February 14, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register February 14, 2003

View all documents issued on February 14, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

183 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 14, 2003

A
Agricultural Marketing Service

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

No documents available.

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has increased the 2002-crop overall allotment quantity (OAQ) of domestic sugar by 500,000 short tons, raw value (STRV). The beet sugar sector allotment increased to 4.457 million STRV, and the cane sugar sector incr...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Administrative practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The USDA amends the adjudication process for certain civil rights discrimination complaints filed administratively with USDA in order to establish deadlines for complainants to request a formal proceeding before an administrative law judge (ALJ) and...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, has reestablished the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration's Grain Inspection Advisory Committee. The Secretary of Agriculture has determined that the Committee is necessary...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Helena National Forest is proposing a revision of the existing year-round travel management plan in the northern portion of the Big Belt Mountains and portions of the Dry Range on the Helena and Townsend Ranger Districts. This travel plan will in...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Exportation and improtation of animals and animal products:

Title Type Published
We are amending the animal importation regulations by removing Texas from the lists of States approved to receive certain stallions and mares imported into the United States from regions affected with contagious equine metritis. This action is necess...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Interstate transportation of animals and animal products (quarantine):

Title Type Published
We are amending the exotic Newcastle disease regulations by quarantining La Paz and Yuma Counties, AZ, and a portion of Mohave County, AZ, and prohibiting or restricting the movement of birds, poultry, products, and materials that could spread exotic...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Del Norte County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on March 4, 2003 in Crescent City, California. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the selection of Title II projects under Public Law 106-393, H.R. 2389, the Secure Rural Schools...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393) the Caribou-Targhee National Forests' Eastern Idaho Resource Ad...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The Giant Sequoia National Monument Scientific Advisory Board (Scientific Advisory Board) will meet at the Visalia Convention Center in Visalia, California, March 12 and 13, 2003. The purpose of the meeting is to hear comments from the public, and to...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
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 Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests' North Central Idaho Re...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) will conduct a public meeting to review program operations for granting re-export credits to licensed refiners for shipments of sugar to Mexico. The meeting is open to the public.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
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 Feb 14, 2003

Swine health protection:

Title Type Published
We are amending the swine health protection regulations by removing Kansas and Oregon from the list of States that permit the feeding of treated garbage to swine and adding them to the list of States that prohibit garbage feeding. This action is nece...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
We preliminarily determine that sales of tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished, from the People's Republic of China, were made below normal value during the period June 1, 2001, through May 31, 2002. We are also rescindin...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
On October 9, 2002, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on top-of-the-stove stainless steel cooking ware (cookware) from the Republic of Korea (Korea). T...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce's Technology Administration is accepting nominations for its National Medal of Technology (NMT) 2003 program. Established by Congress in 1980, the President of the United States awards the National Medal of Technology annua...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received an application for an incidental take permit (Permit) from Dr. Anne Rudloe, Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories, Inc. (GSML) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). As required by the ESA, GSML's application...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces that the agency is considering revisions to the national standard guidelines for national standard 1 that specify criteria for determining overfishing and establishing rebuilding schedules. There have been concerns expressed by the sci...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003
NMFS is opening directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 630 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) for 24 hours. This action is necessary to fully use the 2003 interim total allowable catch of pollock specific for this area.
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Groundfish and Habitat Oversight Committee in March, 2003 to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendat...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold meetings of its Snapper Grouper Committee, Highly Migratory Species Committee, Habitat Committee, Advisory Panel Selection Committee (closed session) and Executive Committee. There wil...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Permits:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces the issuance of an exempted fishing permit (EFP) for the South Carolina Aquarium (applicant), located in Charleston, SC. The EFP would authorize the applicant, with certain conditions, to collect for public display annually, for 2 year...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Notice is hereby given that Michael Moore, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, has been issued a permit to collect, import and export parts from all cetaceans and pinniped species (excluding walrus) for purpo...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Title Type Published
This action adds to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List products previously furnished by such agencies.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete products and services previously furnished by such agencies. Com...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Committee has made available a draft of its Information Quality Guidelines pursuant to the requirements of the Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) will conduct a public meeting on March 17, 2003 to receive comments on the CPCS staff briefing package on petition HP 01-3 requesting a ban of chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood in...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation") will be providing a series of technical assistance conference calls for organizations applying directly to the Corporation for funding through the AmeriCorps*National...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
DoD is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to permit the use of alternative payment protections for fixed-price construction subcontracts between $25,000 and $100,000 issued under cost-reimbursement contra...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003
DOD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 8136 of the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003. Section 8136 requires the acquisition of domestic fish, shellfish,...
Rule Feb 14, 2003
DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to authorize DoD personnel to make emergency acquisitions in direct support of U.S. or allied forces deployed in military contingency, humanitarian, or...
Rule Feb 14, 2003
DoD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement section 332 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003. Section 332 provides temporary authority for contractor per...
Rule Feb 14, 2003
DoD is making technical amendments to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to update organizational names and addresses and cross references.
Rule Feb 14, 2003
DoD is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to increase a contractor's liability for loss or damage under vessel repair and alteration contracts, from $5,000 to $50,000 per incident. The increased dollar ce...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On December 13, 2002, a notice was published in the Federal Register announcing that the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) intends to issue a solicitation for cooperative agreement applications (SCAA) to assist State and local governments and other nonp...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Education Department logo Education Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming teleconference meeting of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans (Commission). The main agenda item for this teleconference is to a...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
This notice describes the schedule and agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the Federal Interagency Coordinating Council (FICC). Notice of this meeting is intended to inform members of the general public of their opportunity to attend the meeting. Th...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Special education and rehabilitative services:

Title Type Published
The Department gives notice that on January 31, 2002, an arbitration panel rendered a decision in the matter of Richard Bird v. Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission, Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired (Docket No. R-S/00-9). This panel wa...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is soliciting comments on proposed modifications and a three-year extension to the Form EIA-28, Financial Reporting System (FRS).
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Parowan City, UT
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Feb 14, 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. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meeting be announced in th...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is suspending the requirement that users of its online applications register electronically. On December 20, 2002, the Commission issued an order extending the requirement's effective date from the original ef...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This notice announces that pesticide related information submitted to EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

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

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register of September 27, 2002 (67 FR 60871) a document approving revisions to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Title 33 Environmental Quality Part III; Air Chapter 6...
Rule Feb 14, 2003
The EPA is proposing to fully approve the one-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Rhode Island serious ozone nonattainment area, submitted by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Protection on January 2...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board is requesting nominations to: (a) add expertise to the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council) for a Special Council Panel for the Review of the Third...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA expressed environmental concerns with potential impacts to air and water quality. EPA requests that the final EIS include more detailed information on criteria for assessment of soil and water mitigation measures, compliance of prescribed burns w...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Comment availability
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), in coordination with the EPA regions, is soliciting pesticide and special project proposals from eligible Tribes and intertribal consortia for fiscal year (FY) 2003 funding. Under this program, cooperative agre...
Notice Feb 14, 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 boscalid in or on various food commodities.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of pyrimethanil in or on various food commodities.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural commodities:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide microbial agent in or on various food commodities.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the imazamox on all food commodities when applied/used as a herbicide. The Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) submitted a petition to EPA under t...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

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

Title Type Published
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to enter into a Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) pursuant to section 122(h)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
EPA is today issuing a general permit under sections 102(a) and 104(c) of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the disposal at sea of man-made ice piers from its base at McMurdo Sou...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Storm water discharges from construction activities; general permit; correction
Correction Feb 14, 2003

