May 26, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register May 26, 2004

View all documents issued on May 26, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

127 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 26, 2004

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Title Type Published
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has submitted the following information collection to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments regarding this information collection are best...
Notice May 26, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Research and promotion programs:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the comment period on the proposal to exempt producers and marketers of solely 100 percent organic products from paying assessments to any research and promotion program administered by the Agricultural Marketing Service (...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

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 May 26, 2004
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 May 26, 2004
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 May 26, 2004
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 May 26, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 26, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 26, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 26, 2004

Antidumping:

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The Department of Commerce received one request on December 15, 2003, to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the People's Republic of China ("PRC"). In accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(d), we are initiating a...
Notice May 26, 2004
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limit for the final results of the new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on glycine from the People's Republic of China (PRC) until no later than July 23, 2004. The period o...
Notice May 26, 2004
The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the final results of the new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from the People's Republic of China until no later than July 23, 2004. The period of...
Notice May 26, 2004
On December 19, 2003, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel wire rods from India. See Stainless Steel Wire...
Notice May 26, 2004
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of outboard engines from Japan until no later than July 16, 2004. This postponement is made pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(B)...
Notice May 26, 2004

Business development missions:

Title Type Published
Department of Commerce technology-sector leaders will organize a senior-level business development mission to Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland (N.I.) and Dublin, Republic of Ireland (R.O.I.). The focus of the mission is to help U.S. companies expl...
Notice May 26, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces a temporary closure of the primary season for Pacific whiting (whiting) south of 42[deg] N. lat. at noon local time (l.t.) May 22, 2004. "Per trip" limits for whiting will be reinstated until 0001 hours June 15, 2004, at which time the...
Rule May 26, 2004

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice to allow for more efficient processing of powers of attorney and assignment documents within the Office. For example, the Office will require applicants to use t...
Rule May 26, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In a previously published notice, NMFS announced the availability of an issues and options paper and the schedule of nine scoping meetings to discuss the issues described in the paper. In this notice, NMFS announces one additional scoping meeting and...
Notice May 26, 2004

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation"), has submitted a proposed new public information collection request (ICR) entitled Parent Corps Evaluation to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and...
Notice May 26, 2004

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; record of decision:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy announces its decision to support future military operational increases and implementation of the associated Comprehensive Land Use Management Plan (CLUMP) and Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) at Naval A...
Notice May 26, 2004

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice May 26, 2004
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice May 26, 2004

Special education and rehabilitative services:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services proposes a priority, definitions, and application requirements under the Special Demonstration Programs focusing on developing models that adapt positive psycholo...
Notice May 26, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings
Notice May 26, 2004
Off-the-record communications
Notice May 26, 2004

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Ameren Services Co.
Notice May 26, 2004
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
Notice May 26, 2004
Questar Pipeline Co.
Notice May 26, 2004
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice May 26, 2004
Trailblazer Pipeline Co.
Notice May 26, 2004

Electricity export and import authorizations, permits, etc.:

Title Type Published
Under separate applications, UBS AG, London Branch (UBS) has applied to renew its authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Mexico and from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.
Notice May 26, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE), with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a cooperating agency, announces the extension of the public comment period for the "Imperial-Mexicali 230-kV Transmission Lines Draft Environment...
Notice May 26, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
KeySpan LNG, L.P.; Providence, RI; site visit
Notice May 26, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District (EDCAPCD), Feather River Air Quality Management District (FRAQMD), Kern County Air Pollution Control District (KCAPCD), Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality M...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District (EDCAPCD), Feather River Air Quality Management District (FRAQMD), Kern County Air Pollution Control District (KCAPCD), Sacramento Metropoli...
Rule May 26, 2004
EPA is finalizing approval of the "2003 PM10 Plan, San Joaquin Valley Plan to Attain Federal Standards for Particulate Matter 10 Microns and Smaller," submitted on August 19, 2003, and Amendments to that plan, submitted on December 30, 2003, as meeti...
Rule May 26, 2004
The EPA is extending by six additional months the deadline for taking final action on a petition submitted by the State of North Carolina under section 126 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). The petition requests that EPA make findings that certain sources...
Rule May 26, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
A meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances (NAC/AEGL Committee) will be held on June 14-16, 2004, in The Netherlands. At this meeting, the NAC/AEGL Committee will address, as time permits...
Notice May 26, 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 May 26, 2004

