September 17, 2015 (Volume 80)

Federal Register September 17, 2015

View all documents issued on September 17, 2015. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

101 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on September 17, 2015

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Title Type Published
USAID is issuing a final rule adopting with amendments the "Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards," issued by the Office of Management and Budget and published in Federal Register on December...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Board for International Food and Agricultural Development
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
We are amending the fruits and vegetables regulations to list kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa and Actinidia chinensis) from Chile as eligible for importation into the United States subject to a systems approach. Under this systems approach, the fruit will...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

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We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a supplement to an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact relative to an oral rabies vaccination field trial in New Hampshire, New York...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Energy Answers Arecibo, LLC's (Energy Answers) proposed Waste to Energy Project (Project) in Ar...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule Committee (Committee) will meet in Tempe, Arizona. Attendees may also participate via webinar and conference call. The Committee operates i...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
The Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail Advisory Council (Council) will meet in Sandpoint, Idaho. The Council is authorized under Section 5(d) of the National Trails System Act of 1968 (Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Co...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals; Correction
Notice Sep 17, 2015
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4) and (11), the Department of Commerce proposes to amend the system of records entitled "COMMERCE/NOAA-14, Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program" to update the routine uses to i...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552A(e)(4) and (11); and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130, Appendix I, "Federal Agency Responsibilities for Maintaining Records About Individuals," the Department of...
Notice Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 2015

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews:

Title Type Published
On August 31, 2015, the United States Court of International Trade (the Court) sustained the Department of Commerce's (Department) Final Remand Redetermination pertaining to the 19th administrative review of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat prod...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:

Title Type Published
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted Amendment 7 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Dolphin and Wahoo Fishery off the Atlantic States (Dolphin and Wahoo FMP) and Amendment 33 to the FMP for the Snapper-Group...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015
NMFS proposes to implement management measures described in a framework action to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico (FMP), as prepared by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council). If implemen...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015

Initiation of Review of Management Plan and Regulations of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:

Title Type Published
On August 27, 2015, NOAA published a notice of intent in the Federal Register (80 FR 51973) to initiate public scoping for the management plan review for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). This notice alerts the public of the addition of...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) will convene an open public meeting on October 2, 2015, preceded by open public meetings of the Board Committees on October 1, 2015.
Notice Sep 17, 2015
NMFS announces that the Center for Independent Experts will meet to review methods for reviewing modified integrated assessments (based on catch-MSY model) for data-poor stocks.
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
This rule establishes and updates policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures to conduct criminal history checks on individuals involved in the provision of child care services for children under the age of 18 in DoD programs. The Crime...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Navy (DON), after carefully considering the environmental consequences of the proposed action, as well as strategic, operational, and training requirements, obligations under treaties and other international agreements, and cost...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Education Department logo Education Department

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

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an existing information collection.
Notice Sep 17, 2015
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a revision of an existing information collection.
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of an upcoming meeting of the National Board for Education Sciences (NBES). The notice also describes the functions of the Committee. Notice of this meeting is required by Section 10(a) (2) of t...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Energy Conservation Program:

Title Type Published
On August 6, 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) in the Federal Register regarding proposed amendments to the test procedures for small, large, and very large air-cooled commercial package air co...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015

Meetings:

Title Type Published
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 Sep 17, 2015
This notice announces a meeting of the National Coal Council (NCC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Notice Sep 17, 2015
The Department of Energy (DOE), on September 10, 2015, published a notice of open meeting announcing an open meeting of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Due to the scheduled transportation delays and security issues near the meeting venue, the...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Proposed Restricted Service List for Programmatic Agreements for Managing Properties Included in or Eligible for Inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places:

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Title Type Published
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve a revision to the Nevada Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) to document that the existing plan...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015

Pesticide Tolerances:

Title Type Published
This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of halosulfuron-methyl in or on the pome fruit group 11-10 and a tolerance with regional registration for residues of halosulfuron-methyl in or on the small vine climbing fruit, except fuzzy kiwifr...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; Delegation of Authority (Memorandum of August 28, 2015)
Presidential Document Sep 17, 2015

Special Observances:

Title Type Published
National Grandparents Day (Proc. 9321)
Presidential Document Sep 17, 2015
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Proc. 9322)
Presidential Document Sep 17, 2015
National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week (Proc. 9320)
Presidential Document Sep 17, 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 Commission) invites the general public and other Federal a...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
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 Commission) invites the general public and other Federal a...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
In this document the Commission revises its Schedule of Regulatory Fees to recover an amount of $339,844,000 that Congress has required the Commission to collect for fiscal year 2015. Section 9 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, provides...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, certain information collection requirements associated with the Commission's Expa...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Terminations of Receivership:

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Notice Sep 17, 2015
This final notice announces our decision to approve the request from Doctors Hospital at Renaissance for an exception to the prohibition against expansion of facility capacity.
Notice Sep 17, 2015
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is adding regulations for the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals. These regulations will, for the first time, establish requiremen...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending our regulation for Current Good Manufacturing Practice In Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food in two fundamental ways. First, we are modernizing the long-standing current good manufac...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a document entitled "Qualitative Risk Assessment: Risk of Activity/Animal Food Combinations for Activities (Outside the Farm Definition) Conducted in a Facility Co-Located on a...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a document entitled "Qualitative Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/Food Combinations for Activities (Outside the Farm Definition) Conducted in a Facility Co-Located on a Farm"...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is correcting a document that appeared in the Federal Register of July 24, 2015, entitled "User Fee Program for Accreditation of Third-Party Auditors/ Certification Bodies To Conduct Food Safety Audits and...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 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 Sep 17, 2015
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) 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 publis...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Funding Availability:

Title Type Published
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), announces the funding opportunity for the Bridging the Word Gap Incentive Prize Challenge. MCHB is sponsoring the Word Gap Challenge (Challenge) to spur...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Single-Case Deviation from Competition Requirement for Program Expansion:

Title Type Published
HRSA announces the award of a program expansion supplement in the amount of $100,000 for the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal and Child Health (AIM) cooperative agreement. The purpose of the AIM cooperative agreement, as stated in the funding oppo...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
HRSA announces the award of a program expansion supplement in the amount of $40,000 for the Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in Education, Science, and Practice grant. The purpose of the Centers of Excellence in MCH program is...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This rule identifies communities where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with th...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Drawbridge Operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedules that govern the Tacony-Palmyra (Route 73) Bridge over Delaware River, mile 107.2, between Tacony, PA and Palmyra, NJ and Burlington-Bristol (Route 413) Bridge over Delaware...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedules that govern the S.R. 44 Bridge over Mantua Creek, mile 1.7, at Paulsboro, NJ and Route 130 Bridge over Raccoon Creek, mile 1.8, at Bridgeport, NJ. This deviation allows the...
Rule Sep 17, 2015
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedules that govern the AMTRAK Bridge over Beach Thorofare, New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway, mile 68.9, at Atlantic City, NJ, and the AMTRAK Bridge over Delaware River, mile 104.6...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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

Title Type Published
On September 10, 2015, HUD published in the Federal Register a notice seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described in the September 10, 2015, notice. The September 10, 2015, notice provided...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is removing a required amendment to the Pennsylvania regulatory program (the Pennsylvania program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). OSMRE...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

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, the Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior is announcing its intention to request renewal for the collection...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

National Register of Historic Places:

Permits:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits activities with listed species...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have issued the following permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species, marine mammals, or both. We issue these permits under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protec...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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

Title Type Published
Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Russia, and the United Kingdom
Notice Sep 17, 2015
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review the final initial determination ("ID") issued by the presiding administrative law judge ("ALJ") on July 13, 2015, finding a violation of section 337 of the T...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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 pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed collectio...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

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National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Meetings:

No documents available.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a proposed collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, "Destinations of Released Patients Following Tre...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Guidance:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-5049, "Independent Assessment of Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Systems." This DG provides guidance from experience gained since the r...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1315, "Seismic Design Classification for Nuclear Power Plants." The DG describes a method that the NRC staff considers acceptable for use in id...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Title Type Published
This final rule amends Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) regulations to require electronic filing of certain multiemployer notices. These changes make the provision of information to PBGC more efficient and effective.
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to amend the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program regulations to add an additional enrollment type called "self plus one" for premium rating and family member...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
This document contains the final revisions to the rules of practice before the Judicial Officer in proceedings relative to debarment from contracting.
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Applications:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from sections 18(c) and 18(i) of the Act and for an order pursuant to section 17(d) of the Act and rule 17d-1 under the Act.
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Abandonment Exemptions:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Nottoway County, VA
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below is being submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comme...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
The Federal Transit Administration invites public comment about its intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval to extend the approval of the following information collection:
Notice Sep 17, 2015
This action discontinues the availability Airport Advisory services within the contiguous United States, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. The FAA is taking this action because the frequency of Remote Airport Advisories service use at the 19 locations within...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Abandonment Exemptions:

No documents available.

Airworthiness Directives:

Title Type Published
We propose to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2014-14- 06 for all Airbus Model A318-111 and -112 airplanes; Model A319-111, - 112, -113, -114, and -115 airplanes; Model A320-111, -211, -212, and - 214 airplanes; and Model A321-111, -112, -211,...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015

Class E Airspace; Amendments:

Title Type Published
This action corrects an error in a final rule published in the Federal Register of August 31, 2015, by amending the geographic coordinates of Tracy Municipal Airport, Tracy, CA, in Class E airspace. This does not affect the boundaries or operating re...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

Requests for Administrative Waivers of the Coastwise Trade Laws:

Title Type Published
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for s...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Sep 17, 2015
As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for su...
Notice Sep 17, 2015

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This final rule adopts the interim rule, published in the Federal Register on January 28, 2011, concerning the collection of delinquent State unemployment compensation debts through the offset of overpayments of Federal taxes.
Rule Sep 17, 2015
This document contains proposed regulations to implement the exception to the "contemporaneous written acknowledgement" requirement for substantiating charitable contribution deductions of $250 or more. These proposed regulations provide rules concer...
Proposed Rule Sep 17, 2015

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Loan Guaranties:

Title Type Published
This rule adopts as final, without change, a proposed rule of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to amend its regulations to provide grants for the development of new assistive technologies for use in specially adapted housing for eligible veter...
Rule Sep 17, 2015

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