February 5, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) published an interim rule on December 29, 2008 (73 FR 79267-79284), revising rules about payment limitation and payment eligibility for Farm Programs as required by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Farm Bill). The 2008 Farm Bill provided new eligibility requirements based on annual income, sources of income, and type of entity. The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is reopening and extending the comment period for the interim rule to give the public more time to provide input and recommendations on the interim rule. The original comment period closed on January 28, 2009, and CCC is reopening and extending it for 60 days from the date of this notice. While the interim rule became effective on December 23, 2008, CCC is extending the comments period by 60 days on the amendments to the regulations that will apply to 2009 and subsequent crop, program, or fiscal year benefits for programs subject to the provisions in our regulations.

The Commission is adding Express Mail & Priority Mail Contract 3 to the Competitive Product List. This action is consistent with changes in a recent law governing postal operations and a recent Postal Service request. Republication of the lists of market dominant and competitive products is also consistent with new requirements in the law.

This document sets forth a proposal to amend the FM Table of Allotments, Section 73.202(b) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 73.202(b). The Commission requests comment on a petition filed by Legend Communications of Wyoming, LLC. Petitioner proposes the allotment of Channel 267A at Ten Sleep, Wyoming, as a first local service. The purpose of the requested allotment is to maintain Ten Sleep's first potential local service, because petitioner has requested a change of community of license for unbuilt Station KYTS(FM), Channel 271C2, from Ten Sleep to Manderson, Wyoming. Channel 267A can be allotted at Ten Sleep in compliance with the Commission's minimum distance separation requirements with a site restriction of 0.3 km (0.2 miles) northeast of Ten Sleep. The proposed coordinates for Channel 267A at Ten Sleep are 44-02-08 North Latitude and 107-26-50 West Longitude. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION infra.

This document requests comments on a petition for rulemaking filed by Western New Life, Inc., licensee of Station WJZG-FM, Channel 254A, Culebra, Puerto Rico, proposing the deletion of vacant Channel 271B at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands to accommodate a hybrid contingent application requesting the substitution of Channel 271A for Channel 254A at Culebra, and modification of the Station WJZG-FM license. The reference coordinates for vacant Channel 271B at Charlotte Amalie are 18-20-36 NL and 64-55-48 WL.

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90-day finding on 165 species from a petition to list 206 species in the mountain-prairie region of the United States as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). We find that, for these 165 species, the petition does not present substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that listing may be warranted. Therefore, for these 165 species, we will not initiate a further status review in response to this petition; however, we are making no determination at this time on whether substantial information has been presented on the remaining 39 species included in the petition. A finding (or findings) will be made on the remaining 39 species at a later date. We ask the public to submit to us any new information that becomes available concerning the status of these 165 species, or threats to them or their habitat, at any time. This information will help us monitor and encourage the conservation of these species. An additional 2 species of the 206 were reviewed in a concurrent 90-day finding and, therefore, were not considered in this finding (see Petition).