February 17, 2011 (Volume 76)

Federal Register February 17, 2011

View all documents issued on February 17, 2011. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

110 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 17, 2011

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request a reinstatement of an information collection to support the National Animal Health Monitoring Feedlot...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Applications for Manufacturing Authority:

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife:

Title Type Published
We (NMFS) announce a 90-day finding on a petition to list Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae) as threatened or endangered and designate critical habitat under the ESA. We find that the petition does not present substantial scientific or commercial informat...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The purpose of the Gulf Spill Restoration Planning PEIS is to identify restoration types and establish a programmatic framework and procedures that will enable the Trustees to expedite the selection and implementation of restoration projects to compe...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Strategy for American Innovation:

Title Type Published
On February 4, 2011, the Department of Commerce published a Request for Information (FRI) seeking input on a range of policy matters that can affect our innovativeness and competitiveness but particularly the Administration's Innovation Strategy (see...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities:

Title Type Published
NMFS, upon application from the U.S. Navy (Navy), is issuing regulations to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to activities conducted by the Navy's Atlantic Fleet within the Gulf of Mexico (GOMEX) Range Complex for the peri...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Commission of Fine Arts logo Commission of Fine Arts

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Commission of Fine Arts
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Title Type Published
The Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC" or "we"), in accordance with section 743(c) of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117, 123 Stat. 3034, 3216), is announcing the availability of its service contract inve...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense understands that some of its mandates, reporting requirements, and other acquisition practices encourage industry to adopt processes and make investments that increase costs, especially overhead costs, but do not contribute...
Notice Feb 17, 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 Feb 17, 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 Feb 17, 2011
The Secretary is publishing the following list pursuant to section 607(f) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Under section 607(f) of the IDEA, the Secretary is required, on a quarterly basis, to publish in the Federal Register...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 17, 2011
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Designations of Commission Staff:

Filings:

Title Type Published
Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces an open meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee under Section 9008(d) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requ...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
This notice announces a Board meeting of the State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92- 463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Petitions:

Title Type Published
Southern California Edison Co.; Pacific Gas and Electric Co.; San Diego Gas and Electric Co.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Proposed Rate Adjustments:

Title Type Published
Southeastern proposes a new rate schedule JW-1-J to replace Wholesale Power Rate Schedules JW-1-I for a five-year period from September 20, 2011, to September 19, 2016. Rate schedule JW-1-J would be applicable to Southeastern power sold to existing p...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Massachusetts. This SIP submittal contains revisions to the carbon monoxide (CO) maintenance plan for Lowell, Massachusetts. Specifically, Massachusetts...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:

Title Type Published
EPA is adding the gold mine ore processing and production area source category to the list of source categories to be regulated under Section 112(c)(6) of the Clean Air Act due to its mercury emissions. EPA is also promulgating national emission stan...
Rule Feb 17, 2011
EPA is proposing amendments to the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for Primary Lead Smelting to address the results of the residual risk and technology reviews conducted as required under sections 112(d)(6) and (f)(2...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Proposed Administrative Settlements:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement (Region 9 Docket No. 2011-02), pu...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977; Delegation of Reporting Functions (Memorandum of February 14, 2011)
Presidential Document Feb 17, 2011

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio Broadcasting Services:

Title Type Published
This document grants the Application for Review filed by Hall Communications, Inc. of the Report and Order in this proceeding to the extent of rescinding the staff action reallotting FM Channel 231A to Morrisonville, New York, and reinstating the all...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would exempt the system of records (09-15- 0054, the National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners, HHS/HRSA/BHPr) for the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) from cert...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011
Statements of Delegation of Authority
Notice Feb 17, 2011
Statements of Delegation of Authority
Notice Feb 17, 2011

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

Title Type Published
ACF Grantee Survey of Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
Notice Feb 17, 2011
Analysis of Engagement in Additional Work Activities and Expenditures on other Benefits and Services, etc.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP):

Title Type Published
This final rule describes the implementation of funding provisions under Title XXI of the Social Security Act (the Act), for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as amended by the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Medicaid Program:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would implement section 2702 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 which directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue Medicaid regulations effective as of July 1, 2011 prohibiting Federal payments...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Patient Safety Organizations:

Title Type Published
Rocky Mountain Patient Safety Organization: AHRQ has accepted a notification of voluntary relinquishment from Rocky Mountain Patient Safety Organization, a component entity of Colorado Hospital Association, of its status as a Patient Safety Organizat...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
Notice of Delisting.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is providing notice that it has issued an annual summary of all enforcement actions taken by TSA under the authority granted in the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
Notice Feb 17, 2011
The Coast Guard is reopening the comment periods on two proposed rules before issuing final rules regarding Tank Vessel Response Plans for Hazardous Substances (USCG-1998-4354) and Marine Transportation-Related Facility Response Plans for Hazardous S...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

