April 9, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register April 9, 2002

View all documents issued on April 9, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

110 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 9, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is amending its regulations for the Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program (GRRHP). The Housing Act of 1949, which authorizes RHS to administer GRRHP, was amended on December 27, 2000. The intended effect of this fina...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension of information collection for the "Customer Service Comment Card," a tool used to monito...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Electric loans:

Title Type Published
This final rule revises the manner in which the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) notifies Borrowers of the schedule of interest rates for municipal rate loans. RUS will post the quarterly interest rates for municipal rate loans on the RUS website at the...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to eliminate the requirement to use depreciation rates as found in Bulletin 183-1, for determining the useful life of a facility. If the proposed useful life of a facility is deemed inappropriate by RUS, oth...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the availability of $19 million in national competitive grant funds to be administered in accordance with this Notice, 7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(20), and the Community Facilities grant program (7 CFR part 3570, subpar...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Hass avocado promotion, research, and information order:

Title Type Published
This document directs that a referendum be conducted among eligible producers and importers of Hass avocados to determine whether they favor implementation of the Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order).
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Tree-Marking Paint Committee will meet in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 14-16, 2002. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss activities related to improvements in, concerns about, and the handling and use of tree-marking paint by personne...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

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Air Transportation Stabilization Board

Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act:

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These regulations are issued by the Air Transportation Stabilization Board under section 102(c)(2)(B) of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, which authorizes the Air Transportation Stabilization Board to issue supplemental reg...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
E.I. duPont de Nemours Co., Inc.; chemical product manufacturing and warehousing facilities
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A.; motor vehicle and industrial automation products manufacturing facility
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A.; multi-axis industrial robots manufacturing facility
Notice Apr 09, 2002
LOOP LLC/LOCAP LLC; crude oil pipeline and storage system
Notice Apr 09, 2002
New Mexico
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Schering-Plough Products, L.L.C.; pharmaceutical product manufacturing plant
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Texas
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States Department of Commerce is soliciting proposals for the NOAA Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Instit...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Meetings:

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is proposing a plan to eliminate the paper patent and trademark registration collections from its public search facilities and to transition to electronic patent and trademark information collecti...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Advisory Panel and Plan Development Team (PDT) in April, 2002. Recommendations from the Committee will be brought to the full Council for formal consid...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Recreational Advisory Panel, Monkfish Oversight and Groundfish Oversight Committees in April 2002, to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the e...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Technology Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Air Force has revised its regulations dealing with the Wake Island Code to reflect current and anticipated use. This was necessary because in 1994 the Air Force terminated operations on the island and removed its personnel. The...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
The Director of Defense Procurement and the General Services Administration Deputy Associate Administrator for Acquisition Policy are cosponsoring a public meeting to discuss the proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule 1998-018, Trademarks...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and summary agenda for the next meeting of the Panel to Assess the Capabilities for Domestic Response to Terrorist Attacks Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction. Notice of this meeting is require under the Federal...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
This notice sets forth the schedule and summary agenda for the second meeting of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Board of Advisors. The Deputy Secretary of Defense chartered the Board on October 4, 2000, to provide advice and recomm...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Appendix 2 of title 5, United States Code, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education (ACDE) is scheduled to be held. The purpose of the AC...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The Air Force published a notice of meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board in the Federal Register of March 20, 2002. The meeting date has changed.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
East Tennessee Natural Gas Co.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Notice Apr 09, 2002
National Fuel Supply Corp.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
Texas Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Information Coll...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Disinfectants/...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

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

Title Type Published
EPA is clarifying its approval of revisions to the 1-hour ozone maintenance plans for the Owensboro area (i.e., Daviess and a portion of Hancock counties), and Edmonson County portions of the Kentucky State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted on Apri...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Hazardous waste:

Title Type Published
Inorganic chemical manufacturing processes identification and listing, newly identified wastes land disposal restrictions, etc.; correction
Correction Apr 09, 2002

