October 20, 2004 (Volume 69)

Federal Register October 20, 2004

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

111 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 20, 2004

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Title Type Published
This final rule implements Executive Branch policy that, within the framework of constitutional guidelines, religious (or "faith-based") organizations should be able to compete on an equal footing with other organizations for USAID funding. This fina...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of FNS to request revisions to currently approved information collections in the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Financial Report (Form FNS-683); WIC Fa...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget, for an extension of and revision t...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Cherries (tart) grown in

Title Type Published
The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting, as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that added another method of handler diversion to the regulations under the Federal tart cherry marketing order (order). Handlers handling cherri...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Environmental statements; notice of intent; meeting:

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs, intends to hold a public scoping meeting and prepare an environmental impact statement in connection with potential imp...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393) the Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests' North Central Id...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Plant-related quarantine, foreign:

Title Type Published
We are establishing restrictions on the importation of pine shoot beetle host material into the United States from Canada. Under the new regulations, pine nursery stock, as well as pine products that consist of pine bark or have pine bark attached, m...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Telecommunications specifications and standards:

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) an agency delivering the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs, proposes to amend its regulations on Telecommunications Standards and Specifications for Materials, Equipment, and Const...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Export Trading Company Affairs, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an application for an Export Trade Certificate of Review. This notice summarizes the conduct for which certification is sought and requests comme...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Texas
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
We preliminarily determine that live swine from Canada are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value, as provided in section 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended ("the Act"). Interested parties are invited...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limit for the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on honey from the People's Republic of China (PRC) until no later than December 15, 2004. T...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
On June 14, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from the People's Republic of China (PRC). See Freshwater Craw...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
On July 28, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register a notice announcing the initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain large diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard,...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The Department of Commerce ("the Department") is extending the time limit for the final results of the review of stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Taiwan. This review covers the period June 1, 2002, through May 31, 2003.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
On April 8, 2004, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (69 FR 1...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting retention of "other species" in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). NMFS is requiring that catch of "other species" in this area be treated in the same manner as prohibited species and discarded at sea with...
Rule Oct 20, 2004
NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using trawl and jig gear to vessels using hook-and- line and pot gear in the BSAI. These actions are necessary to allow the 2004 total allowable catch (TAC) of Pacific cod t...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received a request from the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) for renewal of an authorization to take small numbers of California sea lions, Pacific harbor seals, and gray whales, by harassment, incidental to construction of...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, notification is hereby given that a letter of authorization (LOA) to take 3 species of marine mammals incidental to missile launch operations from San Nicolas Island, CA (SNI) wa...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, notification is hereby given that a letter of authorization (LOA) to take several species of marine mammals incidental to operation of a low frequency sound source by the North P...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP) was established by the Secretary of Commerce to advise the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere on matters related to the responsibilities and authorities set forth in section 303 of the...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

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

Title Type Published
On October 8, 2004, the counsel for Magnola Metallurgy, Inc. filed a First Request for Panel Review with the United States Section of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Panel review was requeste...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Textile and apparel categories:

Title Type Published
On October 12, 2004, the Chairman of CITA received a petition from Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., on behalf of Bernette Textile Co, LLC of New York, NY, alleging that certain colored open end spun yarns ranging in size from 6/1 to 18/1 English co...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The invention listed below is assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. Patent application 10/ 943,648: Integrated Radar Optical Surveillance and...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of the general availability of licenses under the following pending patent. U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 10/959,764 entitled "Reduced-Oxygen Breathing Device" filed 7 October 2004. The Reduced O...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The invention listed below is assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/601,180: Scanned Wavelength Sp...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Navigation, COLREGS compliance exemptions:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty and Maritime Law)...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
This notice announces a meeting of the National Coal Council (NCC). Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463, 86 Stats. 770) requires notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
This notice announces a meeting of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of March 17, 2004 (OPP-2004-0012; FRL-7346-8), announcing the cancellation of registrations for all manufacturing-use tributyltin methacrylate products used to formulate antifouling paints and one end-use t...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Gulf of Mexico Program Policy Review Board
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Requirement due dates listed in the previously published solicitation: Solicitation: "Building State, Territorial, and Tribal Capacity to Address Children's Environmental Health: Environmental Triggers of Childhood Asthma" have been changed. The orig...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Pesticide programs:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Decision (TRED) for the pesticide chlorimuron ethyl, and opens a public comment period on this document, related risk assessments, and other support documents. EPA has reviewed th...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document announces the Agency's intention to terminate a number of pesticide producing establishment registrations for failure to file annual pesticide producing reports as required by section 7 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenti...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

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

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of cyprodinil, 4-cyclopropyl-6-methyl-N-phenyl-2-pyrimidinamine, in or on almond, hulls; bean, dry; bean, succulent; and leafy greens subgroup 4A, except spinach. Interregional Research Project Numb...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Columbia; continuation of emergency with respect to narcotics traffickers (Notice of October 19, 2004)
Presidential Document Oct 20, 2004

