March 12, 2015 (Volume 80)

Federal Register March 12, 2015

View all documents issued on March 12, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

109 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 12, 2015

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Title Type Published
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is issuing corrections to FR Doc. 2014-26051; Incorporate Various Administrative Changes and Internal Policies in to the USAID Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR), that was published on December 16, 20...
Rule Mar 12, 2015
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is amending its regulations regarding nonprocurement debarment and suspension to revise the designation of the Agency official who will serve as the Agency's Suspending Official and Debarring Offi...
Rule Mar 12, 2015

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the effective date for foreign inspection certificate requirements to March 18, 2015, to ensure that countries have sufficient time to adjust to the new requirements for additional product in...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
We are reopening the comment period for our proposed rule that would amend the regulations governing the importation of plants and plant products to add orchid plants of the genus Oncidium from Taiwan to the list of plants that may be imported into t...
Proposed Rule Mar 12, 2015

Gypsy Moth Generally Infested Areas:

Title Type Published
We are amending the gypsy moth regulations by adding areas in Minnesota, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin to the list of generally infested areas based on the detection of infestations of gypsy moth in those areas. As a result of this action, t...
Rule Mar 12, 2015

Meetings:

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, (5 U.S.C. App.), the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing an upcoming meeting of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). Written public comments are invited in adva...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of The Council for Native American Farming and Ranching (CNAFR) a public advisory committee of the Office of Tribal Relations (OTR). Notice of the meetings are provided in accordance with section 10(a)(2) o...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Proposed New Fees Site under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act:

Title Type Published
The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Bridgeport Ranger District is proposing to increase the fee for Christmas tree permits from $5.00 to $10.00 per tag (ie. an individual Christmas tree). This is a proposed fee, and a final determination will be ba...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Rest Rick Analyses:

Title Type Published
We are advising the public that we have prepared a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks associated with importation of fresh cranberry fruit from Chile into the continental United States. Based on the analysis, we have determined that the appl...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
As a result of the determinations by the Department of Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (the ITC) in their five-year (sunset) reviews that revocation of the antidumping (AD) order on certain kitchen appliance shelving...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Melamine from the People's Republic of China and Trinidad and Tobago
Notice Mar 12, 2015
As a result of this sunset review, the Department of Commerce ("Department") finds that revocation of the antidumping duty order on tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol ("THFA") from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") would be likely to lead to continuatio...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Uncoated Paper from the People's Republic of China and Indonesia
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Boundary Expansions:

Title Type Published
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is expanding the boundaries of Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary (CBNMS) to an area north and west of their current boundarie...
Rule Mar 12, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold meetings of the: Administrative Policy and Budget Committees, Law Enforcement, Data Collection, Gulf SEDAR, Sustainable Fisheries/ Ecosystem, Mackerel, Spiny Lobster, Reef Fish and Shr...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Ecosystem Based Fishery Management Committee to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from thi...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will sponsor a nearshore species assessment workshop to evaluate catch data and proposed catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) indices for 2015 west coast groundfish stock assessments for black rockfish...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Missions:

Title Type Published
The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration is amending the Notice published at 79 FR 34287, June 16, 2014, for the education mission to El Salvador and Honduras, with an optional stop in Nicaragua, from March 16-19,...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The United States (U.S.) Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, is organizing an education mission to Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom (UK) with an optional stop to France. The Department of Commerce is partnering with the Departm...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Patent Term Extensions:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued an order granting interim extension under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) for a one- year interim extension of the term of U.S. Patent No. 5,610,059.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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

Title Type Published
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...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requi...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is announcing that it has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) and issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) relating to DISA's evaluation of the Proposed Action and Alternatives to installin...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150, the Department of Defense announces that the United Sta...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Education Department logo Education Department

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Dispute Resolutions:

Energy Conservation Programs for Consumer Products:

Title Type Published
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended, prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including residential furnaces. EPCA also requires the U.S. Dep...
Proposed Rule Mar 12, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting; CFR Correction
Rule Mar 12, 2015
In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations. EPA intends to grant these requests at the close...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Title Type Published
This Notice is to inform the public, in accordance with Section 3(c)(10) of the Charter of the Export-Import Bank of the United States ("Ex-Im Bank"), that Ex-Im Bank has received an application for final commitment for a long-term loan or financial...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
On June 15, 1984, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delegated to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) its approval authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.16, to approve of and assign...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Federal Open Market Committee Domestic Policy Directives
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Changes in Bank Control:

Title Type Published
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 12, 2015

