October 4, 2006 (Volume 71)

Federal Register October 4, 2006

View all documents issued on October 4, 2006. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

113 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 4, 2006

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Meetings:

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Agriculture is amending the charter of the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee, under the authority of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The amended purpose of the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Com...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program:

Title Type Published
The Rural Housing Service, an Agency under USDA Rural Development, is proposing to amend its regulations to change the due date of the annual guarantee fee. The annual fee is a non-refundable amount that the lender must pay each year that the loan gu...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee (Committee) will meet in Washington, DC. The purpose of this meeting is primarily administrative in nature to review the Committee's amended charter and discuss future Committee mission and s...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

United States Warehouse Act:

Title Type Published
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) announces the conditions under which temporary storage space for the 2006 crops of rice and soybeans may be licensed under the United States Warehouse Act (USWA).
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwo...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On September 18, 2006, the United States Court of International Trade ("the Court") sustained the Department of Commerce's ("the Department") final remand redetermination on its entirety. See Guangdong Chemicals Import & Export Corporation v. United...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
On June 7, 2006, the U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department) published preliminary results in the new shipper reviews of the antidumping order on honey from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Honey from the People's Republic of China: Intent...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
On May 31, 2006, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain polyester staple fiber from the Republic of Korea. We gave interested parties an opportunity to commen...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Coastal nonpoint pollution control programs:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the intent to fully approve the New York Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program (coastal nonpoint program) and of the availability of the draft Approval Decisions on conditions for the New York coastal nonpoint program....
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) is seeking applicants for the following vacant seats on its Sanctuary Advisory Council (Council): Conservation member, Research alternate, Business member and Business alternate, Public-at-large m...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
On November 1, 2005, the Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated a sunset review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate (CTL plate) from Belgium, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as a...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
On November 1, 2005, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated a sunset review of the countervailing duty ("CVD") order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from France, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
On July 19, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of the full sunset review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Sweden, pursuant to sect...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
On November 1, 2005, the Department of Commerce (Department) initiated a sunset review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate (CTL plate) from the United Kingdom, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 193...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

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 Oct 04, 2006

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
DoD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 803 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006. Section 803 places limitations on the acquisition of a majo...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
DoD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 1031(a)(37) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. Section 1031(a)(37) amended the requirements for su...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
DoD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 833(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006. Section 833(a) requires the posting of a notice on the F...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement provisions of annual appropriations acts that authorize an exemption from the Buy American Act for the acquisition of commercial informati...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
DoD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement and the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement with respe...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
DoD is making technical amendments to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to update reference numbers and correct typographical errors.
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Army corps of Engineers (Corps) Jacksonville District intends to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to evaluate potential impacts of further rock mining within wetlands in western Miami-date county, FL. The original...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.1), announcement is made of the following committee meeting. Name of Committee: U.S. Army War College Subcommittee of the Army Education Advisory Committee. Dates...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation combined filings
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Electric rate and corporate regulation combined filings
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Egan Hub Storage, LLC
Notice Oct 04, 2006
El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Rockies Express Pipeline LLC
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
This action promulgates amendments to the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for miscellaneous coating manufacturing. The amendments clarify that coating manufacturing means the production of coatings using operations such as mi...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Air programs:

Title Type Published
The EPA issued a final rule on November 29, 2005, which took action on elements of the program to implement the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS or standard)--Phase 2. The preamble contains a discussion of the Clean Air Act's...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
With this action, EPA is allocating essential use allowances for import and production of class I stratospheric ozone depleting substances (ODSs) for calendar year 2006. Essential use allowances enable a person to obtain controlled class I ODSs as pa...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Coastal nonpoint pollution control programs:

No documents available.

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) invites all interested persons to nominate qualified individuals to serve a three-year term as members of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (Council). This 15-member Council was esta...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
EPA is convening a public meeting on risk management practices under a possible stewardship program for nanoscale materials under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA is considering development of a stewardship program for such nanoscale mate...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of August 9, 2006, concerning the availability of the reregistration eligibility decision for the organic arsenical herbicides MSMA, DSMA, CAMA, and cacodylic acid. This document is extending the comment pe...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

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

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of acetic acid ethenyl ester, polymer with 1-ethenyl-2-pyrrolidinone; when used as an inert ingredient in a pesticide chemical formulation. BASF Corporation sub...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of flumetsulam in or on beans (dry). Dow AgroSciences LLC requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQP...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Solid wastes:

Title Type Published
The State of New Hampshire has applied to EPA for approval of the changes to its underground storage tank program under Subtitle I of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). EPA has determined that these amendments satisfy all requirements...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006
The State of New Hampshire has amended the regulations previously approved by EPA under Subtitle I of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). EPA has determined that these amendments satisfy all requirements needed for program approval and...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing a final rule that will reduce reporting burdens under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Child Health Day (Proc. 8057)
Presidential Document Oct 04, 2006
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (Proc. 8058)
Presidential Document Oct 04, 2006

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
The Export-Import Bank, as a part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to comment on the proposed information collection as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act o...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection, as required by the P...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document commences a hearing proceeding by directing Terry Keith Hammond, the licensee of Station KBKH(FM), Shamrock, Texas, to show cause why the license of Station KBKH(FM) should not be revoked, and by designating the license renewal applicat...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
A A Pacific, Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
International Equipment Logistics, Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Omega Shipping Inc., et al.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Telemarketing sales rules:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") announces decisions on four issues involving the Telemarketing Sales Rule ("TSR"): the denial of a petition submitted by Voice Mail Broadcasting Corporation ("VMBC") requesting cr...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to establish a new SOR titled "Low Vision Rehabilitation Demonstration (LVRD)," System No. 09-70-0582. The program is mandated by Section 641 of the Medicare Prescriptio...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Grant and cooperative agreement awards:

Title Type Published
Single-Source Program Expansion Supplement.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Single-Source Non-Competitive Continuation Award.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Single-Source Non-Competitive Continuation Award.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Single-Source Non-Competitive Continuation Award.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Single-Source Non-Competitive Continuation Award.
Notice Oct 04, 2006
Single-Source Non-Competitive Continuation Award.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Head Start Program:

Title Type Published
This rule finalizes the provisions of the proposed rule published on May 30, 2006 and responds to public comments received as a result of the proposed rule. This final rule authorizes approval of annual waivers, under certain circumstances, from two...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Childhood Vaccines Advisory Commission
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the Commonwealth of Virginia (FEMA-1661-DR), dated September 22, 2006, and related determinations. Effective Date: September 22, 2006.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has signed the Record of Decision (ROD) that disapproves a proposed lease of tribal trust lands between Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C. (PFS) and the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians. BIA analyzed the environmental...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Closure of public lands:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Red Mountain Road, located on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management approximately eight miles east of Piercy, California, is closed to public access due to dangers posed by the Nobles Fire. Exempted from thi...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the reopening of the public comment period for the proposal to designate critical habitat for the spikedace (Meda fulgida) and loach minnow (Tiaroga cobitis) designation under the Endangered...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import Investigations:

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Controlled substances; importation and exportation:

Title Type Published
DEA proposes to amend its regulations to update the list of non-traditional countries authorized to export narcotic raw materials (NRM) to the United States. This change would replace Yugoslavia with Spain. This proposed rule seeks to maintain a cons...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006

Pollution control; consent judgments:

Title Type Published
Nacelle Land Management Corp., et al.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Labor Department logo Labor Department

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
This gives a consolidated notice of all positions excepted under Schedules A, B, and C as of June 30, 2006, as required by Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the Competitive Service.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Personnel management demonstration projects:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense (DoD or "the Department"), with the approval of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), received authority to conduct a personnel demonstration project within DoD's civilian acquisition workforce and those supporting perso...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application for an order under (a) section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Act") granting an exemption from sections 18(f) and 21(b) of the Act; (b) section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act granting an exemption from section 12(d)(1) of the Act; (c) sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act granting an exemption from sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(3) of the Act; and (d) section 17(d) of the Act and rule 17d- 1 under the Act to permit certain joint transactions.
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is providing for additional public input in connection with its annual Government- Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, to be held Friday, September 29, 2006, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT, at its Washi...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Loan programs:

Title Type Published
SBA is creating the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Pilot Loan Program. Under this program, certain Community Development Entities will be able to purchase a participation interest in up to 90% of a SBAExpress or CommunityExpress Section 7(a) guarantee...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

State Department logo State Department

International Traffic in Arms regulations:

Title Type Published
The Department of State is amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to reflect modifications to the U.S. arms embargo against Haiti. The embargo is revised to permit exports of defense articles and services that are destined for securit...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Passports:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends part 51 at Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations to change a ground of denying, revoking or canceling a passport. The final rule amends the existing regulation at section 51.70(a) in Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regula...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Andean Trade Preference Act:

Title Type Published
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) received petitions in September 2005 to review certain practices in certain beneficiary developing countries to determine whether such countries are in compliance with the ATPA eligibility c...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
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 Oct 04, 2006
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the information collection requirement in the final rule published on August 29, 2006 (FR 71 51382). The sections of the final rule pending approval of this information c...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Aircraft:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is making a minor technical change to aviation repair stations' instructions in Part 43 on how to send required repair and alteration data to the FAA. We are making this change to take advantage of newer and...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 757-200, -200PF, and -200CB series airplanes. This AD requires doing initial and repetitive detailed or high frequency eddy current inspections for cracks around the rive...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD), which applies to all EMBRAER Model EMB-145, -145ER, -145MR, - 145LR, -145XR, -145MP, and -145EP airplanes. That AD currently requires repetitive inspections to detect cracking or failur...
Rule Oct 04, 2006
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain McDonnell Douglas Model 717-200 airplanes. This AD requires replacing the lightning critical clamp bases of the fuel tank vent system with improved clamp bases; and checking the elect...
Rule Oct 04, 2006

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seeks comments on the economic impact of its regulations on small entities. As required by Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, we are attempting to identify rules that may have a s...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006

Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:

Procedural regulations:

Title Type Published
On November 30, 2005, President Bush signed into law the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 2006 (Pub.L. 109-115, 119 Stat. 2396, hereafter the...
Proposed Rule Oct 04, 2006

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On December 21, 2005, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the Fund) published a NOFA in the Federal Register (70 FR 75872) in connection with two consecutive funding rounds of the NACA Program: (i) The FY 2006 Funding Round and (ii...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The OCC, Board, FDIC, OTS, and NCUA (the Agencies), request comment on these Proposed Illustrations of Consumer Information for Nontraditional Mortgage Products. The illustrations are intended to assist institutions in implementing the consumer prote...
Notice Oct 04, 2006
The OCC, Board, FDIC, OTS, and NCUA (the Agencies), are issuing final Interagency Guidance on Nontraditional Mortgage Product Risks (guidance). This guidance has been developed to clarify how institutions can offer nontraditional mortgage products in...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

Sanctions; blocked persons, specially designated nationals, terrorists, and narcotics traffickers, and foreign terrorist organizations:

Title Type Published
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is publishing the names of additional persons whose property and interests in property have been blocked pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901-190...
Notice Oct 04, 2006

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