December 4, 2003 (Volume 68)

Federal Register December 4, 2003

View all documents issued on December 4, 2003. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

69 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 4, 2003

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 102(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulations (7 CFR part 650); the Natural Resources Conse...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Eastern Arizona Counties Resources Advisory Committee will meet in Show Low, Arizona. The purpose of the meeting is to evaluate project proposals for possible funding in accordance with Public Law 106-393 (the Secure Rural Schools and Community S...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Trade adjustment assistance; applications, petitions, etc.:

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 Dec 04, 2003

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
In response to a request from Shanghai Xiuwei International Trading Co., Ltd. ("Shanghai Xiuwei") and Sichuan-Dujiangyan Dubao Bee Industrial Co., Ltd. ("Sichuan Dubao"), the Department of Commerce ("the Department") is conducting a new shipper revie...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Patent cases:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) published a final rule in the Federal Register of October 20, 2003, revising the rules of practice in patent cases to conform them to certain amendments made to the Regulations under the Patent C...
Rule Dec 04, 2003
The patent term extension provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) and the patent term adjustment provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) each provide for the possibility of patent term extension or adjustment...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003

Permits:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Northeast Region, NMFS (Assistant Regional Administrator) has made a preliminary determination that the subject EFP application contains all the required information and warrants further...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Jacksonville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), intends to prepare an integrated Project Implementation Report (PIR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Water Conservation Area 3 (WCA-3) Decompartmentalization and Sheet...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Notice is given of the names of members of a Performance Review Board for the Department of the Army.
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Florida Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Great Lakes Gas Transmission L.P.
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Viking Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Dec 04, 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 an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request t...
Notice Dec 04, 2003
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request t...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Air pollutants; hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
On November 12, 2002, the EPA issued amendments to the national emission standard for benzene waste operations as a direct final rule, along with a parallel proposal to be used as a basis for final action in the event we received any adverse comments...
Rule Dec 04, 2003

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

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (VCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from adh...
Rule Dec 04, 2003
EPA is making an interim final determination to stay imposition of sanctions based on a proposed approval of revisions to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (VCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) published e...
Rule Dec 04, 2003
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (VCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from adhesives and sealan...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or "the Agency") is proposing reportable quantity (RQ) adjustments for 28 individual carbamates and five carbamate-related hazardous waste streams listed as hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservatio...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 122(i)(1) of the comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1984, as amended ("CERCLA"), notification is hereby given of a proposed administrative agreement concerning the Marina Cliffs/Northwes...
Notice Dec 04, 2003
In accordance with the requirements of 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 under section...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
World AIDS Day (Proc. 7740)
Presidential Document Dec 04, 2003

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of June 27, 2003. That document revised the Finance Board's Description of Organization and Functions regulation to reflect agency reor...
Rule Dec 04, 2003

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Child maltreatment and youth violence; sociocultural and community risk and protective factors
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed continuing information collecti...
Notice Dec 04, 2003
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has submitted the following proposed information collection to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C....
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing an interim rule to establish the Department of Homeland Security Acquisition Regulation (HSAR). The HSAR is intended as regulatory guidance. The HSAR reflects recent changes to the Federal Acquisit...
Rule Dec 04, 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 Dec 04, 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 Dec 04, 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 Dec 04, 2003

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3507) and 5 CFR part 1320, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements, the National Park Service (NPS) invites comments on a submitted request to the Office of Manag...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Closure of public lands:

Title Type Published
This notice closes to casual use certain public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, in order to prevent hikers and other visitors from accessing ridges that overlook bigh...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Comprehensive conservation plans; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces that the Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) is available for the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge). Prepared pursuant to the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration A...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
We are approving a proposed amendment to the North Dakota regulatory program (the "North Dakota program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). North Dakota proposed revisions to and additions of rules about...
Rule Dec 04, 2003

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Rulemaking petitions:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is denying a petition for rulemaking (PRM-50-74) submitted by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI or petitioner). The petitioner requested that the NRC amend its regulations regarding emergency core cooling syste...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Hard Rock Hotel, Inc.
Notice Dec 04, 2003

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comment in the Federal Register preceding submission to OMB. T...
Notice Dec 04, 2003
The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comment in the Federal Register preceding submission to OMB. T...
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is amending its regulations concerning the service of a notice of intent to abandon or discontinue rail service by removing an obsolete reference to a labor organization and making technical changes.
Rule Dec 04, 2003

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model MD-11 series airplanes, that currently requires performing a general visual inspection to detect chafing or damage of the parallel power...
Rule Dec 04, 2003

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Airbus Model A320 series airplanes, that currently requires repetitive ultrasonic inspections to detect fatigue cracking in the wing/fuselage joint...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Model 737-600, 737-700, 737-700C, 737-800, and 737-900 series airplanes. This proposal would require measuring the electrical resistance of the su...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003
The FAA adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Cessna Aircraft Company (Cessna) Models 172R, 172S, 182S, 182T, T182T, 206H, and T206H airplanes that are equipped with a Honeywell KAP 140 autopilot computer system installed on the cente...
Rule Dec 04, 2003
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Dassault Model Falcon 2000 series airplanes. This proposal would require modification of the forward ribs of the left and right engine pylons to p...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model MD-11 airplanes, that currently requires repetitive general visual inspections of the power feeder cables, terminal strip, fuseholder, a...
Rule Dec 04, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-10-10, DC-10-10F, DC- 10-15, DC-10-30, DC-10-30F, DC-10-30F (KC10A and KDC-10), DC-10-40, DC- 10-40F, MD-10-10F, MD-10-30F, MD-11, and MD-11F a...
Rule Dec 04, 2003
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all McDonnell Douglas Model DC-9-81 (MD-81), DC-9-82 (MD- 82), DC-9-83 (MD-83), DC-9-87 (MD-87), and MD-88 airplanes. This action requires one-time inspections to detect discrepa...
Rule Dec 04, 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 highway project within Watauga County, North Carolina.
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
RSPA proposes to amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations to incorporate into the regulations the provisions of certain widely used exemptions which have established a history of safety and which may be converted into regulations for general use. We...
Proposed Rule Dec 04, 2003

Practice and procedure:

No documents available.

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 Dec 04, 2003

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This NOFA is issued in connection with two annual funding rounds of the NACA Program, one using FY 2003 and FY 2004 appropriated funds ("Round One") and one using FY 2004 and FY 2005 appropriated funds ("Round Two"), if appropriated funds are availab...
Notice Dec 04, 2003
Preamble for the CDFI Fund's Native American Initiative, which includes: The Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Program; the Native American Technical Assistance (NATA) Component (part of the Technical Assistance Component) of the CDFI Program; and the Native American CDFI Development (NACD) Program.
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Area 1 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
Notice Dec 04, 2003

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Homeless Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice Dec 04, 2003

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