Special observances:

Title Type Published
National Mammography Day (Proc. 7832)
Presidential Document Oct 20, 2004
White Cane Safety Day (Proc. 7833)
Presidential Document Oct 20, 2004

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
Israel; polypropylene production; finance application
Notice Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 20, 2004

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document requests comments on a petition for rulemaking filed by Jeffrey Cotton requesting the allotment of Channel 260A at Cedarville, California as that community's first local service. The coordinates for Channel 260A at Cedarville are 41-31-...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004
This document requests comments on a Petition for Rule Making filed by Charles Crawford requesting the allotment of Channel 252C3 at New Llano, Louisiana, as the community's first local aural transmission service. Channel 252C3 can be allotted to New...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004
This document sets forth four proposals to amend the FM Table of Allotments, Section 73.202(b) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 73.202(b). The Commission requests comment on a petition filed by Linda A. Davidson. Petitioner proposes the allotment of...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
Amerasa Rapid Transit USA, Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Bestway Shipping, Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Mon Dela Vega Singh dba Mon Cargo Services, Int.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Universal Container Trade, Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Waterline Pakistan, Ltd; correction
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission logo Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

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

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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

Banks and bank holding companies:

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 ("the Act" or "FACT Act"), the Federal Trade Commission (the "Commission" or "FTC") is evaluating ways to study the accuracy and completeness of consumer reports. The pu...
Notice Oct 20, 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 20, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
National Diabetes Education Program; education strategies in minority communities
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Community Preventive Services Guide Task Force
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a meeting and is soliciting comments on FDA's premarket notification program for new dietary ingredients (NDIs). FDA is soliciting comments from industry, consumers, and other interested members of...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Radiation and Worker Health Advisory Board
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Oct 20, 2004
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Performance Review Board; membership
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
As previously noticed, (see notice of meeting published October 19, 2004), the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) will meet via conference call on Thursday, October 21, 2004, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The conferen...
Notice Oct 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 Oct 20, 2004
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 Oct 20, 2004
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 Oct 20, 2004

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), wi...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; implementation:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule and request for comments relates to one section of regulations implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 ("the Act"). This section outlines procedures for the future applicability of the Act to...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published in the Federal Register on July 14, 2004, a notice concerning requests for comments on a Draft Annual Funding Agreement (AFA) between the FWS and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The AFA...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

M
Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the Aviation Safety Reporting System Subcommittee (ASRSS).
Notice Oct 20, 2004

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

Title Type Published
The Institute of Museum and Library Services 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 o...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has received a waste management permit application for operation of remote field camps during a skiing/climbing expedition in the Antarctic interior. The application is submitted to NS...
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. This is the required notice.
Notice Oct 20, 2004
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act as Ti...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; independent storage; licensing requirements:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is confirming the effective date of October 27, 2004, for the direct final rule that was published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2004 (69 FR 50053). This direct final rule amended the NRC's regulations...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Small Business Administration's intentions to request approval on a new and/or currently approved information collection.
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Social Security benefits:

Title Type Published
We are revising our regulations to provide an alternative procedure that an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) may use, in certain situations, to satisfy the existing requirement for issuing a written decision that gives the findings of fact and the reas...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

State Department logo State Department

Arms Export Control Act:

Title Type Published
Iraq; rescission
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice Oct 20, 2004

Nationality and passports:

Title Type Published
The Department of State published a document in the Federal Register of October 13, 2004, concerning request for comments on the requirement that a statement of consent submitted in support of a minor's application be notarized. The document containe...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Railroad services abandonment:

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 20, 2004

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to implement a reservation system restricting the number of unscheduled aircraft arrivals at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (O'Hare) during the hours of 7 a.m. through 8:59 p.m., Central Time, beginning November 1, 2004, and...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to revise an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Hartzell Propeller Inc. (formerly TRW Hartzell Propeller) models HC-B3TN-2, HC-B3TN-3, HC-B3TN-5, HC-B4TN-3, HC-B4TN-5, HC-B4MN- 5, and HC-B5MP-3 turbopropellers. That AD current...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 2004

Merchant Marine training:

Title Type Published
In this interim final rule, the Maritime Administration (MARAD, we, us, or our) will change the service obligation reporting requirements for State maritime academy graduates who receive Student Incentive Payments (SIPs). The new reporting requiremen...
Rule Oct 20, 2004

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
FMCSA proposes to amend its rules of practice for motor carrier safety, hazardous materials, and other enforcement proceedings. These rules would increase the efficiency of the procedures, enhance due process and the awareness of the public and regul...
Proposed Rule Oct 20, 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 Oct 20, 2004

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On September 20, 2004, the President issued Presidential Determination 2004-48. In Presidential Determination 2004-48, the President determined that a waiver of the application of section 901(j)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to Libya i...
Notice Oct 20, 2004

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