October 6, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register October 6, 2003

View all documents issued on October 6, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

108 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 6, 2003

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for the importation of...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for the interstate mov...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
This notice pertains to reimbursable overtime charged for Sunday, holiday, or other overtime work performed in connection with the inspection, laboratory testing, certification, or quarantine of certain articles and to user fees for import- and expor...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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This amended notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement is a correction of the original notice of intent published on July 11, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 133, page 41295-41296). This amendment includes text which was not included in t...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Field office technical guides; changes:

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It has been determined by the NRCS State Conservationist for Tennessee that changes must be made in the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide, specifically in practice standard Residue Management, Seasonal (Code 344) to account for improved technology. T...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

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This is a notice to animal exhibitors, dealers, transporters, researchers, animal protection groups, industry groups, and other interested persons that we are holding a series of educational symposia to present current information on the care and mai...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
The Yakutat Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Yakutat, Alaska. The purpose of the meeting is continue business of the Yakutat Resource Advisory Committee. The committee was formed to carry out the requirements of the Secure Rural Schools and S...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Viruses, serums, toxins, etc.:

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We are proposing to amend the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act regulations concerning Standard Requirements for Bovine Virus Diarrhea Vaccine, Killed Virus, and Bovine Rhinotracheitis Vaccine, Killed Virus, to require that those vaccines elicit specific antibod...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 2003
We are amending the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act regulations for the determination of moisture content in desiccated biological products to require that such determinations be made using a gravimetric method that expresses moisture content as the percentage...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

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 the continuing information collections, as required b...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Antidumping and countervailing duties:

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On August 21, 2003, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published a notice of initiation of a changed circumstances review with the intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty orders and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain al...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Antidumping:

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On July 28, 2003, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from Brazil. The period of review (POR) is July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2002...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value.
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Initiation of Antidumping Investigations.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Damage Assessment and Restoration Program:

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The National Oceanic Administration's (NOAA) Damage Assessment and Restoration Program (DARP) is announcing new indirect cost rates on the recovery of indirect costs for its component organizations involved in natural resource damage assessment and r...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS issues an inseason adjustment closing the fishery for Pacific cod by vessels catching Pacific cod for processing by the offshore component in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding...
Rule Oct 06, 2003
NMFS is reallocating projected unused amounts of Bering Sea subarea (BS) pollock from the incidental catch account to the directed fisheries. This action is necessary to allow the 2003 total allowable catch (TAC) of pollock to be harvested.
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that the following Agencies have applied in due form for a permit to take various pinniped, cetacean and sea turtles during stock assessment activities for purposes of scientific research: 774-1714 - Southwest Fisheries Science...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Danger zones and restricted area regulations:

Title Type Published
The Corps of Engineers is amending existing regulations to expand the authority of the Commanding Officer, Naval Weapons Station Charleston to restrict passage of persons, watercraft and vessels within currently designated restricted areas in the Coo...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Danger zones and restricted areas:

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The Corps of Engineers is proposing an amendment to its regulations to designate an existing military exercise area as a Danger Zone. The military exercise area is located off the Wisconsin shoreline in Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Port Washington...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is considering the development of Pier S Marine Terminal Project (Proposed Action). The development of Pier S would result in a 160-acre marine container terminal, and would include four elements: dredging, wh...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of the forthcoming meeting of the AFC2ISRC Advisory Group. The purpose of the meeting is to brief the Commander of the AFC2ISR Center. This meeting will be closed to the public.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On August 1, 2003, a notice was published in the Federal Register (68 FR 45229) inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2004 for the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program. The notice listed a deadline date of October 3, 2003, for the t...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Institutional Quality and Integrity Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment on the specifics of the information colle...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information co...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c) (2) (a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c) (2) (A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment on the specifics of the information c...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment on the specifics of the information colle...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Fresno Power Investors, L.P., et al.
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Plymouth Energy LLC, et al.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving grant applications for support under its Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Program. Applica...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Practice and procedure:

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Off-the-record communications
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to announce the availability of the final "Results-Based Approaches and Tailored Oversight Guidance for Facilities Subject to Corrective Action Under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act" (Guidance)....
Notice Oct 06, 2003
By order dated October 19, 1995, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts stayed the proceedings in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Blackstone Valley Electric Co. (No. 94-2286) and referred the question of whether ferric fe...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Water supply:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provision of section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act as amended, and the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation that the State of West Virginia is revising its approved Public Wate...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board logo Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3511(d), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), as amended, and the FASAB Rules of Procedure, as amended in October, 1999, notice is hereby given that under the authority and in furtherance of the objectives of 31 U.S.C. 3511(d), the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of OMB, and the Comptroller General (the Sponsors) have altered the composition of the Board by adding a member from the Congressional Budget Office.
Notice Oct 06, 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 Oct 06, 2003
The Federal Communications Commissions, 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...
Notice Oct 06, 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 Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended, this notice advises interested persons of the first of the Technological Advisory Council ("Council") under its new charter.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Nondiscrimination on basis of race, color, national origin, handicap, or age in federally assisted programs or activities

