March 26, 2015 (Volume 80)

Federal Register March 26, 2015

View all documents issued on March 26, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

88 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 26, 2015

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is proposing to revise regulations on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to specify the requirements for a person to be considered actively engaged in farming for the purpose of payment eligibility for cert...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Rural Development:

Title Type Published
This document corrects technical errors in the direct final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on February 24, 2015, entitled "Rural Development Regulations--Update to FmHA References and to Census Regulations."
Rule Mar 26, 2015

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
By this Notice, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Department of Commerce, is informing the public that it is conducting the mandatory survey titled Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance Companies with Foreign Persons (BE-4...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

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

Title Type Published
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...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
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...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
By this Notice, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Department of Commerce is informing the public that it is conducting the mandatory survey titled Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline Operators' Revenues and Expenses in the United States (BE-9)....
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (Department) is amending the preliminarily determination of the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of certain passenger vehicle and light truck tires (passenger tires) from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to correct s...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Supercalendered Paper from Canada
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) [Responsible Party: Robert Small, Ph.D., 1255 West 8th Street, Juneau, Alaska 99811-5526] has applied in due form for a permit to conduct research on bowhead (Balaena mysticetu...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Denials of Export Privileges:

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), with the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, the Lummi Nation, the Nooksack Tribe, the Stillaguamish Tribes, and the Tulalip Tribes as the U.S. v. Washington salmon resource co...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
NMFS is announcing the withdrawal of a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was being prepared on two resource management plans (RMPs) and 114 supporting hatchery and genetic management plans (HGMPs) for Puget Sound hatchery programs. The...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council announces its intent to prepare, in cooperation with NMFS, an amendment to the Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish, and to potentially prepare an EIS in accordance with the...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS issues regulations to implement Amendment 31 to the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs (FMP). These regulations revise the rules governing the acquisition, use, and retention of quota share established...
Rule Mar 26, 2015

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary:

Title Type Published
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is proposing to expand the boundaries and scope of Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary (HIHWNMS or sanctuary), amend the regulations for HIHWNMS, change the name of the...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Air Force is deleting a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. The system notice is entitled "F044 AF SG J, Air Force Blood Program."
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplements:

Title Type Published
DoD has adopted as final, without change, an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to remove language based on a statute that provided the underlying authority for DoD's Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)...
Rule Mar 26, 2015
DoD is making technical amendments to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to provide needed editorial changes.
Rule Mar 26, 2015
DoD is issuing an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement sections of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, that require offerors bidding...
Rule Mar 26, 2015

Federal Advisory Committees; Establishments:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to announce that it is establishing the National Commission on the Future of the Army ("the Commission").
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Judicial Proceedings since Fiscal Year 2012 Amendments Panel ("the Judicial Proceedings Panel" or "the Panel"). The meeting is ope...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Education Department logo Education Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and agenda of the tenth meeting of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. The notice also describes the functions of the Commission. Notice of the meeting is required by sectio...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Election Assistance Commission logo Election Assistance Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend for three years, an information collection request with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the extended co...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Combined Filings
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Authority to Import and Export Natural Gas, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of receipt of an application (Application), filed on December 31, 2014, by American LNG Marketing LLC (American LNG), requesting long-term, multi-contract authorization t...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Energy Conservation Programs for Consumer Products:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is initiating a rulemaking to consider amended energy conservation standards for direct heating equipment and pool heaters. Once completed, this rulemaking will fulfill DOE's statutory obligation to either propose...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Paducah. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Waivers:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of its Decision and Order in Case No. VHE-002, which grants Empire Comfort Systems, Inc. (Empire) a waiver from the existing DOE test procedure for determining the energy consumption of residential ven...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA" or "the Act"), as amended, requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan ("NCP") include a list of national priorities am...
Rule Mar 26, 2015
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA" or "the Act"), as amended, requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan ("NCP") include a list of national priorities among the...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "EPA's Light-Duty In-Use Vehicle Testing Program (Renewal)" (EPA ICR No. 0222.10, OMB Control No. 2060- 0086) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Airport Deicing Category (Renewal)" (EPA ICR No. 2326.03, OMB Control No. 2040-0285) to the Office of Manageme...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), "NESHAP for the Secondary Lead Smelter Industry (Renewal)" (EPA ICR No. 1686.10, OMB Control No. 2060-0296) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve certain revisions to the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District (MBUAPCD or District) portion of the applicable state implementation plan (SIP) for the State of...
Rule Mar 26, 2015
On February 2, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a direct final rule approving revisions to the Albuquerque/ Bernalillo County, New Mexico State Implementation Plan. These revisions add definitions and clarifying changes to th...
Rule Mar 26, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve elements of a State Implementation Plan (SIP) submission from the State of New Mexico addressing the applicable requirements of Clean Air Act (CAA) section 110 for the 2008 National Am...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively, the Services), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are holding a 1-day workshop to provide an upda...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Title Type Published
The Farm Credit Administration (FCA, we, or our) is proposing new regulations, and clarifying and enhancing existing regulations, related to the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac or Corporation) Board governance and standards of c...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
Pursuant to subsection (e)(4) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a), the FCC proposes to add a new system of records, FCC/OMD-32, "FCC Telework Program." The FCC's Human Resources Management (HRM) division in the Office of Managing D...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Connect America Fund:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau clarifies certain rules related to the implementation of the intercarrier compensation transition for rate-of- return local exchange carriers adopted in the USF/ICC...
Rule Mar 26, 2015

