January 9, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register January 9, 2003

View all documents issued on January 9, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

82 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 9, 2003

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adopting, as a final rule, with changes, an interim final rule establishing a new part 996 which requires all domestic and imported peanuts marketed in the United States to be officially inspected. This action...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Program regulations:

Title Type Published
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) proposes to amend its regulations to eliminate the 30-day past-due period prior to a determination that the borrower is delinquent and clarify the use of the terms "delinquent" and "past due" with regard to direct loan s...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Raisins produced from grapes grown in

Title Type Published
This rule increases the assessment rate established for the Raisin Administrative Committee (Committee) for the 2002-03 and subsequent crop years from $6.50 to $8.00 per ton of free tonnage raisins acquired by handlers, and reserve tonnage raisins re...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Shell eggs, voluntary grading:

Title Type Published
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) proposes to amend the regulations governing the voluntary shell egg grading program by clarifying the requirements for using the "Produced From" grademark for shell eggs. Use of this grademark began in April 1...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Notice of Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the preliminary results of the current review of the antidumping duty order on certain polyester staple fiber from Korea. The period of review is May 1, 2001 through April 30, 2002. This exte...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In Accordance with 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the forthcoming meeting Name of Committee: Inland Waterways Users Board (Board). Date: February 13, 2003. Location: Washington Court Hotel on...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with 37 CFR 404.6 and 404.7, announcement is made of the availability for licensing of U.S. Patent Application No. 09/479,877 entitled "Transformed Bacteria Producing CS6 Antigens as Vaccines," file January 10, 2000. The United States G...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
This notice amends Performance Review Boards Membership, published November 25, 2002 (67 FR 70584), for the Department of the Army. The following name is added to the Performance Review Board for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE): Mr. Joseph T...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Financial Assistance Solicitation No. DE-PS26-03NT41463 entitled "2003 Climate Change Fuel Cell Buy-Down Program. The objective of the cost-shared program is to simultaneously stimulate commercialization...
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Notice is hereby given of the cancellation of Financial Assistance Solicitation No. DE-PS26[dash]03NT41716 entitled "Gasification Technologies Fundamental Research" which was published in the Federal Register on December 02, 2002 (67 FR 71544).
Notice Jan 09, 2003

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 Jan 09, 2003
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Hanford. 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 Jan 09, 2003
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public no...
Notice Jan 09, 2003
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Rocky Flats. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meeting be announced in the Fe...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
This action proposes national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the plywood and composite wood products (PCWP) source category. The EPA has determined that the PCWP source category contains major sources of hazardous air po...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Air programs:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to grant interim approval of the alternate permit program submitted by the Territory of Guam (Guam). In EPA's November 13, 1996 direct final rule, EPA granted Guam, as well as owners and operators of certain sources within Guam, an e...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003
The EPA is taking direct final action to grant interim approval of the alternate permit program submitted by the Territory of Guam (Guam). In EPA's November 13, 1996 direct final rule, EPA granted Guam, as well as owners and operators of certain sour...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a one-day public forum to discuss water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States. EPA's goal is to bring together stakeholders, including those from business, government, and academia, to excha...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

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 Jan 09, 2003

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), Region II, o...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Water programs:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or we) is extending for a period of sixty days the dates for a facility to amend its Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan and implement the amended Plan (or, in the case of facilities beco...
Rule Jan 09, 2003
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or we) is proposing to extend, by one year, the dates for a facility to amend its Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan, and implement the amended Plan (or, in the case of facilities becomi...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

International banking operations (Regulation K):

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is amending its regulations relating to international lending by simplifying the discussion concerning the accounting for fees on international loans to make the regulation consistent with...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration (GSA) is proposing to amend the General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to charge subscribers to the value-added e-mail notification service of Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps.gov) a modest annual...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Federal Management Regulation:

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration is issuing amendments to FMR Amendment C-1, Real Property Policies Update, published in the Federal Register at 67 FR 76820, December 13, 2002, to correct the dollar thresholds associated with negotiated sales and...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

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 listed below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect a change of sponsor's name from Micro Chemical, Inc., to Micro Beef Technologies LTD and to correct the sponsor's mailing address.
Rule Jan 09, 2003
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect a change of address for Pennfield Oil Co.
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Harmonisation International Conference; pharmaceuticals guidelines availability:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration is correcting a notice that appeared in the Federal Register of December 30, 2002 (67 FR 79639). The document announced the availability of a draft guidance entitled "Common Technical Document--Quality: Questions and...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Meetings:

No documents available.

