February 8, 2012 (Volume 77)

Federal Register February 8, 2012

View all documents issued on February 8, 2012. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

119 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 8, 2012

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and Farm Service Agency (FSA) are seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on an extension and a revision of a currently approved...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, this notice announces the National Agricultural Library's intent to request an extension of the currentl...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose environmental effects to authorize livestock grazing on all or portions of the Lake Creek, Logan Valley, McCoy Creek and Summit Prairie allotments. These allotme...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Funds Availabilities Inviting Applications:

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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) 2012, to solely enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops. SCBGP-FB funds are a...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announces a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Following on last year's Request for Comments, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is launching a twelve-month pilot program to incentivize the distribution of patented technologies to address humanitarian needs. The pilot program w...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The Department of Commerce publishes this notice to announce the deletion of a Privacy Act System of Records entitled, COMMERCE/ NTIA-1 "Applications Related to Coupons for Digital-to-Analog Converter Boxes." The Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Progr...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
On December 7, 2011, the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register proposing and requesting public input on changes to EDA's operating regulations (76 F...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012

Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

Approvals for Manufacturing Authority:

Circumvention of Antidumping Duty Orders; Preliminary Negative Determinations, Extensions of Time Limits:

Title Type Published
On May 2, 2011, pursuant to an allegation by AMG Vanadium, Inc. (AMG Vanadium), the Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated an anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether imports of vanadium pentoxide from the Russian Federation (Russia)...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

Fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

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NMFS issues regulations that govern fisheries managed under the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program. These revisions are needed to comply with certain changes made to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
DoD is issuing this notification to set forth an up-to-date list of product categories for which the Federal Prison Industries' share of the DoD market is greater than five percent.
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The US Army Research Laboratory's (ARL's), Survivability, Lethality Analysis Directorate (SLAD) is a leader in ballistic survivability, lethality and vulnerability (SLV) analyses. ARL/SLAD conducts SLV analyses, using the MUVES-S2 vulnerability model...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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The Department of the Army advises interested parties of its intent to conduct public scoping under the National Environmental Policy Act to gather information to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will evaluate the environmental im...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting the information collection FERC-725A, Mandatory Reliability Standards for...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Combined Filings
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Staff Attendances
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Interconnection Facilities Studies:

Title Type Published
Sempra Generation applied to the Department of Energy (DOE), on behalf of Energia Sierra Juarez U.S. Transmission, LLC, for a Presidential permit to construct, operate, maintain, and connect an electric transmission line across the U.S. border with M...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Petitions for Declaratory Orders:

Staff Technical Conferences:

Title Type Published
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following one existing, approved, continuing Information Collection Requests (ICR) to the Office of Management and Bud...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites nominations from a diverse range of qualified candidates to be considered for appointment to its Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee (MSTRS). Vacancies are anticipated to be filled by Oc...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
EPA is finalizing an amendment to the significant new use rule (SNUR) under section 5(a)(2) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for the chemical substance identified generically as tris carbamoyl triazine, which was the subject to premanufactu...
Rule Feb 08, 2012
This notice announces Agency approval of an application to register the pesticide product Contram ST-1 containing an active ingredient not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(5) of the Federal Ins...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of request for amendments by registrants to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations. Section...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Approvals and Promulgations of Implementation Plans; Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee:

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action to approve the fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the States of Alabama on July 31, 2009, Georgia on Oc...
Rule Feb 08, 2012
EPA is proposing to approve the fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the States of Alabama on July 31, 2009, Georgia on October 27, 2009, an...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012

Exemptions from Requirements of Tolerances:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry2Ae protein in or on the food and feed commodities of cotton; cotton, undelinted seed; cotton, gin byproducts; cotton, forage; cott...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions:

Title Type Published
This action supplements our proposed amendments to National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions for Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing Tanks; and Steel Pickling-HCl Process Facilities and Hydrochlo...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012

Project Waivers of Buy American Requirement of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:

Title Type Published
The Regional Administrator of EPA Region 6 is hereby granting a project waiver of the Buy American requirements of ARRA Section 1605 under the authority of Section 1605(b)(2) [manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the FY 2011 Service Contract...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Iran; Blocking Property of the Government and Financial Institutions (EO 13599)
Presidential Document Feb 08, 2012

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
Economic Impact Policy
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Leased Commercial Access:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with the Commission's rules contained in the Second Report and Order, FCC 11-11...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Television Broadcasting Services:

Title Type Published
The Commission issues this final rule in response to a petition for rulemaking filed by Lincoln Broadcasting, LLC ("LBL"), licensee of KFXL-TV, channel 51, Lincoln, Nebraska, requesting the substitution of channel 15 for channel 51 at Lincoln. While...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Proposals to Engage in or to Acquire Companies Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking Activities
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Agency) proposes to amend its regulations to add a Roth feature to the Thrift Savings Plan. The Agency also proposes to reorganize regulatory provisions pertaining to uniformed services accounts.
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321-4347, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for the National Institutes of...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

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

Title Type Published
Head Start Classroom-based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social Skill Promotion Project; Impact and Implementation Studies
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a notice that appeared in the Federal Register of December 30, 2011. In the Federal Register of December 30, 2011, FDA published a notice entitled "Agency Information Collection Activities; Propose...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Tribal TANF Data Report, TANF Annual Report, and Reasonable Cause/Corrective Action Documentation Process Final
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Application Requirement Modifications:

Title Type Published
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) has modified the application requirements for awards made to P&As under HAVA, Public Law 107-252. Under the program, formula grants are allotted to...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Meetings:

Petition Evaluations; Special Exposure Cohorts:

Title Type Published
NIOSH gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees from Nuclear Metals, Inc., West Concord, Massachusetts, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Public Workshops:

Title Type Published
Notice of public workshop; request for comments.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Revisions to Labeling Requirements for Blood and Blood Components, Including Source Plasma:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of January 3, 2012. In the Federal Register of January 3, 2012, FDA published a final rule entitled "Revisions to Labeling Requirements for Blood...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the U.S. Coast Guard intends to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), requesting appro...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
This rule proposes to amend the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations to allow for publication of notices of seizure and intent to forfeit on an official Government forfeiture Web site. CBP anticipates that the changes proposed in this...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012

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

Title Type Published
As part of a Federal Government-wide effort to streamline the process to seek feedback from the public on service delivery, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting a Generic Informatio...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, First Coast Guard District, has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the Old Saybrook-Old Lyme RR Bridge, mile 3.4, across the Connecticut River at Old Lyme, Connecticut. The deviation is necessar...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Funding Awards:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department for funding under the Notice of Funding Availability (NOF...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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

Title Type Published
We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection request (IC) described below. This collection consists of 40 forms. The revision includes adding USGS Form 9-4144-S; transferring...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for a Winter Use Plan for Yellowstone National Park, located in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. T...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770, 5 U.S.C. App 1, 10), notice is hereby given of the meetings of the Big Cypress National Preserve ORV Advisory Committee for 2012.
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Pursuant to Public Law 106-148, the NCGMP and NGGDPP Advisory Committee will hold an audio conference call on February 29, 2012, from 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The Committee will hear updates on progress of the NCGMP toward fulfilling the...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Workshops:

Title Type Published
The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the Department of the Interior is hosting a Vendor Outreach Workshop for HUB Zone small businesses that are interested in doing business with the Department. This outreach workshop will re...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the Department of the Interior is hosting a Vendor Outreach Workshop for small IT businesses in the National Capitol region of the United States that are interested in doing business with...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ") initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 11) granting a motion by complainants Industrial Technology Research...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of a full review pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(5)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on ferrovanadium and nitrided...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

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 2011 Service Contract inventory. Thi...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (DOL or Department), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and other Federal agencies with an opportunity to comm...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Amended Certifications Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance:

