April 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Onboard Recording of Data Communications in Crash Survivable Memory
This notice announces the availability of, and requests comment on, a draft advisory circular (AC) on aircraft data link recording systems in crash survivable memory. The AC offers one way to achieve minimum acceptable recording system performance and design approval objectives alluded to as part of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), Docket Number FAA-2005-20245 on cockpit voice recorders and digital flight data recorders.
Proposed Establishment of Class E Airspace; Sutton, WV
This notice proposes to establish Class E airspace area at Sutton, WV. The development of a Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) based on area navigation (RNAV) to serve flights into Braxton County Airport, Sutton, WV under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) has made this proposal necessary. Controlled airspace extending upward from 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) is needed to contain aircraft executing the approach. The area would be depicted on aeronautical charts for pilot reference.
Amendment of the Commission's Rules
This document amends the Commission's rules to clarify the responsibilities of the Managing Director with respect to financial management matters and with respect to implementation of the Commission's directives in a recent Order released October 3, 2003, concerning the administration of the Universal Service Fund (USF) and Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (TRS Fund). The rules adopted herein are intended to provide clear direction to the Managing Director to respond quickly and efficiently to matters concerning the proper accounting and reporting for the Commission's financial transactions and compliance with relevant and applicable federal financial management and reporting statutes. In addition, we amend our rules to authorize the Billing and Collection Agent for North American Numbering Plan Administration and the Administrators of the USF and the TRS Fund to issue FCC Registration Numbers for carriers who have not previously been assigned one.
Suspension of the Acceptance of Applications for new 900 MHz Licenses Allotted to Business and Industrial Land Transportation Pool Licensees
In this document, the Commission affirmed the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's (Bureau) decision to suspend the acceptance of applications for new 900 MHz business and industrial land transportation (B/ILT) licenses. The Commission takes this action to facilitate the auction of 900 MHz B/ILT white space.
Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charges
This document grants informal requests for waiver of the deadline for compliance with the Commission's revised presubscribed interexchange carrier (PIC) change charge policies. PIC change charges are federally-tariffed charges imposed by incumbent local exchange carriers on end-user subscribers when these subscribers change their long distance carriers. The order extends by six months the date by which incumbent local exchange carriers must file tariff revisions to comply with the revised PIC change charge requirements.
Radio Frequency Identification
The Commission adopted rules which allowed for operation of improved radio frequency identification (RFID) systems in the 433.5- 434.5 MHz (``433 MHz'') band. The rule in Sec. 15.240 required Office of Management and Budget approval and the Commission stated in its previous Federal Register publication that it would announce the effective date of that section when approved. This document announces the effective date of Sec. 15.240.
Air-Ground Telecommunications Services; Correction
The Federal Communications Commission (``Commission'') published in the Federal Register of Wednesday, April 13, 2005, a document, wherein Sec. 22.857 was incorrectly amended. This document corrects that amendment.
Smith Bagley, Inc., Petition for Waiver of Section 54.400(e) of the Commission's Rules
In this document, the Commission grants the petition of Smith Bagley, Inc. (SBI) seeking a waiver of section 54.400(e) of the Commission's Lifeline and Link-Up eligibility rules to enable eligible residents of the Eastern Navajo Agency in the state of New Mexico to receive enhanced Lifeline and Link-Up support.
Narrowbanding for Private Land Mobile Radio Service
This document specifies the procedures by which forty Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) channels, which are located in frequency bands that are allocated primarily for Federal use, are to transition to narrower, more spectrally efficient channels in a process commonly known as ``narrowbanding.'' We take this action because the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has adopted a more rapid narrowbanding schedule in the 150.05-150.8 MHz, the 162.0125-173.2 MHz and 173.4-174 MHz (162-174 MHz), and the 406.1-420 MHz bands (collectively, the Federal bands) than the Commission has required for its licensees.
Prevailing Rate Systems; Environmental Differential Pay for Asbestos Exposure
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing an interim regulation to implement a change in law that requires the use of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration permissible exposure limit standard for concentrations of airborne asbestos fibers for an environmental differential pay category that covers Federal prevailing rate (wage) employees.
Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee and Consumer Pesticide Label Improvement Work Group; Notice of Public Meetings
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, EPA gives notice of a public meeting of the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC) on May 11, and 12, 2005. A draft agenda has been developed and is posted on EPA's web site. Agenda topics will include: Environmental Indicators and Results; Worker Safety Activities; Endangered Species; a report from PPDC's Registration Review Work Group and the PRIA (Pesticide Registration Improvement Act) Process Improvements Work Group; program updates on Registration, Reregistration/Tolerance Reassessment, Fumigants, Human Studies, Mosquito Labeling, Spray Drift, Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS), and Data Requirements for Registration (40 CFR part 158). The PPDC Consumer Pesticide Label Improvement Work Group will meet on May 12, 2005. An agenda for this meeting has been developed and is posted on EPA's website.
