May 1, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register May 1, 2003

View all documents issued on May 1, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

119 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 1, 2003

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Agricultural Marketing Service

Agency designation actions:

No documents available.

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Staff Briefing for the Board of Directors.
Notice May 01, 2003
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is soliciting comments and views on whether to amend and revise the regulation at 7 CFR 1530 for the purpose of improving and streamlining administration of the sugar re-export program and increasing the effecti...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003

Agency designation actions:

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GIPSA requests comments on the applicants for designation to provide official services in the geographic area currently assigned to Grand Forks Grain Inspection Department, Inc. (Grand Forks) and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (Minnesota).
Notice May 01, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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In notice document 03-6686 on page 13666 in the issue of Thursday, March 20, 2003, make the following corrections: In the third column the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT was previously listed as Alan Baurman. This should be changed to read Alan Baum...
Notice May 01, 2003

Meetings:

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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 Black Hills National Forests' Crook County Resource Advisory Comm...
Notice May 01, 2003
The Ketchikan Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Ketchikan, Alaska, May 22, 2003. The purpose of this meeting is to provide orientation to Advisory Committee members, and to discuss potential projects under the Secure Rural Schools and Communit...
Notice May 01, 2003
The Lake County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a meeting.
Notice May 01, 2003
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committees Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Lassen National Forest Lassen County Resource Advisory Committee...
Notice May 01, 2003
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing a forthcoming meeting of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
Notice May 01, 2003

Arctic Research Commission logo Arctic Research Commission

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 01, 2003

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings; State advisory committees:

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Department of Commerce, 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 collections, a...
Notice May 01, 2003
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 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 the continuing information...
Notice May 01, 2003
The Department of Commerce, 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 collections, a...
Notice May 01, 2003
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 01, 2003
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 01, 2003
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 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 the continuing information...
Notice May 01, 2003

Antidumping and countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended investigation.
Notice May 01, 2003

Antidumping:

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On June 28, 2002, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the United States Court of International Trade's affirmation of the Department of Commerce's final remand results affecting final assessment rates for the administr...
Notice May 01, 2003

Coastal zone management programs and estuarine sanctuaries:

Title Type Published
Luz Torres DeRosa, Pedro Vidal, Frontera Colley and Fernando E. Otero Rodriguez (Appellants), filed with the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) four separate notices of appeal pursuant to section 307(c)(3)(A) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972...
Notice May 01, 2003

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS announces that the New England Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted the Northeast Skate Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Secretarial review and is requesting comments from the public. The FMP would establish a management program a...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
Pacific halibut; subsistence fishing; correction
Correction May 01, 2003
This document provides notice of additional vessel monitoring systems (VMS) approved by NOAA for use by pelagic longline vessels in the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fisheries and sets forth relevant features of the VMS. This notification i...
Notice May 01, 2003

International fisheries regulations:

Title Type Published
NMFS issues this final rule to: lengthen the duration of the permit required to enter a Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP) site from 1 year to up to 5 years; define the CC...
Rule May 01, 2003

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Jo-Ann Mellish, Ph.D., University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska SeaLife Center, 301 Railway Avenue, P.O. Box 1329, Seward, Alaska 99664, has applied in due form for a permit to take tissue samples from harbor seals (Phoca...
Notice May 01, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in consultation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposes to cleanup contaminants at the St. Louis North County Site resulting from uranium manufacturing and processing...
Notice May 01, 2003

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a curr...
Notice May 01, 2003

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
CMS Trunkline LNG Co., LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
Chandeleur Pipe Line Co.
Notice May 01, 2003
Portland Natural Gas Transmission System
Notice May 01, 2003

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Entergy Mississippi, Inc., et al.
Notice May 01, 2003
Williams Energy Marketing Trading Co. Progress Ventures, Inc., et al.
Notice May 01, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Petersburg Municipal Power Light
Notice May 01, 2003

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs; approval and promulgation; State plans for designated facilities and pollutants:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to approve a revision to Maine's plan for controlling air pollution according to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (i.e. a "111(d) plan"). This revision changes state regulations controlling the emission of total reduced sulfur (TR...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
EPA is approving a revision to Maine's plan for controlling air pollution according to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (i.e., a "111(d) plan"). The revision changes state regulations controlling the emission of total reduced sulfur (TRS) from exi...
Rule May 01, 2003

