February 5, 2007 (Volume 72)

Federal Register February 5, 2007

View all documents issued on February 5, 2007. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

85 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 5, 2007

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Voluntary Foreign Aid Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of a current...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Direct single family housing loans and grants:

Title Type Published
Through this action, the Rural Housing Service (RHS) is adopting homeownership education requirements. The lack of homeownership education is a well-known barrier to successful homeownership for many families. The intended effect of this action is to...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has received a petition from Monsanto Company seeking a determination of nonregulated status for soybean designated as MON 89788, which has been genetically engineered for...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
We are advising the public that an environmental assessment has been prepared for a proposed field release involving a transgenic safflower line that has been genetically engineered to express, within the seeds, a carp growth hormone fused to an Arab...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Grade standards:

Title Type Published
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is soliciting comments on a proposed revision to the voluntary United States Standards for Grades of Mangos. USDA received a request from a member of the industry to revise the...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is withdrawing the notice soliciting comments on its proposal to amend the voluntary United States Standards for Grades of Mushrooms. After reviewing and considering the comments received, the Agency has decid...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is withdrawing the notice soliciting comments on its proposal to amend the voluntary United States Standards for Grades of Oranges (California and Arizona) and/or United States Standards for Grades of Grapefru...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is establishing voluntary United States Standards for Grades of Peppers (Other Than Sweet Peppers). The standards will provide industry with a common language and unifor...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Land and resource management plans, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Forest Service will revise the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Plan (hereafter referred to as the Forest Plan). This notice describes the documents available for review and how to obtain them; summarizes the need to change the Forest Plan and the ini...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Daniela Maldini, Okeanis, PO Box 818, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, has applied in due form for a permit to conduct scientific research on marine mammals.
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On December 28, 2006, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") received a request from QHD Sanhai Honey Co., Ltd. ("QHD Sanhai") to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on honey from the People's Republic of China ("PRC")....
Notice Feb 05, 2007
China
Notice Feb 05, 2007
On November 6, 2006, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from India covering the period February 1, 2005, through January 31, 2006. Thi...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
On October 2, 2006, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated five-year ("sunset") reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain pasta ("pasta") from Italy and Turkey (71 FR 57921) pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 193...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Countervailing duties:

Title Type Published
On October 2, 2006, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of the second five-year sunset review of the countervailing duty order on certain pasta ("pasta") from Italy, pursuant to sec...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
On October 2, 2006, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of the second five-year sunset review of the countervailing duty order on certain pasta ("pasta") from Turkey, pursuant to se...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Fishery and conservation management:

Title Type Published
On January 12, 2007, the President signed the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006, which requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of that Act, to a...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 2007

International services surveys:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends regulations of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce (BEA) to set forth the reporting requirements for the BE-125, Quarterly Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intangible Assets with Foreign Perso...
Rule Feb 05, 2007
This final rule amends regulations of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce (BEA) to set forth the reporting requirements for the BE-185, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries (AA), NOAA, announces temporary restrictions consistent with the requirements of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan's (ALWTRP) implementing regulations. These regulations apply to lobster trap/pot a...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Force Sustainment Division announces the proposed extension to a previously approved public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Chief of Naval Education and Training announces a proposed extension of a previously approved public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of inform...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Admissions announces the proposed extension of a public information collection and seeks public comment on provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a)...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
In compliance with Section 3502(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Associate Director for Civil Aviation, Directorate of Operations and Training, Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations, announces the proposed extension o...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Admissions announces the proposed extension of a public information collection and seeks public comment on provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a)...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Admissions announces the proposed extension of a public information collection and seeks public comment on provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a)...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Headquarters Air Force Recruiting Service announces the proposed extension of a previously approved public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisi...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Headquarters Air Force Recruiting Service announces the proposed extension of a previously approved public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisi...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, as amended (5 U.S.C., Appendix) and the Sunshine in the Government Act of 1976, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552b(c), announcement is made of the following meeting:
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The CNO Executive Panel will report on the findings and recommendations of the Naval Education Subcommittee to the CNO. The meeting will consist of the final report to the CNO and relate solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of the Nav...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

