March 5, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register March 5, 2002

View all documents issued on March 5, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

115 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 5, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of the regulations governing the impo...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Boundary establishment, descriptions, etc.:

Title Type Published
The USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, is transmitting the final Boundaries of the Big Sur, Sisquoc, and Sespe National Wild and Scenic River to Congress.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Regional Forester, Eastern Region, hereby delegates the authority to grant FRTA easements, to public road agencies, to all Forest Supervisors in the Easter Region, Forest Service. Forest Supervisors are also authorized to terminate FRTA easements...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Federally owned invention disclosed in Patent Cooperation Treaty Application PCT/US01/45457, "Cucurbitacin-Containing Insecticidal Compositions," filed October 24, 2001, is available for licensing and that the U.S. Dep...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Notice is hereby given that the large-seeded Kabuli chickpea variety designated "Sierra," which is resistant to ascochyta blight, is available for licensing and that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Tobacco inspection:

Title Type Published
This rule establishes procedures which the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will use in conducting a referenda among producers of each kind of tobacco that is eligible for price support to determine whether they favor mandatory grading of that k...
Rule Mar 05, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burdens, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the continuing information collections, as required...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burdens, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the continuing information collections, as required...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
China
Notice Mar 05, 2002
In response to a request by KBA North America, Inc., Web Press Division, a U.S. producer of subject merchandise and an interested party in this proceeding, on November 5, 2001, the Department of Commerce initiated a changed circumstances review to co...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The Department of Commerce ("the Department") is extending the time limit of the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review of stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Italy.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Italy
Notice Mar 05, 2002
On November 15, 2001, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review for a revocation of the antidumping duty order on certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat pro...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces the opening directed fishing for sablefish with fixed gear managed under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program. The season will open 1200 hrs, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), March 18, 2002, and will close 1200 hrs, A.l.t., November 1...
Rule Mar 05, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites interested parties to attend the Hampton University's Second Annual Technology Conference co-sponsored by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) and Hampton University, Hampton, Virgini...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Watches and watch movements; allocation of duty-exemptions:

Title Type Published
This action allocates calendar year 2002 duty-exemptions for watch producers located in the Virgin Islands pursuant to Pub. L. 97- 446, as amended by Pub. L. 103-465 ("the Act").
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation") has submitted a public information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduc...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Elementary and secondary education:

Title Type Published
On February 28, 2002 a notice of meetings to conduct a negotiated rulemaking process relating to improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged was published in the Federal Register (67 FR 9223). This document corrects the address of the mee...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services proposes priorities for one or more Burn Model Systems (BMS) Projects and one Burn Data Center under the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program of the N...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services proposes funding a priority for a Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) Program under the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program for the National...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Woronoco Hydro, LLC
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the American Statistical Association Committee on Energy Statistics, a utilized Federal Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meet...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Better stakeholder involvement: How to make it work; workshop
Notice Mar 05, 2002
This notice announces a meeting of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to the International Energy Agency (IEA) will meet March 12-15, 2002, at the headquarters of the IEA in Paris, France in connection with the IEA's Disruption Simulation Exercise Program (ERE2).
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval; National...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement agreement in American Foundrymen's Society, et al. v. EPA, No. 00-1208 (D.C. Circuit). This case concerns the Natio...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) will have a teleconference meeting on March 20, 2002, at 11 A.M. EST to discuss the ideas and views presented at the previous ELAB meetings, as well as new business....
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), Region II, o...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission published a document in the Federal Register on February 15, 2002 announcing a meeting of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council to be held on Monday, March 22. The document incorrectly specified th...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Radio and television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
This document solicits comments on how the Commission should allocate and license "non-reserved" spectrum (i.e., spectrum that has not been set aside for exclusive use by noncommercial educational broadcast stations) in which both commercial and nonc...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission published in the Federal Register of February 22, 2002, a document concerning updating the FM Table of Allotments for Section 73.202(b). The effective date was published incorrectly. This document corrects the ef...
Rule Mar 05, 2002
This document allots Channel 239C2 to Rule, Texas, as that community's first local aural transmission service, in response to a petition for rule making filed by Katherine Pyeatt. See 66 FR 42621, August 14, 2001. The allotment of Channel 239C2 at Ru...
Rule Mar 05, 2002

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is amending its regulations to implement the provisions of Title VI of the Gramm- Leach-Bliley Act, Pub. L. 106-102 (1999) and to establish rules of practice and procedure governing hearings on the re...
Rule Mar 05, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Industry guides:

Title Type Published
The Commission published a Federal Register document initiating the regulatory review of the Federal Trade Commission's ("Commission") Guides for the Household Furniture Industry ("Furniture Guides" or "Guides"). The Commission has now completed its...
Rule Mar 05, 2002
The Commission has completed its review of the Guide Concerning Fuel Economy Advertising for New Automobiles ("Fuel Guide"), and announces its decision to retain the Guide.
Rule Mar 05, 2002
The Commission has completed its review of the Guides for the Rebuilt, Reconditioned and Other Used Automobile Parts Industry ("Used Auto Parts Guides" or "Guides") and has determined to retain the Guides with updated language and minor revisions.
Rule Mar 05, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet standards of Subpart C of Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (59 FR 29916, 29925). A notice listing al...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Health Professions and Nurse Education Special Emphasis Panels; correction
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Nurse Education and Practice National Advisory Council
Notice Mar 05, 2002

National Toxicology Program:

Title Type Published
Ethylene glycol and propylene glycol; expert panel evaluation
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to establish a new system of records. The proposed system is titled "Claims Payment System For Medicare's "Healthy Aging" Demonstration Project (CPS-HA), HHS/CMS/CBC, Sy...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

State Children's Health Insurance Program:

Title Type Published
In order to provide prenatal care and other health services, this proposed rule would revise the definition of "child" under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to clarify that an unborn child may be considered a "targeted low-incom...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to amend its commercial vessel regulations to provide consistency in the requirements for servicing of inflatable liferafts and inflatable buoyant apparatus (IBA). We are proposing this rule to eliminate an unnecessary burden...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has submitted the following proposed information collection to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C....
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route, RI et al.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Outer Continental Shelf; oil, gas, and sulphur operations::

Title Type Published
This notice announces the 2002 Industry Awards Program and Luncheon. This is the 20th year that MMS will honor outstanding companies for their exemplary safety and pollution prevention records, and is the fourth year for our MMS-wide industry awards...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Watches and watch movements; allocation of duty-exemptions:

No documents available.

