October 9, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register October 9, 2002

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

91 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 9, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

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

Associations:

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Southern Intertie Project. The decision of RUS is that the National Environmental Policy Act process is satisfied with respect to a request f...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Forest Service is canceling the Notice of Intent for the Comet Administrative Study EIS--Klamath National Forest that was published in Federal Register, Vol. 65, No. 230 on pages 71087 through 71088 on Wednesday, November 29, 2000. The usefulness...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Farm marketing quotas, acreage allotments, and production adjustments:

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This rule takes two actions to reflect new law enacted in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act). First, rules for the now terminated (as to 2002 and subsequent crops) marketing quota program for peanuts are removed. Second, th...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Meetings:

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing a forthcoming meeting of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Department of Commerce has issued an amendment to the Export Trade Certificate of Review granted to Northwest Fruit Exporters ("NFE") on June 11, 1984. Notice of issuance of the Certificate was published in the Federal Register on June 14, 1984 (...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Extension of a currently approved collection, comment request.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
In response to requests by the Stainless Steel Cookware Committee (the Committee), the petitioner, and two manufacturers/ exporters of the subject merchandise, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
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 D season allowance of the pollock total allowable catch (TAC) for Statistical Area 610 of the GOA.
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Foreign trade statistics:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census Bureau) is amending the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR) to incorporate requirements for the mandatory Automated Export System (AES)/AESDirect filing for items identified on the Department of Commerce's Comme...
Proposed Rule Oct 09, 2002

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the Sea Grant Review Panel. The meeting will have several purposes. Panel members will discuss and provide advice on the National Sea Grant College Program in the are...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Futures Modernization Act; implementation:

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting a number of technical amendments to its rules implementing the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 with respect to trading facilities and clearing organizations. The ru...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requests comments on a proposed extension of approval, for a period of three years from the date of approval by the Office of Man...
Notice Oct 09, 2002
In the July 9, 2002 Federal Register (67 FR 45483), the Consumer Product Safety Commission published a notice in accordance with provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) to announce the agency's intention to seek an ex...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Associations:

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
U.S. Military Academy, Board of Visitors; correction
Correction Oct 09, 2002

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board logo Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

Recommendations:

Title Type Published
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has made a recommendation to the Secretary of Energy pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2286a(a)(5) concerning quality assurance for safety-related software.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Northeast Utilities Service Co. et al.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Fernald. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Feder...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Natural gas companies (Natural Gas Act) and Natural Gas Policy Act:

Title Type Published
On February 9, 2000, the Commission issued Order No. 636, amending its regulations in response to growing development of more competitive markets for natural gas and the transportation of natural gas (65 FR 10156, February 25, 2000). The Commission i...
Proposed Rule Oct 09, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

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EPA is approving the Sections 111(d)/129 State Plan originally submitted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MA DEP) on January 11, 1999, and revised on November 16, 2001. This State Plan is for implementing and enforcing pro...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

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

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EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the state of Iowa. The SIP revisions, regarding the State's construction permitting rules as they pertain to industrial anaerobic lagoons and anaerobic lagoons for anim...
Proposed Rule Oct 09, 2002
EPA is announcing it is approving revisions to the Iowa State Implementation Plan (SIP). The SIP revisions, regarding the state's construction permitting rules as they pertain to industrial anaerobic lagoons and anaerobic lagoons for animal feeding o...
Rule Oct 09, 2002
On March 21, 2002, EPA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that proposed approval of revisions to Utah's state air quality implementation plan (SIP). The revisions update Utah's vehicle inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs. On August...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), EPA gives notice of a meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Program (GMP) Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC).
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of an application to register a pesticide product containing a new active ingredient not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Notice Oct 09, 2002
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
International Longshore and Warehouse Union; creation of board of inquiry to report on labor dispute (EO 13275)
Presidential Document Oct 09, 2002

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Child Health Day (Proc. 7603)
Presidential Document Oct 09, 2002
Fire Prevention Week (Proc. 7602)
Presidential Document Oct 09, 2002
German-American Day (Proc. 7604)
Presidential Document Oct 09, 2002

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of the forthcoming regular meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board).
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the reform of the International Settlements Policy, its international simple resale and benchmarks policy, and the issue of foreign mobile termination rates. 2......................
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Board published a Sunshine Act Notice in the Federal Register on October 7, 2002, regarding the Board of Directors meeting of October 9, 2002. The Notice contained an incorrect title of an agenda item.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

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

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

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

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

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

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Jurisdictional transfers:

Title Type Published
Mobile Point Light Station, Gulf Shores, AL; transfer to FWS
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Maternal and Child Health Research Grants Review Committee
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Disaster assistance:

Title Type Published
We, FEMA, published an interim final rule on September 30, 2002, 67 FR 61446, concerning Federal disaster assistance to individuals and households. There were a number of errors that were misleading and need clarification. This document corrects thos...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, we are inviting comments on a collection of information that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The information collection request (ICR) is ti...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Central Valley Project Improvement Act:

Title Type Published
The following Water Management Plans are available for review: [sbull] Colusa County Water District [sbull] Westlands Water District To meet the requirements of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992 (CVPIA) and the Reclamation Reform Act...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The Secretary of the Department of the Interior has established a Royalty Policy Committee (RPC), on the Minerals Management Advisory Board, to provide advice on the Department's management of Federal and Indian minerals leases, revenues, and other m...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability for public review of the Draft Recovery Plan for the Kneeland Prairie Penny-cress (Thlaspi californicum). The draft plan includes specific recovery criteria and measures to be taken in...
Notice Oct 09, 2002
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), designate critical habitat pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), for Thlaspi californicum (Kneeland Prairie penny-cress). The critical habitat consists of one unit whose bo...
Rule Oct 09, 2002
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to designate critical habitat pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), for Astragalus pycnostachyus var. lanosissimus (Ventura marsh milk-vetch). Approximately 170 hec...
Proposed Rule Oct 09, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Eugene District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a Cooperating Agency, is developing a plan for forest and aquatic ecosystem restoration within a Late-Successional Reserve (LSR) in the Coast Range...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

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The following described lands near the town of Eureka, Eureka County, Nevada, have been examined and found suitable for disposal by direct sale, at the appraised fair market value, to Homestake Mining Company of Eureka, Nevada. Authority for the sale...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued guidelines in the Federal Register on February 22, 2002 (67 FR 8452), that directed Federal agencies to issue and implement guidelines to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and inte...
Notice Oct 09, 2002
In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has incorporated public comments into revisions of marine mammal stock assessment reports (SARs) for Pacific walrus, polar bear, and sea otter in Alaska....
Notice Oct 09, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request.
Notice Oct 09, 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 preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

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National Labor Relations Board

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The National Labor Relations Board is amending the memorandum describing the authority and assigned responsibilities of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board with respect to administrative functions. The revisions are being adopte...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Byproduct material; medical use:

Title Type Published
This document corrects a final rule appearing in the Federal Register on April 24, 2002 (67 FR 20250). This action in necessary to correct typographic and editorial errors.
Rule Oct 09, 2002

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Domestic rates, fees, and mail classifications:

Title Type Published
This document establishes a docket for consideration of a proposed two-year experiment. The experiment entails two new discounts for certain co-palletized Periodicals mail that is dropshipped to designated destination entry facilities. This document...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f-2 under the Act, as well as from certain disclosure requirements.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 09, 2002
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 09, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Oct 09, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Oct 09, 2002
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 09, 2002
Options Clearing Corp.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
Georgia
Notice Oct 09, 2002
Mississippi
Notice Oct 09, 2002
Texas
Notice Oct 09, 2002

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
This rule amends the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services. Specifically, it raises from $65 to $100 the fee charged for the processing of an application for a nonimmigrant visa (MRV) or a combined nonimmigrant visa and border crossing card (BCC). T...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and its implementing regulations, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) hereby announces that it is seeking renewal of the following currently approved information collection activities. Befo...
Notice Oct 09, 2002
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 review and comme...
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Associations:

No documents available.

Motor carrier safety regulations:

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Oct 09, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
The final rule adopting fees beginning on page 60596 in the Federal Register of Thursday, September 26, 2002, contains errors that need correction.
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Railroad accidents/incidents; reporting requirements:

Title Type Published
FRA proposes to conform, to the extent practicable, its regulations on accident/incident reporting to the revised reporting regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor. This action will permit the...
Proposed Rule Oct 09, 2002

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Treasury gives notice of a final rule to exempt an Internal Revenue Service system of records entitled "Employee Complaint and Allegation Referral Recor...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

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 comment on proposed and continuing information collections, as required by the Paperw...
Notice Oct 09, 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 comment on proposed and continuing information collections, as required by the Paperw...
Notice Oct 09, 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 of 1995. OTS is soliciting public comments on the proposal.
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Articles conditionally free, subject to reduced rates, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document adopts as a final rule, with minor revisions, the interim rule amending the Customs Regulations that was published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2001, as T.D. 01-17. The interim rule implemented a change to the Caribbean Basin...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Fees assessment

Title Type Published
This final rule makes a correction to the final rule that the OCC published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2002 (67 FR 57509) amending 12 CFR 8.2(a). That provision sets forth the formula for the semiannual assessment the OCC charges each n...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Financial and accounting procedures:

Title Type Published
This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to increase the hourly percentage rate of charge for reimbursable Customs services. In a previous document published in the Federal Register on February 1, 2001, Customs had proposed increasing...
Proposed Rule Oct 09, 2002

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Treasury Department, Departmental Offices, gives notice of a newly proposed system of records, "Treasury/DO .214-DC Pensions Retirement Records."
Notice Oct 09, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Disabilities rating schedule:

Title Type Published
In a document published in the Federal Register on July 31, 2002, (67 FR 49590), we amended that portion of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Schedule for Rating Disabilities that addresses the skin. The document contains an error in the Supple...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

Medical benefits:

Title Type Published
VA's medical regulations captioned "Enrollment--Provision of Hospital and Outpatient Care to Veterans" implement a national enrollment system to manage the delivery of inpatient hospital care and outpatient medical care. Prior to October 1, 2002, vet...
Rule Oct 09, 2002

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