August 12, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register August 12, 2004

View all documents issued on August 12, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

117 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on August 12, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

Title Type Published
This document withdraws the interim rule 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 sex...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Ketchikan Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Ketchikan, Alaska, September 23, 2004, and November 18, 2004. The purpose of these meetings is to discuss potential projects under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of...
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. II, this notice announces a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant and Fetal Nutrition.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Plant Protection Act:

Title Type Published
We are proposing to establish regulations to provide for the submission of requests by State, local, or tribal authorities for a determination whether methyl bromide treatments or applications required by the State, local, or tribal authorities to pr...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings; State advisory committees:

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce ("the Department") is postponing the preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigations of certain circular carbon quality line pipe from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") until no later than September 29...
Notice Aug 12, 2004
In response to requests from U.S. and Indian interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip (PET film) from Indi...
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Notice of preliminary determination of sales at less than fair value and postponement of final determination.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the final results of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on antifriction bearings and parts thereof from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and the United Kingdom...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is considering adjustments to the regulations governing the Atlantic highly migratory species (HMS) pelagic longline fishery based upon a June 1, 2004, Biological Opinion (2004 BiOp) regarding Atlantic sea turtles. NMFS issues this ANPR to reque...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Freedom of Information Act; implementation:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Department of Commerce's (Department) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations by adding a facsimile (fax) number and an e-mail address as methods of transmitting appeals of initial responses to FOIA requests to the Offi...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene a public meeting of the Aquaculture Advisory Panel (AP) to redraft the Generic Amendment Providing for Regulation of Offshore Marine Aquaculture in August 2004.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene a public meeting of the Finfish Stock Assessment Panel (FSAP) to review proposed revisions to the regulations serving as guidelines for interpreting National Standard One under the...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office consolidates and simplifies the rules governing practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences to reflect developme...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is amending several of its regulations relating to the minimum financial and related reporting requirements for futures commission merchants ("FCMs") and introducing brokers ("IBs"). The amended...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Foreign futures and options transactions:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is amending part 30 of the Commission's regulations to clarify the circumstances under which a foreign futures and options broker (FFOB) that is a member of a foreign board of trade must r...
Rule Aug 12, 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 submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Gas Program Cost Analysis; Annual Charge Adjustment; correction
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Off-the-record communications
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Boston Generating, LLC
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Chandeldur Pipe Line Co.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Clear Creek Storage Co., L.L.C.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
East Tennessee Natural Gas Co.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Gulfstream Natural Gas System, L.L.C.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Idaho Power Co.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Lower Mount Bethel Energy, LLC
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Northern Indiana Public Service Co.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Norway, MI; Sturgeon Falls Project
Notice Aug 12, 2004
PPL Sundance Energy, LLC
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Sabine Pipe Line LLC
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Saltville Gas Storage Co. L.L.C.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Texas Gas Transmission, LLC
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
PacifiCorp
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.; transmission service/AFC workshop
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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 Aug 12, 2004

Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc,:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 122(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement concerning the Imperial Refining...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 309(g)(4)(A) of the Clean Water Act, ("CWA"), 33 U.S.C. 1319(g)(4)(A), notice is hereby given of a proposed Consent Agreement and Final Order ("CA/FO"), which resolves penalties for alleged violations of sections 301(a) of...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and United Transportation Union;

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document revises the Auction No. 58 inventory to include eight additional licenses, and seeks comment on procedural issues related to the auction of these additional licenses.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
In response to a petition for reconsideration of a Report and Order, 68 FR 59748 (October 17, 2003), this Memorandum Opinion and Order substitutes Channel 250A for Channel 245A at Crisfield, Maryland, and substitutes Channel 252A for Channel 250B1 at...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on issues relating to the presentation of violent programming on television and its impact on children.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 12, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Guidance for Industry: Continuous Marketing Applications; Pilot 2--Scientific Feedback and Interactions During Development of Fast Track Products Under PD...
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Federal claims; interest rates on overdue debts
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Notice of program exclusions.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Administrative practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a final rule that published in the Federal Register of July 20, 2004 (69 FR 43299). The document issued a regulation to adjust for inflation the maximum civil money penalty amounts for various civi...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Merial Ltd. The supplemental NADA provides revised labeling for ivermectin and praziquant...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Grant and cooperative agreement awards:

National Health Service Corps:

Title Type Published
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces that the listing of entities, and their Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) scores, that will receive priority for the assignment of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) personnel...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard seeks applications for membership on the National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee (NOSAC). NOSAC provides advice and makes recommendations to the Coast Guard on matters affecting the offshore industry.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is removing the existing drawbridge operation regulation for the draw of the SR 24 bridge across Terrebonne Bayou, mile 31.3, at Houma, Louisiana. The existing bridge has been modified by permit from a movable bridge to a fixed bridge...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary security zone for all waters of the Georgetown Channel, Potomac River, from the Long Railroad Bridge upstream to the Francis Scott Key Bridge. This security zone is needed to protect vessels, waterfront fac...
Rule Aug 12, 2004
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary security zone for all waters of the Potomac River, from the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge upstream to the Francis Scott Key Bridge, including the water of the Anacostia River downstream from the Highway 50...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is implementing the special local regulations at 33 CFR 100.509 during the Labor Day Fireworks Show to be held September 6, 2004, on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These special local regulations are necessary to pr...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Vessel documentation and measurement:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is reopening the comment period on its notice of proposed rulemaking on numbering of undocumented barges, published in the Federal Register on January 11, 2001 (66 FR 2385). Reopening the comment period gives the public more time to s...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task Force Western Regional Panel. The meeting topics are identified in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Special regulations:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to designate areas and routes on Lake Superior and the mainland unit for use by snowmobiles, off-road motor vehicles, and ice augers or power engines within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The existing...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-day notice of information collection under review: National Sex Offender Registry.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
60-Day notice of information collection under review: Department Annual Progress Report.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 12, 2004
This proposed rule would set forth statutory confidentiality and disclosure requirements of Title III of the Social Security Act (SSA) and the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) concerning unemployment compensation (UC) information. It would also am...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management et al.; Records Management Program
Notice Aug 12, 2004

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule proposes to amend the NASA FAR Supplement(NFS) by adding an Alternate III to the "Final Scientific andTechnical Reports" clause for use in contracts awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small BusinessTechnolog...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System (EDGAR):

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) is adopting revisions to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System (EDGAR) Filer Manual to reflect updates to the EDGAR system. The revisions are being made primarily to supp...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Securities:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is adopting a technical amendment to Item 21(d)(1) of Form N-1A, which was published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 (69 FR 11244). The amendment corrects an instruction to the requirement for...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
Boston Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
National Stock Exchange
Notice Aug 12, 2004
National Stock Exchange
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

State Department logo State Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The South Asia/Near East/Africa Division of the Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), in cooperation with the South Asia Bureau of the U.S. Department of State, announces an open competition for grants t...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Railroad services abandonment:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Wyoming Colorado Railroad Co., Inc.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Trade Policy Staff Committee:

Title Type Published
The Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is requesting written public comments with respect to the expansion of the list of pharmaceuticals subject to reciprocal duty elimination by certain members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The specific i...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

World Trade Organization:

Title Type Published
The Office of the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") is providing notice that on July 30, 2004, at the request of the United States, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) established a dispute settlement pan...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
RSPA proposes to make miscellaneous amendments to the Hazardous Materials Regulations based on petitions for rulemaking and RSPA initiatives. These proposed amendments are intended to update, clarify or provide relief from certain regulatory requirem...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Bombardier-Rotax GmbH Type 912 F, 912 S, and 914 F series reciprocating engines. That AD currently requires venting of the lubrication system and inspection of the valve train...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Aviation proceedings:

Title Type Published
Agreements filed; weekly receipts
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
FTA is issuing this notice to advise the public and agencies that the open-house public scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposed transit improvement project in Branson, Missouri has been rescheduled.
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 1994-1997 RHD Honda Accord sedans and wagons that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal m...
Notice Aug 12, 2004
This document contains a correction to the final early warning reporting rule, which initially was published on July 10, 2002 (67 FR 45822).
Rule Aug 12, 2004
This document denies a petition for reconsideration of a final rule issued by NHTSA with respect to the reimbursement of costs incurred by owners of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment to remedy of safety-related defects or noncompliances with...
Rule Aug 12, 2004

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Grant and cooperative agreement availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This NOAA is issued in connection with the calendar year 2005 tax credit allocation round of the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program, as authorized by Title I, subtitle C, section 121 of the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 (the Act). Throu...
Notice Aug 12, 2004

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Aug 12, 2004
The proposed regulations provide rules under section 752 for taking into account certain obligations of a business entity that is disregarded as separate from its owner under sections 856(i), 1361(b)(3), or Sec. Sec. 301.7701-1 through 301.7701-3 (di...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004
This document contains proposed regulations that provide guidance regarding the requirements for a transaction to qualify as a reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(E) or (F) of the Internal Revenue Code. The proposed regulations will affect corpora...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

Procedure and administration:

Title Type Published
This document contains temporary regulations providing clarification of the definitions of a corporation and a domestic entity in circumstances where the business entity is considered to be created or organized in more than one jurisdiction. These re...
Rule Aug 12, 2004
This issue of the Federal Register contains temporary regulations that provide clarification of the definitions of a corporation and a domestic entity in circumstances where the business entity is considered to be created or organized in more than on...
Proposed Rule Aug 12, 2004

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