February 7, 2013 (Volume 78)

Federal Register February 7, 2013

View all documents issued on February 7, 2013. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

106 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 7, 2013

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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We are amending the regulations concerning the importation of fruits and vegetables to allow the importation of fresh bananas from the Philippines into the continental United States. As a condition of entry, the bananas will have to be produced in ac...
Rule Feb 07, 2013
We are proposing to amend the Hawaii quarantine regulations to allow the interstate movement of untreated Sharwil avocados from Hawaii into the continental United States. As a condition of movement, Sharwil avocados from Hawaii would have to be produ...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013
The Bighorn National Forest is proposing to charge new fees at two recreation rental sites under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, (Title VIII, Pub. L. 108-447). Fees are assessed based on the level of amenities and services provided, cos...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
We are amending the Texas (Splenetic) Fever regulations by updating the scientific names for the ticks that transmit the disease, listing additional names for the disease, and removing all products except coumaphos from the list of dips permitted for...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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This is a corrected notice. This notice updates information about proposed actions in the Clear Creek Integrated Restoration Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The DEIS will include two site- specific, nonsignificant amendments of the Nez P...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Import Authorizations:

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We are advising the public of our decision to authorize the importation into the continental United States of fresh litchi, longan, and rambutan fruit from the Philippines. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, which we made available to the...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Milk in the Northeast and Other Marketing Areas:

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This document is the final decision proposing to permanently adopt changes to the manufacturing cost allowances and the butterfat yield factor used in Class III and Class IV product-price formulas applicable to all Federal milk marketing orders. Thes...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Proposed Action Plans; Availability, etc.:

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We are making a proposed action plan describing a potential new approach to managing swine brucellosis and pseudorabies available for public review and comment. Swine brucellosis and pseudorabies have been eliminated from commercial swine herds withi...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Notice and Opportunity for Public Comment.
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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

Title Type Published
By this Notice, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce, is informing the public that it is conducting the mandatory survey titled BE-11, Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad. This mandatory survey is conducted under the aut...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on continuing and revising this information collection, as required by the Paperw...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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

Title Type Published
Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the People's Republic of China
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Applications for Manufacturing Authority:

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 620 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the A season allowance of the 2013 total allowable catch of pollock for Statistical Area 620 in the GO...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

Sea Turtle Conservation:

Title Type Published
We (NMFS) have determined that a final rule to withdraw the alternative tow time restriction and require all skimmer trawls, pusher-head trawls, and wing nets (butterfly trawls) rigged for fishing to use turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in their nets i...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Sunset Reviews of Antidumping Duty Orders; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

Title Type Published
On October 1, 2012, the Department of Commerce ("Department") initiated the second sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on silicomanganese from India, Kazakhstan, and Venezuela. The Department finds that revocation of these antidumping duty...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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Notice.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
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Notice Feb 07, 2013

Acceptance of Group Applications and Department of Defense Directives:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix, as amended) and the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended) the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the following Federal Advisory Com...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products and Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the period for submitting comments to the notice of proposed determination, published December 31, 2012, about commercial and industrial compressors is reopening to February 28, 2013.
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Energy Conservation Program:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to amend its test procedures for residential clothes dryers established under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The proposed amendments would clarify the installation conditions for console lights, t...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC). 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 Feb 07, 2013

Petitions for Waivers:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of and publishes the BSH Corporation (BSH) petition for waiver (hereafter, "petition") from specified portions of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) test procedure for determining the energy consumption of dishwashers....
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Requests for Information:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a preliminary commercial building energy asset score (hereinafter "score"). The score provides information regarding the efficiency of a building's major energy consuming systems and is intended to en...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) responses to Agency Clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to r...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets:

Title Type Published
In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that the Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEBs) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) in the 2009 Attainment Plan and 2010 Contingency Plan submitted as a State Impleme...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request t...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "Willingness to Pay Survey for Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load: Instrument, Pre-test, and Implementation" (EPA ICR No. 2456.01, OMB Control No. 2010-NE...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Air Quality Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The EPA is proposing to approve several State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Massachusetts. The revisions add new monitoring, inspection, maintenance and testing requirements for certain fossil fuel utilization faciliti...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units:

Title Type Published
This action sets forth the EPA's final decision on the issues for which it granted reconsideration in December 2011, which pertain to certain aspects of the March 21, 2011, final rule titled "Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Em...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

Public Water System Supervision Program Revision Approvals:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the State of Texas is revising its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Texas has adopted three EPA drinking water rules, namely the: (1) Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2), (2) the Stage...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives:

Title Type Published
Under section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required to set the renewable fuel standards each November for the following year. In general the standards are designed to ensure that the applicable volumes of renewa...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) hereby gives notice that it has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for a three-year extension of an e...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Notice is hereby given that the Commission is cancelling the public hearing on the above proposed information collection--extension without change: The Elementary-Secondary Staff Information Report (EEO- 5). (77 FR 65548, October 29, 2012). No reques...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau seeks further comment on specific issues relating to the implementation of the Remote Areas Fund.
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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

Title Type Published
The FDIC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (4 U.S.S. chapter 35), to comment...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council logo Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Investigation Orders and Hearings:

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 07, 2013

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: "Improving Sickle Cell Transitions of Care thr...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 07, 2013
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the availability of the following publication: "NIOSH Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to H...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Dental Devices:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a proposed order to reclassify temporary mandibular condyle prosthesis, a preamendments class III device, into class II (special controls), and rename the device "temporary mandibular condyle reconstr...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Medicare Program:

Title Type Published
This request for information solicits ways in which an eligible professional (EP) might use the clinical quality measures (CQM) data reported to specialty boards, specialty societies, regional health care quality organizations or other non-federal re...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Medicare and Medicaid Programs:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would reform Medicare regulations that CMS has identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on health care providers and suppliers, as well as certain regulations under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendmen...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Feb 07, 2013
National Center for Health Statistics, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards
Notice Feb 07, 2013
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following public meeting: "Stakeholder Meeting on Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers". Stakeholder Meet...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Notice Feb 07, 2013
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Feb 07, 2013
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Office of the Director
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for voting members to serve on the Device Good Manufacturing Practice Advisory Committee, certain device panels of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, the National Mammography Quali...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Sexual Abuse and Assault in Confinement Facilities:

Title Type Published
This action extends the comment period for an NPRM that DHS published on December 19, 2012. In that document, DHS proposed to issue regulations setting standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in DHS confinement facilitie...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has submitted an information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to continue the collection of information that enables the BLM to monitor compliance with timber export restrictions. The...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Osage Negotiated Rulemaking Committee, will meet as indicated in the DATES section of this document.
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013
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 Feb 07, 2013

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are announcing the availability of the following documents for review and comment by the public and Federal, Tribal, State, and local governments: <bullet> Draft Greater Sage-grouse Umbrella Candidate...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Office of the Secretary published a document in the Federal Register of January 28, 2013, announcing that the Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform (the Commission) will hold a public meeting on February 12 and 13, 2013...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces a meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ).
Notice Feb 07, 2013
This is an announcement of a meeting of DOJ's National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) Federal Advisory Committee to discuss various issues relating to the operation and implementation of NMVTIS.
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Standards Related to National Cooperative Research and Production Act:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Cranes and Derricks in Construction:

Title Type Published
OSHA published a direct final rule and a companion notice of proposed rulemaking on November 9, 2012, to broaden the exemption for digger derricks in its construction standard for cranes and derricks. OSHA received a significant adverse comment on th...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the final regulations (NASA-2012-0005), which were published in the Federal Register of Thursday, October 4, 2012 (77 FR 60620). The regulations relate to requests to access individual Privacy Act records.
Rule Feb 07, 2013

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
NARA is giving public notice that the agency proposes to request use of the Identification Card Request, NA Form 6006, which will be used by NARA employees, on-site contractors, volunteers, Foundation members, Interns, and others in order to obtain a...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the FY 2012 Service C...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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National Labor Relations Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at...
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request renewed clearance of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing opportunity for public com...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Business and Operations Advisory Committee
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation published in the Federal Register of January 15, 2013, a final rule amending PBGC's regulation on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans to prescribe interest assumptions under the regulation for...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
EDGA Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
ICE Clear Europe Ltd.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Miami International Securities Exchange LLC
Notice Feb 07, 2013
NASDAQ OMX BX Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Feb 07, 2013
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
National Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Feb 07, 2013
(1) Auto-Ex and (2) Order Delivery.\4\ Every User of the Exchange's trading system, NSX BLADE[supreg] ("Blade"), is eligible to use the Auto-Ex mode, under which Blade matches and executes like- priced orders (including against orders entered via Order Delivery mode) that are resting on the NSX Book \5\ in accordance with the process described in Exchange Rule 11.13(b)(1). Unlike Auto-Ex, a User must meet certain eligibility standards prior to submitting displayed and undisplayed orders using Order Delivery Mode ("Order Delivery Participant").\6\
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Feb 07, 2013

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The information regarding the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation on February 25-26 has changed from that provided in the previous Federal Register Notice at 78 FR 1298, January 8, 2013. The Committee's sessions i...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Abandonment Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Rusk County Rural Rail District in Rusk County, TX
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This final rule makes revisions to the joint Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The revisions are aimed at streamlining the FTA envir...
Rule Feb 07, 2013
Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Notice Feb 07, 2013
Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Abandonment Exemptions:

No documents available.

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to revise an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Dowty Propellers R408/6-123-F/17 model propellers. The existing AD currently requires initial applications of sealant between the bus bar assembly and the backplate ass...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Engine Alliance GP7270 and GP7277 turbofan engines. This proposed AD was prompted by damage to the high-pressure compressor (HPC) stage 7-9 spool caused by failure of the baffle plate...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation 14SF-7, 14SF-15, and 14SF-23 series propellers using certain Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation auxiliary pumps and motors (auxiliary feathering pumps). This prop...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 747-400 series airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of auxiliary power unit (APU) faults due to power feeder cable chafing. This proposed AD wo...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013
We propose to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all Turbomeca S.A. Arrius Models 2B, 2B1, and 2F turboshaft engines. The existing AD currently requires replacement of injector manifolds and borescope-inspection of the...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Applications:

Title Type Published
Approval of Discontinuance or Modification of Railroad Signal System
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Establishments of Class E Airspace:

Title Type Published
This action establishes Class E airspace at Kasigluk, AK, to accommodate aircraft using Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) standard instrument approach procedures at Kasigluk Airport. This action also makes a minor adjustment to t...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

Intents to Rule on Requests to Release Airport Properties:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invite public comment on the request for permanent easement at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport under the provisions of Section 125 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment Reform Act for the 21st Century (AI...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

Special Conditions:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for the Embraer S.A., Model EMB-550 airplane. This airplane will have a novel or unusual design feature(s) associated with hydrophobic coatings. The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate or a...
Rule Feb 07, 2013

VOR Federal Airways; Amendments:

Title Type Published
This SNPRM amends the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on October 22, 2012 which proposed to amend VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) Federal airway V-595 in Oregon. This SNPRM proposes to remove an additional segment of the airway due to...
Proposed Rule Feb 07, 2013

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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

Title Type Published
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice...
Notice Feb 07, 2013

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