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
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Commerce Department
(5)
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Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
(1)
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(1)
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Election Assistance Commission
(1)
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Environmental Protection Agency
(11)
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Executive Office of the President
(2)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(1)
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Federal Labor Relations Authority
(1)
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Health and Human Services Department
(7)
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Housing and Urban Development Department
(2)
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Interior Department
(5)
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International Trade Commission
(1)
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Justice Department
(1)
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Legal Services Corporation
(1)
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Postal Service
(1)
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Securities and Exchange Commission
(8)
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Transportation Department
(7)
Commerce Department
Endangered and Threatened Species:
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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...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Meetings:
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The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's (CFMC) Outreach and Education Advisory Panel (OEAP) will meet.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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The Caribbean Fishery Management Council's District Advisory Panels (DAPs) for Puerto Rico, St. Croix and St. Thomas, USVI, will hold meetings.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
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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.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Election Assistance Commission
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Environmental Protection Agency
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Pesticide Tolerances:
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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....
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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).
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Petitions for Exemption Reissuances:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Executive Office of the President
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Information Sharing in the Private Sector; Promotion of Cybersecurity (EO 13691)
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Presidential Document | Feb 20, 2015 |
Government Agencies and Employees:
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Safeguards to Ensure Domestic Use Protection of Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (Memorandum of February 15, 2015)
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Presidential Document | Feb 20, 2015 |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Federal Labor Relations Authority
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Health and Human Services Department
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Guidance for Industry and Staff:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Meetings:
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Center for Scientific Review
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Planning Cooperative Agreement Applications:
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Tribal Self-Governance Program
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Housing and Urban Development Department
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This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Federal Housing Administration:
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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...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Interior Department
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Petitions for Rulemaking:
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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...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Public Land Orders:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
International Trade Commission
Investigations; Determinations, Modifications and Rulings, etc.:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Justice Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Legal Services Corporation
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Postal Service
Relocating Retail Services:
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Securities and Exchange Commission
Joint Industry Plans:
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BATS Exchange, Inc.; BATS Y-Exchange, Inc.; Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.; et al.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Meetings:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Orders:
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Consolidated Tape Association; Nineteenth Substantive Amendment to the Second Restatement of the Consolidated Tape Association Plan
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:
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NASDAQ OMX PHLX, LLC
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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NYSE Arca, Inc.
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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(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
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Transportation Department
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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...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Hazardous Materials:
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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...
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Rule | Feb 20, 2015 |
Meetings:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:
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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...
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Notice | Feb 20, 2015 |
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