December 5, 2013 (Volume 78)

Federal Register December 5, 2013

View all documents issued on December 5, 2013. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

56 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 5, 2013

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency) is publishing policies and procedures for loan and guarantee financial assistance in support of energy efficiency programs (EE Programs) sponsored and implemented by electric utilities for the benefit of ru...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

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The USDA, Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement to authorize the approval of grazing livestock within the lower Imnaha area, including allotments within the Lightning Creek, Tulley Creek, Cow Creek, and a portion of the Snake...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Marketing Agreements:

Title Type Published
This action terminates a rulemaking proceeding that proposed to establish a marketing agreement (agreement) under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (Act) to regulate the handling of fresh leafy green vegetables in the United States. Th...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board (Board) will meet in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Board is established consistent with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. App. II), the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plannin...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Subsistence Management Program for Public Lands in Alaska:

Title Type Published
This document informs the public that the Western Interior Alaska Federal Subsistence Regional Advisory Council (Council) will hold a public meeting by teleconference on December 11, 2013. The public is invited to participate and to provide oral test...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
On June 14, 2013, NOAA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to revise the regulations for the boundary of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. This document re-opens the public comment period.
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is opening directed fishing for Pacific ocean perch in the Bering Sea subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area. This action is necessary to fully use the 2013 total allowable catch of Pacific ocean perch specified for the B...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
Section 358 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 required the Department of Defense (DoD) to designate a senior official and a lead organization to serve as a clearinghouse for the coordination of DoD review of a...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Education Department logo Education Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
On June 12, 2013, we announced our intention to establish a negotiated rulemaking committee to prepare proposed regulations to establish standards for programs that prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. We also announced...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Dec 05, 2013
In this Final Rule, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending the pro forma Small Generator Interconnection Procedures (SGIP) and pro forma Small Generator Interconnection Agreement (SGIA) to: Incorporate provisions that provi...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Monitoring System Conditions:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 215 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Commission proposes to remand revisions to the Transmission Operations and Interconnection Reliability Operations and Coordination Reliability Standards, developed by the North American Elec...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets:

Title Type Published
In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that the Agency has found that the motor vehicle emissions budget (MVEB) for particulate matter less than ten microns (PM-10) for the year 2012 in the Five Percent Plan for PM-10 for the Maricopa County Non...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Ocean Dumping:

Title Type Published
The EPA today designates four new Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Sites (ODMDS) located offshore of Texas for the disposal of dredged material from the Sabine-Neches Waterway (SNWW) Channel Improvement Project (CIP), which includes an extension of th...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month (Proc. 9065)
Presidential Document Dec 05, 2013

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on potential measures to expedite the environmental and historic preservation review of new wireless facilities and on rules to implement statutory provisions governing State and local review of wireless...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission released a public notice announcing the meeting and agenda of the North American Numbering Council (NANC). The intended effect of this action is to make the public aware of the NANC's next meeting and agenda.
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Radio Broadcasting Services:

Title Type Published
The Commission amends the Table of FM Allotments by removing Channel 221C0 at Port Lions, Alaska; Channel 247C3 at De Beque, Colorado; Channel 237C3 at Benjamin, Texas; Channel 261C3 at Cisco, Texas; Channel 288C2 at Rule, Texas; and Channel 225C2 at...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Dec 05, 2013
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The FTC intends to ask the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") to extend through December 31, 2016, the current Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA") clearance for the FTC's enforcement of the information collection requirements in its Affiliate Market...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Travel Regulation:

Title Type Published
GSA is amending the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) by revising its policy on agency requirements for payment of expenses connected with the death of certain employees and family members. This final rule establishes policy and procedures for relocati...
Rule Dec 05, 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 the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces plans to subm...
Notice Dec 05, 2013
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended, this notice announces the renewal of a CMP that CMS plans to conduct with the Purchased Care at the Health Administration Center (PC@HAC) of the Department of...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

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

Title Type Published
Child and Family Services Plan, Annual Progress and Services Review, etc.
Notice Dec 05, 2013
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 Dec 05, 2013

Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a revised draft guidance for industry entitled "Bioequivalence Recommendations for Paliperidone Palmitate." The guidance provides specific recommendations on the design of bioeq...
Notice Dec 05, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Bioequivalence Studies With Pharmacokinetic Endpoints for Drugs Submitted Under an ANDA." This guidance provides recommendations to appli...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Institute of Mental Health
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
On November 4, 2013, DHS published a notice in the Federal Register, announcing a Secretarial determination under section 212(d)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(3)(B)(i), as amended. DHS inadvertently omitted three w...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Requests for Information:

Title Type Published
This Request for Information (RFI) notice informs the public that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is currently developing a National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research and Dev...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This notice announces the inaugural year of the Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. The competition requires teams of graduate students from multiple disciplines to submit plans in response to a real life afforda...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), notify the public that we are making changes to our proposed rule of August 7, 2012, to reclassify the straight-horned markhor (Capra falconeri jerdoni) from endangered to threatened. We propose to co...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Meetings:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce a public meeting of the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council (Council).
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Special Regulations:

Title Type Published
This rule authorizes bicycle use on new and existing multi-use trails and administrative roads within the New River Gorge National River. The rule is necessary because the National Park Service general regulation for bicycle use requires publication...
Rule Dec 05, 2013

Subsistence Management Program for Public Lands in Alaska:

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International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) changes its regulations on compassionate release, to provide that when considering an inmate for reduction in sentence, the General Counsel will solicit the opinion of the United States Attorney in the district in which...
Rule Dec 05, 2013
Consent Decrees under the Safe Drinking Water Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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

Title Type Published
OSHA solicits public comments concerning its proposal to extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the information collection requirements contained in the Logging Operations Standard (29 CFR 1910.266).
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Applications:

Title Type Published
In this notice, OSHA announces the application of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory and presents the Agency's preliminary finding to grant the application and request. Unde...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public comment about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) approval for renewal of an existing information collection that is summarized below. We are required to p...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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 Dec 05, 2013

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Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
As part of its regular business meeting held on September 19, 2013, in Binghamton, New York, the Commission took the following actions: (1) Approved or tabled the applications of certain water resources projects; (2) rescinded approvals for three pro...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Trade Surplus; Determinations:

Title Type Published
In accordance with relevant provisions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice of its determination of the trade surplus in certain sugar and syrup...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comme...
Notice Dec 05, 2013
This document proposes to clarify NHTSA regulations on registered importers ("RIs") of motor vehicles not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards. The proposal would require RIs to certify to NHTSA...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations relating to certain dividend equivalents for purposes of section 871(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). The regulations provide guidance to nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations that hold...
Rule Dec 05, 2013
This document provides guidance to nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations that hold certain financial products providing for payments that are contingent upon or determined by reference to U.S. source dividend payments and to withhold...
Proposed Rule Dec 05, 2013

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

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on currently approved information collection 1525-0015, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44...
Notice Dec 05, 2013

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