March 8, 2012 (Volume 77)

Federal Register March 8, 2012

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

102 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 8, 2012

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This proposed rule would add reporting for pork (fresh, chilled, and frozen box/primal cuts) and distillers dried grain (DDG) to the Export Sales Reporting Requirements. Under this proposed rule, all exporters of U.S. pork and DDG would be required t...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the availability of policy guidance for federally inspected establishments in the selection of commercial and private microbiological testing laboratories. FSIS has posted this policy guidan...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Common Crop Insurance Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) finalizes the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Onion Crop Insurance Provisions. The intended effect of this action is to provide policy changes and clarify existing policy provisions to better meet the...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients:

Title Type Published
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is publishing the proposed guidance on the Title VI prohibition against national origin discrimination as it affects limited English proficient persons. Consistent with Title VI of the Civil Rights A...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Applications for Reorganization under Alternative Site Framework:

Title Type Published
Foreign-Trade Zone 189, Kent, Ottawa and Muskegon Counties, MI
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Applications for Temporary/Interim Manufacturing Authority:

Continuation of Suspended Antidumping Duty Investigations:

Title Type Published
As a result of the determination by the Department of Commerce ("the Department") that termination of the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Uranium from the Russian Federation ("Suspension Agreement") would likely lead to continua...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

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

Final Results of the Expedited Second Five-Year Reviews of Antidumping Duty Orders:

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On November 1, 2011, the Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings (butt-weld pipe fittings) from Italy, Malaysia, and the Philippines pursuant to sectio...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Meetings:

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The New England Fishery Management Council's (Council) VMS/ Enforcement Committee and Advisory Panel will meet to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Defense Logistics Agency announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether...
Notice Mar 08, 2012
The Department of the Navy (DoN) is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (DAJAG) (Admiralty and...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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In the January 20, 2012, issue of the Federal Register (77 FR No. 13), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published its Notice of Availability for the ASAP DEIS for public comment. In that notice, the Corps stated that written comments must be...
Notice Mar 08, 2012
On February 6, 2012, the United States Air Force signed the ROD for the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MPHI) Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The MHPI ROD documents the Air For...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Meetings:

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Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150, the Department of Defense announces that the following...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board logo Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

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

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and in accordance with Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 102-3.65, and following consultation with the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administr...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Millennium Pipeline Co., LLC; Minisink Compressor Project
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); and the Department of...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Petitions for Enforcement:

Title Type Published
Rainbow Ranch Wind, LLC, Rainbow West Wind, LLC
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The EPA is extending the comment period for the proposed rule titled, "Quality Assurance Requirements for Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems at Stationary Sources" that was published in the Federal Register on February 14, 2012. The proposed rule...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012
The EPA is extending the comment period for the direct final rule titled, "Quality Assurance Requirements for Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems at Stationary Sources," that were published in the Federal Register on February 14, 2012. The 30-day c...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Approvals and Promulgations of Implementation Plans:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a proposed revision to the New York State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone concerning the control of volatile organic compounds. The proposed SIP revision consists of amendments to Title 6 of...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule Step 3:

Title Type Published
This proposal concerns the third step (Step 3) in the EPA's Tailoring Rule. We are proposing to maintain the applicability thresholds for greenhouse gas (GHG)-emitting sources at the current levels. We are also proposing two streamlining approaches,...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Request for Nominations:

Title Type Published
On February 24, 2012 EPA announced a two week period for the public to nominate qualified experts to be considered for the external review panel of an anticipated EPA draft report describing impacts associated with potential large-scale mining develo...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
National Consumer Protection Week (Proc. 8782)
Presidential Document Mar 08, 2012

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission's Wireless Telecommunications and Wireline Competition Bureaus describe the process and requirements for applicants seeking Eligible Telecommunications Carrier (ETC) Designation from the Commission for participation i...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Corporation) has been appointed the sole receiver for the following financial institutions effective as of the Date Closed as indicated in the listing. This list (as updated from...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council logo Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 08, 2012

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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

Title Type Published
This document contains a correction to the information collection notice that was published in the Federal Register at 77 FR 9658 on February 17, 2012.
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 08, 2012
This final rule announces updated requirements that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH or Agency), located within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS o...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

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

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Head Start Grants Administration
Notice Mar 08, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA).
Notice Mar 08, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled "Substantiation for Dietary Supplement Claims Made Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Guidance for Industry on Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls Information; Availability:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry <greek-i>216 entitled "Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) Information-- Fermentation-Derived Intermediates, Drug Substances, and Related Drug P...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Guidance for Industry; Availability:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is announcing the availability of a guidance entitled "Guidance for Industry: Testing for Salmonella Species in Human Foods and Direct- Human-Contact Animal Foods." The document provides guidance t...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health Human Development
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health Human Development
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Mar 08, 2012
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Cancer Institute
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute on Aging
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Mar 08, 2012
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Notice Mar 08, 2012
World Trade Center Health Program Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Regulated Navigation Areas:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a regulated navigation area (RNA) on the navigable waters of the Saugus River under and surrounding the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Saugus River Railroad Drawbridge which crosses the Saugus River...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) provides the opportunity to test the conversion of public housing and other HUD- assisted properties to long-term, project-based Section 8 rental assistance to achieve certain goals, including the preservatio...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits activities with listed species...
Notice Mar 08, 2012
The State of New Mexico (State) is requesting that the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) renew current delegations of audit and investigation authority. This notice gives members of the public an opportunity to review and comment on the Stat...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora:

