May 21, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register May 21, 2002

View all documents issued on May 21, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

102 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 21, 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 May 21, 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 intention of the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to request for reinstatement of the information collection previously approved for the Sugar Program.
Notice May 21, 2002

Environmental statement; notice of intent:

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The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a variety of connected resource projects within the Lemolo Watershed Projects planning area of the Diamond Lake Ranger District. The Draft Suppl...
Notice May 21, 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 in connection with a request from East River Electric Power Cooperative (EREPC) for assistance from RUS to finance the construction of an electr...
Notice May 21, 2002

Meetings:

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The Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on June 13, 2002, at the Convention Center, Horizon Casino and Resort, Highway 50, Stateline, NV. This Committee, established by the Secretary of Agriculture on December 15, 1998, (6...
Notice May 21, 2002
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393) the Kootenai National Forests' Lincoln County Resource Advisory...
Notice May 21, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Forest Service is issuing two interim directives to provide internal administrative direction to guide its employees during wildland firefighting activities. The interim directive issued to Forest Service Manual chapter FSM 5130, Wildland Fire Su...
Notice May 21, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

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The Department of Commerce has conducted an antidumping duty investigation of IQF red raspberries from Chile. We determine that individually quick frozen ("IQF") red raspberries from Chile are being sold in the United States at less than fair value,...
Notice May 21, 2002
China
Notice May 21, 2002

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
In accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended, notification is hereby given that an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take small numbers of marine mammals by harassment incidental to collecting marine...
Notice May 21, 2002

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 21, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 21, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 21, 2002
Notice May 21, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with section 3507(a)(2)(B) of the Paperwork Reduction act of 1995, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service announces the proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited...
Notice May 21, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The proposed action to be addressed in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) is to evaluate several widening and deepening alternatives to improve a deep-draft navigation channel that connects harbor facilities in the Beaumont and Port Arth...
Notice May 21, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
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 required under the Federal...
Notice May 21, 2002
Science Board
Notice May 21, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
UtiliGroup, Inc., et al.
Notice May 21, 2002

Power rates:

Title Type Published
The Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration (Southwestern), has prepared Current and Revised FY 2002 Power Repayment Studies which show the need for an increase in annual revenues to meet cost recovery criteria. Such increased revenues are n...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration (Southwestern), has prepared Current and Revised 2002 Power Repayment Studies which show the need for a decrease in annual revenues to meet cost recovery criteria. Such decreased revenues are requi...
Notice May 21, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), EPA is seeking public comment on the following Information Collection Request (ICR): TSCA Section 8(d) Health and Safety Data Reporting, Submission of Lists and Copies of...
Notice May 21, 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 the following consolidated cases: Assoc. of Irritated Residents, et al. v. U.S. EPA, et al. No. 02-701...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Lubrizol Corporation (Lubrizol) has developed a motor- vehicle diesel fuel, known as PuriNO<INF>X</INF>, that contains significant amounts of water and methanol. The purpose of this notice is to announce that EPA has notified Lubrizol, by certifi...
Notice May 21, 2002

Air pollution control; new motor vehicles and engines:

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has notified EPA that it has adopted amendments to its Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV) regulations including amendments to its exhaust emission standards, evaporative emission standards, its certification requirem...
Notice May 21, 2002

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

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In accordance with section 122(i)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i)(1), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement concerning the Robesonia Mercury Spill Site, Robesonia, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The administrative settlement was...
Notice May 21, 2002

Water pollution control:

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EPA is establishing a NDZ for State waters within the boundaries of the FKNMS pursuant to section 312 (f)(4)(A) of the Clean Water Act. This action is being taken in response to an October 27, 1999, resolution passed by the FKNMS Water Quality Protec...
Rule May 21, 2002

Water pollution; effluent guidelines for point source categories:

Title Type Published
EPA will conduct a public meeting on the upcoming Metal Products and Machinery (MP&M) Notice of Data Availability. The Office of Science and Technology within EPA's Office of Water is holding the public meeting to inform all interested parties of the...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal sector equal employment opportunity:

Title Type Published
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is publishing this final rule to implement the amendment of section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, under the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992. This rule continues the movement towards full integration...
Rule May 21, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice requests comment on proposed guidelines implementing Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law 106-554; H.R. 5658). Section 515 directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
Notice May 21, 2002

