September 6, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register September 6, 2002

View all documents issued on September 6, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

122 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on September 6, 2002

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Meetings:st

Title Type Published
Voluntary Foreign Aid Advisory Committee
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes the Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order). This industry-funded program is authorized under the Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 2000 (Act). Under the Order, producers and...
Rule Sep 06, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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Under the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Act of 2000, Public Law 106-351 (16 U.S.C. 431 note), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service are re-opening n...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Credit Corporation and the Farm Service Agency announce the availability of the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The draft PEIS assesses the potential environmental imp...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Salmon-Challis National Forest, will prepare a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) in order to make a new decision on the Salmon Wild and Scenic River Management Plan. On September 21, 2001, a Record of Decision (ROD) was si...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
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 Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests' North Central Id...
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Lolo and Kootenai National Forests' Sanders County Resource Advis...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Milk marketing orders:

Title Type Published
This tentative decision adopts, on an interim final and emergency basis, provisions that amend certain features of the pooling standards of the Pacific Northwest Federal milk order. Specifically, this tentative decision establishes a cooperative manu...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board logo Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Title Type Published
The CSB will hold a public meeting on September 17, 2002 in Houston, Texas at the Hilton Houston Hobby Airport, to deliberate and vote on a series of findings and recommendations arising from a two- year investigation into reactive chemical hazards....
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 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 the continuing and propose...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
DNP Electronics America, LLC; projection television screen manufacturing and warehousing facilities
Notice Sep 06, 2002
North American Lighting, Inc.; automotives lighting products manufacturing facilities
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Valero Energy Corp.; oil refinery complex
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Coastal zone management programs and estuarine sanctuaries:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the availability of the final evaluation findings for the Washington, South Carolina, California, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands Coastal Management Programs, and the Great Bay (New Hampshire) and Rookery Bay (...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS has determined that the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) General category daily catch limit should be adjusted to two large medium or giant BFT per vessel in order to allow for maximum utilization of the General category September time-period subquot...
Rule Sep 06, 2002
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 610 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the C season allowance of the pollock total allowable catch (TAC) for Statistical Area 610 of the GOA.
Rule Sep 06, 2002

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
NOAA Fisheries is closing the waters of Pamlico Sound, NC, to fishing with gillnets with a mesh size larger than 4 1/4 inch (10.8 cm) stretched mesh ("large-mesh gillnet"), on a seasonal basis, from September 1 through December 15 each year, to prote...
Rule Sep 06, 2002

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Title Type Published
This action adds to the Procurement List products and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete products previously furnished by such agencies. Comments Must be...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History, a subcommittee of the Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee will meet to review naval historical activities since the last meeting of the Advisory Subcommittee on Naval...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), the Department of the Navy (DON) announces the appointment of members to the DON's numerous Senior Executive Service (SES) Performance Review Boards (PRBs). The purpose of the PRBs is to provide fair and impartial rev...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Ameren Services Co.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Central Illinois Generation, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Enbridge Pipelines (AlaTenn) Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Honeoye Storage Corp.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
KeySpan Energy Development Corp. et al.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Lake Cogen, Ltd.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Ozark Gas Transmission, L.L.C.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
PPL Montana, LLC, et al.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Pacific Gas Electric Co.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Union Light, Heat Power Co.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Aquila Merchant Services, Inc., et al.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Mirant Nennah, Inc., et al.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Hackberry LNG Terminal, L.L.C.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
New York State Electric Gas Corp.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Pursuant to 10 CFR 1021.315, the Department of Energy (DOE) is revising the Record of Decision for the Department of Energy's Waste Management Program: Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste issued on January 20, 1998 (63 FR 3629), as revised pre...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA expressed environmental concerns about air and water quality impacts and cumulative impacts. EPA also requested additional information to support the purpose and need statement and a broader range of alternatives. ERP No. DS-AFS-J65312-WY Rating...
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Weekly receipts
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Pesticide programs:

Title Type Published
This document notifies the public that the Administrator of EPA has forwarded to the Secretary of Agriculture a draft proposed rule as required by section 25(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The draft proposed ru...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of a request by a registrant to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations for disulfoton, or...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of a final document, Ecological Risk Assessment for the Middle Snake River, Idaho (EPA/600/R-01/017, February 2002), prepared as a collaborative effort between the National Cen...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc.
Notice Sep 06, 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 Sep 06, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
Blue Water Shipping US, Inc., et al.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Ford Freight Forwarders, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Government Ethics Office logo Government Ethics Office

Employment:

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Employment:

No documents available.

