April 16, 2015 (Volume 80)

Federal Register April 16, 2015

View all documents issued on April 16, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

105 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 16, 2015

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to request revision and extension of a currently approved information collection for Field Crops Produc...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
This notice announces the intention of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to discontinue the publication of annual prices paid data. These data include prices paid for fuels, feed, seeds, fertilizer, machinery, and chemicals. These p...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Common Crop Insurance Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) finalizes the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Macadamia Tree Crop Insurance Provisions and the Macadamia Nut Crop Insurance Provisions. The intended effect of this action is to provide policy changes a...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Forest Resource Coordinating Committee (Committee) will meet via teleconference. The Committee is established consistent with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. II), and the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The Tongass Advisory Committee (Committee) will meet in Ketchikan, Alaska. The Committee is established consistent with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. App. 2). Committee recommendations and advice may directly inform the develop...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act that the Nebraska Advisory Committee (Committee) will hold a meeting on Tuesday...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act that the Oklahoma Advisory Committee (Committee) will hold a meeting on Friday,...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The National Estuarine Research Reserve evaluation will be conducted pursuant to sections 312...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The NOAA Office for Coastal Management announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the American Samoa, Ohio, and Virginia Coastal Management Programs. The Coastal Zone Management Program evaluations will be conducted pursuant to section 312 o...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The NOAA Office for Coastal Management announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the Puerto Rico Coastal Zone Management Program. Coastal Zone Management Program evaluations are conducted pursuant to section 312 of the Coastal Zone Manageme...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
As a result of the determinations made by the Department of Commerce (the "Department") and the International Trade Commission (the "ITC") that revocation of the antidumping duty ("AD") order on tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol ("THFA") from the People's R...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Applications for Reorganization under Alternative Site Framework:

Fisheries of the Northeastern U.S.:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring a portion of its 2015 commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Virginia. These quota adjustments are necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The SEDAR assessment of the Gulf of Mexico Gray Triggerfish will consist of one in-person workshop and a series of webinars. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
NMFS announces a public meeting of the Scientific Advisory Subcommittee (SAS) to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) on June 2, 2015, and a meeting of the General Advisory Committee (GAC) to the U.S. Section to the...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (Council's) Law Enforcement Committee will hold a public meeting.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council's (NPFMC) Bering Sea Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab Plan Team (CPT) will meet in Anchorage, AK.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 ("PRA"), Federal agencies are...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The Secretary proposes to establish regulations to implement changes to the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) resulting from the enactment of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA or the Act). The proposed regulatio...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015

Applications for New Awards:

State Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program:

Title Type Published
The Secretary proposes to amend the regulations governing the State Vocational Rehabilitation Services program and the State Supported Employment Services program in order to implement changes to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by the Work...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act:

Title Type Published
The Secretary proposes to amend the regulations governing a number of programs administered by the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to implement changes to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Act) made by the Workforce Innovation and Opportun...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015
The Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) are proposing, through this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), to implement jointly-administered activities authorized by title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Through the...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Combined Filings
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Combined Filings
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Applications; Authority to Import and Export Natural Gas:

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 January 23, 2015, by Bear Head LNG Corporation and Bear Head LNG (USA), LLC (collectively, Bear Head),\1\ requesting...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of receipt of an application (Application), filed on February 25, 2015, by Bear Head LNG Corporation and Bear Head LNG (USA), LLC (collectively, Bear Head),\1\ requesting...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Complaints:

Title Type Published
Burbank and Glendale, CA v. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Declaratory Order Petitions:

Title Type Published
Navopache Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Proposed Lake Charles Liquefaction Project Trunkline Gas Company, LLC, et al.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Filings:

Title Type Published
Oncor Electric Delivery Co. LLC
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a combined meeting of the Environmental Monitoring and Remediation Committee and Waste Management Committee of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico (known locally as the Northe...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge Reservation. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
This notice announces a meeting of the Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat.770) requires that notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Transfers of Exemption:

Title Type Published
Charles L. Woodman to Kinky Creek Operating Company
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The Agency is extending the certifications of certain renovators under the Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) rule. In January 2015, the Agency published a proposed rule that would, among other things, change the requirements for the refresh...
Rule Apr 16, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is giving notice that it proposes to create a new system of records pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellations, voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of the products listed in Table 1 of Unit III., pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)....
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve revisions to the state implementation plan (SIP), submitted by the State of Florida through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FL DEP), on June 29, 2012, as...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
National Equal Pay Day (Proc. 9255)
Presidential Document Apr 16, 2015

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Feder...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Proposals to Engage in or To Acquire Companies Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking Activities; Correction
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The Board is requesting comment on proposed amendments to Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) regarding the payment of interest on certain balances maintained at Federal Reserve Banks by or on behalf of eligible institution...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces plans to subm...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces plans to subm...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Apr 16, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
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 Apr 16, 2015

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the availability of the following publication: "NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 67: Promoting Health and Preventi...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Medicaid Program:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would extend enhanced funding for Medicaid eligibility systems as part of a state's mechanized claims processing system, and would update conditions and standards for such systems, including adding to and updating current Medicaid...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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