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
AT&T and WorldCom filed petitions requesting that the FCC take action to protect U.S. international carriers and U.S. consumers from alleged "whipsawing" behavior occurring on the U.S.-Philippines route. The Commission issued a public notice soliciti...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board published a notice in the Federal Register of Wednesday, February 12, 2003, Volume 68, No. 29, page 7115, concerning upcoming Board member meeting. The document contained an incorrect time.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Notice of program exclusions.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Color additives:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confirming the effective date of November 26, 2002, for the final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of October 24, 2002 (67 FR 65311). The final rule amended the color additive regulations to provide...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Board of Scientific Counselors
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Library of Medicine
Notice Feb 14, 2003
National Library of Medicine
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Scientific Review Center
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Scientific Review Center
Notice Feb 14, 2003

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

Title Type Published
This is notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive world-wide license to practice the inven...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is extending the comment period on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on rates for pilotage on the Great Lakes published in the Federal Register January 23, 2003, for 45 days. This will extend the comment period to April 24, 200...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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 a proposed extension of a collection of...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has submitted the following proposed information collection to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C....
Notice Feb 14, 2003
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this request for comments announces that the Coast Guard has forwarded the five Information Collection Reports (ICRs) abstracted below to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this request for comments announces that the Coast Guard has forwarded the six Information Collection Reports (ICRs) abstracted below to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) o...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Civil aviation security:

No documents available.

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the Federated States of Micronesia (FEMA-1427-DR), dated July 11, 2002, and related determinations.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, (FEMA-1447-DR), dated December 11, 2002, and related determinations.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the SR 384 (Grand Lake) pontoon bridge across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, mile 231.4 West of Harvey Locks, at Grand Lake, C...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish fifteen permanent safety zones for annual fireworks displays throughout the Captain of the Port Chicago Zone. These safety zones are necessary to control vessel traffic within the immediate vicinity of fireworks...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003
The Coast Guard is establishing a permanent safety zone on the waters of the Columbia River in the vicinity of Vancouver, Washington. The Captain of the Port, Portland, Oregon, is taking this action to safeguard watercraft and their occupants from sa...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 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 Feb 14, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming meeting of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (the Committee). The meeting is open to the public and the site is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will submit the collection of information listed below to OMB for approval under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act. We have included an estimate of the information collection burden in this notice. If yo...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Cooperative and comprehensive management plans; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of a Draft National Management Plan for the Genus Eriocheir for public review and comment. The document was prepared by the Chinese Mitten Crab Control Working Group of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, a...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 12-month finding for a petition to list the California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. After reviewing the best available...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task Force Gulf of Mexico Regional Panel. The meeting topics are identified in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carrizo Plain National Monument Advisory Committee will...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Outer Continental Shelf operations:

Title Type Published
On March 19, 2003, MMS will open and publicly announce bids received for blocks offered in Central GOM Oil and Gas Lease Sale 185, pursuant to the OCS Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331-1356, as amended) and the regulations issued thereunder (30 CFR Part 256)...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Outer Continental Shelf; oil, gas, and sulfur operations:

Title Type Published
MMS is incorporating by reference into its regulations the Fifth Edition of the American Petroleum Institute's Specification for Offshore Cranes (API Spec 2C). MMS is taking this action to establish a minimum design standard for cranes installed on f...
Rule Feb 14, 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, Strategic Planning Environmental Assessment Outreach.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) is providing guidance on methodologies for calculating the maximum and minimum number of employees for the Federal Contractor Veterans' Employment Report VETS-100.
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or cont...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
This Final Rule makes several revisions to the LSC regulations implementing the Freedom of Information Act. The revisions add provisions detailing the submitter's rights process, provide LSC with express authority to defer action on pending and addit...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instru...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

N
National Labor Relations Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 14, 2003

N
National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Alan T. Waterman Award Committee
Notice Feb 14, 2003
DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Petitions; Director's decisions:

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Government Paperwork Elimination Act; implementation:

Title Type Published
We propose, consistent with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, to remove requirements from our regulations that might limit electronic filing with us or electronic issuances to others. The proposed rules will give us flexibility to keep pace w...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003

Multiemployer plans:

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public of the interest rates and assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published elsewhere (or can be derived from rates published elsewhere), bu...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Single-employer plans:

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) regulations on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans and Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans prescribe interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits under terminating s...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

R
Railroad Retirement Board

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries o...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of Application for an Order of Exemption under Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended ("1940 Act") from sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a), and 15(b) of the 1940 Act and Rules 6e-2(b)(15) and 6e-3(T)(b)(15) thereunder.
Notice Feb 14, 2003

State Department logo State Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of State has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the emergency review procedures of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The fol...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

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 Feb 14, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Youth Programs Division, Office of Citizen Exchanges, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the School Connectivity Program for Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Public and private non-profit organizations m...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

International Traffic in Arms regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule amends the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which implements section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), that governs the import and export of defense articles and defense services. The rule reflects the changed author...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Administration, is issuing this notice in order to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 1992, 42 U.S.C. 13201 <http://web2.westlaw.com/Find/ Default.wl?DB=1000546&DocNa me=42USCAS13201 &FindType=L&AP=&RS=WLW2.8...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Class D and Class E airspace; correction
Correction Feb 14, 2003
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief fr...
Notice Feb 14, 2003
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief fr...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Agency information collection activities:

No documents available.

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.:

Title Type Published
This action extends, for 2 years, the expiration date for SFAR 94, which requires any person operating an aircraft to or from College Park Airport, Potomac Airfield, and Washington Executive/Hyde Field to conduct those operations in accordance with s...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Airport noise compatability program:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its determination that the noise exposure maps submitted by the Toledo- Lucas County Port Authority for the Toledo Express Airport under the provisions of Title I of the Aviation Safety and Noise Ab...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) Model SA-365N, N1, AS-365N2, AS 365 N3, SA-366G1, AS355 F, F1, F2, N, and EC130 B4 helicopters with certain TRW-SAMM main servocontrols (servocontro...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to certain Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon) 90, 100, and 200 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require you to inspect the forward side of the aft pressure...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003
Raytheon; correction
Correction Feb 14, 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 finding Glenwood Aviation, LLC d/b/a America Rising, fit, willing, and able, and awarding it a certificate of public convenience and n...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Civil aviation security:

Title Type Published
This interpretive rule provides guidance to the public on the types of property Transportation Security Administration (TSA) considers to be weapons, explosives, and incendiaries prohibited in airport sterile areas and in the cabins of aircraft under...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This NOI announces the FAA's intention to conduct a Public Information Meeting on behalf of the FAA's ongoing Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Modernization Program for O'Hare International Airport. The Airport is located in Chic...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announces a meeting of the Transportation Labor-Management Board (Board). Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Time and Place: The Board will meet on Tuesday, Februar...
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Statewide and metropolitan transportation planning

Title Type Published
This document corrects the final rule on Statewide Transportation Planning; Metropolitan Transportation Planning published in the Federal Register on January 23, 2003 (68 FR 3176). The FHWA is correcting the definition of non-metropolitan local offic...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Water pollution control:

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 Feb 14, 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 Feb 14, 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 Feb 14, 2003
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Bonds and notes, U.S. Treasury:

Title Type Published
We published a final rule in the Federal Register of January 17, 2003, increasing the period of time that owners of United States Series EE and I Savings Bonds must hold their bonds before the bonds are eligible for redemption. The mandatory holding...
Rule Feb 14, 2003

Excise taxes:

Title Type Published
This document changes the location of two public hearings on proposed regulations relating to the definition of a highway vehicle for purposes of various excise taxes and information reporting relating to taxable stock transactions.
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document provides notice of cancellation of a public hearing on proposed regulations that provide guidance regarding the treatment of the basis of redeemed stock when a distribution in redemption of such stock is treated as a dividend, as well a...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Ad Hoc Issue Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference).
Notice Feb 14, 2003

Volume Information

This date's documents are part of Volume 68 of the Federal Register.

Browse All Documents from 2003 (Volume 68)

Looking for other issues from February 2003 or the full 2003 Federal Register Archive ?