Phenmedipham; Reregistration Eligibility Decision for Low Risk Pesticide; Notice of Availability
This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide phenmedipham, and opens a public comment period on this document, related risk assessments, and other support documents. EPA has reviewed the low risk pesticide phenmedipham through a modified, streamlined version of the public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions. Through these programs, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards.
National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites, Proposed Rule No. 42
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 known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States. The National Priorities List (``NPL'') constitutes this list. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'' or ``the Agency'') in determining which sites warrant further investigation. These further investigations will allow EPA to assess the nature and extent of public health and environmental risks associated with the site and to determine what CERCLA-financed remedial action(s), if any, may be appropriate. This rule proposes seven new sites to the NPL; all to the General Superfund Section of the NPL.
National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
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 among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States. The National Priorities List (``NPL'') constitutes this list. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'' or ``the Agency'') in determining which sites warrant further investigation. These further investigations will allow EPA to assess the nature and extent of public health and environmental risks associated with the site and to determine what CERCLA-financed remedial action(s), if any, may be appropriate. This rule adds ten new sites to the General Superfund Section of the NPL.
Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
On December 18, 2003, FRA published an interim final rule that required that the locomotive horn be sounded while trains approach and enter public highway-rail grade crossings. The interim final rule contained an exception to the above requirement in circumstances in which there is not a significant risk of loss of life or serious personal injury, use of the locomotive horn is impractical, or safety measures fully compensate for the absence of the warning provided by the locomotive horn. Communities that qualify for this exception may create ``quiet zones'' within which locomotive horns would not be routinely sounded. The final rule issued today amends certain provisions of the interim final rule to facilitate the development of quiet zones, while balancing the needs of railroads, States and local communities.
Airworthiness Directives; Raytheon Model Hawker 800XP Airplanes
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Raytheon Model Hawker 800XP airplanes. This AD requires inspecting to detect damage of certain wiring in the flight compartment, performing corrective actions if necessary, modifying certain wiring connections, and revising the airplane flight manual. This AD is prompted by reports of miswiring in the power distribution system. We are issuing this AD to ensure that the flightcrew is aware of the source of battery power for certain equipment, and to prevent damage to wiring and surrounding equipment that could result in smoke or fire on the airplane.
Title IV Conservators, Receivers, and Voluntary Liquidations; Receivership Repudiation Authorities
The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) is proposing a rule on how the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC), as receiver or conservator of a Farm Credit System (System) institution, will treat financial assets transferred by the institution in connection with a securitization or in the form of a participation. The rule would resolve issues raised by Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishment of Liabilities (SFAS 140). Under conditions described in the rule, the FCSIC will not seek to recover or reclaim certain financial assets in exercising its authority to repudiate or disaffirm contracts pursuant to 12 CFR 627.2725(b)(2), (b)(14) and 627.2780(b) and (d). The proposed rule also provides that the FCSIC will not seek to enforce the ``contemporaneous'' requirement of section 5.61(d) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended (Act) (12 U.S.C. 2277a-10(d)). The proposed rule is substantially identical to receivership rules issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).
Facilitating the Provision of Spectrum-Based Services to Rural Areas and Promoting Opportunities for Rural Telephone Companies To Provide Spectrum-Based Services
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that a certain rule adopted in its Rural Services proceeding (WT Docket Nos. 02-381, 01-14, and 03-202; FCC 04-166) in 2004, to the extent it contained an information collection requirement that required approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was approved, and became effective March 10, 2005, following approval by OMB.
Radio Broadcasting Services; McAlester, Okemah, and Wilburton, OK
The Audio Division requests comment on a petition jointly filed by Little Dixie Radio, Inc., KESC Enterprises, Inc., and Southeastern Oklahoma Radio, LLC, to reallot and change the community of license for Station KESC(FM) from Channel 279C1 at Wilburton, Oklahoma, to Channel 279C1 at Okemah, Oklahoma. To prevent the removal of the sole local aural service at Wilburton, the document proposes to reallot and change the community of license for Station KMCO(FM) from Channel 267C1 at McAlester, Oklahoma to Channel 267C1 at Wilburton, Oklahoma. See Supplementary Information.
Radio Broadcasting Services; Morrison and Sparta, Tennessee
The Audio Division, at the request of Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc., licensee of Station WRKK-FM, Channel 288A, Sparta, Tennessee, deletes Channel 288A at Sparta, Tennessee, from the FM Table of Allotments, allots Channel 287A at Morrison, Tennessee, as the community's first local FM service, and modifies the license of Station WRKK-FM to specify operation on Channel 287A at Morrison. Channel 287A can be allotted to Morrison, Tennessee, in compliance with the Commission's minimum distance separation requirements with a site restriction of 3.4 km (2.1 miles) northeast of Morrison. The coordinates for Channel 287A at Morrison, Tennessee, are 35-37-27 North Latitude and 85-53-37 West Longitude.
