January 8, 2013 (Volume 78)

Federal Register January 8, 2013

View all documents issued on January 8, 2013. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

129 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 8, 2013

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This rule suspends the minimum grade, size, quality, maturity, and inspection requirements prescribed under the Washington apricot marketing order for the 2012-13 fiscal period. The marketing order regulates the handling of apricots grown in designat...
Rule Jan 08, 2013
The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are sponsoring a public meeting on January 17, 2013. The objective of the publ...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
This rule decreases the assessment rate established for the California Date Administrative Committee (Committee) for the 2012-13 and subsequent crop years from $1.00 to $0.90 per hundredweight of dates handled. The Committee locally administers the m...
Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires that agencies publish semiannual regulatory agendas in the Federal Register describing regulatory actions they are developing that may have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entitie...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
This agenda provides summary descriptions of significant and not significant regulations being developed in agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in conformance with Executive Orders (EO) 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Review," and 13...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

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The Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards Advisory Committee will hold its third meeting. On July 5, 2012, the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) established the advisory committee to make recomme...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
This notice is given pursuant to the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act and Executive Order (E.O.) 12866 ("Regulatory Planning and Review"), which require the publication by the Department of a semiannual agenda of regulations. E.O. 12866...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board submits the following agenda of proposed regulatory activities which may be conducted by the Agency during the next 12 months. This regulatory agenda may be revised by the Agency during t...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Pursuant to section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.221(c)(3), the Department of Commerce is initiating a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades and parts thereof from...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
Notice is hereby given that NMFS has received an application for a permit for scientific purposes and to enhance the propagation and survival of a listed species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), from the California Departme...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
Notice is hereby given that NMFS has received six scientific research permit application requests relating to Pacific salmon. The proposed research is intended to increase knowledge of species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and to help...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
Notice is hereby given that NMFS has issued Permit 14808 to the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), Permit 15573 to the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District (GCID), Permit 16543 to the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR), Permit 13...
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On September 7, 2012, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube (LWR pipe and tube) from Mexico. This review covers two respondent...
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NMFS' Office of Protected Resources has received a request from the NOAA Office of Coast Survey (OCS) for authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to conducting hydrographic surveys, over the course of 5 years from the date of...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

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DOC, DOD
In compliance with Executive Order 12866, entitled "Regulatory Planning and Review," and the Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended, the Department of Commerce (Commerce), in the spring and fall of each year, publishes in the Federal Register an agen...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC" or "Commission") is amending its regulations delegating authority to the Commission's Office of General Counsel, so that all delegations thereto will be to the General Counsel, with authority to sub-de...
Rule Jan 08, 2013

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Regulatory Agenda

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The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) is publishing this agenda as part of the Fall 2013 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The CFPB reasonably anticipates having the regulatory matters identified below under...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
This agenda provides summary descriptions of regulations being developed by the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council in compliance with Executive Order 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Review." This agenda...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. The following patents are available for licensing: Patent application...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to Allied Communications, LLC., a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license to practice in the United States, the Government- owned inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 7,685,...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

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DOD, ED
The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this semiannual agenda of regulatory documents, including those that are procurement- related, for public information and comments under Executive Order 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Review." This agenda...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
This Regulatory Agenda is a semiannual summary of all current and projected rulemakings, existing regulations, and completed actions of the Small Business Administration (SBA). For this fall edition of the SBA's Regulatory Agenda, a Regulatory Plan t...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board logo Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

Title Type Published
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) published a document in the Federal Register on August 15, 2012, (77 FR 48970), as amended, September 7, 2012, (77 FR 55196). The publication concerned notice of a hearing and meeting on October 2,...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Education Department logo Education Department

