March 7, 2014 (Volume 79)

Federal Register March 7, 2014

View all documents issued on March 7, 2014. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

90 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 7, 2014

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Amendments to Marketing Agreements, Orders:

Title Type Published
This final decision proposes to permanently adopt revised transportation credit balancing fund provisions for the Appalachian and Southeast milk marketing orders. Specifically, this document Establishes a variable mileage rate factor using a fuel cos...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014
This final decision proposes to permanently adopt amendments that adjust the Class I pricing surface of the Appalachian, Florida, and Southeast Federal milk marketing orders. In addition, this decision seeks to adopt proposals that amend certain feat...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Del Norte Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Eureka, California. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (Pub. L. 110-343) (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal A...
Notice Mar 07, 2014
The Humboldt County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in Eureka, California. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (Pub. L. 110- 343) (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Fe...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Nonregulated Status; Petitions:

Title Type Published
We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has received a petition from the Monsanto Company seeking a determination of nonregulated status of maize designated as event MON 87411, which has been genetically enginee...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Allocation of Duty Expenses:

Title Type Published
This action allocates calendar year 2014 duty exemptions for watch assembly producers ("program producers") located in the United States Virgin Islands ("USVI") pursuant to Public Law 97-446, as amended by Public Law 103-465, Public Law 106-36 and Pu...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

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

Title Type Published
On February 18, 2014, the United States Court of International Trade ("CIT") sustained the Department of Commerce's ("the Department") results of redetermination,\1\ pursuant to the CIT's Remand Opinion and Order.\2\ Consistent with the decision of t...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Court Decision Not in Harmony with Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, etc.:

Title Type Published
On February 19, 2014, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT) sustained the Department of Commerce's (Department's) results of redetermination, which recalculated the countervailable subsidy rate for the Zhongya Companies \1\ in the coun...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:

Title Type Published
NMFS reduces the commercial trip limit for vermilion snapper in or from the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the South Atlantic to 500 lb (227 kg), gutted weight. This trip limit reduction is necessary to protect the South Atlantic vermilion snapper...
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by catcher/processors using hook-and-line gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the A season allowance of the 2014 Pacific c...
Rule Mar 07, 2014
NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amounts of the Aleut Corporation's pollock directed fishing allowance and the Community Development Quota from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea directed fisheries. These actions are nece...
Rule Mar 07, 2014
NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 meters) length overall using hook-and-line or pot gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area. This...
Rule Mar 07, 2014
NMFS is opening directed fishing for sablefish with fixed gear managed under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program and the Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program. The season will open 1200 hours, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), March 8, 2014, and...
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Fisheries of the Northeastern United States:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring a portion of its 2014 commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Virginia. NMFS is adjusting the quotas and announcing the revised commercial quota for each state involved.
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Free Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops and Protected Species Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshops will be held in April, May, and June of 2014. Certain fishermen and shark dealers are required to attend a workshop to meet regula...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that a permit has been issued to the National Marine Fisheries Service's Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, Florida 33149 [Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith Mullin] to conduct research o...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities:

Title Type Published
NMFS has received a request from the U.S. Navy (Navy), Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to missile launches from San Nicolas Island (SNI) from June 2014 through June 2019. Pursuant...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

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

Title Type Published
This action adds products to the Procurement List that will be furnished by the nonprofit agency employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes products and a service from the Procurement List previously furnished by s...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau logo Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) is proposing a new information collection titled, "Debt Collection Survey from the Consumer Credit Panel."
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
On January 15, 2014, Director Richard Cordray of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("Bureau") published an invitation to the public for application to its Consumer Advisory Board (the "Board"), Community Bank Advisory Council, and Credit Union...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
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 Mar 07, 2014

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the National Defense University Board of Visitors (BOV) will take place. This meeting is open to the public.
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on a proposed collection of information that DOE is developing for submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Comments are invited on:...
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Records Governing Off-the-Record Communications
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to amend a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for Oklahoma that became effective on January 27, 2012, as it applies to Units 3 and 4 of the Northeastern Power Station in Rogers County, O...
Rule Mar 07, 2014
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve revisions to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan (SIP), submitted by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) to EPA on June 20, 2013, which address revised...
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Protection of Stratospheric Ozone:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing uses that qualify for the critical use exemption (CUE) and the amount of methyl bromide that may be produced or imported for those uses for both the 2014 and 2015 control periods. EPA is proposin...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Boys and Young Men of Color; Creating and Expanding Ladders of Opportunity (Memorandum of February 27, 2014)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
American Red Cross Month (Proc. 9083)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014
Irish-American Heritage Month (Proc. 9084)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Proc. 9085)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014
National Consumer Protection Week (Proc. 9086)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014
Read Across America Day (Proc. 9087)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014
Women's History Month (Proc. 9088)
Presidential Document Mar 07, 2014

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
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 Mar 07, 2014
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2014
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 Mar 07, 2014
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Pursuant to Section 814 of the Native American Programs Act of 1974 (NAPA), as amended, the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) is required to provide members of the public an opportunity to comment on changes in interpretive rules, general sta...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

