May 15, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Rule To Reclassify the Oregon Chub (Oregonichthys crameri) From Endangered to Threatened
Under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to reclassify the Oregon chub (Oregonichthys crameri) from endangered to threatened. This proposal is based on a thorough review of the best available scientific data, which indicate that the species' status has improved such that it is not currently in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. We seek information, data, and comments from the public regarding the Oregon chub and this proposal.
Standard Mail Volume Incentive Program (aka Summer Sale)
The Postal Service is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]), to add section 709.2 which introduces new standards for a special volume incentive program for mailers of Standard Mail[supreg] letters and flats with mail volume exceeding their individual USPSTM- determined threshold levels. The program period will be from July 1, 2009 through September 30, 2009.
Small Entity Compliance Guide: Health Claims; Calcium and Osteoporosis, and Calcium, Vitamin D, and Osteoporosis; Availability
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled ``Food Labeling: Health Claims; Calcium and Osteoporosis, and Calcium, Vitamin D, and OsteoporosisSmall Entity Compliance Guide.'' The small entity compliance guide (SECG) is being issued for a final rule published in the Federal Register of September 29, 2008, as corrected on November 12, 2008, and it is intended to set forth in plain language the legal requirements of the regulation and to help small businesses understand the regulation.
Request for Nominations for Voting Consumer Representative Members on Public Advisory Committees
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for voting consumer representatives to serve on the Food Advisory Committee. This advisory committee is under the purview of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).
Proposed Renewal of Information Collection: 1090-0007 [Formerly 1505-0191], American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Government Customer Satisfaction Survey
The Department of the Interior, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the Federal Consulting Group within the Department of the Interior is soliciting comments concerning the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Government Customer Satisfaction Survey. The OMB Control Number is changed due to the recent transfer of the Federal Consulting Group from the Department of the Treasury into the Department of the Interior.
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Submission for OMB Review; Incentive Contracts
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the Regulatory Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a currently approved information collection requirement concerning Incentive Contracts. A request for public comments was published in the Federal Register at 73 FR 74712, on December 9, 2008. No public comments were received.
Office of the Chief Information Officer; Information Collection; Temporary Contractor Information Worksheet
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the General Services Administration invites the general public and Federal agencies to comment on a new information collection request for the collection of personal data to authorize and initiate investigation requests for GSA temporary contractors. [xx] GSA requires OMB approval for this collection to ensure that contractors meet eligibility requirements. The approval is critical for GSA to meet the anticipated increase in number of temporary contractors as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5). In the Federal Register Notice published at 74 FR 7439 on February 17, 2009, the portion that references the GSA Form 176T will be withdrawn in a subsequent Federal Register Notice.]
Procurement List: Addition and Deletions
This action adds to the Procurement List a product to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List products and services previously furnished by such agencies.
Procurement List: Proposed Additions
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List products and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Applications for Modification of Special Permit
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportations Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has received the applications described herein. This notice is abbreviated to expedite docketing and public notice. Because the sections affected, modes of transportation, and the nature of application have been shown in earlier Federal Register publications, they are not repeated here. Requests for modification of special permits (e.g., to provide for additional hazardous materials, packaging design changes, additional mode of transportation, etc.) are described in footnotes to the application number. Application numbers with the suffix ``M'' denote a modification request. These applications have been separated from the new application for special permits to facilitate processing.
Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; Notice of Application for Special Permits
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has received the application described herein. Each mode of transportation for which a particular special permit is requested is indicated by a number in the ``Nature of Application'' portion of the table below as follows: 1Motor vehicle, 2Rail freight, 3Cargo vessel, 4Cargo aircraft only, 5Passenger-carrying aircraft.
Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)
This notice sets forth the Secretary's decision to require Hospital Preparedness Program [HPP] cooperative agreement recipients to contribute non-Federal matching funds starting with the FY 2009 funding cycle and each year thereafter. The amount of the cost sharing requirement in FY 2009 will be five percent of the award amount and in FY 2010 and each year thereafter the amount of match will be ten percent of the award amount.
Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Mona to Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project and Draft Pony Express Resource Management Plan Amendment, Utah
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Mona to Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project and Draft Pony Express Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and by this Notice is announcing the opening of the comment period.