Title Type Published
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS or Service), propose to revise the regulations that implement the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES or Treaty or Convention) by incorporating certain provisio...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Draft Maps; Availability:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of two John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) draft revised maps for public review and comment. The first map, dated January 10, 2012, is for two CBRS units l...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposes to revise the designated critical habitat for the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). Consistent with the best scientific...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of a draft environmental impact statement for experimental removal of barred owls to benefit threatened northern spotted owls. The barred owl, a species recently established in western...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Major Portion Prices and Due Date for Additional Royalty Payments:

Title Type Published
Final regulations for valuing gas produced from Indian leases, published August 10, 1999, require the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) to determine major portion prices and notify industry by publishing the prices in the Federal Register. T...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Meetings:

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The Department of the Interior (Department) announces four public listening sessions to receive comments regarding a multi- stakeholder group to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
Notice Mar 08, 2012
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, the Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet as indicated...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Permit Applications::

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act (Act) prohibits activities with endangered and...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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

Reviews:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review in part the final initial determination ("ID") issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") on December 20, 2011.
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Terminations of Investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined on review to modify the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ") initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 5) granting a joint motion by Complainants Rovi Corporatio...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $75 million in grant funds authorized by the YouthBuild provisions of the Workforce Investment Act [29 U.S.C. 2918a]. YouthBuild g...
Notice Mar 08, 2012
OSHA is confirming the effective date of its direct final rule that revises the Acetylene Standard for general industry by updating the reference to a standard published by a standards-developing organization, the Compressed Gas Association. In the D...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Revising Standards Referenced in Acetylene Standard:

Title Type Published
With this document, OSHA is withdrawing the proposed rule that accompanied its direct-final rule revising the Acetylene Standard for general industry.
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

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

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National Labor Relations Board

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

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting a notice appearing in the Federal Register on February 15, 2012 (77 FR 8751), that re-opened the public comment period for Draft Regulatory Guide (DG)-4014, "Decommissioning Planning During O...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
We are revising the Notification of implementation of requirement we published on January 31, 2012 (77 FR 4653). We are clarifying the requirement that appointed representatives file certain appeals using our electronic systems in matters for which t...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Continuance in Control Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Gregory B. Cundiff, Connie Cundiff, CGX, Inc. et al., of Santa Teresa Southern Railroad, LLC
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Operation Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Santa Teresa Southern Railroad, LLC; Rail Line of Verde Logistics Railroad, LLC at Santa Teresa, NM
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Trackage Rights Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
BNSF Railway Co.; Union Pacific Railroad Co.
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration is providing public notice regarding its intent to discontinue use of the paper version of FAA Form 8500-8, the application form used to apply for FAA medical certification. Maintaining FAA Form 8500-8 for applican...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for a certain Spectrolab Nightsun XP Searchlight Assembly (searchlight) installed on, but not limited to, Agusta S.p.A. (Agusta) Model AB139 and Model AW139 helicopters, Sikorsky Aircraft Corpora...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Continuance in Control Exemptions:

No documents available.

Grant of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance:

Title Type Published
Graco Children's Products Inc. (Graco), has determined that certain warning labels attached to detachable accessory pillows that it sold with MyRide\TM\ 65 line child restraint systems produced between April, 2009, and October, 2009, failed to meet t...
Notice Mar 08, 2012

Operation Exemptions:

No documents available.

Railroad Workplace Safety:

Title Type Published
This document delays the effective date of the final rule published November 30, 2011, and scheduled to take effect on May 1, 2012. The final rule mandates that roadway workers comply with specified on-track safety procedures that railroads must adop...
Rule Mar 08, 2012

Requests for 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 Mar 08, 2012
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 Mar 08, 2012

Trackage Rights Exemptions:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document corrects a correction to a notice of public hearing on an advance proposed rulemaking (REG-157714-06) that was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, March 1, 2012 (77 FR 12514) relating to the determination of governmental plan...
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012
This document contains corrections to temporary regulations (TD 9572), relating to dividend equivalents from sources within the United States.
Rule Mar 08, 2012
This document corrects a correction to a notice of public hearing on an advance proposed rulemaking (REG-133223-08) that was published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 (77 FR 12226) relating to Indian tribal government plans.
Proposed Rule Mar 08, 2012

Surety Companies Acceptable on Federal Bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 14 to the Treasury Department Circular 570, 2011 Revision, published July 1, 2011, at 76 FR 38892.
Notice Mar 08, 2012

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