July 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given that NMFS has received a scientific research permit application request relating to Pacific salmon. The proposed research is intended to increase knowledge of species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and to help guide management and conservation efforts.

Background

To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are notifying the public that we have submitted to OMB an information collection request (ICR) to renew approval of the paperwork requirements in the regulations under 30 CFR part 250, Subpart D, ``Oil and Gas Drilling Operations,'' and related documents. This notice also provides the public a second opportunity to comment on the paperwork burden of these regulatory requirements.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces a 5- year review of the Bachman's warbler (Vermivora bachmanii), Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi), Cumberland bean (Villosa trabalis), speckled pocketbook (Lampsilis streckeri), little amphianthus (Amphianthus pusillus), hairy rattleweed (Baptisia arachnifera), Geocarpon minimum (no common name), black-spored quillwort (Isoetes melanospora), mat-forming quillwort (Isoetes tegetiformans), white- haired goldenrod (Solidago albopilosa), Short's goldenrod (Solidago shortii), persistent trillium (Trillium persistens), and relict trillium (Trillium reliquum) under section 4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The purpose of reviews conducted under this section of the Act is to ensure that the classification of species as threatened or endangered on the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants (50 CFR 17.11 and 17.12) is accurate. The 5-year review is an assessment of the best scientific and commercial data available at the time of the review.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled ``State Petitions for Exemption From Preemption'' has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the regulatory review period for CLARINEX and is publishing this notice of that determination as required by law. FDA has made the determination because of the submission of an application to the Director of Patents and Trademarks, Department of Commerce, for the extension of a patent which claims that human drug product.

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) gives notice that it issued DOE/FE Order No. 2105 granting Ocean State Power II authority to import up to 25,339 million British thermal units per day of natural gas from Canada, under a North American Energy Standards Board base contract with ProGas Limited, for a term of three years that began on March 1, 2005. This Order may be found on the FE Web site at https://www.fe.doe.gov (select gas regulation). It is also available for inspection and copying in the Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities Docket Room, 3E-033, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0334, (202) 586-9478. The Docket Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) gives notice that it issued DOE/FE Order No. 2104 granting Ocean State Power II authority to import up to 25,339 million British thermal units per day of natural gas from Canada, under a North American Energy Standards Board base contract with Cargill Gas Marketing Ltd., for a term of three years that began on March 1, 2005. This Order may be found on the FE Web site at https://www.fe.doe.gov (select gas regulation). It is also available for inspection and copying in the Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities Docket Room, 3E-033, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0334, (202) 586-9478. The Docket Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. (MSCG) has applied to renew its authorization to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) intends to submit a request for renewal of an existing approved information collection form, Right-of-Use Application (Form 7-2540), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submitting this revised Right- of-Use Application form (application) to the Office of Management and Budget for review of the information collection requirements, Reclamation requests public comments on specific aspects of the application form.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is submitting a request for reinstatement of a previously approved collection of information under the emergency processing procedures in Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulation 5 CFR 1320.13. FEMA is requesting that this information collection be approved by August 26, 2005. The approval will authorize FEMA to use the collection through February 26, 2006. To help us with the timely processing of the emergency clearance submission to OMB, FEMA invites the general public to comment on the proposed collection of information.

Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and modified BFEs are made final for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each community is required either to adopt or to show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

This interim rule lists communities where modification of the Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. New flood insurance premium rates will be calculated from the modified BFEs for new buildings and their contents.

This final rule will amend the Privacy Act regulations at 45 CFR 613.5, Exemptions, by adding a new subsection (g), Statistical records. The amendment exempts three systems of NSF statistical records, ``Doctorate Records Files,'' ``Doctorate Work History Files'' and ``National Survey of Recent College Graduates & Follow-up Files'' from the application of 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), (d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (H), and (I), and (f) pursuant to Privacy Act exemption (k)(4), 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(4). Exemption (k)(4) permits exemption if the system of records is ``required by statute to be maintained and used solely as statistical records.'' The three named NSF/Science Resource Studies systems of records contain statistical data required by subsection 14(i) of the NSF Act of 1950, as amended, and Title V of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA), to be used for statistical purposes only, and thus meet the requirements of exemption (k)(4).