November 25, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register November 25, 2002

View all documents issued on November 25, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

110 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 25, 2002

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) is implementing a new rulemaking procedure to expedite making noncontroversial changes to its regulations. Rules that RBS judges to be noncontroversial and unlikely to result in adverse comments will be pu...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Farm Service Agency is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension of currently approved information collection that supports the Horse Breeder Loan p...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (collectively the Agencies) will prepare and consider a supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) on a proposal to amend the Record of Decision for the Northwest Forest Plan, which w...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Food Stamp Program:

Title Type Published
This action will revise Food Stamp Program regulations affecting the administrative review process available to retail and wholesale firms participating in the Food Stamp Program. It proposes to streamline and make technical corrections to this proce...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Agriculture will hold two meetings to solicit input on the accounting rules and guidelines for forest and agriculture greenhouse gas offsets that will be used in the Department of Energy's 1605(b) greenhouse gas reporting system. Th...
Notice Nov 25, 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 National Forest's Mineral County Resource Advisory Committee...
Notice Nov 25, 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) Chairman Report, (5) Status of Project Proposals, (6) Upda...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
China
Notice Nov 25, 2002
On October 1, 2002, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on collated roofing nails from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") and Taiwan (67 FR 61577). The Department is revoking the a...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Export administration regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by removing the special controls on the export and reexport of arms- related items imposed on July 14, 1998 on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) (FRY). Consequently...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces that commercial quota is available to allow the directed fishery for Loligo squid to reopen. Vessels issued a Federal moratorium permit to harvest Loligo squid in excess of the incidental catch allowance may resume landing of Loligo sq...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
NMFS informs surf clam and ocean quahog allocation owners that they are required to purchase their year 2003 cage tags from a vendor. The intent of this notice is to comply with regulations for the surfclam and ocean quahog fisheries and to promote e...
Notice Nov 25, 2002
NMFS proposes a regulation to implement the annual harvest guideline for Pacific sardine in the U.S. exclusive economic zone off the Pacific coast for the fishing season January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2003. This harvest guideline has been calc...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002
NMFS proposes a regulatory amendment that would revise the monkfish days-at-sea (DAS) regulations found at 50 CFR part 648 in order to provide vessels possessing limited access Category C or D monkfish permits the opportunity to fish their full alloc...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002
NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using pot and trawl gear to catcher/processor vessels using hook-and-line gear in the BSAI. These actions are necessary to allow the 2002 total allowable catch (TAC) of Paci...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
NMFS announces that the summer flounder commercial quota available to the State of Connecticut has been harvested. Vessels issued a commercial Federal fisheries permit for the summer flounder fishery may not land summer flounder in Connecticut for th...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) publishes this notice to amend a notice entitled Call for Proposals for Research in Satellite Data Assimilation for Numerical and Climate Prediction Models.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); binational panel reviews:

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On November 19, 2002, the binational panel issued its decision in the review of the final scope ruling made by the International Trade Administration, respecting Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Mexico, NAFTA Secretariat File Number USA-MEX-...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Dr. Elizabeth Wenner, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC 29422-2559, has applied in due form for a permit to take loggerhead (Caretta caretta), Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempi), green (Cheloni...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Jacksonville District, intends to prepare a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for the Indian River Lagoon-North Feasibility Study. Encompassing the lagoon's northern watershed, the stu...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Global Positioning Systems:

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public that the Global Positioning System (GPS) Joint Program Office (JPO) proposes to revise ICD-GPS-200, Navstar GPS Space Segmen/Navigation User Interfaces, to include the description of the proposed L2C signal, to be trans...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Notice is given of the names of members of a Performance Review Board for the Department of the Army.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The DOE/NNSA and AFRL, through the NNSA Oakland Operations Office, intends to seek proposals to advance the state-of-the-art in nuclear explosion monitoring in the field of seismic methods. This will be achieved through basic and applied research tha...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meeting be announced in the Fede...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the EPA Administrator has denied the petition to object to a state operating permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) for the ENGAGE plant modification at Dow Chemical Company in Plaquemine,...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Air programs:

Title Type Published
On December 1, 2000, EPA adopted emission guidelines for existing commercial and industrial solid waste incineration (CISWI) units. Sections 111 and 129 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) require States with existing CISWI units subject to the emission guide...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002

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

Title Type Published
On October 7, 2002 (67 FR 62385), EPA published a direct final approval of a revision to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) State Implementation Plan (SIP). This revision concerned BAAQMD Rule 9-10, Nitrogen Oxides and Carbon Monox...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
On September 19, 1975, we approved the East Helena Sulfur Dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) State Implementation Plan (SIP). Additionally, on May 1, 1984, we approved revisions to the East Helena SO<INF>2</INF> SIP. Finally, on January 27, 1995, we approved a...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin to accept proposals on November 25, 2002, for grants to supplement State and Tribal Response Programs cleanup capacity. This notice provides guidance on eligibility for funding, use of funding, gra...
Notice Nov 25, 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) Policy Review Board (PRB).
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Advisory Committee was established Pub. L. 98-181, November 30, 1983, to advise the Export-Import Bank on its programs and to provide comments for inclusion in the reports of the Export-Import Bank of the United States to Congress,
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Digital television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission, by this document, denies a petition for reconsideration filed by Sherjan Broadcasting Company, Inc., of the Report and Order, which substituted DTV channel *40 for station WPPB- TV's assigned DTV channel *44 at Boca Raton, Florida.\1\...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Special elections; filing dates:

Title Type Published
Hawaii has scheduled a special election on January 4, 2003, to fill the U.S. House of Representatives seat in the Second Congressional District to which the late Representative Patsy T. Mink was reelected on November 5, 2002. Committees participating...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service logo Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Arbitration services:

Title Type Published
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is proposing to revise the Appendix to 29 CFR Part 1404 to replace the fee schedule item for processing requests for panels of arbitrators with two new fee schedule categories--one for processing request...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Nov 25, 2002
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Food Contact Substances Notification System" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Extension of deadlines for competitive applications for the Indian Women's Health Demonstration Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Notice Nov 25, 2002
Systems-Based Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee to Director
Notice Nov 25, 2002
Notice.
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Cancer Institute
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Notice Nov 25, 2002
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Notice Nov 25, 2002
SAMHSA Special Emphasis Panels; correction
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Alaska (FEMA-1440-DR), dated November 8, 2002, and related determinations.
Notice Nov 25, 2002
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Texas, (FEMA-1439-DR), dated November 5, 2002, and related determinations.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the CSX Transportation Railroad Swing Span Bridge across Three Mile Creek, mile 0.3, at Mobile, Baldwin County, AL. This devia...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Union Pacific Railroad Swing Span Bridge across the Calcasieu River, mile 36.4, at Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, LA. Thi...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the SR 46 (St. Claude Avenue) bridge across the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, mile 0.5 (GIWW mile 6.2 East of Harvey Lock) in...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
The Coast Guard is changing the regulations that govern the operation of the Isabel S. Holmes Bridge across the Northeast Cape Fear River, mile 1.0, in Wilmington, North Carolina. The final rule will reduce the number of bridge openings for transit o...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Union Pacific Railroad Swing Span Bridge across the Sabine River, mile 19.3, at Echo, Orange County, TX. This deviation al...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
FEMA announces the following open meeting. Name: Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS). Date of Meeting: December 5, 2002. Place: Building J, Room 107, National Emergency Training Center (NETC), 16825 South Seton Avenue...
Notice Nov 25, 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 Nov 25, 2002

Mortgage and loan insurance programs:

Title Type Published
This notice announces HUD's intention to sell certain unsubsidized multifamily and healthcare mortgage loans, without Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance, in a competitive, sealed bid sale (MHLS 2002-2). This notice also describes generall...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Section 102 (2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, a DEIS has been prepared by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Las Vegas Field Office for the Ivanpah Energy Center. The DEIS was prepared to analyze the impact...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Opening of public lands:

Title Type Published
This notice terminates a portion of a Recreation and Public Purposes Act Classification on 40.55 acres, as this classification is no longer needed.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
This action terminates Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Classification N 061122 in its entirety. The land will be opened to the public land laws, including the mining laws.
Notice Nov 25, 2002
Lease/Conveyance for Recreation and Public Purposes
Notice Nov 25, 2002
The following described public land in Nye County, Nevada has been examined and classified as suitable for conveyance, in accordance with Section 7 of the Taylor Grazing Act, 43 U.S.C. 315f, and Executive Order No. 6910. Patent will be issued to Nye...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Withdrawal and reservation of lands:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy has filed an application to modify Public Land Order 3457, which withdrew 1,078.81 acres of public lands on behalf of the Department of Navy for use as a Microwave Space Relay Station. The Department of the Navy has request...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Employee benefit plans; class exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains a final exemption from certain prohibited transaction restrictions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). The exemption was proposed in conjunction with the Department's Voluntary Fiduciary Correction (VFC) Program, t...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

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National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council

Title Type Published
The Compact Council established pursuant to the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact (Compact) is publishing a rule proposing to establish Dispute Adjudication Procedures. These procedures support Article XI of the Compact.
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002

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National Labor Relations Board

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. This is the required notice.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

No documents available.

Petitions; Director's decisions:

Title Type Published
Union of Concerned Scientists
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; independent storage; licensing requirements:

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Nov 25, 2002

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Excepted service:

Title Type Published
This gives notice of OPM decisions, granting authority to make appointments under Schedule C in the excepted service as required by 5 CFR 6.1 and 213.103.
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing to revise its regulations governing Federal Executive Boards. The proposed regulations are intended to make the regulations concerning the Boards consistent with the current OPM structure and not...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
Notice Nov 25, 2002
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
Ohio
Notice Nov 25, 2002
Texas
Notice Nov 25, 2002
West Virginia
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This notice proposes to amend the Class D airspace at White Plains, NY. Controlled airspace extending upward from the surface is needed to contain aircraft executing Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) procedures and provide a safer operating environment. T...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002
This action establishes Class D airspace at Griffiss Airpark, Rome, NY. This action is necessary to insure continuous altitude coverage for Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations to the airport. The area would be depicted on aeronautical charts for...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
This notice proposes to establish Class E airspace at William T. Piper Memorial Airport (LHV), Lock Haven, PA. The development of a Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to serve flights operating into William T. Piper Memorial Airport under...
Proposed Rule Nov 25, 2002
This action modifies Class E airspace at Flint, MI. Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPS) to several Runways (RWYS) have been developed for Prices Airport, Linden, MI. Controlled airspace extending upward from 700 fee...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
This action modifies Class E airspace at Indianapolis, IN, Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) to several Runways (RWYS) have been developed for Indianapolis International Airport. Controlled airspace extending upwa...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
Class E airspace; correction
Correction Nov 25, 2002

Airline service quality performance reports:

Title Type Published
As required by Federal statute, the Department of Transportation is modifying certain reporting requirements. We are requiring air carriers that file airline service quality performance reports to collect and report the causes of airline delays and c...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), that is applicable to MT-Propeller Entwicklung GMBH Models MTV-9- B-C and MTV-3-B-C propellers. That AD currently requires initial and repetitive inspections of Torx head blade root...
Rule Nov 25, 2002
Textron Lycoming; correction
Correction Nov 25, 2002

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport under the provisions of the 49 U.S.C. 40117 and part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations...
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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 25, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In 1998 the IRS established the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). The primary purpose of ETAAC is to provide an organized public forum for discussion of electronic tax administration issues in support of the overriding goal th...
Notice Nov 25, 2002
An open meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Ad Hoc Committee will be conducted (via teleconference).
Notice Nov 25, 2002
An open meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, E-Filing Issue Committee will be conducted via teleconference.
Notice Nov 25, 2002
An open meeting of Area 6 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference).
Notice Nov 25, 2002

Regulatory reporting standards:

Title Type Published
The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) is adopting an interim final rule that amends its annual independent audit requirements for small, non-public, highly rated savings associations that voluntarily obtain independent audits. This change will make...
Rule Nov 25, 2002

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