February 18, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register February 18, 2004

View all documents issued on February 18, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

97 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 18, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Field office technical guides; changes:

Title Type Published
It is the intention of NRCS in Mississippi to issue twelve (12) revised conservation practice standards in Section IV of the FOTG. The revised standards are; Aquaculture Ponds (Code 397), Bedding (Code 310), Dike (Code 356), Irrigation Canal or Later...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Hawaiian and territorial quarantine notices:

Title Type Published
We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the regulations to provide for the use of irradiation as a treatment for sweetpotatoes to be moved interstate from Hawaii. The interim rule also provided that the sweetpota...
Rule Feb 18, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Agricultural Air Quality Task Force (AAQTF) will meet to continue discussions on critical air quality issues in relation to agriculture. Special emphasis will be placed on obtaining a greater understanding about the relationship between agricultu...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
The California Coast Provincial Advisory Committee (PAC) will meet on March 3, 2004, in Orick, California. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss issues relating to implementing the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP).
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

Title Type Published
We are proposing to amend the Mexican fruit fly regulations by removing a provision that allows regulated articles to be moved interstate from a regulated area without a certificate or limited permit if they are moved into States other than commercia...
Proposed Rule Feb 18, 2004

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
NIST's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) announces that it will hold a single fiscal year 2004 ATP competition and is soliciting proposals for financial assistance. ATP also announces that it will hold public meetings (Proposers' Conferences) for all...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Ocean and coastal resource management:

Title Type Published
NOAA announces a public meeting and a request for public comments about its receipt of a permit application to construct an artificial reef within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) and of its intent to prepare an environmental analys...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Ecolab, Inc., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the U.S. and certain foreign countries, the Government- owned inventions described in Navy Case No. 83...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirements of section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
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 c...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
In compliance with the requirements of section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Electricity Advisory Board
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-PS26-04NT42066 entitled "Epidemiology and Toxicology of Primary and Secondary Particulate Matter Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants." The DOE/NETL is seeking ap...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Power rates:

Title Type Published
The Western Area Power Administration (Western) is proposing an adjustment to the Boulder Canyon Project (BCP) firm power base charge and rates. The current base charge and rates expire September 30, 2004. The current base charge is not sufficient to...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required t...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Compliance (OC), within EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), is soliciting proposals for states and tribes to support their on-going efforts in state/tribal data system modernization. In particular, the grants wi...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), EPA gives notice of a meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Program (GMP) Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC).
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), EPA gives notice of a joint meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Program (GMP) Policy Review Board (PRB) and Management Committee (MC).
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Pesticides; experimental use permits, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA has granted an experimental use permit (EUP) to the following pesticide applicant. An EUP permits use of a pesticide for experimental or research purposes only in accordance with the limitations in the permit.
Notice Feb 18, 2004
EPA has granted an experimental use permit (EUP) to the following pesticide applicant. An EUP permits use of a pesticide for experimental or research purposes only in accordance with the limitations in the permit.
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural commodities:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of aminoethoxyvinylglycine hydrochloride (aviglycine HCl) in or on apple, pear and the stone fruits crop group 12, excepting cherries. Valent BioSciences Corporation requested this tolerance under...
Rule Feb 18, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing that the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program's (NELAP's) Proficiency Testing Board has posted an application at http:// www.epa.gov/ttn/nelac, "recent additions" for all interested...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the comment period for the draft "Recovered Materials Advisory Notice V," (RMAN V) which appeared in the Federal Register on December 10, 2003 (68 FR 68919). The initial public comment period for...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Solid Waste:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the comment period for the proposed rule entitled "Comprehensive Procurement Guideline V for Procurement of Products Containing Recovered Materials," (CPG V) which appeared in the Federal Registe...
Proposed Rule Feb 18, 2004

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region II Office announces its intent to delete the Florence Land Recontouring Landfill Superfund Site (Site) from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this action. Within the NPL...
Proposed Rule Feb 18, 2004

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Australia; notice of intention to enter into free trade agreement (Notice of February 13, 2004)
Presidential Document Feb 18, 2004

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
On February 3, 2004, the Commission granted a request by Evercom et al. to extend the deadlines for filing comments and reply comments regarding a Petition For Rulemaking or, in the Alternative, Petition To Address Referral Issues In A Pending Rulema...
Proposed Rule Feb 18, 2004