Radio Broadcasting Services; Lahaina and Waianae, HI
In response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 68 FR 2733 (January 21, 2003), this Report and Order reallots Channel 266C, FM Station KLHI, Lahaina, Hawaii, to Waianae, Hawaii, and modifies Station KLHI's license accordingly. The coordinates for Channel 266C at Waianae, Hawaii, are 21-23-51 NL and 158-06-01 WL, with a site restriction of 10.7 kilometers (6.6 miles) southeast of Waianae.
Basic Reconfiguration Schedule Put Forth in the Transition Administrator's 800 MHz Regional Prioritization Plan
In July 2004, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Report and Order, in the 800 MHz Public Safety Proceeding establishing rules that reconfigure the 800 MHz band to eliminate interference to public safety and other 800 MHz land mobile communication systems. As specified in the Commission's Report and Order, the band reconfiguration process is being overseen by a Transition Administrator (TA) whose duties include providing the Commission with a plan detailing when band reconfiguration will commence in each of the fifty-five 800 MHz National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) regions. On January 31, 2005, the TA filed the plan (Regional Prioritization Plan or RPP), containing a general schedule for implementing 800 MHz band reconfiguration.
Radio Broadcasting Services; Daytona Beach Shores, FL
This document grants a petition filed by Carmine Tutera requesting the allotment of Channel 258A at Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, as its first local service. See 69 FR 42957, published July 19, 2004. The coordinates for Channel 258A at Daytona Beach Shores are 29-15-06 NL and 81-02-29 WL. There is a site restriction 10.1 kilometers (6.3 miles) northwest of Daytona Beach Shores.
Radio Broadcasting Services; Enfield, NH; Hartford, VT; Keeseville and Morrisonville, NY; White River Junction, VT
This document requests comments on a petition for rule making filed by Nassau Broadcasting III, L.L.C. (``Petitioner''), licensee of FM Station WWOD, Channel 282C3, Hartford, Vermont, and FM Station WXLF, Channel 237A, White River Junction, Vermont. Petitioner requests that the Commission (1) allot Channel 282A to Enfield, New Hampshire as its first local radio broadcast service; (2) reallot Channel 282C3 from Hartford, Vermont, to Keeseville, New York, and modify the license of Station WWOD accordingly; (3) reallot Channel 237A from White River Junction, Vermont, to Hartford, Vermont and modify the license of Station WXLF accordingly; and (4) reallot Channel 231A from Keeseville, New York, to Morrisonville, New York, as that community's first local radio broadcast station. The coordinates for Channel 282A at Enfield, New Hampshire are 43-38-30 North Latitude and 72-08-42 West Longitude, with no site restrictions. The coordinates for Channel 282C3 at Keeseville, New York are 44-31-31 North Latitude and 73-31-07 West Longitude, with a site restriction of 3.8 kilometers (2.3 miles) northwest of Keeseville. The coordinates for Channel 237A at Hartford, Vermont, are 43-43-45 North Latitude and 72-22-22 West Longitude, with a site restriction of 8.1 kilometers (5.0 miles) north of Hartford. The coordinates for Channel 231A at Morrisonville, New York, are 44-40-19 North Latitude and 73-32-17 West Longitude, with a site restriction of 3.0 kilometers (1.9 miles) southeast of Morrisonville.
Notice of Public Information Collection(s) Being Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. No person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act that does not display a valid control number. Comments are requested concerning (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Development of Operational, Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Federal, State and Local Public Safety Communication Requirements Through the Year 2010
In this document the Commission takes certain actions intended to conform certain technical rules governing the 764-776 MHz and 794- 806 MHz public safety bands (700 MHz Public Safety Band) to industry consensus standards.
Development of Operational, Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Federal, State and Local Public Safety Communication Requirements Through the Year 2010
In this document the Commission takes certain actions intended to encourage the transition to narrowband technology in the 764-776 MHz and 794-806 MHz public safety bands (700 MHz Public Safety Band).
Development of Operational, Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Federal, State and Local Public Safety Communication Requirements Through the Year 2010
In this document the Commission seeks comment on various proposals governing both technical and operational rules in the 764-776 MHz and 794-806 MHz public safety bands (700 MHz Public Safety Band).
Implementation of SHVERA: Procedural Rules
In this document, the Commission adopts procedural rules in compliance with requirements in the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 (SHVERA). The Commission first prescribes rules for carriage elections on a county basis, unified retransmission consent negotiations, and notifications by satellite carriers to local broadcasters concerning carriage of significantly viewed signals. The Commission also revises the rules for satellite carriers' notices to station licensees when the carrier is going to initiate new local service. Finally, the Commission adopts a procedural rule which exempts satellite carriers from the signal testing requirements of section 339(c)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, when local- into-local service is available.