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In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), the Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice of a new system of records entitled "Evaluation of the Pell Grant Experiments Under the Experimental Sites Initiative...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
ED, DOE
The Secretary of Education publishes a semiannual agenda of Federal regulatory and deregulatory actions. The agenda is issued under the authority of section 4(b) of Executive Order 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Review." The purpose of the agenda is...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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This notice announces a teleconference call 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 Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
DOE, HHS
The Department of Energy (DOE) has prepared and is making available its portion of the semiannual Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Agenda), including its Regulatory Plan (Plan), pursuant to Executive Order 12866, "Regula...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA is taking final action to approve, as a revision of the Nevada state implementation plan, the State's plan for maintaining the 1997 8-hour ozone standard in Clark County for ten years beyond redesignation, and the related motor vehicle emissions...
Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
EPA, GSA
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes the semiannual regulatory agenda online (the e-Agenda) at http:// www.reginfo.gov and at www.regulations.gov to update the public about: Regulations and major policies currently under development; r...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), as a part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to comment on the proposed information collection, as requir...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
This Notice is to inform the public, in accordance with Section 3(c)(10) of the Charter of the Export-Import Bank of the United States ("Ex-Im Bank"), that Ex-Im Bank has received an application for final commitment for a long-term loan or financial...
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Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission proposes to create a new Citizens Broadband Radio Service under part 95 of its rules for shared small cell use in the 3550-3650 MHz band (3.5 GHz Band). The Commission seeks comment on other techniques that could be u...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
In this document, the Commission proposes rules for the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) H Block that would make available ten megahertz of spectrum for flexible use. The proposal would extend the widely-deployed Personal Communications Services (PCS...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
Twice a year, in spring and fall, the Commission publishes in the Federal Register a list in the Unified Agenda of those major items and other significant proceedings under development or review that pertain to the Regulatory Flexibility Act. See 5 U...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") is hereby publishing items for the fall 2012 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The agenda contains information about FDIC's current and projected rulemakings, existing re...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
FRS, NRC
The Board is issuing this agenda under the Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Board's Statement of Policy Regarding Expanded Rulemaking Procedures. The Board anticipates having under consideration regulatory matters as indicated below during the peri...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
This agenda announces the proposed regulatory actions that GSA plans for the next 12 months and those that were completed since the fall 2012 edition. This agenda was developed under the guidelines of Executive Order 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Re...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resource...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
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On its own initiative, based on new information, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to reclassify membrane lung devices for long-term pulmonary support, a preamendments class III device, into class II (special controls) for condition...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to reclassify the external cardiac compressor, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) aids, from class III devices into class II (special controls). FDA is proposing this reclassification on...
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Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
HHS, DHS
The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 and Executive Order 12866 require the Department semiannually to issue an inventory of rulemaking actions under development to provide the public a summary of forthcoming regulatory actions. This information wil...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment upon this proposed revision of a currently approved collection of information. In accordance...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The Coast Guard seeks applications for membership on the Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee (MERPAC). This Committee advises the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on matters related to personnel in the U.S. merchant marine, i...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
This document provides notice that U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") has issued a final determination concerning the country of origin of Ponstel[supreg] (mefenamic acid) capsules. Based upon the facts presented, CBP has concluded in the fin...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
This notice advises the public of the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties. For the calendar quarter beginning January 1, 2013, t...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The Coast Guard is establishing a regulated navigation area (RNA) on the navigable waters of the Housatonic River surrounding the Interstate 95 (I-95) Bridge, between Stratford and Milford, CT. This RNA allows the Coast Guard to enforce speed and wak...
Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
DHS, DOI
This regulatory agenda is a semiannual summary of all current and projected rulemakings, existing regulations, and completed actions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components. This agenda provides the public with information abo...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2010, signed into law in January 2011, authorizes HUD to provide Senior Preservation Rental Assistance Contracts (SPRACs) with 20-year terms to prevent displacement of elderly residents of cer...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are reinitiating scoping with regard to the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Otay River Estuary Restoration Project. As originally proposed, the project involved the restoration o...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
DOI, DOL
This notice provides the semiannual agenda of rules scheduled for review or development between fall 2012 and spring 2013. The Regulatory Flexibility Act and Executive Order 12866 require publication of the agenda.
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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. 18) granting a joint motion to terminate this investigation based on a settlement. The investigation is hereby...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on November 30, 2012, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Ericsson Inc. of Plano, Texas and Telefonaktieb...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
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The U.S. Department of Labor's (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is issuing this notice to announce recruitment standards that construction contractors are required to follow when recruiting United States (U.S.) workers for Gu...
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The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (Department) is issuing this notice to announce the 2013 Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs) for the employment of temporary or seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers (H-2A work...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The Department of Labor (we or the Department) is issuing this notice to announce new prevailing wage and piece rates covering the employment of temporary or seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers (H-2A workers) and corresponding employees to perform...
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Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
DOL, DOT
The Internet has become the means for disseminating the entirety of the Department of Labor's semiannual regulatory agenda. However, the Regulatory Flexibility Act requires publication of a regulatory flexibility agenda in the Federal Register. This...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

