January 6, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register January 6, 2003

View all documents issued on January 6, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

104 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 6, 2003

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of the Veterinary Accreditation Progr...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App 2, the United States Department of Agriculture announces solicitation for nominations to fill eight vacancies on the Forestry Research Advisory Council.
Notice Jan 06, 2003
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., the United States Department of Agriculture announces the appointments to the 11 vacancies on the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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We are advising the public that an environmental assessment has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to the control program of the Oriental mealybug (Planococcus lilacinus). The environmental assessment documents o...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Meat and poultry inspection:

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending until January 1, 2006, the effective date for the requirements: That individual meat and poultry products bearing the claim "healthy" (or any other derivative of the term "health") contain no...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Poultry and livestock:

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing this notice to address comments that it received on its August 6, 2001 Federal Register notice, "Residue Testing Procedures." That notice announced that FSIS was changing the action that it wou...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Broadcasting Board of Governors logo Broadcasting Board of Governors

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

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The Department of Commerce has received requests to conduct four new shipper reviews of the antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from the People's Republic of China. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Cheese quota; foreign government subsidies:

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The Department of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, has prepared its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty during the period October 1, 2001 through September...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS proposes 2003 specifications for the Atlantic bluefish fishery, including total allowable landings (TAL), state-by-state commercial quotas, and recreational harvest limits and possession limits for Atlantic bluefish off the East Coast of the Uni...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

Meetings:

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The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) has begun its annual preseason management process for the 2003 ocean salmon fisheries. This document announces the availability of Council documents as well as the dates and locations of Council meetin...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Contract market proposals:

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The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX of Exchange) has proposed three (3) new futures contracts: the PJM Calendar-Month Daily- LMP Swap (PJM interconnection, LLC) futures contract; NYMEX PJM Calendar-Week Daily-LMP Swap (PJM interconnection, LLC) f...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Science Board
Notice Jan 06, 2003
Science Board
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

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The Leader, Regulatory 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 Jan 06, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Assistant Secretary for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education announces proposed achievement indicators for the Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program (ECEPD), for fiscal year (FY) 2003 and future year grants. This p...
Notice Jan 06, 2003
The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) announces seven FY 2003 competitions for grants to support educational research. The Director takes this action under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (Act), Title I of Public L...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
PSEG Power Connecticut LLC et al.
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Practice and procedure:

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Off-the-record communications
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs:

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On July 18, 1997, in accordance with sections 108 and 109 of the Clean Air Act (Act), EPA completed its review of the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone (O<INF>3</INF>) by promulgating revised primary and secondary standards (62...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Hazardous waste:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, also, `the Agency' or `we') is reopening the period for submitting public comments on our previous proposal to approve two petitions submitted by the University of California--E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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Pursuant to section 304(a) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces two actions: (1) The finalization of nine section 304(a) ecoregional nutrient criteria documents for lakes and reservoirs, and rivers and str...
Notice Jan 06, 2003
The Environmental Protection Agency announces the availability of a final nutrient criteria technical guidance manual for estuaries and coastal marine waters. This document gives State and Tribal water quality managers and others guidance on how to d...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Libya; continuation of national emergency (Notice of January 2, 2003)
Presidential Document Jan 06, 2003

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of the special meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board).
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Agency information collection activities:

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The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jan 06, 2003
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Digital television stations; table of assignments:

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The Commission, at the request of Central Michigan University, allots DTV channel *23 at Traverse City, Michigan. See 67 FR 6905, February 14, 2002. DTV channel *23 can be allotted to Traverse City in compliance with the geographic spacing criteria o...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Radio stations; table of assignments:

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The Audio Division, at the request of Powerline NA, Inc., allots Channel 298A at Jasper, Florida, as the community's first local FM transmission service. See 67 FR 63876, October 16, 2002. Channel 298A can be allotted to Jasper in compliance with the...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This document allots Channel 234A to Crawfordville, Georgia, in response to a petition filed by Ritz Radio. See 67 FR 53901, August 20, 2002. The coordinates for Channel 234A at Crawfordville, Georgia, are 33-31-18 and 82-56-52. There is a site restr...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
In this document, the Commission reallots Channel 265A from Lebanon to Speedway, Indiana, as the community's first local aural transmission service and modifies the license for Station WYJZ(FM) to reflect the changes. See 67 FR 42216 (06/21/2002). St...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This document requests comment on a petition for rulemaking filed on behalf of Cohanzick Broadcasting Corp., licensee of Station WSNJ-FM and New Jersey Radio Partners, LLC, assignee of Station WSNJ- FM, requesting the substitution of Channel 300A for...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003
In this document, the Commission dismisses the petition for rulemaking filed by Cohanzick Broadcasting Corporation requesting the reallotment of Channel 299B from Bridgeton, New Jersey, to Elmer, New Jersey. Petitioner, by filing amended proposal req...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003
This document requests comments on a petition filed by Robert Fabian proposing the allotment of Channel 224C2 at Buffalo, Oklahoma, as that community's first local FM service. The coordinates for Channel 224C2 at Buffalo are 36-50-36 North Latitude a...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Federal Election Campaign Act:

Title Type Published
Brokerage loans and lines of credit; transmittal to Congress; correction
Correction Jan 06, 2003

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Jan 06, 2003

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal travel:

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This final rule decreases the mileage reimbursement rate for use of a privately owned vehicle (POV) on official travel to reflect current costs of operation as determined in cost studies conducted by the General Services Administration (GSA). The gov...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Jan 06, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Meetings:

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect National Task Force
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Pollution:

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The Coast Guard proposes penalty provisions for non-submission of Ballast Water Management Reports. The Coast Guard also proposes widening the applicability of the reporting and recordkeeping requirements to all vessels bound for ports or places with...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

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 Jan 06, 2003
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 Jan 06, 2003

Grants:

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This proposed rule would revise those HUD regulations that impose unwarranted barriers to the participation of faith-based organizations in HUD programs and implement HUD's policy that, within the framework of constitutional church-state guidelines,...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

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We are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Utah regulatory program (hereinafter, the "Utah program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The State proposes to revise provisions of the Utah Co...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

Public administrative procedures:

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) amends its regulations pertaining to recordable disclaimers of interest in land. We are amending the regulation by: removing the 12-year regulatory filing deadline for states; removing the requirement that an appli...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
60-day notice of information collection under review: extension of a currently approved collection department initial report.
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $200 million in grant funds for skill training programs for unemployed and employed workers. These grants are financed by a...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Nationally recognized testing laboratories, etc.:

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This notice modifies the scope of recognition of certain Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs).
Notice Jan 06, 2003
This notice announces the application of Intertek Testing Services, NA, Inc., for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory under 29 CFR 1910.7, and presents the Agency's preliminary finding. This preliminary finding...
Notice Jan 06, 2003
This notice announces the applications by Underwriters Laboratories Inc. for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory under 29 CFR 1910.7, and presents the Agency's preliminary finding. This preliminary finding does...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

Title Type Published
NASA hereby gives notice that PolyuMac TechnoCore, Inc. of 1060 E. 30 Street, Hialeah, FL 33013, has applied for an exclusive license to practice the inventions described in NASA Case No. LAR- 15767-1, entitled "Polyimide Precursor Solid Residuum," f...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) is announcing the availability for public comment of a set of draft safety analyses related to the potential inadvertent disposal of two spent fuel rods...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

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

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to add the Standardized Advanced NUHOMS<SUP>[reg]</SUP> System to the list of approved spent fuel storage casks. The Standardized Advanced NUHOMS<SUP>[reg]</SUP> System has improved...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule that will allow the Department of Defense to use the Maintenance Mechanic Federal Wage System (FWS) survey job without having to seek OPM's approval on a case-by-case basis. This change will...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to redefine Tioga County, Pennsylvania, from the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area to the Rochester, New York, FWS wage area. This redefinition...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for the continued use o...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

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 Jan 06, 2003

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Domestic Mail Manual:

Title Type Published
The Postal Service intends to establish a Consensus Committee to develop recommendations for revision of USPS STD 4B, which governs the design of apartment house mailboxes. The committee will develop and adopt its recommendations through a consensus...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003

