February 14, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register February 14, 2005

View all documents issued on February 14, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

99 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 14, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Shasta-Trinity National Forest proposes to harvest timber and clean up the resulting down wood (fuels) on approximately 3,770 acres of National Forest System lands. About 90% of the area would be harvested through thinning by removing a portion o...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice is published in accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Meeting notice is hereby given for the Southwest Mississippi Resource Advisory Committee pursuant to Section 205 of the Secure Rural Schools and Commu...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

Title Type Published
We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the golden nematode regulations by adding a field in Cayuga County, NY, to the list of generally infested regulated areas for golden nematode. That action was necessary to...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Potatoes (Irish) grown in

Title Type Published
This decision proposes amending the marketing agreement and order (order) for Irish potatoes grown in Washington, and provides producers with the opportunity to vote in a referendum to determine if they favor the changes. The amendments are based on...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Chile
Notice Feb 14, 2005
China
Notice Feb 14, 2005
On August 9, 2004, the U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping order covering certain in-shell raw pistachios from Iran. See Preliminary Results of Antidumping Dut...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
On August 9, 2004, the U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping order covering stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Italy. See Preliminary Results of Antid...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
Thailand
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Advisory Panel in March 2005. Recommendations from the committee will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriat...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

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 14, 2005
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 14, 2005

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
DOD, OPM
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are issuing proposed regulations to establish the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), a human resources management system for the DoD, as authorized by the National D...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Section (102)(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 1500-1517), the U.S. Department of the Navy (Navy) has p...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
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 14, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board. This notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this meeting is required under section 10(a)(2) of the Federa...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Energy conservation:

Title Type Published
This document announces the availability of a Department of Energy (DOE) document concerning diesel fuel made from natural gas using the Fischer-Tropsch process which is being added to docket number EE-RM-02-200. The document is the DOE's status revi...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This notice announces BPA's intention to prepare an EIS, under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), on a proposed interconnection requested by PPM Energy, Inc. (PPM) to integrate electrical power from their proposed Klondike III Wind Project...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Environmental statements; record of decision:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of the NEPA ROD to adopt a policy on BPA's power supply role for fiscal years 2007-2011. This policy is intended to provide BPA's customers with greater clarity about their Federal power supply so they can effec...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Natural gas exportation and importation:

Title Type Published
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy gives notice that during January 2005, it issued Orders granting authority to import and export natural gas. These Orders are summarized in the attached appendix and may be found on the FE...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces BPA's final policy regarding how the agency intends to market power and distribute the costs and benefits of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) in the Pacific Northwest for fiscal years (FY) 2007-2011. This policy c...
Notice Feb 14, 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 continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

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 settlement agreement to address a claim raised by Alcoa, Inc. ("Alcoa") in a petition for review filed in the United States Cou...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

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

Title Type Published
The EPA is approving revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) Post-1999 Rate of Progress (ROP) Plan, the 1990 Base Year Inventory, and the Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEB) established by the ROP Plan, for the Houston Galveston (HG...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
The EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) Post-1999 Rate of Progress (ROP) Plan, the 1990 Base Year Inventory, and the Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEB) established by the ROP Plan, for the Houston Ga...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX announces the intent to delete the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Superfund Site (Site) from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this proposed action. The NPL consti...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisi...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Government agencies and employees:

Title Type Published
Railroad Retirement Board; delegation of reporting authority to the Chairman (Memorandum of February 9, 2005)
Presidential Document Feb 14, 2005

Trade:

Title Type Published
Rules of origin; modification under the North American Free Trade Agreement (Proc. 7870)
Presidential Document Feb 14, 2005

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commissions, 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, as required by the...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Investigations, hearings, petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
International Shippers Association et al.
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
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 OMB control...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Availability of funds and collection of checks (Regulation CC):

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors is amending appendix A of Regulation CC to delete the reference to the Birmingham branch office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and reassign the Federal Reserve routing symbols currently listed under that office to the h...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Banks and bank holding companies:

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 14, 2005
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c0(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Food additives:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to permit the manufacture of chlorine dioxide by electrolysis of an aqueous solution of sodium chlorite. This action is in response to a petition filed by Vulcan Chemica...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is changing the regulation governing the Stillwater Highway Drawbridge, across the St. Croix River at Mile 23.4, at Stillwater, Minnesota. Under this rule, the drawbridge need not open for river traffic and may remain in the closed-to...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Maritime Security Advisory Committee (NMSAC) will hold its inaugural meeting to discuss various issues relating to national maritime security. This notice announces the date, time, and location for the first meeting of the NMSAC. It also...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Closure of public lands:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that 2235 acres of public land is closed to the discharge of firearms for public safety concerns. The closed property is within the Glendive Short Pine OHV Management Area, which is located six and a half miles south of the tow...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of a draft economic analysis for the proposed designation of critical habitat for the arroyo toad (Bufo californicus) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Ac...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Outer Continental Shelf; oil, gas, and sulphur operations:

Title Type Published
MMS is adding a document to be incorporated by reference into the regulations governing oil and gas and sulphur operations in the OCS. The new document, API 510, is titled "Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: Maintenance Inspection, Rating, Repair, and...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
The MMS proposes to modify its regulations at 30 CFR 250.175, which govern SOO's for oil and gas leases on the OCS. The proposed revision will allow MMS to grant SOO's to lessees or operators who plan to drill ultra-deep wells. MMS proposes this revi...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of survey of the lands described below in the BLM Idaho State Office, Boise, Idaho, 30 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.
Notice Feb 14, 2005

