June 30, 2006 (Volume 71)

Federal Register June 30, 2006

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Agencies Publishing on June 30, 2006

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Rural Business-Cooperative Service's intention to request an extension for a currently approved information collection for the University Value-Added Research Grant.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the deployment and implementation of the PIX System. PIX is a web-based automated system that will allow interested non-profit organizations and public bodies to register to receive e-mail notification of all...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act; Title VIII implementation (subsistence priority):

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This final rule establishes regulations for seasons, harvest limits, methods, and means related to taking of wildlife for subsistence uses in Alaska during the 2006-2007 regulatory year. The rulemaking is necessary because the regulations governing t...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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Rural Business-Cooperative Service programs are administered through USDA Rural Development. USDA Rural Development announces the availability of approximately $1.5 million in competitive cooperative agreement funds. USDA Rural Development hereby req...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Notice is hereby given that Paul Nachtigall, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, P.O. Box 1346, Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, has been issued an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 978-1567-01.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Notice is hereby given that the following individuals have been issued scientific research permits to take shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum): Dr. James P. Kirk (Permit Holder and Principal Investigator), United States Army Engineer Research...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Antidumping:

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The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a request to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain softwood lumber from Canada. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amende...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
China
Notice Jun 30, 2006
On March 7, 2006, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") covering the period June 24, 2004, through...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Countervailing duties:

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In response to a March 22, 2006, request by Hyundai Steel Company (Hyundai), claiming to be the successor-in-interest to INI Steel Company (INI), the Department of Commerce (the Department) is initiating a changed circumstances review of the counterv...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Export administration regulations:

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This proposed rule would set forth BIS policy concerning voluntary self disclosures of violations of part 760 (Restrictive Trade Practices or Boycotts) of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and violations of part 762 (Recordkeeping) of the E...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006

Fishery conservation and management:

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The regulations contained in the temporary rule, emergency action, published on October 18, 2005, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and that were subsequently extended on December 28, 2005, expire on June 30, 2006. This te...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Meetings:

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The President's Export Council will hold a meeting to discuss topics related to export expansion. The meeting will include discussion of trade priorities and initiatives, PEC subcommittee activity and proposed letters of recommendation to the Preside...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The Commerce Department's International Trade Administration (ITA) and its U.S. Commercial Service posts in India will host a U.S. delegation to the India Business Summit to be led by Under Secretary for International Trade Franklin L. Lavin, Novembe...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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This action adds to the Procurement List products and a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List products and a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete products previously furnished by such agencies. Co...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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Congress has appropriated limited funds to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to implement the Estuary Habitat Restoration Program as authorized in Section 104 of the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, Title I of the Estuaries and Clean Waters Ac...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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In accordance with requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed construction of a dredged mater...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), New York District, is preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to ascertain compliance with and to lead to the production of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document in accordance wi...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, is initiating this study under the authority provided by the resolutions adopted by the Committees on Public Works of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, dated April 19, 1967 and Octob...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Meetings:

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In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following committee meeting: Name of Committee: Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board (EAB). Date of Meeting: July 19, 2...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following committee meeting:
Notice Jun 30, 2006
In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following committee meeting: Name of Committee: Board of Visitors, United States Military Academy. Date: Monday, July 17, 2006. Pl...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Education Department logo Education Department

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Electric rate and corporate regulation combined filings
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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Carolina Power Light Co. et al.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Chambers Cogeneration, LP
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Egan Hub Storage, LLC
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Emera Energy U.S. Subsidiary No. 2, Inc.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Exelon Corp.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Exelon Corp.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Indeck Energy Services of Silver Springs, Inc.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Kaiser Francis Oil Co.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Norge Power Marketing Corp.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Northwest Pipeline Corp.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Questar Pipeline Co. et al.
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Meetings:

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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Idaho National Laboratory. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announ...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts, CA; Don Pedro Project 10-year fisheries summary report
Notice Jun 30, 2006
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announce...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announce...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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West Texas Gas, Inc.; gas cost reconciliation report
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

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In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of a request by the registrant to amend their registrations to terminate uses of certain products co...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
This notice announces the availability of EPA's Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) for the organophosphate (OP) pesticide dichlorvos (DDVP), and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other r...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Water pollution control:

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EPA is proposing to revise the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements and Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards (ELGs) for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in response to the order issued...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration (GSA) is providing notice of the designation of the FedBizOpps (FBO) (GSA/OAP-4) system as a system of records under the Privacy Act. The purpose of FedBizOpps is to collect, maintain, and disseminate information o...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Importer's Entry Notice" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Fogarty International Center (FIC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. F...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is committed to preventing the onset and reducing the progression of mental illness, substance abuse, and substance-related problems among all individuals, including youth. As par...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Office on Women's Health (OWH) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is the government's focal point for women's health issues, and works to redress inequities in research, health care services, and education that have historicall...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Medicare:

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This correcting amendment corrects a technical error identified in the final rule that appeared in the April 21, 2006 Federal Register entitled "Requirements for Providers and Suppliers to Establish and Maintain Medicare Enrollment." In that final ru...
Rule Jun 30, 2006
This document corrects errors in the final rule that appeared in the May 9, 2006 Federal Register entitled "Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System Update for Rate Year Beginning July 1, 2006 (RY 2007)."
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Meetings:

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
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 Reduction Act...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
This notice advises the public of the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties. For the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2006, the...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Automation program test:

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This document announces a modification to the Customs and Border Protection Automated Commercial System (ACS) Reconciliation prototype test that adds to the issues subject to the Reconciliation process those arising under the Dominican Republic-Centr...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) by Notice published in the Federal Register on March 24, 2006 ("First CIPAC Notice"). That Notice identified the purpo...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announces the availability of the draft programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) addressing the proposed implementation of the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) project. The proposed implementatio...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Ports and waterways safety; regulated navigation areas, safety zones, security zones, etc.:

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The Coast Guard will enforce safety zones for annual fireworks displays in the Captain of the Port Buffalo Zone during July 2006. This action is necessary to provide for the safety of life and property on navigable waters during these events. These s...
Rule Jun 30, 2006
The Coast Guard is implementing safety zones for annual fireworks displays in the Captain of the Port Detroit Zone during July 2006. This action is necessary to provide for the safety of life and property on navigable waters during these events. Thes...
Rule Jun 30, 2006
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone encompassing the navigable waters of Lake Erie during the Ferrier Wedding Fireworks on July 1, 2006. This safety zone is necessary to ensure the safety of spectators and vessels from the hazards...
Rule Jun 30, 2006
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone in all navigable waters within a one thousand (1000) foot radius of the fireworks launching platform, located in Onset Harbor, Onset, Massachusetts on July 1, 2006. The safety zone is needed to...
Rule Jun 30, 2006
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone encompassing the navigable waters of the St. Lawrence River during the Hydroplane Races on July 1, 2006 and July 2, 2006. This safety zone is necessary to ensure the safety of spectators and ves...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Jun 30, 2006

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 that the information collection requests for 30 CFR 733, Maintenance of state programs and procedures for substitutin...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The following permits were issued.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act; Title VIII implementation (subsistence priority):

No documents available.

Endangered and threatened species:

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On November 17, 2005, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service, or we) proposed to designate the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears as a distinct population segment (DPS) and to then remove this DPS from the Federal List of...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a proposed Resour...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an upcoming meeting of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Commission. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463).
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Monitoring Information Collections.
Notice Jun 30, 2006
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: National Youth Gang Survey.
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Registration revocations, restrictions, denials, reinstatements:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Aliens; temporary employment in U.S.:

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The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is amending its regulations regarding temporary employment of foreign professionals to implement procedural requirements applicable to the H-1B1 visa category. The H-1B1 visa category permits the temporary...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

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 forthcoming meeting of the International Space Station Independent Safety Task Force (IISTF).
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

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This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant a partially exclusive license in the United States to practice the inventions described and claimed in "Ordered Bi...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Nuclear waste and spent fuel shipments; Governors designees receiving advanced notification; list
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The NRC has prepared a final Environmental Assessment as part of its evaluation of a request by R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, LLC (Ginna LLC) for a license amendment to increase the maximum steady state power level at the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power P...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to remove obsolete references to OPM central and regional offices from its classification and job grading appeals regulations.
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Allowances and differentials:

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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing proposed regulations to increase the maximum annual uniform allowance rate. When civilian Federal employees are required to wear a uniform in the performance of their duties, agencies must pay a uniform a...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Small business size standards:

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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is increasing the small business size standard for Security Guards and Patrol Services (North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 561612), from $11.5 million in average annual receipts to $17.0...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

State Department logo State Department

Visas; nonimmigrant documentation:

Title Type Published
This rule expands guidance to consular offices for the review of nonimmigrant visa issuances and refusals contained at 22 CFR 41.113(i) (new) and 22 CFR 41.121(c), respectively, to specify who should conduct the reviews, the types of cases to be revi...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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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 summaries of certain petitions seeking relief f...
Notice Jun 30, 2006
This action revokes the Bishop Nondirectional Radio Beacon (NDB) as an Alaskan low altitude reporting point. The FAA has determined that this reporting point should be removed from the National Airspace System (NAS), since the Bishop NDB was de- comm...
Rule Jun 30, 2006
This action establishes Control 1485L and revises Control 1485H offshore airspace in the vicinity of Barrow, AK. This action establishes controlled airspace outside of 12 nautical miles (NM) of the U.S. shoreline upward from 1,200 feet mean sea level...
Rule Jun 30, 2006

Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:

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Under the provisions of Title 49, U.S.C. Section 47153(c), notice is being given that the FAA is considering a request from the City of Orangeburg to waive the requirement that approximately .34- acres of airport property, located at the Orangeburg M...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Airport noise compatibility program:

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces that it is reviewing a proposed noise compatibility program that was submitted for McClellan-Palomar Airport under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 47501 et seq. (the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Airports:

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Pursuant to Section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the FAA announces the availability of the Final General Conformity Determination for Operations of Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) at Denver International Airport (DEN). FAA has d...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A300 and A310 airplanes and A300-600 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require inspecting for discrepancies of all electrical bundles located in the leading and...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 767-200, -300, and -300F series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires an inspection of visually accessible areas for indications of ov...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006
This document proposes adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the specified Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) model helicopters. This proposal would require replacing a certain hydraulic drive belt (drive belt). Also proposed is reducing the lu...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Fokker Model F27 Mark 050 and Model F.28 Mark 0070 and 0100 airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitively removing the two existing escape rope assemblies in the flight...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The FTA and FHWA are jointly issuing this Revised Notice of Intent to advise the public that the joint Environmental Impact Statement/Section 4(f) Evaluation (EIS/4(f)) for transit and highway improvements in the City and County of Denver, Adams Coun...
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Interest rates:

Title Type Published
For the period beginning July 1, 2006, and ending on December 31, 2006, the prompt payment interest rate is 5\3/4\ per centum per annum.
Notice Jun 30, 2006

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Compensation, pension, burial, and related benefits:

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to reorganize and rewrite in plain language provisions concerning benefits payable to certain Filipino veterans and their survivors. These revisions are proposed as part of VA's rewrite and reorganizat...
Proposed Rule Jun 30, 2006

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