R
Railroad Retirement Board

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has submitted the following proposal(s) for the collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approva...
Notice Jan 06, 2003
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has submitted the following proposal(s) for the collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approva...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 06, 2003

State Department logo State Department

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This action modifies the Class E airspace at Carthersville, MO. The FAA has developed Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Runway (RWY) 36 ORIGINAL Standard Instrument Approach procedure (SIAP), RNAV (GPS) RWY 18 ORIGINAL SIAP and V...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of changes occurring in the National Airspace System, such as the...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Airbus Model A330 and A340 series airplanes, that requires a one-time inspection to determine the manufacturer's name, part number, and date code of certain circuit breakers;...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747 series airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections to detect evidence of wear damage in the area at the interface between the vertical stabilizer and...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 757-200 series airplanes with stowage bins installed forward of door 2 at Station 680. This AD requires a one-time inspection to determine if a certain inter...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737-600, -700, -700C, -800, and -900 series airplanes, that requires replacement of the existing fueling float switch and conduit assemblies in the main and...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Boeing Model 767 series airplanes. This proposal would require an inspection to detect cracks and fractures of the outboard hinge fitting assembli...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to all Dornier-Werke G.m.b.H. (Dornier) Model Do 27 Q-6 airplanes. This proposed AD would require you to inspect the aileron and flap control cables for proper cleara...
Proposed Rule Jan 06, 2003
This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting airworthiness directive (AD) 2002-26-51 that was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of certain EMBRAER Model EMB-135 and -145 series airplanes by individual not...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Fokker Model F.28 Mark 0070 and 0100 series airplanes, that requires measurement of the over-center force of the thrust reverser operating levers, a functional test of the se...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas DC-9-10, DC-9-20, DC-9-30, DC- 9-40, and DC-9-50 series airplanes; and Model DC-9-81 (MD-81), DC-9-82 (MD-82), DC-9-83 (MD-83), DC-9-87 (MD-87), and MD-...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas DC-9-10, -20, -30, -40, and -50 series airplanes, that currently requires a one-time visual inspection to determine the modification status of...
Rule Jan 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Saab Model SAAB 2000, SAAB SF340A, and SAAB 340B series airplanes, that requires replacing the main pitot static tube on each side of the airplane with a new improved pitot s...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Aviation proceedings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Transportation is directing all interested persons to show cause why it should not issue an order (1) finding Boston-Maine Airways Corp. d/b/a Pan Am Clipper Connection fit, willing, and able to conduct operations using large aircra...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given of the actions on exemptio...
Notice Jan 06, 2003
In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), RSPA is publishing the following list of exemption applications that have been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the expected completion date for action on each appl...
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 198: Next-Generation Air/Ground Communications System (NEXCOM).
Notice Jan 06, 2003
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 201: Aeronautical Operational Control.
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Motor vehicle defect proceedings; petitions, etc.:

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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 initiate an investigation of model year (MY) 1995 Dodge Dakota vehicles to address an alleged safety-related defect....
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document responds, in part, to petitions for reconsideration of the amendments we made in December 2001 to our May 2000 Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) No. 208 advanced air bag final rule. Because of the time constraints faced by v...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

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 Manchester Airport under the provisions of the 49 U.S.C. 40117 and Part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 158).
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Pollution:

No documents available.

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 Jan 06, 2003
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 Jan 06, 2003
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 Jan 06, 2003
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 Jan 06, 2003

Currency and foreign transactions; financial reporting and recordkeeping requirements:

Title Type Published
FinCEN published in the Federal Register of September 26, 2002, a document (67 FR 60562) finalizing a rule to require certain financial institutions to obtain information from each foreign bank for which they maintain a correspondent account concerni...
Rule Jan 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, E-Filing Issue Committee will be conducted (via teleconference).
Notice Jan 06, 2003
An open meeting of the Area 5 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted.
Notice Jan 06, 2003
An open meeting of the Area 4 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference).
Notice Jan 06, 2003

Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 4 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 2002 Revision, published July 1, 2002, at 67 FR 44294.
Notice Jan 06, 2003
This is Supplement No. 5 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 2002 Revision, published July 1, 2002, at 67 FR 44294.
Notice Jan 06, 2003

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