2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of the Treasury, 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)).

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limit for the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Taiwan. The period of review is June 1, 2007, through May 31, 2008. This extension is made pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage for companies and may also be available for licensing.

NMFS, Alaska Region, and the U.S. Coast Guard, North Pacific Fisheries Training Center, will present a workshop on seaLandings, a consolidated electronic means of reporting production of commercial groundfish to multiple management agencies for Federal and State fisheries off the coast of Alaska, and 2010 recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the Alaska groundfish fisheries and Individual Fishing Quota fisheries.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled ``Registration and Product Listing for Owners and Operators of Domestic Tobacco Product Establishments.'' The guidance document is intended to assist persons making tobacco product establishment registration and product listing submissions to FDA under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act).

Notice is hereby given of the appointment of members of the National Transportation Safety Board Performance Review Board (PRB).

EPA is notifying the public that it has found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for Shelby County, Tennessee in the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision, submitted on February 26, 2009, by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. Shelby County is one of the counties in the bi- state Memphis Area for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard. Crittenden County, Arkansas is the other county in the bi-state Memphis Area. Through a separate action EPA has already found the Crittenden County budgets adequate for transportation conformity purposes. This action relates only to the Shelby County, Tennessee budgets. As a result of EPA's finding, Shelby County must use the MVEBs for future conformity determinations for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard.

Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisions pertaining to the manufacture of new chemicals. Under sections 5(d)(2) and 5(d)(3) of TSCA, EPA is required to publish a notice of receipt of a premanufacture notice (PMN) or an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), and to publish periodic status reports on the chemicals under review and the receipt of notices of commencement to manufacture those chemicals. This status report, which covers the period from September 7, 2009 to October 23, 2009, consists of the PMNs and TMEs, both pending or expired, and the notices of commencement to manufacture a new chemical that the Agency has received under TSCA section 5 during this time period.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations, and the DOE NEPA implementing procedures to assess the potential environmental impacts for its proposed action of issuing a Federal loan guarantee to Indiana Gasification, LLC (IG) (DOE/EIS-0429). IG submitted an application to DOE under the Federal loan guarantee program pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) to support construction and start-up of a coal to substitute natural gas (SNG) facility in Rockport, Indiana (the Facility).\1\ The Facility would utilize gasification technology with Illinois Basin coal as the feedstock to produce SNG. Other products from the gasification process would be sulfuric acid, argon, and electric power, all of which would be sold.

This notice announces a meeting of the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (NEAC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 94-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is reopening the comment period for interest persons to comment on the Commission's October 6, 2009 Notice of Intent to consider whether the following contracts offered for trading on the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. perform a significant price discovery function: SP-15 Financial Day-Ahead LMP Peak Contract; SP-15 Financial Day-Ahead LMP Peak Daily Contract; SP-15 Financial Day-Ahead LMP Off- Peak Daily Contract; SP-15 Financial Swap Real Time LMPPeak Daily Contract; SP-15 Financial Day-Ahead LMP Off-Peak Contract; NP-15 Financial Day-Ahead LMP Peak Daily Contract; and NP-15 Financial Day- Ahead LMP Off-Peak Daily Contract.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is reopening the comment period for interested parties to comment on the Commission's Notice of Intent to consider whether the Mid-C Financial Peak Contract, Mid-C Financial Peak Daily Contract, Mid-C Financial Off-Peak Contract, and Mid-C Financial Off-Peak Daily Contract offered for trading on the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (``ICE'') perform a significant price discovery function.