February 1, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register February 1, 2005

View all documents issued on February 1, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

135 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 1, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

Title Type Published
We are amending the regulations concerning the importation of animals and animal products by adding Malaysia to the list of regions in which highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1 is considered to exist. We are taking this action becau...
Rule Feb 01, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP) procedures for the development, issuance, and use of guidance documents. This document is intended to make the NOP's procedures clearer to the public.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Trade adjustment assistance; applications, petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping and countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended investigation.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS closes the commercial run-around gillnet fishery for king mackerel in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the southern Florida west coast subzone. This closure is necessary to protect the Gulf king mackerel resource.
Rule Feb 01, 2005
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 630 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the first seasonal allowance of the pollock interim total allowable catch (TAC) for Statistical Area 6...
Rule Feb 01, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces a third availability of grant funds for Fiscal Year 2005. The purpose of this notice is to provide the general public with a consolidated source of program and application informati...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
This Notice announces availability of funds for the Special American Business Internship Training Program (SABIT), for training business executives and scientists (also referred to as "Interns") from Eurasia (see program description for eligible coun...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a series of public hearings to receive public comments on "Amendment Number 13 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Waters with Environment...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory Board (MEPNAB), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will meet Thursday, February...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council) Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Committee and its Industry Advisory Panel will hold a public meeting.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Patent cases:

Title Type Published
Among other changes to patent and trademark fees, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Consolidated Appropriations Act), splits the national fee for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications entering the national stage into a separate nation...
Rule Feb 01, 2005

Trade adjustment assistance eligibility determination petitions:

Title Type Published
To give all interested parties an opportunity to comment.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation"), 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 ag...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee is publishing Civilian Personnel Per Diem Bulletin Number 237. This bulletin lists revisions in the per diem rates prescribed for U.S. Government employees for official travel in Alaska, Haw...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Manufacturing Technology will meet in open session on February 16, 2005, and March 23-24, 2005, at SAI, 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA. This Task Force will review the Department of Defense Manufacturing...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following Committee meeting:
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Education Department logo Education Department

Postsecondary education:

Title Type Published
Accrediting agencies and State approval agencies for vocational and nurse education institutions; national recognition
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings
Notice Feb 01, 2005

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 proposed and continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a req...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
On December 21, 2004 (69 FR 76464), EPA published for public comment a notice that the Agency is planning to submit a continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

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

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to approve Washington's State Implementation Plan for the Wallula, Washington serious nonattainment area for particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 10 micrometers (PM<INF>10</INF>). Initially...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005

Air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The next meeting of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board, a Federal advisory committee that reports to the President and Congress on environmental and infrastructure projects along the U.S. border with Mexico, will take place in Eagle Pass, Texas, o...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Water pollution; effluent guidelines for point source categories:

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action to correct a typographical error in the Effluent Limitations Guidelines, Pretreatment Standards, and New Source Performance Standards for the Transportation Equipment Cleaning Point Source Category. The regulatory la...
Rule Feb 01, 2005
EPA is proposing to amend the Effluent Limitations Guidelines, Pretreatment Standards, and New Source Performance Standards for the Transportation Equipment Cleaning Point Source Category. This action proposes to correct a typographical error in the...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005

Water programs:

Title Type Published
On August 13, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a notice in the Federal Register soliciting public comment on an Interim Statement and Guidance to address issues pertaining to coverage under the Clean Water Act (CWA) of pestic...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005

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 Feb 01, 2005

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Banks and bank holding companies:

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
Notice of program exclusions, correction.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Cancer Institute
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Library of Medicine
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Library of Medicine
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Library of Medicine
Notice Feb 01, 2005
National Library of Medicine
Notice Feb 01, 2005
Scientific Review Center
Notice Feb 01, 2005
Scientific Review Center
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The CDC is tasked with implementing the Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act of 1992 (FCSRCA), Public Law 102- 493. As mandated by this law CDC publishes annual reports of pregnancy success rates from ART clinics and embryo laboratory...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Request for the Return of Original Document(s), Form G-884.
Notice Feb 01, 2005
60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Medical Certification for Disability Exceptions, Form N-648.
Notice Feb 01, 2005
DHS, OPM
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or the Department) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are issuing final regulations to establish a new human resources management system within DHS, as authorized by the Homeland Security Act of 2002...
Rule Feb 01, 2005
FEMA gives notice that we are increasing the statewide per capita threshold for recommending cost share adjustments for disasters declared on or after January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Automation program test:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a change to the application requirements when applying to become an Importer or Broker Account so as to access the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Secure Data Portal ("ACE Portal") or to participate in any ACE test. Speci...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Indiana (FEMA-1573-DR), dated January 21, 2005, and related determinations.
Notice Feb 01, 2005
This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for the State of Ohio (FEMA-3198-EM), dated January 11, 2005, and related determinations.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the BNSF RR Swing Bridge across Bayou Boeuf, mile 10.2, at Amelia, St. Mary Parish, LA. This deviation allows the bridge to re...
Rule Feb 01, 2005

