January 8, 2008 (Volume 73)

Federal Register January 8, 2008

View all documents issued on January 8, 2008. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

107 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 8, 2008

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking comments from interested individuals and organizations on an extension of a currently approved information collection associated with transferring of far...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this notice to publish the final 2006-crop cane state allotments and company allocations to sugarcane and sugar beet processors for the period from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007 (fiscal y...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Environmental Statements; Notice of Intent:

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The USDA, Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement to authorize livestock grazing within the Westside Rangeland Analysis Area on the Wallowa Valley Ranger District of the Wallowa- Whitman National Forest.
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Foreign-Trade Zone 202Los Angeles, California, Area Application for Reorganization/Expansion
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Foreign-Trade Zone 38Spartanburg County, South Carolina Application for Expansion
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China:

Title Type Published
On July 2, 2007, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published a notice of initiation of a sunset review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine:

Title Type Published
On September 4, 2007, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod ("wire rod") from Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago,...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil:

Title Type Published
On September 4, 2007, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of the five-year sunset review of the countervailing duty order on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod ("wire rod") fro...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Commission of Fine Arts logo Commission of Fine Arts

Title Type Published
2008 National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Meetings
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation"), 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 ag...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary of Education (Secretary) announces the establishment of two negotiated rulemaking committees to develop proposed regulations related to the Federal student aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amen...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2008
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Arrowhead Louisiana Gathering LLC; Notice of Filing
Notice Jan 08, 2008
California Independent System Operator Corp.; Notice of Extension of Time
Notice Jan 08, 2008
California Independent System Operator Corp.; Notice of Extension of Time
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Cargill Power Markets, LLC, Notice of Complaint
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline, L.P; Notice of Application
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Chestnut Ridge Storage LLC; Notice of Applications
Notice Jan 08, 2008
City of Ottumwa, Iowa; Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment
Notice Jan 08, 2008
East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Enbridge Pipelines (Patoka), LLC; Notice of Filing
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Mississippi Power Co.; Notice of Institution of Proceeding and Refund Effective Date
Notice Jan 08, 2008
NRG Cedar Bayou Development Company, LLC, et al.; Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt Wholesale Generator or Foreign Utility Company Status
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Ocean State Power et al.; Notice of Issuance of Order
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Ocean State Power et al.; Notice of Issuance of Order
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.; Notice of Filing
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Saltville Gas Storage Company L.L.C.; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Susquehanna Energy Products LLC; Notice of Issuance of Order
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Upper Peninsula Power Company; Notice of Application and Soliciting Comments, Motions to Intervene, and Protests
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Upper Peninsula Power Company; Notice of Application and Soliciting Comments, Motions to Intervene, and Protests
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Waterbury Generation, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Order
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Waterbury Generation, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Order
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Colorado Interstate Gas Company:

Title Type Published
Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed High Plains Expansion Project
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The EPA is proposing to revise its regulations relating to the Clean Air Act (CAA) requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate State, Tribal or Federal implementation plan for attaining clean air ("general conformity"). EPA has only r...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008

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

Title Type Published
EPA is approving State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by West Virginia. These revisions pertain to: the maintenance plan prepared by West Virginia to maintain the 8-hour national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone in Greenb...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Government agencies and employees:

Title Type Published
Rates of pay; adjustment (EO 13454)
Presidential Document Jan 08, 2008

Trade:

Title Type Published
Rules of origin; adjustment under the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (Proc. 8214)
Presidential Document Jan 08, 2008

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
Notice of a Partially Open Meting of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of the regular meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board).
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
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(s), as required by th...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) extends the date for filing reply comments from December 31, 2007, to January 16, 2008, to provide parties additional time to evaluate the extensive comments received and prepare th...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008
In this document, the Commission declines to adopt rules and regulations implementing minimum customer account record exchange obligations on all local carriers. This action is necessary because the Commission does not believe mandating the exchange...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Mississippi has set November 4, 2008, as the date of the Special General Election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Senator Trent Lott. Under Mississippi law, a majority winner in a nonpartisan special election is declared elected. Should no ca...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
The Board of Governors (Board) is amending appendix A of Regulation CC to delete the reference to the Utica office of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and reassign the Federal Reserve routing symbols currently listed under that office to the head...
Rule Jan 08, 2008
Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Companies
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Companies
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the withdrawal of Compliance Policy Guide Sec. 555.700 Revocation of Tolerances for Cancelled Pesticides (CPG 7120.29) (CPG Sec. 555.700). CPG Sec. 555.700 is no longer necessary because the policy...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of draft, revised Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) Sec. 575.100 Pesticide Chemical Residues in Food--Enforcement Criteria (CPG 7141.01) (the draft CPG). The draft CPG is intended to p...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled "The Review and Inspection of Premarket Approval Application Manufacturing Information and Operations." This guidance document explains for premarket appro...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled "The Review and Inspection of Premarket Approval Applications Under the Bioresearch Monitoring Program." This guidance provides premarket approval applicat...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
This final rule implements the addition of family child care as a Head Start and Early Head Start program option. Family child care is care and education provided to children in a private home or other family-like setting. In keeping with the goal of...
Rule Jan 08, 2008
This notice announces an administrative hearing to be held on February 15, 2008, at the CMS San Francisco Regional Office, 90 7th Street, 5th Floor, Room 5A, San Francisco, California 94103, to reconsider CMS' decision to disapprove California's SPA...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Medicare Program:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would provide for an option for Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) Sponsors to offer a separate prescription drug premium amount for low-income subsidy (LIS) individuals subject to certain conditions. We are proposing to allow P...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008