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 Ionova Technologies, Inc., a revocable, non-assignable, exclusive license in the field of electrode structures consisting of metal oxide coatings on porous carbon substrates for...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Walleye Technologies, Inc., a revocable, non-assignable, exclusive license in the field of portable x-ray units for use in medical imaging, including but not limited to, medical...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and agenda of the meeting of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this meeting is required by section 1...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Office of Nuclear Energy announces that the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee will hold an open meeting and the public is invited. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended) requires that public notice of these meeti...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
BPA requests that all motions, petitions, comments and documents intended to become part of the Official Record of the 2008 Transmission Rate Case proceeding include the designation TR-08. BPA's existing transmission and ancillary services rates expi...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its regulations governing delegations of authority to the Directors of the Office of Enforcement and the Office of Energy Markets and Reliability, as well as to the Commission's Chief...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States:

Title Type Published
EPA invites public comment on its proposal to approve numerous revisions to the State of Alaska Implementation Plan. The Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) submitted two requests to EPA dated May 6, 2005 and Ju...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
A meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances (NAC/AEGL Committee) will be held on March 20-22, 2007, in Irvine, CA. At this meeting, the NAC/AEGL Committee will address, as time permits, th...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing a public teleconference of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Review Panel (CASAC Panel) to review EPA's Final Review o...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006; assignment of functions (Memorandum of January 25, 2007)
Presidential Document Feb 05, 2007

Special observances:

Title Type Published
American Heart Month (Proc. 8104)
Presidential Document Feb 05, 2007

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Debarment proceedings:

Title Type Published
The Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) debars Premio, Inc. (Premio) from all activities associated with the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism, also known as the E-Rate program. Premio pled guilty to and was convicted of serious fraud...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Deposit insurance coverage:

Title Type Published
The FDIC is publishing for comment proposed rules that would impose certain conditions and requirements on each deposit insurance application approval and non-objection to a change in control notice that would result in an insured industrial loan com...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a one-year extension of the termination date of the FDIC's existing moratorium on industrial loan companies and industrial banks \1\ (collectively, "industrial banks") for deposit insurance applications and change in control not...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
As mandated by provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ("BCRA"), the Federal Election Commission ("FEC" or "the Commission") is adjusting certain expenditure and contribution limitations set forth in the Federal Election Campaign Act...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 05, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Meetings:

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I-
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted the following information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The su...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Flood elevation determinations:

Title Type Published
Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and modified BFEs are made final for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each community is required either to adopt or to s...
Rule Feb 05, 2007
Technical information or comments are requested on the proposed Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and proposed BFEs modifications for the communities listed below. The BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that the c...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 2007
Technical information or comments are requested on the proposed Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and proposed BFEs modifications for the communities listed below. The BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that the c...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 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 29, 2006, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Callpod, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. A supplemen...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Millennium Challenge Corporation logo Millennium Challenge Corporation

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

Title Type Published
The Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre- clearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to co...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to com...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Meetings:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Health benefits, Federal employees:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to rewrite certain sections of the Federal regulations in plain language. These final regulations require Federal agencies to provide employees entering leave without pay (LWOP) st...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
Recent legislation alters the postal ratemaking process, and tasks the Postal Regulatory Commission to develop regulations to implement this process. This notice invites public comment, in advance of formulating substantive rule proposals, to guide t...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 2007

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FAA invites public comment about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) extension without change of a current information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on th...
Notice Feb 05, 2007
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following collect...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all of the airplanes identified above, that requires revising the FAA-approved maintenance program to include a new airplane maintenance manual task that specifies a detailed ins...
Rule Feb 05, 2007
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus airplanes identified above. This AD requires improving the routing of certain electrical wire bundles in certain airplane zones, as applicable to the airplane model. This AD result...
Rule Feb 05, 2007
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 & 440) airplanes. This AD requires inspecting for discrepancies of the activation mechanism of certain chemical oxygen generators...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that it is seeking to identify qualified industry consultants to assist 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91, 121, 125, 129, 135 applicants as they pursue approval to conduct "Required...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
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 Feb 05, 2007
The United States Mint is establishing prices for its 2007 American Eagle Gold and Silver Coins. Pursuant to the authority that 31 U.S.C. 5111(a)(3) and 5112(e), (f), & (i) grant the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue gold and silver coins,...
Notice Feb 05, 2007

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
In the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register, the IRS is issuing temporary regulations under section 367(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) regarding gain recognition agreements. These regulations are necessary to re...
Proposed Rule Feb 05, 2007
This document contains final and temporary regulations under section 367(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) regarding gain recognition agreements. The final regulations are necessary to update cross-references in the current regulations. The temp...
Rule Feb 05, 2007

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Veterans Disability Benefits Commission
Notice Feb 05, 2007
Women Veterans Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 05, 2007

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