September 29, 2005 (Volume 70)

Federal Register September 29, 2005

View all documents issued on September 29, 2005. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

91 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on September 29, 2005

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request approval of a new information collection activity associated with a voluntary "do not sell" list of in...
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Sep 29, 2005
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension information collection, Day Use on the National Forests of Southern California.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393), the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest's Madison-Beaverhead Resource Ad...
Notice Sep 29, 2005
The Shasta County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold meetings at the USDA Service Center in Redding, California, on October 5, November 2, and December 7, 2005. The purpose of these meetings is to discuss proposed projects under Title II of...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Senior Executive Service:

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This notice announces the appointment of the Performance Review Board (PRB) of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Publication of PRB membership is required by 5 U.S.C. 414(c)(4). The PRB provides fair and impartial review to the U.S. Commi...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
As a result of the determinations by the Department of Commerce ("the Department") and the International Trade Commission ("ITC") that revocation of the antidumping duty order on petroleum wax candles ("candles") from the PRC would likely lead to con...
Notice Sep 29, 2005
On August 23, 2005, the Court of International Trade (CIT) sustained the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) redetermination regarding the 1999-2000 antidumping duty administrative review of certain cased pencils (pencils) from the People's R...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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NMFS corrects the notice, published on September 13, 2005, soliciting proposals for research activities to be conducted under the 2006 Monkfish Research Set-Aside (RSA) Program to be consistent with the full Federal Funding Opportunity Announcement (...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Marine mammals:

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NMFS received a petition dated May 19, 2005 co-signed by Defenders of Wildlife, International Fund for Animal Welfare, International Wildlife Coalition, National Environmental Trust, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, The Humane Society of th...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that NOAA Fisheries has received applications to grant permit to (Permit 1090), Mattole Salmon Group, Petrolia, CA. This permit would affect SONCC coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), California Coastal (CC) Chinook salmon (O. t...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

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The Commission charges fees to designated contract markets and the National Futures Association (NFA) to recover the costs incurred by the Commission in the operation of a program which provides a service to these entities. The fees are charged for t...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), DoD announces the proposed extension of a public information collection requirement and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. DoD invite...
Notice Sep 29, 2005
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), DoD announces the proposed extension of a public information collection requirement and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. DoD invite...
Notice Sep 29, 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 proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The Secretary of Education announces her intention to establish A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education (Commission). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463 as amended; 5 U.S.C.A. App...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming meeting of A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, (Commission). The notice also describes the functions of the Commission....
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

Title Type Published
EPA is approving the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(d)/129 State Plan submitted by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (North Carolina DENR) for the State of North Carolina on August 7, 2002, and subsequently revised o...
Rule Sep 29, 2005
EPA proposes to approve the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(d)/129 State Plan submitted by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (North Carolina DENR) for the State of North Carolina on August 7, 2002, and subsequently re...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005

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

Title Type Published
Under section 122(h) (1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Environmental Protection Agency has offered a cost recovery settlement at the Ward Transformer Superfund Site (Site) located in Raleigh,...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio frequency devices:

Title Type Published
The Commission adopted new requirements and measurement guidelines for a new type of carrier current system that provides access to broadband services using electric utility companies over power lines. Certain rules contained new information collecti...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Federal Labor Relations Authority logo Federal Labor Relations Authority

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the members of the Performance Review Board.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
The Federal Reserve proposes to add a Supplement to the Reports of Changes in Organizational Structure (FR Y-10S) to enhance the Federal Reserve's ability to compare regulatory data to market data and to increase the Federal Reserve's effectiveness in assessing banking organizations' compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). The initial collection of this data would be as of December 31, 2005.
Notice Sep 29, 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 Sep 29, 2005
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Sep 29, 2005
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the selection of the American Health Information Community (the Community) members in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.) The following individuals have been selected by the Secret...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Food for human consumption:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations concerning the maximum sodium levels permitted for foods that bear the implied nutrient content claim "healthy." The agency is retaining the currently effective, less restrictive, "fi...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice announces the administrative close-out of the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Program (the Program). All business concerning petitions and related payment documentation associated with the Program will conclude on October 31, 2005. As of...
Notice Sep 29, 2005
This final notice describes and finalizes the procedure, which was previously published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2005 (70 FR 3036) as a notice with comment period, for redistribution of States' unexpended Federal fiscal year (FY) 2002 S...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adding noncompression heart stabilizers to the list of critical reprocessed single-use devices (SUDs) whose exemption from premarket notification requirements has been terminated and for which validation data...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the first meeting of the American Health Information Community in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.) The American Health Information Community will advise the Secretary and recomm...
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of the ninth meeting of the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)....
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this request for comments announces that the Coast Guard has forwarded one Information Collection Request (ICR)--1625-0010, Defect/Noncompliance Report and Campaign Update Report--abstracted bel...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-1603-DR), dated August 29, 2005, and related determinations.
Notice Sep 29, 2005
This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an emergency for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-3260-EM), dated September 21, 2005, and related determinations.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to temporarily change the drawbridge operating regulations governing the operation of the General Edwards SR1A Bridge, at mile 1.7, across the Saugus River between Lynn and Revere, Massachusetts. This change to the drawbridge...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The meetings of the National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee (NOSAC) and its Liftboat III Subcommittee announced in the August 30, 2005 Federal Register (70 FR 51360) that were to be held in New Orleans are cancelled. These meetings have been resc...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce our revised 12-month finding for a petition to list the Southern Rocky Mountain population (SRMP) of the boreal toad (Bufo boreas boreas) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Afte...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are designating critical habitat for the Pacific coast population of the western snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). In tot...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., the NIGC, in cooperation with the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria (the "Graton Rancheria"), intends to gather information necessary...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