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
On January 6, 2005, the Commission published in the Federal Register (70 FR 1277) a notice of investigation of certain digital processors, digital processing systems, components thereof, and products containing same under Section 337 of the Tariff Ac...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
30-day notice of information collection under review, Import/ Export Declaration: Precursor and Essential Chemicals--DEA Form 486.
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-130, notice is hereby given that the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is modifying the following systems of rec...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Schedules of controlled substances:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule is issued by the Deputy Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to place the substance zopiclone, including its salts, isomers and salts of isomers into Schedule IV of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This pr...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 14, 2005

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA, and NASA's implementing regulations, the National Historic Preservation...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
This document corrects a notice appearing in the Federal Register on February 1, 2005 (70 FR 5233), that incorrectly listed H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit No. 2 in addition to Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 in the title, and...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

No documents available.

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
On February 15, 2005, senior staff will describe the current functions and procedures of the Postal Rate Commission to executives of business mail users that utilize all classes of mail. Members of the Commission will attend and participate in discus...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

No documents available.

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from all provisions of the Act.
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Rules of practice:

Title Type Published
This rule implements the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996. The Commission is adopting a rule adjusting for inflation the maximum amount of civil monetary penalties und...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice Feb 14, 2005
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). The Tennessee Valley Authority is so...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirement in section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the FMCSA is announcing that the new information collection request described in this notice is being sent to the Office of Management and Budge...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign air carrier permits; weekly applications
Notice Feb 14, 2005
FMCSA issues this Interim Final Rule (IFR) to clarify and modify the applicability of certain Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Departmental Title VI provisions that implement Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and related nondiscrimin...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
This action revokes the Class D airspace area for the South Lake Tahoe Airport, South Lake Tahoe, California. The FAA is taking this action due to closure of the Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT).
Rule Feb 14, 2005
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief fr...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the issuance of Advisory Circular (AC) 23-22. This advisory circular (AC) sets guidelines for using the Approved Model List (AML) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) process for the installation approval of avionics for 14 CFR,...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Air carrier certification and operations:

Title Type Published
The Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is making a technical change to the August 11, 2003, final rule implementing section 710 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21) to require the repor...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Aircraft:

Title Type Published
This notice announces glider towing as a restricted category special purpose operation under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) Sec. 21.25(B)(7), for aircraft type certificated under 14 CFR 21.25(a)(1).
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A330, A340-200, and A340-300 series airplanes. This AD requires initial and repetitive inspections of certain frame stiffeners to detect cracking. If any cra...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Airbus Model A300 B2 and B4 series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires determining the part and amendment number of the variable lever arm (VLA) of the r...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain BAE Systems (Operations) Limited Model BAe 146 series airplanes and Model Avro 146-RJ series airplanes. This AD requires repetitive inspections to detect discrepancies of the fuselage...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 747 airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections of the dual side braces (DSBs), underwing midspar fittings, and associated parts; other specifi...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all DG Flugzeugbau GmbH Model DG-500MB sailplanes equipped with a Solo engine and Glaser-Dirks Flugzeugbau GmbH Model DG-800B sailplanes equipped with a Solo engine. This proposed AD wo...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) Model AS350B, BA, B1, B2, B3, C, D, D1, and EC130 B4 helicopters that requires removing and modifying the fuel bleed lever. This amendment is prompted by some...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the specified Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) model helicopters. This action requires an initial and repetitive borescope inspection of the main gearbox (MGB) planet gear carrier or an initi...
Rule Feb 14, 2005
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Raytheon Model DH.125, HS.125, and BH.125 series airplanes; BAe.125 series 800A (C-29A and U-125) and 800B airplanes; and Hawker 800 (including variant U-125A) and 800XP airplanes. Th...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Cargo preferenceU.S.-flag commercial vessels:

Title Type Published
The Maritime Administration (MARAD, we, our) is withdrawing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) published in the Federal Register on January 28, 1999, which requested comments on proposed amendments to MARAD's cargo preference regulation...
Proposed Rule Feb 14, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed highway project in Cumberland and Fentress Counties, Tennessee.
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice publishes the FMCSA decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 17 individuals. The FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from vision standards if the exem...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
This notice publishes the FMCSA decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 28 individuals. The FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from vision standards if the exem...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
The final rule amends four different parts of title 49 to address the certification issues related to vehicles built in two or more stages and, to a lesser degree, to altered vehicles. The amendments allow the use of pass-through certification so tha...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Area 6 committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) is soliciting public comments, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Reven...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
An open meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The TAP will be discussing issues pertaining to lessoning the burden for individuals. Recommendations for IRS systemic changes will be deve...
Notice Feb 14, 2005
An open meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Multilingual Initiative (MLI) Issue Committee will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at th...
Notice Feb 14, 2005

Procedure and administration:

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations replacing the existing regulation that establishes the procedures to be followed by IRS officers and employees upon receipt of a request or demand for disclosure of IRS records or information. The purpose of t...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

Terrorism Risk Insurance Program:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is issuing this final rule as part of its implementation of Title I of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (Act). The Act established a temporary Terrorism Insurance Program (Program) under which the Fed...
Rule Feb 14, 2005

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