October 15, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register October 15, 2004

View all documents issued on October 15, 2004. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

143 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 15, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 (Act) authorizes a program of promotion, research, and information to be developed through the promulgation of the Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order). The Act require...
Proposed Rule Oct 15, 2004

Appealable decisions; legal notice:

Title Type Published
This notice lists newspapers that will be used by the ranger districts, forests and regional office of the Inermountain Region to publish legal notices required under 36 CFR 215, 217, and 218. The intended effect of this action is to inform intereste...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
We are giving notice that the Secretary of Agriculture has reestablished the General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan for a 2-year period. The Secretary has determined that the Committee is necessary and in the public int...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS), Rio Grande National Forest (RGNF) announces the availability of the Application for Transportation and Utility Systems and Facilities for the Village at Wolf Creek Draft Enviro...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee (IAC), Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP), will meet on November 3, 2004, in the Broadway/ Weidler Conference Rooms at the DoubleTree at Lloyd Center Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, Oregon (503-249-3110). The me...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Wrangell-Petersburg Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet from 1 p.m. until 5:15 p.m. (or until the conclusion of public testimony) on Friday, November 5, and from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., Saturday, November 6, 2004, in Petersburg, Alaska. The purp...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Broadcasting Board of Governors logo Broadcasting Board of Governors

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Manufacturing Office; 3Rs Initiative (reduce waste, reuse, and recycle); comment request
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the preliminary results of the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from the People's Republic of China and the fifth administrative review...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Coastal zone management programs and estuarine sanctuaries:

Title Type Published
The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the Mississippi Coastal Management Program; the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia; and the North Carolina Nat...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
NMFS issues this temporary authorization for a period of 30 days, to allow the use of limited tow times by shrimp trawlers as an alternative to the use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in the state waters of Alabama and Mississippi, and the state wa...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
This document corrects a final rule that implemented Amendment 16-3 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This document corrects amendatory instruction 2.
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Hydrographic products and services:

Title Type Published
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) proposes to promulgate certification requirements with standards for applicants who want to distribute NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (NOAA ENCs[reg]) as official data. NOAA intends to o...
Proposed Rule Oct 15, 2004
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been mandated to develop and implement a quality assurance program that is equally available to all applicants, under which the Administrator may certify hydrographic products that satisf...
Proposed Rule Oct 15, 2004

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); binational panel reviews:

Title Type Published
On October 7, 2004 the Extraordinary Challenge Committee (ECC) issued its decision in the matter of Pure Magnesium from Canada, Secretariat File No. ECC-2003-1904-01USA.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
On October 7, 2004 the Extraordinary Challenge Committee (ECC) issued its decision in the matter of Pure Magnesium from Canada, Secretariat File No. ECC-2003-1904-01USA.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Ocean and coastal resource management:

Title Type Published
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces the availability of the Final Reserve Operations Plan for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve (Reserve). The Reserve Operations Plan (ROP) is a requiremen...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the opportunity for the public to comment on the First Annual Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Development Plan, available on October 15, 2004 at www.ocean.us. Comments are due not later than close of business on Monday,...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Title Type Published
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List products and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. Comments Must be Received on or Before: November 14, 2004.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
This action adds to the Procurement List a product to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Title Type Published
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection adjusting limits.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection adjusting limits.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated 21 July 1996.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated 21 July 1996.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Planning and Steering Advisory Committee (PSAC) has been renewed in consonance with the public interest, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 92-463, the "Federal Advisory Committee Act." The PSAC provides an avenue of communicatio...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of a forthcoming meeting of the National Security Education Board. The purpose of the meeting is to review and make recommendations to the Secretary concerning requirements established by the Davi...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Identification Technologies will meet in closed session on November 4-5, 2004, at Strategic Analysis Inc., 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA. The Task Force will assess current technologies and operational c...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Red Lessons Learned will meet in closed session on October 22, 2004, at SAIC, 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA. This Task Force will assess what useful information can our adversaries learn from U.S. milita...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Threat Reduction Advisory Committee will meet in closed session on Thursday, December 2, 2004, at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), and on Friday, December 3, 2004, in the Pentagon, Washington, DC. The mission of the Committee is to advis...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Office of the Joint Staff, DoD proposes to add a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is proposing to add a system of records notice to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Secretary announces the extension of the deadline dates for specific filing and reporting activities, including those published in the Federal Register on March 10, 2004 (69 FR 11403) and March 15, 2004 (69 FR 12136). The Secretary takes this act...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
CenterPoint Energy - Mississippi River Transmission Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Dominion Transmission, Inc
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Dominion Transmission, Inc
Notice Oct 15, 2004
El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Grand River Dam Authority, OK
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Maritimes Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Northern Natural Gas Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Northern Natural Gas Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Northwest Pipeline Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
OkTex Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., LP
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Portland General Electric Co., et al.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Questar Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
SCG Pipeline, Inc.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Southwest Gas Storage Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Texas Gas Transmission, LLC
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Tractebel Calypso Pipeline, LLC
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Transwestern Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Trunkline Gas Co., LLC
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Viking Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Wisconsin Electric Power Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Electric utilities (Federal Power Act):

