August 14, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register August 14, 2003

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

118 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on August 14, 2003

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget, for an extension and revision to t...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget, for an extension of and revision t...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has made a finding of no significant impact with respect to a request from Georgia Transmission Corporation for financing assistance from RUS to finance the construction of a 230 kV transm...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to reduce the risk of wildfire in the Iron Ecosystem planning area due to the buildup of both aerial and ground fuels. Approximately 12,000 acres will be analyzed with treat...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Hops produced in

Title Type Published
The public hearing scheduled to consider a proposed marketing agreement and order under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to cover hops grown in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California has been postponed until after October 1, 2003. T...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

Meetings:

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The Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board (NFAB) will hold a field-trip meeting to become informed about Black Hills Forest issues as they relate to Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth's four priorities: Catastrophic fire; invasive species; loss...
Notice Aug 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 Kootenai National Forests' Lincoln County Resource Advisory Commi...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
The Shasta County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on August 27, 2003, in Redding, California. The purpose of the meeting will be to hear presentations from applicants proposing projects, review project proposals, and receive reports from...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Onions grown in

Title Type Published
This final rule increases the assessment rate established for the Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee (Committee) for the 2003-2004 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.08 to $0.095 per hundredweight of onions handled, and establishes, in the regul...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Regulatory Flexibility Act:

Title Type Published
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is publishing this plan for the review of its regulations under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). AMS has included in this plan all regulations that warrant periodic review irrespective of whether specific...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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We are extending the comment period for a draft pest risk analysis prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to a proposed rule currently under consideration that would allow the importation of Hass avocados from Mexico into...
Notice Aug 14, 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 final 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 Aug 14, 2003

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
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 Aug 14, 2003

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
On April 9, 2003, the Department of Commerce published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of the sixth administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain pasta from Italy for the period January 1 through December 31, 2001....
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces that the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted Amendment 10 to the FMP for the shrimp fishery of the Gulf of Mexico (Amendment 10) for review, approval, and implementation by NMFS. Amendment 10 would establi...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

International fisheries regulations:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces changes to the regulations for the Area 2A sport halibut fisheries off the central coast of Oregon. This action would make additional potential season reopening dates available to halibut fishing in the Oregon central coast recreationa...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Reports by traders:

Title Type Published
Statement of reporting trader; CFR correction
Rule Aug 14, 2003

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

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation"), submitted the following information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Re...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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 Aug 14, 2003
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services proposes a priority for one new award under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (AT Act) Technical Assistance Program (TA) for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabil...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Assistive Technology Act Technical Assistance Program
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to amend its regulations governing the collection of claims of the United States for money or property arising from activities under DOE jurisdiction. Because the revisions to DOE's debt collection standard...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003
This direct final rule adopts revisions to the regulations on Collection of Claims Owed the United States to conform to the Federal Claims Collection Standards issued by the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice. The revisions clar...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Hardee Power Partners, Ltd., et al.
Notice Aug 14, 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 EPA is planning to submit a continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Air pollution control; new motor vehicles and engines:

Title Type Published
Due to receipt of adverse comments, EPA is withdrawing two specific regulatory revisions included in the direct final rule that was published in the Federal Register on June 17, 2003 (68 FR 35792) related to EPA's On-board Diagnostics (OBD) regulatio...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

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

Title Type Published
EPA is approving the Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration (CISWI) units section 111(d) negative declaration submitted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky (state) and Jefferson County, Kentucky (local). This negative declaration certifies th...
Rule Aug 14, 2003
EPA is proposing to approve the Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration (CISWI) units section 111(d) negative declarations submitted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky (state) and Jefferson County, Kentucky (local). These negative declaration...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

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

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the codification of a direct final rule published on July 9, 2003, (68 FR 40786). The rule being corrected pertained to "excess emissions."
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, notice is hereby given that the Superfund Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), will meet on the dates and t...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
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 Aug 14, 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, as required by the P...
Notice Aug 14, 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 Aug 14, 2003

Radio broadcast services:

Title Type Published
This document confirms that modifications to Sec. Sec. 73.3555 and 73.3613 of the Commission's rules, adopted in the Commission's biennial review of its broadcast ownership rules, are effective on September 4, 2003.
Rule Aug 14, 2003
The Federal Communications Commission has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for revised application forms and certain non-form filings associated with the Commission's rules regarding broadcast ownership. Therefore, the Commissi...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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

Banks and bank holding companies:

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 on Monday, August 11, 2003, concerning upcoming Board member meeting.
Notice Aug 14, 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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "A Request for Samples and Protocols" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish a security zone in the waters adjacent to Pier T126 in San Pedro Bay, Long Beach, CA. This action is needed to protect the U.S. Naval vessel(s) and their crew(s) during military outload evolutions at Pier T126 fr...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing temporary special local regulations for "Atlantic City Salutes 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight", an aerial demonstration to be held over the waters of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to Atlantic City, New Jersey. These...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of the final Recovery Plan for Kneeland Prairie Penny- cress (Thlaspi californicum). The plan includes specific criteria and measures to be taken in order to effectively recover the sp...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of the draft economic analysis for the proposed designation of critical habitat for three threatened mussels and eight endangered mussels in the Mobile River Basin. We also give notice of a...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003
Mr. George Shimboff (Applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (we, Service) for a 1-year incidental take permit for one covered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The a...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS), in accordance with section 9.52(b) of title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations has received from Excel Energy Inc., a Plan of Operations for drilling and production of the Mower <greek-i>2 and <greek-i>3 gas wells,...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4332(C), the National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of a Draft General Management Plan/Wilderness Study/Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Pictured Rocks...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Walter and Carrol Cripps (Applicant) have applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for an enhancement of survival permit pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The permit application in...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as amended, the Bureau of Reclamation proposes to participate in a joint Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) with the City of Vallejo on the City's Lake Curry...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Hunting and fishing:

Title Type Published
The Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to add seven additional refuges to the list of areas open for hunting and/or sport fishing activities and increase the activities available at three other refuges for 2003-2004.
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

Lands and water:

Title Type Published
We are issuing a final rule requiring that we distribute the remaining 25 percent of fiscal year 2003 Indian Reservation Roads (IRR) funds to projects on or near Indian reservations using the relative need formula. We are using the Federal Highway Ad...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve announces the date of a meeting of the Great Sand Dunes National Park Advisory Council, which was established to provide guidance to the Secretary on long-term planning for Great Sand Dunes National Mon...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Public land orders:

Title Type Published
This order revokes a public land order insofar as it affects 0.23 acre of National Forest System land withdrawn for the Forest Service's Priest Lake Recreation Area. This action will open the land to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
This order revokes in its entirety, an 1851 Executive Order which reserved 58.75 acres of public land for the Grand Traverse Light Station. The land is no longer needed by the United States Coast Guard for lighthouse purposes. This order will open 16...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
This order revokes a public land order insofar as it affects approximately 1,433 acres of lands withdrawn for use by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This order opens the lands to surface entry, mining, and mineral leasing.
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission; Permit No. S)4K61830V (Kodiak, AK) et al.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Ceodeux, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Fisher Controls International, LLC
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Fishing Vessel LOON
Notice Aug 14, 2003
General Electric Co.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Premcor Refining Group, Inc., et al.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Sanmina-SCI Corp.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Stanek Tool Corp.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Stopfill, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Takata Petri, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Terry Apparel et al.
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
In the July 31, 2003, Federal Register, OSHA published a notice reestablishing the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH) and appointing the committee members (68 FR 44970). Three names were inadvertently omitted. The...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Employee benefit plans; individual exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains an exemption issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Metal and nonmetal mine safety and health:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would: Revise the existing diesel particulate matter (DPM) interim concentration limit measured by total carbon (TC) to a comparable permissible exposure limit (PEL) measured by elemental carbon (EC) which renders a more accurate D...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

N
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Yucca Mountain, NV
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Postal Service logo Postal Service

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

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Securities:

Title Type Published
We are proposing new disclosure requirements and amendments to existing disclosure requirements to enhance the transparency of the operation of boards of directors. Specifically, we are proposing enhancements to existing disclosure requirements regar...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
Depository Trust Co.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003

State Department logo State Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This announcement applies to all ECA Requests for Grant Proposals (RFGP) currently published in the Federal Register. An Office of Management and Budget (OMB) policy directive published in the Federal Register on Friday, June 27, 2003, requires that...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Carolina Coastal Railway, Inc.
Notice Aug 14, 2003

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the 2003 Annual Review of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA). The deadline for the submission of petitions for the 2003 Annual ATPA Review is September 15, 2003. USTR will publish a list of petitions filed in response to thi...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration hereby gives notice of its intention to grant an exclusive license in the invention titled "Heat Release Rate Calorimeter for Milligram Samples", U.S. Patent No. 6,464,391, filed December 22, 2000, and a nonexclusi...
Notice Aug 14, 2003
This action proposes to expand the dimensions, and increase the time of designation, of the restricted airspace at the Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, PA. This proposed action would convert the existing Kiowa Military Operations Area (MOA)...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment revises an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 757-200 and -200PF series airplanes, that currently requires inspections, adjustments, and functional checks of the engine thrust reverser system; and...
Rule Aug 14, 2003
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas airplane models. For certain airplanes, this proposal would require a one-time test to determine the material of the upper inboa...
Proposed Rule Aug 14, 2003
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) PW206A and PW206E turboshaft engines. This AD requires initial and repetitive borescope inspections of compressor turbine and power turbine blades for blade axial...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Federal Tort Claims Act; administrative claims:

Title Type Published
Claim presentation; CFR correction
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the Hazardous Materials Regulations by incorporating miscellaneous changes based on petitions for rulemaking and RSPA initiatives. The intended effect of these regulatory changes is to update, clarify or provide relief from cer...
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) will co-sponsor two workshops with the pipeline industry trade associations (API, Inters...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
Bus emergency exits and window retention and release; CFR correction
Rule Aug 14, 2003

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Technical standard orders:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of and requests comments on a proposed Technical Standard Order (TSO)-C166, Extended Squitter Automatic Dependent Surveillance--Broadcast (ADS-B) and Traffic Information Service--Broadcast (TIS-B) Equipment Oper...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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 Aug 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 Aug 14, 2003
In accordance with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the OCC, Board, FDIC, and OTS (collectively, the Agencies) may not conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, an information col...
Notice Aug 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 Aug 14, 2003

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice Aug 14, 2003

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Cemeteries and Memorials Advisory Committee; 2001-2002 FY report
Notice Aug 14, 2003

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