May 31, 2013 (Volume 78)

Federal Register May 31, 2013

View all documents issued on May 31, 2013. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

106 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 31, 2013

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

Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards

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The Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards Advisory Committee will hold its seventh meeting. On July 5, 2012, the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) established the advisory committee to make recom...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 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 the continuing information...
Notice May 31, 2013

Applications:

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Notice is hereby given that Caleb Slater, Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA, 01581, has applied in due form for a permit to take shortnose (Acipenser brevirostrum) and Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrin...
Notice May 31, 2013
Notice is hereby given that the National Ocean Service Marine Forensic Lab (NOS Lab) [Responsible Party: M. Katherine Moore], 219 Fort Johnson Road, Charleston, SC 29412 (File No. 17557), and the NOAA Fisheries Northeast Region, Protected Resources D...
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

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The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will hold meetings.
Notice May 31, 2013
The Pacific Council and its advisory entities will hold public meetings.
Notice May 31, 2013
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold its 113th Scientific and Statistical Committee, Executive and Budget Standing Committee, Pelagic and International and Protected Species Standing Committee and the 157th Council Meeti...
Notice May 31, 2013
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's (Council) will convene meetings of its Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands (CNMI) Archipelagic Advisory Panels (APs) and the Hawaii Regional Ecosystem Advisory...
Notice May 31, 2013

Requests for Nominations:

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The Department of Commerce is currently seeking nominations of individuals for consideration for appointment by the Secretary of Commerce to serve as members of one of the 59 District Export Councils (DECs) nationwide. DECs are closely affiliated wit...
Notice May 31, 2013

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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The Committee is proposing to add services to the Procurement List that will be provided by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes products previously furnished by such agencies.
Notice May 31, 2013
This action adds products to the Procurement List that will be furnished by a nonprofit agency employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice May 31, 2013

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is adopting regulations to implement certain statutory provisions enacted by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Specifically, in accordance with section 727 of the Dodd...
Rule May 31, 2013

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Loan Originator Compensation Requirements under the Truth In Lending Act:

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The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) is issuing a final rule delaying the June 1, 2013, effective date of a prohibition on creditors financing credit insurance premiums in connection with certain consumer credit transactions secured b...
Rule May 31, 2013

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice May 31, 2013
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated July 21, 1996.
Notice May 31, 2013
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is proposing to update the NGA Privacy Act Program by adding the (j)(2) and (k)(2) exemptions to accurately describe the basis for exempting the records in the system of records notice NGA-004, NGA Threat...
Rule May 31, 2013
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is establishing a new system of records in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a(r)), as amended.
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

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Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) 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 (DoD) announces that t...
Notice May 31, 2013

Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory Personnel Management Demonstration Project:

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Section 342(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995, as amended by section 1109 of NDAA FY 2000 and section 1114 of NDAA FY 2001, authorizes the Secretary of Defense to conduct personnel demonstration projects at...
Notice May 31, 2013

Education Department logo Education Department

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming teleconference meeting of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (the Council) and is intended to notify the general public of the meeting. This notice also describes t...
Notice May 31, 2013

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Combined Filings
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Paducah. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal...
Notice May 31, 2013

Proposed Arrangements:

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The Department is providing notice of a proposed agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Korea that is being processed as a subsequent arrangement.
Notice May 31, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.
Notice May 31, 2013
This action announces the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of alternative testing methods for use in measuring the levels of contaminants in drinking water and determining compliance with national primary drinking water regulat...
Rule May 31, 2013

Meetings:

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces a public teleconference of the Great Lakes Advisory Board (GLAB). The purpose of the teleconference is to continue discussions that will inform the development of a draft Great Lakes Restoration Ini...
Notice May 31, 2013

Pesticide Tolerances:

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EPA issued a final rule in the Federal Register of April 24, 2013, establishing new and modifying existing tolerances for residues of azoxystrobin. EPA inadvertently omitted the revised tolerance for wheat, forage to the table in the regulatory text....
Rule May 31, 2013

Protection of Stratospheric Ozone:

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EPA is soliciting applications for the critical use exemption from the phaseout of methyl bromide for 2016. Critical use exemptions last only one year. All entities interested in obtaining a critical use exemption for 2016 must provide EPA with techn...
Notice May 31, 2013

Significant New Uses; Modifications:

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Under section 5(a)(2) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA is proposing to amend the significant new use rule (SNUR) for the chemical substance identified as 1-Propene, 2,3,3,3- tetrafluoro-, which was the subject of premanufacture notice...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

State Implementation Plans; Disapprovals:

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EPA is proposing to disapprove a specific portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) certifications submitted by the State of Montana to demonstrate that the SIP meets the infrastructure requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the National Am...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 31, 2013

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants
Notice May 31, 2013
The Federal Maritime Commission proposes to amend its rules governing the licensing, financial responsibility requirements and duties of Ocean Transportation Intermediaries. The proposed rule is intended to adapt to changing industry conditions, impr...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The FTC seeks public comments on its proposal to the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") to extend through June 30, 2016, the current Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA") clearance for the FTC's enforcement of the information collection requirements i...
Notice May 31, 2013

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice May 31, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice May 31, 2013
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: "Evaluation of the Children's Health Insurance...
Notice May 31, 2013
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice May 31, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is seeking input from the public on the following topics related to antibacterial drug development: Potential new study designs, proposed priorities for CDER guid...
Notice May 31, 2013
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USC 552a), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the Department of Health and Human Services is establishing a new system of records, "Online Application Orderin...
Notice May 31, 2013

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

Title Type Published
Job Search Assistance Strategies Evaluation
Notice May 31, 2013
Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Placement and Outcomes Reports; ORR3 and ORR4
Notice May 31, 2013

Charter Renewals; Requests for Nominations:

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This notice announces that the charter of the Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE) has been renewed. It also requests nominations for individuals to serve on the APOE.
Notice May 31, 2013

Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability:

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft document entitled "Guidance for Industry: Changes to an Approved Application: Biological Products: Human Blood and Blood Components Intended for Transfusion or for Furth...
Notice May 31, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Rheumatoid Arthritis: Developing Drug Products for Treatment." This guidance outlines FDA's current thinking on the principles of clinica...
Notice May 31, 2013

Medicare Program:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the closure of two teaching hospitals and the initiation of an application process where hospitals must apply to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for consideration of Infirmary West Hospital's and Montgomery Ho...
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE) (the Panel) in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The Panel advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and th...
Notice May 31, 2013
Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Notice May 31, 2013
Center for Scientific Review
Notice May 31, 2013
National Cancer Institute; Amendment
Notice May 31, 2013
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice May 31, 2013
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Cancellation
Notice May 31, 2013
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Notice May 31, 2013

Tobacco Products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is issuing this proposed rule that would require domestic tobacco product manufacturers and importers to submit information needed to calculate the amount of user fees assessed under the Federal Food, Drug...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This notice lists communities where the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard...
Notice May 31, 2013
This notice lists communities where the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard...
Notice May 31, 2013
Pursuant to the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000, this document is U.S. Customs and Border Protection's notice of intent to distribute assessed antidumping or countervailing duties (known as the continued dumping and subsidy offset) f...
Notice May 31, 2013
Flood hazard determinations, which may include additions or modifications of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or regulatory floodways on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (...
Notice May 31, 2013
Flood hazard determinations, which may include additions or modifications of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or regulatory floodways on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (...
Notice May 31, 2013
Navigation Underway; Tankers; CFR Correction
Rule May 31, 2013
Comments are requested on proposed flood hazard determinations, which may include additions or modifications of any Base Flood Elevation (BFE), base flood depth, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundary or zone designation, or regulatory floodway on...
Notice May 31, 2013

Commercial Gaugers and Laboratories; Accreditations and Approvals:

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Inspectorate America Corporation, has been approved to gauge and accredited to test petroleum and petroleum products, organic chemicals and vegetable oils for customs purposes for the next thr...
Notice May 31, 2013

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on the navigable waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of Ocean City, MD to support the Ocean City Air Show. This action is intended to restrict vessel traffic movement in the restricted...
Rule May 31, 2013
The Coast Guard proposes to establish permanent safety zones for annually recurring marine events in the Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Duluth Captain of the Port (COTP) Zone. The safety zones in this proposed rule are needed to protect both spectato...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for use to assist the homeless.
Notice May 31, 2013
This proposed rule would amend HUD's regulations implementing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). HUD is proposing these amendments to update and streamline HUD's current FOIA regulation. This proposed rule would update HUD's regulations to reflec...
Proposed Rule May 31, 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. HUD is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.
Notice May 31, 2013

