September 17, 2013 (Volume 78)

Federal Register September 17, 2013

View all documents issued on September 17, 2013. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

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Agencies Publishing on September 17, 2013

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the regulations governing the United States (U.S.) Standards for Condition of Food Containers. The revisions to existing tables, removal of operating characteristic (OC) curves and updating languag...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

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

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is publishing for public comment a summary of a proposed information collection. This is a revision of a currently approved collection for form FNS-46, Issua...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Increased Assessment Rates:

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This proposed rule would increase the assessment rate established for the Avocado Administrative Committee (Committee) for the 2013-14 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.25 to $0.30 per 55- pound bushel container of Florida avocados handled. The C...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2013
This proposed rule would increase the assessment rate established for the California Walnut Board (Board) for the 2013-14 and subsequent marketing years from $0.0175 to $0.0189 per kernelweight pound of merchantable walnuts. The Board locally adminis...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2013

Meetings:

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The Forest Resource Coordinating Committee Meeting will meet in Rosslyn, Virginia. The Committee is authorized under Section 8005 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the Act) (Pub. L. 110- 246). The purpose of the Committee is to provi...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), NOAA announces the appointment of members who will serve on the NOAA's PRB. The NOAA PRB is responsible for reviewing performance appraisals and ratings of Senior Executive Service (SES) Senior Level, Scientifi...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Notice and Opportunity for Public Comment.
Notice Sep 17, 2013

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

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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 take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, a...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.:

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As a result of the determinations by the Department of Commerce (the Department) that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) orders on certain pasta from Italy and Turkey would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping, that revocation of...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

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NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 95 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (FMP). This proposed action would modify halibut prohibited species catch (PSC) management in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) to establis...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2013
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 C season allowance of the 2013 total allowable catch of pollock for Statistical Area 620 in the GO...
Rule Sep 17, 2013
NMFS is prohibiting retention of sharks in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary because the 2013 total allowable catch (TAC) of sharks in the BSAI has been reached.
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Meetings:

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The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is giving notice of a meeting, the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations (NAC). The Committee will address census policies, research and methodology, tests, operations, communica...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that NMFS has issued a permit to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) for the incidental take of sea turtles associated with the otherwise lawful commercial gillnet fishery in North Carolina inshore state wat...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Notice is hereby given that the University of Florida, Aquatic Animal Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610 (Ruth Francis-Floyd, Responsible Party), has requested an amendment to Permit No. 14514 to receive, import, and expor...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions the...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
DOD, VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing in regulation the readjustment counseling currently provided in VA's Vet Centers to certain veterans of the Armed Forces and members of their families, and implementing provisions of the Caregiv...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Sunshine in the Government Act of 1976 (U.S.C. 552b, as amended) and 41 Code of the Federal Regulations (CFR 102-3. 140 through 160), the Department of the A...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Education Department logo Education Department

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

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a revision of an existing information collection.
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Final Waivers and Extensions of Project Periods:

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The Secretary waives the regulations that generally limit project periods to 60 months and that restrict project period extensions involving the obligation of additional Federal funds. As a result, for the 60-month projects initially funded in fiscal...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Meetings:

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming meeting of the National Board for Education Sciences (NBES). The notice also describes the functions of the Committee. Notice of this meeting is required by Section 10(a) (2) of t...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
This notice sets forth the schedule and agenda of the meeting of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of the meeting is required by section 10(...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Combined Filings
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Combined Filings
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Combined Filings
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Energy Efficiency Program for Industrial Equipment:

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This notice announces an interim determination by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) classifying UL Verification Services (UL) as a nationally recognized certification program under 10 CFR 431.447 and 431.448.
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Initiation of Proceeding and Refund Effective Date:

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Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Waivers:

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of its decision and order (Case No. RF-031) granting Panasonic Appliances Refrigeration Systems Corporation of America (PAPRSA) a waiver from the DOE electric refrigerator and refrigerator-freezer test...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
This notice announces receipt of a petition for waiver from Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (Samsung) regarding specified portions of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) test procedure for determining the energy consumption of electric refrigerator...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this notice announces that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit a request to renew three existing Information Collection Requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

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

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The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), "Information Collection Request Renewal for the NO<INF>X</INF> Budget Trading Program to Reduce the Regional Transport of Ozone" (EPA ICR No. 1857.06,...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

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The EPA is taking final action to approve revisions to Washington's State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Washington State Department of Ecology on February 4, 2005 and August 2, 2006. The submissions contain revisions to the Puget Sound C...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Trading With the Enemy Act; Continuation of Certain Authorities (Presidential Determination)

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No. 201313 of September 12, 2013
Presidential Document Sep 17, 2013

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period under the Premerger Notification Rules
Notice Sep 17, 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 Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an information collection requirement regarding the Modifications (Federal...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), federal agencies are required to...
Notice Sep 17, 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: "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey--Insurance C...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on CMS' intention to collect information from the public. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), federal agencies are required to publ...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