Ravalli County Resource Advisory Committee
The Ravalli County Resource Advisory Committee will be meeting to hold a short public forum (question and answer session). The meeting is being held pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 106-393) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393). The meeting is open to the public.
Amendment of Class E Airspace; Coleman, TX
This action amends Class E airspace at Coleman, TX. Additional controlled airspace is necessary to accommodate Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) at Coleman Municipal Airport, Coleman, TX. The FAA is taking this action to enhance the safety and management of Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) operations at Coleman Municipal Airport.
Security Related Considerations in the Design and Operation of Transport Category Airplanes
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is amending an error in its security related regulations affecting the design and operation of transport category airplanes. The paragraph that describes the incorporation by reference of a document containing ballistic resistance requirements contains an erroneous cross reference which was included in both the final rule and the notice of proposed rulemaking. This document corrects that error so that the reader is able to locate the correct information.
Transportation Conformity Rule PM2.5
EPA is proposing amendments to the transportation conformity rule that primarily affect conformity's implementation in PM2.5 and PM10 nonattainment and maintenance areas. EPA is proposing to update the transportation conformity regulation in light of the October 17, 2006 final rule that strengthened the 24-hour PM2.5 air quality standard and revoked the annual PM10 standard. In addition, EPA is proposing to clarify the regulations concerning hot-spot analyses to
Scales; Accurate Weights, Repairs, Adjustments or Replacements After Inspection
We are proposing to amend one section of the regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act (P&S Act) to incorporate by reference the 2009 edition of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Handbook 44, ``Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices,'' and to require that scales used by stockyard owners, market agencies, dealers, packers, and live poultry dealers to weigh livestock, livestock carcasses, live poultry, or feed for the purposes of purchase, sale, acquisition, payment, or settlement meet applicable requirements of the 2009 NIST Handbook 44. Additionally, we are proposing to amend that section of the regulations to add ``swine contractors'' to the list of regulated entities to which the section applies.
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New Jersey Reasonable Further Progress Plans, Reasonably Available Control Technology, Reasonably Available Control Measures and Conformity Budgets
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving portions of two State Implementation Plan revisions submitted by New Jersey that are intended to meet several Clean Air Act (Act) requirements for attaining the 0.08 part per million (ppm) 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards. EPA is approving: the 2008 reasonable further progress plans and associated 2008 ozone projection year emission inventories, contingency measures for the 2008 reasonable further progress plans, 2008 conformity budgets used for planning purposes, and the reasonably available control measure analysis. In addition, EPA is conditionally approving New Jersey's efforts to meet the reasonably available control technology requirement. The intended effect of this action is to approve those programs that meet Act requirements and to further achieve emission reductions that will be critical to attainment of the national ambient air quality standard for ozone in New Jersey's two nonattainment areas.
Subsistence Management Regulations for Public Lands in Alaska-2010-11 and 2011-12 Subsistence Taking of Wildlife Regulations
This proposed rule would establish regulations for hunting and trapping seasons, harvest limits, methods, and means related to taking of wildlife for subsistence uses during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 regulatory years. The Federal Subsistence Board completes the biennial process of revising subsistence hunting and trapping regulations in even-numbered years and subsistence fishing and shellfish regulations in odd-numbered years; public proposal and review processes take place
Federal Property Suitable as Facilities To Assist the Homeless
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for TRIDENT Support Facilities Explosives Handling Wharf, Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Silverdale, Kitsap County, WA and To Announce Public Scoping Meeting
Pursuant to section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the regulations implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), the Department of Navy (Navy) announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the potential environmental impacts associated with the construction and operation of a proposed new Explosives Handling Wharf (EHW) located adjacent to, but separate from, the existing EHW on Hood Canal, NBK-Bangor, WA, to support TRIDENT submarines.
Amendment of Class E Airspace; Fulton, MO
This action amends Class E airspace at Fulton, MO. Additional controlled airspace is necessary to accommodate Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) at Elton Hensley Memorial Airport, Fulton, MO. This action will also adjust the geographic coordinates of Elton Hensley Memorial Airport. The FAA is taking this action to enhance the safety and management of Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) operations at Elton Hensley Memorial Airport.
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