November 8, 2007 (Volume 72)

Federal Register November 8, 2007

View all documents issued on November 8, 2007. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

93 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 8, 2007

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Special programs:

Title Type Published
This rule streamlines the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) regulations governing its direct Farm Loan Programs. The final rule simplifies and clarifies FSA's direct loan regulations; implements the recommendations of the USDA Civil Rights Action Team; mee...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

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Appalachian States Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission

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Meetings
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The Department of Commerce, 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 collections, a...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The Department of Commerce, 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 collections, a...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The Department of Commerce, 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 collections, a...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Nov 08, 2007
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Meetings:

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The President's Export Council (PEC) will hold a full Council meeting to discuss topics related to export expansion. The meeting will include discussion of trade priorities and initiatives, PEC subcommittee activity, and proposed letters of recommend...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Textile and apparel categories:

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The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has determined that certain three-thread circular knit fleece fabrics, as specified below, are not available in commercial quantities in a timely manner in the CAFTA-DR region. The pro...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Registration:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") has amended Commission Regulations 3.12 and 3.31 to extend the period during which a registered futures commission merchant ("FCM"), introducing broker ("IB"), commodity trading adviso...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Acquisition regulations:

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DoD has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to waive application of 10 U.S.C. 2533b for acquisitions of commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. 10 U.S.C. 2533b, established by Section...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Meetings:

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The DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Education Department logo Education Department

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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 Nov 08, 2007

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming teleconference meeting of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (the Council) and is intended to notify the general public of the meeting. This notice also describes t...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc.
Notice Nov 08, 2007
UniSource Energy Development Co.
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces the availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Mesaba Energy Project (DOE/EIS-0382D) for public comment, as well as the dates, locations and times for public hearings. The draft envi...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
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 f...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

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EPA is announcing that there will be a public hearing regarding the proposed rule on the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Petroleum Refineries, published September 4, 2007. The public hearing will be held on November 27,...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007

Air programs:

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Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated, in accordance with 40 CFR part 53, two new equivalent methods: One for measuring concentrations of ozone (O<INF>3</INF>) in the ambient air and one for measuring co...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

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

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EPA is finalizing full approval of revisions to the Kern County Air Pollution Control District (KCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). EPA is also finalizing full disapproval of a revision to the KCAPCD portion of the Cali...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Meetings:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a public workshop to discuss the development of proposed regulations for the underground injection of carbon dioxide for geologic sequestration under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). SDWA requir...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Particulate Matter (PM) Review Panel (CASAC Panel) to conduct a con...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection, as required by the...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Extensions of credit by Federal Reserve Banks (Regulation A):

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) has adopted final amendments to its Regulation A to reflect the Board's approval of a decrease in the primary credit rate at each Federal Reserve Bank. The secondary credit rate at each Res...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Administrative rulings and decisions:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public meeting to solicit comments on a proposed rule that would amend FDA's regulation on the use of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) in self- pressurized containers to remove the essential-use...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007

Biological products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposes to revise and update the regulations applicable to blood and blood components, including Source Plasma and Source Leukocytes, to add donor requirements that are consistent with current practices in the...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Administration for Children and Families announces publication of the Biennial Report to the Congress on the Status of Children in Head Start Programs, Fiscal Year 2005. The report is mandated under Section 650 of the Head Start Act, as amended,...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard invite interested members of the smart card technology community, vendors of biometric card readers, and the general public to meet in Washington, DC to discuss the Transportation W...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to temporarily change the regulations that govern the operation of the US 50 Bridge across the Isle of Wight Bay (Sinepuxent Bay), at mile 0.5, in Ocean City, MD. The proposal would close the drawbridge to navigation in order...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007
The Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the US17-264 Bridge, at mile 37.2, across Tar River at Washington, NC. This deviation allows the drawbridge to remain closed to...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Flood insurance; communities eligible for sale:

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This rule identifies communities, where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with...
Rule Nov 08, 2007
This rule identifies communities, where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The meeting of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) scheduled for November 8, 2007 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. is cancelled. Notice of this meeting was published in the October 12, 2007, Federal Register at 58110-...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On September 18, 2007, HUD published a NOFA for Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing Grants. To clarify the scope of eligible applicants, HUD has decided to publish this technical correction. Additionally, to permit elig...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce our response to the May 24, 2004, order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Southwest Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Norton, et al. (Civil Action N...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice lists programs or portions of programs that are eligible for inclusion in Fiscal Year 2008 funding agreements with self-governance tribes and lists programmatic targets pursuant to section 405(c)(4) of the Tribal Self-Governance Act.
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The John Day/Snake Resource Advisory Council (JDSRAC) meeting is scheduled for December 4, 2007, in Pendleton, Oregon. The John Day/Snake Resource Advisory Council meeting is scheduled for December 4, 2007. The meeting will take place at the Red Lion...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Outer Continental Shelf; oil, gas, and sulphur operations:

Title Type Published
The MMS will hold a workshop to discuss the possible need to develop a new regulation allowing for a Suspension of Operations, specifically related to high pressure or high temperature equipment needed for safe drilling, completion, or production ope...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings: Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments:

Pollution control; consent judgments:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

International Labor Affairs Bureau:

Title Type Published
This notice is a request for information for use by the Department of Labor in preparation of an annual report on certain trade beneficiary countries' implementation of international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. This will...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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 inf...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instru...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

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 Nov 08, 2007

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

Meetings:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an environmental assessment (EA) related to the license termination plan (LTP) for the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, dated April 12, 2006. The EA was develo...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Rulemaking petitions:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is denying a petition for rulemaking (PRM-54-4) submitted by Susan Shapiro, Esquire, Friends United for Sustainable Energy. The petitioner requested that the NRC issue an order to enjoin the NRC from considerin...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22, 1995 and 5 CFR part 1320), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for ex...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for extension without chan...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board:

Title Type Published
Inspection frequency requirements for registered public accounting firms; proposed rule filing
Notice Nov 08, 2007

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
The Department of State has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. <bullet> Title of Information Collection: Foreign Ser...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the conduct of a spring 2008 Civic Education workshop for students participating in the academic year Future...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Surface Transportation Board (Board) has reviewed the submission filed October 5, 2007, by Canadian Pacific Railway Corporation (CPRC), Soo Line Holding Company, a Delaware Corporation and indirect subsidiary of CPRC (Soo Holding), Dakota, Minnes...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

World Trade Organization:

Title Type Published
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice that the United States has requested, in accordance with the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement), that the WTO Dispute Settlemen...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) revision of a current information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following col...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) revision of a current information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following col...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) revision of a current information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following col...
Notice Nov 08, 2007
This document confirms the effective date of the direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Lee's Summit, MO.
Rule Nov 08, 2007
This document confirms the effective date of the direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Poplar Bluff, MO.
Rule Nov 08, 2007
This action revises VOR Federal Airway 363 (V-363) between the Mission Bay, CA, Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range/Tactical Air Navigation (VORTAC) and the Pomona, CA, VORTAC. Specifically, the FAA is making this realignment to provide a south...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering a proposal to change a portion of the airport from aeronautical use to non-aeronautical use and to authorize the release of 6.03 acres of airport property for the development of a corporate fac...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Air carrier certification and operations:

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This final rule amends FAA regulations for certification and operations of transport category airplanes. These changes are necessary to help ensure continued safety of commercial airplanes. They improve the design, installation, and maintenance of ai...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.

Title Type Published
On August 7, 2007, the FAA proposed amendments to the December 12, 2006, order (the Order) that temporarily limits flight operations at New York's LaGuardia Airport (LaGuardia). Under the Order, the FAA limited scheduled and unscheduled operations at...
Notice Nov 08, 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 the aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe conditi...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Federal agency actions on proposed highways; judicial review claims:

Title Type Published
This notice announces actions taken by the FHWA and other Federal agencies that are final within the meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The actions relate to various proposed highway projects in the State of Texas. Those actions grant licenses, permits,...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), PHMSA is publishing the following list of special permit applications that have been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the expected completion date for action on eac...
Notice Nov 08, 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 2005 Volkswagen Golf passenger cars that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehi...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The rise in the price of platinum per ounce requires that the United States Mint raise the prices on its 2007 American Eagle Platinum Proof and Uncirculated Coins. Pursuant to the authority that 31 U.S.C. 5112(k) grants the Secretary of the Treasury...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; implementation:

Title Type Published
This notice is provided in accordance with IRC section 6039G, as amended, by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996. This listing contains the name of each individual losing United States citizenship (within the meani...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains proposed regulations under sections 401(k), 401(m), 402(c), 411(a), 414(w), and 4979(f) of the Internal Revenue Code relating to automatic contribution arrangements. These proposed regulations will affect administrators of, emp...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007
This document contains corrections to proposed regulations (REG-140206-06) that were published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 (72 FR 58781) regarding a withholding agent's obligation to withhold and report tax under Chapter 3...
Proposed Rule Nov 08, 2007

National security information:

Title Type Published
Section 5.4 of Executive Order 13292 requires the Department of the Treasury to promulgate implementing regulations with respect to classified national security information and to publish such regulations to the extent that they affect members of the...
Rule Nov 08, 2007

Sanctions, blocked persons, specially-designated nationals, terrorists, narcotics traffickers, and foreign terrorist organizations:

Title Type Published
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is publishing the names of additional persons whose property and interests in property have been blocked pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901-190...
Notice Nov 08, 2007

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Research Advisory Council
Notice Nov 08, 2007

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