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Armed Forces Day (Proc. 7562)
Presidential Document May 21, 2002

Trade:

Title Type Published
Cote DIvoire; designation as a beneficiary Sub-Saharan African country (Proc. 7561)
Presidential Document May 21, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc.
Notice May 21, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice May 21, 2002
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Notice May 21, 2002

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Federal home bank loan system:

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is amending its regulation on Federal Home Loan Bank (Bank) consolidated obligations in order to redefine the term "non-mortgage assets," as used in the provision on Bank leverage limits. The effect o...
Rule May 21, 2002

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service logo Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that six information collection requests contained in the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) agency forms are coming up for renewal. FMCS submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for an eme...
Notice May 21, 2002

Government Ethics Office logo Government Ethics Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Government Ethics is adopting as final a proposed rule, with certain minor changes based primarily on comments received, that sets forth procedures that requesters have to follow when making demands on or requests to an OGE employee to...
Rule May 21, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Food additives:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations regarding the premarket notification process for food contact substances (FCSs) established by the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA) of 1997. The no...
Rule May 21, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting input on whether the agency should establish regulations permitting the licensing of the rights to manufacture and market a food contact substance for the use that is the subject of an effective fo...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002

Grant and cooperative agreement awards:

Title Type Published
Lithuania Health Ministry, National Tuberculosis Control Program
Notice May 21, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), Division of Federal-State Relations (DFSR), is announcing the availability of grant funds for the support of an innovative food safety program. Approximately $350,000 will be...
Notice May 21, 2002
Because of continuing needs of Tribal elders, the Administration on Aging is extending the date for which the Title VI grant applications for the grant period April 1, 2002-March 31, 2005 are due. Applications will be accepted from Tribes with grants...
Notice May 21, 2002

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

Title Type Published
This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 404.7 (a) (1) (i) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Technology Transfer Office, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is contemplating the grant of a w...
Notice May 21, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance document entitled "Preparation of Food Contact Notifications: Administrative." This guidance document is intended to provide guidance for industry regarding the pre...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revoking the Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) entitled "Sec. 391.100 Advertisement Literature for High-Intensity Mercury Vapor Discharge Lamps (CPG 7133.13)" because it is obsolete and outdated. This CPG is no l...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revoking the compliance policy guide (CPG) entitled "Sec. 396.100 Applicability of the Sunlamp Performance Standard to UVA Tanning Products (CPG 7133.16)." This CPG is no longer necessary because the agency h...
Notice May 21, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
Modified base (1% annual chance) flood elevations are finalized for the communities listed below. These modified elevations will be used to calculate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings and their contents.
Rule May 21, 2002
This interim rule lists communities where modification of the Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. New flood insurance premium rates will be calculated from the modified BF...
Rule May 21, 2002
This interim rule lists communities where modification of the base (1% annual chance) flood elevations is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. New flood insurance premium rates will be calculated from the modified base flood eleva...
Rule May 21, 2002
Base (1% annual chance) flood elevations and modified base flood elevations are made final for the communities listed below. The base flood elevations and modified base flood elevations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each c...
Rule May 21, 2002

Flood elevation determinations:

Title Type Published
Modified Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) are finalized for the communities listed below. These modified elevations will be used to calculate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings and their contents.
Rule May 21, 2002
Technical information or comments are requested on the proposed base (1% annual chance) flood elevations and proposed base flood elevation modifications for the communities listed below. The base flood elevations are the basis for the floodplain mana...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002
Technical information or comments are requested on the proposed Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and proposed BFE modifications for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management me...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002
Base (1% annual chance) flood elevations and modified base flood elevations are made final for the communities listed below. The base flood elevations and modified base flood elevations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each c...
Rule May 21, 2002
Technical information or comments are requested on the proposed base (1% annual chance) flood elevations and proposed base flood elevation modifications for the communities listed below. The base flood elevations are the basis for the floodplain mana...
Proposed Rule May 21, 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 May 21, 2002

