April 29, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register April 29, 2004

View all documents issued on April 29, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 29, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Agriculture intends to reestablish the Agricultural Air Quality Task Force (AAQTF), and requests nominations for qualified persons to serve as members.
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Crop insurance regulations:

Title Type Published
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) finalizes the interim Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Sunflower Seed Crop Insurance Provisions, Coarse Grains Crop Insurance Provisions, Safflower Crop Insurance Provisions, Dry Pea Crop Insurance Prov...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Forest Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service propose to add the insecticide, tebufenozide (trade name Mimic), to their list of treatments for the control of gypsy moth. The analysis for this proposal builds on the analysis an...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This final rule implements new regulations for Value-Added producer grants (Value-Added Producer Grants) and a new demonstration program whereby agriculture innovation centers provide technical and other assistance to agricultural producers to help t...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committees Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Lassen National Forest's Lassen County Resource Advisory Committ...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Kootenai National Forests' Lincoln County Resource Advisory Commi...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Sierra National Forest's Resource Advisory Committee for...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Plant related quarantine; foreign:

Title Type Published
We are proposing to amend the nursery stock regulations to allow the importation of small lots of seed under an import permit with specific conditions, as an alternative to the current phytosanitary certificate requirement. This proposed change is ne...
Proposed Rule Apr 29, 2004

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

Title Type Published
We are amending the imported fire ant regulations by designating as quarantined areas all or portions of 20 counties in North Carolina. As a result of this action, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas will be restricted. Thi...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limit for the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Canada until no later than August 30, 2004. This...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Export administration regulations:

Title Type Published
In this rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the President's April 23, 2004, decision to revise United States sanctions against Libya. This rule also implements the transfer t...
Rule Apr 29, 2004
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) maintains the Commerce Control List (CCL), which identifies items subject to Department of Commerce export controls. This final rule revises certain entries controlled for national security reasons in Categor...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for species that comprise the deep-water species fishery by vessels using trawl gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary because the second seasonal apportionment of the 2004 halibut bycatch allo...
Rule Apr 29, 2004
NMFS announces changes to the recreational fishery, and to the commercial fishery's trawl rockfish conservation areas (RCAs) for the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery. These actions, which are authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Managem...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was enacted in 1972 with the ideal of eliminating mortality and serious injury of marine mammals incidental to commercial fishing operations. In 1994, Congress amended the MMPA and established a requirement tha...
Proposed Rule Apr 29, 2004

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 Apr 29, 2004
Notice is hereby given that Brendan Kelly, Ph.D., University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, Alaska 99801 has been issued a permit to conduct research on ringed seals (Phoca hispida) in Alaska.
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The following invention is assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is made available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 10/807574 entitled "Integrated Ma...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee will meet in closed session at the Pentagon on May 19, 2004, from 0930 to 2000 and May 20, 2004 from 0830 to 1500. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defe...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Strategic Strike Skills will meet in closed session on May 14, 2004, in Arlington, VA. The Task Force will assess the future strategic strike force skills needs of the Department of Defense (DoD). The mis...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

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

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy gives notice of its intent to grant METOCEAN Data System a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license, with exclusive fields of use in portable acoustic scoring, acoustic sounding and simulator control, in the Un...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Defense Contract Audit Agency is amending a notice in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend for three years, an information collection package with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) concerning the Renewable Energy Production Incentive....
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) generally reaffirms its determinations in Order No. 2004 and grants rehearing and clarifies certain provisions. Order No. 2004 requires all natural gas and public utility Transmission Providers to...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing an updated list of programs which States may choose to review under their official Executive Order 12372 (Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs) process and under section 204 of the Demon...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

No documents available.

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

No documents available.

