April 26, 2007 (Volume 72)

Federal Register April 26, 2007

View all documents issued on April 26, 2007. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

117 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 26, 2007

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension of a currently approved information collection; Financial Information Security Request F...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Grants:

Title Type Published
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is revising the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants Program Administrative Regulations to implement changes and be compliant with the Small Business Innovation Res...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
In response to a petition filed by Sunkist Growers, Inc. (Petitioner), the U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an antidumping duty investigation of sales to the United States of lemon juice from Argentina for the period July 1,...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
On March 20, 2007, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published its final results of the twelfth administrative review for certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products (CORE) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) for the period from A...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
We preliminarily determine that imports of lemon juice from Mexico are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value, as provided in section 733 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. In addition, we preliminarily dete...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Various countries
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes the 2007 second and third trimester seasons commercial quotas for large coastal sharks (LCS), small coastal sharks (SCS), and pelagic sharks based on over- or underharvests from the 2006 second and third trimester seasons....
Rule Apr 26, 2007
NMFS issues this notice to inform the public about tendering reduction payments under the longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery. The Freezer Longline Conservation Cooperative (FL...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for northern rockfish and pelagic shelf rockfish for trawl catcher vessels participating in the rockfish entry level fishery in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
In accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended, notification is hereby given that an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to repair work on the South Jetty at...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is proposing to amend Commission Regulation 3.10 to require certain registered intermediaries, i.e., futures commission merchants ("FCMs"), introducing brokers ("IBs"), commodity pool...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007

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 Apr 26, 2007
On April 10, 2007 (72 FR 17881), the Department of Defense published a notice with the subject heading "Department of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care" which should have read "Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services Univers...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to address requirements for the separation of Government functions for oversight, source selection, contract negotiation, and contract award. The rule...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to update procedures for obtaining Department of Labor wage determinations for construction and service contracts. The DFARS amendments are consistent...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
DoD has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 852 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Section 852 requires DoD to prescribe regulations to ensure...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to remove text addressing a statutory prohibition on the use of nonimmigrant aliens to perform work under contracts for military construction on Guam....
Rule Apr 26, 2007
DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to remove text relating to obsolete requirements for maintenance of paper-based solicitation mailing lists and for furnishing of documents to certain e...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
DoD has issued a final rule amending Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) text pertaining to small business programs. The rule updates and clarifies policy for contracting with small business and small disadvantaged business conc...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
DoD is making technical amendments to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to reinstate text that was inadvertently omitted from a previous amendment and to update references within the DFARS text.
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric utilities (Federal Power Act):

Title Type Published
In this Final Rule, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its accounting and reporting regulations to require public utilities and licensees to continue to follow the Commission's Uniform System of Accounts (USofA) and to...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
AES Sparrows Point LNG, LCC; technical conference
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Equitrans, L.P.; technical conference
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Natural gas companies (Natural Gas Act and Energy Policy Act):

Title Type Published
In order to implement its authority under section 23 of the Natural Gas Act, which was added by section 316 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005), the Commission proposes to revise its regulations to: require that intrastate pipelines post da...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
In this Final Rule, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending its regulations to provide for electronic filing of the FERC Form No. 714, Annual Electric Control and Planning Area Report. Paper filings will no longer be accepte...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air pollution control; recreational engines and vehicles:

Title Type Published
In a rule published November 8, 2002, EPA promulgated new emission standards for recreational vehicles beginning in model year 2006. This included a newly regulated class of nonroad vehicles/engines commonly referred to as all-terrain vehicles. In th...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
In a rule published November 8, 2002, EPA promulgated new emission standards for recreational vehicles beginning in model year 2006. This included a newly regulated class of nonroad vehicles/engines commonly referred to as all-terrain vehicles. In th...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Air programs:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated, in accordance with 40 CFR part 53, a new equivalent method for measuring concentrations of ozone (O<INF>3</INF>) in the ambient air.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

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

Title Type Published
The EPA is approving revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County, New Mexico, area that were adopted on December 14, 2005, and submitted to EPA by the Governor of New Mexico on May 24, 2006. The SIP revision...
Rule Apr 26, 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. On January 16, 2007, EPA proposed to reissue this GP. There was a 45 day comment period. On A...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is publishing "Aligning National Environmental Policy Act Processes with Environmental Management Systems--A Guide for NEPA and EMS Practitioners" to assist Federal agencies in aligning their National Enviro...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. F...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. F...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. F...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Maternal and Child Health Program
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Meetings:

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published a direct final rule that notified the public of its intent to remove the FEMA Acquisition Regulation in its entirety. FEMA did not receive any comments on the rule. Therefore, the rule will go...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations at section 111.51(a), the following individual Customs broker licenses and any and all permits have been cancelled due to the death of the broker:
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Pursuant to section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 1641) and the Customs Regulations (19 CFR 111.51), the following Customs broker licenses are cancelled without prejudice.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard seeks applications for membership on the National Boating Safety Advisory Council (NBSAC). NBSAC advises the Coast Guard on matters related to recreational boating safety.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for the State of Indiana (FEMA-3274-EM), dated March 12, 2007, and related determinations.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
On April 16, 2007, the Coast Guard published in the Federal Register a final rule that changes the operating regulations governing the Venetian Causeway (West) drawbridge, Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, mile 1088.6, and Venetian Causeway (East) draw...
Rule Apr 26, 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 Apr 26, 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 Apr 26, 2007
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 Apr 26, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC) will meet to discuss various issues relating to navigational safety on the Lower Mississippi River and related waterways. The meeting will be open to the public.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

