August 11, 2006 (Volume 71)

Federal Register August 11, 2006

View all documents issued on August 11, 2006. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

123 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on August 11, 2006

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the revision of a currently approved information collection, National Visitor Use Monitoring.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Child nutrition programs:

Title Type Published
This rule makes changes to the regulations governing State Administrative Expense funds for the Child Nutrition Programs to reflect amendments made by the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. This ru...
Rule Aug 11, 2006

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Montpelier Ranger District, Caribou-Targhee National Forest will be preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the effects of adding aerial herbicide applications to the existing integrated noxious weed management activities wit...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Loan and purchase programs:

Title Type Published
This notice advises warehouse operators operating under a Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Peanut Storage Agreement of the storage and handling rates applicable to the 2006 crop of peanuts.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee (Committee) will meet in Washington, DC. The purpose of this meeting is to review and draft recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture on state petitions for inventoried roadless area ma...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On June 30, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) received a request on behalf of the petitioner, DuPont Performance Elastomers L.L.C. (DuPont)\1\ for a changed circumstances review and a request to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty (...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
As a result of the determination by the Department of Commerce ("the Department") that termination of the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Uranium from the Russian Federation ("Suspension Agreement") would likely lead to continua...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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NIST invites and requests nomination of individuals for appointment to the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT). The terms of some of the members of the VCAT will soon expire. NIST will consider nominations received in response to this no...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
NIST invites and requests nomination of individuals for appointment to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory Board. NIST will consider nominations received in response to this notice for appointment to the Board, in addition to no...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the countervailing duty order on dynamic random access memory semiconductors from the Republic of Korea for the period January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2004. We preliminarily f...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Export privileges, actions affecting:

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would implement the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Catcher Processor Capacity Reduction Program (Reduction Program) for the longline catcher processor subsector of the BSAI non- pollock groundfish fishery (Reduction Fishery...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006
NMFS is closing directed fishing for rock sole, flathead sole, and "other flatfish" by vessels using trawl gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2006 halibut bycatch allo...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for yellowfin sole in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2006 yellowfin sole total allowable catch (TAC) in the BSAI.
Rule Aug 11, 2006

Ocean and coastal resource management:

Title Type Published
NOAA is proposing to establish a network of marine zones within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS or Sanctuary). Marine zones are discrete areas that have special regulations differing from the regulations that apply throughout or...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

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

Title Type Published
This action adds to the Procurement List products and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List products previously furnished by such agenci...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List a product and a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. Comments Must be Received on or Before: September 10, 2006.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The invention listed below is assigned to the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 6,989,749: ELECTRONIC CHECK OUT SYSTEM.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is proposing to update the DLA Privacy Act Program Rules, 32 CFR, part 323, by replacing the (k)(2) exemption with a (k)(5) exemption to more accurately describe the basis for exempting the records.
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006
The Defense Logistics Agency proposes to alter a system of records notice in its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Claims and accounts:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Army proposes to amend its regulations to reflect a substantial revision of AR 27-20, an Army publication which governs the processing of claims worldwide. The purpose of this revision is to make AR 27-20 clearer and easier to u...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry as the Board shall deem necessary into the state of morale and discipline curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Academy....
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Administrative Law Judges Office hearings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) intends to compromise a claim against the Michigan State Department of Corrections (MDC) now pending before the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ), Docket No. 05-37-R. Before compromising the clai...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (Department) is adopting, with changes, the interim final rule published on May 15, 2006. This interim final rule established a new part to implement section 638 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which authorizes the Secretar...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
Off-the-record communications
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Electric utilities (Federal Power Act):

Title Type Published
This document corrects a compliance deadline error and a typographical error in a final rule that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published in the Federal Register on August 1, 2006. That action amended the Commission's regulations to requir...
Rule Aug 11, 2006

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

Title Type Published
This action corrects the effective date for the 8-hour ozone attainment designation for the Montgomery County, Tennessee portion of the Clarksville-Hopkinsville 8-hour ozone nonattainment area. The effective date for this attainment designation, whic...
Rule Aug 11, 2006