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Marine Mammal Commission

Title Type Published
Notice Jan 08, 2013

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a forthcoming meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
NASA's regulatory agenda describes those regulations being considered for development or amendment by NASA, the need and legal basis for the actions being considered, the name and telephone number of the knowledgeable official, whether a regulatory a...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request renewal of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we are providing opportunity for pub...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

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National Transportation Safety Board

Title Type Published
On June 25, 2012, the NTSB published a request for information stating it was undertaking a review of all its regulations. 77 FR 37865. The NTSB indicated this review would occur as a result of Executive Order 13579, "Regulation and Independent Regul...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting a document appearing in the Federal Register on December 7, 2012 entitled, "Low-Level Waste Disposal" that announced the availability of a regulatory basis document and requested comment on p...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is issuing a draft regulatory basis document to support the potential amendment of its regulations concerning nuclear power plant licensees' onsite emergency response capabilities. The NR...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
NRC, SEC
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing its semiannual regulatory agenda in accordance with Public Law 96-354, "The Regulatory Flexibility Act," and Executive Order 12866, "Regulatory Planning and Review." The agenda is a compilati...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-503), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines on the Conduct of Matching Programs (54 FR 25818 pu...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

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Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Postal Service has filed an Annual Compliance Report on the costs, revenues, rates, and quality of service associated with its products in fiscal year 2012. Within 90 days, the Commission must evaluate that information and issue its determination...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add Global Expedited Package Services-- Non-Published Rates 4 (GEPS-NPR 4) to the Competitive Products List.
Notice Jan 08, 2013

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Regulatory Information Service Center

Regulatory Agenda

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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is publishing an agenda of its rulemaking actions pursuant to the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (Pub. L. 96-354, 94 Stat. 1164) (Sept. 19, 1980). Information in the agenda was accurate on November 2, 2012, th...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Regulatory Agenda

No documents available.

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

State Department logo State Department

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
As part of an ongoing country practice review, the GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is considering whether to recommend that duty-free treatment accorded to imports from Bangladesh under the GSP program be withdrawn, suspen...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
We propose to revise an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Cessna Aircraft Company (Cessna) Models 190, 195 (L-126A,B,C), 195A, and 195B airplanes that are equipped with certain inboard aileron hinge brackets. The existing AD c...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013
The FAA is correcting a final rule published on September 7, 2012 (77 FR 55108). In that rule, the FAA amended its regulations to the requirements for siting explosives under a license to operate a launch site. The rule increases flexibility for laun...
Rule Jan 08, 2013
The US. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 appropriations for the Tribal Transit Program. A March 9, 2012 Federal Register Notice (77 FR 14465) anno...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
This rule amends the regulations governing noise certification standards for issuing type and airworthiness certificates for a new civil, hybrid airplane-rotorcraft known as the tiltrotor. This noise standard establishes new noise limits and procedur...
Rule Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

Title Type Published
The Regulatory Agenda is a semiannual summary of all current and projected rulemakings, reviews of existing regulations, and completed actions of the Department. The Agenda provides the public with information about the Department of Transportation's...
Proposed Rule Jan 08, 2013

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The OCC, 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 a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduct...
Notice Jan 08, 2013
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the United States Mint, Treasury, is publishing its inventory of Privacy Act systems of records.
Notice Jan 08, 2013
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is notifying insured Federal depository institutions \1\ that are or may become swap dealers that the OCC is prepared to consider favorably requests for a transition period pursuant to section 716(f...
Notice Jan 08, 2013

Regulatory Agenda

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