2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department hereby solicits applications from persons (including firms, corporations, or other legal entities) who weave worsted wool fabrics in the United States for an allocation of the 2006 tariff rate quota on certain worsted wool fabric. Interested persons must submit an application on the form provided to the address listed below by October 3, 2005. The Department will cause to be published in the Federal Register its determination to allocate the 2006 tariff rate quotas and will notify applicants of their respective allocation as soon as possible after that date. Promptly thereafter, the Department will issue licenses to eligible applicants.

The Committee has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for their review the following collection as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

In compliance with the requirements of section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and extension of this information collection requirement. Any interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below. The Commission received no comments in response to an earlier Federal Register notice of June 7, 2005 (70 FR 33140-41) and has made this notation in its submission to OMB.

This rule expands the definition of treaty trader and treaty investor contained at 22 CFR 41.51 to include a new nonimmigrant category (E-3) for nonimmigrant treaty aliens coming to the United States solely to perform services in a specialty occupation. It also reorganizes existing regulatory language pertaining to treaty traders and treaty investors to make this information clearer and easier to read.

The designation of Sudan for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will expire on November 2, 2005. This Notice extends TPS for Sudan for 18 months, until May 2, 2007, and sets forth procedures necessary for nationals of Sudan (or aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Sudan) with TPS to re- register and to apply for an extension of their employment authorization documents (EADs) for the additional 18-month period. Certain nationals of Sudan (or aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Sudan) who previously have not applied for TPS may be eligible to apply under the late initial registration provisions. The Department of Homeland Security recognizes that some re- registrants may not receive their new employment authorization documents until after their current documents expire on November 2, 2005. Accordingly, when eligible TPS beneficiaries re-register for TPS and appear at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Application Support Center for collection of biometrics, stickers will be affixed to their employment authorization documents to extend the validity of the cards through February 2006.

This document corrects the notice that appeared in the Federal Register on August 29, 2005, (70 FR 51065), entitled ``Federal Guidelines for Requesting, Stockpiling, Distributing Potassium Iodide (KI) From the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)'. We inadvertently omitted the DATES section of the notice to inform the public of how long we will be receiving comments. We are adding the DATES section to read as follows:

This document announces that the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will convene a major trade symposium that will feature joint discussions by CBP personnel, members of the trade community, and other government agencies on the agency's role on international trade security initiatives and programs. Members of the international trade and transportation communities and other interested parties are encouraged to attend, and those attending are requested to register early.

NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for species that comprise the deep-water species fishery by vessels using trawl gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary because the fourth seasonal apportionment of the 2005 Pacific halibut bycatch allowance specified for the deep-water species fishery in the GOA has been reached.

This emergency action, implemented under the regulations for the Pacific Tuna Fisheries, will prevent overfishing of bigeye tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP), consistent with recommendations by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) that have been approved by the Department of State (DOS) under the Tuna Conventions Act. NMFS hereby closes the U.S. longline fishery directed at bigeye tuna in the Convention Area for the remainder of 2005 because the bigeye tuna catch in the Convention Area has reached the reported level of catch made in 2001. This action is intended to limit fishing mortality on bigeye tuna stock caused by longline fishing in the Convention Area and contribute to the long-term conservation of bigeye tuna stock at levels that support healthy fisheries.

The Forest Service published on August 19, 2005 (70 FR 48663), a notice of issuance of an interim directive and proposed directives to Forest Service Handbook (FSH) 2209.13, chapter 10Term Grazing permits and chapter 20Grazing Agreements. The notice contained an incorrect World Wide Web/Internet address. In addition, language was mistakenly included in the proposed direction that incorrectly indicated restrictions of the base property and livestock ownership requirements.

The Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA) announces that up to $475,000 in fiscal year (FY) 2005 of funds is available for one (1) cooperative agreement to provide support to strengthen the management of women's and children's hospitals by the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Kabul. This effort is an undertaking by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in partnership with the Afghan MOPH. The primary goal of this project is to improve the quality of care at women's and children's health institutions in Afghanistan. The OGHA anticipates substantial HHS scientific and programmatic involvement in the administration of the quality improvement program. The project will be approved for up to a one-year period for a total of $475,000 (including indirect costs). Funding for the cooperative agreement is contingent upon the availability of funds

EPA expressed environmental concerns about the potential impacts to wetlands, steams, aquatic wildlife and habitat from impacts not avoided or mitigated from proposed stipulations and required operating procedures. In addition, there is potential for adverse impacts to subsistence users and resources if land along the TAPS corridor is conveyed from federal management, The final EIS should include an environmentally protective strategy for managing off-road vehicles, with particular attention to sensitive wetlands and streams. Rating EC2. EIS No. 20050203, ERP No. D-NPS-L65486-WA, Mountain Lake Fisheries Management Plan for the North Cascades National Service Complex, Implementation, North Cascades National Park, Whatcom, Skagit and Chelan Counties, WA. Summary: EPA supports the goals of the project, but expressed environmental concerns about the long-term impacts on plankton, macroinvertebrates and amphibians. Rating EC1. EIS No. 20050260, ERP No. D-AFS-L65490-AK, Scott Peak Project Area, Harvesting Timber and Development of Road Management, Tongrass National Forest, Petersburg Ranger District, Northeast of Kupreanof Island, AK. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to water quality from landslides and potential impacts from cumulative impacts of future sales in the area. Rating EC1.

This rule proposes to amend the Department of Homeland Security regulations pertaining to the field organization of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection by establishing a new port of entry at Sacramento, California, and terminating the user fee status of Sacramento International Airport. In order to accommodate this new port of entry, this rule proposes to realign the port boundaries of the port of entry at San Francisco, California since these boundaries currently encompass an area that is to be included within the new port of Sacramento. This change is part of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection's continuing program to utilize more efficiently its personnel, facilities, and resources to provide better service to carriers, importers, and the general public.

Pursuant to section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed Section 122 Administrative Agreement and Order on Consent for removal activities the Anniston Lead and Anniston PCB Superfund Sites, which includes a de minimis settlement under section 122(g)(4) of CERCLA for the Anniston PCB Superfund Site. The proposed Section 122 Administrative Agreement and Order on Consent also includes an agreement for recovery of past response costs for the Anniston Lead Superfund Site, and for the recovery of future response costs for the Anniston Lead and Anniston PCB Superfund Sites. The following parties have returned signature pages accepting EPA's offer of the proposed Section 122 Administrative Agreement and Order on Consent: DH Industries, L.L.C.; FMC Corporation, for itself and as the successor to Kilby Steel Company, Inc., and for FMC Technologies, Inc.; Huron Valley Steel Corporation; McWane, Inc. for itself and as the successor by merger with Ransom Industries, L.P.; MeadWestvaco Corporation; MRC Holdings, Inc.; MW Custom Papers, L.L.C.; Phelps Dodge Industries, Inc.; United Defense, L.P.; United States Pipe and Foundry Company, Inc.; and Walter Industries, Inc. EPA will consider public comments on the proposed Section 122 Administrative Agreement and Order on Consent until October 3, 2005. EPA may withhold consent from, or seek to modify, all or part of the proposed Section 122 Administrative Agreement and Order on Consent if comments received disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the proposed settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. The proposed settlement can be viewed at www.epa.gov/region4/waste/annistonall.htm and copies are available from: Ms. Paula V. Batchelor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Region 4, Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, (404) 562-8887, Batchelor.Paula@epa.gov. Written comments may be submitted to Mr. Michael Sparks at the above address within 30 days of the date of publication.