October 8, 2008 (Volume 73)

Federal Register October 8, 2008

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

118 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 8, 2008

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 08, 2008
We are giving notice that the Secretary of Agriculture intends to renew the General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan (Committee) for a 2-year period. The Secretary of Agriculture has determined that the Committee is neces...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 amended the Lacey Act to provide, among other things, that importers submit a declaration at the time of importation for certain plants and plant products. The declaration requirements of the Lacey Act b...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Dakota Prairie Grasslands; North Dakota; Dakota Prairie Grasslands Land:

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that the Forest Service intends to prepare an environmental impact statement for amending the Dakota Prairie Grasslands Land and Resource Management Plan (DPG Plan) pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5) a...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Meetings:

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The National Urban and Community Foresty Advisory Council, (NUCFAC), is charged, by law, to provide recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture on urban forestry related issues and opportunities. Part of the Council's role is to recommend the cri...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Notice is hereby given that Dr. Terrie Williams, Long Marine Lab, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, has applied in due form for a permit to conduct research on captive marine...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, India, China, and Thailand
Notice Oct 08, 2008
We preliminarily determine that certain steel threaded rod ("CSTR") from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value ("LTFV"), as provided in section 733 of the Tariff Act of...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

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NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Atka mackerel in the Central Aleutian District of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) by vessels participating in the BSAI trawl limited access fishery. This action is necessary to preve...
Rule Oct 08, 2008
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for northern rockfish in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2008 total allowable catch (TAC) of northern rockfish in the Western Regulatory A...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Fisheries of the Northeastern United States:

Title Type Published
NMFS suspends the minimum size limit of 4.75 inches (120 mm) for Atlantic surfclams for the 2009 fishing year. This action is taken under the authority of the implementing regulations for this fishery, which allow for the annual suspension of the min...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Foreign- Trade Zone 38 - Spartanburg County, SC:

Title Type Published
Technical Correction to Application for Subzone Status; Cornell Dubilier Marketing, Inc. (Electrolytic Capacitors)
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Proposed Foreign-Trade Zone:

Title Type Published
Lansing, MI; Application and Public Hearing
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to a preliminary injunction issued in the case, The Humane Society of the Unites States, et al. v. Gutierrez, et al., in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Civil Action No. 08- cv-1593 (ESH)), NMFS is reinstating the Dynamic A...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 15...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

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 Oct 08, 2008

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy 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 a proposed and/or continuing information collections, as...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Combined Notice of Filings
Notice Oct 08, 2008
This notice provides the Performance Review Board Standing Register for the Department of Energy. This listing supersedes all previously published lists of PRB members.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
This notice provides the Performance Review Board Chair for the Department of Energy. This listing supersedes all previously published lists of the PRB Chair.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA has granted an experimental use permit (EUP) to the following pesticide applicant. An EUP permits use of a pesticide for experimental or research purposes only in accordance with the limitations in the permit.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
This notice announces final agency action on 30 TMDLs prepared by EPA Region 6 for waters listed in Louisiana's Terrebonne River Basin, under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Documents from the administrative record file for the 30 TMDLs,...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
We are setting emission standards for new nonroad spark- ignition engines that will substantially reduce emissions from these engines. The exhaust emission standards apply starting in 2010 for new marine spark-ignition engines, including first-time E...
Rule Oct 08, 2008
EPA proposes to revise and update the existing data requirements for antimicrobial pesticides. The proposed revisions are needed to reflect current scientific knowledge and current Agency regulatory practices, and to improve protection of the general...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008
On or about October 3, 2008, the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is making available for public review and comment additional sections of a draft document titled, Risk and Exposure Assessment to Support the Review of the N...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of a request by the technical registrant to voluntarily amend their registrations to terminate uses...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
This notice announces EPA's receipt of an application 264-EUP- 140 from Bayer CropScience requesting to amend and extend the existing an experimental use permit (EUP) for the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab protein and the genetic material necessary fo...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
This notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed registration review decisions for the pesticides cases,Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas syringae, and opens a public comment period on the proposed registration review decisions. Registr...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by the registrants to voluntarily cancel and amend their registrations to terminate uses...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
This notice announces the Agency's receipt of several initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to grant conditional approval of Missouri's attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the lead National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) nonattainment area of Herculaneum,...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC) will hold a 1[frac1s2] day meeting, beginning on October 23, 2008, and ending October 24, 2008. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Pesticide Tolerances:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of cymoxanil in or on bulb onion subgroup 3-07A; green onion subgroup 3- 07B; leafy greens subgroup 4A; leaf petioles subgroup 4B; cilantro leaves; and caneberry subgroup 13-07A. The Interregional R...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Government agencies and employees:

Title Type Published
Office of the Director of National Intelligence; designation of officers to act as Director of National Intelligence (Memorandum of September 30, 2008)
Presidential Document Oct 08, 2008

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Fire Prevention Week, 2008
Presidential Document Oct 08, 2008

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements Filed
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Revocations
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Revocations
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to provide opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Heal...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee; Notice of Charter Renewal
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice concerning the final effect of the HHS decision to designate a class of employees at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as an addition to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice concerning the final effect of the HHS decision to designate a class of employees at the Spencer Chemical Company/Jayhawk Works near Pittsburg, Kansas, as an addition to the Special Expos...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Kirk Sperber, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Based on the report of an investigation condu...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Peili Gu, PhD., Baylor College of Medicine: Based on the report of an investigation conducted by...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confirming the effective date of October 15, 2008, for the final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of June 2, 2008 (73 FR 31358). The direct final rule amends the hearing aid labeling to reference th...
Rule Oct 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Intervet Inc. The supplemental NADA provides for use of a fenbendazole free choice, liqui...
Rule Oct 08, 2008
Task Force on Community Preventive Services
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Award of Replacement Grant:

Title Type Published
In Fiscal Year 2005, in an effort to assist local school systems that were being strained by the arrivals of large numbers of refugee children, The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) awarded, through competition, a Refugee School Impact grant to th...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Implantation or Injectable Dosage Form New Animal Drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Pharmacia & Upjohn Co., a Division of Pfizer, Inc. The supplemental NADA provides for vet...
Rule Oct 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Pfizer, Inc. The supplemental NADA provides for veterinarian prescription use of tulathro...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee (NOSAC) will meet, in New Orleans, LA, to discuss various issues relating to offshore safety and security. The meeting will be open to the public.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces the comment period for public review of the draft Recovery Plan for the Prairie Species of Western Oregon and Southwestern Washington. The closing date of the public comment period was erroneously omitted...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the receipt of an application for an Enhancement of Survival Permit that would be issued pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The application was de...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) will begin charging a recreation user fee to take the guided tour of Glen Canyon Dam and Powerplant. Reclamation has determined that the new fee is reasonable and appropriate to specifically offset at least, in...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The MMS published a final rule in the Federal Register on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 (73 FR 15885), announcing amendments to existing regulations for reporting production and royalties on oil, gas, coal and other solid minerals, and geothermal resourc...
Rule Oct 08, 2008
The National Park Service is seeking public comments and suggestions on the planning of the 2008 Lighting of the National Christmas Tree and the subsequent 27 day event.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are announcing the location and time of a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposal to split the current listing under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, of the threatened flatwoods...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008

Intent to Prepare a Resource Management Plan and Associated Environmental Impact Statement:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management--Eastern States (BLM-ES), Jackson Field Office, Jackson, Mississippi, intends to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) with an associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Southeastern United States and, by...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Migratory Bird Permits:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, change the regulations governing falconry in the United States. We have reorganized the regulations and added or changed some provisions in them. In particular, we have eliminated the requirement for a Federal...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Application; Importer of Controlled Substances
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Application; Manufacturer of Controlled Substances
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Consent Decree
Notice Oct 08, 2008

National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
OSHA solicits public comment concerning its proposal to extend OMB approval of the information collection requirements specified by the 1,2-Dibromo-3- Chloropropane (DBCP) Standard (29 CFR 1910.1044).
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Determinations
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Investigations
Notice Oct 08, 2008

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Ti...
Notice Oct 08, 2008
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. This is the required notice.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE)
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Federal Acquisition Regulation:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting as final, without change, the proposed rule published April 7, 2008 to remove the designation of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) from the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Federal Employees Health Benefits Acquisition Regulation:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting as final, without change, the proposed rule published April 7, 2008 to remove the designation of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Acqu...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Joint Industry Plan; Notice of Filing and Order Granting Temporary Effectiveness of Amendment to Plan Establishing Procedures under Rule 605 of Regulation N
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Amendment to Order and Order Extending Emergency Order Pursuant to Section 12(K)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act (of 1934):

Order Extending Emergency Order Pursuant to Section 12(K)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act (of 1934):

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Boston Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
National Futures Association
Notice Oct 08, 2008
National Securities Clearing Corp.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
National Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 08, 2008
New York Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
New York Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
New York Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008
New York Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Small Business Administration's intentions to request approval on a new and/or currently approved information collection.
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This NPRM proposes to amend FHWA regulations, to require State departments of transportation (DOT) and other public authorities to negotiate for and obtain fair market value as part of any concession agreement involving a facility acquired or constru...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008
Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federa...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Boeing Model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. For all airplanes, this proposed AD would require repetitive overhaul of the retract actuator beam of the main la...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008
The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 747 airplanes. The existing AD currently requires repetitive inspections to detect evidence of wear damage in the area at the interface betwee...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747-100B SUD, 747-200B, 747- 200C, 747-200F, 747-300, 747-400, 747SR, and 747SP series airplanes. This proposed AD would require inspecting for skin cr...
Proposed Rule Oct 08, 2008

Amendments of Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action confirms the effective date of the direct final rule that amended Class E airspace at Black River Falls, WI, published in the Federal Register August 6, 2008 (73 FR 45606) Docket No. FAA- 2008-0024.
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is updating a previous notice of intent (issued on Friday, June 3, 2005) to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed highway improvement project along US 113 in south central Sussex Count...
Notice Oct 08, 2008

Establishment of Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action confirms the effective date of the direct final rule that established Class E airspace at Muldrow Army Heliport, Lexington, OK, published in the Federal Register August 6, 2008 (73 FR 45607) Docket No. FAA-2008-0003.
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards:

Title Type Published
Today's final rule amends the definition of the term, "designated seating position," as used in the Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS), to indicate more clearly which areas within the interior of a vehicle meet that definition. Today's fi...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
This document affirms as final, with changes, an interim final rule that amended regulations regarding grants to States for the construction or acquisition of State homes for furnishing domiciliary and nursing home care to veterans, or for the expans...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

Dental Care:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations regarding the authority to provide one-time outpatient dental treatment to eligible veterans following discharge or release from active duty. In section 1709 of Public Law 110-181, t...
Rule Oct 08, 2008

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