January 3, 2013 (Volume 78)

Federal Register January 3, 2013

View all documents issued on January 3, 2013. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

72 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 3, 2013

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), is revising the voluntary United States Standards for Grades of Eggplant. AMS has reviewed the fresh fruit and vegetable grade standards for usefulness in serving the...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), intends to prepare a supplemental final environmental impact statement (SFEIS) to update information in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) "Final Environme...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is resuming the Population Estimates Challenge Program to provide eligible governmental units the opportunity to file requests for the review of population estimates for 2011 and subsequent years. The Census B...
Rule Jan 03, 2013
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeks to form a partnership with the software community to enhance the quality of software-related patents (Software Partnership). Members of the public are invited to participate. The Software Pa...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

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

Title Type Published
On December 6, 2012, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published its final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey for the period of review (POR) May 1,...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Orders, Findings, or Suspended Investigations:

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species:

Title Type Published
On November 26, 2012, NMFS published a proposed rule for Amendment 5 to the 2006 Consolidated Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) in response to several shark stock assessments that were completed from 2009 to 2012. As descri...
Proposed Rule Jan 03, 2013

Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery:

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes the 2013-2014 harvest specifications and management measures for groundfish taken in the U.S. exclusive economic zone off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California consistent with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conser...
Rule Jan 03, 2013

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is adjusting the 2013 total allowable catch (TAC) amounts for the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock, Atka mackerel, and Pacific cod fisheries. This action is necessary because NMFS has determined these TACs are incorrectly specified...
Rule Jan 03, 2013
NMFS is adjusting the 2013 total allowable catch (TAC) amounts for the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) pollock and Pacific cod fisheries. This action is necessary because NMFS has determined these TACs are incorrectly specified, and will ensure the GOA pollock...
Rule Jan 03, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The 2013 Interim Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) will be held January 27 to 30, 2013. This notice contains information about significant items on the NCWM Committee agendas, but does not include all agenda items. As...
Notice Jan 03, 2013
The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT or Committee), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will meet in open session on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and Thursday, February 7, 20...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2 (2001)), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b), and 41 CFR 102-3.10, DoD hereby announces that the DIA Advisory Board will meet on January 22...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Education Department logo Education Department

Membership:

Title Type Published
National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Combined Filings
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB), as previously announced, holds teleconference meetings the third Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and two face-to-face meetings each calendar...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

NPDES Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines Standards:

Title Type Published
On October 31, 2012 the EPA published a request for comments on a Regulatory Flexibility Act section 610 review titled, Section 610 Review of NPDES Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines Standards for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operat...
Proposed Rule Jan 03, 2013

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Government Agencies and Employees:

Title Type Published
Federal Employee Pay Schedules and Rates (Memorandum of December 21, 2012)
Presidential Document Jan 03, 2013
Rates of Pay; Adjustment (EO 13635)
Presidential Document Jan 03, 2013

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio Broadcasting Services:

Title Type Published
The Audio Division, at the request of Appalachian Broadcasting Company, Inc., allots Channel 265A at Maysville, Georgia, as the community's second local service. A staff engineering analysis confirms that Channel 265A can be allotted to Maysville con...
Rule Jan 03, 2013

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission logo Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Proposed Consent Orders:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the General Services Administration will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a previously approved information collection requirement regardin...
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the General Services Administration 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 requ...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies Federal agencies of the Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities (IITF) currently certified to meet the standards of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testin...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Guidance for Industry on Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of draft guidance for industry entitled "Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format--Certain Human Pharmaceutical Product Applications and Related Submissions Using the...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Medicare Program:

Title Type Published
This document is a request for information from hospitals, electronic health record (EHR) vendors, and other interested parties regarding hospital readiness beginning calendar year 2014 discharges to electronically report certain patient-level data u...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Meetings:

Nicotine Replacement Therapies and Smoking-Cessation Products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending the comment period for the notice of public hearing that appeared in the Federal Register of November 28, 2012 (77 FR 70955). In the public hearing notice, FDA requested comments on FDA consideratio...
Proposed Rule Jan 03, 2013

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
On April 2, 2012, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule to amend its regulations to allow certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizens who are physically present in the United States to request provisional unlawf...
Rule Jan 03, 2013
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Moving Security Zones around Escorted Vessels:

Title Type Published
The Captain of the Port of New Orleans (COTP New Orleans) is establishing a Moving Security Zone on the Mississippi river, mile marker 88.0 through mile marker 106.0, extending 300 yards on all sides of vessels being escorted by one or more Coast Gua...
Rule Jan 03, 2013

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing temporary safety zones around the TEMCO grain facilities on the Columbia River in Kalama, WA and the Willamette River in Portland, OR. These safety zones extend to the waters of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, resp...
Rule Jan 03, 2013

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
In this notice, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing designates the Order of Succession for the Office of Housing. This Order of Succession supersedes all prior Orders of Succession for the Assistant Secretary for Housing, including that publis...
Notice Jan 03, 2013
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), amends section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 and authorizes the establishment of an Office of Housing Counseling in the Department of Housi...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

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 Jan 03, 2013

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), designate revised critical habitat for the southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) (flycatcher) under the Endangered Species Act. In total, approximately 1,975 stream kilometers (1...
Rule Jan 03, 2013
On December 26, 2012, we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, published a proposed rule and petition finding to reclassify the continental United States (U.S.) breeding population of wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Speci...
Proposed Rule Jan 03, 2013

Filings of Plats of Surveys:

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 Jan 03, 2013

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs...
Notice Jan 03, 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Applications:

Title Type Published
Request for license transfer; opportunity to comment; opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Request for license transfer; opportunity to comment; opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Request for license transfer; opportunity to comment; opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
Notice Jan 03, 2013
Request for license transfer; opportunity to comment; opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene.
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Abandonment Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
CSX Transportation, Inc., Ewing Township, Mercer County, NJ
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Acquisitions and Operation Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Buckeye Hammond Railroad, LLC from Buckeye Partners, L.P.
Notice Jan 03, 2013

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Abandonment Exemptions:

No documents available.

Acquisitions and Operation Exemptions:

No documents available.

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for REIMS AVIATION S.A. Model F406 airplanes. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identif...
Proposed Rule Jan 03, 2013

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 Jan 03, 2013

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 Jan 03, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Jan 03, 2013
The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on revisions of an information collection that are proposed for approval by the Office of M...
Notice Jan 03, 2013

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