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

Title Type Published
The EPA is approving a revision to the Florida State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted on January 17, 2003, by the State of Florida through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. This source specific revision amends the SIP to include...
Rule May 01, 2003
The EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection on January 17, 2003. The proposed revision consists of a department order granting a variance from rule 6...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan revision that was submitted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on February 28, 2003. This submittal revises the new source set-aside program by altering the methodology for distributing nitrogen...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Maryland. The revision amends the regulation pertaining to Control of Fuel Burning Equipment, Stationary Internal Combustion Engines, and Certain Fuel-Burn...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Maryland State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions amend provisions of Maryland's regulation for Control of Fuel-Burning Equipment, Stationary Internal Combustion Engines, and Certain...
Rule May 01, 2003

Environmental management systems:

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the selection of seven sectors to participate in the multi-media sector program in the Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation (OPEI). The following sectors will participate in the progr...
Notice May 01, 2003

Pesticide programs:

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This notice announces the availability of the "Report of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Tolerance Reassessment Progress and Risk Management Decision (TRED) for 4-Chlorophenoxyacetic Acid (4- CPA)." EPA has reassessed the two tolerances, or le...
Notice May 01, 2003

Superfund program:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX is issuing a Notice of Deletion of a portion of the South Indian Bend Wash Site (Site) located in Tempe, Arizona, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 wh...
Rule May 01, 2003

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

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Notice is hereby given that a proposed administrative order on consent regarding the PCB Treatment Inc. Superfund Site (Site), was signed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on February 4, 2003, and approved by the United State...
Notice May 01, 2003

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
EPA has entered into a consent agreement with Gerdau Ameristeel, Inc., d/b/a/ Gerdau Ameristeel, Perth Amboy and Gerdau Ameristeel, Sayerville ("Gerdau") to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), the Clean Air Act ("CAA"), the Resource Co...
Notice May 01, 2003
The Environmental Protection Agency--Region 1, is today providing notice of final issuance of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permits for storm water discharges from small municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s...
Notice May 01, 2003

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board logo Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463), as amended, and the FASAB Rules of Procedure, as amended in October, 1999, notice is hereby given that the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) has issued a new Interpretation, Accounting for Imputed Intra-Departmental Costs: An Interpretation of SFFAS No. 4.
Notice May 01, 2003

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or...
Notice May 01, 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 May 01, 2003

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Federal Election Commission is announcing a public hearing on the enforcement processes of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended ("the FECA" or "the Act"), and its implementing regulations. The Commission seeks comments from the p...
Notice May 01, 2003

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet standards of Subpart C of Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (59 FR 29916, 29925). A notice listing al...
Notice May 01, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Administration on Aging announces that under this program announcement it will hold a competition for grant awards for two (2) to three (3) projects at a Federal share of approximately $225,000- $350,000 per year for a project period of three yea...
Notice May 01, 2003

Head Start Program:

Title Type Published
The Administration on Children, Youth and Families is amending a Final Rule which applies to the purchase of Head Start facilities in order to include in the Rule provisions implementing a statutory provision that authorizes the Agency to permit Head...
Rule May 01, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Tariff-rate quotas:

Title Type Published
The tariff-rate quota applicable in each year to tuna fish classifiable in subheading 1604.14.22 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is based on tuna consumption in the United States during the preceding calendar year. This documen...
Notice May 01, 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 May 01, 2003

Mortgage and loan insurance programs:

Title Type Published
This final rule addresses property "flipping," the practice whereby a property recently acquired is resold for a considerable profit with an artificially inflated value, often abetted by a lender's collusion with the appraiser. Specifically, the fina...
Rule May 01, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Mr. Ben McCutcheon (Applicant) has applied for an incidental take permit (ITP) from the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as amended. The permit would a...
Notice May 01, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The OCS Policy Committee of the Minerals Management Advisory Board will meet at the Radisson Hotel Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia.
Notice May 01, 2003

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Records, reports, and exports of listed chemicals:

Title Type Published
On September 16, 1998, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) pertaining to the regulation of chemical mixtures which contain any of 34...
Rule May 01, 2003

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Adjustment assistance and NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:

Adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
American Video Glass Co.
Notice May 01, 2003
Carbone Kirwood, LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
Dana/Torque Traction Tech., Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
Drexel Heritage Furnishings, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
Eastman Kodak Co.
Notice May 01, 2003
Fleming Companies, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
Motorola, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
P.C. Cutting Apparel et al.
Notice May 01, 2003
PHB Tool Die
Notice May 01, 2003
Powerex, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
Rohm Haas Co.
Notice May 01, 2003
Tyson Foods
Notice May 01, 2003

NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel rules and procedures:

Title Type Published
The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is requesting comment on proposed regulations that set rates and terms for the use of sound recordings in eligible nonsubscription transmissions for the 2003 and 2004 statutory licensing period, and for...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended), notice is hereby given that the following meetings of the Humanities Panel will be held at the Old Post Office, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington,...
Notice May 01, 2003

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), and as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is inviting the general public and other Fede...
Notice May 01, 2003
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 01, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is confirming the effective date of May 7, 2003, for the direct final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of February 21, 2003 (68 FR 8445). This direct final rule amended the NRC's regulations by revisi...
Rule May 01, 2003

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Railroad Retirement Board

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 May 01, 2003

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 01, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission has determined that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB or Board) and its parent organization, the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), satisfy the criteria in section 108 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
Notice May 01, 2003

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice May 01, 2003
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 01, 2003

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Social security benefits and supplemental security income:

Title Type Published
We are revising our regulations that pertain to the processing of initial claims for disability benefits under title II (Social Security Disability Insurance) and title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act (the Act). We will...
Rule May 01, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document revises an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747SP, 747SR, 747- 100, 747-200, and 747-300 series airplanes, that would have superseded an existing AD that currently requires repetitive ope...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Boeing Model 727 series airplanes, that currently requires repetitive pre-modification inspections to detect cracks in the forward support fitting o...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
This amendment supersedes Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2002- 09-13, which currently requires a one-time inspection of the fuel boost pump wiring inside and outside the boost pump reservoir and repair or replacement of the wiring as necessary on certa...
Rule May 01, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all McDonnell Douglas transport category airplanes listed above, that requires a check of the slant pressure panels of the wheel wells of the left and right main landing gear (ML...
Rule May 01, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Schweizer Aircraft Corporation (Schweizer) Model 269D helicopters. This action requires inspecting each aluminum horizontal stabilizer endplate (endplate) and the attach angles for cracks,...
Rule May 01, 2003

Aviation proceedings:

Engineering and traffic operations:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is proposing to amend the regulation for advance construction of Federal-aid projects by removing the provisions that prescribe the policies and procedures for the execution of the project agreement for Federal-aid projects and for advancing...
Proposed Rule May 01, 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 that the Office of Hazardo...
Notice May 01, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) will convene a meeting of the Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee (TPSSC) to discuss and vote on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, "Pipeline Integrit...
Notice May 01, 2003

Pipeline safety:

Title Type Published
This notice proposes to clarify application of RSPA's safety standards for operation, maintenance, and fire protection of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities to certain existing facilties. In addition, this notice proposes to revise standards that...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003
The Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) will conduct a public meeting to discuss possible improvements in data submissions to the National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS). Possible improvements are mor...
Notice May 01, 2003

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Public Law 108-15, enacted on April 23, 2003, the United States Mint announces the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) bi-monthly meetings. The meetings are open to the public. The purpose of the meetings is to advise the Secretary...
Notice May 01, 2003
This document contains a correction to a notice on an open meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Earned Income Tax Credit Issue Committee being conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, which was published in the Federal Register on Monday, April, 21, 2003 (68...
Notice May 01, 2003

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 552a(e)(12) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines on the Conduct of Matching Programs, notice is hereby given of the conduct of the Internal Revenue Service Disclosure of...
Notice May 01, 2003

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to amend its regulations governing grants to States to establish, expand, or improve State veterans' cemeteries. We propose to implement through regulation the statutory increase of up to 100 perce...
Proposed Rule May 01, 2003

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