February 15, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register February 15, 2005

View all documents issued on February 15, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

126 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 15, 2005

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation logo Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

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Notice is hereby given that the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will meet on Friday, February 18, 2005. The meeting will be held in the Portola Room, Portola Plaza Hotel, 2 Portola Plaza, Monterey, California, beginning at 9 a.m. The...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Cherries (tart) grown in

Title Type Published
This rule establishes final free and restricted percentages for the 2004-2005 crop year. The percentages are 72 percent free and 28 percent restricted and would establish the proportion of tart cherries from the 2004 crop which may be handled in comm...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Cranberries grown in

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This final rule amends the marketing agreement and order for cranberries grown in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Long Island in the State of New York. The amendments are b...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Meetings:

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The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on March 3, 2005, to...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Program regulations:

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The Agency is revising its internal Housing Application Packaging Grants regulation in order to correct an erroneous reference to the debarment and suspension regulation. This action is necessary since the existing regulation does not accurately refl...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS has received an application from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CCT) for a direct take permit pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). The duration of the proposed Permit is 5 years. NMFS is furnish...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Antidumping:

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China
Notice Feb 15, 2005
On May 24, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on honey from the People's Republic of China (PRC) covering the period December 1, 2003, through May 31, 2004. This new shipper...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
On August 9, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register the preliminary results and partial rescission of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils fro...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Census 2010:

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This notice announces the commencement of Phase 1 of the 2010 Redistricting Data Program: The State Legislative District Project. This first phase specifically provides States the opportunity to provide their legislative districts (House and Senate)...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that NMFS has received three scientific research permit applications and one modification request relating to Pacific salmon. The proposed research is intended to increase knowledge of species listed under the Endangered Specie...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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CenterPoint Energy - Mississippi River Transmission Corp.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co. et al.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Cotton Valley Compression, L.L.C.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2005
East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Enbridge Offshore (Gas Transmission) L.L.C.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Florida Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice Feb 15, 2005
SG Resources Mississippi, L.L.C
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Texas Gas Service Co.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Unitil Energy Systems, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Commercial and industrial equipment; energy efficiency program:

Title Type Published
DOE announces the availability of the "Joint Stakeholders Comments on Standards for Commercial Package Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps" (hereafter "Joint Stakeholders Comments") and an opportunity for public comment. DOE received the Joint Stakeholde...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
ISO New England, Inc. and New England Power Pool; technical conference
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Southern Natural Gas Co.; informal settlement conference
Notice Feb 15, 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 15, 2005

Air programs:

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In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets contained in the submitted 2004 State Implementation Plan for Ozone in the San Joaquin Valley are adequate for transportation conformity purposes....
Notice Feb 15, 2005

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

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Due to the receipt of adverse comments, the EPA is withdrawing the December 23, 2004 (69 FR 76848), direct final rule approving limits that would limit emissions of Oxides of Nitrogen (NO<INF>X</INF>) from large stationary sources (i.e. power plants,...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting nominations to augment expertise on the SAB Ecological Processes and Effects Committee for a panel to provide consultation to EPA on the framework for revising the Aquatic Life Criteria...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Meetings:

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Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92463, EPA gives notice of a meeting of the Environmental Technologies Subcommittee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT). NACEPT provides advice and rec...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Solid wastes:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 is approving a modification to Minnesota's approved municipal solid waste landfill (MSWLF) permit program. The modification allows the State to issue research, development and demonstration (RD&D) pe...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 2 Office, announces its intent to delete the Syosset Landfill Superfund Site (Site) from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this action. The Syosset Landfill Superfund S...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 15, 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 15, 2005
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc.
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Shared National Credit Program:

No documents available.

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Federal Maritime Commission ("FMC" or "Commission") amends its regulations relating to agency organization to reflect the reorganization of the agency that took effect August 23, 2004, and to delegate authority to certain FMC bureaus in order to...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Shared National Credit Program:

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Academic Partners Public Health Training Program
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC) is developing a CDC-Wide Research Agenda, and invites the public to provide input. Four Research Agenda Development Public Participation Meetings wi...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Childhood Vaccines Advisory Commission
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Menopausal symptoms management; state-of-the science conference
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance document entitled "The Open Public Hearing; FDA Advisory Committee Meetings." This draft guidance is for members of the public who choose to participate in the...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Internal Radioactive Contamination--Development of Decorporation Agents." This draft document provides guidance to industry on the develo...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking applications for appointment to membership on the Lower Mississippi River Waterways Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC). LMRWSAC provides advice and makes recommendations to the Coast Guard on matters relating to the s...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the drawbridge operation regulations for the Casco Bay Bridge, mile 1.5, across the Fore River between Portland and South Portland, Maine. Under this temporary deviation...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing two temporary safety zones in the Gulf of Alaska, in the proximity of Narrow Cape, Kodiak Island, Alaska. These zones are needed to protect persons and vessels operating in the vicinity of the safety zones during a roc...
Rule Feb 15, 2005
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone in the Gulf of Alaska, east of Sitkinak Island, Kodiak Island, Alaska. The zone is needed to protect persons and vessels operating in the vicinity of the safety zone during a rocket launch from...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish a temporary special local regulation for a regatta located on the Harlem River. This proposed action would protect life and property on the navigable waters of the United States during the event. This action woul...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing its intention to request renewed authority for the collection of information relating to 30 CFR part 872, Abandoned m...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
Steven J. Therrien (Applicant) requests an incidental take permit (ITP) pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as amended (Act). The Applicant anticipates taking about 0.24 acre of Florida scrub-j...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
This notice advises the public that Triview Metropolitan District and Forest Lakes Metropolitan District (Applicant) have applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for an incidental take permit pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the End...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Law and order on Indian reservations:

Title Type Published
This notice rescinds the Notice of Intent published by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Federal Register on April 29, 2003.
Notice Feb 15, 2005

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) Central California Resource Advisory Council will meet a...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
A 30 acre public parcel of land located in the Pleasant Valley south of Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, has been examined and found suitable for sale utilizing competitive sale procedures.
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review Records and Reports of Registrants
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Clariant LSM (Missouri) Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Safety standard petitions:

Title Type Published
Mississippi Lignite Mining Co., et al.
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Multi-employer plans:

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public of the interest rates and assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published elsewhere (or can be derived from rates published elsewhere), bu...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Single-employer plans:

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulations on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans and Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans prescribe interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits under terminating single-e...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 15, 2005

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
This document initiates the third in a series of rulemakings on procedures related to Negotiated Service Agreements. This proposal addresses rules applicable to Postal Service requests to extend or modify previously recommended Negotiated Service Agr...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board:

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2005
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Depository Trust Co.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
National Securities Clearing Corp.
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Stock Clearing Corp. of Philadelphia
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Social security rulings and acquiescence rulings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with 20 CFR 402.35(b)(1), the Commissioner of Social Security gives notice of Social Security Ruling (SSR) 05-1c. This ruling is based on the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commiss...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

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 15, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
International Economic Policy Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Overseas Security Advisory Council
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Boeing Model 727 airplanes equipped with an auxiliary fuel tank having a fuel pump installed. This proposed AD would require revising the airplane flight manual to include limitations o...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Boeing Model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections of the stiffeners at left buttock line (LBL) and righ...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Boeing Model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require an inspection for chafing of certain wire bundles located above the center f...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 767 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require replacing hinge assemblies with new hinge assemblies in the outboard overhead stowage bins and reworking hinge...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 777-200 and -300 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require inspecting the valve control and indication wire bundles of the fuel system of the wing rear spar...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Aircraft:

Title Type Published
The FAA seeks public comments on a proposal to amend the regulations for issuing a standard airworthiness certificate to certain new aircraft manufactured in the United States. The proposal addresses a concern that under the current regulations, cert...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Airports:

Title Type Published
The FAA has issued an order to show cause, which solicits the views of interested persons on the FAA's tentative determination to extend until October 31 an August 18, 2004, order limiting the number of scheduled aircraft arrivals at O'Hare Internati...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A310 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require measuring the clearance between the compensator and the guide assembly of probe no. 1 on the outboard fuel tanks,...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Boeing Model 767 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require an inspection of each main tank fuel boost pump for the presence of a pump shaft flame arrestor, and if the flame a...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 757-200 and -300 series airplanes and Model 767 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require replacing the existing operational software of the Pegasus flight m...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 737-300, -400, -500, -600, -700, -700C, -800 and -900 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require installing an updated version of the operational program soft...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 & 440) airplanes. This proposed AD would require installing additional shielding of the hydraulic lines in the wing box are...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Dornier Model 328-300 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require installing a drain hole in the lower skin of the left- and right-hand elevator horns. This proposed AD is...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain McDonnell Douglas Model MD-11 and -11F airplanes. The existing AD currently requires a one-time inspection to detect loose preload-indicating (PLI) washers...
Proposed Rule Feb 15, 2005

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for the Boeing Model 747- 100/200B/200F/200C/SR/SP/100B/300/100B SUD/400/400D/400F series airplanes. These airplanes, as modified by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, include a new flammability reduction means that uses...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Aviation proceedings:

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
RSPA requests comments on the economic impact of its regulations on small entities. As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act and as published in DOT's Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda, we are analyzing the rules applicable to general shipment and p...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) renames the Office of Intelligence and Security as the Office of Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response. The Secretary rescinds the currently delegated authority of the Administrator, Research and S...
Rule Feb 15, 2005

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 Feb 15, 2005

Shared National Credit Program:

Title Type Published
On December 20, 2004, the federal banking agencies (Board, FDIC, OCC, and OTS, collectively referred to as "the Agencies") published a proposal for public comment to standardize and expand the data collected from regulated institutions in order to im...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501-3521), this notice announces that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following emergency...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C., 3501-3521), this notice announces that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following emergency...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice Feb 15, 2005
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal...
Notice Feb 15, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Health Services Research and Development Service Merit Review Board
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Homeless Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 15, 2005
Minority Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 15, 2005

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