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

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes a tolerance for the combined residues of imidacloprid, and its metabolites containing the 6- chloropyridinyl moiety, all expressed as the parent in or on blueberry. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested...
Rule May 26, 2004
On four occasions in the first half of 2002, the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and various other parties filed objections with EPA to final rules under section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) establishing pesticide t...
Rule May 26, 2004
This regulation establishes three tolerances for the combined residues of the herbicide safener isoxadifen-ethyl in or on rice, grain; rice, straw; and rice, hulls. Bayer CropScience (formerly Aventis CropScience) requested this tolerance under the F...
Rule May 26, 2004
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of ultramarine blue when used as an inert ingredient in pesticide products. Holliday Pigments Limited submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug,...
Rule May 26, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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This notice announces availability and starts a 30-day public comment period on the Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) document for the insect repellent di-n-propylisocinchomeronate (MGK<SUP>[reg]</SUP> Repellent 326). The RED represents EPA's...
Notice May 26, 2004

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
National Maritime Day (Proc. 7789)
Presidential Document May 26, 2004
National Safe Boating Week (Proc. 7790)
Presidential Document May 26, 2004

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Farm credit system:

Title Type Published
The Farm Credit Administration (FCA, agency, or we) adopts a final rule that amends regulations governing other financing institutions (OFIs). The purpose of the final rule is to make it easier for OFIs to obtain funding for short- and intermediate-t...
Rule May 26, 2004

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) codifies the use of the International Bureau Filing System (IBFS) as an official method of filing applications related to satellite and international telecommunications services with the C...
Rule May 26, 2004
This document seeks further comment on the Commission's presubscribed interexchange carrier (PIC)-change charge policies. PIC- change charges are federally-tariffed charges imposed by incumbent local exchange carriers on end-user subscribers when the...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document requests comments on a petition filed by Corey J. McCaslin proposing the allotment of Channel 262A at Susanville, California, as its fourth FM broadcast aural transmission service. Channel 262A can be allotted to Susanville, consistent...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
Best International Shipping, Inc., et al.
Notice May 26, 2004
CTSI Logistics, Inc., et al.
Notice May 26, 2004
IFF, Inc., et al.
Notice May 26, 2004

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Thrift Savings Plan:

Title Type Published
The Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Board) is amending the court order regulations to remove attorneys from the list of permissible court order payees and to require non-English court orders to be accompanied by...
Rule May 26, 2004

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services, announces the availability of FY 2004 grant funds for Networking and Certifying Suicide Prevention Hotlines. A synopsis of this funding opportu...
Notice May 26, 2004
The Administration on Aging announces that under this program announcement it will hold a competition for grant awards for up to three (3) projects at a federal share of approximately $150,000 per year for a project period of up to three years. It is...
Notice May 26, 2004
Spina bifida information and resource development programs
Notice May 26, 2004
West Nile virus infection effect on human pregnancy outcomes
Notice May 26, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a document in the Federal Register of May 18, 2004, concerning the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
Notice May 26, 2004
Maternal and Child Health Research Grants Review Committee
Notice May 26, 2004
National Eye Institute
Notice May 26, 2004
National Eye Institute
Notice May 26, 2004
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice May 26, 2004
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice May 26, 2004
National Institute of Nursing Research
Notice May 26, 2004
National Institute on Aging
Notice May 26, 2004
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice May 26, 2004
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice May 26, 2004
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice May 26, 2004
Tuberculosis Elimination Advisory Council
Notice May 26, 2004

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, this notice announces the establishment of a computer-matching program that CMS plans to conduct with the Department of Defense (DoD). We have provided background information...
Notice May 26, 2004

Public health security and bioterrorism:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a proposed rule that appeared in the Federal Register of April 29, 2004 (69 FR 23460). The document proposed new regulations for persons who use sampling services (services that collect samples for...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

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 "Handling and Retention of BA and BE Testing Samples." The guidance is intended to provide recommendations for study sponsors and/or drug manufa...
Notice May 26, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, has submitted a request for emergency processing of a new information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and immediate clearance by June...
Notice May 26, 2004
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, has submitted a request for emergency processing of a new information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and immediate clearance by June...
Notice May 26, 2004