Inert Ingredients; Proposal to Revoke Pesticide Tolerance Exemptions for Three CFC Chemicals
EPA is proposing to revoke exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance for three inert ingredients (dichlorodifluoromethane, dichlorotetrafluoroethane, and trichlorofluoromethane) because these substances are no longer in active Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) pesticide product registrations and/or their use in pesticide products sold in the U.S. has been prohibited under the Clean Air Act for over a decade by EPA's ban on the sale or distribution, or offer for sale or distribution in interstate commerce of certain nonessential products that contain or are manufactured with ozone depleting compounds. These ingredients are subject to reassessment by August, 2006 under section 408(q) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). Upon the issuance of the final rule revoking the tolerance exemptions, five tolerances will be counted as ``reassessed'' for purposes of FFDCA's section 408(q).
Ethyl Parathion; Notice of Receipt of Request to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of a request by Drexel Chemical Company to voluntarily cancel their registrations of products containing the pesticide O, O-Diethyl-O-p-nitrophenyl thiophosphate (ethyl parathion). The request would terminate the last ethyl parathion products registered in the U.S. EPA intends to grant this request at the close of the comment period for this announcement unless the Agency receives substantive comments within the comment period that would merit its further review of the request, or unless Drexel Chemical Company withdraws its request within this period. Upon acceptance of this request, any sale, distribution, or use of products listed in this notice will be canceled immediately.
Isophorone; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Thymol; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemicalin or on Food
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Spiromesifen; Pesticide Tolerance
This regulation establishes a tolerance for: Primary crops for the combined residues of spiromesifen (2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)- 1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate) and its enol metabolite (4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3- en-2-one), calculated as the parent compound equivalents; rotational crops for the inadvertent or indirect combined residues of spiromesifen (2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3- dimethylbutanoate), its enol metabolite (4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6- trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one), and its metabolites containing the 4-hydroxymethyl moiety (4-hydroxy-3-[4-(hydroxymethyl)- 2,6-dimethylphenyl]-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one), calculated as the parent compound equivalents; and livestock commodities for the combined residues of spiromesifen (2-oxo-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1- oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate), and its metabolites containing the enol (4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1- oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one) and 4-hydroxymethyl (4-hydroxy-3-[4- (hydroxymethyl)-2,6-dimethylphenyl]-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2 -one) moieties, calculated as the parent compound equivalents. Bayer CropScience requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Benoxacor; Partial Grant and Partial Denial of Petition, and Amendment of Tolerance to Include S-Metolachlor
EPA is granting, in part, and denying, in part, pesticide petition 7E3489 submitted by Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., and is amending the tolerance for benoxacor at 40 CFR 180.460 to include a reference to S-metolachlor, in addition to the existing reference to metolachlor. EPA issued a notice pursuant to section 408(d)(3) of FFDCA, 21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(3) in the Federal Register of August 3, 2003 (68 FR 46620) (FRL-7317-6) announcing the filing of a petition requesting that the tolerance expression for the inert ingredient benoxacor (safener) in 40 CFR 180.460 be amended to remove references to metolachlor and replace it with references to S-metoloachlor. Although EPA finds it is safe to add a reference to S-metolachlor to this tolerance regulation, EPA does not agree that grounds exist to remove the reference to metolachlor. Thus, EPA is granting Syngenta's petition in as far as it seeks to add the reference to S-metolachlor but is denying the request to remove metolachlor.
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
The Office of the Secretary of Defense proposes to alter a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C 552a), as amended. The Office of the Secretary is proposing to alter the existing system of records by expanding the purposes, categories of individuals covered, categories of records being maintained, and by adding three new routine uses.
Initiation of a Changed Circumstances Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Ukraine
The Department of Commerce is initiating a changed circumstances review in order to determine whether Ukraine should continue to be treated as a non-market economy country for purposes of the antidumping duty law. Written comments (original and six copies) should be sent to Joseph A. Spetrini, Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Central Records Unit, Room 1870, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.
Designations under the Textile and Apparel Commercial Availability Provisions of the United States Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA)
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has determined that certain woven fabric, of the specifications detailed below, classified in the indicated subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), for use in boys' suits, trousers, and suit-type jackets or blazers, sizes 2T - 20, cannot be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner. CITA hereby designates such apparel articles, that are both cut and sewn or otherwise assembled in an eligible CBTPA beneficiary country, from this fabric as eligible for quota free and duty free treatment under the textile and apparel commercial availability provisions of the CBTPA and eligible under HTSUS subheadings 9820.11.27, to enter free of quota and duties, provided that all other fabrics are wholly formed in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States.
General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC); Meeting Announcement
NMFS announces the meeting of the General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the IATTC on May 12, 2005.
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