Meetings:

Title Type Published
NICEATM in collaboration with the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) announces an independent scientific peer review panel meeting to evaluate modifications and new applications for the Murine Local L...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard seeks applications for membership in the Area Maritime Security Committee (AMSC) Detroit. The Committee assists the Captain of the Port, Detroit, in developing, reviewing, and updating the Area Maritime Security Plan for their area of...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
The Coast Guard seeks applications for membership in the Area Maritime Security Committee, Eastern Great Lakes and five regional sub- committees: Northeast Ohio Region, Northwestern Pennsylvania Region, Western New York Region, Lake Ontario Region an...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on January 2, 2008, in the Federal Register, which proposed new information submission requirements for importers and carriers pertaining to cargo before the cargo is broug...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008

Drawbridge Operation Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Chelsea Street Bridge across the Chelsea River at mile 1.2, between Chelsea and East Boston, Massachusetts. Under this temp...
Rule Jan 08, 2008
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulations governing the operation of the Washington Street S136 Bridge, across the Norwalk River, mile 0.0, at Norwalk, Connecticut. This deviation allows the brid...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing two temporary safety zones 500 meters around the primary components, two independent submerged turret loading buoys, of Excelerate Energy's Northeast Gateway Deepwater Port, Atlantic Ocean, and its accompanying systems...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Secuirty Zone;

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is temporarily revising the security zones in the Port of Tampa, East Bay, Rattlesnake, Sunshine Skyway Bridge and Big Bend for the purpose of providing counter-surveillance, intrusion detection and response measures. Entry into these...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Security Zone:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing revisions to certain security zones within the Captain of the Port Sector St. Petersburg Zone (formerly the Captain of the Port Tampa Zone). The purpose of these revisions is to ensure the security of vessels, faciliti...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This final rule explicitly conforms the eligibility requirements for applicants to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Appraiser Roster to longstanding HUD practices, as well as to existing nationwide industry practice. Only appraisers on the ro...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs):

Title Type Published
This rule makes two technical changes to HUD's Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. First, the rule extends the date for calculating the maximum claim amount in the HECM program from the date of the underwriter's receipt of the appraisal r...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend an existing approval to collect information from applicants who apply to purchase mineral ma...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90-day finding on a petition To list the pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). We find that the petit...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008

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) Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council (RAC) Subco...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
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), the Western Montana Resource Advisory Council will meet...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico logo International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) has prepared a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for f...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Antidumping Duty Investigations and Scheduling of Preliminary Phase Investigations:

Title Type Published
The Commission hereby gives notice of the institution of investigations and commencement of preliminary phase antidumping duty investigation Nos. 731-TA-1138 and 1139 (Preliminary) under section 733(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673b(a)) (...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
OSHA is reopening the comment period for its review of the Methylene Chloride Standard under Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act and Section 5 of Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review.
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Dairyland Power Cooperative, La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor; Exemption
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-503), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines on the Conduct of Matching Programs, 54 FR 25818 (J...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-Regulatory Organizations:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change to Retire the EEM Options Pilot Program
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.Incorporated; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change Regarding Trade Processing Fees
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change
Notice Jan 08, 2008
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change
Notice Jan 08, 2008
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Nasdaq's Rule 7033
Notice Jan 08, 2008
NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change Amending Certain Transaction Fees and Credits
Notice Jan 08, 2008
New York Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change to Reduce the Trading Floor Regulatory Fee
Notice Jan 08, 2008

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice Jan 08, 2008

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Release of Waybill Data
Notice Jan 08, 2008

S
Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Title Type Published
This document contains amendments to project review regulations. These amendments include language clarifying the definition of "agricultural water use," and providing a qualified exception to the consumptive use approval requirements for agricultura...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Valley Metro Rail, Inc. (METRO) intend to prepare an Alternatives Analysis (AA) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on proposed high capacity transit improvements, including potential bus rapid transi...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
PHMSA proposes to revise the Federal pipeline safety regulations to allow certain thermoplastic pipelines made from new Polyamide-11 (PA-11) pipe to be designed using a higher design factor and to raise the design pressure limit for the same pipeline...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2008
FMCSA announces its decision to exempt 28 individuals from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The exemptions will enable these individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerc...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

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) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe cond...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Establishment of Class E Airspace

Title Type Published
This action will establish Class E airspace at Wheatland, WY. Additional Class E airspace is necessary to accommodate aircraft using a new Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) at Phifer...
Rule Jan 08, 2008

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice...
Notice Jan 08, 2008
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-21), this notice announces that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Department of Veterans Affairs, will submit the collection of information abstracted below to the O...
Notice Jan 08, 2008

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