February 10, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register February 10, 2005

View all documents issued on February 10, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

113 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 10, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This final rule adjusts representation on the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board (Board), established under the Beef Promotion and Research Act of 1985 (Act), to reflect changes in cattle inventories and cattle and beef imports that have o...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
This rule provides regulations for the manner in which assessments are to be made on various domestic manufacturers or importers of tobacco products to fund the tobacco transition payment program as required by Title VI of the America Jobs Creation A...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement on a proposal to construct approximately 24 miles of defensible fuel profile zones (DFPZs), harvest trees from approximately 260 acres using group selection silviculture methods, and p...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement on a proposal to harvest trees from approximately 90 acres using group selection silviculture methods, from approximately 100 acres using individual tree selection silviculture methods...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
The Browns Project is being proposed by the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to improve fuel condition through commercial timber harvest and closing of some unneeded roads. The purpose for the project is to decrease fire hazards in an area adjacent to...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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As part of implementing the Administration's Healthy Forest Restoration Initiative, the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, requests proposals for forest products projects that increase the use of woody biomass from national forest lands...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Sierra National Forest's Resource Advisory Committee for...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Plant-related quarantine, foreign:

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We are correcting an error in the rule portion of our final rule amending the fruits and vegetables regulations to expand the number of States in which fresh Hass avocado fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in Michoacan, Mexic...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Sweet cherries grown in

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This rule establishes a minimum size requirement of 11-row size (\61/64\-inch diameter) and a minimum maturity requirement of 17 percent soluble solids for all lightly colored sweet cherry varieties shipped to fresh markets under the Washington sweet...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Walnuts grown in

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The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adopting, as a final rule, an interim final rule which decreased the assessment rate established for the Walnut Marketing Board (Board) for the 2004-05 and subsequent marketing years from $0.0101 to $0.0094 per...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Antidumping and countervailing duties:

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS announces approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of collection-of-information requirements pertaining to permits, logbooks, vessel monitoring systems (VMS), and pre-trip notifications contained in the final rule to implement the a...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
NMFS announces that the Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS (Regional Administrator), has projected that the total allowable catch (TAC) for Georges Bank (GB) yellowtail flounder allocated for harvest from the U.S./Canada Management Area will be fu...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Meetings:

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The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Habitat Committee (HC) will hold a working meeting which is open to the public.
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that Thomas F. Savoy, CT Department of Environmental Protection, Marine Fisheries Division, P.O. Box 719, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 06371, has applied in due form for a permit to take shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) fo...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Notice is hereby given that the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (Marc Dantzker, Principal Investigator), Macaulay Library, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York, 14850, has applied in due form for a permit to conduct commercial/educational pho...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Notice is hereby given that Dr. Terrie Williams, Long Marine Lab, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, has requested an addendum to an amendment request to scientific research P...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Leader, Information Management Case Services Team, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
The Leader, Information Management Case Services Team, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education proposes requirements and selection criteria under the Tech-Prep Demonstration Program (TPDP), authorized by section 207 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Education (Department) announces new policies and procedural requirements for the electronic submission of grant applications through the governmentwide grants application site, Grants.gov, and the Dep...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Augusta, GA; city of
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Brazos River Authority
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC
Notice Feb 10, 2005
El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Gas Transmission Northwest Corp.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
LSP-Cottage Grove, L.P. et al.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Northern Natural Gas Co.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Northern Natural Gas Co.
Notice Feb 10, 2005
TransColorado Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Dockets:

Title Type Published
eLibrary new docket query service
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Electronic service initiative eFiling system demonstration
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department (MCESD) portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP). Under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act),...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern an emissions statement rule and a negative declaration that addresses volat...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
EPA is proposing to approve Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions. The revisions pertain to regulations to control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from consumer related sources. The control of VOC emissions will help to attain and...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
EPA is taking direct final action to approve Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions. The revisions pertain to regulations to control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from consumer related sources. The control of VOC emissions will h...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
EPA is revising the format for materials submitted by West Virginia that are incorporated by reference (IBR) into its State implementation plan (SIP). The regulations affected by this format change have all been previously submitted by West Virginia...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

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On April 15, 2004, we, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced designations under the 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). That action designated several counties in the Kansas City area as unclassifiable. The...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that the next meeting of the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) will be held February 22-24, 2005 at the Hotel Washington...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Pesticide petition to establish tolerance for pesticide chemical in or on food:

Title Type Published
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 Feb 10, 2005

Pesticides; emergency exemptions, etc.

Title Type Published
EPA is amending 40 CFR part 180 to remove time-limited tolerances for several pesticides that were originally established to support emergency exemptions issued under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Thes...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

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

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to enter into a settlement for the partial reimbursement of past response costs with the de minimis party Gresco Manufacturing, Inc. pursuant to section 122 of the Comprehensive Environme...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to enter into a settlement for the partial reimbursement of past response costs with fifty-four (54) de minimis parties pursuant to section 122 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
National African American History Month (Proc. 7868)
Presidential Document Feb 10, 2005
National Consumer Protection Week (Proc. 7869)
Presidential Document Feb 10, 2005

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission will consider a Second Report and Order and First Order on Reconsideration concerning the carriage obligations of cable operators with respect to digital broadcasters. 2........................ Media........................... Title: W...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
As mandated by provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ("BCRA"), the Federal Election Commission ("FEC" or "the Commission") is adjusting certain expenditure and contribution limitations set forth in the Federal Election Campaign Act...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Meetings:

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The President's Council on Bioethics (Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman) will hold its twentieth meeting, at which, among other things, it will continue its discussion of ethical issues relating to the treatment of the aged, and end-of-life care. Subjects...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Safety and Occupational Health Study Section
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, has submitted a request for emergency processing of a new public information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Civil aviation security:

Title Type Published
This action transfers responsibility for ground security requirements and procedures at three Maryland airports that are located within the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area Flight Restricted Zone, and for individuals operating aircraft to and from t...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Deepwater ports; license applications:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) announce the availability of material supplementing the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Gulf Landing LLC Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application. The supplem...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Drawbridge operations:

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The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the drawbridge operation regulations governing the operation of the Long Beach Bridge, at mile 4.7, across Reynolds Channel New York. This temporary deviation allows the...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Port access routes:

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The Coast Guard is conducting a Port Access Route Study (PARS) to evaluate the continued applicability of and the need for modifications to current vessel routing measures in the approaches to Portland, Maine and Casco Bay. The goal of the study is t...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005

Ports and waterways safety:

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The Coast Guard proposes to establish a permanent security zone in the vicinity of the HOVENSA refinery facility on St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands. The security zone is needed for national security reasons to protect the public and the HOVENSA facil...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Meetings:

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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) Eastern Montana Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will me...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Oil and gas leases:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of 30 U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR 3108.2-3(a) and (b)(1), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease WYW149228 for lands in Campbell County, Wyoming. The petition was file...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to dispose of 22.07 acres of Federal land in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico by direct sale to the existing tenant in possession of the land.
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Recreation management restrictions, etc.:

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Butte Field Office, is implementing supplementary rules. These supplementary rules will apply to the public lands within developed recreation sites managed by the Butte Field Office. The BLM has determined these s...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

J
Judicial Conference of the United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure will hold an open meeting on Saturday, February 12, 2005, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Judicial Conference Center of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, One Col...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Pollution control; consent judgments:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
New Freedom Initiative Award; nomination solicitation
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Hydro Resources, Inc.
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 10, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Antidumping and countervailing duties:

No documents available.

State Department logo State Department

Art objects; importation for exhibition:

Title Type Published
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 Feb 10, 2005
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 Feb 10, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Youth Programs Division, Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for grants to support exchanges and relationship building between high school students from countries with signif...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.
Notice Feb 10, 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 extension of the...
Notice Feb 10, 2005
This action amends Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations, part 71 (14 CFR part 71) by revising Class E airspace at Ozark, MO. A review of the Class E airspace area extending upward from 700 feet above ground level (AGL) at Ozark, MO revealed it is not...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
This action amends Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations, part 71 (14 CFR part 71) by revising Class E airspace at Nevada, MO. A review of the Class E airspace area extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Nevada, MO, revealed it does not r...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Agusta S.p.A. (Agusta) Model A119 helicopters. This proposal would require visually inspecting each main transmission support fitting (fitting) attachment bolt (bolt) for a fractu...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
This document proposes adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Agusta S.p.A. (Agusta) Model A109E helicopters. This proposal would require visually inspecting each main transmission support fitting (fitting) attachment bolt (bolt) for a fract...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (Bell) Model 407 helicopters that requires creating a component history card or equivalent record for each crosstube assembly, converting accumulated run-on l...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing transport category airplanes listed above. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections for cracks of the upper surface of the aft lower spar web of the inboard...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
This document proposes superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for the specified Eurocopter France (ECF) model helicopters. That AD currently requires replacing certain main or combiner gearboxes with airworthy gearboxes. Further investi...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
This document proposes adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) Model EC120 helicopters. This proposal would require inspecting the tail rotor drive shaft (drive shaft) damper half-clamps (half-clamps) to determi...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
This document proposes superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for the MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) Model 600N helicopters. That AD currently requires certain inspections of both upper tailboom attachments, nutplates, and angles for a cra...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005
This document incorporates corrections to Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2005-01-04, which was published in the Federal Register on January 6, 2005 (70 FR 1169) with regulatory corrections published on January 27, 2005 (70 FR 3871). AD 2005-01-04 appli...
Rule Feb 10, 2005
The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd. & Co KG (RRD) (formerly Rolls- Royce plc) Model Tay 611-8, 620-15, 650-15, and 651-54 turbofan engines, with low pressure (LP) fuel tube, part number (P/...
Rule Feb 10, 2005

Approval of underwriters for marine hull insurance:

Title Type Published
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) has received applications under 46 CFR part 249 from Axis Specialty Limited and Gard Marine and Energy Limited, both Bermuda based underwriters, to write marine hull insurance on Title XI program vessels. In accord...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as required by the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, established the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group (NPOAG) in March 2001. The NPOAG was formed to...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Deepwater ports; license applications:

No documents available.

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed freeway corridor improvement project in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
RSPA is extending until April 28, 2005, the period for interested persons to submit comments on the December 30, 2004 notice of proposed rulemaking In the December 30, 2004 NPRM, we proposed to amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations to prohibit fl...
Proposed Rule Feb 10, 2005

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

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The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to, impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Mid Delta Regional Airport under the provisions of the 49 U.S.C. 40117 and part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 1...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad workplace safety:

Title Type Published
FRA is amending regulations on Railroad Workplace Safety to clarify an ambiguous provision concerning the circumstances under which life vests or buoyant work vests are required for bridge workers working over water.
Rule Feb 10, 2005

U
Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission has issued a Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact to construct a group-site campground in Diamond Fork Canyon in Utah County, Utah. The new campground will hav...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

Environmental statements; record of decision:

Title Type Published
On January 27, 2005, Jody L. Williams, Chairman of the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission (Mitigation Commission) signed the Record of Decision (ROD) which documents selection of the Proposed Action as presented in the 2004 Utah...
Notice Feb 10, 2005

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