July 20, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register July 20, 2004

View all documents issued on July 20, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

103 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on July 20, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection insupport of the Pseudorabies Eradication Program...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is publishing for public comment a summary of a proposed information collection. The proposed collection is an extension of a collection currently approved t...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

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We are amending the animal importation regulations to require that steers and spayed heifers with any evidence of horn growth that are entering the United States meet the same tuberculosis testing requirements as sexually intact animals entering the...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Mendocino County Resource Advisory Committee will meet July 16, 2004, (RAC) in Willits, California. Agenda items to be covered include: (1) Approval of minutes, (2) Public Comment, (3) Sub- committees (4) Discussion/approval of projects (Over fli...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
An Opal Creek Scenic Recreation Area Advisory Council meeting will convene in Stayton, Oregon on Wednesday, August 4, 2004. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., and will conclude at approximately 8:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the S...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on the submission of a revision of a currently approve...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Canada. We preliminarily determine that sales of subject merchandise by Ivaco Inc. (Ivaco...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
On March 8, 2004, the Department of Commerce ("Department") published a notice of initiation of changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on Automotive Replacement Glass ("ARG") Windshields from the People's Republic of China ("PRC")...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes a regulation to implement the annual harvest guideline for Pacific mackerel in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the Pacific coast. The Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) and its implementing regulations req...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004
NMFS announces that the commercial fishery in the area from the U.S.-Canada Border to Cape Falcon, OR was modified to open July 8 and close at midnight on July 12, 2004, then to reopen on July 16 through midnight on July 19, 2004, with the provision...
Rule Jul 20, 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 for...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of meetings of the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (MAFAC) from August 10 through August 12, 2004.
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is promulgating final rules relating to electronic trading facilities that operate in reliance on the exemption in section 2(h)(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act ("the Act"). First, the Commissio...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service announces the proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
This document removes information in Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations concerning Medical Malpractice Claims Against Military and Civilian Personnel of the Armed Forces. This part has served the purpose for which it was intended in the CFR...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an open meeting of the Federal Energy Management Advisory Committee (FEMAC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that these meetings be announced in the Federal Register to allow for public...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
BPA is publishing a policy proposal stating how the agency proposes to market power and distribute the costs and benefits of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) in the Pacific Northwest for Fiscal Years (FY) 2007-2011. This proposal is in...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
On September 18, 2003 (68 FR 54790), EPA issued amendments to the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for asbestos under section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). This action corrects typographical errors in Table 1 to the...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Air programs:

Title Type Published
EPA issued a final rule on July 1, 2004 (69 FR 40004) that amended the transportation conformity rule to include criteria and procedures for the new 8-hour ozone and fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) national ambient air quality standards (N...
Rule Jul 20, 2004
In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets in the Provo, Utah Carbon Monoxide Redesignation and Maintenance Plan, that was submitted by the Utah Governor on April 1, 2004, are adequate fo...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

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

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to partially approve and partially disapprove State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Montana on April 18, 2003 and August 20, 2003. The revisions modify the open burning rules, definitions and references...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004
The EPA is approving Ohio's submittal of a revision to the Ohio portion of the Cincinnati 1-Hour ozone maintenance plan. Ohio held a public hearing on the submittal on March 30, 2004. This maintenance plan revision establishes a new transportation co...
Rule Jul 20, 2004
The EPA is proposing to approve Ohio's submittal of a revision to the Ohio portion of the Cincinnati 1-Hour ozone maintenance plan under the Clean Air Act. Ohio held a public hearing on the submittal on March 30, 2004. This maintenance plan revision...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability for review and comment of the draft document entitled "Draft Model Application/Information Request for CERCLA Service Station Dealer Exemption."
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
The Federal Communications Commissions, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection, as required by the...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document is a notification of dismissal of a petition for declaratory ruling in CCB/CPD File No. 98-30. The Commission on April 2, 2004, issued a Public Notice, DA 04-943, 69 FR 23756, April 30, 2004, asking parties to update the record regardin...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission will hold a Localism Task Force hearing in Monterey, California, on July 21, 2004. The purpose of the hearing is to gather information from consumers, industry, civic organizations, and others on broadcasters' se...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996; implementation:

No documents available.

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996; implementation:

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Administrative practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a new regulation to adjust for inflation the maximum civil money penalty amounts for the various civil money penalty authorities within our jurisdiction. We are taking this action to comply with the F...
Rule Jul 20, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend our regulations on new drug applications (NDAs) and abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) for approval to market new drugs and generic drugs. We propose to discontinue the use of approv...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites Citizens Advisory Committee
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Botswana; psychosocial support and peer counseling service to HIV-infected women and their families; expansion
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the withdrawal of six guidances on the clinical evaluation or the requirements for approval of radiopharmaceuticals, antacids, antidiarrheals, laxatives, gastric secretory depressants, and drugs to...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Scientific misconduct findings; administrative actions:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Tirunelveli S. Ramalingam, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology: Based on the report...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Arkansas (FEMA-1528-DR), dated June 30, 2004, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of Virginia (FEMA-1525-DR), dated June 15, 2004, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 20, 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 Jul 20, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document makes corrections to the documents published in the Federal Register on June 22, 2004, and on May 14, 2004, concerning HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 SuperNOFA. The corrections pertain to the General Section to the SuperNOFA; the Section 2...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Mortgage and loan insurance programs:

Title Type Published
This final rule clarifies HUD's regulations concerning the responsibilities of lenders approved by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) with respect to appraisals on properties that will be the security for FHA insured mortgages. The final rule c...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Public and Indian housing:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would amend HUD's Supportive Housing Program regulations. The regulations would be updated to improve the implementation of existing program requirements in conformance with recent statutory changes. The Department believes that th...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507 et seq.) and 5 CFR part 1320, the National Park Service (NPS) invites public comments on a submitted request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve a revisio...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Comprehensive conservation plans; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces that the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment (CCP/EA) for the Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) is available for public review and comment. This Draft...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
David Sime (Applicant) requests an incidental take permit (ITP) pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as amended (Act). The Applicant anticipates taking about 0.33 acre of Florida scrub-jay (Aphe...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The MMS prepared an EA for Nuevo Energy Company's Submarine Power Cable Repair Project and issued a FONSI pursuant to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians (Band) as cooperating agency, intends to gather information necessary for preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Land use plans:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would modify the BLM's planning regulations for three reasons. It defines cooperating agency and cooperating agency status. It clarifies the responsibility of managers to offer this status to qualified agencies and governments and...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service published a document in the Federal Register of July 6, 2004, volume 69, number 128, page 40650, concerning a public meeting of the Denali National Park Subsistence Resource Commission. The date given for the meeting was in...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Federal Advisory Commission Act that a meeting of the Landmarks Committee of the National Park System Advisory Board will be held beginning at 1 p.m. on September 21, 2004, and at the following location....
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Native American human remains, funerary objects; inventory, repatriation, etc.:

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
30-day notice of information collection under review: Attorney General's Honor Program, Summer Law Intern Program Electronic Applications.
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Jul 20, 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 Jul 20, 2004

Adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
A.O. Smith Electrical Products Co.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Caspain International Group
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Charleston Hosiery, Inc.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Dresser, Inc.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Duracell GBMG
Notice Jul 20, 2004
H E Microwave Corp.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Model Die Casting, Inc.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
N.E.W. Plastics Corp.
Notice Jul 20, 2004
O/Z-Gedney Co.
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Employee benefit plans; individual exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Inte...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is the national organization charged with administering Federal funds provided for civil legal services to low-income people. LSC hereby announces the availability of competitive grant funds and is soliciting gran...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

M
Mississippi River Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jul 20, 2004

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
NARA published a document in the Federal Register of July 14, 2004, concerning request for comments on agency information collection activities; submission for OMB review. The document contained an incomplete address.
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jul 20, 2004
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a request for clearance of revised information colle...
Notice Jul 20, 2004
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a request for clearance of revised information collections...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Expected service:

Title Type Published
This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make appointments under Schedules A, B and C in the excepted service as required by 5 CFR 6.6 and 213.103 (b).
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Securities Exchange Act:

Title Type Published
Certified balance sheet and income statement; annual filing
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Securities, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is adopting an amendment to a rule under section 18 of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"). The purpose of the amendment is to designate options listed on the International Securities Ex...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

State Department logo State Department

Presidential permits:

Title Type Published
Laredo, TX; construction of new international border crossing
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Railroad services abandonment:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Wisconsin Central Ltd.
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document announces the renewal and expansion for a 24- month period of the Runway Incursion Information Evaluation Program (RIIEP) for the purpose of gathering further information about the causal factors of runway incursions and surface inciden...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Subsidized vessels and operators:

Title Type Published
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) is issuing this interim final rule to provide procedures to implement provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, the Maritime Security Act of 2003 (MSA 2003). The MSA 2003 authorizes...
Rule Jul 20, 2004

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996; implementation:

Title Type Published
The OCC, Board, FDIC, and OTS ("we" or "the Agencies") are reviewing our regulations to identify outdated, unnecessary, or unduly burdensome regulatory requirements pursuant to the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996 (EGRPR...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations relating to transfers of money or other property to provide for the satisfaction of contested liabilities. The regulations affect taxpayers that are contesting an asserted liability and that transfer their own...
Rule Jul 20, 2004
This document withdraws a portion of a notice of proposed rulemaking published on January 3, 2001, relating to the application of the foreign tax credit limitation under section 904 and the deemed-paid credit under section 902.
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004
This document contains final Income Tax Regulations relating to the section 904(d) foreign tax credit limitation and to the exclusion of certain export financing interest from foreign personal holding company income. Changes to the applicable law wer...
Rule Jul 20, 2004
This document contains proposed regulations relating to the optional 10-year writeoff of certain tax preference items under section 59(e) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). These proposed regulations provide guidance on the time and manner of makin...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Small Business/Self Employed--Payroll Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The TAP will be discussing issues pertaining to increasing compliance and lessening the burden for Small Bus...
Notice Jul 20, 2004

Procedure and administration:

Title Type Published
This document contains a temporary regulation that deems certain eligible entities that file timely S corporation elections to have elected to be classified as associations taxable as corporations. This regulation affects certain eligible entities fi...
Rule Jul 20, 2004
In the rules and regulations portion of this issue of the Federal Register, the IRS is issuing temporary regulations that deem certain eligible entities that file timely S corporation elections to have elected to be classified as associations taxable...
Proposed Rule Jul 20, 2004

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