January 16, 2007 (Volume 72)

Federal Register January 16, 2007

View all documents issued on January 16, 2007. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

122 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 16, 2007

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
This rule invites comments on the establishment of final free and restricted percentages for the 2006-2007 crop year. The percentages are 55 percent free and 45 percent restricted and will establish the proportion of cherries from the 2006 crop which...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007
This rule would increase the assessment rate established for the Cranberry Marketing Committee (Committee) for the 2006-2007 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years from $0.18 to $0.28 per barrel. Authorization to assess cranberry handlers enables th...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007
This action summarizes the results under the criteria contained in section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), of an Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) review of Marketing Order No. 929 regulating the handling of cranberries grown in Massa...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007
This document summarizes the results of an Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) review of the Mushroom Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Program under the criteria contained in section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Based on this r...
Rule Jan 16, 2007
This document summarizes the results of an Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) review of the Potato Research and Promotion Program, under the criteria contained in Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Based upon its review, AMS has determi...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007
This rule invites comments on modifications to the administrative rules governing committee representation under the Washington potato marketing order. The marketing order regulates the handling of Irish potatoes grown in Washington, and is administe...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Michael Hastings, University of Maine, 5717 Corbett Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, has applied in due form for a permit to take shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) for purposes of scientific research.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Notice is hereby given that Harold M. Brundage, Environmental Research and Consulting Inc., PMB <greek-i>781, 873 East Baltimore Pike, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348, has requested a modification to scientific research Permit No. 1486.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Taiwan and Korea
Notice Jan 16, 2007
On December 27, 2006, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published a modification concerning the calculation of the weighted-average dumping margin in antidumping investigations (71 FR 77722). The Department is delaying the effective date...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS or sanctuary) is seeking applicants for the following vacant seats on its Sanctuary Advisory Council (council): At-Large (two seats), Agriculture, Business/Industry, Commercial Fishing, Recreational F...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS announces availability of the updated Observer Coverage Plan for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery pursuant to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). NMFS also announces the receipt of applications for, and the issuance o...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
NMFS is adjusting the A and B season allowances of pollock in Statistical Area 620 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary because the current A and B season allowances of pollock in Statistical Area 620 of the GOA are incorrectly speci...
Rule Jan 16, 2007
This proposed rule would permanently remove the 7-day delay in effectiveness when closing the Hawaii-based shallow-set longline fishery as a result of reaching interaction limits for sea turtles. This action would allow immediate closure of the fishe...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007

International fisheries regulations:

Title Type Published
NMFS proposes to approve and implement changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan (Plan) for the International Pacific Halibut Commission's (IPHC or Commission) regulatory Area 2A off Washington, Oregon, and California (Area 2A). NMFS proposes...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
On November 15, 2006, NMFS proposed to revise the regulations implementing the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (ALWTRP) by expanding the southeast U.S. restricted area to include waters out to 35 nautical miles from the South Carolina coast...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Advanced Technology Program Advisory Committee, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will meet Tuesday, January 30, 2007 from 9 a.m. to...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 16, 2007
The U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board (Board) will hold a meeting to discuss topics related to the travel and tourism industry. The Board was established on October 1, 2003, and reconstituted October 1, 2005, to advise the Secretary of Commerce...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Practice and procedures:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) has established a 21st Century Strategic Plan to transform the Office into a more quality-focused, highly productive, responsive organization supporting a market-driven intellectual property syst...
Rule Jan 16, 2007

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisers:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is amending Commission regulations to require that notices of exemption or exclusion under Part 4 of the Commission's regulations submitted to National Futures Association ("NFA") be f...
Rule Jan 16, 2007

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Emerald Coast Technology Group, LLC, a revocable, non- assignable, exclusive license to practice in the United States, the Government-owned invention described in U.S. Patent No...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOD, DOE, EPA
The Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are announcing for public comment the availability of a draft document, entitled the "Multi-Agen...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation combined filings
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Acadian Gas Pipeline System
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Aragonne Wind, LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Casselman Windpower, LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Cypress Gas Pipeline, LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Dogwood Energy, LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Invenergy Cannon Falls, LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
MMC Mid-Sun, LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Minnesota Energy Resources Corp.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces the availability for public comment of a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Gilberton Coal-to-Clean Fuels and Power Project (DOE/ EIS-0357D-S1), prepared in response to comment...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, L.P.; meeting
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a request from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for delegation of authority to implement and enforce the following three Federal plans: Municipal Solid Waste Landfill...
Rule Jan 16, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

No documents available.

