August 18, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register August 18, 2004

View all documents issued on August 18, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

121 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on August 18, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
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Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposal to harvest timber and to develop a road management plan for the Kuiu Timber Sale on north-central Kuiu Island, on the Petersburg Ranger...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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This Notice invites eligible States to submit a Standard Form 424, Application for Federal Assistance, and to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) for the Allocation of Organic Certification Cost-Share Fund...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Meat and poultry inspection:

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FSIS is proposing to amend its regulations to change the required frequency of foreign inspection system supervisory visits to certified foreign establishments so as to bring FSIS import requirements into agreement with its requirements for domestic...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004

Meetings:

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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 Lolo and Kootenai National Forests' Sanders County Resource Advis...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Armed Forces Retirement Home logo Armed Forces Retirement Home

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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Pursuant to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq. and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Parts 1500-1508), the Armed Forces Retirement Hom...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 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 take this opportunity to comment on the continuing and propose...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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NIST invites and requests nominations of individuals for appointment to the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). NIST will consider nominations received in response to this notice for appointment to the Board, in addition to nomin...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Export privileges, actions affecting:

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Aura Ltd.
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Zlatko Brkic
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS issues a final rule that removes a harvest restriction on participants in the harvest limit area (HLA) Atka mackerel fishery in the Aleutian Islands subarea. The regulatory amendment allows participants assigned to an HLA fishery to harvest Atka...
Rule Aug 18, 2004
The National Marine Fisheries Service issues this notice to inform the interested public that on August 6, 2004, the National Marine Fisheries Service issued a second invitation to bid in the fishing capacity reduction program for the crab species co...
Notice Aug 18, 2004
NMFS announces that the Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS (Regional Administrator), has projected that 70 percent of the total allowable catch (TAC) of Georges Bank (GB) yellowtail flounder that may be harvested from the Western and Eastern U.S./...
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will meet Monday, September 13, 2004, from 1 p.m. to 5:...
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award will meet Friday, September 17, 2004. The Judges Panel is composed of nine members prominent...
Notice Aug 18, 2004
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) is hosting public meetings to present the results of an analysis of different options and alternatives that may help resolve current financial and market industry challenges. The analysis was dev...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that Christine A. Tomichek, Kleinschmidt Associates, Kleinschmidt Building, 35 Pratt Street, Essex, Connecticut, 06426, has applied in due form for a permit to take shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) for purposes of sc...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Textile and apparel categories:

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On August 12, 2004, the Chairman of CITA received a petition from Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., on behalf of Picacho, S.A., alleging that certain woven, 100 percent cotton, napped fabrics, of the specifications detailed below, classified in subh...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

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The next meeting of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Board of Visitors (BoV) will be held at Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, VA. The purpose of this meeting is to report back to the BoV on continuing items of interest.
Notice Aug 18, 2004
The Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee will meet in closed session at the Pentagon on September 14, 2004 from 0930 to 2000 and September 15, 2004 from 0830 to 1500. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secret...
Notice Aug 18, 2004
The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry, as the Board shall deem necessary into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Aca...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Privacy Act:

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The Department of the Army is proposing to amend seven systems of records notices in its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. The administrative amendments being made to the notices re...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

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Delaware River Basin Commission

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Meetings and hearings
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a requ...
Notice Aug 18, 2004
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 18, 2004

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

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The EPA is staying the effectiveness of two subcategories of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for stationary combustion turbines: Lean premix gas-fired turbines and diffusion flame gas-fired turbines. Pending the...
Rule Aug 18, 2004

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

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The EPA is proposing to approve a revision to Minnesota's State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Sulfur Dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) for the United Defense, LP facility located in Anoka County at 4800 East River Road, Fridley, Minnesota. This revision repla...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004
The EPA is approving a revision to Minnesota's State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Sulfur Dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) for the United Defense, LP facility located in Anoka County at 4800 East River Road, Fridley, Minesota. This revision replaces the Admi...
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Meetings:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hereby announcing a meeting of the Water Security Working Group (WSWG) of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC), established under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The purpose of this meeting is...
Notice Aug 18, 2004
The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public face-to-face meeting of the chartered SAB. The Board will discuss science issues facing EPA Regions; review and approve of two SAB Committee draft reports; discuss and approve the F...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

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In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of request by registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations.
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:

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This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Notice Aug 18, 2004
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 Aug 18, 2004

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

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National Airborne Day (Proc. 7805)
Presidential Document Aug 18, 2004

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

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Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is soliciting volunteer sites for the testing of a draft Ambulatory CAHPS<SUP>[reg]</SUP> (ACAHPS) instrument. This instrument will be part of a suite of standardized patient surveys that are reli...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) filed by Pennfield Oil Co. The ANADA provides for the use of single-ingredient Type A medicated a...
Rule Aug 18, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Phibro Animal Health. The NADA provides for the use of approved, single-ingredient Type A medicated ar...
Rule Aug 18, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Merial Ltd. The NADA provides for veterinary prescription use of firocoxib chewable tablets in dogs fo...
Rule Aug 18, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing this final rule to amend its new animal drug regulations to implement a new provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act). Under this new provision of the act, as amended by the Anim...
Rule Aug 18, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of two new animal drug applications (NADAs) filed by Elanco Animal Health. One NADA provides for use of ractopamine, melengestrol, and monensin Type A...
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on an information collection requirement concerning the Alien C...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Maritime security:

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The Coast Guard is changing the definition of certain dangerous cargo to include ammonium nitrate and certain ammonium nitrate based fertilizers, in bulk, as well as propylene oxide, alone or mixed with ethylene oxide, in bulk. This change is necessa...
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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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 Aug 18, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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This document makes corrections to a document published in the Federal Register on May 14, 2004, concerning HUD's Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA). The corrections pertain solely to the Self-Help Homeownership Op...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, we are inviting comments on a collection of information that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. We changed the title of this information colle...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, Public Law 92-463. Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has renewed the Bureau of Land Management's Carrizo Plain National...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Endangered and threatened species:

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We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce our resubmitted 12-month petition finding for the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). We conclude that the black-tailed prairie dog is not likely to become an endangered species withi...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), on behalf of the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Commonwealth of Virginia (jointly referred to as the Trustees), announces the release of the Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the Council on Environmental Quality's Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) plans to prepare an EIS o...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Public land orders:

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This order withdraws 40 acres of public land from surface entry and mining, for a period of 20 years, for the United States Air Force to protect a runway safe zone at the Nellis Air Force Base.
Notice Aug 18, 2004
This order extends Public Land Order No. 6578 for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary to continue the protection of the Castle Gardens Recreation Area in Washakie County.
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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Mallinckrodt, Inc.
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Community programs and release:

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In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) proposes new rules announcing its categorical exercise of discretion for designating inmates to community confinement when serving terms of imprisonment.
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

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SBC Communications Inc. et al.
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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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 Aug 18, 2004

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Meetings:

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announce a forthcoming meeting of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), Minority Business Resource Advisory Committee.
Notice Aug 18, 2004

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instru...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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Nuclear Management Co., LLC
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the availability of NUREG-1614, Volume 3, "U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, FY 2004-2009 Strategic Plan," dated August 12, 2004.
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Disaster loan areas:

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Kansas
Notice Aug 18, 2004
Louisiana
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Michigan
Notice Aug 18, 2004
New York
Notice Aug 18, 2004
South Carolina
Notice Aug 18, 2004

State Department logo State Department

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

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Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:

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The FAA hereby provides notice of intent to release certain airport properties (approximately 4.9 acres) at the Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport, Fernandina Beach, FL from the condition, reservations, and restrictions as contained in a Cancellation...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Air carrier certification and operations:

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The FAA is correcting an inadvertent error in a final regulation published in the Federal Register of Tuesday, July 27, 2004 (69 FR 44772). The regulation related to the certification of aircraft and airmen for the operation of light-sport aircraft....
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Airworthiness directives:

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The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Ostmecklenburgische Flugzeugbau GmbH (OMF) Model OMF-100- 160 airplanes. This proposed AD would require you to inspect the outside tube (cage) that supports the main landing gea...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Pratt & Whitney (PW) JT8D-209, -217, -217A, -217C, and -219 turbofan engines. That AD currently requires revisions to the engine manufacturer's time limits section (TLS) to in...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Pratt & Whitney (PW) PW4000 series turbofan engines. That AD currently requires revisions to the engine manufacturer's time limits section (TLS) to include enhanced inspection...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Pratt & Whitney (PW) PW2000 series turbofan engines. That AD currently requires revisions to the engine manufacturer's time limits section (TLS) to include enhanced inspection...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Pratt & Whitney (PW) JT8D-1, -1A, -1B, -7, -7A, -7B, -9, -9A, -11, -15, -15A, -17, -17A, -17R, and -17AR series turbofan engines. That AD currently requires revisions to the e...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004

Aviation proceedings:

Motor carrier safety standards:

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This notice publishes the FMCSA decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 26 individuals. The FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from vision standards if the exem...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Motor vehicle safety standards:

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NHTSA published a final rule in July 2003 that amended the Federal motor vehicle safety standard on glazing materials. The agency received several petitions for reconsideration of the rule. At present, the rule is to take effect on September 1, 2004....
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Pipeline safety:

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RSPA/OPS is issuing this advisory bulletin to owners and operators of gas and hazardous liquid pipeline systems on the potential for unauthorized excavations and the unauthorized installation of acoustic monitoring devices or other data acquisition d...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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This notice announces the issuance of PS-ACE100-2002-007. This Policy Statement clarifies AC 23-17A and provides guidance pertaining to an Equivalent Level of Safety (ELOS) for 14 CFR, part 23, Sec. 23.1326(b)(1), Pitot Heat Indication Systems. This...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 18, 2004

Community Reinvestment Act; implementation:

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In this final rule, OTS is revising the definition of "small savings association" under its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. Under the revised definition, "small savings association" means a savings association with total assets of less...
Rule Aug 18, 2004

Income taxes:

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This document contains proposed regulations that provide guidance regarding the effect of certain transfers of assets or stock on the qualification of certain transactions as reorganizations under section 368(a). This document also contains proposed...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004
This document contains temporary regulations under section 1502 that provide guidance regarding the treatment of certain losses available to acquired subsidiaries as a result of an election made under the section 1502 regulations. The text of these t...
Rule Aug 18, 2004
In the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register, the Treasury Department and the IRS are issuing temporary regulations providing guidance regarding the treatment of certain losses available to acquired subsidiaries as a res...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 2004

Meetings:

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An open meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The TAP will be discussing issues pertaining to lessening the burden for individuals. Recommendations for IRS systemic changes will be deve...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

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Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The Spanish Fork Ranger District of the UintaNational Forest proposes to design, construct, and operate a group-site campground in Diamond Fork with a capacity of approximately 475 PAOT (people at one time). The Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conser...
Notice Aug 18, 2004

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