April 23, 2015 (Volume 80)

Federal Register April 23, 2015

View all documents issued on April 23, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

101 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 23, 2015

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Loan Guarantees:

Title Type Published
This regulation prescribes the procedures and standard terms and conditions applicable to loan guarantees to be issued for the benefit of Ukraine pursuant to Title III of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriation...
Rule Apr 23, 2015

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
We are amending the fruits and vegetables regulations to allow the importation of fresh apples (Malus pumila) from China into the continental United States. As a condition of entry, apples from areas in China in which the Oriental fruit fly (Bactroce...
Rule Apr 23, 2015

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320 (60 FR 44978, August 29, 1995), this notice announces the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) intention...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Treatment Evaluation Documents:

Title Type Published
We are advising the public that we have determined that it is necessary to amend hot water treatment schedule T102-a in the Plant Protection and Quarantine Treatment Manual to extend the applicability of the treatment to additional mango commodities....
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding eight persons under nine entries to the Entity List. The eight persons who are added to the Entity List have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the na...
Rule Apr 23, 2015
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (the ITC) have determined that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) finding on prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from Japan, and the AD orders on P...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
The Department of Commerce ("the Department") is rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on steel wire garment hangers from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ("Vietnam") for the period February 1, 2014 through January 31, 2...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by catcher vessels using trawl gear in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the A season allowance of the 2015 Pacific cod total al...
Rule Apr 23, 2015
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific ocean perch in the Central Aleutian district (CAI) of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) by vessels participating in the BSAI trawl limited access fishery. This action is necess...
Rule Apr 23, 2015
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 630 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the B season allowance of the 2015 total allowable catch of pollock for Statistical Area 630 in the GO...
Rule Apr 23, 2015

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Guam Department of Agriculture Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources (DAWR), 163 Dairy Road, Mangilao, Guam 96913 has been issued a permit to take green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Notice is hereby given that a permit has been issued to Allyson Hindle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Thier 503, Boston, MA 02114 to receive, import, and export specimens of marine mammals...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Notice is hereby given that Richard Breezy Wynn, 7216 Wellington Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919, has applied in due form for a permit to conduct commercial or educational photography on killer (Orcinus orca) and beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) whales.
Notice Apr 23, 2015
NMFS hereby issues an amended permit to authorize the incidental, but not intentional, take of two stocks of marine mammals listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), by the Califor...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Requests for Nominations:

Title Type Published
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issues this Notice on behalf of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) as part of the annual process to seek expressions of interest from individuals who would like to se...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Subsidy Programs:

Title Type Published
The Department of Commerce (Department) seeks public comment on any subsidies, including stumpage subsidies, provided by certain countries exporting softwood lumber or softwood lumber products to the United States during the period July 1, 2014 throu...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Subzone Status Approvals:

Title Type Published
Red Wing Shoe Co., Inc., Red Wing, MN
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), DoD announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether t...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

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

Title Type Published
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 requ...
Notice Apr 23, 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 requ...
Notice Apr 23, 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 requ...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Funding Opportunities:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of Defense was previously authorized to establish a limited program to construct, renovate, repair, or expand elementary and secondary public schools on military installations in order to address capacity or facility condition deficienc...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The Secretary announces plans to hold two public meetings to seek comments about the proposed regulatory changes contained in a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that was published in the Federal Register on April 16, 2015, which would implement s...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015

Applications for New Awards:

Waivers and Extensions of Project Periods:

Title Type Published
For 36-month projects funded in fiscal year (FY) 2012 under the Territories and Freely Associated States Education Grant (T&FASEG) program, the Secretary proposes to waive the requirement that prohibits the extension of project periods involving the...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Combined Filings
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Combined Filings
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Combined Filings
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Nevada. 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 Apr 23, 2015
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Feather River Air Quality Management District (FRAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compound (VO...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Feather River Air Quality Management District (FRAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile org...
Rule Apr 23, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to make a determination of attainment regarding the Liberty-Clairton, Pennsylvania 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) nonattainment area (hereafter "Liberty-Clairton Area" or...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve into the Illinois regional haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) variances affecting the following Midwest Generation, LLC facilities: Crawford Generating Station (Cook County), Joliet...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's December 3, 2014 request to redesignate to attainment the Johnstown nonattainment area (Johnstown Area or Area) for the 1997 annual and 2006 24-hour...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Pesticide Programs is announcing a public meeting of the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC) on May 14-15, 2015. In addition, EPA is annou...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Pesticide Tolerances:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of bicyclopyrone in or on field corn, forage; field corn, grain; field corn, stover; popcorn, grain; popcorn, stover; sweet corn, forage; sweet corn, ears; sweet corn, stover; sugarcane, stalks; cat...
Rule Apr 23, 2015

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
National Crime Victims' Rights Week (Proc. 9257)
Presidential Document Apr 23, 2015
National Park Week (Proc. 9258)
Presidential Document Apr 23, 2015

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this Updating Part 1 Competitive Bidding Rules Additional Request for Comment, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks additional comment on changes to the Commission's Competitive Bidding rules suggested by commenters in response...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Apr 23, 2015

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Eligibility in the States, District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa; CFR Correction
Rule Apr 23, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) will host a webinar/conference call for its members to discuss the recommendation sections of the 2015 Report to the President (RTP). The topic of the PCPID 2015 RTP will be...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) announces the availability of a draft NTP Technical Report (TR) scheduled for peer review: Pentabromodiphenyl ether mixture [DE-71 (technical grade)]. The peer review meeting is open to the public. Registration i...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Notice Apr 23, 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 University Bridge, mile 4.3, across Lake Washington Ship Canal at Seattle, WA. The deviation is necessary to accommodate the "Beat the Bridge" foot race eve...
Rule Apr 23, 2015
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedule that governs the upper deck of the Steel Bridge across the Willamette River, mile 12.1, at Portland, OR. The deviation is necessary to accommodate the annual Rock `n' Roll 1...
Rule Apr 23, 2015

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
We (the U.S. Geological Survey) are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. This collection consists of 27 forms. As part of the requested extension, we will make several revisions...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

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

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) is seeking comments on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the collection of information for the Application for Admission to H...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), withdraw the proposed rule to list the bi-State distinct population segment (DPS) of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in California and Nevada as threatened under the Endangered Species...
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015

Indian Gaming:

Title Type Published
This publishes notice of the extension of the Class III gaming compact between the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the State of South Dakota.
Notice Apr 23, 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) Sierra Front-Northwestern Great Basin Resource Advisory...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Complaints:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled Certain Recombinant Factor VIII Products, DN 3065; the Commission is soliciting comments on any public interest issues raised by the complaint or co...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Proposed Consent Decrees under the Clean Water Act
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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 general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on propose...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
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 23, 2015

Funding Availabilities:

Title Type Published
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the availability of approximately $15 million in grant funds for the Disability Employment Initiative authorized by Section 169, subsection (b), of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Ac...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

No documents available.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Combined License Applications:

Title Type Published
On September 20, 2007, South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) an application for combined licenses (COLs) for two additional units (Units 3 and 4) at the South Texas Project (S...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

License Amendments:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering amending Source Materials License SUA-1475 issued to the United Nuclear Corporation (UNC), a subsidiary of General Electric (GE), to revise current ground water protection standards in Licen...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

O
Overseas Private Investment Corporation

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

Title Type Published
This document contains a correction to the notice for OPIC-52 published in the Federal Register volume 80 FR 20270 on April 15, 2015. This new notice updates the expected reporting hours and federal cost estimates to reflect current usage of the info...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission is noticing a recently filed Postal Service notice concerning amended rate adjustments and classification changes affecting Standard Mail, Periodicals, and Package Services. The amended rate adjustments and other changes are scheduled...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
The Postal Service is proposing to revise the rules concerning authorization to manufacture and distribute postage evidencing systems to reflect new revenue assurance practices.
Proposed Rule Apr 23, 2015