Banks and bank holding companies:

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a req...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. F...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. F...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) announces the availability of grant funds for Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIGs). SPF SIG program is one...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect National Task Force
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Injury Prevention and Control Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Cancer Institute
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Cancer Institute
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Apr 29, 2004
National Library of Medicine
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Scientific Review Center
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Scientific Review Center
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing new regulations for persons who use sampling services (services that collect samples for another party) and private laboratories used in connection with imported food. The proposal would require sam...
Proposed Rule Apr 29, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the availability on April 19, 2004, of the Expert Panel Report on the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Fluoxetine. This report includes the summaries and conclusions of the expert panel's evaluation of the scientif...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Customhouse broker license cancellation, suspension, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 1641) and the Customs Regulations (19 CFR 111.51), the following Customs broker licenses are canceled without prejudice.
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations at section 111.51(a), the following individual Customs broker licenses and any and all permits have been cancelled due to the death of the broker:
Notice Apr 29, 2004

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 Apr 29, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will submit to OMB the collection of information described for approval under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Copies of specific information collection requirements and explanatory materi...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will submit to OMB the collection of information described below for approval and renewal under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Copies of specific information collection requirements, rel...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
We are withdrawing a proposed rulemaking for an amendment to the West Virginia regulatory program under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The proposed rulemaking pertained to the State's response to several le...
Proposed Rule Apr 29, 2004

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Exhibit B to Registration Statement (Foreign Agents).
Notice Apr 29, 2004
60-Day notice of information collection under review: Supplemental Registration Statement of Individuals (Foreign Agents).
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Pollution control; consent judgments:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or co...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Safety standard petitions:

Title Type Published
Goodin Creek Mining Co., Inc., et al.
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Millennium Challenge Corporation logo Millennium Challenge Corporation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
DOS, MCC
Millennium Challenge Corp; Sunshine meeting
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has prepared a model safety evaluation (SE) relating to the elimination of requirements for licensees to provide monthly operating reports (MORs) and occupational radiat...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of an infor...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for clearance of a...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for clearance of a...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Health benefits, Federal employees:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is extending the deadline for receipt of applications from high deductible health benefits plans wishing to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program.
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Domestic Mail Manual:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the regulations for indemnity claims as set forth in the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) S010, Indemnity Claims, and related provisions of DMM S913, Insured Mail, and DMM S921, Collect on Delivery (COD) Mail. Other than the changes...
Rule Apr 29, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 29, 2004

State Department logo State Department

Foreign terrorists and terrorist organizations; designation:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Overseas Schools Advisory Council
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
PLE Properties, Inc.
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (EMBRAER) Model EMB-120 series airplanes. This proposal would require installing a lightning bonding jumper...
Proposed Rule Apr 29, 2004
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Gulfstream Aerospace LP Model Galaxy and Model Gulfstream 200 airplanes. This proposal would require a one-time detailed inspection of the wing fl...
Proposed Rule Apr 29, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 2 environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Section 3, located in Daviess and Greene Counties, Indiana, of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Interstate 69 (I-6...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 2 environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Section 2, located in Gibson, Pike and Daviess Counties, Indiana, of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Interstate 6...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 2 environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Section 4, located in Greene and Monroe Counties, Indiana, of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Interstate 69 (I-69...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 2 environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Section 5, located in Monroe and Morgan Counties, Indiana, of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Interstate 69 (I-69...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 2 environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Section 6, located in Morgan, Johnson and Marion Counties, Indiana, of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Interstate...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 2 environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Section 1, located in Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Gibson Counties, Indiana, of the Evansville-to-Indianapolis Inte...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardou...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the OCC, the Board, the FDIC, and the OTS (the "agencies") may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Apr 29, 2004
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On February 26, 2004, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the "Fund") announced in a NOFA for the Financial Assistance Component of the CDFI Program (69 FR 9018) that the deadline for applications for assistance through the Financi...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In 1998 the Internal Revenue Service established the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). The primary purpose of ETAAC is to provide an organized public forum for discussion of electronic tax administration issues in support of t...
Notice Apr 29, 2004

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 29, 2004

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