations at 45 CFR part 1626. This document announces the dates, times, and address of the next meeting of the working group, which is open to the public.
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

Merit Systems Protection Board logo Merit Systems Protection Board

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the members of the Performance Review Board.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
NCUA is soliciting public comment on a study by National Economic Research Associates (n/e/r/a), titled "The Evaluation of Credit Union Non-Maturity Deposits." NCUA intends to consider whether to use the study to prepare examiner guidance on the appr...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is confirming the effective date of January 28, 2002, for the direct final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of November 14, 2001 (66 FR 56982). This direct final rule amended the NRC's regulations by...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of application for an order under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") to amend a prior order that granted an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f-2 under the Act.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

State Department logo State Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of State has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Comments should be submitted to OMB within 30 days of...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
The Department of State has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Comments should be submitted to OMB within...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Nonproliferation measures:

Title Type Published
A determination has been made that three Chinese entities have engaged in activities that require the imposition of measures pursuant to section 3 of the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Generalized System of Preferences:

Title Type Published
The Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) provides this notice to identify the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) numbers of two articles proposed for designation or termination as GSP- eligible articles when imported from African Gr...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invite public comment on the release of land at the Abernathy Municipal Airport under the provisions of section 125 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR 21).
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration proposes to amend the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes concerning lower deck service compartments. The proposed amendment would require that two-way voice communication systems between lower...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

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 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Fuel economy standards:

Title Type Published
This document proposes to establish the corporate average fuel economy standard for light trucks manufactured in model year (MY) 2004. The establishment of the standard is required by statute. The proposed standard is 20.7 mpg.
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

Seaway regulations and rules:

Title Type Published
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) and the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) of Canada, under international agreement, jointly publish and presently administer the St. Lawrence Seaway Regulations and Rules (Pra...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

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 24, 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 24, 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 24, 2002

Customhouse broker license cancellation, suspension, etc.:

Title Type Published
The following Customs broker license was erroneously included in a list of revoked Customs broker licenses. The license listed below was not revoked; it was cancelled due to death of the license holder.
Notice Jan 24, 2002
Pursuant to section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930 as amended (19 USC 1641) and the Customs Regulations [19 CFR 111.45(a)], the following Customs broker license is revoked by operation of law.
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document describes and explains rules and standards that the IRS and Treasury Department expect to propose in 2002 in a notice of proposed rulemaking that will clarify the application of section 263(a) of the Internal Revenue Code to expenditure...
Proposed Rule Jan 24, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Office of Acquisition and Materiel Management, Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted the collection of information abstract...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted the collection of information abstracted belo...
Notice Jan 24, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted the collection of information abstracted belo...
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Veterans Readjustment Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 24, 2002

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
This document delegates to certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials authority to supervise and control the operation of the administrative Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Discrimination Complaint Processing System; to make procedural...
Rule Jan 24, 2002

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