Title Type Published
GE Oil and Gas Operations, LLC et al., Oshkosh, WI
Notice Feb 08, 2012
General Motors Vehicle Manufacturing et al., Shreveport, LA
Notice Feb 08, 2012
PHB Die Casting et al., Fairview, PA
Notice Feb 08, 2012
StarTek USA, Inc., Alexandria, LA, and Collinsville, VA
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 08, 2012

M
Management and Budget Office

Title Type Published
This report is being published as required by the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, 2 U.S.C. 931 et seq. The Act requires that OMB issue (1) an annual report as specified in 2 U.S.C. 934(a) and (2) a sequestration order, if necessary.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

N
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Facility Operating Licenses:

Title Type Published
License amendment; request for comment and hearing; and order.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Act") for an exemption from rule 12d1-2(a) under the Act
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
BATS Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
Notice Feb 08, 2012
NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc.
Notice Feb 08, 2012
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Feb 08, 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission published a document in the Federal Register on January 31, 2012 concerning a Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change Amending NYSE Amex Options Rule 902NY To Create a Reserve Floor...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
On February 18, 2011, SBA published a notice introducing the Community Advantage Pilot Program. In that notice, SBA provided an overview of the Community Advantage Pilot Program requirements, including the application process to participate, and SBA...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Disaster Declarations:

Title Type Published
This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Texas dated 01/30/2012. Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding. Incident Period: 01/09/2012.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a renewal of an existing computer matching program that we are currently conducting with the States.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

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 Feb 08, 2012

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Board is instituting a proceeding to determine the railroad industry's cost of capital for 2011. The decision solicits comments on the following narrow issues: (1) The railroads' 2011 current cost of debt capital; (2) the railroads' 2011 current...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
DOT, STB
Release of Waybill Data
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This document responds to two petitions for reconsideration of FRA's final rule, published on November 9, 2011, which prescribed regulations for certification of conductors as required by the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008. In response to the pe...
Rule Feb 08, 2012
This notice announces final environmental actions taken by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for projects in the following locations: Los Angeles, CA; Grand Rapids, Wyoming, and Kentwood, Kent County, MI; New York, NY; Milwaukee, WI; and Anahe...
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 08, 2012
Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Notice Feb 08, 2012
This notice announces action taken by the FHWA that is final within the meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The action relates to the proposed Whittier Bridge (Interstate 95 over the Merrimack River) replacement/1-95 Improvement project in Newburyport, A...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all BAE SYSTEMS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED Model BAe 146 and Avro 146-RJ airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of baggage bay fire bottles that can be misassembled such that two squib...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 777-200, -200LR, -300, -300ER, and 777F series airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by a report indicating that a fire originated near the first officer's...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 777 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of fractured and missing latch pin retention bolts that secure the latch pins on the forward cargo doo...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012
We are revising an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier, Inc. Model BD-100-1A10 (Challenger 300) airplanes. That NPRM proposed an inspection to determine if a certain oxygen cylinder and regulator assembly (CRA) is ins...
Proposed Rule Feb 08, 2012

Amendment of Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action corrects a final rule published in the Federal Register of January 3, 2012 that amends Class E airspace at Kwigillingok Airport, Kwigillingok, AK. In that rule, errors were made in the geographic coordinates and legal description for Kwig...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Cote d'Ivoire, Darfur, and Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is amending the C[ocirc]te d'Ivoire Sanctions Regulations, the Darfur Sanctions Regulations, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Regulations to add a definition...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through its National Center for Ethics in Health Care (NCEHC) invites interested parties to comment on a guidance document entitled "Meeting the Challenge of Pandemic Influenza: Ethical Guidance for Leaders and...
Notice Feb 08, 2012

Schedules for Rating Disabilities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its Schedule for Rating Disabilities by updating the schedule of ratings for the hemic and lymphatic systems to include AL amyloidosis. This regulatory action is necessary to add AL amyloidosis as o...
Rule Feb 08, 2012

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