Solid wastes:

Title Type Published
Because EPA received adverse comment, we are withdrawing the direct final rule for Adequacy of Nebraska Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Program, published on November 16, 2006.
Rule Jan 16, 2007

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement for recovery of past response costs...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Notice is hereby given that a proposed agreement regarding the Tru-Fit Battery Superfund Site located in Carroll, Iowa, will be signed by the Environmental Protection Agency following completion of the public comment period.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
On June 4, 2007, a general permit regulating the activities of small suction dredge mining for gold placer mining operations in the State of Alaska expires. EPA proposes to reissue this general permit with minor changes. EPA is proposing to make this...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Jerusalem Embassy Act; suspension of limitations (Presidential Determination)

Title Type Published
No. 2007-9 of December 15, 2006
Presidential Document Jan 16, 2007

North Korea; sanctions against for detonation of a nuclear explosive device (Presidential Determination)

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday (Proc. 8099)
Presidential Document Jan 16, 2007
Religious Freedom Day (Proc. 8100)
Presidential Document Jan 16, 2007

Vietnam; eligibility to receive defense articles and services (Presidential Determination)

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) allow the proposed information collection project: "Improving Quality of Care in Long Term Care." I...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) allow the proposed information collection project: "Evaluation of the Implementation and Impact of...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet the standards of Subpart C of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (Mandatory Guidelines). The...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This announcement governs the proposed award of formula grants under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to private, non-profit State Domestic Violence Coalitions (Coalitions). The purpose of these grants is to assist in the condu...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
This announcement governs the proposed award of formula grants under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to Indian Tribes (including Alaska Native Villages) and Tribal organizations. The purpose of these grants is to assist Tribes...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
This announcement governs the proposed award of mandatory grants under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to States (including Territories and Insular Areas). The purpose of these grants is to assist States in establishing, maint...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, we) is publishing proposed recommendations for the reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee program for the process of human drug application review for fiscal years (FY) 2008 to 2012. These proposed re...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has submitted the following proposed information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: 1601-NEW...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
As part of its ongoing effort to review and update legacy system of records notices, the Department of Homeland Security is publishing a revision to the previously established Privacy Act system of records notice published by the former Immigration a...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject propos...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
National Register of Historic Places; pending nominations
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-463). Following consultation with the General Services Administration, notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has es...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is extending the comment period for the Black Mesa Project draft EIS and scheduling an additional public meeting in Leupp, Arizona.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) will be preparing a National Mall Plan to provide a long-term vision plan for the use and management of the National Mall, which ha...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Falls District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), wi...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
The following described public land in Eddy County, New Mexico has been examined and found suitable for disposal pursuant to Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) (90 Stat. 2750, 43 U.S.C. 1713). The Bureau of Land...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has officially filed the plats of survey of the lands described below in the BLM Idaho State Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on the dates specified.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
30-Day notice of information collection under review: COPS Interoperable Communications Technology Program (ICTP) assessment.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Release and Receipt of Imported Firearms, Ammunition and Implements of War
Notice Jan 16, 2007
30-Day notice of information collection under review: Firearms Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: eForm 6 Access Request.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Federal Unemployment Tax Act:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (Department) is issuing this Final Rule to implement the requirements of the Social Security Act (SSA) and the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) that limit a State's payment of unemployment compensation (UC) only to individu...
Rule Jan 16, 2007

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
The NCUA intends to submit the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection is pub...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

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

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board. This notice also describes the function of the Board. Notice of the meeting is required under the Sunshine in Government Act.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

N
National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Commission
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering Committee
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The NRC is preparing a submittal to OMB for review of continued approval of information collections under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Information pertaining to the requirement to be submitted: 1. The...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Meetings:

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Boston Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
Depository Trust Co.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Industry Advisory Panel
Notice Jan 16, 2007
International Law Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 16, 2007
International Security Advisory Board
Notice Jan 16, 2007

S
Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to its authority under the Susquehanna River Basin Compact, Pub. L. 91-575, 84 Stat. 1509 et seq. (the "Compact") and its Regulations for Review of Projects, 18 CFR Parts 803, 804 and 805, the SRBC, following a public hearing, approved certa...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FHWA has forwarded the information collection request described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew an information collection. We published a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day public comment period on this inf...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
This action revokes the HERRY 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 HERRY is no longer used as a low altitude reporting point.
Rule Jan 16, 2007

Air carrier certification and operations:

Title Type Published
This final rule applies to air carrier (part 121), commuter, and on-demand (part 135) turbine powered multi-engine airplanes used in extended-range operations. However, all-cargo operations in airplanes with more than two engines of both part 121 and...
Rule Jan 16, 2007

Aviation proceedings:

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 16, 2007
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on a continuing information col...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
An open meeting of the Area 4 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comment, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
An open meeting of the Area 5 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted. The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comment, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
Notice Jan 16, 2007
An open meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel VITA Issue Committee will be conducted. The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comment, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An open meeting of the Wage & Investment Reducing Taxpayer Burden (Notices) Issue Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas and suggestions on imp...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
An open meeting of the Joint Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted via teleconference. The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comment, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service...
Notice Jan 16, 2007
An open meeting of the Area 1 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 6 to the Treasury Department Circular 570, 2006 Revision, published June 30, 2006, at 71 FR 37694.
Notice Jan 16, 2007

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with subsection (e)(12) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, (5 U.S.C. 552a) this notice announces that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), recipient agency, intends to conduct a recurring computer-matching program with the Offi...
Notice Jan 16, 2007

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