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

Title Type Published
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Notice Apr 23, 2015
EDGA Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 23, 2015
EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Apr 23, 2015
Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC
Notice Apr 23, 2015
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Notice Apr 23, 2015
NYSE Arca, Inc.
Notice Apr 23, 2015
NYSE MKT, LLC
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Trading Suspension Orders:

Title Type Published
ForceField Energy, Inc.
Notice Apr 23, 2015

State Department logo State Department

Title Type Published
On February 13, 2015, the Department of State published a list of goods and services produced by independent Cuban entrepreneurs that are eligible for importation into the United States, pursuant to Sec. 515.582 of the Department of the Treasury's Cu...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
The U.S. government is renewing temporary waivers of certain sanctions to allow for a discrete range of transactions related to the provision of satellite connectivity services to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). The U.S. government...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

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

Title Type Published
The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on this collection from all intereste...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Lease Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
The Board grants separate exemptions under 49 U.S.C. 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323-25 for BNSF to lease from UP approximately 54.12 miles of main line track for both track and signal maintenance and 7.80 miles of right...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Anthropomorphic Test Devices; CFR Correction
Rule Apr 23, 2015
The U.S. Department of Transportation and motor carriers have invested millions of dollars in research, development, and implementation of strategies and technologies to reduce truck and bus crashes. FMCSA is evaluating the impacts of considering a c...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
In accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, Public Law 111-117, Department of Transportation is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the FY 14 Service Contract Inventory a...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) to require certified medical examiners (MEs) performing physical examinations of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers to use a newly developed Medical Examination Report (MER) Form,...
Rule Apr 23, 2015
Petitions for Waivers of Compliance
Notice Apr 23, 2015
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given of the actions on spec...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), PHMSA is publishing the following list of special permit applications that have been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the expected completion date for action on eac...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Haz...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We are superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2013-26-05 for all Dassault Aviation Model FAN JET FALCON, FAN JET FALCON SERIES C, D, E, F, and G airplanes; Model MYSTERE-FALCON 200 airplanes; and Model MYSTERE-FALCON 20-C5, 20-D5, 20-E5, and 20-F5...
Rule Apr 23, 2015

Hazardous Materials:

Title Type Published
PHMSA is issuing this notice to remind hazardous materials shippers and carriers of their responsibility to ensure that current, accurate and timely emergency response information is immediately available to emergency response officials for shipments...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
FRA and PHMSA are issuing this notice to remind railroads operating a "high hazard flammable train" (HHFT)--defined as a train comprised of 20 or more loaded tank cars of a Class 3 flammable liquid in a continuous block, or a train with 35 or more lo...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Lease Exemptions:

No documents available.

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications:

Title Type Published
FMCSA announces its decision to grant requests from 17 individuals for exemptions from the Agency's physical qualifications standard concerning hearing for interstate drivers. The current regulation prohibits hearing impaired individuals from operati...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
FMCSA announces its decision to grant requests from 10 individuals for exemptions from the Agency's physical qualifications standard concerning hearing for interstate drivers. The current regulation prohibits hearing impaired individuals from operati...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
FMCSA announces its decision to grant requests from 4 individuals for exemptions from the Agency's physical qualifications standard concerning hearing for interstate drivers. The current regulation prohibits hearing impaired individuals from operatin...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
FMCSA announces its decision to grant requests from 4 individuals for exemptions from the Agency's physical qualifications standard concerning hearing for interstate drivers. The current regulation prohibits individuals who do not meet the standard f...
Notice Apr 23, 2015
FMCSA announces receipt of applications from 35 individuals for exemption from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. They are unable to meet the vision requirement in one eye for various reasons. The exemptions will...
Notice Apr 23, 2015

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Apr 23, 2015
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 Apr 23, 2015
Notice.
Notice Apr 23, 2015

United States African Development Foundation logo United States African Development Foundation

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) will hold its quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors to discuss the agency's programs and administration.
Notice Apr 23, 2015

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