January 19, 2007 (Volume 72)

Federal Register January 19, 2007

View all documents issued on January 19, 2007. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

109 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 19, 2007

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
A clarification to the Timber Markets Update and Analysis of an Integrated Southeast Alaska Forest Products Industry prepared for the Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement is available for review and...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

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

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant to General Chemical Performance Products, LLC of Parsippany, New Jersey, an exclusive license to U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/003...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Recreation fee areas:

Title Type Published
The Tonto National Forest plans to implement a $6 per vehicle per night fee for overnight camping at Haigler Canyon Recreation Site. This site is undergoing major improvements which will increase facilities and services available to the public. Fees...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
In response to a request from Globe Metallurgical Inc. (Globe), a domestic producer of silicon metal, the Department of Commerce initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from Brazil. The period of review cover...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the adoption of its Endangered Species Act (ESA) Recovery Plan (Recovery Plan) for the Puget Sound Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU). The Recovery Pl...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 610 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the A season allowance of the 2007 total allowable catch (TAC) of pollock for Statistical Area 610 in...
Rule Jan 19, 2007
NMFS is implementing, through this emergency rule, revised summer flounder total allowable landings (TAL) for the 2007 fishing year. This emergency rule specifies allowed harvest limits for both the commercial and recreational summer flounder fisheri...
Rule Jan 19, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Materials Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 19, 2007

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); binational panel reviews:

Title Type Published
On January 16, 2007, the binational panel issued its decision in the review of the final determination made by the International Trade Administration, respecting Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico Final Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and D...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

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
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List 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: February 18, 2007.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
This action adds to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Settlement agreements:

Title Type Published
It is the policy of the Commission to publish settlements which it provisionally accepts under the Consumer Product Safety Act in the Federal Register in accordance with the terms of 16 CFR 1118.20(e). Published below is a provisionally-accepted Sett...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services (CHAMPUS):

Title Type Published
This interim final rule implements two provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (NDAA FY06), Public Law 109-163. First, Section 715 of the NDAA FY06 extends the time frame certain dependents of Active Duty Service Mem...
Rule Jan 19, 2007

Education Department logo Education Department

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Electric rate and corporate regulation combined filings
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Electricity export and import authorizations, permits, etc.:

Title Type Published
Tenaska Power Services Co. (Tenaska) has applied to renew its authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act (FPA).
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Environmental statement; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Western Area Power Administration (Western) issued a notice of intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on August 2, 2006, for the Eastern Plains Transmission Project (EPTP or Transmission P...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Standards of conduct:

Title Type Published
This interim rule responds to the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacating and remanding the standards of conduct rule, Order No. 2004, as it relates to interstate natural gas pipelines, in National Fuel Ga...
Rule Jan 19, 2007

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a req...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request t...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Agency weekly receipts
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Grants and agreements:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a new regulation on nonprocurement debarment and suspension in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as the final step of a four step process in streamlining the government-wide nonpr...
Rule Jan 19, 2007

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region V is publishing a direct final notice of deletion of the Avenue E Groundwater Contamination Superfund Site (Site), located in Traverse City, Michigan from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL,...
Rule Jan 19, 2007
The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) Region V is issuing a notice of intent to delete the Avenue E Groundwater Contamination Superfund Site (Site) located in Traverse City, Michigan, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public c...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of 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 Order on Consent ("AOC")...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisi...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Television broadcasting:

Title Type Published
The Media Bureau announces tentative channel designations for six permittees that attained permittee status during the pendency of the rulemaking proceeding commenced in the Seventh Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making ("Seventh FNPRM") in MB Docke...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission logo Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Board has adopted several revisions to Part I of its Policy on Payments System Risk (PSR policy) addressing risk management in payments and settlement systems. Specifically, the Board has (1) incorporated into the PSR policy the Recommendations f...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Medical devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a final regulation that appeared in the Federal Register of December 19, 2006 (71 FR 75865). The document issued a final regulation that improves the barrier quality of medical gloves marketed in t...
Rule Jan 19, 2007

Special Exposure Cohort; employee class designations:

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Richland, Washington, to be included in the Speci...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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 proposed revised information collectio...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Pursuant to section 343(a) of the Trade Act of 2002 and implementing regulations, truck carriers and other eligible parties are required to transmit advance electronic truck cargo information to the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) throu...
Rule Jan 19, 2007
This document provides the time and location of the public meeting which will be held by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) entitled "Rail Transportation Security," which was published...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard requests public comments on its current ballast water management reporting and recordkeeping requirements. To provide additional opportunities for public comment, public meetings will be held in Chicago, IL and in New Orleans, LA. All...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
This notice announces the meeting of the Subcommittee of the Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 472 Standard. The Subcommittee on the NFPA 472 Standard will meet to discuss the formati...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

