March 20, 2007 (Volume 72)

Federal Register March 20, 2007

View all documents issued on March 20, 2007. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

113 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 20, 2007

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary), in coordination with the United States Trade Representative (USTR), intends to reestablish the Agricultural policy advisory Committe...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Field office technical guides; changes:

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It has been determined by the NRCS State Conservationist for Tennessee that changes must be made in the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide, specifically in practice standards Residue and Tillage Management, Mulch Till; Residue and Tillage Management,...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Deschutes Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on April 5, 2007, starting at 9 a.m. at Jefferson County Firehall on the corner of Adam and "J" Street in Oregon. Agenda items will include a briefing on the progress for Travel Management, PAC up...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
The Southwest Oregon Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 10, and Wednesday, April 11, 2007, in Medford, Oregon. The purpose of the meeting is to advise the Bureau of Land Management on the current Western Oregon Plan Revision cu...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS issues this notice to notify the public that the United States has accepted conservation and management measures and resolutions pertaining to fishing in Antarctic waters managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Notice is hereby given that the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (The Alliance), 418 North Pitt Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 (Kristi West, Ph.D., Principal Investigator) has been issued a permit to import and export parts from all...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Notice is hereby given that NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program (Rennie Holt, Ph.D., Principal Investigator), 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037 has been issued an amendment to scientific res...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Antidumping:

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On December 29, 2006, the Department of Commerce received a request to conduct a new-shipper review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel wire rod from India. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (t...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
On September 11, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review for certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products (CORE) from the Republic of Korea (Korea). S...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Export privileges, actions affecting:

Title Type Published
Fiber Materials, Inc.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Lachman, Walter L.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Materials International, Inc.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Subilia, Maurice
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is proposing to implement new management measures for the monkfish fishery through Framework Adjustment 4 (Framework 4) to the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). Due to concerns over the status of the monkfish resource and the fact that mon...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007
This document contains corrections to the final regulations that were published in the Federal Register on December 29, 2006. That final rule implemented Amendment 16-4 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP) and established the...
Rule Mar 20, 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 Mar 20, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Commission) will convene a teleconference meeting on April 5, 2007 to deliberate the draft Commission report to the President. This meeting is open to the public and intere...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The CNO Executive Panel will report on the findings and recommendations of the Deterrence and Escalation Subcommittee to the Chief of Naval Operations. The meeting will consist of discussions of current and future Navy strategy, plans, and policies i...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy (DON), after consultation with the Attorney General as required by 5 U.S.C. 575(c), has adopted a policy that authorizes contracting officers to use binding arbitration procedures for issues in controversy arising under pro...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Education Department logo Education Department

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Alternative Fuel Transportation Program:

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE) today publishes a final rule to implement section 514 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, as amended by section 703 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which allows States and alternative fuel providers to petition for a wa...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Birchwood Power Partners, L.P.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
GG Energy, LLC
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Northern Natural Gas Co.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Northwest Pipeline Corp.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Twin Buttes Wind LLC et al.
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the New Jersey title V Operating Permit Program submitted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) on October 4, 2006. The New Jersey Operating Pe...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

Air pollution; standards of performance for new stationary sources:

Title Type Published
On May 10, 2006, EPA published a final rule entitled, "Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors." Following that final action, the Administrator received a peti...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Industry guides:

Title Type Published
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") is extending until June 18, 2007 the deadline for filing comments on the Guides and on two consumer surveys commissioned by the Commission concerning the interpretation of consumer endorsements.
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

Trade regulation rules:

Title Type Published
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") has completed its review, pursuant to a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking ("SNPR"), of the testing procedures for multichannel "home theater" amplifiers under the Trade Regulation Rule Rel...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Hazardous substances releases and facilities:

Title Type Published
This notice announces those sites for which ATSDR has completed public health assessments and health consultations during the period from October 1, 2006, through December 31, 2006. This list includes sites that are on or proposed for inclusion on th...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Notice Mar 20, 2007
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Mar 20, 2007
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Mar 20, 2007
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Radiation and Worker Health Advisory Board
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Scientific Review Center
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Scientific Review Center
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Scientific Review Center
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Scientific Review Center
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Substance Abuse Treatment Center National Advisory Council
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The United States faces serious public health threats from the deliberate use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)--chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN)--by hostile States or terrorists, and from naturally emerging infectious disease...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announces the following availability of opportunity for the public to provide input regarding the draft document, "Long-Term Field Evaluation (LTFE) Program Concept." NIOSH is the Fede...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This interim final rule (IFR) amends the Air Cargo Security Requirements final rule (Air Cargo Final Rule) by extending the compliance dates by which aircraft operators, foreign air carriers, and indirect air carriers (IACs) must ensure that their em...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the AK Railroad Bridge across Arthur Kill at mile 11.6, between Staten Island, New York and Elizabeth, New Jersey. This tempora...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Maritime and land transportation security:

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard, published a final rule on January 25, 2007 that establishes requirements for merchant mariners and workers who need unescort...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security is making available six (6) Privacy Impact Assessments on various programs and systems in the Department. These assessments were approved and published on the Privacy Office's Web site between...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are reclassifying the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) distinct vertebrate population segment (DPS) in Florida from endangered to threatened, under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of...
Rule Mar 20, 2007
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the reopening of the public comment period and the availability of the draft economic analysis for the proposed designation of critical habitat for the endangered Hine's emerald dragonfly (So...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Central Montana Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet as indicated...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Northeast California Resource Advisory Council...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Following receipt of a request on February 16, 2007, from the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission) instituted investigation No. 332-486, Probable Economic Effect of Providing Duty- Free, Quot...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review an initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 4) issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") granting complainant's consent motion to amend the...
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Revised schedule for the subject full five-year reviews.
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Privacy Act; systems of records
Notice Mar 20, 2007

National cooperative research notifications:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Employee benefit plans; individual exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces a meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Electronic Records Archives (ACERA). The committee s...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

N
National Institute for Literacy

Meetings:

Title Type Published
On March 8, 2007, the Secretary published in the Federal Register a notice of open meeting with a partially closed session for National Institute for Literacy. This notice amends the March 8, 2007, notice by changing the meeting to a one-day only mee...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to revise the Administrative Law Judge Program. The purpose of these revisions is to remove procedures that appear in other parts of this chapter, update outdated information, and...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities:

Title Type Published
Financial Accounting Standards Board; accounting support fee review
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Mar 20, 2007
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Mar 20, 2007
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Mar 20, 2007
Boston Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Social security benefits and supplemental security income:

Title Type Published
We propose to revise the threshold billing amount that triggers annual onsite reviews of medical providers who conduct consultative examinations (CEs) for our disability programs under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (the Act). The propo...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
International Security Advisory Board
Notice Mar 20, 2007

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Trade Policy Staff Committee:

Title Type Published
The Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is advising the public of a technical malfunction in the e-mail address contained in the original notice requesting comments on considerations relating to the Decision that Members adopted at the Sixth Minister...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

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 Mar 20, 2007

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe conditio...
Rule Mar 20, 2007
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 777 airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitive measurements of the freeplay of certain joints of the trailing edge flap supports; repetitive lubrication o...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

Aviation proceedings:

Title Type Published
Agreements filed; weekly receipts
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this revised notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement (EIS) is being prepared for the proposed U.S. Highway 181 Harbor Bridge replacement/State Highway (SH) 286 (Crosstown Expressway) improvement highway...
Notice Mar 20, 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 Mar 20, 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 Mar 20, 2007

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains a correction to final and temporary regulations (TD 9264) that were published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 (71 FR 30591) affecting taxpayers that file Federal income tax returns. They simplify, clarify, or e...
Rule Mar 20, 2007
This document contains final regulations concerning the application of section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code, which provides a deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities. The final regulations are necessary to provide guid...
Rule Mar 20, 2007
This document contains final and temporary regulations that provide guidance regarding the satisfaction of the continuity of interest requirement for corporate reorganizations. These regulations affect corporations and their shareholders. The text of...
Rule Mar 20, 2007
In the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register, the IRS is issuing temporary regulations that provide guidance regarding the satisfaction of the continuity of interest requirement for corporate reorganizations. The text of...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007
This document contains a revised initial regulatory flexibility analysis relating to proposed regulations under section 468B of the Internal Revenue Code on the taxation and reporting of income earned on escrow accounts, trusts, and other funds used...
Proposed Rule Mar 20, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
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 Mar 20, 2007
An open meeting of the Area 2 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted in Raleigh, NC. The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
Notice Mar 20, 2007
An open meeting of the Area 4 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 Mar 20, 2007
An open meeting of the Area 7 committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted. The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) is soliciting public comments, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service. The TAP w...
Notice Mar 20, 2007

Sudanese sanctions and Iranian transactions regulations:

Title Type Published
The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury is issuing this notice to clarify its policy with respect to the process for issuing one-year licenses to export agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices to Su...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Disabilities rating schedule:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is revising its Schedule for Rating Disabilities, Appendices A, B, and C to include all current diagnostic codes. Appendix A is also amended to include all the diagnostic code historical information since the l...
Rule Mar 20, 2007

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