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
Today's proposed rule would implement section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) for certain existing power producing facilities that employ a cooling water intake structure and that withdraw 50 million gallons per day (MGD) or more of water from ri...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission published in the Federal Register of March 13, 2002, a document concerning certain modifications, to the existing federal universal service contribution system. Inadvertently, in the heading and supplementary sec...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
In this document, the Office of the Managing Director (Managing Director) grants the petition of US West Communications, Inc. (U.S. West) and makes technical revisions to the Commission's jurisdictional separations rules. Specifically, the Managing D...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks comment in the Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 rulemaking docket to explore whether the current regulatory...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002
In this document the Commission declined to modify its accounting safeguards in the manner requested by the Inmate Calling Services Provider Coalition (ICSPC) in part because the Commission's existing rules already provide for much of the relief that...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Digital television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by WSET, Inc., licensee of station WSET-TV, NTSC channel 13, Lynchburg, Virginia, requesting the substitution of DTV channel 34 for station WSET-TV assigned DTV channel 56. DTV Channel 34 can be al...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Frequency allocations and radio treaty matters:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission allocates 50 megahertz of spectrum in the 4940-4990 MHz band (4.9 GHz band) for fixed and mobile services (except aeronautical mobile service) and designates this band for use in support of public safety. The allocati...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on the establishment of licensing and service rules for the 4.9 GHz band. The comments will aid the Commission in defining eligibility to use the band and devising innovative licensing approaches to serv...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
In this proceeding involving mutually exclusive proposals to amend the FM Table of Allotments, the Commission affirmed the staff's dismissal of a counterproposal filed by Twenty-One Sound Communications to upgrade its Station KNSX(FM), Steelville, Mi...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
This document makes a number of minor corrections to the Commission rules pertaining to retransmission consent which were published in the Federal Register of Monday March 26, 2001 (66 FR 16533) regarding carriage of digital television broadcast sign...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Risk-based capital:

No documents available.

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Risk-based capital:

No documents available.

Truth in lending (Regulation Z):

Title Type Published
The Board is publishing revisions to the official staff commentary to Regulation Z, which implements the Truth in Lending Act. The commentary applies and interprets the requirements of Regulation Z. The revisions clarify how creditors that place Trut...
Rule Apr 09, 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 draft...
Notice Apr 09, 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

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) announces the availability of FY 2002 funds for grants for the following activity. This notice is not a complete description of the act...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
This notice is to inform the public that the SAMHSA/CMHS announcement No. PA00-003, Community Action Grants for Service System Change (Short Title: Community Action Grants) will have only one application receipt date on May 10, 2002. Awards will be m...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) announces the availability of FY 2002 funds for grants for the following activity. This notice is not a complete description of the act...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
This document clarifies and corrects the notice that was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, February 21, 2002, Part II (67 FR 8074). It clarifies the notice by explaining that Faith-Based organizations are eligible to apply, and corrects...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces that applications will be accepted for the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) for Fiscal Year 2002. Authorizing Legislation: These applications are solicited under sectio...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
This notice establishes the proposed allocations to States of FY 2002 funds for social services under the Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP). In the final notice, amounts could be adjusted slightly based on final adjustments in FY 2001 arrivals in so...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting interested persons to submit comments concerning abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking, and impact of scheduling changes on availability for medical use of five drug substa...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Medicaid:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an administrative hearing on May 17, 2002, at 10 a.m., Conference Rooms 615A & 615B; 75 Hawthorne Street; San Francisco, California 94105-3901 to reconsider our decision to disapprove Arizona State Plan Amendment (SPA) 01-013.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice of public workshop.
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the following meeting: "Public Informational Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance." The purpose of this public meeting is to provide the general public the opportunity to hear speakers from the agen...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "IND Exemptions for Studies of Lawfully Marketed Cancer Drug or Biological Products." This guidance clarifies FDA's policy on exemption fr...
Notice Apr 09, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft document entitled "Guidance for Industry: Use of Nucleic Acid Tests on Pooled and Individual Samples From Donors of Whole Blood and Blood Components for Transfusion to A...
Notice Apr 09, 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 Apr 09, 2002
The proposed information collection requirements for Consolidated Planning for Community Planning and Development (CPD) programs described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork R...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We announce our receipt of applications to conduct certain activities pertaining to scientific research and enhancement of survival of endangered species.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the availability for public review of the draft Revised Recovery Plan for the Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae). The Gila trout is endemic to mountain streams in the Gila, San Francisco, Agua Fria,...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Central Montana Resource Advisory Council will meet May 1 and 2, 2002, at the Stage Stop Inn, in Choteau, Montana. The May 1st, 2002, meeting will begin at 1 p.m. with a 30-minute public comment period. The council will then hear briefings and co...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
The United States Department of Justice (Department) is publishing a proposed rule to implement the National Stolen Passenger Motor Vehicle Information System (NSPMVIS or System) that will verify the theft status of salvage and junk motor vehicles an...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Employee Retirement Income Security Act:

Title Type Published
This document contains final rules under Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), concerning the disclosure of certain employee benefit plan information through electronic media, and the maintenance and rete...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

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Management and Budget Office

Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act:

Title Type Published
On October 12, 2001, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a final rule establishing a new chapter in the Code of Federal Regulations for the Aviation Disaster Relief-Air Carrier Guarantee Loan Program. This technical amendment renames...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

M
Mississippi River Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 09, 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 prescription for the use of NASA Safety and Health solicitation provisions and contract clauses; removing references to the Service Contract Act (SCA) and Walsh-Healey Public Contra...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Federal claims collection:

Title Type Published
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has previously issued a Notice concerning administrative wage garnishment under the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, in the Federal Register on March 7, 2002, (67 FR 10447). NASA withdr...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 09, 2002

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Commission's Office of the Consumer Advocate (OCA) will present a briefing on Tuesday, April 9, 2002, beginning at 11 a.m., in the Postal Rate Commission's hearing room. The briefing will address the OCA's recent report on the quality of services...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is notifying the public that it intends to grant the pending applications of 22 existing Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) for refunding on October 1, 2002, subject to the availability of funds. Four s...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
Texas
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Small business size standards:

Title Type Published
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is proposing to increase the size standard for the Testing Laboratories industry (North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541380) to $10 million in average annual receipts. The current size s...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Airbus Model A300 B2, A300 B4, A300 B4-600, and A300 B4-600R series airplanes, and Model A300 F4-605R airplanes. This AD requires repetitive inspections for cracking of certa...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Boeing Model 777-200 series airplanes equipped with General Electric GE90 series engines. This action requires repetitive inspections of the diagonal brace and for...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-9-10, -20, -30, -40, and -50 series airplanes; and C-9 airplanes; that requires repetitive visual and x-ray inspections to detect cracks of the...
Rule Apr 09, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), that is applicable to Pratt & Whitney (PW) JT9D-7R4 series turbofan engines. This amendment requires a one-time inspection of low pressure turbine (LPT) 5th stage disks for evidence of blend r...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Buy America waivers:

Title Type Published
FTA granted North American Bus Industries (NABI) two Buy America waivers on March 19, 2002. The first waiver allows NABI to assemble its CompoBus outside the United States and the second allows it to count the composite chassis/frame as domestic for...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Interested parties are invited to submit comments for consideration by DOT in developing additional guidance as to when a reasonable person offering, accepting or transporting a hazardous material in commerce would be deemed to have knowledge of fact...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice announces FMCSA's decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10) for 19 individuals.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Motor vehicle defect proceedings; petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the reasons for the partial grant and partial denial of a petition submitted to NHTSA under 49 U.S.C. 30162, requesting that the agency commence a proceeding to determine the existence of a defect related to motor vehicle safet...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of two separate petitions for a decision that 2001 and 2002 Porsche GT2 Turbo passenger cars that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applic...
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) proposes to amend its regulations on the mutual-to-stock conversion process and portions of its regulations on mutual holding company reorganizations. This document is a re-proposal (Re-proposal) of the Notice o...
Proposed Rule Apr 09, 2002

Customhouse broker license cancellation, suspension, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930 as amended (19 U.S.C. 1641) and the Customs Regulations [19 CFR 111.45(a)], the following Customs broker license is revoked by operation of law.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

Risk-based capital:

Title Type Published
The OCC, Board, FDIC, and OTS (collectively, the Agencies) are amending their respective risk-based capital standards for banks, bank holding companies, and savings associations (collectively, institutions or banking organizations) with regard to the...
Rule Apr 09, 2002

Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 18 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 2001 Revision, published July 2, 2001, at 66 FR 35024.
Notice Apr 09, 2002

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