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

Title Type Published
On January 23, 2006, the Coast Guard published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the regulated navigation area in Savannah, Georgia, to address changes in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tankship mooring locations following the creation of...
Rule Jan 19, 2007

Secure Fence Act of 2006:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

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 Jan 19, 2007

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is submitting the information collection request for review and renewal by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Bu...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Under provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements, the National Park Service (NPS) invites comments on a proposed new collection of information (OMB <greek-i>1024-xxxx). The Office...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The following permits were issued.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The following permit was issued.
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) will be holding an additional public hearing to receive comments on its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed fee-to-trust transfer of Oneida Indian Nation...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Liquor and tobacco sale or distribution ordinance:

Title Type Published
This notice publishes the Liquor Control Ordinance of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan (Tribe). The Ordinance regulates and controls the possession, sale and consumption of liquor within the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Reserv...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Bureau of Indian Education is announcing that the Advisory Board for Exceptional Children will hold its next meeting in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting is to meet the mandates of t...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The Fish and Wildlife Service (hereinafter Service) will conduct an open meeting on February 8, 2007, to identify and discuss preliminary issues concerning the 2007-08 migratory bird hunting regulations.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
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's (BLM) Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet as indi...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of the availability of the Report of Findings on a feathered headdress in the possession of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
The plat of survey described below was officially filed in the New Mexico State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, New Mexico, on January 12, 2007.
Notice Jan 19, 2007

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on December 13, 2006, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Topower Computer Industrial, Co., Ltd. of Taiwa...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The Commission hereby gives notice that it will proceed with full reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(5)) to determine whether revocation of the countervailing and antidumping duty orders on certain past...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of an expedited review pursuant to section 751(c)(3) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(3)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on clad steel plate fro...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review the final initial determination ("ID") issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") on November 20, 2006, regarding whether there is a violation...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Upon the timely, joint request of respondents, the Commission has determined to conduct a portion of its hearing in the above- captioned investigation scheduled for January 18, 2007, in camera. See Commission rules 207.24(d), 201.13(m) and 201.36(b)(...
Notice Jan 19, 2007
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of full reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(5)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled steel produc...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007

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

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Export and import license applications for nuclear facilities and materials:

Rulemaking petitions:

Title Type Published
On November 1, 2006 (71 FR 64169), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published for public comment a notice of receipt of a petition for rulemaking, dated August 25, 2006, which was filed with the Commission by Diane Curran on behalf of the Mass...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities:

Title Type Published
Forest Resources Management Corp.
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Jan 19, 2007
Depository Trust Co.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Jan 19, 2007
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jan 19, 2007
New York Stock Exchange, LLC
Notice Jan 19, 2007

S
Selective Service System

Title Type Published
This notice announces the appointment of members of the Selective Service System (SSS) Performance Review Board (PRB).
Notice Jan 19, 2007

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
International Law Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Meetings:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Surface Transportation Board will hold a public hearing beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2007, at its offices in Washington, DC. The purpose of the hearing will be for members of the public to present their views to assist the Boa...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics invites the general public, industry and other governmental parties to comment on the continuing need for and usefulness of BTS collect...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Airbus Model A300-600 series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires inspections of the lower door surrounding structure to detect cracks and corrosion;...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Airbus Model A310 series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires inspections of the lower door surrounding structure to detect cracks and corrosion; insp...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain transport category airplanes identified above. The existing AD currently requires modification of the reinforced flight deck door and other actions related...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as required by the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, established the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group (NPOAG) in March 2001. The NPOAG was formed to...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed project in Mecklenburg and Union Counties, North Carolina.
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Section 3011(c) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users ("SAFETEA-LU") authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to establish and implement a pilot program to demonstrate the advantages and di...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Meetings:

No documents available.

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
On August 18, 2005, NHTSA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to amend our certification regulation to require that, in addition to the vehicle identification number (VIN), a suffix that identified attributes about the bus body...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The 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 collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduct...
Notice Jan 19, 2007

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

National cemeteries:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations concerning headstones and markers furnished by the Government through the National Cemetery Administration (NCA) headstone and marker program. The proposed amendments are neces...
Proposed Rule Jan 19, 2007

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