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

Title Type Published
MMS is delaying until January 1, 2006, the effective date of a rule that regulates plans and information that lessees and operators must submit in connection with oil and gas exploration, development and production on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Royalty management:

Title Type Published
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) is publishing a final rule to provide immediate temporary relief to reporters in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The final rule provides an extension to pay royalties owed on Federal oil and gas lea...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Revised schedule for the subject five-year reviews.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Board
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Pollution control; consent judgments:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
This final rule revises the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by amending the anticipated value at which public announcements are required from $25M million or greater to $5 million or greater.
Rule Sep 29, 2005

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
NARA is giving public notice that the agency proposes to renew the information collections described in this notice, which are used in the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant program. The public is invited to comment...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

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

Title Type Published
The Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

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National Mediation Board

Title Type Published
The Director, Office of Administration, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee; full committee meetings procedures
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to incorporate by reference NRC Regulatory Guides listing Code Cases published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) which the NRC has reviewed and found to be accep...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) has issued NUREG-1757, Supplement 1, "Consolidated NMSS Decommissioning Guidance: Updates to Implement the License Termination Rule Analysis, Draft...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Presidio Trust logo Presidio Trust

Title Type Published
In accordance with Sec. 103(c)(6) of the Presidio Trust Act, 16 U.S.C. 460bb note, Title I of Pub. L. 104-333, 110 Stat. 4097, as amended, and in accordance with the Presidio Trust's bylaws, notice is hereby given that a public meeting of the Presidi...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities, etc.:

Title Type Published
We are extending the compliance dates that were published on March 8, 2005, in Release No. 33-8545 [70 FR 11528], for companies that are not accelerated filers, for certain amendments to Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 19...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Securities:

Title Type Published
We are proposing to modify the periodic report filing deadlines so that only the largest accelerated filers (those with a market value of outstanding voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of $700 million or more) become subject t...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
Notice Sep 29, 2005
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Pacific Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Small Business Administration's intention to request approval on a new and/or currently approved information collection.
Notice Sep 29, 2005
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) is amending its regulations to remove provisions relating to the Very Small Business Program (VSB). The Agency no longer has statutory authority to provide assistance under this program; therefor...
Rule Sep 29, 2005

Loan programs:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the extension of SBA's CommunityExpress Pilot Program until November 30, 2005. This extension will allow time for SBA to complete its decisionmaking regarding potential modifications and enhancements to the Program.
Notice Sep 29, 2005
This notice announces the extension of SBA's Export Express Pilot Program until November 30, 2005. This extension will allow time for SBA to complete its decision making regarding potential modifications and enhancements to the Program.
Notice Sep 29, 2005

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Trade Act of 1974:

Title Type Published
Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974 (Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2242), requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or deny fair and equitable mar...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of FMCSA to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an information collection associat...
Notice Sep 29, 2005

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus transport category airplanes, identified above. This AD requires an inspection to determine if a certain lower pin (p-pin) of the retraction actuator of the main landing gear (...
Rule Sep 29, 2005
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all the Airbus models identified above. This AD requires modifying the electrical power supply logic for the integral lighting of the standby horizon indicator in the cockpit, accomplishing r...
Rule Sep 29, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Boeing Model 747-200F, 747-200C, 747-400, 747-400D, and 747- 400F series airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections for cracking of certain fuselage internal s...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 767-200 and 767-300 series airplanes. This AD requires performing a general visual inspection to determine the part number of the I-beams of the center overhead stowage b...
Rule Sep 29, 2005
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain EMBRAER airplanes listed above. This proposed AD would require modifying the drain system of the auxiliary power unit (APU) by installing a scavenge pump and, for certain airpla...
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document cancels a public hearing on proposed regulations relating to the tax treatment of certain transfers of partnership equity in connection with the performance of services.
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 2005
This document contains a notice of public hearing on proposed regulations relating to employee stock ownership plans.
Proposed Rule Sep 29, 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 Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted the collection of information abstracted below to...
Notice Sep 29, 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 Sep 29, 2005

Meetings:

Title Type Published
CARES Business Plan Studies Advisory Committee
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Education Advisory Committee
Notice Sep 29, 2005
Veterans Disability Benefits Commission
Notice Sep 29, 2005

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