September 30, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register September 30, 2002

View all documents issued on September 30, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

104 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on September 30, 2002

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Agricultural Marketing Service

No documents available.

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is revising the United States Standards for Milled Rice to establish and add a new level of milling degree, " hard milled," to the existing milling requirements, and to eliminate ref...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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This notice is announcing the re-chartering of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF). The Committee is being renewed in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The establishment of...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

Title Type Published
We are proposing to amend the regulations by adding the Mexican States of Campeche, Quintana Roo, Sonora, and Yucatan to the list of regions considered free of classical swine fever. We have conducted a series of risk evaluations and have determined...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002
We are reopening the comment period for our proposed rule that would amend the regulations pertaining to the importation of horses to establish standards for the approval of permanent, privately owned quarantine facilities for horses. This action wil...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Siskiyou County Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Yreka, California, October 21, 2002. The purpose of the meeting is to receive a presentation by the Backcountry Horsemen, refine the proposal receipt and review process, and develop a RAC o...
Notice Sep 30, 2002
The Tehama County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Red Bluff, California. Agenda items to be covered include: (1) Introductions, (2) Approval of Minutes, (3) Public Comment, (4) Status of Project Proposals, (5) Evaluation Criteria Form/...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Senior Executive Service:

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This notice announces the appointment of the Performance Review Board (PRB) of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Publication of PRB membership is required by 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4). The PRB provides fair and impartial review of the U.S. Comm...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On February 14, 2001, the United States Court of International Trade ("CIT") sustained the final remand determination made by the Department of Commerce ("the Department") pursuant to the Court's remand of the final determination of sales at less tha...
Notice Sep 30, 2002
On September 9, 2002, in Rhodia, Inc. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 00-08-00407, Slip. Op. 02-109 (CIT 2002), a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce's ("the Department's") Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value...
Notice Sep 30, 2002
On July 29, 2002, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the notice of initiation and preliminary results of its changed circumstances review examining whether ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH is the successor-in-interest to Krupp Thyssen Nir...
Notice Sep 30, 2002
On August 22, 2002, in Geum Poong Corporation and Sam Young Synthetics Co., Ltd. v. United States v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours, Inc., et. al., Court No. 00-06-00298, Slip. Op. 02-95 (CIT 2002), a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce's ("the De...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Coastal zone management programs and estuarine sanctuaries:

Title Type Published
The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the Chesapeake Bay-Maryland National Estuarine Research Reserve. The National Estuarine Research Reserve evaluation will be conducted...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS or Sanctuary) is seeking applicants for the following vacant seat on its Sanctuary Advisory Council (Council): Education Representative. Applicants are chosen based upon their particular expertise...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Atka mackerel in the Western Aleutian District of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2002 Atka mackerel total allowable catch (TAC) in...
Rule Sep 30, 2002
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by vessels catching Pacific cod for processing by the inshore component in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2002 Pacific co...
Rule Sep 30, 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) has been issued to the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) to take smal...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that NMFS has received an application for scientific research from Wildlands, Inc. (WILDLANDS) in Citrus Heights, CA (1400), and the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) in Sacramento, CA (1401). These permits would...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will publish a 2002 Annual Index to the electronic version of the Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office--Patents (eOG:P). This annual index...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

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

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation") has submitted a public information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduc...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a curr...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Secretary proposes a priority for Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER). The Assistant Secretary may use this priority for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2003 and in later fiscal years. We take this action to implement rigor...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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 the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: RCRA Haz...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards, etc.:

Air programs; approval and promulgation; State plans for designated facilities and pollutants:

Title Type Published
The EPA is approving a negative declaration submitted by the State of Ohio which indicates that the State does not need regulations covering existing Small Municipal Waste Combustors (MWC) units. Ohio submitted its negative declaration regarding this...
Rule Sep 30, 2002
The EPA is proposing to approve, through direct final procedure, a negative declaration submitted by the State of Ohio which indicates there is no need for regulations covering existing Small Municipal Waste Combustors (MWC) in the State. The State's...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002

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

Title Type Published
The EPA is approving revisions to the State of Louisiana's State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions concern the nonattainment New Source Review (NSR) procedures for the five-parish Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area. The revisions include inc...
Rule Sep 30, 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 requests for amendments by registrants to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations. Section...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to enter into a prospective purchaser agreement with Ms. Rose Picker, and Mr. James E. Picker to resolve potential EPA claims under sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental...
Notice Sep 30, 2002
EPA--New England announces the deletion of the Pinette's Salvage Yard Superfund Site located in Washburn, Aroostook County, Maine from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental...
Rule Sep 30, 2002
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 10, announces the deletion of the Gould Site which is located in Portland, Oregon, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and...
Rule Sep 30, 2002
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 10, announces the deletion of the Standard Steel and Metals Salvage Yard Site which is located in Anchorage, Alaska, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is appendix B of 40 CFR part...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Government agencies and employees:

Title Type Published
Department of Agriculture; designation of the Secretary of Agriculture to classify information as secret (Order of September 26, 2002)
Presidential Document Sep 30, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document finds that federally mandated limits on the time period for which incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) and competitive LECs may reserve potential collocation space for future use are not warranted. It further concludes that disputes...
Rule Sep 30, 2002
This document addresses a petition for clarification or partial reconsideration of the Collocation Remand Order (66 FR 43516, August 20, 2001). The document makes clear that nothing in the Collocation Remand Order disavows any federal jurisdiction th...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) Information Quality Guidelines will be available for public access on the FDIC Web site: http://www.fdic.gov, on October 1, 2002. The Information Quality Guidelines describe the FDIC's procedures for...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 30, 2002

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request; correction
Correction Sep 30, 2002

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards, etc.:

No documents available.

