March 22, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register March 22, 2005

View all documents issued on March 22, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

91 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 22, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with regulations for pork and poultry...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this Notice announces the Food and Nutrition Service's (FNS) intention to request Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review of the information collection related to State administrative expen...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is revising the United States Standards for Grades of Sweet Potatoes. USDA had received a request from several industry groups to add a new grade to the standards, U.S....
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Act of 2000 (Act) requires the establishment of a citizens advisory committee to advise the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agricu...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Food distribution programs:

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This notice announces the surplus and purchased commodities that the Department expects to make available for donation to States for use in providing nutrition assistance to the needy under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) in Fiscal Year...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announces that it is accepting grant applications for its Revolving Fund Program (RFP) for fiscal year (FY) 2005. FY 2005 available funding for the RFP grant program is $496,000.
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393) the Kootenai National Forest's Lincoln County Resource Advisory Commi...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

Americans with Disabilities Act; implementation:

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The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has placed in the docket and on its website for public review and comment draft guidelines which address accessibility to and in passenger vessels which are permitted to ca...
Proposed Rule Mar 22, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Michelin North America; tire and tire accessory warehousing/distribution facility
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Export administration regulations:

Title Type Published
In this rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement further changes to export and reexport controls with respect to Libya. The majority of changes are based on comments submitted to...
Rule Mar 22, 2005
This final rule amends the Export Administration Regulations to update a fax number and to update the list of information collections. The Paperwork Collection List identifies the control numbers assigned to information collection requirements under...
Rule Mar 22, 2005

Overseas trade missions:

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The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, U.S. Commercial Service, Office of Global Trade Programs, is organizing a Healthcare Technologies Trade Mission to Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and to Auckland, New Zeal...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Permits:

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NMFS announces the receipt of an exempted fishing permit (EFP) application, and the intent to issue EFPs for vessels participating in an observation program to monitor the incidental take of salmon and groundfish in the shore-based component of the P...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
NMFS announces that the Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, Northeast Region, NMFS (Assistant Regional Administrator) proposes to recommend that an exempted fishing permit (EFP) be issued in response to an application submitte...
Notice Mar 22, 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 Mar 22, 2005
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 Mar 22, 2005

Postsecondary education:

Title Type Published
The Secretary announces the 2005-2006 award year deadline dates for the submission of requests and documents from postsecondary institutions for the campus-based programs.
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with 18 CFR 381.104, the Commission issues this update of its filing fees. This notice provides the yearly update using data in the Commission's Management, Administrative, and Payroll System to calculate the new fees. The purpose of up...
Rule Mar 22, 2005
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Environmental statements; record of decision:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of the ROD to fund the final design and property acquisition portions of the Proposed Action for the Grande Ronde--Imnaha Spring Chinook Hatchery Project in Northeast Oregon, as well as additional valuation stud...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Memorandums of understanding:

Title Type Published
DOE, DOI
The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) plan to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), no later than six months after the publication of this draft MOU. The purpose of the MOU is to describe how the Department...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
Postal service; interruption
Notice Mar 22, 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 Mar 22, 2005

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
This document announces that the EPA Administrator has addressed three citizen petitions asking EPA to object to operating permits issued to three facilities by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). Specifically, the A...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), EPA gives notice of a meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Program (GMP) Management Committee (MC).
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), announces a meeting (via conference call) of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Human Health Sub...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document extends the Federal-State Joint Conference On Accounting Issues (Joint Conference) until March 1, 2007. This extension provides the Joint Conference with the time needed to consider and make recommendations on additional accounting and...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission considers several petitions for reconsideration of its First Report and Order (FCC 01-22) and various comments submitted in response to the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 01-22) in this proceeding, but lim...
Rule Mar 22, 2005

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Premerger notification; reporting and waiting period requirements; correction
Correction Mar 22, 2005

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for a nonvoting industry representative to serve on the Food Advisory Committee (the Committee) in FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The NTP Interagency Center for Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) in collaboration with the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) is planning to convene an independent peer review...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for nonvoting industry representatives to serve on the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee (NMQAAC) in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). FDA h...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Macrophage cholesterol accumulation in blood vessels leads to the development of atherosclerotic plaques, the cause of most heart attacks and strokes. Recently, research from Dr. Howard Kruth, head of the Experimental Atherosclerosis Section of NHLBI...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
This announcement governs the proposed award of formula grants under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to States (including Territories and Insular Areas). The purpose of these grants is to assist States in establishing, maintaining, an...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Department of Homeland Security is concurrently establishing a new system of records pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Student and Exchange Visitor Program. In this proposed rulemaking, the...
Proposed Rule Mar 22, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the date, time, location, and agenda for the inaugural meeting of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a component agency within the Directorate for Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security is giving notice that it proposes t...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

No documents available.