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Melville Railroad Vertical Lift Bridge across the Atchafalaya River, mile 107.4, near Melville, St. Landry and Pointe Coup...
Rule May 26, 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 May 26, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The notice of availability for the DEIS was published in the Federal Register on January 26, 2004 (69 FR 3600), with the public review and comment period currently scheduled to end June 2, 2004. The public review and comment period is being extended...
Notice May 26, 2004

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

Title Type Published
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is contemplating awarding an exclusive license to: Sequoia Scientific, Inc., of Bellevue, Washington 98005, on U.S. Patent No. 6,680,795 B2, entitled "Underwater Microscope System." Inquiries: If other parti...
Notice May 26, 2004

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the final rule published in the Federal Register on Thursday, April 15, 2004 (69 FR 19927). Three paragraphs were inadvertently removed from 30 CFR 925.18. This correction will restore the previously-published th...
Rule May 26, 2004

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review three initial determinations ("IDs") issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") terminating the above-captioned investigation as to respond...
Notice May 26, 2004
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ's") initial determination ("ID") granting a joint motion to terminate the above-captioned investigation on...
Notice May 26, 2004
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the final initial determination ("ID") issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") on April, 2, 2004, finding no violation of section 337 of...
Notice May 26, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Since February 1991, the U.S. International Trade Commission ("Commission") has issued an annual report on the status of its practice with respect to violations of its administrative protective orders ("APOs") in investigations under Title VII of the...
Notice May 26, 2004

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-Day notice of information collection under review: Application for an Amended Federal Firearms License.
Notice May 26, 2004

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
Varian, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Group health plans; access, portability, and renewability requirements:

Title Type Published
This document contains final rules implementing the notice requirements of the health care continuation coverage (COBRA) provisions of part 6 of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act). The continuation cover...
Rule May 26, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans Advisory Council
Notice May 26, 2004

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Credit unions:

Title Type Published
The NCUA is proposing to amend its regulations governing a federal credit union's (FCU) authority to act as trustee or custodian to authorize FCUs to serve as trustee or custodian for Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The NCUA is issuing this proposed r...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

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

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National Institute for Literacy

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and a summary of the agenda for an upcoming meeting of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board (Board). The notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this meeting is required by section...
Notice May 26, 2004

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National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Business and Operations Advisory Committee
Notice May 26, 2004

N
National Transportation Safety Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 26, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Title Type Published
Under the provision of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to publish a Notice in the Federal Register notifying the public that the Agency is preparing an information collection request for OMB review and approv...
Notice May 26, 2004
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), agencies are required to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying the public that the Agency is preparing an information collection request for OMB review and appro...
Notice May 26, 2004
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 26, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is extending the comment period on rules proposed under Regulation NMS, which were published in Securities Exchange Act Release No. 49325 (February 26, 2004), 69 FR 11126 (March 9, 2004) ("Proposi...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice May 26, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:

Title Type Published
The FAA is publishing notice of proposed release of 7.7<plus- minus> acres of land (Parcels 41A and 42A) at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport, Staunton, Virginia to the Virginia Department of Transportation in exchange for 5.6<plus-minus> acres...
Notice May 26, 2004
The FAA is publishing notice of proposed release of 7.6<plus- minus> acres of land (Parcels 24 and 25) at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport, Staunton, Virginia to the Virginia Department of Transportation in exchange for 4.48<plus-minus> acres o...
Notice May 26, 2004

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon) Model B100 airplanes. This proposed AD would require you to drill holes in the hot lip tube "B" nuts; tighten the "B" nuts to specified torq...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces the availability of the ARAC-recommended proposed flight crew alerting, and the proposed Advisory Circular (AC) 25.1322, "Flight Crew Alerting," for potential use, upon request, in the certification...
Proposed Rule May 26, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice of intent to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project on U.S. Highway 59 from the four-lane section within the City of Atchison in Atchison County, Kansas...
Notice May 26, 2004

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
On December 3, 2003, RSPA published a final rule under Docket No. RSPA-99-5013 (HM-229) to update and clarify requirements in the Hazardous Materials Regulations applicable to incident reporting requirements and the Hazardous Materials Incident Repor...
Rule May 26, 2004

Pipeline safety:

Title Type Published
This document corrects a final rule published in the Federal Register on December 15, 2003, (68 FR 69778) and a correction document to that rule published in the Federal Register on April 6, 2004 (69 FR 18228). The final rule of December 15, 2003, re...
Rule May 26, 2004

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 26, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 26, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice May 26, 2004

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