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Guidelines for Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated to the Public. The HHS Information Quality Guidelines will be posted on the HHS website on or a...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This rule makes editorial and technical changes throughout Title 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations to update the title before it is recodified on October 1, 2002. It corrects addresses, updates cross-references, makes conforming amendments, and m...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has submitted the following proposed information collection to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C....
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Disaster assistance:

Title Type Published
This interim final rule implements subsection 206(a) of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 by consolidating "Temporary Housing Assistance" and "Individual and Family Grant Programs" into a single program called "Federal Assistance to Individuals and...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to amend the regulations governing the drawspan of the Montlake Bridge across the east end of the Lake Washington Ship Canal by lengthening the hours that the draw need not open for the passage of vessels during the part of t...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Coast Guard announces the availability of the Supplemental Program Environmental Assessment for the National Distress and Response System Modernization Project (NDRSMP). The Supplemental PEA provides an update to and supplements environmenta...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

National Flood Insurance Program:

Title Type Published
We (the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration of FEMA) are amending the Group Flood Insurance Policy (GFIP), as a result of the consolidation of sections 408 and 411 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (th...
Rule Sep 30, 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 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 30, 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 30, 2002
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Managemaent and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject propo...
Notice Sep 30, 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 30, 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 30, 2002

Low income housing:

Title Type Published
Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 requires the Secretary to publish FMRs annually to be effective on October 1 of each year. FMRs are used to determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program, to determi...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Risk-based capital:

Title Type Published
On September 12, 2002, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) entitled "Risk-Based Capital" in the Federal Register (67 FR 57760). That document related to the correcting and techni...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Land resource management:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is issuing a rule which allows BLM to approve right-of-way grants for pipelines 24 inches or more in diameter as soon as it notifies the appropriate congressional committees. This final rule avoids the possibility...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 1, Section 10(a)(2), that a meeting of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Advisory Commission will be held at 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the following locati...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Bearings and packaging
Notice Sep 30, 2002
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of the final phase of antidumping investigation No. 731-TA-991 (Final) under section 735(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673d(b)) (the Act) to determine whether an industry in the United S...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Immigration:

Title Type Published
On August 12, 2002, the Attorney General published a final rule in the Federal Register at 67 FR 52584, revising the special registration requirements for nonimmigrant aliens whose presence in the United States requires closer monitoring. The final r...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Leadership Initiatives Advisory Panel
Notice Sep 30, 2002

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation hereby announces the availability of its information quality guidelines on its website. The guidelines contain NSF's standards of quality, utility, objectivity, and integrity for information that is disseminated to the...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Domestic rates, fees, and mail classifications:

Title Type Published
This document establishes a docket for consideration of a proposed three-year experiment. The experiment, if approved, would implement a negotiated service agreement between the Postal Service and Capital One Services, Inc. The proposed terms entail...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
Nasdaq Liffe Markets, LLC
Notice Sep 30, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 30, 2002
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is removing regulations concerning the cancellation of through routes and joint rates, because those rules have been made obsolete by statutory changes.
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This action amends the FAA regulations relating to airspace designations to reflect the approval by the Director of the Federal Register of the incorporation by reference of FAA Order 7400.9K Airspace Designations and Reporting Points. This action al...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Boeing Model 767 series airplanes, that currently requires an inspection to ensure that all bolts of the support beam of the hinge fitting assembly...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Boeing Model 737-600, -700, -700C, -800, and - 900 series airplanes; Model 747 series airplanes; and Model 757 series airplanes, that currently requires revision of...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
This document extends the compliance dates and makes minor corrections for certain requirements adopted in a final rule published under Docket No. RSPA-01-10373 (HM-220D) on August 8, 2002 (67 FR 51626), which amended requirements applicable to the m...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Motor vehicle defect proceedings; petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the reasons for the denial of a petition submitted to NHTSA under 49 U.S.C. 30162, requesting that the agency compel General Motors Corporation (GM) to recall model year (MY) 1999 Chevrolet Malibu vehicles to address an alleged...
Notice Sep 30, 2002
This notice sets forth the reasons for the 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 safety in model year (MY) 2000...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 2000 and 2001 Audi A4, S4, and RS4 passenger cars that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Fede...
Notice Sep 30, 2002

Practice and procedure:

No documents available.

Vessel financing assistance:

Title Type Published
Recent legislation modified the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, by adding a new Section 1109, which authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to hold funds from Title XI obligors as collateral by depositing them with the United States Treasur...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

Workplace drug and alcohol testing programs:

Title Type Published
The Department of Transportation's Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance (ODAPC) proposes to revise the Management Information System (MIS) forms currently used within six U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) operating administrations (...
Proposed Rule Sep 30, 2002

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Merchandise, special classes:

Title Type Published
In T.D. 97-81, the Customs Regulations were amended to reflect the imposition of import restrictions on certain archaeological material from Guatemala. These restrictions were imposed pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding between the United State...
Rule Sep 30, 2002

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