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

Title Type Published
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites public comment on a new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval in compliance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Drawbridge Operation Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is temporarily changing the drawbridge operation regulations of the Pennington Avenue Bridge, across Curtis Creek, mile 0.9, at Baltimore, MD. This temporary change allows the bridge to operate on a restricted schedule to complete str...
Rule Feb 17, 2011
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Lower Hack Bridge across the Hackensack River, mile 3.4, at Jersey City, New Jersey. The deviation is necessary to repair s...
Rule Feb 17, 2011
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Rock Island Railroad and Highway Drawbridge across the Upper Mississippi River, mile 482.9, at Rock Island, Illinois. The...
Rule Feb 17, 2011
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Rock Island Railroad and Highway Drawbridge across the Upper Mississippi River, mile 482.9, at Rock Island, Illinois. The...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish a temporary safety zone in the Atlantic Ocean east of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida for the Fourth Annual Offshore Challenge. The Fourth Annual Offshore Challenge will consist of a series of high-speed boat races. T...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on Lake Havasu, California in support of the Havasu Landing Regatta. This temporary safety zone is necessary to provide for the safety of the participants, crew, spectators, participating vessel...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Special Local Regulations for Marine Events:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish special local regulations during the swim segment of the "TriRock Annapolis" triathlon, a marine event to be held on the waters of Spa Creek and Annapolis Harbor on May 14, 2011. These special local regulations a...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Special Local Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing special local regulations for the Patriot Challenge Kayak Race in Charleston, SC. The race will take place on April 10, 2011 on the Ashley River. These special local regulations are necessary to insure the safety of li...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce a 90-day finding on a petition to list the sand verbena moth, Copablepharon fuscum, as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. Based on our review, we find the pe...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce reopening of the public comment period on the June 22, 2010, proposal to revise designated critical habitat for the Pecos assiminea (Assiminea pecos), and to newly designate critical habitat for the Ro...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the ACWI, to be held March 1, 2011, via teleconference and web-based presentations. This ACWI meeting will serve a dual purpose: (1) During the morning, the Federal water agencies will have an opportunity to bri...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
This notice announces the date for the March 15, 2011, Meeting of the Kalaupapa National Historical Park Advisory Commission.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Proposed Withdrawal Extensions and Opportunities for Public Meetings:

Title Type Published
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, has filed an application with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that proposes to extend the duration of Public Land Order (PLO) No. 6881 for an additional 20-year term. PLO No. 688...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Proposed Withdrawals and Opportunities for Public Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has filed an application with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requesting the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management withdraw 183.47 acres of National Forest System land in the Idaho Pan...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Terminations of Investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review an initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 10) of the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") terminating the above-captioned investigation based on a...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117), the Department of Justice is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the FY 2010 Service Contract inventory. Thi...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

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 conti...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
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 conti...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
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 conti...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
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 conti...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Title Type Published
The Copyright Office is amending its regulations to set the minimum level of activity required to hold a deposit account at 12 transactions per year; require deposit account holders to maintain a minimum balance in that account; require the closure o...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

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

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended), notice is hereby given that the following meetings of Humanities Panels will be held at the Old Post Office, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
Notice of meeting.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Interim Staff Guidance Documents; Availability:

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service notice concerning an amendment to a Priority Mail contract. This document provides public notice of the proposed change and addresses related procedural steps.
Notice Feb 17, 2011
The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service request concerning changes in certain contractual Priority Mail prices. This document provides public notice of the changes and addresses related procedural steps.
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
The Postal Service is revising the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) 608.2.4 to require all mailpieces containing goods that enter the Customs Territory of the United States (CTUS), from outside...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the FY 2010 Service Contract Inventory as required by Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-1...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 17, 2011
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
Notice Feb 17, 2011
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Feb 17, 2011
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Feb 17, 2011
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Feb 17, 2011
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Small Business Jobs Act:

Title Type Published
This interim final rule implements section 1122 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (Jobs Act), which authorizes projects approved for financing under Title V of the Small Business Investment Act to include the refinancing of qualified debt. This...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
The Department of State has publically released its Service Contract Inventory for FY10. Section 743 of Division C of the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Public Law 111-117, requires Department of State, and other civilian agencies, to submi...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Abandonment Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Michigan Air-Line Railway Co., Oakland County, MI
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Abandonment Exemptions:

No documents available.

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day commen...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a new information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Amendments of Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action amends Class E airspace at Muncie, IN, to accommodate new Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) at Ball Memorial Hospital Heliport, Muncie, IN. The FAA is taking this action to enhance the safety and manage...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Establishments of Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action establishes Class E airspace at Martinsville, IN, to accommodate new Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) at Morgan Hospital Heliport, Martinsville, IN. The FAA is taking this action to enhance the safety...
Rule Feb 17, 2011

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Feb 17, 2011
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Park Service (NPS), in accordance with the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, announce the next meeting of the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group (NPOAG) Aviation Rulemaki...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Proposed Amendments of Class D and Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action proposes to amend the Class D and Class E airspace areas at Idaho Falls, ID, by changing the name of the airport to Idaho Falls Regional Airport, and adjusting the geographic coordinates of the airport. This action also would add addition...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Requested Administrative Waivers of Coastwise Trade Laws:

Title Type Published
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Special Conditions:

Title Type Published
This action proposes special conditions for the Gulfstream GVI airplane. This airplane will have novel or unusual design features when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes. The...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Waiver Petitions:

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Feb 17, 2011
In a notice of finding published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, the Secretary of the Treasury, through his delegate, the Director of FinCEN, found that reasonable grounds exist for concluding that the Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL ("LC...
Proposed Rule Feb 17, 2011

Conversion Applications; Approvals:

Title Type Published
Fraternity Federal Savings and Loan Association, Baltimore, MD
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Findings That a Financial Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the authority contained in 31 U.S.C. 5318A, the Secretary of the Treasury, through his delegate, the Director of FinCEN, finds that reasonable grounds exist for concluding that the Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL ("LCB") is a financial institu...
Notice Feb 17, 2011

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
Notice Feb 17, 2011

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