October 21, 2011 (Volume 76)

Federal Register October 21, 2011

View all documents issued on October 21, 2011. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 21, 2011

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

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This notice announces the availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed establishment and production of giant miscanthus (Miscanthus X giganteus) as a dedicated energy crop to be grown in the REPREVE Renewables, LLC (project...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Specialty Crops:

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This proposed rule invites comments on the establishment of a minimum quality regulation for lots of pistachios imported into the United States. The regulation would specify maximum aflatoxin tolerance levels as well as mandatory aflatoxin testing an...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Suspension of Marketing Order Provisions:

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This rule continues in effect the interim rule that suspended the marketing order for Irish potatoes grown in Southeastern states (order), and the rules and regulations implemented thereunder, through March 1, 2014. The order regulates the handling o...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Suspension of Order Regulations Regarding Random Row Diversion:

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This rule changes the grower diversion regulations prescribed under the marketing order for tart cherries (order). The order regulates the handling of tart cherries grown in the States of Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Utah, Washington, an...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 21, 2011
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Notice Oct 21, 2011
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is proposing to add five additional discrete geographical areas to the sanctuary and change the name of the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary (FBNMS or sanctuary) to the American Samoa N...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011
Notice Oct 21, 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 Oct 21, 2011

Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews; Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results:

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review Pursuant to Court Decision; Amended Final Results:

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On September 13, 2010, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT) sustained the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) redetermination pursuant to the CIT's remand in United States Steel Corporation, et al. v. United States et al. and...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Public Workshops:

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NMFS, Alaska Region, will present a workshop on seaLandings, a consolidated electronic means of reporting landings and production of commercial groundfish to multiple management agencies for Federal and State fisheries off Alaska, and 2012 recordkeep...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Reorganizations Under Alternative Site Framework:

Title Type Published
Foreign-Trade Zone 119, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Title Type Published
This action adds services to the Procurement List that will be provided by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The Committee is proposing to delete a product and service previously furnished to the Procurement List by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. Comments Must Be Received On or Before: 11/21/2011.
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement c...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L....
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L....
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The Secretary announces the members of the Performance Review Board (PRB) for the Department of Education for the Senior Executive Service (SES) performance cycle that ended September 30. Under 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(1) through (5), each agency is required...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) invites public comment in Docket No. RD11-10-000 on a proposed collection of information that the Commission is developing for submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pursuant to t...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Energy Conservation Program:

Title Type Published
This document clarifies the compliance date by which manufacturers must begin to use portions of a recently promulgated test procedure (i.e., the April 15, 2011 final rule) when certifying walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers. This document also adop...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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On July 29, 2011, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a separately organized semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), published a notice of availability of the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Extension of Comment Period:

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International Transmission Company, d/b/a ITCTransmission (ITC), filed a request to further extend the comment period on its supplemental filing of operational documents in an ongoing Presidential permit proceeding regarding the ITC application to am...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Filings:

Title Type Published
Crosstex LIG, LLC
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Petitions for Rate Approval:

Title Type Published
Eagle Ford Midstream, LP
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Requests under Blanket Authorization:

Title Type Published
Northwest Pipeline GP
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA co-proposes two options for obtaining basic information from CAFOs to support EPA in meeting its water quality protection responsibilities under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The purpose of this co-proposal is to improve and restore water quality by...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes:

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On January 27, 2011, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, through the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Division of Air Quality (DAQ), submitted a request to redesignate the Kentucky portion of the Cincinnati-Hamilton, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana (hereafte...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Certain High Production Volume Chemicals:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to issue a test rule under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 4(a)(1)(B) to require manufacturers and processors of 23 high production volume (HPV) chemical substances to develop screening-level health, environmental, and fa...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Weekly Receipt
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Fuel and Fuel Additives:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing a rule to allow refiners and laboratories to use an alternative test method for olefin content in gasoline. This final rule will provide flexibility to the regulated community by allowing an add...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Testing of Certain High Production Volume Chemicals:

Title Type Published
EPA is promulgating this final rule under section 4(a)(1)(B) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to require manufacturers, importers, and processors to conduct testing to obtain screening level data for health and environmental effects and che...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission is initiating a review of its policies and procedures that apply to foreign ownership of common carrier, aeronautical en route and aeronautical fixed radio station licensees. The Commission seeks to reduce to the exte...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Proposals to Engage in or to Acquire Companies Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking Activities
Notice Oct 21, 2011

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice provides the schedule and agenda for the first meeting of the Green Building Advisory Committee Meeting (the Committee). The meeting is open to the public and the site is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The President's Management Advisory Board (PMAB), a Federal Advisory Committee established in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., App., and Executive Order 13538, will hold a public meeting on Friday, November 4, 2011...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Record of Decision:

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Pursuant to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321-4347, the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), GSA Order PBS P 1095.1F (Environmental considerations in decision-ma...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Meetings:

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Oct 21, 2011
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Oct 21, 2011
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Prospective Grants of Exclusive Licenses:

Title Type Published
This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR Part 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to practice the inventio...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This document adopts as a final rule, without change, interim amendments to the Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") regulations which were published in the Federal Register on January 6, 2011, as CBP Dec. 11-01 to implement the preferential tariff...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard has changed the drawbridge operation regulations that govern the operation of the Amtrak's Dock Bridge across the Passaic River, mile 5.0, at Harrison, New Jersey. The owner of the bridge has requested relief from crewing the bridge a...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Regulated Navigation Areas:

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The Coast Guard is clarifying that the public comment period on its July 19, 2011, temporary interim rule remains open for the duration of the rule's effective period. The rule established a Regulated Navigation Area (RNA) on the navigable waters of...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on the waters of the Savannah River in Augusta, Georgia during the 2011 Head of the South Regatta, which will consist of a series of rowing races. The 2011 Head of the South Regatta is scheduled...
Rule Oct 21, 2011
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on the waters of Tampa Bay in the vicinity of Spa Beach in St. Petersburg, Florida during The Florida Orchestra Pops in the Park Fireworks Display on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The safety zone...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for use to assist the homeless.
Notice Oct 21, 2011

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

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 21, 2011

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are notifying the public that we (U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. for the National Lan...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
As required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will issue an appealable decision to The Kuskokwim Corporation. The decision approves the surface estate in the lands described below for conveyance purs...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
As required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will issue an appealable decision to Calista Corporation. The decision will approve the conveyance of the surface and subsurface estates in certain lands...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

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

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are notifying the public that we have submitted to OMB an information collection request (ICR) to renew approval of the paperwork requirements in the regulations under Geological and Geophy...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce that our draft comprehensive conservation plan (CCP) and environmental assessment (EA) for the Huron, Madison, and Sand Lake Wetland Management Districts is available. This draft CCP/EA descr...
Notice Oct 21, 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, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), advise the public that we intend to prepare a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the impacts of the proposed demolition of the Ballville Dam, located on the Sandusky River, near th...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
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) has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement (...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, advise the public that we intend to gather information necessary to prepare, in coordination with the Yolo County Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Community...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Filings of Plats of Survey:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of survey of the land described below in the BLM-Eastern States office in Springfield, Virginia, 30 calendar days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
Nominations are being solicited for two positions on the Pinedale Anticline Working Group (PAWG).
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
In this document, the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) proposes to revise its regulations on classification and program review to ensure that classification and program review procedures adequately address inmate needs. This proposed rule also adds a new t...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011
Lodging of Modification of Consent Decrees Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) proposes to delete "FBI Automated Payroll Records, Justice/FBI-007," published at 58 FR 51874 (Oct. 5, 1993), from its existing inventory because this system of records has been made obsolete by virtue of an...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Controlled Substances:

Title Type Published
This notice proposes initial year 2012 aggregate production quotas for controlled substances in Schedules I and II of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Schedules of Controlled Substances:

Title Type Published
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposes placing the substance ezogabine, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible, into Schedule V of the Controlled...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011
The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is issuing this final order to temporarily schedule three synthetic cathinones under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) pursuant to the temporary scheduling provisions of 21 U.S.C. 811(h...
Rule Oct 21, 2011

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces that the meeting of the Audit, Finance and Analysis Committee of the NASA Advisory Council schedu...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces that the meeting of the NASA Advisory Council scheduled to be held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center i...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended), and the President's 2004 U.S. Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Policy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the Nat...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide 1.159, "Assuring the Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors." This guide provides guidance to applicants and licensees of nuclear...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is issuing a revision to regulatory guide (RG) 3.39, "Standard Format and Content of License Applications for Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facilities." This guide endorses the standard format...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Exemption from Certain Security Requirements:

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revised Standard Form (SF) 1152, Unpaid Compensation of Deceased Civilian Employee, to update examples of beneficiary designations. The SF 1152 is used by a civilian employee to designate the benefici...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
This document informs the public that an appeal of the closing of the Agate, Colorado post office has been filed. It identifies preliminary steps and provides a procedural schedule. Publication of this document will allow the Postal Service, petition...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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 21, 2011

Disaster Declarations:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts dated 10/13/2011. Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding. Incident Period: 10/04/2011. Effective Date: 10/13/2011. Physical Loan Application Deadline...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
We are revising the procedures for how claimants who receive fully favorable revised determinations based on prehearing case reviews or fully favorable attorney advisor decisions may seek further review. We are also revising our procedure to provide...
Rule Oct 21, 2011
In accordance with 20 CFR 402.35(b)(1), the Commissioner of Social Security gives notice of the rescission of Social Security Ruling (SSR) 97-2p.
Notice Oct 21, 2011

State Department logo State Department

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") provides for the establishment of a roster of individuals to serve on binational panels convened to review final determinations in antidumping or countervailing duty ("AD/CVD") proceedin...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This notice invites existing and potential multistate organizations, coalitions, or other arrangements or entities engaged in corridor transportation activities and research to apply for participation in the Multistate Corridor Operations and Managem...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The State of New York has petitioned for approval of alternate odometer requirements to certain requirements under Federal odometer law. New York's proposed program would apply to vehicles that have been transferred to New York motor vehicle dealers....
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for SOCATA Model TBM 700 airplanes. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and corr...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GmbH Model Discus 2cT gliders. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another cou...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 2011

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The United States Mint is announcing the re-pricing of the 2011 American Eagle Silver Proof and Uncirculated Coins. The price of the 2011 American Eagle Silver Proof Coins will be lowered from $68.45 to $58.95, and the price of the 2011 American Eagl...
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The United States Mint is announcing the re-pricing of the America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins. The price of the America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins will be lowered from $279.95 to $229.95.
Notice Oct 21, 2011
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is publishing the name of an entity whose property and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, "Blocking Property of the Forme...
Notice Oct 21, 2011

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Genomic Medicine Program Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 21, 2011

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