November 18, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register November 18, 2002

View all documents issued on November 18, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

118 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 18, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Del Norte County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on December 3, 2002 in Crescent City, California. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the selection of Title II projects under Pub. L. 106-393, H.R. 2389, the Secure Rural Schools...
Notice Nov 18, 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 Nov 18, 2002
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Export privileges, actions affecting:

Title Type Published
Oerlikon Schweisstechnik AG
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces receipt of, and requests public comment on, a petition from the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (Petitioner) to initiate rulemaking to amend the current Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) allocation criteria and to create a winter...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002
This document contains a correction to a final rule published on October 29, 2002. It removes an amendatory instruction that was inadvertently published in the October 29, 2002 document.
Rule Nov 18, 2002
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a public hearing to address findings from the SAW/SARC (Stock Assessment Workshop/Stock Assessment Review Committee) process for the red porgy stock assessment. The hearing will includ...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
NMFS will hold joint meetings of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel (HMS AP) and the Atlantic Billfish Advisory Panel (Billfish AP), February 10 through 12, 2003, in Silver Spring, MD. The intent of these meetings is to consider alt...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Joint Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Industry Advisors will hold a public meeting.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Groundfish Oversight in December, 2002. Recommendations from the committee will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropri...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory committees will hold public meetings December 2-9, 2002, in Anchorage, Alaska.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold meetings of its Snapper Grouper Committee, Finance Committee, Highly Migratory Species Committee, Advisory Panel Selection Committee (closed session), Habitat Committee and Dolphin Wah...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee will meet in closed session at the Pentagon on December 5-6, 2002, from 0900 to 1800. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of De...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Executive Order 12473, July 13, 1984, states that the Secretary of Defense shall cause the Manual for Courts-Martial to be reviewed annually and recommend to the President any appropriate amendments. Under the direction of the General Counsel of the...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Education (Department) issues these final regulations to adjust the Department's civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for inflation. These are the first such adjustments made by the Department, and all of the increases are limited to 10...
Rule Nov 18, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would revise the Department of Energy's (DOE's) floodplain and wetland environmental review requirements to add flexibility and remove unnecessary procedural burdens by: Simplifying DOE public notification procedures for proposed f...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the informatio...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The EIA has submitted the energy information collections listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and a three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Alcoa Power Generating Inc.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
California Independent System Operator Corp.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Cove Point LNG L.P.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Duke Energy Corp.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Regent Resources Ltd.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Reliant Energy Mid-Atlantic Power Holdings, LLC
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Trinity Conservancy Inc.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Central Hudson Gas Electric Corp. et al.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Grande Pointe Power Corp.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to revise its approach for managing approximately 0.97 metric tons (MT) of plutonium- bearing materials (containing about 0.18 MT of surplus plutonium) that are currently located at the Rocky Flats Envi...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Preliminary permits surrender:

Title Type Published
Big Rock Power Partners
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Shanks, Gene Arlin
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Grants, State and local assistance:

Title Type Published
EPA's grant regulations (40 CFR 35.150) require the Agency to evaluate the performance of agencies which receive grants. EPA's regulations for regional consistency (40 CFR 56.7) require that the Agency notify the public of the availability of the rep...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Meetings:

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

Title Type Published
Under Section 122(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Voltex Batteries, Inc. et al., d/b/a/ Steve Drive Enterprises, Inc. (Respondent) entered into a de minimis administrative order on consent wit...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to enter into an administrative order on consent pursuant to Section 122(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, regarding the Pres...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the appointment of members of the EEOC Performance Review Board.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Trade:

Title Type Published
Textile and apparel articles; modification of tariffs for Caribbean Basin and sub-Saharan African countries (Proc. 7626)
Presidential Document Nov 18, 2002
Trade negotiations status; notification to Congress (memorandum of November 13, 2002)
Presidential Document Nov 18, 2002

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Renewable Energy Exports Advisory Committee was established by the Board of Directors at Ex-Im Bank to assist the Bank in meeting its objective of supporting U.S. exporters in renewable energy industries. In addition, the goal is to seek advice f...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee was established by P.L. 105-121, November 26, 1997, to advise the Board of Directors on the development and implementation of policies and programs designed to support the expansion of the Bank's financial co...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
In this document the Federal Communications Commission, (Commission), Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, seeks to verify ITFS, MDS, and MMDS legal matters pending in the Broadband Licensing System. The Commission is requesting that all ITFS, MDS and...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Extensions of credit by Federal Reserve banks (Regulation A):