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), 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 endange...
Notice May 31, 2013

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we) has prepared a final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the issuance of annual regulations permitting the hunting of migratory birds. We published a draft environmental impact sta...
Notice May 31, 2013

Realty Actions:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Needles Field Office, proposes to sell a parcel of public land totaling approximately 133.19 acres in San Bernardino County, California. The public land would be sold to the California Department of Transportation...
Notice May 31, 2013

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Complaints:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Components Thereof, DN 2958; the Commission is soliciting comments o...
Notice May 31, 2013

Investigations; Terminations, Modifications and Rulings:

Title Type Published
Certain Ammonium Nitrate from Ukraine
Notice May 31, 2013
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the final initial remand determination ("RID") issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") on March 22, 2013. The Commission affirms the ALJ...
Notice May 31, 2013

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and conti...
Notice May 31, 2013

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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 inf...
Notice May 31, 2013

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
The NCUA Board (Board) is making a number of technical amendments to NCUA's regulations based on issues identified by staff and through NCUA's rolling, three-year regulatory review process. In addition, the Board is making a number of nomenclature ch...
Rule May 31, 2013

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the following information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. This is the second notice for public comment; the first...
Notice May 31, 2013

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Effective July 28, 2013, the Postal Service<SUP>TM</SUP> proposes to revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) 503.13, 507.4 and 508.1 to provide new standards for the automatic holding period fo...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 31, 2013
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 31, 2013
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 31, 2013

Trading Suspension Orders:

State Department logo State Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on this collection from all intereste...
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice May 31, 2013
Shipping Coordinating Committee
Notice May 31, 2013

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Temporary Trackage Rights Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
BNSF Railway Co. from Union Pacific Railroad Co.
Notice May 31, 2013

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness Design Standards:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the issuance of the design criteria for Night visual flight rules (VFR) expansion and substantiation for the Aquila GmbH AT01. These additional provisions are expansions of the existing JAR-VLA (Joint Aviation Requirements--Very...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier, Inc. Model CL-600-2C10 (Regional Jet Series 700, 701, & 702) airplanes, Model CL-600-2D15 (Regional Jet Series 705) airplanes, Model CL-600-2D24 (Regional Jet Series 900)...
Proposed Rule May 31, 2013
We are superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Turbomeca S.A. Arrius 2B, 2B1, and 2F turboshaft engines. That AD currently requires replacement of injector manifolds and borescope- inspection of the flame tube and the high-pressure (...
Rule May 31, 2013

Class E Airspace; Establishment:

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This action establishes Class E Airspace at Boothbay, ME, to accommodate a new Area Navigation (RNAV) Global Positioning System (GPS) special Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) serving St. Andrews Hospital Heliport. This action enhances th...
Rule May 31, 2013

Hours of Service of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces its decision to grant the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) an exemption from the minimum 30-minute rest break provision of the Agency's hours-of-service (HOS) regulations for commercial motor vehicle drivers. The exemption would enable...
Notice May 31, 2013
FMCSA announces its decision to grant Adirondack Trailways, Pine Hill Trailways, New York Trailways ("Trailways") and all other regular-route passenger carriers and their drivers an exemption from the hours-of-service (HOS) record of duty status (ROD...
Notice May 31, 2013

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

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FMCSA announces receipt of applications from 24 individuals for exemption from the prohibition against persons with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus (ITDM) operating commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce. If granted, the exemptions...
Notice May 31, 2013
FMCSA announces its decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 13 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions gra...
Notice May 31, 2013
FMCSA announces its decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 15 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions gra...
Notice May 31, 2013

Requests to Release Airport Properties:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invite public comment on the release of land at the Fort Worth Spinks Airport under the provisions of Section 125 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR 21).
Notice May 31, 2013

Temporary Trackage Rights Exemptions:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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

Title Type Published
Bureau of Fiscal Service, 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. By this notice, th...
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the Department of the Treasury's Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance will convene a meeting on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in the Cash Room, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 20220, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Eastern...
Notice May 31, 2013

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides notice that it intends to conduct a recurring computer-matching program matching Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federal tax information with VA pension and parents' dependency and indemnity compensatio...
Notice May 31, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation
Notice May 31, 2013

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