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

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Color Additive Petitions:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that we have filed a petition, submitted by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, proposing that the color additive regulations be amended to expand the use of synthetic iron oxide to include soft and...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the next meeting of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force is an independent, nonfederal, and uncompensated panel. Its members represent a broad range o...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Notice Sep 17, 2013
National Institute on Aging
Notice Sep 17, 2013
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Notice Sep 17, 2013
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Oral Dosage Form New Animal Drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval actions for new animal drug applications (NADAs) and abbreviated new animal drug applications (ANADAs) during August 2013. FDA is also informing the pu...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Scientific Information Requests:

Title Type Published
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking scientific information submissions from the public on medication therapy management Scientific information is being solicited to inform our review of Medication Therapy Management, whic...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Special Local Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a Special Local Regulation on the waters of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida during the Jacksonville Dragon Boat Festival, a series of paddle boat races. The event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Se...
Rule Sep 17, 2013
The Coast Guard is establishing a special local regulation on the waters of Biscayne Bay, east of Bayfront Park, in Miami, Florida, during the Red Bull Flugtag. The Red Bull Flugtag is scheduled to take place on September 21, 2013. The event consists...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Federal Housing Administration Approval of Lending Institutions and Mortgagees:

Title Type Published
This rule streamlines the FHA financial statement reporting requirements for lenders and mortgagees who are supervised by federal banking agencies and whose consolidated assets do not meet the thresholds set by their supervising federal banking agenc...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following application to conduct certain activities with endangered or threatened species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), prohibi...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), determine the Neosho mucket, a freshwater mussel, as endangered, and the rabbitsfoot, a freshwater mussel, as threatened, under the Endangered Species Act. The Neosho mucket occurs in Arkansas, Kansas...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of the record of decision (ROD) for the final environmental impact statement (Final EIS) for experimental removal of barred owls to benefit threatened northern spotted owls. We complet...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Records of Decision:

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Mohave County Wind Farm Project (Project). The Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management approved the ROD on June 26, 2013, which...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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

Title Type Published
Notice of submission of request for approval of a questionnaire to the Office of Management and Budget. This notice is being given pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Notice Sep 17, 2013

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Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Executive Director of the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries gives notice of a closed meeting of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations.
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Consent Decrees under the Clean Air Act
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Proposed Consent Decrees under CERCLA
Notice Sep 17, 2013
Proposed Consent Decrees under the Clean Water Act
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Importers of Controlled Substances; Applications:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This is an announcement of a meeting of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Federal Advisory Committee (GAC) to discuss the Global Initiative, as described at www.it.ojp.gov/ global.
Notice Sep 17, 2013
This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of OJP's Science Advisory Board ("Board"). The Board is chartered to provide OJP, a component of the Department of Justice, with valuable advice in the areas of science and statistics for the purpose of enh...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Sep 17, 2013

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Applied Sciences Advisory Committee. The meeting will be held for the purpose of...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) publishes notice at least once monthly of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules). Once approved by NARA, records schedules provide mandatory instru...
Notice Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 2013

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Facility Operating and Combined Licenses:

Title Type Published
Applications and Amendments Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
BOX Options Exchange, LLC
Notice Sep 17, 2013
C2 Options Exchange, Inc
Notice Sep 17, 2013
NASDAQ OMX PHLX, LLC
Notice Sep 17, 2013
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Sep 17, 2013
NYSE MKT, LLC
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and Par...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and Par...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and Par...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and Par...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and Par...
Notice Sep 17, 2013
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L.101-508) and Part...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Diamond Aircraft Industries Model DA 40 and DA 40 F Airplanes. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of anoth...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2013
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) Model AS350 and AS355 helicopters, to require inspecting for a crack in the control lever attachment yokes, and if needed, replacing the tail rotor gearbox (TGB). T...
Rule Sep 17, 2013
We are superseding airworthiness directive (AD) 2010-20-08, which applied to certain The Boeing Company Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747-100B SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-200F, 747-300, 747-400, 747-400D, 747-400F, and 747SR series airplanes. AD 2010-20-...
Rule Sep 17, 2013
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 767-200, -300, -300F, and -400ER series airplanes. This AD was prompted by reports of cracked and corroded nuts on an outboard flap support rib. This AD requires,...
Rule Sep 17, 2013

Petitions for Decisions of Inconsequential Noncompliance:

Title Type Published
General Motors, LLC (GM) \1\ has determined that certain model year (MY) 2011 through 2013 Buick Regal and MY 2013 Chevrolet Malibu passenger cars may not fully comply with the telltale bulb outage requirement found in paragraph S5.5.6 of Federal Mot...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Waivers of Claims Agreements:

Title Type Published
This notice concerns a petition for waiver submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) to waive in part the requirement that a launch operator enter into a reciprocal waiver of claims with each cus...
Notice Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 2013
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 Sep 17, 2013
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 Sep 17, 2013
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 Sep 17, 2013
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 Sep 17, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to United States Code, Title 31, section 5135(b)(8)(C), the United States Mint announces the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) public meeting scheduled for September 18, 2013. Date: September 18, 2013. Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. L...
Notice Sep 17, 2013

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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