Federal Housing Finance Agency logo Federal Housing Finance Agency

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is issuing a final rule setting forth requirements related to allocations by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (together, the...
Rule Mar 26, 2015

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Changes in Bank Control; Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Mid-Tier Bank Holding Company to Conduct a Minority Stock Issuance
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Consent Orders:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft complaint and the terms of the c...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This notice extends the comment period for the proposed "Revised Guidelines for Implementing Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management" published in the Federal Register on February 5, 2015 (80 FR 6530). The comment period for the proposed revised...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
On May 11, 2012, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule titled Oil and Gas; Well Stimulation, Including Hydraulic Fracturing, on Federal and Indian Lands. Because of significant public interest in hydrau...
Rule Mar 26, 2015
We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), are reopening the public comment period on the proposed amendment to the Kentucky regulatory program (the Kentucky program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

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

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), BSEE is inviting comments on a collection of information that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The information collection request (ICR) conc...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Filing of Plats of Survey:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado State Office is publishing this notice to inform the public of the intent to officially file the survey plat listed below and afford a proper period of time to protest this action prior to the plat filing....
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will hol...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Twin Falls District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will me...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Public Land Orders:

Title Type Published
This order transfers administrative jurisdiction over 76.60 acres of public lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service for administration as part of the Wind Cave National Park in Custer County, South Dakota.
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture seek nominations for individuals to be considered as members of the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council (Council). The Council provides advice about wildlife and habitat co...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Investigations; Determinations, Modifications and Rulings, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review-in-part an initial determination ("ID") (Order No. 13) issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") in the above-captioned investigation. Particu...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
The Associate Attorney General, exercising authority delegated by the Attorney General, is granting the requests of two Indian tribes to be designated as participating tribes under section 204 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, on an...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
As described in the notice section of this issue of the Federal Register, the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) has published a notice of a new Department-wide Privacy Act system of records, "Department of Justice, Giglio Information Files,"...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015
Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-130, notice is hereby given that the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) proposes to establish a new Department-wide system of records...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
On February 3, 2015, the Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) published a Request for Information (RFI) in response to Executive Order 13563 on improving regulation and regulatory review, and Executive Order 13610 on identifying and reducing r...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Title Type Published
The Copyright Royalty Judges are publishing for comment proposed regulations governing the rates and terms for the digital performances of sound recordings by certain public radio stations and for the making of ephemeral recordings necessary to facil...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

N
National Science Foundation

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request reinstatement and approval of this data collection. In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing opportunity...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations that govern low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal facilities to require new and revised site-specific technical analyses, to permit the development of site-speci...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-2175, "Guidance for Conducting Technical Analyses for 10 CFR part 61." The NRC is proposing to amend its regulations that govern low-level radioactive was...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 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 26, 2015

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
BATS Exchange, Inc.
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Mar 26, 2015
Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Mar 26, 2015
NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC
Notice Mar 26, 2015
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Mar 26, 2015
The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Notice Mar 26, 2015

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Acquisition and Operation Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Signal Specialties, Inc., Line in Buchanan County, MO
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federa...
Notice Mar 26, 2015
This document announces the availability of the FAA National Facilities Realignment and Consolidation Report, Year 1 Part 1. The report was developed in response to Section 804 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-95). The rep...
Notice Mar 26, 2015

Acquisition and Operation Exemptions:

No documents available.

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2012-18- 05, which applies to The Boeing Company Model DC-9-10, DC-9-20, DC-9- 30, DC-9-40, and DC-9-50 series airplanes; and Model DC-9-81 (MD-81), DC-9-82 (MD-82), DC-9-83 (MD-83), DC-9-87 (MD-87...
Proposed Rule Mar 26, 2015

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations:

Title Type Published
FMCSA provides regulatory guidance concerning crashes involving motor vehicles striking the rear of attenuator trucks deployed at construction sites and whether such crashes meet the definition of "accident" under 49 CFR 390.5 for the motor carrier t...
Rule Mar 26, 2015

Prohibition of Fixed-Wing Special Visual Flight Rules Operations:

Title Type Published
This action prohibits fixed-wing special visual flight rules operations at Washington-Dulles International Airport. This action is necessary to support aviation safety and the efficient use of the navigable airspace by managing operations in the busy...
Rule Mar 26, 2015

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