Federal Register February 23, 2015
View all documents issued on February 23, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.
78 documents were published on this date.
Agencies Publishing on February 23, 2015
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Agriculture Department
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Commerce Department
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Defense Department
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Education Department
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Energy Department
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Executive Office of the President
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Federal Communications Commission
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Federal Trade Commission
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Health and Human Services Department
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Homeland Security Department
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Interior Department
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International Trade Commission
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Justice Department
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Labor Department
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Social Security Administration
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Surface Transportation Board
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Transportation Department
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Treasury Department
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Agriculture Department
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) (a) announce the availability of the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (Advisory Report); (b) solicit written comments on the...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:
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The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a proposal to designate over-snow vehicle (OSV) use on National Forest System (NFS) roads, NFS trails, and areas on NFS lands within the Tahoe...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Meetings:
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The New Mexico Collaborative Forest Restoration Program (CFRP) Technical Advisory Panel (Panel) will meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Panel is established consistent with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. App. II), and Title VI...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Web-Based Self-Reporting Tools:
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FSIS is making available to the public its new Web-based Self- Reporting Tool (SRT) that it will be sending to foreign countries to report information on their food regulatory systems for the purpose of establishing that the systems are, or continue...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Commerce Department
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation Nomination Application
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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Public User ID Badging
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:
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The Department of Commerce ("the Department") is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on uncovered innerspring units ("innerspring units") from the People's Republic of China ("PRC"). The period of review is February 1, 2...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Denials of Export Privileges:
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Ernesto Salgado-Guzman
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Domestic Fisheries; General Provisions:
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Several groundfish sectors have requested regulatory exemptions from two recently implemented Gulf of Maine cod interim management measures. The Regional Administrator, Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has determined that the request warrants further c...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:
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NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod, including for the Community Development Quota program (CDQ), in the Western Aleutian Islands district (Area 543) of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is neces...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Meetings:
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The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold meetings of its 118th Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC), SSC sub-working group and its 162nd Council meeting to take actions on fishery management issues in the Western Pacif...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Subzone Expansion Applications:
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Eli Lilly and Co., Plainfield, IN; Foreign-Trade Zone 72, Indianapolis, IN
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Taking and Importing Marine Mammals:
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NMFS has received a request from Apache Alaska Corporation (Apache) for authorization to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to its proposed oil and gas exploration seismic survey program in Cook Inlet, Alaska, between March 1, 2015, and F...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Defense Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), DoD announces the proposed extension of a public information collection requirement and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. DoD invite...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Danger Zones:
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is establishing a new danger zone in the waters adjacent to Camp Rilea located in Clatsop County, Oregon. The regulation prohibits any activity by the public within the danger zone during use of weapons training range...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Tulsa District has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the direct, indirect and cumulative effects of the construction and operation of the proposed Lower Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoi...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Meetings:
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The Department of the Army is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Board on Coastal Engineering Research. This meeting is open to the public.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) will take place. This meeting is open to the public.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Closed Meeting
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group. This meeting will be closed to the public.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Restricted Areas:
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is amending its restricted area/danger zone regulations to establish a new restricted area in the waters surrounding U.S. Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville facilities at Station Mayport, Jacksonville, Florida (S...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
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 new information collection.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Applications for New Awards:
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Notice.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
First in the World Program:
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The Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education proposes priorities, requirements, a selection criterion, and definitions under the First in the World (FITW) Program. The Assistant Secretary may use these priorities, requirements, selection crite...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Energy Department
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DOE is issuing the first comprehensive updating of regulations concerning Assistance to Foreign Atomic Energy Activities since 1986, reflecting a need to make the regulations consistent with current global civil nuclear trade practices and nonprolife...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
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Pursuant to section 14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), and in accordance with title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, section 102-3.65(a), and following consultation with the Committee Management Secretariat, General S...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products:
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This document corrects the DATES section to a notice of proposed rulemaking and announcement of public meeting which published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2015, regarding Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Energy Conservati...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Energy Efficiency Program for Residential Products:
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) which is proposing energy conservation standards for residential dishwashers. The comment period for the NOPR pertaining to the energy conservation standards for...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Environmental Protection Agency
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This notice announces EPA's decision to identify certain water quality limited waters and the associated pollutant to be listed pursuant to the Clean Water Act Section 303(d)(2) on New York's list of impaired waters, and requests public comment. Sect...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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This notice announces the broadly applicable alternative test method approval decisions the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made under and in support of New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), the National Emission Standards for Hazardous...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "Requirements and Exemptions for Specific RCRA Wastes (Renewal)" (EPA ICR No. 1597.11, OMB Control No. 2050-0145) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), "Transportation Conformity Determinations for Federally Funded and Approved Transportation Plans, Programs, and Projects" (EPA ICR No. 2130.05, O...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:
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The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires each State Implementation Plan (SIP) to contain adequate provisions prohibiting air emissions that will have certain adverse air quality effects in other states. On June 28, 2010, the State of Idaho submitted a SIP re...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; State Operating Permit Objections:
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Pursuant to Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 505(b)(2) and 40 CFR 70.8(d), the EPA Administrator signed an Order, dated January 23, 2015, denying in part three petitions asking the EPA to object to operating permits issued by the Texas Commission on Envir...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Meetings:
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The Small Community Advisory Subcommittee (SCAS) will meet via teleconference on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (EST). The Subcommittee will discuss an EPA Rural Strategy and other small community issues. This is an open meeting. Indivi...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Pesticide Tolerances:
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This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of fomesafen in or on watermelon. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). A final rule establishing a toleran...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
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This regulation establishes a temporary exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the VNT1 protein in potato when used as a plant-incorporated protectant in accordance with the terms of Experimental Use Permit (EUP) No. 8917-EUP-2...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Significant New Use Rules:
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EPA issued a proposed rule in the Federal Register of January 15, 2015, concerning 2,4-toluene diisocyanate, 2,6-toluene diisocyanate, toluene diisocyanate unspecified isomers (these three chemical substances are hereafter referred to as toluene diis...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Executive Office of the President
Guidance:
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This notice extends the comment period for the proposed guidance published in the Federal Register on December 24, 2014, (79 FR 77802, Dec. 24, 2014). The comment period for the proposed guidance, which would have ended on February 23, 2015, is exten...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Federal Communications Commission
Meetings:
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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice advises interested persons that the first meeting of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee (DSTAC) has been r...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Television Broadcasting Services:
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A petition for rulemaking was filed by WLAJ-TV LLC ("Petitioner"), the licensee of WLAJ-TV, channel 51, Lansing, Michigan, requesting the substitution of channel 25 for channel 51 at Lansing. Petitioner filed comments reaffirming its interest in the...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Federal Trade Commission
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The FTC is making technical revisions to several of the notices that it is required to publish under the Privacy Act of 1974 to describe its systems of records about individuals. This action is intended to make these notices clearer, more accurate, a...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Health and Human Services Department
No documents available.
