February 20, 2015 (Volume 80)

Federal Register February 20, 2015

View all documents issued on February 20, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

56 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 20, 2015

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Title Type Published
We, the NMFS, propose to replace the critical habitat for right whales in the North Atlantic with two new areas. The areas under consideration as critical habitat contain approximately 29,945 nm\2\ of marine habitat in the Gulf of Maine and Georges B...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2015
Notice is hereby given that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe have submitted three Hatchery and Genetic Management Plans, to be considered jointly, to NMFS pursuant to the limitation on take prohibitions...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

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

Title Type Published
NMFS reduces the trip limit for the commercial sector of Atlantic migratory group Spanish mackerel in the southern zone to 1,500 lb (680 kg) of Spanish mackerel per day in or from the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This trip limit reduction is necess...
Rule Feb 20, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's (CFMC) Outreach and Education Advisory Panel (OEAP) will meet.
Notice Feb 20, 2015
The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's District Advisory Panels (DAPs) for Puerto Rico, St. Croix and St. Thomas, USVI, will hold meetings.
Notice Feb 20, 2015

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 a service to the Procurement List that will be provided by a nonprofit agency employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Election Assistance Commission logo Election Assistance Commission

Title Type Published
EAC is amending the original Sunshine Notice that published on February 6, 2015. Due to an inclement weather forecast, EAC postponed the public meeting that was originally scheduled for Wednesday, February 18, 2015. The public meeting has been resche...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
EPA is required under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to publish in the Federal Register a notice of receipt of a premanufacture notice (PMN); an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), both pending and/or expired; and a periodic st...
Notice Feb 20, 2015
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a request submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) on June 10, 2014, to revise the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP). The submission amends the Illinois Adm...
Rule Feb 20, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the Illinois State Implementation Plan. The revision amends the Illinois Administrative Code by updating the definition of volatile organic material or volatile organic c...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve the State of Missouri's request to redesignate the Missouri portion of the St. Louis MO-IL nonattainment area, the "St. Louis area" or "area" to attainment for the 1997 8-hou...
Rule Feb 20, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted to meet Emissions Inventory (EI) requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the Dallas-Fort-Worth (DFW) and the Housto...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted to meet Emissions Inventory (EI) requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and the Houston-Galveston...
Rule Feb 20, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to disapprove a portion of State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Wyoming on May 10, 2011. This submittal revises the Wyoming Air Quality Standards and Regu...
Rule Feb 20, 2015

Pesticide Tolerances:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the fungicide Bacillus subtilis strain IAB/BS03 in or on all food commodities when used in accordance with label directions and good agricultural practices....
Rule Feb 20, 2015
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of dimethenamid in or on cottonseed subgroup 20C and cotton, gin byproducts. BASF Corporation requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).
Rule Feb 20, 2015

Petitions for Exemption Reissuances:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that a reissuance of an exemption to the land disposal Restrictions, under the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, has been granted to Lucite International, Inc. for two Clas...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Information Sharing in the Private Sector; Promotion of Cybersecurity (EO 13691)
Presidential Document Feb 20, 2015

Government Agencies and Employees:

Title Type Published
Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Safeguards to Ensure Domestic Use Protection of Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (Memorandum of February 15, 2015)
Presidential Document Feb 20, 2015

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Federal Labor Relations Authority logo Federal Labor Relations Authority

Title Type Published
The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is engaged in an initiative to make electronic filing or "eFiling" available to parties in all cases before the FLRA. Making eFiling available is another way in which the FLRA is using technology to improv...
Rule Feb 20, 2015

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 Feb 20, 2015
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 Feb 20, 2015
In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Guidance for Industry and Staff:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft document entitled "Investigating and Reporting Adverse Reactions Related to Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products (HCT/Ps) Regulated Solely Under...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Meetings:

Planning Cooperative Agreement Applications:

Title Type Published
Tribal Self-Governance Program
Notice Feb 20, 2015

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 possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Federal Housing Administration:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule is a cost-savings measure to update HUD's regulations regarding the payment of FHA insurance claims in debentures. Section 520(a) of the National Housing Act affords the Secretary discretion to pay insurance claims in cash or deben...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2015

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are issuing this final rule to comply with court orders that reinstate the regulatory protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), for the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in Wyoming...
Rule Feb 20, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce that our final comprehensive conservation plan and environmental impact statement (CCP/EIS) for the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) is available. In the final CCP/EIS, we describe...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Oil and Gas Lease Sales:

Title Type Published
BOEM is announcing the availability of a Final Second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Chukchi Sea Planning Area, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 (Lease Sale 193). The Final Second SEIS (OCS EIS/EA B...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Petitions for Rulemaking:

Title Type Published
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE or OSM), are announcing our final decision on a petition for rulemaking that was submitted by WildEarth Guardians. The petition requested that we revise our current regulations to pr...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2015

Public Land Orders:

Title Type Published
This order extends Public Land Order No. 7130 for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary to continue to protect and reserve the lands for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grays Lake Refuge Headquarters in Bonneville County, Idaho...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Investigations; Determinations, Modifications and Rulings, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ") initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 53) granting a motion of complainants InterDigital Communication...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Justice Department logo Justice Department

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice, DOJ, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Pape...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Relocating Retail Services:

Title Type Published
This final rule revises the Postal Service's current procedures concerning the expansion, relocation, and construction of Post Offices<SUP>TM</SUP> to clarify these procedures, and to require the Postal Service to provide more information to communit...
Rule Feb 20, 2015

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission will host a roundtable to explore ways to improve the proxy voting process. The roundtable will focus on universal proxy ballots and retail participation in the proxy process. Roundtable panelists will discuss t...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Orders:

Title Type Published
Consolidated Tape Association; Nineteenth Substantive Amendment to the Second Restatement of the Consolidated Tape Association Plan
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
NASDAQ OMX PHLX, LLC
Notice Feb 20, 2015
NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Notice Feb 20, 2015
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Feb 20, 2015
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Feb 20, 2015
(1) The proposed Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of NSX Holdings (the "NSX Holdings A&R Certificate"); (2) the proposed By-laws of NSX Holdings (the "NSX Holdings By-laws"); (3) the proposed Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of NSX (the "Exchange A&R Certificate"); and (4) the proposed Third Amended and Restated NSX By- laws (the "Exchange A&R By-laws"). 1. NSX Holdings Ownership and Voting Limitations
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FHWA proposes to establish a process for the development of a State asset management plan in accordance with section 1106 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), to improve or preserve the condition of the assets and th...
Proposed Rule Feb 20, 2015
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Feb 20, 2015
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given of the actions on spec...
Notice Feb 20, 2015
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Hazardous Materials:

Title Type Published
PHMSA is extending for modes of transportation other than air the mandatory compliance date of a final rule published on August 6, 2014, under Docket No. HM-224F from February 6, 2015, until August 7, 2015. This extension is made in response to forma...
Rule Feb 20, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice is to advise interested persons that PHMSA will host a Research and Development Forum on Thursday, April 16, 2015, in Washington, DC. PHMSA will use the forum to present the results of recently completed research projects and to discuss c...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces its decision to exempt 24 individuals from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). They are unable to meet the vision requirement in one eye for various reasons. The exemptions will enable thes...
Notice Feb 20, 2015

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