August 27, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 630 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the C season allowance of the 2007 total allowable catch (TAC) of pollock for Statistical Area 630 of the GOA.

We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. This proposed AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product. The MCAI describes the unsafe condition as:

This document contains final and temporary regulations clarifying that for purposes of allowing a tentative adjustment, the IRS may credit or reduce the tentative adjustment by an assessed tax liability, whether or not that tax liability was assessed before the date the application for tentative carryback was filed, and other unassessed tax liabilities in certain other circumstances. The portions of this document that are final regulations provide technical revisions that remove all references to IRS district director and service center director, as those positions no longer exist within the IRS. The offices of the district director and service center director were eliminated by the IRS reorganization implemented pursuant to the IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998. The text of the temporary regulations serves as the text of the proposed regulations, set forth in the notice of proposed rulemaking on this subject in the Proposed Rules section in this issue of the Federal Register.

The FAA is withdrawing the NPRM published on January 14, 2003, that proposed to require airplanes operated in domestic, flag, and supplemental operations to ensure immediate activation and continuous transmission of the designated hijack alert code to air traffic control (ATC) during a hijack situation. After September 11, 2001, the increased threat of hijacking and realization that a plane could be used as a weapon became the basis for the proposed rule. The intent was to provide the flight crew of commercial airplanes with the ability to initiate an immediate national security response in the event of a hijacking. The overwhelming majority of comments opposed the proposal for several reasons. Because of the reasons given, including completed security enhancements to strengthen flightdeck doors, we are withdrawing the proposal. Current regulations ensure an adequate level of aviation security.

The EPA is proposing to revise the General Provisions for Consolidated Federal Air Rule. On May 16, 2007, we published a final rule that revised the General Provisions for Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources, for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, and for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories to allow extensions to the deadline imposed for source owners and operators to conduct initial or other required performance tests in certain specified force majeure circumstances. We recently realized that we should have also revised the Consolidated Federal Air Rule to allow similar extensions.

In a final rule published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2006, EPA determined that the San Joaquin Valley nonattainment area (SJV or the Valley) in California attained the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 10 micrometers (PM-10). Since that final determination of attainment, the State has flagged several exceedances of the PM-10 standard in 2006 as being caused by exceptional events, i.e., high winds, and requested that these data be excluded from attainment determinations. EPA is proposing to concur with the State's request to flag these exceedances and thus to exclude that data from use in determining PM-10 attainment for the SJV. EPA is also proposing to exclude from use in determining attainment for the SJV exceedances recorded at a monitor located at the Santa Rosa Rancheria, tribal lands within the boundaries of the SJV, on two bases: The exceedances occurred while the monitor was operating in very close proximity to construction activities and, as such, the monitor was not properly sited during that time for purposes of comparison to the NAAQS; and the exceedances were caused by an exceptional event. EPA is proposing to concur with the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tribe's request to flag these exceedances as due to an exceptional event. As a result, EPA is proposing to affirm its determination that the SJV has attained the PM-10 standard based on EPA's evaluation of quality-assured data through December 2006. In addition to providing the public with an opportunity to comment on EPA's evaluation and proposed concurrence on flagged exceedances that occurred through the end of calendar year 2006, EPA is in this proposed rule addressing issues raised in petitions for reconsideration and withdrawal of EPA's 2006 determination of attainment, filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Sierra Club, Latino Issues Forum and others.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 is issuing a notice of intent to delete the Standard Auto Bumper Superfund Site (Site) located in Hialeah, Florida, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comments on this notice of intent. The NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is found at Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). The EPA and the State of Florida, through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), have determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA, other than operation and maintenance and five- year reviews, have been completed. However, this deletion does not preclude future actions under Superfund. In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of today's Federal Register, we are publishing a direct final notice of deletion of the Standard Auto Bumper Superfund Site without prior notice of intent to delete because we view this as a noncontroversial revision and anticipate no adverse comment. We have explained our reasons for this deletion in the preamble to the direct final deletion. If we receive no adverse comment(s) on this notice of intent to delete or the direct final notice of deletion, we will not take further action on this notice of intent to delete. If we receive adverse comment(s), we will withdraw the direct final notice of deletion and it will not take effect. We will, as appropriate, address all public comments in a subsequent final deletion notice based on this notice of intent to delete. We will not institute a second comment period on this notice of intent to delete. Any parties interested in commenting must do so at this time. For additional information, see the direct final notice of deletion which is located in the Rules section of this Federal Register.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a proposed rule that would amend the final monograph (FM) for over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreen drug products as part of FDA's ongoing review of OTC drug products. This amendment addresses formulation, labeling, and testing requirements for both ultraviolet B (UVB) and ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation protection. FDA is issuing this proposed rule after considering public comments and new data and information that have come to FDA's attention. This rule proposes to lift the stays of 21 CFR 347.20(d) and 21 CFR Part 352 when FDA publishes a final rule based on this proposed rule.