Title Type Published
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Redu...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is changing the operating schedule that governs the U.S. 101 highway drawbridge also known as Bullard's Drawbridge, near Bandon, Oregon. The change will allow the drawbridge to permanently remain in the closed-to-navigation position,...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone on the navigable waters of the Sabine River in Orange, TX in support of Deep South Racing Association boat races. This temporary safety zone is necessary to protect the surrounding public and ve...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Special Local Regulations and Safety Zones:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is issuing a final rule that revises the list of special local regulations and safety zones established for recurring marine events and fireworks displays that take place within the Fifth Coast Guard District area of responsibility. U...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Special Local Regulations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary Special Local Regulation on the Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio. This Special Local Regulation is necessary to protect race participants from other vessel traffic. This temporary Special Local Regulation is inte...
Rule Apr 16, 2015
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary special local regulation on the Trenton Channel of the Detroit River, Wyandotte, Michigan. This action is necessary and intended to ensure safety of life on the navigable waters immediately prior to, during...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites public comment, and announces that it intends to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) renew and revise control number 1004-0179, "Helium Con...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with Public Laws 92-463 and 94-579, that the California Desert District Advisory Council (DAC) to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Department of the Interior, will meet in formal session on Saturday, May...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Plats of Survey:

Title Type Published
The plats of survey described below are scheduled to be officially filed in the New Mexico State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, New Mexico, thirty (30) calendar days from the date of this publication.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Public Land Orders:

Title Type Published
This order withdraws 6,737.42 acres of public lands from location and entry under the United States mining laws for 20 years on behalf of the Bureau of Land Management to protect and preserve the riparian areas, wildlife habitat, scenic quality, and...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing, through rulemaking, to implement titles I and III of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA). Through these regulations, the Department proposes to implement job training system reform a...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (Department), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/o...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act:

No documents available.

N
National Science Foundation

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The National Science Foundation (NSF) requests recommendations for membership on its scientific and technical Federal advisory committees. Recommendations should consist of the submitting person's or organization's name and affiliation, the name of t...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Exemptions; Issuance:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an exemption from certain emergency planning requirements in response to a June 20, 2012, request from ZionSolutions, LLC. The requirements were part of a final rule that the NRC issued on Novem...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG) DG-1314, "Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive- Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants." Th...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Standard Review Plans:

Title Type Published
On December 18, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published a request for public comment on draft NUREG-2126, "Standard Review Plan for Conventional Uranium Mills and Heap Leach Facilities." The public comment period closed on March...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Act") for an exemption from section 19(b) of the Act and rule 19b-1 under the Act.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
BATS Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
BATS Y-Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Depository Trust Co.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
EDGA Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Apr 16, 2015
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Apr 16, 2015
NYSE MKT, LLC
Notice Apr 16, 2015
The Options Clearing Corp.
Notice Apr 16, 2015

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
In the Matter of the Designation of Ali Ouni Harzi also known as Ali Harzi also known as Ali Bin Al-tahar Bin Al-falah Al-ouni Al-Harzi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as amended
Notice Apr 16, 2015
On November 24, 2013, the United States and its partners in the P5+1--France, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and Germany-- reached an initial understanding with Iran, outlined in a Joint Plan of Action (JPOA),that halts progress on its nuclear pr...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Foreign Affairs Policy Board
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Industry Advisory Group
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended) this notice announces the Department's intention to apply to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew approval of the information collection request (...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
This notice announces the availability of eleven revised consensus standards relating to the provisions of the Sport Pilot and Light-Sport Aircraft rule issued July 16, 2004, and effective September 1, 2004. ASTM International Committee F37 on Light...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Commercial Drivers Licenses:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces that Daimler Trucks North America (Daimler) has requested the renewal of an exemption from the requirement for a commercial driver's license (CDL) for one commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver, Sven Ennerst, who holds a German commerc...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Guidance for Industry and Staff:

Title Type Published
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has placed in the docket and on its Web site, guidance in the form of a circular, to assist recipients in their implementation of the Section 5339 Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Program (Bus Program). The purp...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Hours of Service of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces that it has received an application from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) for a renewal of its exemption from the minimum 30-minute rest break provision of the Agency's h...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Petitions for Inconsequential Noncompliance:

Title Type Published
Continental Tire the Americas, LLC, (CTA), has determined that certain Continental replacement passenger car tires do not fully comply with paragraph S5.5(f) of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 139, New Pneumatic Radial Tires for Lig...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, (MBUSA) on behalf of itself and its parent company Daimler AG (DAG), collectively referred to as "Mercedes" has determined that certain model year (MY) 2015 Mercedes- Benz C-Class (205 Platform) passenger vehicles do not fully...
Notice Apr 16, 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 13 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions gra...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
FMCSA announces its decision to renew the exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for 5 individuals. FMCSA has statutory authority to exempt individuals from the vision requirement if the exemptions gran...
Notice Apr 16, 2015
FMCSA announces its decision to exempt 23 individuals from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). They are unable to meet the vision requirement in one eye for various reasons. The exemptions will enable thes...
Notice Apr 16, 2015

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to a notice of proposed rulemaking by cross-reference to temporary regulations (REG-143040-14) that was published in the Federal Register on Friday, March 13, 2015 (80 FR 13292). The IRS is issuing temporary regulat...
Proposed Rule Apr 16, 2015
This document contains corrections to final and temporary regulations (TD 9713) that were published in the Federal Register on March 13, 2015 (80 FR 13233). The final regulations are relating to information reporting by brokers for bond premium and a...
Rule Apr 16, 2015

U
United States Institute of Peace

Title Type Published
Meetings
Notice Apr 16, 2015

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