January 4, 2011 (Volume 76)

Federal Register January 4, 2011

View all documents issued on January 4, 2011. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

115 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 4, 2011

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Agricultural Marketing Service

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Designation Opportunities:

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Designations to Provide Official Class X Weighing Services:

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Designations:

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Lewiston Grain Inspection Service, Inc. (Lewiston) is designated to provide official inspection services through September 30, 2012, under the United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (USGSA). Lewiston informed the Grain Inspection, Packers and...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
This final rule adopts an interim rule, with change, establishing new regulations addressing country of origin labeling for packed honey bearing any official USDA mark or statement. Also, the rule added a new cause for debarment from inspection and c...
Rule Jan 04, 2011
This proposed rule would address recommendations submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) on November 5, 2009, and April 29, 2010. The recommendations addressed in this proposed rule pertain...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Designation Opportunities:

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The designations of the official agencies listed below will end on June 30, 2011. We are asking persons or governmental agencies interested in providing official services in the areas presently served by these agencies to submit an application for de...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Designations to Provide Official Class X Weighing Services:

Title Type Published
GIPSA is announcing the designation of Minot Grain Inspection, Inc. to provide official Class X weighing services under the United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (USGSA).
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Designations:

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GIPSA is announcing the designation of the following organizations to provide official services under the United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (USGSA): Columbus Grain Inspection, Inc. (Columbus); Gulf Country Grain Inspection Service, Inc. (...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposed action to manage forest fuels and forest stand densities, including areas within a designated wildland urban interface, on the Sisters Ranger District, Desch...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Funds Availabilities:

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The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announces the availability of approximately $55 million in grant funds, less USDA administrative costs, for fiscal year (FY) 2011 to solely enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops. SCBGP-FB funds are au...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Meetings:

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This is a notice to inform the public of the first meeting of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health. The meeting is being organized by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Program:

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The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing that a referendum will be conducted among eligible sorghum producers and importers on the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order), as authorized under the Commodity Promotion,...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

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Colorado Advisory Committee and Agenda
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Louisiana Advisory Committee and Agenda
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Maine Advisory Committee and Agenda
Notice Jan 04, 2011
New Mexico Advisory Committee and Agenda
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Vermont Advisory Committee and Agenda
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

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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 04, 2011
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 04, 2011
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 04, 2011

Amended Preliminary Determinations of Sales at Less than Fair Value:

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The Department of Commerce ("Department") has determined that it made certain significant ministerial errors in the preliminary determination of sales at less than fair value in the antidumping duty investigation of aluminum extrusions from the Peopl...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Applications for Permit Amendments:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Tribal Government, Ecosystem Conservation Office, St. Paul Island, AK, has applied for an amendment to Scientific Research Permit No. 14330.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

International Fisheries; Pacific Tuna Fisheries:

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NMFS hereby issues regulations under the Tuna Conventions Act of 1950 (Act), as amended, for the U.S. purse seine fishery operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) to make U.S. regulations more consistent with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Comm...
Rule Jan 04, 2011

Meetings:

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Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 04, 2011

National Marine Sanctuary Regulations:

Title Type Published
On December 8, 2010, NOAA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend the low overflight regulations of the Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, Gulf of the Farallones, and Olympic Coast national marine sanctuaries. Specifically, NOAA propos...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Partial Rescissions of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews:

Title Type Published
In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on ball bearings and parts thereof from France. The period of review is May 1, 2009, through...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities:

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NMFS has received an application from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to a capture- recapture program of polar bears in the U.S. Chukchi Sea...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In a November 16, 2010, Federal Register Notice (75 FR 69983), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Chicago District announced in a notice of intent that it will prepare a feasibility report and an environmental impact statement (EIS) for GLMRIS...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to prepare an SEIS to identify and analyze the potential impacts associated with the proposed Chuitna Coal Project. It is anticipated that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), th...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Meetings:

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On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 (75 FR 81589) the Department of Defense announced meeting date changes to the closed meetings of the Missile Defense Advisory Committee. Due to administrative matters, these meetings have been rescheduled from January 6-...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