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

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone in Port Washington Harbor, Port Washington, WI. This zone is intended to restrict vessels from a portion of Port Washington Harbor and Lake Michigan during the Port Pirate Festival fireworks dis...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is soliciting public comment on the need to continue providing high frequency (HF) radio broadcasts of weather forecasts and warnings. Public comment is necessary in order to assess the demand for the HF radio broadcasts of weather fo...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of the Draft Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) (northern spotted owl) for public review and comment.
Notice Apr 26, 2007
The Fish and Wildlife Service is initiating 5-year reviews of the Southeastern beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus niveiventris), rice rat (Oryzomys palustris natator), Florida salt marsh vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus dukecampbelli), Key Largo woodrat...
Notice Apr 26, 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) Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will hol...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Oil and gas leases:

Title Type Published
Per 30 U.S.C. 188(d), Upton Resources, Encore Operating, LP, Northern Energy Corporation and WHC Exploration, LLC timely filed a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease NDM 93550, Billings County, North Dakota. The lessees paid the required r...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Under the provisions of 30 U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR 3108.2-3(a) and (b)(1), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition for reinstatement from Cohort Energy Co. for competitive oil and gas lease WYW147007 for land in Sweetwater C...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Special Agent Medical Pre-placement.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Section 101(c) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and 30 CFR Part 44 govern the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for modification. This notice is a summary of petitions for modification filed by the parties listed...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Adjustment assistance; applications, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Bartech Group, Inc.
Notice Apr 26, 2007
CERF Brothers Bag Co., Inc.
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Douglas Quikut et al.
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Enhanced Mfg. Solutions
Notice Apr 26, 2007
HSS Material Management Solutions
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Oberle Associates, Inc.
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Sara Lee
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate approximately U.S. $54 million to support cooperative agreement awards to organizations to address exploitive child labor internationally. ILAB in...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the availability of approximately $47 million in grant funds for YouthBuild Grants. YouthBuild Grants will be awarded through a competitive process. Grant fund...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans Advisory Council
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Veterans Employment Training and Employer Outreach Advisory Committee
Notice Apr 26, 2007

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

Title Type Published
This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant an exclusive license in the United States to practice the invention described and claimed in U.S. Patent No. 6,706...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Meetings:

Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; independent storage; licensing requirements:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations by revising the Holtec International HI-STORM 100 cask system listing within the "List of approved spent fuel storage casks" to include Amendment No. 3 to Certificate of Compliance N...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Allowances and differentials:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final regulations to increase the maximum annual uniform allowance rate from $400 to $800. When civilian Federal employees are required to wear a uniform in the performance of their duties, agencies must...
Rule Apr 26, 2007

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities:

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Railroad services abandonment:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
CSX Transportation, Inc.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Requirements (ICRs) abstracted below have been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review an...
Notice Apr 26, 2007
This action proposes to amend the designated altitudes of restricted areas R-3702A and R-3702B, Fort Campbell, KY, to better accommodate training requirements and provide greater access to the airspace for nonparticipating aircraft flying through the...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct a...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct a...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Boeing Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747- 100B SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-300, 747-400, 747-400D, and 747SR series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires r...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
The FAA is revising an earlier NPRM for an airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-1A11 (CL-600) airplanes, CL-600-2A12 (CL-601) airplanes, and CL-600-2B16 (CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, and CL-604) airplanes. The origina...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Learjet Model 45 airplanes. This AD requires deactivating the auxiliary power unit (APU), capping/plugging the fuel lines to the APU, and removing the APU fuel shutoff valve. This AD...
Rule Apr 26, 2007
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Learjet Model 31, 31A, 35, 35A (C-21A), 36, 36A, 55, 55B, and 55C airplanes, and Model 45 airplanes. This proposed AD would require inspecting for unsealed gaps on the pylon sid...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
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 Apr 26, 2007

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration proposes to amend the airworthiness standards applicable to transport category airplanes certificated for flight in icing conditions. The proposed standards would require a means to ensure timely activation of the...
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007
This notice proposes special conditions for the Boeing Model 787-8 airplane. This airplane will have novel or unusual design features when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes....
Proposed Rule Apr 26, 2007

Aviation proceedings:

Title Type Published
Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign air carrier permits; weekly applications
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FHWA will be issuing this notice to advise the public an EIS will be prepared for a proposed roadway project in Warren County, Iowa. The planned EIS will evaluate potential transportation improvement alternatives for serving West Des Moines, Des...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Exemption petitions, etc.:

Title Type Published
Alton Southern Railway
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Charlotte Area Transit System
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Morehead South Fork Railroad
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
The Federal pipeline safety laws allow a pipeline operator to request PHMSA to waive compliance with any part of the Federal pipeline safety regulations. We are publishing this notice to provide a list of requests we have received from pipeline opera...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a second meeting of RTCA Special Committee 213, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems/Synthetic Vision System (EFVS/SVS).
Notice Apr 26, 2007
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a first meeting of RTCA Special Committee 215, Aeronautical Mobile Satellite (Route) Services, Next Generation Satellite Services and Equipment.
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 1994 and 1996 left-hand drive (LHD) and right-hand drive (RHD) model Jeep Cherokee multipurpose passenger vehicles that we...
Notice Apr 26, 2007

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Apr 26, 2007

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