November 13, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On November 6, 2007, Holcim Apasco, S.A. de C.V. filed a First Request for Panel Review with the United States section of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Panel review was requested of the Notice of Final Results of the Antidumping Changed Circumstances Review made by the International Trade Administration, respecting Gray Portland Cement and Clinker from Mexico. This determination was published in the Federal Register (72 FR 61863) on November 1, 2007. The NAFTA Secretariat has assigned Case Number USA-MEX-2007-1904-02 to this request.

Notice is hereby given that the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has prepared a model safety evaluation (SE) relating to the revision of Standard Technical Specifications (STS), NUREG-1430 (B&W), NUREG-1431 (Westinghouse), NUREG-1432 (CE), NUREG- 1433 (BWR/4) and NUREG-1434 (BWR/6). Specifically the SE addresses: (1) The revision of the technical specification (TS) surveillance requirement (SR) 3.1.3.2 frequency in STS 3.1.3, ``Control Rod OPERABILITY,'' (NUREG-1433 and NUREG-1434), (2) a clarification to the requirement to fully insert all insertable control rods for the limiting condition for operation (LCO) in STS 3.3.1.2, Required Action E.2, ``Source Range Monitor Instrumentation'' (NUREG-1434 only), and (3) the revision of Example 1.4-3 in STS Section 1.4 ``Frequency'' to clarify the applicability of the 1.25 surveillance test interval extension (NUREG-1430 through NUREG-1434). The NRC staff has also prepared a model license amendment request and a model no significant hazards consideration (NSHC) determination relating to this matter. The purpose of these models is to permit the NRC to efficiently process amendments that propose to modify TS control rod SR testing frequency, clarify TS control insertion requirements, and clarify SR frequency discussions. Licensees of nuclear power reactors to which the models apply can request amendments, confirming the applicability of the SE and NSHC determination to their plant licensing basis.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the completion and availability of NUREG-1556, Volume 21, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses, Program-Specific Guidance About Possession Licenses for Production of Radioactive Material Using an Accelerator,'' dated October 2007.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

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:

The Department of Commerce preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from the People's Republic of China. For information on the estimated subsidy rates, see the ``Suspension of Liquidation'' section of this notice. The Department further determines preliminarily that critical circumstances exist with respect to imports of the subject merchandise. This notice also serves to align the final countervailing duty determination in this investigation with the final determination in the companion antidumping duty investigation of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from the People's Republic of China.

This document contains final regulations that provide rules for claiming the railroad track maintenance credit under section 45G of the Internal Revenue Code for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures paid or incurred by a Class II railroad or Class III railroad and other eligible taxpayers during the taxable year. These final regulations reflect changes to the law made by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005, and the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006.

This document contains temporary regulations concerning information reporting on employer-owned life insurance contracts under section 6039I of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). This temporary regulation is necessary to provide taxpayers with immediate guidance as to how the requirements of section 6039I should be applied. The temporary regulations generally apply to taxpayers that are engaged in a trade or business and that are directly or indirectly a beneficiary of a life insurance contract covering the life of an insured who is an employee of the trade or business on the date the contract is issued. The text of these temporary regulations also serves as the text of proposed regulations set forth in the notice of proposed rulemaking on this subject elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.

Pursuant to section 343(a) of the Trade Act of 2002 and implementing regulations, truck carriers and other eligible parties are required to transmit advance electronic truck cargo information to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) through a CBP-approved electronic data interchange. In a previous document, CBP designated the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Truck Manifest System as the approved interchange and announced that the requirement that advance electronic cargo information be transmitted through ACE would be phased in by groups of ports of entry. This document announces that at all land border ports in the state of Alaska truck carriers will be required to file electronic manifests through the ACE Truck Manifest System.

On December 31, 2002, we (the EPA) issued our final New Source Review (NSR) Improvement Rule which, among other things, requires all sources to include ``fugitive emissions'' in assessing whether a proposed physical or operational change qualifies as a ``major modification'' that is subject to review under major NSR. On July 11, 2003, we received a petition for reconsideration on behalf of Newmont USA Limited, dba Newmont Mining Corporation (``Newmont'') arguing that the December 31, 2002 final rule failed to comply with the Clean Air Act (Act) requirement that EPA conduct a rulemaking to list source categories for which fugitive emissions must be included in computing a source's emissions to determine whether it is a ``major stationary source.'' In January 2004, we agreed to reconsider this issue. In this action, we are proposing to revise the provisions of the December 2002 final rules related to the treatment of fugitive emissions for purposes of determining whether a physical or operational change at an existing major source qualifies as a major modification. We request public comment on the proposed revisions. In this action, we are also providing guidelines for determining when and how emissions are to be considered fugitive for NSR and Title V permitting.

The Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office will host a public workshop, CCTV: Developing Privacy Best Practices.

On April 22, 2003, the Commission released a Memorandum Opinion and Order in the matter of ``Ultra-Wideband Transmission Systems.'' This document contains corrections to the final regulations that appeared in the Federal Register of April 22, 2003 (68 FR 19746).

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 (PRA) 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.

This document requests comments on a petition for rule making filed by Hilltop Church (``Petitioner''), the licensee of noncommercial educational station KHGQ(FM), Quincy, California. Petitioner has filed an application requesting the substitution of Channel 262A for existing Channel 265A at Station KHGQ(FM), Quincy, California. To accommodate the foregoing application, the Commission has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making proposing to substitute Channel 264A for Channel 262A at Susanville, California.

This document grants a counterproposal filed by Educational Media Foundation requesting the reallotment of Channel 296A from Danville to Wilmore, Kentucky, and the modification of its license to reflect the change and the allotment of Channel 298A at Perryville, Kentucky, as the community's first local aural transmission service. The document denies a petition for rulemaking filed jointly by L.M. Communications of Kentucky, LLC, licensee of Station WBTF (FM), Midway, Kentucky, and Gateway Radio Works, Inc., licensee of Station WKCA (FM), Owingsville, Kentucky, proposing to substitute Channel 298C3 for Channel 300A at Midway, Kentucky and modify Station WBTF's license accordingly, to substitute Channel 295A for 299A at a new site at Owingsville, Kentucky and modify Gateway's license for Station WKCA accordingly, and to substitute Channel 300A for Channel 299A at Falmouth, Kentucky and modify the Station WIOK (FM) license accordingly. Counterproposals filed by West Portsmouth Broadcasting and RGS Communications are dismissed. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION supra.

Under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving notice of a meeting of the Total Coliform Rule Distribution System Advisory Committee (TCRDSAC). The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the Total Coliform Rule (TCR) revision and information about distribution systems issues that may impact water quality. The TCRDSAC advises and makes recommendations to the Agency on revisions to the TCR, and on what information should be collected, research conducted, and/or risk management strategies evaluated to better inform distribution system contaminant occurrence and associated public health risks. Topics to be discussed in the meeting include: TCR rule objectives and how the TCR relates to other Safe Drinking Water Act regulations, TCR indicator framework, TCR implementation and compliance analysis, potential ways to revise the TCR, and an assessment of the information on distribution system issues that may impact water quality.

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 (PRA) 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.

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Energy, pursuant to section 229 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, as implemented by 10 CFR part 860 published in the Federal Register on August 26, 1963 (28 FR 8400), prohibits the unauthorized entry, as provided in 10 CFR 860.3 and the unauthorized introduction of weapons or dangerous materials, as provided in 10 CFR 860.4, into or upon the following described facilities of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the United States Department of Energy. The following amendments are made: The U.S. Department of Energy installation known as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory 7900 Area, occupied by the High Flux Isotope Reactor and associated facilities, is located in the Second Civil District of Roane County, Tennessee, within the corporate limits of the city of Oak Ridge. The facility contains approximately 40 acres and is located on the south side of Melton Valley Drive, approximately 0.7 miles west of the intersection of Melton Valley Drive and Melton Valley Access Road. This intersection is approximately 0.6 miles south of the intersection of Bethel Valley Road and Melton Valley Access Road. The 229 Boundary of this facility is indicated by a chain link fence which surrounds the facility. The U.S. Department of Energy installation known as the National U- 233 Repository (Building 3019) is located in the Second Civil District of Roane County, Tennessee, within the corporate limits of the city of Oak Ridge. The physical facility contains approximately 2.5 acres including approximately 40,000 square feet of floor space within the security area boundary. This complex is located south of Bethel Valley Road, approximately 0.25 miles east of the intersection of Bethel Valley Road and First Street. The 229 Boundary for this facility is indicated by a chain link fence which surrounds the facility.