List of HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies federal agencies of the laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities (IITF) currently certified to meet the standards of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testin...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice of public workshop.
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Advisory Committee for Women's Services
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Notice.
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Center for Mental Health Services
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Notice Mar 07, 2014
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment National Advisory Council
Notice Mar 07, 2014
National Advisory Council
Notice Mar 07, 2014
National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
Notice Mar 07, 2014
National Advisory Councils and Advisory Committees
Notice Mar 07, 2014
National Institute on Aging
Notice Mar 07, 2014
This notice announces the next meeting of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC). The BSC, a federally chartered, external advisory group composed of scientists from the public and private sectors, will review and...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing regulations setting standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in DHS confinement facilities.
Rule Mar 07, 2014

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 Mar 07, 2014

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Allocation of Duty Expenses:

No documents available.

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Consistent with the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), BOEM has prepared a Final Programmatic EIS to describe and evaluate the potential environmental impacts associated with re...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council is soliciting nominations for the Public Advisory Committee, which advises the Trustee Council on decisions related to the planning, evaluation, funds allocation, and conduct of injury assessment and restora...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

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 Hemostatic Products and Components Thereof; DN 3003; the Commission is soliciting comments on any public interest issues raised by the compl...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Controlled Substances:

Title Type Published
Four synthetic cannabinoids: quinolin-8-yl 1-pentyl-1H-indole- 3-carboxylate (PB-22; QUPIC); quinolin-8-yl 1-(5-fluoropentyl)-1H- indole-3-carboxylate (5-fluoro-PB-22; 5F-PB-22); N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1- oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(4-fluorobenzyl)-1H-indazole-3-...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This is an announcement of a webinar 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 Mar 07, 2014

Schedules of Controlled Substances:

Title Type Published
The Deputy Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is issuing this final order to temporarily schedule 10 synthetic cathinones into schedule I pursuant to the temporary scheduling provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)....
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is extending the deadline for submitting comments on the Request for Information on Process Safety Management and Prevention of Major Chemical Accidents.
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

Revocations; Experimental Variance and Interim Orders:

Title Type Published
In this notice, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA" or the "Agency") revokes an experimental variance and interim order granted by OSHA in 1976 and 1978, respectively, to Interlake Stamping Corp., ("Interlake" or the "applicant"...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
This proposed program letter serves as a companion to 45 CFR part 1626. The proposed program letter should have been published in the Federal Register with the further notice of proposed rulemaking (FNPRM) on February 5, 2014, 79 FR 6859. LSC seeks c...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Draft Guidance for Industry and Staff:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the withdrawal of draft Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Interim Staff Guidance No. 26A (SFST-ISG-26A), Revision 0, "Shielding and Radiation Protection Review Effort and Licensing Parame...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific Supplement 52 to the "Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants," NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operati...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Exemption and Combined License Amendments:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is granting an exemption to allow a departure from the certification information of Tier 1 of the generic design control document (DCD) and issuing License Amendment No. 10 to Combined Licenses (COL), NPF-...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing requesting the addition of Priority Mail Contract 79 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 07, 2014
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing an amendment to Priority Mail Express & Priority Mail Contract 14. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
Notice Mar 07, 2014
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing requesting an amendment to Priority Mail Contract 70. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Trading Suspension Orders:

Title Type Published
Aventura Equities, Inc.
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The SBA is issuing this notice to announce the location, date, time, and agenda for its public meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development. The meeting will be open to the public.
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Productivity Adjustments:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
In a decision served on March 4, 2014, we proposed to adopt 1.010 (1.0% per year) as the measure of average change in railroad productivity for the 2008-2012 (5-year) averaging period. This represents an increase of 0.1% from the average for the 2007...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Transit Administration invites public comment about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval to renew the following information collections:
Notice Mar 07, 2014
On November 12, 2013, the FAA published a final rule entitled "Qualification, Service and Use of Crewmembers and Aircraft Dispatchers" which will result in new information collection requirements. This technical amendment updates the FAA's list of OM...
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Model A300 series airplanes; Model A300 B4-600, B4-600R, and F4- 600R series airplanes; Model A300 C4-605R Variant F airplanes (collectively called Model A300-600 series airplanes)...
Proposed Rule Mar 07, 2014

Productivity Adjustments:

No documents available.

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces its decision to exempt 46 individuals from its rule prohibiting persons with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus (ITDM) from operating commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce. The exemptions will enable these individuals...
Notice Mar 07, 2014
FMCSA announces its decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 10 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions gra...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, gives notice of proposed alterations to systems of records entitled: 46.002, Criminal Investigation M...
Notice Mar 07, 2014
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Treasury gives notice of an amendment to this part to reflect revisions of existing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) systems of records and to exempt the...
Rule Mar 07, 2014

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a collection of information notice in the Federal Register on January 17, 2014, at 79 FR 3276, announcing an opportunity f...
Notice Mar 07, 2014

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation
Notice Mar 07, 2014

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