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is seeking public comments concerning a three-year extension by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the information...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is seeking public comments concerning a three-year extension by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the information...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the rates for application fees for fiscal year (FY) 2004 and payment procedures for those fees. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act), as amended by the Animal Drug User Fee Act of 200...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that the eight drug products listed in this document were not withdrawn from sale for reasons of safety or effectiveness. This determination means that FDA will not begin procedures to withdraw ap...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panels
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families et al.
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families et al.
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of several proposed and final documents that have been prepared by Study Groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF). These documents are intended to provid...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a call- for-data for safety and effectiveness information on the following conditions as part of FDA's ongoing review of over-the-counter (OTC) drug products: Piroctone olamine, 0.05 percent to 0.5...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
FEMA announces the following open meeting. Name: Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS). Date of Meeting: March 4, 2004. Place: Building J, Room 103, National Emergency Training Center (NETC), 16825 South Seton Avenue, E...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
This document extends to March 23, 2004, the previous deadline of February 23, 2004, for submitting comments on the proposed new information collection published on December 24, 2003 (68 FR 74647), that concerns four new forms to collect information...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
Alaska
Notice Feb 18, 2004

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Statement of Process-Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection.
Notice Feb 18, 2004
30-day notice of information collection under review: Commerce in Firearms and Ammunition--Annual Inventory of Firearms.
Notice Feb 18, 2004

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

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National Science Foundation

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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National Transportation Safety Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices; correction
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will convene a meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) on March 1 and 2, 2004. An announcement of this meeting was originally made in the January 28, 2004 Federal Register. Howe...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document corrects a notice appearing in the Federal Register on January 5, 2004 (69 FR 385)), that clarifies that enforcement action may be taken against non-licensees for violations of the Commission's regulations governing the packaging and tr...
Notice Feb 18, 2004
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to make a clarification in the reporting guideline for serious steam generator tube degradation contained within Revision 2 to NUREG-1022, "Event Reporting Guidelines 10 CFR 50.72 and 50.73." The NRC inten...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
This document promulgates a final rule on procedural requirements for baseline and functionally equivalent Negotiated Service Agreements. The final rule incorporates relatively minor changes to the text of the rule as proposed, except in the area of...
Rule Feb 18, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to issue program announcement No. MTA-04-01, to solicit proposals from organizations to provide business development assistance for nationwide 7(j) eligible client executives. The authorizing legisla...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Advisory Councils
Notice Feb 18, 2004
Veterans Business Affairs Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Surface Transportation Board (Board) will hold two public hearings in this proceeding: the first on Friday, April 2, 2004, in Trenton, NJ; and the second on Monday, May 3, 2004, in Washington, DC. The hearings will provide a forum for interested...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Railroad services abandonment:

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes, that requires replacing existing screw, nut, and washers that attach the latch cable assembly to...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Boeing Model 727, 727C, 727-100, and 727-100C series airplanes, that requires repetitive detailed and special detailed inspections for cracks in the web, inner chord, and out...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737 series airplanes, that currently requires a one-time general visual inspection of the seat locks and seat tracks of the flightcrew seats to ens...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 727, 727-100C, 727-200F, and 727C series airplanes, that requires repetitive open-hole high frequency eddy current inspections for cracks in the fuselage ski...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Dornier Model 328-100 series airplanes, that requires a one-time inspection of certain engine control cables to determine the batch number on the end fitting, and replace...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting airworthiness directive (AD) 2004-02-51 that was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of EMBRAER Model EMB- 135 and -145 series airplanes by individual notices. T...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
The FAA adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The New Piper Aircraft, Inc. (Piper) Model PA-46-500TP airplanes. This AD requires you to replace all electronic control modules in the airplane electrical system with newly designed modul...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
The FAA adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that supersedes AD 2002-01-09, which applies to all Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Models PC-7, PC-12, and PC-12/45 airplanes that incorporate a certain engine-driven pump. AD 2002-01-09 currently re...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Raytheon Model Beech 400A and 400T series airplanes, that requires an inspection to determine the part number of the A194 roll trim printed circuit board (PCB), and repla...
Rule Feb 18, 2004
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Saab Model SAAB 2000 series airplanes, that requires replacing the dual shuttle valve in the number 2 hydraulic system with a new, improved valve. This action is necessar...
Rule Feb 18, 2004

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

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 Feb 18, 2004
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 Feb 18, 2004
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 Feb 18, 2004
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 Feb 18, 2004
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 Feb 18, 2004
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 Feb 18, 2004
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 Feb 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury is issuing this notice to inform the public of the availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Production of the Next Generation of Currency, Western Currency Facility, Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC Faci...
Notice Feb 18, 2004

Income taxes, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations relating to the voluntary electronic furnishing of statements on Forms W-2, "Wage and Tax Statement," under sections 6041 and 6051, and statements on Forms 1098-T, "Tuition Statement," and Forms 1098-E, "Stude...
Rule Feb 18, 2004

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