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Under the provision of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has submitted to the Office of Management and...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. The supplemental NADA provides for use of progesterone intravagina...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Human drugs

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a document that appeared in the Federal Register of August 25, 2003 (68 FR 50991). The document announced that FDA extended to November 25, 2003, the comment period for an advance notice of propose...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 2003

Medicare:

Title Type Published
This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule published in the Federal Register on August 1, 2003 entitled "Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2004 Rates." These c...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Lung cancer and diesel exhaust among non-metal miners; cohort mortality study with nested case-control study
Notice Oct 06, 2003
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Oct 06, 2003
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Notice Oct 06, 2003
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "Continuous Marketing Applications: Pilot 1--Reviewable Units for Fast Track Products Under PDUFA." This is one in a series of guidance document...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "Continuous Marketing Applications: Pilot 2--Scientific Feedback and Interactions During Development of Fast Track Products Under PDUFA." This i...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is changing the effective dates for the temporary regulations governing the operation of the Main Street Bridge, mile 24.7, St. Johns River, Jacksonville, Florida. The contractor for the bridge repairs was unable to start work as sche...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Flood elevation determinations:

Title Type Published
This interim rule lists communities where modification of the Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. New flood insurance premium rates will be calculated from the modified Ba...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a regulated navigation area (RNA) for all portions of the Illinois Waterway System located within the Ninth Coast Guard District. This RNA applies to towing vessel operators and fleeting area managers who are responsib...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Radiological Emergency Preparedness:

Title Type Published
On July 25, 2003, FEMA made a finding of reasonable assurance that there is adequate offsite preparedness for the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, New York.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, Pub. L. 92-463. Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has established the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Staircase-Escal...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
On April 22, 2003, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) in the Department of the Interior filed a Federal Register notice (68 FR 19845) calling for nominations of Tribal officials to part...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
On April 22, 2003, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) in the Department of the Interior filed a Federal Register notice (68 FR 19846) calling for nominations of Tribal officials to part...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The Malpai Borderlands Group (Applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for an incidental take permit pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act (Act). The Applicants have been assigned permit number TE...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("we") announces the availability of the Recovery Plan for Coastal Plants of the Northern San Francisco Peninsula. This recovery plan includes the endangered San Francisco lessingia (Lessingia germanorum) and Raven'...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of the draft economic analysis of this proposed critical habitat designation, and that we will hold a public hearing regarding the proposal on October 29, 2003, at Southwest Virginia Commun...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 2003
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 12-month finding that a petition to list the Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) as endangered throughout its range pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act, or...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Vessel Quotas and Operating Requirements for Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The document describes and analyzes the environmental imp...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with the cooperation of the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians, intends to gather the information necessary for preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Mohawk...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice extends the deadline for submitting applications originally published on June 25, 2003.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The John Day/Snake Resource Advisory Council (JDSRAC) will conduct a public meeting by teleconference on Tuesday, October 21 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time inclusive. The meeting is open to the public, however, teleconference lines are limi...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

National Register of Historic Places:

Justice Department logo Justice Department

National cooperative research notifications:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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 contin...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
As part of its efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden the Department of Labor conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and other interested parties with an opportunity to comment on proposed and or/contin...
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics (NACE) is part of the Secretary's comprehensive approach to ergonomics designed to quickly and effectively address musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the workplace. The committee has recommended that a s...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the NASA Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (NFS) by establishing a five-year limitation on interagency acquisitions. Individual orders or successive non-competitive orders for the same requirement with the same servicin...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

N
National Transportation Safety Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

O
Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Investment companies:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is adopting rule and form amendments under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Company Act of 1940 that require enhanced disclosure in investment company advertise...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 06, 2003
International Securities Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 06, 2003
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 06, 2003

State Department logo State Department

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. Type of...
Notice Oct 06, 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 Oct 06, 2003

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Camas Prairie Railnet, Inc.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Services (ISAC-13) will hold a meeting on October 14, 2003, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The meeting will be closed to the public from 2:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and opened to the public from 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m...
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing transport category airplanes. This action requires inspection of the attachment of the shoulder restraint harness to the mounting bracket on certain observer and a...
Rule Oct 06, 2003
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Boeing Model 767-200, -300, and -300F series airplanes. This proposal would require repetitive inspections of the aft pressure bulkhead web, and corre...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 & 440) airplanes, that requires revising the airworthiness limitations section of the Instructions for Continued Airworthiness...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared for a proposed transportation improvement project on Syracuse Road (SR-108) from 1000 West to 2000 West in Syracuse City, Utah.
Notice Oct 06, 2003

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
This final rule corrects editorial errors, makes minor regulatory changes and, in response to requests for clarification, improves the clarity of certain provisions in the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR). The intended effect of this rule is to...
Rule Oct 06, 2003

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

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