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Notice of closed meeting.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
60-Day notice of information collection under review; Application for waiver of passport and/or visa; Form I-193.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
30-Day notice of information collection under review: Employment authorization document; Form I-765.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Notice of information collection under review: new collection; Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) Sexual Assault Crime Analysis Report.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
60-Day notice information collection under review: New collection: needs assessment for service providers of trafficking victims telephone survey.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
CHM Wholesale Co.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Denver Wholesale
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Epps, Daniel E., Jr.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
ISP Freetown Fine Chemicals
Notice Mar 05, 2002
North American Group
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Paragon Associates
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Performance Construction, Inc.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
State Petroleum, Inc.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Transtar Distributors, Inc.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Yemen Wholesale Tobacco Candy Supply, Inc.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Announcement of a meeting of the Global Justice Information Network Federal Advisory Committee to discuss the Global Initiative, as described in Initiative A07 "Access America: Re-Engineering Through Information Technology."
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Safety and health standards:

Title Type Published
On January 24, 2002, OSHA re-opened the rulemaking record (67 FR 3465) for 60 days to submit to the record the Agency's final draft risk assessment, peer review reports on the draft final risk assessment, and the National Academy of Sciences/Institut...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instru...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Ac...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The NRC is preparing a submittal to OMB for review of continued approval of information collections under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Information pertaining to the requirement to be submitted: 1. The...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under: (a) Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") requesting an exemption from sections 12(d)(3) and 17(e) of the Act and rule 17e-1 under the Act; (b) sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act requesting an exemption from section 17(a) of the Act; and (c) section 10(f) of the Act requesting an exemption from section 10(f) of the Act.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a computer matching program that SSA plans to conduct.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Department of State has imposed statutory debarment pursuant to Sec. 127.7(c) of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ("ITAR") (22 CFR 120 to 130) on persons convicted of violating or conspiring to violate sec...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Cultural property:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Under 49 U.S.C. 10502, the Board is granting a petition for exemption from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323-25 for Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad, Inc., to acquire trackage rights over certain lines of railroad in the vicin...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Railroad services abandonment:

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Lobbying; new restrictions:

Title Type Published
The Tennessee Valley Authority is amending its rules regarding restrictions on lobbying to make inflation adjustments in the range of civil monetary penalties it may assess against persons who violate these rules. These adjustments are required by th...
Rule Mar 05, 2002

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on March 22, 2002, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The meeting will be closed to the public from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The meeting will include a review and discussion of current issues wh...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

World Trade Organization:

Title Type Published
The Office of the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") is providing notice that on January 11, 2002, India requested consultations with the United States under the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes ("DS...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

No documents available.

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
This notice seeks comments from the public regarding the need for RSPA to collect paperwork information from state agencies that maintain programs to regulate pipelines. The purpose of the paperwork requested from the state agencies is to ensure that...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
This notice seeks comments from the public regarding the need for RSPA to collect paperwork from gas service line operators to ensure that customers receiving gas pipeline service are aware of the availability of excess flow valves (EFV's). This noti...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
This notice seeks comments from the public regarding the need for RSPA to collect paperwork information from gas distribution service line operators to ensure that those operators who do not maintain all of their piping notify their customers that th...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The BTS announces that two Information Collection Requests (ICR) described in this notice have been sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The BTS is requesting OMB's renewal of the information collections required...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
This notice seeks comments from the public regarding the need for RSPA to collect paperwork information from gas pipeline operators. The purpose of the paperwork requested from gas operators is to ensure that these operators are properly operating an...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
This notice seeks comments from the public regarding the need for RSPA to collect paperwork information from liquefied natural gas operators to ensure that these operators are properly operating and maintaining their facilities. This notice is publis...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Airport noise compatibility program:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its determination that the noise exposure maps submitted by Airport District No. 1, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, for Lake Charles Regional Airport under the provisions of title 49 U.S.C, chapter 475...
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
In this final rule, RSPA is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) by revising the "List of Hazardous Substances and Reportable Quantities" that appears in the table, "Hazardous Substances other than Radionuclides". This action is require...
Rule Mar 05, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Coordinating Council on Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at its headquarters. The meeting runs from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The General Session includes the following items:...
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 199: Airport Security Access Control Systems.
Notice Mar 05, 2002
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 198: Next-Generation Air/Ground Communications System (NEXCOM).
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
The Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation Act of 2000 mandates a rulemaking proceeding to revise and update our safety performance requirements for tires. In response, this document proposes to establish new and more st...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Mar 05, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document cancels the public hearing on proposed regulations that define the term statutory merger or consolidation as that term is used in section 368(a)(1)(A).
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Procedure and administration:

Title Type Published
This document contains proposed regulations relating to civil causes of action for damages caused by unlawful collection actions of officers and employees of the IRS and the awarding of costs and certain fees. The proposed regulations reflect amendme...
Proposed Rule Mar 05, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Special Medical Advisory Group
Notice Mar 05, 2002
Women Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 05, 2002

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