February 25, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register February 25, 2002

View all documents issued on February 25, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

122 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 25, 2002

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation logo Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

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Notice is hereby given that the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will meet on Friday, March 1, 2002. The meeting will be held in Room M09 at the Old Post Office Building, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC beginning at 8:30 a.m. T...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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We are amending the Plant Protection and Quarantine Treatment Manual, which is incorporated by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations, to allow containers, construction equipment without cabs, and farm equipment without cabs used in golden ne...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has made a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) with respect to a request from Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) for assistance from RUS to finance the construction and operat...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
We are advising the public that an environmental assessment has been prepared for a proposed decision to extend to additional canola events our determination that certain canola events developed by Aventis CropScience, which have been genetically eng...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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This document provides notice of cancellation of the intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposal to harvest timber, prescribe burn, and improve wildlife habitat on the Pacific Ranger District.
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposal to acquire approximately 3,994 acres of Sierra Pacific Industries Corporation land in exchange for 2,126 acres of National Forest System land. The purpose of...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The Forest Service will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposal to drill for and develop conventional oil and gas resources with one (1) well on National Forest System lands in Campbell County, Wyoming. The well would be located...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Field office technical guides; changes:

Title Type Published
It is the intention of NRCS in Delaware to issue the following new and revised conservation practice standard in Section IV of the FOTG: Nutrient Management (Code 590).
Notice Feb 25, 2002
It is the intention of NRCS in Oklahoma to issue new and revised conservation practice standards in Section IV of the FOTG. The standards are Deep Tillage (324), Riparian Herbaceous Cover (390), and Riparian Forest Buffer (391), Waste Utilization (63...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the availability of housing funds for fiscal year 2002 (FY 2002). This action is taken to comply with 42 U.S.C. 1490p, which requires that RHS publish in the Federal Register notice of the availability of any...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS), an Agency within the Rural Development mission area, announces the availability of grants of up to $50,000 per application from the Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG) Program for fiscal year (FY) 200...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
This NOFA announces the timeframe to submit applications for section 514 Farm Labor Housing loan funds and section 516 Farm Labor Housing grant funds for new construction and acquisition and rehabilitation of off-farm units for farmworker households....
Notice Feb 25, 2002
This NOFA announces the timeframe to submit applications for section 515 Rural Rental Housing (RRH) loan funds and section 521 Rental Assistance (RA) for new construction, including applications for the nonprofit set-aside for eligible nonprofit enti...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces that it is soliciting competitive applications under its Housing Preservation Grant (HPG) program. The HPG program is a grant program which provides qualified public agencies, private nonprofit organizations,...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
This Notice of Fund Availability (NOFA or Notice) announces the timeframe, submission requirements and deadlines to submit proposals in the form of "NOFA responses" for the section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program (GRRHP)for the Fiscal Yea...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Meetings:

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The Deschutes Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on March 14, 2002 at the Crook County Library, Broughton Room, 200 E. 2nd Street in Prineville, Oregon. A business meeting will begin at 9:00 am and finish at 4:00 pm. Agenda items will include a...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Sierra National Forest's Resource Advisory Committee for...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
An Opal Creek Scenic Recreation Area Advisory Council meeting will convene in Stayton, Oregon on Monday, March 18, 2002. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., and will conclude at approximately 8:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the South R...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The Siuslaw Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on March 8, 2002. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m., in the Hatfield Marine Sciences Center, Room 9, at 2030 SW Marine Sciences Drive, Newport, OR. Agenda item will include: a review of projec...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Poultry improvement:

Title Type Published
We are amending the National Poultry Improvement Plan (the Plan) and its auxiliary provisions by providing new or modified sampling and testing procedures for Plan participants and participating flocks. These changes, which were voted on and approved...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has scheduled its regular business meetings to take place in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 12-13, 2002, at the times and location noted below.
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On July 11, 2001, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain helical spring lock washers from the People's Republic of China. We gave interested parties an opport...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limits for the preliminary results of the 2000-2001 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Germany. This review covers one...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
On December 19, 2000, the Department of Commerce published a retraction of the amended final results of reviews for the respondent- company FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schaefer AG with respect to the antidumping duty orders on antifriction bearings (other...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Hungary and Portugal
Notice Feb 25, 2002
On August 1, 2001, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on Large Newspaper Printing Presses ("LNPPs") and Components Thereof, Whether Assembled or Unassembled, from Japan and Germany. O...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
In response to a request from the petitioner, Columbian Home Products, LLC, that the Department of Commerce revoke the antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel cookware from Mexico, we are initiating a changed-circumstances administrative review...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS issues this proposed rule to implement Amendment 11 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico (Amendment 11), as prepared and submitted by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. This proposed rule would...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene public meetings.
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following actions regarding permits for takes of endangered and threatened species for the purposes of scientific research and/or enhancement under the Endangered Species Act (ESA): NMFS has received a request to modify...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The National Marine Fisheries Service is reopening the comment period for the application submitted by Funtime, Inc. d/b/a Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, 1060 North Aurora Road, Aurora, OH 44202, to import two killer whales (Orcinus orca) for the pur...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
Nationwide permits (NWP); issuance, reissuance, and modifications; correction
Correction Feb 25, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) Board of Visitors will hold a meeting to review and discuss academic policies and issues relative to the operation of the college. Agenda items include a review of the operations of the CCAF and an update...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

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 Feb 25, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The EIA is soliciting comments on the proposed revision and three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 of the surveys in the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package. The surveys covered by this request fo...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Financial Assistance Solicitation No. DE-PS26-02NT41450 entitled Mining Industry of the Future/mineral Processing Technologies. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT)...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("Act"), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree which was lodged with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by the U...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Air programs; approval and promulgation; State plans for designated facilities and pollutants:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the Section 111(d)/129 Plan submitted by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the purpose of implementing and enforcing the Emission Guidelines (EG) for existing Hospital/Medical/Infect...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

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

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compound (VOC) em...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

Water pollution; effluent guidelines for point source categories:

Title Type Published
This action presents the Agency's proposed effluent limitations guidelines and standards for wastewater discharges from meat and poultry processing facilities. The proposed regulation revises technology-based effluent limitations guidelines and stand...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

No documents available.

Frequency allocations and radio treaty matters:

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Feb 25, 2002

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the compl...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Interagency Committee for Medical Records:

Title Type Published
With GSA's approval, the Interagency Committee of Medical Records (ICMR) eliminated the requirement that every electronic version of a medical Standard/Optional form be reviewed and granted an exception. The following fields must appear on the electr...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Government Accountability Office logo Government Accountability Office

Title Type Published
The General Accounting Office (GAO) is reviewing, and will be revising, its Bid Protest Regulations, promulgated in accordance with the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984. GAO last revised Part 21 in 1996, and believes that developments since tha...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

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 an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Food additive petitions:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the withdrawal, without prejudice to a future filing, of a food additive petition (FAP 2B3593), filed by Abbott Laboratories, proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the regulatory review period for Celexa 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 the Co...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the regulatory review period for Menicon Z Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lens and is publishing this notice of that determination as required by law. FDA has made the determination because of the su...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

No documents available.

Aviation security infrastructure fees

No documents available.

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the drawbridge operation regulations for the SR1A Bridge, mile 0.0, across the Hampton River in New Hampshire. This deviation from the regulations, effective from Februa...
Rule Feb 25, 2002
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the drawbridge operation regulations for the Witt-Penn (Route 7) Bridge, mile 3.1, across the Hackensack River at Jersey City, New Jersey. This temporary deviation will...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
A meeting of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2002, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Business Session will be held at the Department of State, Washington, DC. The agenda is a...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 12- month finding for a petition to list the Big Cypress fox squirrel (Sciurus niger avicennia) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). After a review of all available scient...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Applications are invited for research projects under the NEHRP. The purpose of this Program is to support the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program by providing products for earthquake loss reduction to the public and private sectors and by carrying out re...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the date of the March 14, 2002 meeting of the Gettysburg National Military Park Advisory Commission.
Notice Feb 25, 2002
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770, 5 U.S.C. App1, section 10), notice is hereby given that the National Wildlife Refuge System Centennial Commission will hold its first meeting.
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Public land orders:

Title Type Published
This order withdraws a 0.57-acre parcel of public land from surface entry and mining to protect a Bureau of Land Management wildland fire station site. The land is located within the incorporated city of Carlin, Nevada, and is not subject to the Mine...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Resource management plans, etc.:

Title Type Published
The BLM Rawlins Field Office is initiating a revision of the Great Divide Resource Management Plan (RMP) to guide future management actions on the public lands within the Rawlins Field Office administrative (or management) area. The existing Great Di...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The BLM Pinedale Field Office is initiating a revision of the Pinedale Resource Management Plan (RMP) to guide future management actions on the public lands within the Pinedale Field Office administrative (or management) area. The existing Pinedale R...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Special regulations:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS) is adopting this final rule to designate as snowmobile routes on NPS administered Appalachian National Scenic Trail lands, portions of snowmobile trails that are part of a State-approved network of snowmobile routes an...
Rule Feb 25, 2002
This rule amends the regulations for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (WRST) by adding the communities of Dot Lake, Healy Lake, Northway (including Northway, Northway Village and Northway Junction), Tanacross, and Tetlin to the park subsistence resid...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
The Legal Services Corporation ("Corporation") is required by law to establish maximum income levels for individuals eligible for legal assistance. This document updates the specified income levels to reflect the annual amendments to the Federal Pove...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
NARA is giving public notice that the agency has submitted to OMB for approval the information collection described in this notice. The public is invited to comment on the proposed information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 199...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

N
National Science Foundation

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request clearance of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we are providing opportunity for p...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request renewed clearance of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing opportunity for public com...
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request renewal of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we are providing opportunity for pub...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The NRC is convening a workshop to more fully explore the potential use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in its enforcement program. This workshop is in response to the notice published in the Federal Register on December 14, 2001; 66 FR 64890...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 25, 2002
The Postal Service is proposing to amend its regulations in order to implement section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. Section 508 requires Federal agencies to ensure that the electronic and information technology (EIT) they procur...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 25, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to issue program announcement No. OWBO-99-012, as amended by OWBO-2000-15, to invite applications from private, not-for-profit organizations to conduct a Women's Business Center (WBC) project in the State...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

State Department logo State Department

Passport travel restrictions, U.S.:

Visas; immigrant and nonimmigrant documentation:

Title Type Published
Recent legislation, commonly known as the USA Patriot Act, requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to give the Department access to certain of its criminal history record and other databases, conditioned in certain instances upon the Depar...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This notice is provided in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) procedures implementing the National Environmental Policy Act. In response to recom...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

No documents available.

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended), this notice announces the Department of Transportation's (DOT) intention to request the extension of a previously approved collection.
Notice Feb 25, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The nature...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Boeing Model 727 series airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections for cracking of the upper chord of the rear spar of the wing, and corrective action, if necessary. Thi...
Rule Feb 25, 2002

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
This notice proposes special conditions for Airbus Industries Model A340-500 and -600 airplanes. These airplanes will have a novel or unusual design feature when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transp...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002
This notice proposes special conditions for the Fairchild Dornier GmbH Model 728-100 airplane. This airplane will have a novel or unusual design feature when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport...
Proposed Rule Feb 25, 2002

Aviation security infrastructure fees

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Feb 25, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the decision by NHTSA that 1998 Chrysler Grand Voyager MPVs not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards are eligible for importation into the United States because they are su...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) policy on flammability testing of materials used in small airplanes. This notice advises the public, especially manufacturers of normal, utility, and acrobatic category airplanes, and comm...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

No documents available.

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The OCC, 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 a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduct...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
Controlled corporations; recognition of gain on certain distributions of stock or securities in connection with acquisition; correction
Correction Feb 25, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Real property; enhanced-use leases:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is designating VA-controlled property adjacent to the VA Ambulatory Care Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a site for Enhance-Use development. The Department intends to enter into a long-term (up...
Notice Feb 25, 2002

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