April 22, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register April 22, 2004

View all documents issued on April 22, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

115 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 22, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS's) intention to request approval for the "Qualified Through Verification" Program (QTV) information collect...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension without revision of the information collection, Volunteer Application for Natural Resour...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), prior to undertaking research and other work associated with revising an official grade standard, is soliciting comments on a petition to revise the United States Standards for Grades of Watermelons. AMS has...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Almonds grown in

Title Type Published
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adopting, as a final rule, without change, an interim final rule, which decreased the assessment rate established for the Almond Board of California (Board) for the 2003-04 and subsequent crop years from $0.025...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Grapes grown in

Title Type Published
This rule establishes end-of-season reporting requirements authorized under the California grape marketing order (order). The order regulates the handling of grapes grown in a designated area of Southeastern California and is administered locally by...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public that the Southeast Alaska Federal Subsistence Regional Advisory Council will hold a public meeting on June 1, 2004. The public is invited to participate and to provide oral testimony.
Notice Apr 22, 2004

National recreation areas:

Title Type Published
The Forest Service proposes to revise a building standard for residential outbuildings within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Idaho. This proposed rule would increase the allowable size for residential outbuildings to 850 square feet from th...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004

Raisins produced from grapes grown in

Title Type Published
This rule establishes final volume regulation percentages for 2003-04 crop Natural (sun-dried) Seedless (NS) raisins covered under the Federal marketing order for California raisins (order). The order regulates the handling of raisins produced from g...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received a request from Eglin Air Force Base (Eglin AFB), for authorization to harass marine mammals incidental to testing and training during Precision Strike Weapons (PSW) tests in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), a military readiness activity. A...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Patent cases:

Title Type Published
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...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Permits:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces that the Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Northeast Region, NOAA Fisheries (Assistant Regional Administrator), has determined that an application for EFPs contains all of the required information and warrants...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Short supply export controls imposition; petitions:

Title Type Published
On April 7, 2004, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) received a written petition requesting the imposition of export monitoring and export controls on copper scrap and copper-alloy scrap; the petitioner also requested a public hearing on the i...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Election Assistance Commission logo Election Assistance Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Fernald. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Feder...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is establishing a rulemaking proceeding with respect to the adequacy of the current four- prong analysis and whether and how it should be modified to assure that electric market-based rates are just and reason...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
This action promulgates national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for iron and steel foundries. The EPA has identified iron and steel foundries as a major source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. These standards impl...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

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

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern opacity standards related to particulate matter (PM-10) emissions from ind...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is making an interim final determination to stay and/or defer imposition of sanctions based on a proposed approval of revisions to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP) publi...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is taking interim final action to stay and defer the imposition of, respectively, offset and highway sanctions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) based on a finding that the San Francisco Bay Area (Bay Area) has attained the 1-hour ozone national ambi...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Kern County Air Pollution Control District (KCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). The KCAPCD revisions concern stack sampling, standards for granting applications, and the emis...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Kern County Air Pollution Control District (KCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). The KCAPCD revisions concern stack sampling, standards for granting applicati...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is determining that the San Francisco Bay Area (Bay Area) ozone nonattainment area has attained the 1-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) by the deadline required by the Clean Air Act (CAA), September 20, 2006. Based on this...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to find that East Kern County, California, has attained the 1-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). EPA is proposing to approve the East Kern County 1-hour ozone maintenance plan and motor vehicle emissions budget...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is finding that East Kern County, California, has attained the 1-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). EPA is approving the East Kern County 1-hour ozone maintenance plan and motor vehicle emissions budgets as revisions to the...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing a public meeting of the SAB's Environmental Economics Advisory Committee (EEAC). The EEAC will convene to review upcoming project requests and to offer...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Solid wastes:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is granting a petition submitted by OxyVinyls, LP (OxyVinyls) to exclude (or delist) a certain liquid waste generated by its Houston, TX Deer Park VCM Plant from the lists of hazardous wastes. This final rule...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
EPA is issuing regulations applicable only to members of EPA's National Environmental Performance Track Program (Performance Track, or the Program). Today's action includes a revision to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations t...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking information from its stakeholders to evaluate the effectiveness of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's (RCRA's) hazardous waste generator regulatory program, as well as to identify areas f...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
This notice announces EPA's receipt of test data on 1,1,2- trichloroethane (1,1,2-TCE) (CAS No. 79-00-5). These data were submitted pursuant to an enforceable testing consent agreement (ECA)/ Order issued by EPA under section 4 of the Toxic Substance...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Water supply:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined to approve an application by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to revise its Public Water Supply Supervision Primacy Program to incorporate regulations n...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee was established by Public Law 105-121, November 26, 1997, to advise the Board of Directors on the development and implementation of policies and programs designed to support the expansion of the Bank's financ...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of the special meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board).
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Farm credit system:

Title Type Published
The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) published a final rule under parts 609, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, and 617 on March 9, 2004 (69 FR 10901). This final rule clarifies the rights provided in the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended, for loan applicant...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio services, special:

Title Type Published
This document denies a Petition for Reconsideration filed by Mr. W. Lee McVey in response to the Commission's decision in a Report and Order. The Commission finds that arguments and information provided in the Petition were substantively addressed by...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
This document denies all Petitions for Reconsideration filed in this proceeding. This document has been superceded by a Sua Sponte Order on Reconsideration, FCC 04-44, adopted March 3, 2004 and released March 25, 2004. The new Order reflects changes...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
North American Cargo Inc. et al.
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
In the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act ("the Act"), 15 U.S.C. 7601 et seq., which provides for the availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients and the verification of contact lens prescriptions by prescribers, Congress required the...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice extends the deadline for nominations for members of the panel. The original deadline was April 9, 2004. The Medicare Board of Trustees has requested the Secretary of Health and Human Services (who is one of the Trustees) to establish a pa...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2004 grants to assist in the transformation of the mental health system by providing consumers...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend its regulations governing the format and content of labeling for human drug products for which an application is approved under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is establishing a public docket to obtain input on activities that could reduce existing hurdles in medical product design and development. As described in a recently released Report, "Innovation/Stagnation: Cha...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be 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 proposa...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
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 Apr 22, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 22, 2004
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Apr 22, 2004
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Apr 22, 2004
The following permits were issued.
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Importation, exportation, and transportation of wildlife:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, propose to make Houston, Texas; Louisville, Kentucky; and Memphis, Tennessee, designated ports under section 9(f) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). This action would allow the direct importation and...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task Force Mississippi River Basin Regional Panel. The meeting topics are identified in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
Notice Apr 22, 2004
The Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council (SEORAC) will hold a meeting from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Pacific time (P.t.), Monday May 24, 2004, and 8 a.m. until noon on Tuesday May 25, 2004, at the BLM, Lakeview Interagency Office. Members of the publ...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will meet as indicated below...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-day notice of information collection under review: application for Federal Firearms License.
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Notice Apr 22, 2004

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule adopts as final without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2003 (68 FR 71056). This final rule amends the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by removing from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) those portio...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
This rule adopts as final without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on November 17, 2003 (68 FR 64847). This final rule amends the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by removing from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) those portio...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
This rule adopts as final without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2003 (68 FR 71055). This final rule amends the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by removing from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) those portio...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
This proposed rule would amend the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by removing from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) those portions of the NFS containing information that consists of internal Agency administrative procedures and guidance that does not...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
This final rule amends the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook (Handbook) to require that announcements of funding opportunities advise potential applicants for grants and cooperative agreements that they will be required to submit required...
Rule Apr 22, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), and NASA policy and p...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), and NASA's policy and...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

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

Title Type Published
NASA hereby gives notice that StarGate Research, Inc., of Denver, CO, has applied for a partially exclusive license to practice the invention described and claimed in U.S. Patent No. 6,354,540 identified as Case No. MSC-22931-1, and entitled "Androgy...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

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

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 22, 2004
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Securities:

Title Type Published
Vaso Active Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; correction
Correction Apr 22, 2004

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 Apr 22, 2004

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

Title Type Published
On April 7, 2004, notice was published on page 18414 of the FR (volume 69, number 67) by the Department of State 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,...
Notice Apr 22, 2004
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 Apr 22, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Cultural Programs Division within the Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (the Bureau) announces an open competition for the Creative Arts Exchanges Program. Public and private non-profit organizations me...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Harwood Properties, Inc.
Notice Apr 22, 2004
DOT, STB
Jo Davies/Carrol County Local Redevelopment Authority
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This notice is provided in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality's regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508), section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations (36 CFR part 800), and TVA's procedures...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federa...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Airport noise compatibility program:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its determination that the noise exposure maps submitted by the Pennsylvania State University for the University Park Airport under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 47501 et seq. (Aviation Safety and Noi...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Airbus Model A330-200 and -300 and A340-200, -300, -500, and -600 series airplanes. This proposal would require a one-time inspection of each emergenc...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
This action withdraws a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737 series airplanes. That action would have required inspections of certain bonded skin pa...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
The FAA is revising Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2004-05-01, which applies to certain Bombardier Inc. (formerly deHavilland Inc.) Model Otter DHC-3 airplanes that have turbine engines installed per one of three supplemental type certificates (STC). A...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon) 65, 90, 99, 100, 200, 300, and 1900 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require you to repetitively inspect the engine controls/cross s...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
The FAA adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GmbH (Schempp-Hirth) Models Ventus-2a, Ventus-2b, Discus-2a, and Discus-2b sailplanes. This AD requires you to inspect and modify the elevator mass balance. For Model...
Rule Apr 22, 2004
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Short Brothers Model SD3-60 series airplanes. This proposal would require inspection of the welded joints of the balance weight brackets for the left...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Valentin GmbH & Co. Taifun 17E sailplanes. This proposed AD would require you to do an operational check of the front wing-locking mechanism left and right, inspect stop key movemen...
Proposed Rule Apr 22, 2004

Fuel economy standards; applications, exemptions, etc.:

Title Type Published
Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) filed a petition requesting exemption from the two-fleet rule for the 2006-2010 model years. The two-fleet rule, which is contained in the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) statute, requires that a manufacturer...
Notice Apr 22, 2004

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

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 Apr 22, 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 Apr 22, 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 Apr 22, 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 Apr 22, 2004

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Minority Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 22, 2004

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