Medicare and Medicaid Programs:
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This final notice announces our decision to approve the Joint Commission for continued recognition as a national accrediting organization for psychiatric hospitals that wish to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs. A psychiatric hospital...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Homeland Security Department
Meetings:
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The Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee will meet to discuss safe transit of vessels and cargoes to and from the ports of the Lower Mississippi River. This meeting will be open to the public.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) will meet in person on March 10-11, 2015, in Reston, Virginia. The meeting will be open to the public.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Interior Department
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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act (Act) prohibits activities with endangered and...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have issued the following permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species under the authority of the Endangered Species Act, as amended (Act). With some exceptions, the Act prohibits activities wi...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for renewal for the collection of information for the Bureau of Indian Education Adult E...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Enhancement of Survival Permit Applications:
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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received an application from the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) for an enhancement of survival (EOS) permit under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). The permit applicat...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:
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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received an application from the Yamhill Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) for an incidental take permit (permit) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). The permit...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Meetings:
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The National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) will meet on March 17-18, 2015 at the South Interior Building Auditorium, 1951 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20240. The meeting will be held in the first floor Auditorium. The NGAC, which is...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Pecos District Resource Advisory Council's (RAC) Lesser Prairie- Chicken (LPC) Habitat Preservation Area of Critic...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Migratory Bird Subsistence Harvest in Alaska:
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we) is establishing migratory bird subsistence harvest regulations in Alaska for the 2015 season. These regulations allow for the continuation of customary and traditional subsistence uses of migratory b...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
International Trade Commission
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:
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The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of expedited reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(3) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(3)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Justice Department
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Labor Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) sponsored information collection request (ICR) titled, "Planning Guidance and Instructions for Strategic State Plan and Plan Modifications Submission for Wor...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Labor Certification Process for the Temporary Employment of Aliens in Agriculture in the United States:
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The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (Department) is issuing this Notice to announce (1) the allowable charges for 2015 that employers seeking H-2A workers may charge their workers when the employer provides thr...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Meetings; Sunshine Act
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Exemptions:
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an exemption in response to a October 31, 2013, request from Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy or the licensee), from certain regulatory requirements. The exemption would remove the requ...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
License Amendment Applications:
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the request of Nebraska Public Power District to withdraw its application dated June 2, 2014, for a proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-46. The proposed amendment would hav...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Securities and Exchange Commission
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:
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EDGX Exchange, Inc.
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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New York Stock Exchange, LLC
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Social Security Administration
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Surface Transportation Board
Trackage Rights Exemptions:
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Under 49 U.S.C. 10502, the Board revokes the class exemption as it pertains to the trackage rights described in Docket No. FD 35879 \1\ to permit the trackage rights to expire at midnight on October 31, 2015, in accordance with the agreement of the p...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Transportation Department
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This notice provides information regarding FHWA's finding that a Buy America waiver is appropriate for the obligation of Federal-aid funds for 75 State projects involving the acquisition of vehicles and equipment on the condition that they be assembl...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits; Applications
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits; Applications
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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The FAA is proposing to amend its regulations to adopt specific rules to allow the operation of small unmanned aircraft systems in the National Airspace System. These changes would address the operation of unmanned aircraft systems, certification of...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Airworthiness Directives:
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We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Rolls-Royce plc (RR) RB211 Trent 768-60, 772-60, and 772B-60 turbofan engines. This AD requires inspection of the oil feed tube sealing sleeve and removal of those oil feed tube sealing s...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
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We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Short Brothers & Harland Ltd. Model SC-7 Series 3 airplanes. This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation authority of another country to ident...
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Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
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We are revising an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 757 airplanes. The NPRM proposed to require modifying the fuel quantity indication system (FQIS) wiring or fuel tank systems to prevent development...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 23, 2015 |
Requests for Nominations:
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By Federal Register notice (See 79 FR 77594-77595, December 24, 2014) the National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) invited interested persons to apply to fill two existing openings and one upcoming opening on the Nati...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
Trackage Rights Exemptions:
No documents available.
Treasury Department
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
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FinCEN invites comment on the renewal of information collections in existing regulations requiring insurance companies and non-bank mortgage lenders and originators to develop and implement written anti-money laundering programs reasonably designed t...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") invites comment on a proposed renewal, without change, to information collections found in existing regulations requiring...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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FinCEN invites comment on the renewal of an information collection requirement for the recordkeeping and reporting of suspicious activities by brokers or dealers in securities and futures commission merchants (FCMs) and introducing brokers in commodi...
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Notice | Feb 23, 2015 |
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