Title Type Published
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission), acting pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA),\1\ is proposing to amend its regulations and to modify the market-based rate authority of current market-based rate sellers to estab...
Proposed Rule Oct 15, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Maritimes Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C.; technical conference
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("Act"), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree agreement, to address consolidated lawsuits filed by the Sierra Club. Sierra Club v. Leavitt, Nos. 1:02...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA supports the selection of Alternative 2 as the preferred alternative and recommended consideration of additional mitigation measures for habitat impacts. ERP No. D-FRC-G03022-LA Rating EC2, Sabine Pass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Pipeline Pro...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Weekly receipts
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the second public meeting of the Water Security Working Group (WSWG) of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC), which was established under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The purpose of...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission has received approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the public information collection(s): OMB Control Numbers: 3060-1077, Digital Channel Election for Television Broadcast Station: Pre-Electi...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission closes CC Docket 96-146, a rulemaking initiated in 1996 to implement portions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act) governing pay-per-call and related information services. This docket was opened specifical...
Rule Oct 15, 2004
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on how best to protect consumers and foster legitimate businesses that offer audiotext information services, including those that use 900 numbers and toll- free numbers.
Proposed Rule Oct 15, 2004

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission addresses an amendment to a Note in its rules to include wiring behind sheet rock as an example, along with wiring located behind brick, metal conduit or cinder blocks, as wiring considered to be "physically inaccessi...
Proposed Rule Oct 15, 2004

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Background On June 15, 1984, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delegated to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) its approval authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act, as per 5 CFR 1320.16, to approve of and assign...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Grant and cooperative agreement awards:

Title Type Published
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces the award of a single source cooperative agreement for $1,700,000 to the Institute for Health Care Improvement. This award is for an 18 month project period beginning September 1, 2004...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is staying part of the final monograph (FM) for over-the-counter (OTC) antiperspirant drug products that published in the Federal Register on June 9, 2003 (68 FR 34273). The FM established conditions under which...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Performance Review Board; membership
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Title 5, U.S. Code, Section 4314 (c)(4) of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, Public Law 95-454, requires that appointment of Performance Review Board members be published in the Federal Register.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The following permit was issued.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The following permits were issued.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that certain coal resources in the West Hay Creek Tract described below in Campbell County, WY, will be offered for competitive lease by sealed bid in accordance with the provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amende...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared and completed the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Flood Contr...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Bureau of Reclamation published in the Federal Register a notice of availability (NOA) and notice of public hearing for the draft environmental impact statement for the renewal of long-term contracts to deliver water from the Central Valley Proje...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task Force Northeast Regional Panel. The meeting topics are identified in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a meeting of the Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force, established under the authority of the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restor...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
This is notice of a meeting of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee. The next Review Committee meeting is a public teleconference on November 2, 2004, to discuss proposed regulations regarding future applicability o...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
President's National Hire Veterans Committee
Notice Oct 15, 2004

N
National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Polar Programs Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
USEC Inc., (USEC) submitted a license application to the NRC on August 23, 2004, proposing the construction, operation and future decommissioning of the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, OH. The NR...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") intends to request that the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") extend approval, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, of a collection of information contained in its regulation on Liability for Term...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Single-employer and multiemployer plans:

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public of the interest rates and assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published elsewhere (or can be derived from rates published elsewhere), bu...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Single-employer plans:

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulations on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans and Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans prescribe interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits under terminating single-e...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim regulations requiring agencies to notify members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and other employees in senior positions of certain post-employment conflict-of-interest restrictions. Agencie...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 15, 2004
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 15, 2004
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 15, 2004
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
National Futures Association
Notice Oct 15, 2004
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Options Clearing Corp.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
Alabama
Notice Oct 15, 2004
Puerto Rico
Notice Oct 15, 2004

State Department logo State Department

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Idaho Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption of new or revised criteria, or because of changes...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Becker Flugfunkwerk GmbH AR 4201 VHF AM transceivers. This AD requires adding an aircraft flight manual (AFM) limitation to the Limitations Section of the AFM, and cockpit placard due...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
The FMCSA announces its decision to exempt 30 individuals from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The exemptions will enable these individuals to qualify as drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document makes permanent the temporary exclusion issued by the agency in an interim final rule published on May 8, 2003 to exclude funeral coaches (as defined in the rule) from the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 225, "...
Rule Oct 15, 2004

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, as part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing informat...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
By this Notice, the Department of the Treasury is informing the public that it is conducting a mandatory quarterly collection of information on holdings and transactions in financial derivatives contracts undertaken between foreign resident counterpa...
Notice Oct 15, 2004
By this Notice, the Department of the Treasury is informing the public that it is conducting a mandatory survey of U.S. ownership of foreign securities as of December 31, 2004. This notice constitutes legal notification to all United States persons w...
Notice Oct 15, 2004

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