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary security zone encompassing the waters of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers in order to safeguard high-ranking public officials from terrorist acts and incidents. This action is necessary to ensure the safety...
Rule Feb 01, 2005
This document provides required notice of substantive rules issued by the Coast Guard and temporarily effective between October 1, 2004 and December 31, 2004, that were not published in the Federal Register. This quarterly notice lists temporary spec...
Rule Feb 01, 2005
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary moving and fixed security zone around cruise ships entering, departing, mooring or anchoring at the Port of Fredericksted in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. This temporary final rule is a security measure...
Rule Feb 01, 2005
The Coast Guard proposes to establish a moving and fixed security zone around cruise ships entering, departing, mooring or anchoring at the Port of Fredericksted in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. These proposed regulations are designed to protect...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005

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 Feb 01, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to submit a request for renewal (with revisions) of an existing approved information collection to the Office of Manag...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to submit a request for renewal (with revisions) of an existing approved information collection to the Office of Manag...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to submit a request for renewal (with revisions) of an existing approved information collection to the Office of Manag...
Notice Feb 01, 2005
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Feb 01, 2005
The following permits were issued.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90-day finding on a petition to list a karst meshweaver (spider), Cicurina cueva (no common name), under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act) with critical habitat. We find...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list the Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana) as endangered under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The Salt Creek tiger beetle, a m...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to amend the regulations promulgated under the Endangered Species Act (ESA or Act) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to add a new subsection to govern certain activities with U.S. captive-bred populati...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has received a competitive coal lease application from Cordero Mining Company for a maintenance tract of Federal coal adjacent to the company's Cordero Rojo Mine in Campbell County, Wyoming. A maintenance tract is...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Irrigation projects; operations and maintenance charges:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) owns, or has an interest in, irrigation facilities located on various Indian reservations throughout the United States. We are required to establish rates to recover the costs to administer, operate, maintain, and r...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
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 Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group (TAMWG). The TAMWG affords stakeholders the opportunity to give policy, management,...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Pipeline right-of-way applications:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public that Longbow, LLC has applied for the installation of one natural gas pipeline for a 30 year right- of-way permit across the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) easement tract (37P) located at Stone Lakes National...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On December 15, 2004, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we) signed an annual funding agreement (AFA or Agreement) with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Governments (CSKT) under the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994. The actio...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

J
Judicial Conference of the United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Four public hearings on proposed rules amendments have been canceled and one public hearing has been extended for a second day. The following public hearings on proposed rules amendments have been canceled: <bullet> Evidence Rules in New Haven, Conne...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

N
National Council on Disability

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 01, 2005

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

Meetings:

N
National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 01, 2005
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
New plant licensing; regulatory structure; workshop
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The NRC staff is issuing drafts of the revised NUREG-1800; "Standard Review Plan for License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants" (SRP-LR); and the revised NUREG-1801, "Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report" for public comment. These...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is requesting that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) extend approval, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, of collections of information in the PBGC's regulations on multiemployer plans under the...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) seeks comments on its intention to request an extension of two currently approved information collections. OPM uses the two collections, a Price Survey a...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Domestic Mail Manual:

Title Type Published
The Postal Service is implementing an experimental classification, Repositionable Notes (RPNs), as a one-year provisional service allowing mailers to attach a reusable self-adhesive message note to the outside envelope or paper cover of discount Firs...
Rule Feb 01, 2005

S
Science and Technology Policy Office

Meetings:

Title Type Published
A public forum sponsored by the Manufacturing Research and Development Interagency Working Group (IWG) of the Committee on Technology, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) will be held to review the current state of manufacturing research a...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities:

Title Type Published
Suspension of tradingCourtside Products, Inc.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

State Department logo State Department

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act:

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Rail carriers:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Waybill data; release for use
Notice Feb 01, 2005
DOT, STB
Waybill data; release for use
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Railroad services abandonment:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Railroad Switching Service of Missouri, Inc.
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comme...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Aerospatiale Model ATR42-200, -300, and -320 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require doing repetitive inspections of the upper arms of the MLG side braces for missing o...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A330, A340-200, and A340-300 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require inspecting to determine the part number and serial number of the left- and right-hand elev...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 747-100, -200, - 300, and 747SP series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires certain inspections to find missing or alloy-steel taperl...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier Model DHC-8-102, -103, -106, -201, -202, -301, - 311, and -315 airplanes. The subject of this proposed AD is the pilot's static system. This proposed AD would require...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain EMBRAER Model EMB-135 and -145 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitive detailed inspections for surface bruising of the main landing gear (MLG) trailing arms...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
This document revises an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain EMBRAER Model EMB-120 series airplanes that would have required initial and repetitive calibration testing of potentiometers to detect noisy signals and rep...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Saab Model SAAB 2000 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require a one-time inspection to detect a broken terminal stud on a main relay of the electrical power generator, a...
Proposed Rule Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This document announces a public meeting in which the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and members of the Performance-Based Operations Aviation Rulemaking Committee (PARC) will discuss the activities of the PARC since the Federal Aviation Admini...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice publishes the FMCSA decision to renew the exemption from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for Mr. Willie F. Adams. The FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from vision standards if the...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Rail carriers:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document corrects temporary regulations (TD 9170) that were published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 (69 FR 76612), that provide guidance concerning the applicability of section 1374 to S corporations that acquire assets...
Rule Feb 01, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice advises all interested persons of the initial public meeting of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. Background: Executive Order 13369 (January 7, 2005) established the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. Th...
Notice Feb 01, 2005

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