February 20, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register February 20, 2002

View all documents issued on February 20, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

91 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 20, 2002

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Agency information collection activities:

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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is making efforts to reduce the paperwork burden. USAID invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following proposed and/or continuing informatio...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The USDA, Forest Service will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for weed treatments on the Helena National Forest including wilderness and roadless areas. The treatment plan will utilize an integrated pest management approach, utilizing...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Livestock and poultry disease control:

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We are amending the regulations regarding the payment of indemnity for animals destroyed because of bovine tuberculosis to provide that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will pay owners of the animals an indemnity equal to the difference...
Rule Feb 20, 2002

Meetings:

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The Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests Resource Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, March 7, 2002 and Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council building, main conference room, 2363 SW Glacier Place, Redmond, Ore...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
The Hood/Willamette Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on Friday, March 8, 2002. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and will conclude at approximately 4 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Salem Office of the Bureau of Land Managem...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board logo Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

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On August 13, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the Department) publishedthe preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Germany. This review covers one manufacturer/...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Endangered and threatened species:

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On October 13, 2000, NMFS received a petition dated October 4, 2000, requesting that NMFS revise the present critical habitat designation for the northern right whale under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by designating a new area within the eastern...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will meet Tuesday, March 5, 2002, from 8:25 a.m. to 5:1...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board (CSSPAB) will meet Tuesday, March 5, 2002, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 6, 2002, from 9 a...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
The International Code Council (ICC), promulgator of the International Codes and Standards, maintains a process for updating the entire family of International Codes based on receipt of proposals from interested individuals and organizations involved...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Practice and procedure:

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issues this final rule to remove and reserve regulations concerning the policies and procedures relating to the disclosure of information and employee testimony in litigation not involving th...
Rule Feb 20, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The Air Force issued a Record of Decision (ROD) on February 8, 2002, to expand the land area of the existing Hardwood Air-to-Surface Gunnery Range. The decision supports high altitude restricted military training airspace, low altitude restricted mil...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans (Commission). This notice also describes the functions of the Commission. Notice...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Cinergy Services, Inc., et al.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Electricity export and import authorizations, permits, etc.:

Title Type Published
Maclaren Energy Inc. (Maclaren) has applied for authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Floodplain and wetlands protection; environmental review determinations; availability, etc.:

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The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Los Alamos Site Operations hereby provides notice for its proposal to decontaminate and demolish the Omega West Reactor vessel along with the remaining structures associat...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Financial Assistance Solicitation No. DE-PS26-02NT15373 entitled "Focused Research in Air Quality and Produced Water Management in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production." The Department of Energy (DOE) N...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the DOE Financial Assistance Rules, 10 CFR 600.8, is announcing its intention to solicit applications from State and Local Partnerships under the Million Solar Roofs (MSR) Program. DOE's Office of Ener...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the DOE Financial Assistance Rules, 10 CFR 600.8, is announcing its intention to solicit applications for the development of renewable energy on Tribal lands. Through cooperative agreements, DOE intend...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Correction.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Rocky Flats. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meeting be announced in the Fe...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Acquisition regulations:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to amend the EPA Acquisition Regulation to revise its policy and procedures regarding the evaluation of contractor performance. This action is necessary because EPA's current regulation eliminate...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2002

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
Under titles IV and V of the Act, State and local air permitting authorities develop and administer acid rain programs as part of their title V operating permits programs. The state and local permitting authorities listed in this notice submitted aci...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Pesticides; experimental use permits, etc.:

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This notice announces receipt of an application to amend 524- EUP-93 from Monsanto Company requesting an experimental use permit (EUP) for the plant-pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Bb protein and the genetic material necessary for its production...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
EPA has granted experimental use permits (EUPs) to the following pesticide applicants. An EUP permits use of a pesticide for experimental or research purposes only in accordance with the limitations in the permit.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 is issuing a notice of intent to partially delete the subunits A and B, residential waste rock piles, and parks and playgrounds within Operable Unit 9 of the California Gulch Superfund Site (Site), l...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2002
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 is publishing a direct final notice of partial deletion of the subunits A and B, residential waste rock piles, and the parks and playgrounds within Operable Unit 9 (OU 9) of the California Gulch Supe...
Rule Feb 20, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
Future Maritime Group Inc. et al.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Feb 20, 2002

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration (GSA) is republishing for additional public comment, policy guidance on Title VI's prohibition against national origin discrimination as it affects limited English proficient persons.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
This notice provides lists of all areas, population groups, and facilities designated as primary medical care, mental health, and dental health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) as of May 23, 2001. HPSAs are designated or withdrawn by the Secretary...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a hearing on a proposal to withdraw approval of a new animal drug application (NADA). In the Federal Register of October 31, 2000 (65 FR 64954), the Director of FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) announces the availability of FY 2002 funds for grants for the following activity. This notice is not a complete description of the activi...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its determination that azathioprine 25-milligram (mg) tablet (Imuran) was not withdrawn from sale for reasons of safety or effectiveness. This determination will allow FDA to approve abbreviated ne...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is withdrawing approval of 34 abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs). The holders of the applications notified the agency in writing that the drug products were no longer marketed and requested that the appro...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing three actions that will provide consistent regulation of dental mercury and dental amalgam products. FDA is proposing to issue a separate classification regulation for encapsulated amalgam alloy and...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Current status and experience with program operations
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary's Advisory Committee on Regulatory Reform. This amended notice includes the exact address for the hearing. As governed by the Federal Advisory C...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Scientific Counselors Board
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled "Special Control Guidance Document on Encapsulated Amalgam, Amalgam Alloy, and Dental Mercury Labeling." This draft guidance is neither final nor is...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Exercise- Induced Bronchospasm (EIB)--Development of Drugs to Prevent EIB." The draft guidance is intended to assist sponsors in developi...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

No documents available.

