August 1, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register August 1, 2002

View all documents issued on August 1, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

95 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on August 1, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This proposed rule would revise the regulations for the Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP), the Forestry Incentives Program (FIP) and the regulations for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP). Existing ACP contracts would continue, however, t...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002
This final rule amends the Fluid Milk Promotion Order (Order) by revising certain provisions in conformance with the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. The amendments modify the definition of fluid milk product to be consistent with that...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on proposed information collection for granting computer access to State agencies and Trust Territories.
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement in conjunction with the revision of the Land and Resource Management Plan (hereafter referred to as the Forest Plan or Plan) for the Medicine National Forest.
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Meetings:

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The Forest Counties Payments Committee will meet in Rhinelander, WI, on August 23, 2002. The purpose of the meeting is to receive comments from elected officials and the general public on the recommendations the committee must make to Congress as spe...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Milk marketing orders:

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A public hearing is being held to consider proposals that would amend certain pooling and related provisions of the Northeast order. Proposals include establishing marketwide service payments to offset the costs of balancing the market's Class I need...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002

Viruses, serums, toxins, etc.:

Title Type Published
We are reopening and extending the comment period for a proposed rule to amend the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act regulations concerning Standard Requirements for veterinary biologics by adding a Standard Requirement for Equine Influenza Vaccine, Killed Virus...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 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 burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, a...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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Six Technical Advisory Committees (TACs) advise the Department of Commerce on the technical parameters for export controls applicable to dual-use commodities and technology and on the administration of those controls. The TACs are composed of represe...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Endangered and threatened species:

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The Makah Indian Tribe, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife as the co-managing fisheries resource manager, have submitted a joint Resource Management Plan (RMP) pursuant to the protective regulations promulgated for the Ozette Lake Soc...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NOAA Fisheries is implementing additional interim measures intended to reduce overfishing on species managed under the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP), under the authority of section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conserv...
Rule Aug 01, 2002
NMFS is closing directed fishing for species in the rock sole/flathead sole/"other flatfish" fishery category by vessels using trawl gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the...
Rule Aug 01, 2002
NMFS announces that the commercial fishery for all salmon except coho in the area from the U.S.-Canada Border to Cape Falcon, OR, was modified to reopen on July 12 and close at midnight, July 22, 2002, with a vessel limit of 400 chinook salmon for th...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
NMFS is issuing regulations authorizing and governing the taking of bottlenose and spotted dolphins incidental to the removal of oil and gas drilling and production structures in state waters and on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Gulf of Me...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Patents:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a certificate under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) for a fourth one-year interim extension of the term of U.S. Patent No. 4,229,449.
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Permits:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received applications for direct take permits (Permits) from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA) (permit numbers 13...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Notice is hereby given that the Alaska SeaLife Center, P.O. Box 1329, Seward, AK 99664 has been issued an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 881-1443.
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508), and the Clean Air Act, General Conformity Rule (40 CFR Part 93), the Depar...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
FTS-1 Service Agreement No. 73134 between Columbia Gulf Transmission Company and Aquila Merchant Services, dated July 1, 2002.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Aug 01, 2002
PGE Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp.
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
Off-the-record communications
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Preliminary permits surrender:

Title Type Published
BAE Energy
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

Title Type Published
The EPA proposes to find that the approved severe area ozone State Implementation Plan for the Houston/Galveston area is not being implemented according to its terms. If EPA makes final this proposed non-implementation finding, Texas will have to cor...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002
EPA proposes to take one of two alternative actions regarding the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) State Implementation Plan (SIP). First, the EPA proposes to approve the Texas Emission Reduction Program (TERP) submission if the State provides a funding mecha...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002

Hazardous waste program authorizations:

Title Type Published
The EPA proposes to codify in the regulations entitled "Approved State Hazardous Waste Management Programs", New York's authorized hazardous waste program. EPA will incorporate by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) those provisions...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002
The Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to authorize States to operate their hazardous waste management programs in lieu of...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Water pollution; discharge of pollutants (NPDES):

Title Type Published
The State of Arizona has submitted a request for approval of the Arizona Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (AZPDES) program pursuant to section 402(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA or "the Act"). With this request, the Arizona Department of Enviro...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Iraq; continuation of emergency (Notice of July 30, 2002)
Presidential Document Aug 01, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4), the FCC proposes to add a new system of records, FCC/WTB-7, "Remedy Action Response System " ("RARS"). The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) will use...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Government Ethics Office logo Government Ethics Office

