March 7, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register March 7, 2005

View all documents issued on March 7, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

113 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 7, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2005
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Food and Nutrition Service is publishing for public comment a summary of a proposed information collection. The proposed collection is a revision of a currently approved collection of the Fo...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Rural Business-Cooperative Service's (RBS) intention to request an extension of a currently approved information collection in support of the program for "Rural Develop...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Military Construction Appropriations and Emergency Hurricane Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2005 (Pub. L. 108-324) makes $10,000,000 available to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance to eligible nonindustrial private forest landow...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the availability of approximately $14.3 million in competitive grant funds for fiscal year (FY) 2005 to help independent agricultural producers enter into value-added activities. RBS hereby reque...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Meetings:

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The Yakutat Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Yakutat, Alaska. The purpose of the meeting is continue business of the Yakutat Resource Advisory Committee. The committee was formed to carry out the requirements of the Secure Rural Schools and S...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

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We are amending the Oriental fruit fly regulations by removing a portion of Los Angeles County, CA, from the list of quarantined areas and by removing restrictions on the interstate movement of regulated articles from this area. This action is necess...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Program regulations:

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The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is withdrawing the direct final rule to change the threshold for surety requirements, published on January 7, 2005 (70 FR 1325-26). RHS stated in the direct final rule that if it received adverse comments by March 8, 2...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Broadcasting Board of Governors logo Broadcasting Board of Governors

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
In response to a request from the National Candle Association ("NCA" or "Petitioners"), the Department of Commerce ("the Department") is initiating an anticircumvention inquiry pursuant to section 781(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, ("the A...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Department of Commerce ("the Department") is conducting the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") covering the period February 1, 2003, through January...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
France
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) from France in response to requests by USEC Inc. and the United States Enrichment Corporation (collectively...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain forged stainless steel flanges (stainless steel flanges) from India manufactured by Echjay Forgings Ltd. (Echjay) and Viraj Fo...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India with respect to Chandan Steel Ltd. This review covers sales of stainles...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Korea
Notice Mar 07, 2005
In response to a request by Sungkwang Bend Company Ltd., (SKBC), the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order of certain stainless steel butt weld pipe fittings from Korea. The revie...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Thailand
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Ford Motor Co.; zone termination
Notice Mar 07, 2005
LeTouneau, Inc.; loading equipment, off-shore drilling rig components log handling equipment, drive systems manufacturing and warehousing
Notice Mar 07, 2005
WLS Drilling Products, Inc.; mining drill bits manufacture and warehousing
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the countervailing duty order on low enriched uranium from France for the period January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2003. For information on the net subsidy for...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting administrative reviews of the countervailing duty (CVD) orders on low enriched uranium from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom for the period January 1, 2003, through December 31...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are issuing this notice to advise the public that we intend to gather information necessary to prepare, in cooperation with the National Ocean...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Export administration regulations:

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This rule states BIS's licensing policy regarding transactions involving entities sanctioned by the State Department under three specified statutes, imposes a new license requirement for certain entities sanctioned by the State Department, and identi...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces the final initial 2004 fishing year specifications for the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery to set BFT quotas for each of the established domestic fishing categories, to set General category effort controls, and to establish a catch...
Rule Mar 07, 2005
NMFS announces that the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Fishery Management Councils (Councils) have submitted Amendment 15 to the FMP for review, approval, and implementation by NMFS. Amendment 15 would establish a limited access system for the com...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2005
NMFS announces that the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted Amendment 6 to the FMP for review, approval, and implementation by NMFS. Amendment 6 would modify the FMP's bycatch reduction device (BRD) framework by transfer...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
NMFS will present a series of public workshops on the new Crab Rationalization Program (Program) for participants the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) king and Tanner crab fisheries. At each workshop, NMFS will provide an overview of the Progra...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

National security industrial base regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule revises the Defense Priorities and Allocations System to allow a person rejecting a rated order to give his or her reasons for the rejection through electronic means rather than requiring a person to submit the rationale in writing.
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Commission of Fine Arts logo Commission of Fine Arts

Title Type Published
Meetings
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Appendix 2 of title 5, United States Code, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education (ACDE) is scheduled to be held on May 6, 2005, from 8...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Mobility will meet in closed session on March 17, 2005, in Arlington, VA. This Task Force will identify the acquisition issues in improving our strategic mobility capabilities. The mission of the Defense Scienc...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
On Friday, February 25, 2005 (70 FR 9280-9281) the Department of Defense announced open meetings of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Roles and Authorities of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering scheduled for February 24, 200...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Department of Defense published a document in the Federal Register of February 1, 2005, concerning an announcement of a committee meeting, in accordance with Section 1 0(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463). The meeting ti...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy proposes to add a system of records notice to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The National Reconnaissance Office is altering a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The Department of Defense published a document in the Federal Register of February 25, 2005, the Department of the Army is proposing to amend the Preamble to its Compilation of Privacy Act systems of records notices by updating the telephone number o...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The EIA is soliciting comments on the proposed revision and three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 of the surveys in the Natural Gas Data Collection Program Package. The surveys covered by this request in...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs; approval and promulgation; State plans for designated facilities and pollutants:

Title Type Published
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is approving the section 111(d) /129 plan submitted by Tennessee for the Pollution Control District (PCD) of the Metro Public Health Department for Nashville/Davidson County on May 28, 2002, for imple...
Rule Mar 07, 2005
EPA proposes to approve the section 111(d)/129 State Plan submitted by Tennessee for the Pollution Control District (PCD) of the Metro Public Health Department for Nashville/Davidson County on May 28, 2002, for implementing and enforcing the Emission...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Innovation (NCEI) is giving notice of the availability of its solicitation for proposals from institutions that are interested in promoting innovations that can improve environme...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Toxic substances:

Title Type Published
Under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), EPA is proposing revisions to the reporting requirements for the dioxin and dioxin-like compounds category. Toxic equivalents (TEQs) are a weighted quantity measure...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2005

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document seeks public comment on a speed of answer requirement for the provision of Video Relay Service (VRS). The speed of answer requirement is currently waived as a mandatory minimum standard for VRS. The Federal Communications Commission (Co...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2005
In this document the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, on delegated authority from the Federal Communications Commission (Commission), announces the publication of the list of wireless domain names, in accordance with an order previously approv...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Audio Division, at the request of Brewster Broadcasting Co. in its counterproposal to a petition for rulemaking by John Garabedian, allots Channel 254A at East Harwich, Massachusetts, as the community's first local FM service. Channel 254A can be...
Rule Mar 07, 2005
This document grants four new FM broadcast allotments in Adams, Massachusetts; Ashtabula, Ohio; Crested Butte, Colorado; Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania. The Audio Division, Media Bureau, at the request of Dana Puopolo, allots Channel 255A at Adams, Mass...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service logo Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is publishing the Draft Fiscal Year 2005 Program Guidelines/Application Solicitation for the Labor-Management Cooperation Program to inform the public. The program is supported by Federal funds au...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet the standards of Subpart C of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (Mandatory Guidelines). The...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Academic Partner Public Health Training Program
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Vital and Health Statistics National Committee
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Coast Guard intends to seek the approval of OMB for the renewal of five Information Collection Requests (ICRs). The ICRs comprise (1) 1625- 0013, Plan Approval and Records for Load Lines, (2...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
This document amends the Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") Regulations on an interim basis to implement the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement entered into by the Uni...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) will hold a meeting for the purposes of receiving reports and briefings, and holding member deliberations. The HSAC will receive reports from: the HSAC Task Force on Intelligence and Information Sharing a...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing temporary special local regulations for several rowing regattas on Indian Creek, in the vicinity of the 63rd Street Bridge, Miami Beach, Florida. This rule is necessary to insure the safety of life of participants and...
Rule Mar 07, 2005
The Coast Guard is amending the special local regulations at 33 CFR 100.518, established for marine events held annually in the Severn River, Annapolis, Maryland by publishing the name of the events, the dates and modifying the boundaries of the regu...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are inviting comments on a collection of information that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The title of this information collection reque...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The following permits were issued.
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Mar 07, 2005
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

No documents available.

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987, and as authorized by the Secretary of Transportation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs intends to make funds available to federally-recognized Indian tribes on a...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Tribal-State Compacts approval; Class III (casino) gambling:

Title Type Published
Notice is given that the Tribal-State Gaming Compact between the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe and the State of Oklahoma is considered approved and is in effect.
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Notice is given that the Amendment to the Tribal-State Compact between the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the State of New York is considered to have been approved and is in effect.
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Norac, Inc.
Notice Mar 07, 2005

DNA identification system:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the interim rule published Monday, January 31, 2005, at 70 FR 4763, relating to DNA sample collection from federal offenders under the Justice for All Act of 2004. These corrections conform the references in the...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

M
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Commission will hold its next public meeting on Thursday, March 10, 2005, and Friday, March 11, 2005, at the Ronald Reagan Building, International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The meeting is tentatively scheduled t...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Millennium Challenge Corporation logo Millennium Challenge Corporation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Aeronautics Research Advisory Committee (ARAC).
Notice Mar 07, 2005
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Solar System Exploration Strategic Roadmap Committee.
Notice Mar 07, 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
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 07, 2005
National Science Board Public Service Award Committee
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposes to amend its fire protection regulations for nuclear power facilities operating prior to January 1, 1979. The amendment would allow nuclear power plant licensees to use manual actions by plant operator...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued Bulletin (BL) 2005-01 to all holders of operating licenses for nuclear power reactors, decommissioning nuclear power reactor sites storing spent fuel in a pool, and wet spent fuel storage sites. This...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

R
Railroad Retirement Board

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) has submitted the following proposal(s) for the collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approva...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

State Department logo State Department

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

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 Mar 07, 2005
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The natur...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
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 Mar 07, 2005
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The natur...
Notice Mar 07, 2005
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 Mar 07, 2005
This action amends Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations, part 71 (14 CFR 71) by revising Class E airspace at Macon, MO. A review of controlled airspace currently titled Macon-Fower, MO revealed it does not conform to proper format, does not reflect t...
Rule Mar 07, 2005
This notice proposes to create a Class E surface area at Monett, MO. It also proposes to modify the Class E5 airspace at Monett, MO.
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 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 Mar 07, 2005
FRA is issuing a performance standard for the development and use of processor-based signal and train control systems. The rule also covers systems which interact with highway-rail grade-crossing warning systems. The rule establishes requirements for...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

Air Carrier Access Act:

Title Type Published
Beginning on March 7, 2005, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be assisting the Office of the Secretary (OST) in verifying that the aircraft accessibility requirements of the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) and its implementing regulations,...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Air proceedings:

Title Type Published
Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign air carrier permits; weekly applications
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Aviation proceedings:

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Coastwise trade laws; administrative waivers:

Title Type Published
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383 and Pub. L. 107-295, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstan...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the bi-annual meeting of the Federal Aviation Administration's Government/Industry Aeronautical Charting Forum (ACF) to discuss informational content and design of aeronautical charts and related products, as well as instrument...
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Area 7 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 Mar 07, 2005

Procedure and administration:

Title Type Published
This document contains the final regulations relating to property exempt from levy, which revise regulations currently published under Internal Revenue Code section 6334. The regulation reflects changes made by the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of...
Rule Mar 07, 2005

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