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA expressed environmental concerns about wetland impacts and mitigation. Rating EC2.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Agency weekly receipts
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Integrated Risk Information System:

Title Type Published
The EPA is extending the public comment period and rescheduling an external peer review panel meeting to review selected sections of the final draft document titled, "Toxicological Review of Dichlorobenzenes: In Support of Summary Information on the...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, notice is hereby given that the Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee (MSTRS) will meet on October 4, 2006. This is an open meeting. The meeting will include discussion of cur...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two public meetings of the Integrated Human Exposure Committee (IHEC) and Environmental Health Committee (EHC) to conduct a consultation on the efforts of t...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of acequinocyl (3-dodecyl-1,4-dihydro-1,4-dioxo-2-naphthyl acetate) and its metabolite 2-dodecyl-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (ac...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Pesticides; emergency exemptions, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA has received a specific exemption request from the Georgia Department of Agriculture to use the pesticide pyridalyl (CAS No. 179101-81-6) to treat up to 32,000 acres of Brassica leafy vegetables and turnip greens to control diamondback moth larva...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural commodities:

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This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of bifenthrin in or on Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C; Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B; turnip, greens; Pea and bean, dried shelled, except soybean, subgroup 6C; coriander, leaves; co...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
This regulation establishes a tolerance exemption for residues of copper sulfate pentahydrate when applied in or on meat, fat and meat by-products of cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, horses, poultry, milk and eggs when applied as a bactericide/fungicide t...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of imidacloprid and its metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinyl moiety, all expressed as the parent in or on caneberry subgroup 13A; coffee, green bean; seed of: Black mustard, borage,...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
EPA is revoking eight exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance that are associated with six food-contact surface sanitizing solutions because these specific tolerance exemptions correspond to uses no longer current or registered in the United S...
Rule Aug 11, 2006

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), EPA and the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) have agreed to harmonize their testing guidelines so that one set of tests can be used for the registration of pesticides in Canada a...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability for public comment of thirty TMDLs, and their administrative record files prepared by EPA Region 6 for certain waters listed in the Upper Canadian River and Turkey Creek Watersheds of Oklahoma, under section 303...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Age Discrimination in Employment Act:

Title Type Published
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or "Commission") proposes to amend its regulations concerning the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (the "Act" or "ADEA") to reflect a Supreme Court decision interpreting the Act as permitting em...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
The FDIC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on the proposed renewal of an information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
In accordance with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for OMB review and approval of the informatio...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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 Aug 11, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Detroit District, in cooperation with the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SoCRA), is announcing a workshop on FDA clinical trial statutory and regulatory requirements. This 2-day workshop for the clinic...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a public meeting October 10, 2006, on FDA-regulated products containing nanotechnology materials, and has opened a docket on FDA-regulated products containing nanotechnology materials. The purpose of t...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Graduate Medical Education Council
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
Office of the Administrator and HIV/AIDS Bureau
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing this notice to request comments to help the agency understand how the use of a unique device identification (UDI) system may improve patient safety, e.g., by reducing medical errors, facilitating devi...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Anchorage regulations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to amend the existing special anchorage area in Falmouth, Maine, on Casco Bay. This proposed action is necessary to facilitate safe navigation and provide a safe and secure anchorage for vessels of not more than 65 feet in le...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004; implementation:

Title Type Published
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 provides that by January 1, 2008, United States citizens and nonimmigrant aliens may enter the United States only with passports or such alternative documents as the Secretary of Homeland S...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

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

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone for the R. Ozzie Wedding Fireworks display on August 12, 2006 in Manchester By The Sea, MA, temporarily closing all waters in the vicinity of Manchester Bay and Manchester Harbor within a four h...
Rule Aug 11, 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 Aug 11, 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 its intention to request approval to continue the collections of information for 30 CFR part 700--general provisions,...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The State of Oregon has applied for an enhancement of propagation or survival permit to conduct certain activities with gray wolves (Canis lupus) pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In addition, pursuant to the Nation...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, Public Law 92-463. Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) has renewed the Bureau of Land Management's Steens Mou...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Hunting and fishing:

No documents available.