Inter-American Foundation logo Inter-American Foundation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 21, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to solicit public nominations for three members to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. The Board provides advice concerning management, protection, and control of wild free-roaming horses and burros on the public la...
Notice May 21, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary is announcing a public meeting of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory Group.
Notice May 21, 2002

Withdrawal and reservation of lands:

Title Type Published
The United States Forest Service canceled its application to withdraw approximately 1,093,953 acres of National Forest System lands to protect the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area. This notice terminates the temporary segregation of the National Forest Syst...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Bureau of Land Management has partially cancelled 118,000 acres of an application to withdraw approximately 151,970 acres of Federal lands to protect the nationally significant ecological and biological values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area. Th...
Notice May 21, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The United States International Trade Commission is seeking non-confidential general information from interested parties, including proponents, on approximately 400 pending bills proposing duty suspensions or other tariff modifications on imported go...
Notice May 21, 2002

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of the final phase of countervailing duty investigation No. 701-TA-426 (Final) under section 705(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)) (the Act) and the final phase of antidumping inves...
Notice May 21, 2002
Various countries
Notice May 21, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or co...
Notice May 21, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 21, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 21, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 21, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Executive Order 13218, the Secretary of Labor will hold a meeting of the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce, hereafter (The Council). This is the first meeting of The Council and it's Committees on the Skills Gap, the Chang...
Notice May 21, 2002

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Health Advisory Committee
Notice May 21, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council.
Notice May 21, 2002
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a forthcoming meeting of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), Space Science Advisory Committee (SScAC), Astr...
Notice May 21, 2002
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a forthcoming meeting of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), Space Science Advisory Committee (SScAC), Educ...
Notice May 21, 2002

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

Title Type Published
NASA hereby gives notice that U.S. Patent No. 6,207,114 entitled, "Reactive Material Placement Technique for Groundwater Treatment," and NASA Case No. KSC-12246, entitled, "Zero-Valent Metal Emulsion for Reductive Dehalogenation of DNAPLs," are avail...
Notice May 21, 2002
NASA hereby gives notice that Veridian Engineering, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, 45440-3638 has applied for an exclusive license to practice the inventions disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 5,736,642, entitled "Nonlinear Ultrasonic Scanning to Detect Material De...
Notice May 21, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 21, 2002

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Commission proposes revising its rules of practice to require, in most instances, that participants file documents electronically over the Internet. This will allow the Commission and others to apply modern technology to certain routine procedure...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Social security benefits:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the final regulations that were published in the Federal Register of Monday, November 19, 2001 (66 FR 58010). The regulations revised the criteria in our Listing of Impairments (the listings) that we use to evalu...
Rule May 21, 2002

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Trade Policy Staff Committee:

Title Type Published
Presidential Proclamation 7529 of March 5, 2002 established actions under section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 2253) (safeguard measures) with regard to certain steel products, and authorized the United States Trade Representa...
Notice May 21, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (BHTI) Model 204B, 205A-1, 212, 214B, and 214B-1 helicopters. That AD currently requires reducing the retirement time for certain main rotor...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002
Raytheon; correction
Correction May 21, 2002
SOCATA-Groupe AEROSPATIALE; correction
Correction May 21, 2002

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for the Airbus Industrie 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 transpo...
Rule May 21, 2002

Engineering and traffic operations:

Title Type Published
The MUTCD is incorporated by reference in 23 CFR part 655, subpart F, approved by the Federal Highway Administration, and recognized as the national standard for traffic control devices used on all public roads. The purpose of this notice of proposed...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice May 21, 2002
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice May 21, 2002

Excise taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains a correction to the notice of proposed rulemaking and notice of public hearing that was published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 (67 FR 19713) that relates to the requirements of section 4980F of the Interna...
Proposed Rule May 21, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to final and temporary regulations that were published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (67 FR 18988) relating to the required minimum distributions from qualified plans, individual retirement pl...
Rule May 21, 2002

User fee airports; Customs services fees:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Customs Regulations to reflect the establishment of a new user fee airport in Dallas, Texas. A user fee airport is one which, while not qualifying for designation as an international or landing rights airport, has been approv...
Rule May 21, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted the collection of information abstracted belo...
Notice May 21, 2002
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted the collection of information abstracted belo...
Notice May 21, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Minority Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice May 21, 2002

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