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Delaware River Basin Commission

Water Quality Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan to Provide for Regulation of Natural Gas Development Projects:

Title Type Published
The Delaware River Basin Commission ("Commission") proposes to amend its Water Quality Regulations ("WQR"), Water Code and Comprehensive Plan by adding a new Article 7 to the WQR providing for the conservation and development of water resources of th...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Education (the Department), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing collectio...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Department of Education (the Department), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing collectio...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
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Combined Filings
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming, intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing the impacts of a right-of-way (ROW) application for the TransWest Express 600-kilovolt (kV) Direct Curre...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for Blanket Section 204 Authorization:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This action approves a modification to Alaska's approved Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (MSWLF) permit program. The approved modification allows the State to issue Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) permits to owners and operators of MSW...
Rule Jan 04, 2011
EPA Region 10 proposes to approve Alaska's modification of its approved Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (MSWLF) permit program. On March 22, 2004, EPA issued final regulations allowing Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) permits to be issu...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) receives from time to time Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documentation received or issued by EPA or data contained in EPA database systems pertaining to the export and import of Resource Cons...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Meetings:

Title Type Published
An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for one day on January 11, 2011. This notice announces the location and time for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Pesticides; Satisfaction of Data Requirements:

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EPA issued a proposed rule in the Federal Register of November 5, 2010, concerning the revision of its regulations which govern procedures for the satisfaction of data requirements under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Public Water Supply Supervision Programs:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the State of Washington has revised its approved State Public Water Supply Supervision Primacy Program. Washington has adopted a definition for public water system that is analogous to EPA's definition of public water syst...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Revisions to California State Implementation Plan:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic c...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the current informed consent regulations to require that informed consent documents and processes for applicable drug (including biological products) and device clinical trials include a specific sta...
Rule Jan 04, 2011

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Food Labeling Regulations" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Petition to Request an Exemption From 100 Percent Identity Testing of Dietary Ingredients; Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packaging...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Preparing a Claim of Categorical Exclusion or an Environmental Assessment for Submission to the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition" has been app...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Meetings:

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Center for Scientific Review
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Jan 04, 2011
National Center for Research Resources
Notice Jan 04, 2011
National Center for Research Resources
Notice Jan 04, 2011
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Jan 04, 2011
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Notice Jan 04, 2011
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Jan 04, 2011
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Tribal Consultation Advisory Committee
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and modified BFEs are made final for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each community is required either to adopt or to s...
Rule Jan 04, 2011

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
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 04, 2011
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency review and approval, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comment...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Funding Availability for Fiscal Year 2010:

Title Type Published
HUD announces the availability on its Web site of the applicant information, submission deadlines, funding criteria, and other requirements for HUD's FY 2010 Rural Innovation Fund Program NOFA. Specifically, this NOFA announces the availability of ap...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
HUD announces the availability on its Web site of the applicant information, submission deadlines, funding criteria, and other requirements for HUD's FY 2010 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) program. The Notice of Funding Availabil...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
HUD announces the availability on its Web site of the applicant information, submission deadlines, funding criteria, and other requirements for HUD's Fiscal Year 2010 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Technical Assistance and Capacity Buildin...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90-day finding on a petition to list the roselaari subspecies of red knot (Calidris canutus roselaari) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). Based on our...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
BOEMRE (formerly Minerals Management Service) provided notice in the Federal Register on April 2, 2010, (75 FR 16828) of its intent to prepare a Programmatic EIS for the proposed OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 and request for comments....
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Land Acquisitions:

Title Type Published
The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs made a final agency determination to acquire approximately 151.87 acres of land into trust for the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington on December 17, 2010.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
Request has been made for the REMOVAL of the following resources.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Complaints:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled In Re Certain Mobile Telephones and Modems, DN 2777; the Commission is soliciting comments on any public interest issues raised by the complaint.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on December 1, 2010, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Rambus Inc. of Sunnyvale, California. The compla...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Lodging of Consent Decrees:

Title Type Published
United States of America v. Boeing Co. et al.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, 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 agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Evidentiary Hearings:

Title Type Published
ArevaEnrichment Services, LLC (Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility)
Notice Jan 04, 2011

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add Parcel Select Contract 1 to the competitive product list. This notice addresses procedural steps associated with this filing.
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request to add a Global Direct Contracts 1 contract to the competitive product list. This notice addresses procedural steps associated with this filing.
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Commission is establishing a docket to consider a proposed change in certain analytical methods used in periodic reporting. The proposed change has two parts. One part would update the mail processing portion of the Parcel Select/Parcel Return Se...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011
The Commission is establishing a docket to consider a proposed change in certain analytical methods used in periodic reporting. This action responds to a Postal Service rulemaking petition. Establishing this docket will allow the Commission to consid...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Product Changes:

Title Type Published
Postal Service notice of filing of a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List pursuant to 3...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Postal Service notice of filing of a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List pursuant to 3...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Postal Service notice of filing of a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a new product to the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3).
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission is extending the compliance date for Part 2B of Form ADV, the brochure supplement, and for certain rule provisions that relate to the delivery of brochure supplements. The Commission is extending the compliance...
Rule Jan 04, 2011
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of application for an order pursuant to Section 26(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") approving certain substitutions of securities and an order of exemption pursuant to Section 17(b) of the Act from Section 17(a) of the Act.
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Summary of Application: Applicants request an order that permits: (a) Series o SUMMARY: f certain actively managed open-end management investment companies to issue shares ("Shares") redeemable in large aggregations only ("Creation Units"); (b) secon...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), Agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Abandonment Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Under 49 U.S.C. 10502, the Board is granting a petition for exemption from the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10904(f)(4)(A) to permit Eighteen Thirty Group, LLC (Eighteen Thirty) to go forward with its plan to acquire and restore to service an 8.54-mile...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This notice announces actions taken by the FHWA that are final within the meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The action relates to a proposed highway project, the Knik Arm Crossing (KAC) Project, providing a new roadway and bridge connection between the...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
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 04, 2011
FMCSA issues regulatory guidance concerning the use of electronic signatures and documents to comply with FMCSA regulations. This guidance provides the motor carrier industry, Federal, State, and local motor carrier enforcement officials, and other i...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
On October 18, 2010, (75 FR 63774), PHMSA published in the Federal Register an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) titled: "Safety of On-Shore Hazardous Liquid Pipelines" seeking comments on the need for changes to the regulations covering...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Abandonment Exemptions:

No documents available.

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to General Electric Company (GE) CF6-45 and CF6-50 series turbofan engines. The existing AD requires replacing certain forward and aft centerbodies of the long fixed core e...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011
The FAA is correcting an airworthiness directive (AD) that published in the Federal Register. That AD applies to the products listed above. The agency docket No. and the engine type in the subject heading and paragraph (c) in the Summary section and...
Rule Jan 04, 2011
We are rescinding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. The existing AD resulted from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct a...
Rule Jan 04, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
FRA is issuing this notice to advise the public that FRA with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will jointly prepare a Tier-1 environmental impact statement (EIS) and a program environmental impact report (EIR) for rail corridor...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
The FAA has issued a ROD for the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), Capacity Enhancement Program (CEP), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The City of Philadelphia, the airport sponsor, owns and operates PHL and had requested FAA consider w...
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Board
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Special Conditions:

Title Type Published
This action proposes special conditions for the Gulfstream GVI airplane. This airplane will have a novel or unusual design feature(s) associated with single-occupant side-facing seats. The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate...
Proposed Rule Jan 04, 2011

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The United States Mint is announcing the prices of its 2011 numismatic products. Pursuant to the authority that 31 U.S.C. 5111(2)(3) & 5112 grant the Secretary of the Treasury to mint, prepare and distribute numismatic items, and in accordance with 3...
Notice Jan 04, 2011
Effective December 31, 2010, The Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service, is increasing the fees it imposes on and collects from surety companies and reinsuring companies.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

Surety Companies Acceptable on Federal Bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 6 to the Treasury Department Circular 570, 2010 Revision, published July 1, 2010, at 75 FR 38192.
Notice Jan 04, 2011

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