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement regard...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the General Services Administration will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requ...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement r...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), GSA will be submitting to OMB a request to review and approve a new Information Collection Request (ICR) regarding the Wireless Telecommunications Industry Applicatio...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit a new Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit a new Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice of public conference.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Center for Scientific Review
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel
Notice Mar 12, 2015
National Cancer Institute
Notice Mar 12, 2015
National Cancer Institute
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedule that governs the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Bridge across the Columbia River, mile 105.6, at Vancouver, WA. This deviation is necessary to accommodate maint...
Rule Mar 12, 2015

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below, and invites public comments on the proposed IC.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Alcoholic Beverage Licensing and Control:

Title Type Published
This notice publishes the amendment to the Tohono O'odham Nation's Title 21--Liquor, Chapter 1--Alcoholic Beverage Licensing and Control (Chapter). This Chapter amends the existing Chapter 1-- Alcoholic Beverages Licensing and Control Ordinance, Ordi...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), in cooperation with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (Tribe), intends to file a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Plats of Survey:

Title Type Published
The plats of survey of the described lands were officially filed in the Arizona State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Phoenix, Arizona, on dates indicated.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Investigations; Determinations, Modifications, and Rulings, etc.:

J
Judicial Conference of the United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure has proposed amendments to the following rules and forms:
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Changes under National Cooperative Research and Production Act:

Meetings:

Title Type Published
On December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order titled "Establishment of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing" establishing the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing ("Task Force"). The Task Force seeks...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Membership Changes under National Cooperative Research and Production Act:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Parties to claims arising under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act and its extensions (LHWCA or Act) and entities required to have insurance pursuant to the Act frequently correspond with the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (...
Rule Mar 12, 2015
Parties to claims arising under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act and its extensions (LHWCA or Act) and entities required to have insurance pursuant to the Act frequently correspond with the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (...
Proposed Rule Mar 12, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) sponsored information collection request (ICR) revision titled, "Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program," to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
NASA is issuing a final rule amending the NASA Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (NFS) with the goal of eliminating unnecessary regulation, streamlining overly-burdensome regulation, clarifying language, and simplifying processes where possib...
Rule Mar 12, 2015

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

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Applied Sciences Advisory Committee. The meeting will be held for the purpose of...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

N
National Science Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applications:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of an amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR- 35, issued to Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., for operation of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. The proposed amend...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received a construction permit application from SHINE Medical Technologies, Inc. (SHINE), for approval of a proposed medical radioisotope production facility for the production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99)...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is informing the public of its intent to prepare a supplement to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) "Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fu...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Power Uprates
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Standard Design Certifications:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has determined that Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (KHNP) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) have submitted information for a standard design certification of the APR1400 Standard Plant...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an addition of Priority Mail Contract 118 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an addition of Priority Mail Contract 116 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an addition of Priority Mail Contract 114 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an addition of Priority Mail Contract 119 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an addition of Priority Mail Contract 117 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning an addition of Priority Mail Contract 120 to the competitive product list. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Product Changes:

Title Type Published
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 12, 2015
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application for an order under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Act") for an exemption from sections 2(a)(32), 5(a)(1), 22(d) and 22(e) of the Act and rule 22c-1 under the Act, under sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from sections 17(a)(1) and (a)(2) of the Act, and under section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Act for an exemption from sections 12(d)(1)(A) and (B) of the Act.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
BATS Exchange, Inc.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
BATS Y-Exchange, Inc.
Notice Mar 12, 2015
ICE Clear Credit, LLC
Notice Mar 12, 2015
ICE Clear Credit, LLC
Notice Mar 12, 2015
NASDAQ OMX PHLX, LLC
Notice Mar 12, 2015
NYSE MKT, LLC
Notice Mar 12, 2015
New York Stock Exchange, LLC
Notice Mar 12, 2015
The Options Clearing Corp.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 777-200 and -300 series airplanes equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent 800 series engines. This proposed AD was prompted by a report of multiple cases of heat dama...
Proposed Rule Mar 12, 2015

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces its decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 4 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions gran...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Qualification of Drivers; Regulatory Guidance:

Title Type Published
FMCSA provides regulatory guidance concerning the use of State-operated employer notification systems (ENS) for the annual inquiry and review of driving records required by 49 CFR 391.25. The guidance explains the use of State-operated ENS that provi...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, 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 collection...
Notice Mar 12, 2015
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we invite comments on the proposed or continuing information collections listed below in this notice.
Notice Mar 12, 2015

U
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following hearing of the U.S.- China Economic and Security Review Commission. Name: William A. Reinsch, Chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The Commission is mandated by Congress to invest...
Notice Mar 12, 2015

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