Executive Branch regulations:

Title Type Published
The Office of Government Ethics is issuing a final rule to amend the executive branchwide regulations that describe procedures for granting filing extensions and late filing fee waivers under the public financial disclosure system to delegate certain...
Rule Aug 01, 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 Aug 01, 2002
The invention listed below is owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and is available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Fore...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending the nomination period for voting members to serve on the Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee. The current vacancies include the specialty areas of Pharmacology, Minor Species/Minor Use Veterinary...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are jointly publishing this notice to inform potential applicants of their initiatives to build a National Environmental Public Heal...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
Zimbabwe; epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and tools for monitoring local response to HIV/AIDS epidemic
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Medicaid:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an administrative hearing on August 30, 2002, at 10 a.m., at the JFK Federal Building; Room 2250, Boston, Massachusetts 02203-0003, to reconsider our decision to disapprove Connecticut SPA 01-011B. Closing Date: Requests to part...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Medicare:

Title Type Published
We are revising the Medicare acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating and capital costs to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In addition, in the Addendum to this final rule, we...
Rule Aug 01, 2002
This notice updates prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2003 as authorized under section 1886(j)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Section 1886(j)(5) of the Act requires the Secreta...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

National Flood Insurance Program:

Title Type Published
This notice contains the revised fee schedules for processing certain types of requests for changes to National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) maps, for processing requests for Flood Insurance Study (FIS) technical and administrative support data, an...
Notice Aug 01, 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 Aug 01, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service announces the availability of a final Environmental Impact Statement and Oil and Gas Management Plan (FEIS/O&GMP) for Lake Meredith National Recrea...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is requesting applications for the Targeted Community Action Planning (TCAP) Technical Assistance Program, which will support the delinquency prevention efforts of States, communities,...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the 2002 Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) authorized under the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Act of 1992. The purpose of this program is to assist...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Safety standard petitions:

Title Type Published
True Line, Inc., et al.
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a proposed rule that would permit the Department of Defense to survey the Maintenance Mechanic job on an optional basis rather than having to seek OPM's permission when it wants to add that job to appropr...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to change the timing of local wage surveys in the Portland, Oregon, appropriated fund Federal Wage System wage area. This change will help the Department of Defense (DOD) balance its wage sur...
Rule Aug 01, 2002
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a proposed rule to redefine Tioga County, Pennsylvania, from the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area to the Rochester, New York, FWS wage area. This redefiniti...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule that establishes San Joaquin County, California, as a new nonappropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area. This change is necessary because the Army and Air Force Exchange Service bu...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for clearance of an information collection. The E...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of a revised and expir...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In conformance with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines (Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies Federal Register Volume 66, No.189 at 497...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Each applicant seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. On March 8, 2002, each applicant transferred its assets to corresponding series of Great Hall Investment Funds, Inc. and/or Money Market Obligations Trust, based...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Securities:

Title Type Published
We propose new exemptions under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for most standardized options. The proposals would exempt standardized options issued by registered clearing agencies and traded on a registered nation...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

State Department logo State Department

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 [79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459], Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Aug 01, 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) that applies to certain Air Tractor, Inc. (Air Tractor) Models AT-802 and AT-802A airplanes. This AD requires you to replace the rudder control cables and fairleads with parts of improved desig...
Rule Aug 01, 2002
This document contains a correction to the final rule, published in the Federal Register on July 22, 2002 (67 FR 47998). That final rule incorporates several standard provisions previously included in most airworthiness directives into the Code of Fe...
Rule Aug 01, 2002
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to Turbomeca Makila 1 A, 1 A1, and 1 A2 turboshaft engines. This action requires replacing certain digital electronic control units (DECU's) and electronic control units (ECU...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Coastwise trade laws; administrative waivers:

Title Type Published
As authorized by Public Law 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
As authorized by Public Law 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
As authorized by Public Law 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
As authorized by Public Law 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for...
Notice Aug 01, 2002
As authorized by Public Law 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for...
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Aug 01, 2002

Income taxes, and procedure and administration:

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations under section 7701 that address the Federal tax classification of a business entity wholly owned by a foreign government and that also provide that a nonbank entity wholly owned by a foreign bank cannot be dis...
Rule Aug 01, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains proposed regulations under section 1503(d) regarding the events that require the recapture of dual consolidated losses. These regulations are issued to facilitate compliance by taxpayers with the dual consolidated loss provisio...
Proposed Rule Aug 01, 2002

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