March 8, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice announces the availability of EPA's new lead hazard information pamphlet for renovation activities, Protect Your Family from Lead During Renovation, Repair & Painting, for review and comment. There is an increased risk of lead-based paint poisoning during renovation activities, particularly to children under 6 years of age. To better inform families about the risks and to encourage greater public health and safety during renovation activities in target housing, EPA has developed a renovation-specific information pamphlet for families. This new pamphlet gives information on lead-based paint hazards in a home, lead testing, how to select a contractor, what precautions to take during the renovation, and proper cleanup activities. EPA is seeking comment on all aspects of the pamphlet's content and design. After reviewing the comments, EPA will publish a final version of the pamphlet that may be used to comply with the requirements of section 406(b) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 747-100 and -200 series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires repetitive inspections for cracking of the station 800 frame assembly, and repair if necessary. This proposed AD would retain the repetitive inspection requirements of the existing AD, but would expand the area to be inspected. This proposed AD also would reduce the initial inspection threshold, remove the adjustment of the compliance threshold and repetitive interval based on cabin differential pressure, and add airplanes to the applicability. This proposed AD results from several reports of cracks of the station 800 frame assembly on airplanes that had accumulated fewer total flight cycles than the initial inspection threshold in the existing AD. We are proposing this AD to detect and correct fatigue cracks that could extend and fully sever the frame, which could result in development of skin cracks that could lead to rapid depressurization of the airplane.

The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Honeywell International Inc. TPE331 series turboprop engines with certain part numbers of Woodward fuel control assemblies installed. This proposed AD would require initial and repetitive dimensional inspections of the splines between the fuel pump and fuel control, for wear or damage. This proposed AD would also require replacing those fuel control assemblies with serviceable modified fuel control assemblies with improved overspeed protection. This proposed AD results from reports of loss of the drive between the fuel pump and fuel control, leading to engine overspeed, overtorque, overtemperature, uncontained rotor failure, and asymmetric thrust in multi-engine airplanes. We are proposing this AD to prevent rapid, uncommanded, uncontrolled increase in fuel flow to the engine, asymmetric thrust, uncontained rotor failure, and damage to the airplane.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8662). The final rule establishes criteria that an entity must satisfy to qualify to be the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) which the Commission will certify as the organization that will propose and enforce Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System in the United States, subject to Commission approval. The final rule also establishes procedures under which the ERO may propose new or modified Reliability Standards for Commission review and procedures governing an enforcement action for the violation of a Reliability Standard.

EPA is proposing to update and revise its data requirements for the registration of microbial and biochemical pesticide products to reflect current scientific knowledge. These proposed revisions are intended to provide EPA with data and other information necessary to support the registration of a biochemical and microbial pesticide product, and will improve the Agency's ability to make regulatory decisions about the human health and environmental effects of these pesticide products. EPA is also proposing to update the definitions of a biochemical pesticide and a microbial pesticide to more accurately describe these categories of pesticides, and to make a conforming change to the definition of microbial pesticide. EPA is announcing its policy to provide assistance to applicants when needed in determining what data are appropriate to support registration of a biochemical or microbial pesticide and encouraging applicants to request pre- submission meetings to discuss these data issues. EPA is announcing its intent to provide assistance to applicants in some narrow circumstances in preparation of an applicant's data waiver.

The EPA is granting final authorization to the hazardous waste program revisions submitted by South Dakota. The Agency published a Proposed Rule on September 27, 2005, and provided for public comment. The comment period ended on October 27, 2005. No comments were received regarding Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program issues. There was one comment from South Dakota State Attorney General regarding Indian country language. No further opportunity for comment will be provided. This final rule also codifies and incorporates by reference the authorized provisions of the South Dakota regulations in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 272.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) request comments and suggestions to assist in preparing a proposed rule governing carbon dioxide injection for increased production and recovery of oil and natural gas. The rule would provide for royalty relief incentives to promote the capture, transportation, and injection of produced carbon dioxide (CO2), natural CO2, and other appropriate gases or other matter for injection/sequestration into oil and gas fields, to promote oil and natural gas production from the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and onshore Federal leases. We encourage members of the public to provide comments and suggestions to help clarify and define the requirements for enhanced oil and natural gas recovery production incentives as described in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, DOC issues this final rule with respect to the granting of licenses by Federal agencies on Federally owned inventions. This rule is intended to incorporate changes made by the Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000 and streamlines the licensing procedures to focus primarily on statutory requirements. This final rule responds to comments received in response to a proposed rule published on January 7, 2005 (70 FR 1403).

The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary regulated navigation area on the waters of San Carlos Bay, Florida. The regulated navigation area is needed to minimize the risk of potential bridge allisions by vessels utilizing the main channel under span ``A'' (bascule portion) of the Sanibel Island Causeway Bridge and enhance the safety of vessels transiting the area and vehicles crossing over the bridge.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania). The revisions impose reasonably available control technology (RACT) on thirteen major sources of volatile organic compounds (VOC) or nitrogen oxides (NOX) located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. EPA is approving these revisions to establish RACT requirements in the SIP in accordance with the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).

At the request of Charles Crawford, the Audio Division dismisses the petition for rule making proposing the allotment of Channel 284A at Antlers, Oklahoma, as the community's third local aural transmission service. See 66 FR 52734, October 17, 2001. We also dismiss the counterproposals filed by Entravision Holdings, LLC and Radio One Licenses, Inc., because both counterproposals were considered and resolved in related proceedings.

The Agency is proposing to establish 16 new and amend three existing exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of various ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) chemicals in or on raw agricultural commodities when used as inert ingredients in pesticide formulations applied to growing crops or to raw agricultural commodities after harvest under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of these EDTA chemicals.

The Federal Communications Commission published in the Federal Register, of February 22, 2006, a document which allotted Channel 248C from Beaumont to Mont Belvieu, Texas, as that community's first local FM service and modified the Station KRWP(FM) license accordingly. See 71 FR 8988. The document designation number was inadvertently listed in the headings section as DA 06-625. This document corrects the document designation number from DA 06-625 to DA 06-265.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of Spinosad in/on the following commodities: Alfalfa seed; alfalfa seed screenings; banana; food commodities; animal feed, nongrass, group 18, forage; animal feed, nongrass, group 18, hay; peanut, hay; vegetable, bulb, group 3, except green onion; onion, green; grass, forage, fodder and hay, group 17, forage; grass, forage, fodder and hay, group 17, hay; grain, cereal, group 16, stover, except rice; grain, cereal, group 16, forage, except rice; grain, cereal, group 16, hay, except rice; grain, cereal, group 16, straw, except rice; peppermint, tops; and spearment tops. The Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4)] on behalf of the registrant, Dow AgroScience, LLC requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). In addition, EPA is deleting certain spinosad tolerances that are no longer needed as a result of this action. Also, the term ``Food commodities'' replaces the commodity name ``all commodities in connection with the quarantine eradication programs against exotic, non-indigenous, fruit fly species, where a separate higher tolerance in not already established'' as previously listed under Sec. 180.495(b).