March 22, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, U.S. Commercial Service, Office of Global Trade Programs, is organizing a Healthcare Technologies Trade Mission to Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and to Auckland, New Zealand, September 12-16, 2005. The trade mission will target the IT-healthcare sub-sector, e.g., electronic patient records, automated patient scheduling, telemedicine, but will also include other sectors within the healthcare industry.

This notice advises all interested persons of the locations of the March 23, 2005, and the March 31, 2005, public meetings of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. These meetings were previously announced in 70 FR 11731 (March 9, 2005) and 70 FR 12532 (March 14, 2005).

The Employment and Training Administration is issuing this notice to announce the receipt of the following Form 4279-2, ``Certification of Non-Relocation and Market and Capacity Information Report'' for the following: Applicant/Location: SteelCorr, LLC/Lowndes County, Mississippi. Principal Product: Hot Rolled, Pickled and Oiled, Cold Rolled, and Galvanized Steel Coils. Type of Business Activity: Steel. Section 188 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972, as established under 29 CFR part 75, authorizes the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make or guarantee loans or grants to finance industrial and business activities in rural areas. As a prior condition for approval of any loan, guarantee, or grant requested under the program, the Secretary of Labor must certify to the Secretary of Agriculture that the assistance is not calculated to or likely to result in: (a) A transfer of any employment or business activity from one area to another by the loan applicant's business operation; or, (b) An increase in the production of goods, materials, services, or facilities in an area where there is not sufficient demand to employ the efficient capacity of existing competitive enterprises unless the financial assistance will not have an adverse impact on existing competitive enterprises in the area. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) within the Department of Labor is responsible for the review and certification process.

The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has placed in the docket and on its website for public review and comment draft guidelines which address accessibility to and in passenger vessels which are permitted to carry more than 150 passengers or more than 49 overnight passengers. The Access Board has also issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which addresses newly constructed or altered passenger vessels which carry 150 or fewer passengers or 49 or fewer overnight passengers. This document extends the deadline for comments on both the draft guidelines for large vessels and the ANPRM for small vessels.

The Leader, Information Management Case Services Team, Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

This document announces that the EPA Administrator has addressed three citizen petitions asking EPA to object to operating permits issued to three facilities by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). Specifically, the Administrator has partially granted and partially denied three petitions submitted by the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) to object to the state operating permits issued to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Inc., Eastman Kodak Co., Kodak Park Facility, and Eastman Kodak Co., Kodak Power and Steam Generation Plant. Pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act (Act), petitioner may seek judicial review of those portions of the petitions which EPA denied in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit. Any petition for review shall be filed within 60 days from the date this notice appears in the Federal Register, pursuant to section 307 of the Act.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing approved collection for the Water Quality Standards Regulation. This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2005. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.

In this document, the Commission considers several petitions for reconsideration of its First Report and Order (FCC 01-22) and various comments submitted in response to the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 01-22) in this proceeding, but limited to two issues raised therein: Whether cable operators are required to carry both the digital and analog signals of a station during the transition when television stations are still broadcasting analog signals (also referred to as the ``dual carriage'' issue); and how to construe the ``primary video'' carriage limitation under Sections 614(b)(3)(A) (for commercial stations) and 615(g)(1) (for noncommercial stations) under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, if a broadcaster chooses to broadcast multiple digital television streams (also referred to as the ``multicast carriage'' issue). In this document, the Commission grants in part and denies in part the petitions for reconsideration. The Commission affirms its tentative conclusion in the First Report and Order not to impose a dual carriage requirement. With regard to the digital multicast carriage issue, the Commission affirms its earlier conclusion in the First Report and Order and declines to require cable operators to carry any more than one programming stream of a digital television station. Although the Commission found that the operative statutory language at issue is ambiguous on the subject of multicast must carry, it also found, based on the current record, that such a requirement is not necessary to further the purposes of the must carry statute, as defined by the Supreme Court.

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is revising the United States Standards for Grades of Sweet Potatoes. USDA had received a request from several industry groups to add a new grade to the standards, U.S. No. 1 Petite. The change will allow the packing and shipping of smaller size sweet potatoes under the U.S. standards, thereby, improving the usefulness of the standards in serving the industry.