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this request for comments announces that the Coast Guard has forwarded four Information Collection Reports (ICRs) abstracted below to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of t...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Aviation and Transportation Security Act:

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) and its working groups will meet as required to discuss various issues relating to shallow-draft inland and coastal waterway navigation and towing safety. All meetings will be open to the public.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing moving and fixed security zones extending 100 yards around all cruise ships and tank ships that enter, are moored in, or depart from the San Francisco Bay and Delta ports, California. This security zone is needed for n...
Rule Feb 20, 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 Feb 20, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The fiscal year 2001 HUD Appropriations Act provided $32,450,000 in Fiscal Year 2001 funds for activities authorized in section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993. Twenty-five million dollars of these funds is appropriated to the Enterprise Found...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a meeting of the Klamath Fishery Management Council, established under the authority of the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restoration...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Mojave Southern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC), Nev...
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Notice is hereby given that the next meeting of the Southwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will be held March 6, 2002 at the Ouray Community Center located at 320 6th Avenue in Ouray, Colorado. Notice is also given that the next meeting o...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Power rate adjustments:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) determined, after public input, that the proposed P-SMBP project use power rate of 10.76 mils/kWh is approved and will become effective 30 days after this notice is published.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Cedarburg Pharmaceutical LLC
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Roche Diagnostics Corp.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by revising the Major Breach of Safety or Security clause to more clearly state that a major breach of security is an act or omission by the contractor that results in various outcomes (compromise...
Rule Feb 20, 2002
This final rule amends the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) to revise the criteria for incrementally funding contracts and establish dollar thresholds for incremental funding and deobligations under contracts. These changes will further limit the number of...
Rule Feb 20, 2002

O
Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), agencies are required to publish a Notice in the Federal Register notifying the public that the Agency is preparing an information collection request for OMB review and appro...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

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 will publish periodic summaries of prop...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of Application for Exemption under Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), for an exemption from the provisions of Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a) and 15(b) of the 1940 Act, and Rules 6e-2(b)(15) and 6e-3(T)(b)(15), thereunder.
Notice Feb 20, 2002
Notice of Application for an Order Pursuant to section 11(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Act") approving the terms of an offer of exchange.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Securities:

Title Type Published
Eagle Building Technologies, Inc.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Meetings:

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is providing this notice pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality's regulations (40 CFR 1500-1508), TVA's procedures implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, and section 106 of the National Hist...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

African Growth and Opportunity Act; implementation:

Title Type Published
The United States Trade Representative has determined that Mozambique has adopted an effective visa system and related procedures to prevent unlawful transshipment and the use of counterfeit documents in connection with shipments of textile and appar...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announces a fee that will be imposed on air carriers and foreign air carriers engaged in air transportation, foreign air transportation, and intrastate air transportation effective February 18, 2002. F...
Rule Feb 20, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

No documents available.

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Model OH-13E, OH-13H, and OH-13S helicopters manufactured by Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (BHTI). That AD currently requires either recurring liquid penetrant or eddy current ins...
Rule Feb 20, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bombardier Model DHC-8-400 series airplanes, that requires a modification and a replacement affecting the fuel tanks in the wings. All affected airplanes require modifica...
Rule Feb 20, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 series airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections for cracking of the left and right lower wing planks, and repair, if necessary. The ac...
Rule Feb 20, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Dornier Model 328-100 and -300 series airplanes, that requires testing of the left- and right-hand potentiometer levers of the aileron flight control system, and follow-o...
Rule Feb 20, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), that is applicable to Honeywell International Inc. (formerly AlliedSignal Inc. and Textron Lycoming) LTS101 series turboshaft and LTP101 series turboprop engines. This amendment requires a one...
Rule Feb 20, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Short Brothers Model SD3-60, SD3-60 SHERPA, and SD3- SHERPA series airplanes, that requires a one-time inspection of the wiring harness and power cables of the heated windshi...
Rule Feb 20, 2002

Aviation and Transportation Security Act:

Title Type Published
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announces its assumption of civil aviation security functions and responsibilities, as provided by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Effective February 17, 2002, civil aviation security fun...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Meetings:

No documents available.

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury"), invites all interested parties to comment on its continuing collection of information through its "Designation of Exempt Person" form that is used by banks and other depository ins...
Notice Feb 20, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains proposed regulations relating to golden parachute payments to provide guidance to taxpayers who must comply with section 280G. Proposed regulations under section 280G were previously published in the Federal Register on May 5,...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2002
This document changes the date of the public hearing on the proposed regulations that relate to requirements for retirement plans providing catch-up contributions to individuals age 50 or older pursuant to the provisions of section 414(v) and superce...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Florida Citizen Advocacy Panel will be held in Sunrise, Florida.
Notice Feb 20, 2002

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