January 12, 2009 (Volume 74)

Federal Register January 12, 2009

View all documents issued on January 12, 2009. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

130 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 12, 2009

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committees Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 110-343) the Modoc National Forest's Modoc County Resource Advisory Committee...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
This notice is published in accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Meeting notice is hereby given for the Ouachita-Ozark Resource Advisory Committee pursuant to Section 205 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Se...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, as amended (Pub. L. 110-343), the Boise and Payette National Forests' Southwest Idaho...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Broadcasting Board of Governors logo Broadcasting Board of Governors

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Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board has adopted a final staff proposal to make available an alternative framework (for grantees that choose to participate) for designating and managing general-purpose FTZ sites. An initial proposal was published for...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
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 Jan 12, 2009
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 Jan 12, 2009
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 Jan 12, 2009
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 Jan 12, 2009
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 12, 2009
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 Jan 12, 2009
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Certain Pasta from Italy
Notice Jan 12, 2009
On July 8, 2008, the Department of Commerce ("Department") published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Taiwan. See Certai...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:

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NMFS issues this final rule to implement Amendment 4 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Caribbean FMP) prepared by the Caribbean Fishery Management Council (Caribbean Council) and...
Rule Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a public meeting of the Outreach and Education Advisory Panel (AP).
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The New England Fishery Management Council(s (Council) Groundfish Oversight Committee will meet to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The Joint Canada-U.S. Review Panel for Pacific hake/whiting will hold a work session which is open to the public.
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Taking and Importing Marine Mammals:

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NMFS, upon application from the U.S. Navy (Navy), is issuing regulations to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to training activities conducted within the Hawaii Range Complex (HRC) for the period of January 2009 through Jan...
Rule Jan 12, 2009

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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This Notice is provided pursuant to section 2905(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. It provides a partial list of military installations closing or realigning pursuant to the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignmen...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The Department of Air Force proposes to reinstate a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. After review, it has been determined that the records covered under this previous...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service is proposing to amend a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The Department of Air Force proposes to amend a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

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Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150, the Department of Defense announces that the following...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
This notice announces the forthcoming public meeting of the Code Committee established by Article 146(a), Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 946(a). The agenda for this meeting will include consideration of proposed changes to the Uniform Co...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, 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 Jan 12, 2009
The Department of Education (Department) gives notice that on August 2, 2008, an arbitration panel rendered a decision in the matter of Janet Dickey v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Case no. R-S/07-10). This panel was convened by the...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Inviting Applications for New Awards (FY 2009):

Title Type Published
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Public Hearing:

Title Type Published
The National Assessment Governing Board is announcing a public hearing on February 4, 2009 to obtain comment on policy options for testing and reporting of Students with Disabilities (SD) and English Language Learners (ELL) on the National Assessment...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The National Assessment Governing Board is announcing a public hearing on January 30, 2009 to obtain comment on policy options for testing and reporting of Students with Disabilities (SD) and English Language Learners (ELL) on the National Assessment...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Training and Information for Parents of Children With Disabilities; Applications for New Awards (FY 2009)
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Election Assistance Commission logo Election Assistance Commission

Title Type Published
Notice of public meeting.
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Notice of Filings
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Amended Certificate:

Title Type Published
Gulf Crossing Pipeline Co. LLC; Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Environmental Assessment; Availability:

Title Type Published
Augusta Canal Authority
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of the final White Paper on Integrated Modeling for Integrated Environmental Decision Making (EPA 100/R-08/010, November 2008. In pursuing its mission to protect human heal...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans:

Title Type Published
EPA is determining that the Metropolitan Washington, DC-MD-VA nonattainment area for the 1997 fine particle (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) has attained the 1997 PM<INF>2.5</INF> NAAQS.
Rule Jan 12, 2009

Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans:

Title Type Published
Oregon; Salem Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment Area; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes
Rule Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, EPA gives notice of a meeting of the Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee (FRRCC). The purpose of the FRRCC is to provide advice to the Administrator of EPA on environmental issues...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Marianas Trench Marine National Monument; establishment (Proc. 8335)
Presidential Document Jan 12, 2009
Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument; establishment (Proc. 8336)
Presidential Document Jan 12, 2009
Rose Atoll Marine National Monument; establishment (Proc. 8337)
Presidential Document Jan 12, 2009

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Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the regular meeting of the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation Board (Board). Date and Time: The meeting of the Board will be held at the offices of the Farm Credit Administration in McLean, Virginia, on January 15, 200...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Proposals to Engage in Permissible Nonbanking Activities or to Acquire Companies that are Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking Activities
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules
Notice Jan 12, 2009

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Title Type Published
The General Services Administration published a document in the Federal Register of December 9, 2008, concerning OMB Control No. 3090-0221 requesting comments on whether this collection of information is necessary and whether it will have practical u...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document corrects a technical error that appeared in the notice published in the November 26, 2008 Federal Register entitled "Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the State Child...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Medicare Program:

Title Type Published
This rule contains final regulations governing the Medicare Advantage (MA) program (Part C) and prescription drug benefit program (Part D), and interim final regulations governing certain aspects of the Retiree Drug Subsidy (RDS) Program, and reflect...
Rule Jan 12, 2009
This proposed rule would make regulatory revisions based on a change in our interpretation of section 1860D-22(b) of the Social Security Act. We would interpret this provision as providing us with the authority to "waive or modify" statutory requirem...
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Clinical Center
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health Human Development
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Cancer Institute
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Center for Complementary Alternative Medicine
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Human Genome Research Institute
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice Jan 12, 2009
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Notice of meeting.
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Oral 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 First Priority, Inc. The supplemental application provides for revising the description o...
Rule Jan 12, 2009

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This notice proposes to end the designation of shrimp subject to antidumping or countervailing duty orders as a special category or covered case subject to an enhanced bonding requirement (EBR). A recent World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
This notice advises the public of the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties. For the calendar quarter beginning January 1, 2009, t...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

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 Jan 12, 2009
In this notice, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research designates the Order of Succession for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. This Order of Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2008:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that HUD is initiating negotiated rulemaking for the purpose of developing regulatory changes to the programs authorized under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA). Changes to these...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program:

Title Type Published
The United States Housing Act of 1937 requires that assistance contracts signed by owners participating in the Department's Section 8 housing assistance payments programs provide for annual adjustment in the monthly rentals for units covered by the c...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the Department of the Interior is hosting a Vendor Outreach Workshop for small businesses in the southeast region of the United States that are interested in doing business with the Depart...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Indian Reservation Roads:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking comments on information collected for the Indian Reservation Roads (IRR) Program. When the rule was published three years ago, the information collection was approved for three years. We now must renew th...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) is announcing that the Advisory Board for Exceptional Children will hold its next meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The purpose of the meeting is to meet th...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission
Notice Jan 12, 2009
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announced in the September 19, 2008, Federal Register a meeting of the Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee (Committee) on January 27-29, 2009. The notice indicated that the meeting would begin...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
Pending Nominations and Related Actions
Notice Jan 12, 2009

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
Weekly Listing of Historic Properties
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Consent Decree:

Title Type Published
City of Ironton and the State of Ohio
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Rapanos
Notice Jan 12, 2009

National Cooperative Research and Production Act (1993):

Title Type Published
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) enforces mine operator compliance with mandatory safety and health standards that protect miners and improve safety and health conditions in U.S. Mines. This Federal Register Notice (FR Notice) notifie...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
On occasion, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has available special funding to help meet the emergency needs of programs in disaster areas. This Notice sets forth instructions for current LSC grant recipients who have experienced needs due to a d...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant an exclusive license worldwide to practice the inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,133,036, entitl...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
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 inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent No. 6,89...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council. The agenda for the meeting includes updates from each of the Cou...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

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

Meetings:

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Ac...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Ac...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Alan T. Waterman Award Committee
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (No. 13883)
Notice Jan 12, 2009
Proposal Review Panel for Materials Research
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Availability of Model Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has prepared a model safety evaluation (SE) relating to the modification of technical specification (TS) 3.6.3, Containment Isolation Valves associated with implementati...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is confirming the effective date of January 12, 2009 for the direct final rule that was published in the Federal Register on October 27, 2008 (73 FR 63621). This direct final rule amended the NRC's regulations...
Rule Jan 12, 2009

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add Express Mail Contract 3 to the Competitive Product List. The Postal Service has also filed a related contract. This notice addresses procedural steps associated with these fili...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add International Business Reply Service (IBRS) to the Competitive Product List. The Postal Service has also filed a related contract. The notice invites public comment and address...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
SBA is reopening the comment period for an additional 60 days.
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009

State Department logo State Department

Matter of Review of the Designation of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), and All Designated Aliases:

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Trade and Development Agency

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the appointment of members of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency's Performance Review Board.
Notice Jan 12, 2009

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 Jan 12, 2009
The FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) revision of a current information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following c...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publicati...
Notice Jan 12, 2009
The FAA proposes to amend the regulations for crewmember and dispatcher training programs in domestic, flag, and supplemental operations. The proposed regulations enhance traditional training programs by requiring the use of flight simulation trainin...
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 737-300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. This proposed AD would require modifying the control power wiring of the normal supply fan and the low flow sensor for the equip...
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009
This document revises an earlier supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737-300, -400, - 500, -600, -700, -700C, -800, and -900, and 747-400 series airplanes; and Model 757, 767, and 777 airplanes. The f...
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 747-200C and 747-200F series airplanes. This proposed AD would require installing larger moisture shrouds and additional drain lines in the electrical/electronic equipmen...
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 767-200, -300, and -300F series airplanes. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections for fatigue cracking and corrosion of the upper link fuse pin of the nace...
Proposed Rule Jan 12, 2009
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 Jan 12, 2009

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The NHTSA announces a meeting of NEMSAC to be held in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. This notice announces the date, time and location of the meeting, which will be open to the public. The purpose of NEMSAC is to provide a nationally recognize...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Receipt of Petition for Decision:

Title Type Published
This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer multipurpose passenger vehicles (MPVs) manufactured prior to September 1, 2007 for sale in the...
Notice Jan 12, 2009

Special Conditions:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for Boeing Model 757 series airplanes. These airplanes, as modified by American Airlines, Inc., will have a novel or unusual design feature associated with seats that include non-traditional, large, non-metallic pa...
Rule Jan 12, 2009

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Research Advisory Council
Notice Jan 12, 2009

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