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act:

Title Type Published
The proposed rule would add a new part to the Commission's regulations establishing technical standards for Class II games--bingo, lotto, other games similar to bingo, pull tabs, or "instant bingo"-- that are played primarily through "electronic, com...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
China
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
30-day emergency notice of information collection under review: International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program Application.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Explosives:

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to clarify that the requirements of part 555 do not apply to model rocket motors consisting of ammonium perchlorate composite prop...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
The Department of Justice is proposing to amend the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to clarify that the term "propellant actuated device" does not include hobby rocket motors or rocket-motor reload kits c...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

Records and reports of listed chemicals and certain machines:

Title Type Published
This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposes changes in the regulation of the listed chemical iodine pursuant to the chemical regulatory provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) believes that...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Adjustment assistance; applications, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
AGX Corp.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Collins Aikman
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Continental Tire North America
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Gehl Co.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Kent Sporting Goods
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Madison Industries Inc.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Somitex Prints of California, Inc.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Unifi, Inc.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Welch Allyn, Inc.
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Woodmaster, Inc.
Notice Aug 11, 2006

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Hunting and fishing:

Page number corrections for August 1, 2006 Federal Register

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Aug 11, 2006

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a plain language rewrite of its regulations regarding the standards that govern employee responsibilities and conduct as part of a review of certain OPM regulations. The purpose of the revisions is...
Rule Aug 11, 2006

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

State Department logo State Department

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004; implementation:

No documents available.

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement:

Title Type Published
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) is requesting public input as to the probable effect certain modifications to tariff treatment of imports under the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement on total U.S. trade, domestic producers, an...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This notice announces Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval and extension until May 31, 2009 for the following information collection requests (ICRs): OMB Control No. 2137-0510, "Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements"; and OMB Contro...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve a current information collection. This action responds to the Wendell H. Ford Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century by requir...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve a current information collection. The FAA has undertaken an effort to improve aviation safety by collecting data on pilots training an...
Notice Aug 11, 2006
This action amends the Class D airspace area at Broomfield, CO. A review of the legal description revealed that it does not reflect the current airport reference point (ARP) for Jefferson County Airport.
Rule Aug 11, 2006
This notice proposes to amend part 71 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 71) by establishing a Class D airspace area extending upward from the surface to and including 3,600 feet above sea level within a 3.7-mile radius of Fort Riley, M...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006
This final rule will revise the Class E airspace at Eagle, CO. Additional controlled airspace is necessary for the safety of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) aircraft executing a new Instrument Landing System or Localizer Distance Measuring Equipment (I...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
This proposal would revise Class E airspace at Gillette, WY. Additional Class E airspace is necessary to accommodate aircraft using a new Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) at Gillette...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006
This proposal would revise Class E airspace at Laramie, WY. Additional controlled airspace is necessary to accommodate aircraft executing a procedure turn (PT) maneuver as part of the instrument approach procedure (IAP) at Laramie Regional Airport. A...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006
This proposal would revise Class E airspace at Saratoga, WY. Additional controlled airspace is necessary for the safety of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) aircraft executing the new Area Navigation (RNAV), Global Positioning System (GPS) approach proce...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006
This action amends Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations, part 71 (14 CFR 71) by modifying the Class E airspace area at West Plains Municipal Airport. The establishment of Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Instrument Approach Proc...
Rule Aug 11, 2006
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 Aug 11, 2006

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Glasflugel Models H 301 "Libelle," H 301B "Libelle," Standard "Libelle," and Standard Libelle-201B sailplanes. This proposed AD would require you to replace the rudder actuator arm (manuf...
Proposed Rule Aug 11, 2006

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and par...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Aug 11, 2006

U
Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission (Mitigation Commission) and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (Division) jointly prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) to determine the effects of rotenone treatments in the Willow...
Notice Aug 11, 2006

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations regarding grants to States for construction or acquisition of State homes. This amendment is necessary to ensure that projects designed to remedy conditions at an existing State...
Rule Aug 11, 2006

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