Grants:

Title Type Published
Section 3102 of the Children's Health Act of 2000, Pub. L. 106-310, amends section 501 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa) to add a new subsection (m) entitled "Emergency Response." This newly enacted subsection 501(m) authorizes...
Rule Sep 06, 2002

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is denying the petition submitted by the Orthopedic Surgical Manufacturers Association (OSMA) to reclassify the hip joint metal/metal semi-constrained prosthesis with a cemented acetabular component and the hip...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, CMS is proposing to modify or alter an SOR, "National Claims History (NCH)," System No. 09-70-0005. We propose to modify the purpose of this system by deleting from the NCH, a sub-file t...
Notice Sep 06, 2002
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is publishing notice of a new system of records (SOR) called the "Program information Management System (PIMS), HHS/OS/OCR (09-90-0052)." We are giving notice o...
Notice Sep 06, 2002
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to establish a new system of records, called the "Correspondence Tracking Management System (CTMS)," HHS/CMS/OSORA No. 09-70-3005. The CMTS replaces the Correspondence a...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled "Medical Devices Made With Polyvinylchloride (PVC) Using the Plasticizer di-(2- Ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP); Draft Guidance for Industry and FDA." Th...
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Gifts and other inducements offered to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries; correction
Correction Sep 06, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the drawbridge operation regulations for the Metro North Saga Bridge, mile 1.1, across the Saugatuck River in Connecticut. This temporary deviation will allow the bridge...
Rule Sep 06, 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 Sep 06, 2002
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

No documents available.

Interior Board of Indian Appeals; Office of Hearings and Appeals:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has directed the Interior Board of Indian Appeals, Office of Hearings and Appeals, pursuant to 43 CFR 4.1(b)(2)(ii) and 4.330(a)(2), and Secretarial Order No. 3242, to exercise administrative...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an upcoming meeting of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Commission. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463). Meeting Date and Time: Friday, September 13, 2002,...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), are announcing receipt of revisions to a previously proposed amendment to the Mississippi regulatory program (Mississippi program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Ac...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Following receipt of a request on August 16, 2002, from the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the Commission instituted investigation No. 332-446, Agriculture: Probable Economic Effects on the U.S. Economy of Eliminating or Reducing U.S. Tar...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Immigration:

Title Type Published
The Attorney General is authorized by regulation to require, by notice in the Federal Register, and after consultation with the Secretary of State, that certain nonimmigrant aliens from specified countries be subject to special registration requireme...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Pollution control; consent judgments:

Title Type Published
Lamplight Equestrian Center, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Liberty Property Trust et al.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Federal-State unemployment compensation program:

Title Type Published
Federal unemployment insurance law; interpretation
Notice Sep 06, 2002

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Marine Mammal Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 06, 2002

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Ti...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

N
National Women's Business Council

Title Type Published
In accordance with 15 U.S.C. 7106(b), the National Women's Business Council (NWBC) announces a forthcoming meeting. The meeting will cover action items worked on by the NWBC, will be used to gather information on future NWBC endeavors (including rese...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposes to amend its rules to clarify when and how licensees and other members of the public may use electronic means such as CD-ROM and e-mail to communicate with the agency. These amendments are necessary to...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its rules to clarify when and how licensees and other members of the public may use electronic means such as CD-ROM and e-mail to communicate with the agency. These amendments are necessary to imple...
Rule Sep 06, 2002
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Sep 06, 2002

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Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Employment:

No documents available.

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.; correction
Correction Sep 06, 2002
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Small business size standards:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is correcting the direct final rule it published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2002, that would amend its Small Business Size Regulations by incorporating the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB...
Rule Sep 06, 2002
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is correcting the proposed rule it published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2002, that would amend its Small Business Size Regulations by incorporating the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) 20...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002
This document advises the public that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is establishing a waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for Small Arms Ammunition Manufacturing. The basis for waivers is that no small business manufacturers are availab...
Rule Sep 06, 2002
The proposed rule proposes to increase the size standard for Testing Laboratories from $6 million to $10 million under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541380. The proposed revision is being made to better define the size of...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002

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 Sep 06, 2002
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 Sep 06, 2002

Foreign terrorists and terrorist organizations; designation:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Historical Diplomatic Documentation Advisory Committee
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality's regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508) and the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) procedures for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), TVA has decided to adopt the Final...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Class D and Class E airspace; correction
Correction Sep 06, 2002
This action establishes Class E5 airspace at Poplarville, MS. A VHF Omni Range/Distance Measuring Equipment (VOR/DME)--A, Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP), has been developed for Oreck Airport, Poplarville, MS. As a result, controlled ai...
Rule Sep 06, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for extension of the...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Employment:

Title Type Published
Securities and Exchange Commission employee positions; senior employee restrictions; temporary post-employment waiver; issuance and revocation; correction
Correction Sep 06, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed highway improvement in Lincoln County, Oregon. The proposed project is near the rural unincorporated community of Beverl...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seeks comments on the economic impact of its regulations on small entities. As required by Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, we are attempting to identify rules that may have a s...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to: impose and use PFC revenue at Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40117 and part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 158).
Notice Sep 06, 2002
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to use PFC revenue at Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40117 and Part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 158).
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Pipeline safety:

Title Type Published
We are proposing to change some of the safety standards for hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipelines. The changes are based on recommendations by the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR). We believe the changes will im...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002
The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) is issuing this advisory to owners and operators of gas distribution, gas transmission, and hazardous liquid pipeline systems, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. Owners and operators should ensure that tel...
Notice Sep 06, 2002

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the U.S. Department of the Treasury is soliciting comments concerning the effectiveness of OFAC's licensing procedures implementing the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (Title...
Proposed Rule Sep 06, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans
Notice Sep 06, 2002
Special Medical Advisory Group
Notice Sep 06, 2002

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