April 23, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register April 23, 2003

View all documents issued on April 23, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 23, 2003

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would implement Chapter 6 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by Subtitle C of Title 1 of the Trade Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-210) to establish a new program, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers. Under this program,...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) established a Public Rights-of-Way Access Advisory Committee (Committee) to assist the Board in developing a proposed rule on accessibility guidelines for newly constructed...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board logo Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announces that its Interim Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the agency have been posted on the CSB Web site...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 23, 2003
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On March 19, 2003, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review with the intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce is currently seeking applications for membership on the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Advisory Board ("Board"). The purpose of the Board is to recommend to the Secretary of Commerce the appropriate coordinated activitie...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Dr. Peter L. Tyack, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, has applied in due form for a permit to take various cetacean species for purposes of scientific research. A d...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

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 field hearing in Morgantown, West Virginia on June 5, 2003 to obtain information and views from the public concerning all-terrain vehicles ("ATVs"). The Commission...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The President, National Defense University (NDU) has scheduled a meeting of the Board of Visitors (BOV).
Notice Apr 23, 2003
On Friday, February 7, 2003 (68 FR 6421), the Department of Defense announced closed meetings of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Future Strategic Strike Forces. The meeting originally scheduled for June 18-19, 2003, has been moved to Ju...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 (68 FR 14598), the Department of Defense announced closed meetings of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Enduring Freedom Lessons Learned. One of the meetings has been rescheduled from April 21, 2003, to April...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
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 Apr 23, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its energy-related mission to assist in strengthening the Nation's scientific research enterprise through the support of science...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an Annual Retreat of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings b...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announ...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Natural gas exportation and importation:

Title Type Published
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy gives notice that during March 2003, it issued Orders granting and vacating authority to import and export natural gas, including liquefied natural gas. These Orders are summarized in the a...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) will be forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: State Lab...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
EPA has authorized prime contractor Optimus Corporation and its subcontractor, Centerscope Technologies of 8601 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD access to information which has been submitted to EPA under sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 12 of the Toxic Sub...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of applications to register previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.
Notice Apr 23, 2003
EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of January 29, 2003, concerning availability and public comment period on the Preliminary Comparative Ecological Assessment document for nine rodenticides, which included those addressed in the Reregistrati...
Notice Apr 23, 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 Apr 23, 2003

Pesticides; experimental use permits, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of an application 52-EUP-93 from Monsanto Company requesting an amendment/extension of an experimental use permit (EUP) for the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Bb1 protein and the genetic material necessary for its production...
Notice Apr 23, 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, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement for recovery of past response cos...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, Task Force on; amendment (EO 13296)
Presidential Document Apr 23, 2003

Special observances:

Title Type Published
National Park Week (Proc. 7665)
Presidential Document Apr 23, 2003

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
In the document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) grants the section 271 application of Qwest Communications International, Inc. for authorization to provide in-region, interLATA services in New Mexico, Oregon and South Dakota. The...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for voting and nonvoting consumer representatives to serve on its advisory committees and panels in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Center for Drug Evaluation a...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a document entitled "Guidance for Industry: Recommendations for the Assessment of Donor Suitability and Blood Product Safety in Cases of Suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Syndr...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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 Apr 23, 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 Apr 23, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is submitting a request for an extension of an information collection from potential Self-Governance Tribes, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The information collected under OMB Clearance Number 1076-0143 will...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Concession contracts and permits:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to 36 CFR 51.23, notice is hereby given that the National Park Service intends to extend the following expiring concession contract for a period of up to 6-months, or until such time as a new contract is awarded, whichever occurs sooner.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the availability of the final recovery plan for the threatened Alaska- breeding population of the Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri). The threatened Alaska-breeding population of Steller's eid...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Catoctin Mountain Park will release for public review, the Environmental Assessment document for the application regarding the placement of wireless telecommunication facilities (WTF). The public information meeting scheduled for April 29, 2003 will...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
The Pueblo of Santa Ana (Applicant), Sandoval County, New Mexico, has applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for an enhancement for survival permit pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act (Act). The Applicant ha...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91-190, as amended) and the implementing regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR part 1505.2), the Department of the Interior, Nation...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91-190, 42 U.S.C. 4321-4347, January 1, 1970, as amended), and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR Part 1500-1508), the National Park Service, D...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 102 (2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service announces their intent to prepare a General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/EIS) for Governors Island National Monument...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the time and place for a public meeting on American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). In preparation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's current and future finding for the export of American ginseng, we are particularly interes...
Notice Apr 23, 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) Lower Snake River District Resource Advisory Council (RA...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
Pending nominations
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:

Special regulations:

Title Type Published
Notice of meetings of the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee.
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-Day notice of information collection under review: revision of currently approved collection; COPS Count Survey.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announces the availability of the COPS in Schools grant program, which will assist law enforcement agencies in hiring new, additional School Resource Officers (SROs) to e...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
American Samoa; Special Industry Committee for All Industries; appointment, convention, and hearing
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Employment and Training Administration published a document in the Federal Register of April 4, 2003, concerning the availability of grant funds for small faith-based and community-based non-profit organizations. The document is being amended.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics (NACE) is part of the Secretary's comprehensive approach for reducing ergonomics- related injuries and illnesses in the workplace. The committee was convened for the first time on January 22, 2003. This n...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Safety standard petitions:

Title Type Published
Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co. et al.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Copyright office and procedures:

Title Type Published
The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress will be adding two new days of public hearings in Washington, DC on the possible exemptions to the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works an...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Space flight:

Title Type Published
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is amending its regulations setting forth its procedures for recruitment and selection of astronaut candidates. NASA's astronaut candidate selection process was developed to select highly quali...
Rule Apr 23, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Decommissioning plans; sites:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a meeting to discuss the status of the environmental review of decommissioning activities at the Sequoyah Fuels Corporation (SFC) facility near Gore, Oklahoma. The NRC recently determined that some...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Export and import license applications for nuclear facilities and materials:

Title Type Published
Transnuclear, Inc.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is conducting a rulemaking to amend its regulations for medical use of byproduct material to address issues related to training and experience associated with recognition of Specialty Boards by the NRC. To aid...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Peace Corps logo Peace Corps

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1981 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Peace Corps has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for approval of an information collection, OMB Control Number 0420-0001, the National Agency...
Notice Apr 23, 2003
Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1981 (44 U.S.C., Chapter 35), the Peace Corps has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for approval of information collections, OMB Control Number 0420-0533, the Peace Corps Crisi...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
New York
Notice Apr 23, 2003
New York
Notice Apr 23, 2003

State Department logo State Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL/PHD) announces an open competition for one or more assistance awards. Organizations may submit grant proposals that address programs an...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The Crete Nondirectional Radio Beacon (NDB) will be decommissioned and NDB Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) serving Crete Municipal airport will be cancelled effective July 10, 2003. Controlled airspace extending upward from 700 feet A...
Rule Apr 23, 2003
This action raises the upper limit of Restricted Areas 6904A (R-6904A) and R-6904B, Volk Field, WI, from 17,000 feet above mean sea level (MSL) to Flight Level 230 (FL 230). Expanding the vertical limit of these areas facilitates the transition of pa...
Rule Apr 23, 2003

Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of and request comments on a revised proposed Advisory Circular (AC) for onboard data recording. The proposed AC establishes an acceptable means, but not the only means, to provide airborne capability for onboar...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.:

Title Type Published
This action announces a waiver of the minimum slot usage requirement for slots and slot exemptions at the three high density traffic airports for the period March 19, 2003 through October 25, 2003.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Boeing Model 747-100, -200B, -200F, -200C, -100B, -300, -100B SUD, -400, -400D, and -400F series airplanes; and Model 747SR series airplanes. This action requires repe...
Rule Apr 23, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-1A11 (CL-600), CL-600- 2A12 (CL-601), and CL-600-2B16 (CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, and CL-604) series airplanes. This action requires a detailed...
Rule Apr 23, 2003
This document proposes to revise an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to all Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Models PC-12 and PC-12/45 airplanes. The earlier NPRM would have required you to repetitively replace the nose l...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to Pratt & Whitney (PW) JT9D-7R4 series turbofan engines. That AD currently requires modifications of the fan case assembly by...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003
This document makes corrections to Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2003-07-11, applicable to Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (formerly Rolls-Royce Deutschland GmbH, formerly BMW Rolls-Royce GmbH), models BR700-710A1-10 and BR700-710A2-20 turbofan en...
Rule Apr 23, 2003

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for the Embraer Model 170- 100 and 170-200 airplanes. These airplanes will have novel or unusual design features when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport cate...
Rule Apr 23, 2003
This notice proposes special conditions for the Embraer Model ERJ-170 series airplanes. These airplanes will have novel or unusual design features when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport catego...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Federal Highway Administration is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for the CSX Railroad Relocation Study in the above referenced counties in Mississippi.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Synopsis of April 3, 2003 meeting with VISA participants.
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:

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 Tupelo Regional Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget...
Notice Apr 23, 2003

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury (Treasury), Financial Management Service (FMS),\1\ is proposing revisions to its regulations governing the indorsement and payment of checks drawn on the United States Treasury. This notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003

International banking activities:

Title Type Published
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) proposes to amend its regulations pertaining to the foreign operations of national banks, and of Federal branches and agencies of foreign banks operating in the United States, in both cases generall...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2003

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