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
This document corrects the temporary final rule; request for comments published in the Federal Register on December 9, 2002, creating temporary safety and security zones around the Drillboat No. 8 and Lablift IV to protect the public from hazards ass...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announce the availability for public review of a Draft Recovery Plan for the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum) (Draft Plan). The species is currently known to occur on Feder...
Notice Jan 09, 2003
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), designate critical habitat pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), for three of the 37 species known historically from the Hawaiian island of Lanai. The three species are Bid...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has prepared a draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) to examine the impacts of...
Notice Jan 09, 2003
This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs is canceling the notice of intent to file a final programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Navajo Nation Ten-Year Forest Management Plan that we published in the Fed...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Spokane Tribe of Indians, as co-lead agencies, intend to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposed update to the Integrated Resource Management Plan (IRMP) for the Spokane Indian Reservat...
Notice Jan 09, 2003
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), with the cooperation of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), intends to gather the information necessary for preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed lease o...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Irrigation projects; operation and maintenance charges:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) owns, or has an interest in, irrigation facilities located on various Indian reservations throughout the United States where rates are established to recover its costs to administer, operate, maintain, and rehabilit...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, provide notice that the public comment period for the proposed regulations that would authorize for the next five years the incidental, unintentional take of a small number of Florida manatees (Trichechus manat...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Adaptive Management Program (AMP) was implemented as a result of the Record of Decision on the Operation of Glen Canyon Dam Final Environmental Impact Statement to comply with consultation requirements of the Grand Canyon Protection Act (Pub. L....
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
Alcoa Fujikura, LTD, et al.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Analog Devices, Inc.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Arkansas Metal Castings, Inc.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Baxter Healthcare Corp.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
CSI Employment Services
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Eagle Zinc Co.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Huntsman Polymers Corp.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Osram Sylvania Products, Inc.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Partminer, Inc., et al.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Pfaltzgraff Co.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Quebecor World Kingsport, Inc., et al.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Rockford Co.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Simmons Foods et al.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Temp Associates
Notice Jan 09, 2003
VF Jeanswear, L.P.
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Voith Fabrics, Inc.
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 09, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
As part of their obligation to refrain from national origin discrimination, LSC grantees must ensure they are providing proper service to persons with limited English proficiency (LEP). LSC is considering whether guidance (formal or informal) from LS...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
NRC Research will sponsor a three-day conference addressing issues of flaw detection and crack growth rate modeling and applications for nickel-base alloys used as vessel head penetrations (VHP) and other pressure boundary attachments. Participants w...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

O
Ocean Policy Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission on Ocean Policy will hold a meeting to discuss the development of recommendations for a coordinated national ocean policy. This will be the fourteenth public Commission meeting.
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Railroad services abandonment:

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Computer reservation systems, carrier-owned:

Title Type Published
The Department has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that proposes to readopt and amend its existing rules governing airline computer reservations systems (CRSs) and to clarify the requirements of its Statements of General Policy on travel agenc...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
RSPA is reducing the registration fees paid by persons who transport or offer for transportation in commerce certain categories and quantities of hazardous materials, in order to eliminate the unexpended balance in the Hazardous Materials Emergency P...
Rule Jan 09, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a closed meeting of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC).
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to provide that, in addition to the importer or consignee, parties that electronically transmit vessel cargo manifest information directly to Customs 24 or more hours before cargo is laden aboar...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Organization and functions; field organization, ports of entry, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document proposes to amend the Customs regulations pertaining to the field organization of Customs by extending the geographical limits of the port of entry of Portland, Maine, to include the City of Auburn, Maine. This proposed change is being...
Proposed Rule Jan 09, 2003

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service (FMS), gives notice of a proposed alteration to the system of records entitled "Claims and Inquiry Records on Treasury Checks, and International Claimants," which is subject to the Privacy...
Notice Jan 09, 2003

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Savings associations:

Title Type Published
Transactions with affiliates; correction
Correction Jan 09, 2003

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