Memorandums of understanding:

No documents available.

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 22, 2005

J
Judicial Conference of the United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure will hold a one-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence will hold a one- day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
The Committee on Rules and Practice and Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Adjustment assistance:

Title Type Published
Bourns Microelectronics Modules, Inc.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Galey Lord Industries, LLC
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Glenshaw Glass Co.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Global MetalForm LLC
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Honeywell International
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Kopin Corp.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Matsushita Electronic Components Corp. of America
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Robert Bosch Corp.
Notice Mar 22, 2005
Tyco Electronics
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Business Research Advisory Council
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Employment and Training Administration is issuing this notice to announce the receipt of the following Form 4279-2, "Certification of Non-Relocation and Market and Capacity Information Report" for the following: Applicant/Location: SteelCorr, LLC...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

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

Meetings:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Social Security Protection Act; implementation:

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to announce that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has implemented sections 302 and 303 of the Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (SSPA). Section 302 of the SSPA extends the current attorney fee withholding an...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

State Department logo State Department

Nonproliferation measures imposition:

Title Type Published
A determination has been made to extend the waiver of import sanctions against certain activities of the Chinese Government that was announced on September 19, 2003, pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act, as amended.
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Surface Transportation Board (Board) will hold a public hearing beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at its offices in Washington, DC, to provide interested persons an opportunity to express their views on the subject of rail rate cha...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This SNPRM seeks further comment on the issue of business size standards for the Department of Transportation's airport concession disadvantaged business enterprise (ACDBE) program. It also requests comment on issues such as additional measures to co...
Proposed Rule Mar 22, 2005
This rule revises and updates the Department's regulation concerning participation by airport concessionaire disadvantaged business enterprises (ACDBEs) in the concessions activities of airports receiving Federal financial assistance from the airport...
Rule Mar 22, 2005

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 747-200B, 747-300, 747-400, and 747-400D series airplanes. This proposed AD would require modifying the lateral shear beam for the Door 5 crew rest and, for certain...
Proposed Rule Mar 22, 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 for the installation of the tie plate for the wire bundles routed from lower section 41...
Proposed Rule Mar 22, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain McDonnell Douglas airplanes. This proposed AD would require a general visual inspection for damage to the Firex discharge pipes and wye assembly of the number 2 engine fire exti...
Proposed Rule Mar 22, 2005

Meetings:

No documents available.

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This notice grants the application by a motorcycle manufacturer, American Suzuki Motorcycle Corporation (Suzuki) for renewals of temporary exemptions from a provision in the Federal motor vehicle safety standard on motorcycle controls and displays sp...
Notice Mar 22, 2005
In November 2002, NHTSA published a final rule establishing, among other things, new tire safety information labeling requirements for vehicles. In June 2004, we published a final rule (June 2004 final rule) responding to petitions for reconsideratio...
Rule Mar 22, 2005

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

No documents available.

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations under sections 704(c) and 737 relating to the tax treatment of installment obligations and property acquired pursuant to a contract. The regulations affect partners and partnerships and provide guidance necess...
Rule Mar 22, 2005
S corporation securities; prohibited allocations; correction
Correction Mar 22, 2005
This document contains final regulations under section 1502 of the Internal Revenue Code that govern the application of section 108 when a member of a consolidated group realizes discharge of indebtedness income. These final regulations affect corpor...
Rule Mar 22, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice advises all interested persons of the locations of the March 23, 2005, and the March 31, 2005, public meetings of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. These meetings were previously announced in 70 FR 11731 (March 9, 2005...
Notice Mar 22, 2005

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