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors has amended its Regulation A on Extensions of Credit by Federal Reserve Banks to reflect its approval of a decrease in the basic discount rate at each Federal Reserve Bank. The Board acted on requests submitted by the Boards of...
Rule Nov 18, 2002

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal travel:

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration (GSA) is amending the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) to improve the ability of the per diem rates to meet the lodging demands of Federal travelers to high cost travel locations. GSA has integrated the contracting...
Rule Nov 18, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Notice of program exclusions.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the regulatory review period for EVOXAC and is publishing this notice of that determination as required by law. FDA has made the determination because of the submission of an application to the Co...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the regulatory review period for GLEEVEC and is publishing this notice of that determination as required by law. FDA has made the determination because of the submission of an application to the C...
Notice Nov 18, 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 Nov 18, 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 Nov 18, 2002

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
In this notice, the Secretary revokes the delegation of authority delegated to the President of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), to execute legal instruments pertaining to Section 312 loans, and to redelegate the authority t...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
This notice advises the public that the Secretary, on May 22, 2002, revoked the delegation of authority of the President of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), to execute legal instruments pertaining to Section 312 loans, and t...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces HUD's final guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated to the public by HUD ("Information Quality Guidelines"). The notice follows publication of a May 30,...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are notifying the public that we have submitted to OMB an information collection request (ICR) to renew approval of the paperwork requirements in the regulations under 30 CFR part 280, "Pro...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Mojave Southern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC), Nev...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Special regulations:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS) is postponing the implementation of some existing snowmobile regulations in Yellowstone National Park, the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park for one year. This additional time is...
Rule Nov 18, 2002

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
The plats of survey of the following described lands were officially filed in the Oregon State Office, Portland, Oregon, on August 15, 2002.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
The Commission hereby gives notice that it will proceed with a full review pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(5)) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on crawfish tail meat from China w...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
China
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
60-day notice of information collection under review: New collection; 2002 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Application to Replace Alien Registration Card; Form I-90.
Notice Nov 18, 2002
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Inspection of Persons Applying for Admission; Transit Without Visa (TWOV) and International-to-International Agreements; Liquidated Damages.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Inte...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (th...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Labor Research Advisory Council
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
This NPRM proposes several revisions to the LSC regulations implementing the Freedom of Information Act. The proposed revisions would add provisions detailing the submitter's rights process, provide LSC with express authority to defer action on pendi...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002

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National Science Foundation

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request clearance of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we are providing opportunity for p...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
Under the paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), and as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is inviting the general public or other Federal...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Petitions; Director's decisions:

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Postage meters:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the regulations for inspecting postage meter production facilities that are located outside the continental United States. This rule requires the manufacturer to reimburse the Postal Service for certain costs incurred by requir...
Rule Nov 18, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Securities:

Title Type Published
800America.com, Inc.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
Texas
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Small Business Investment Companies:

Title Type Published
Maximum leverage ceiling increase
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Boeing Model 777-200 and 777-300 series airplanes. This proposal would require application of high-temperature sealant to the strut aft dry bay. T...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all McDonnell Douglas transport category airplanes listed above. This proposal would require a check of the slant pressure panels of the wheel wells of th...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Saab Model SAAB 340B series airplanes equipped with Hamilton Sundstrand propellers. This proposal would require a one-time inspection of two remot...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002

Commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors:

No documents available.

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project that will traverse the southeastern section of the State of Alabama.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
In response to the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act of 2000, this document establishes a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard to improve the information readily available to consumers about tires....
Rule Nov 18, 2002

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
By this Notice, the Department of the Treasury is informing the public that it has revised the mandatory data collections conducted through reporting on the Treasury International Capital (TIC) B-forms. The revisions are effective for all reports beg...
Notice Nov 18, 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 take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Sound Federal Bancorp, Inc.
Notice Nov 18, 2002

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains temporary regulations under section 6043(c) requiring information reporting by a corporation if control of the corporation is acquired or if the corporation has a recapitalization or other substantial change in capital structur...
Rule Nov 18, 2002
In the rules and regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register, the IRS is issuing temporary regulations relating to information reporting relating to taxable stock transactions. This document contains proposed regulations under section 6...
Proposed Rule Nov 18, 2002

U
United States Institute of Peace

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Agency announces its Upcoming Spring 2003 Solicited Grant Competition. The solicited grant competition is restricted to projects that fit specific themes and topics identified in advance by the Institute of Peace. The themes and topics for the Sp...
Notice Nov 18, 2002
The Agency announces its Upcoming Unsolicited Grant Program, which offers support for research, education and training, and the dissemination of information on international peace and conflict resolution. The unsolicited competition is open to any pr...
Notice Nov 18, 2002

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