December 4, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Reader Aids
Document Number: FR-2012-12-04-ReaderAids
Type: Reader Aids
Date: 2012-12-04
Board of Governors; Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29433
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Postal Service, Agencies and Commissions
Board of Governors; Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29432
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Postal Service, Agencies and Commissions
Oil, Gas, and Potash Leasing and Development Within the Designated Potash Area of Eddy and Lea Counties, NM
Document Number: 2012-29393
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary
Secretary's Order 3324 revises and supersedes the Order of the Secretary of the Interior, dated October 28, 1986 (51 FR 39425), and corrected on August 26, 1987 (52 FR 32171), and provides procedures and guidelines for more orderly co-development of oil and gas and potash deposits owned by the United States within the Designated Potash Area through safe, concurrent operations.
Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29392
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Notice of Availability of the BLM's Responses to Public Comments and of the BLM's Environmental Assessment on the Proposed Order of the Secretary on Oil, Gas, and Potash Leasing and Development Within the Designated Potash Area of Eddy and Lea Counties, NM
Document Number: 2012-29389
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Under the authority of the Mineral Leasing Act, as amended, on December 3, 2012 the Secretary of the Interior issued Order 3324 (2012 Secretary's Order) to address oil, gas, and potash leasing and development within the Designated Potash Area in Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico. The 2012 Secretary's Order supersedes a previous Order issued in 1986 and corrected in 1987 that addresses these issues. In developing the 2012 Secretary's Order, a draft Order was released for a public comment period that began on July 13, 2012 and ended on August 31, 2012, 77 FR 41442. This Notice announces the availability of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) responses to the comments that were received during the comment period and the availability of the Environmental Assessment that was prepared by the BLM in developing the 2012 Secretary's Order.
Designation of Potential Wilderness as Wilderness, Point Reyes National Seashore
Document Number: 2012-29381
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of the Interior
This notice informs the public that all uses in Point Reyes National Seashore that are prohibited by the Wilderness Act (Pub. L. 88-577) have ceased and certain Federal lands that were previously designated as potential wilderness are, upon publication of this notice, designated as wilderness.
Sunshine Act Meetings
Document Number: 2012-29373
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29364
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Department of Justice
Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29319
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Sunshine Act Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29309
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Election Commission, Agencies and Commissions
U.S. Infrastructure Trade Mission to Colombia and Panama; Bogotá, Columbia and Panama City, Panama, May 13-16, 2012
Document Number: 2012-29306
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
Trade Mission to Egypt and Kuwait
Document Number: 2012-29289
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service is amending the Notice regarding the Trade Mission to Egypt and Kuwait March 10-14, 2013, published at 77 FR 33439, June 6, 2012 to revise the application deadline from December 14, 2012 to the new deadline of January 18, 2013.
Ohio University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscope
Document Number: 2012-29288
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
Sunshine Act Meetings
Document Number: 2012-29286
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Postal Regulatory Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment
Document Number: 2012-29284
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation
NHTSA is amending the Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) on lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment to restore the blue and green color boundaries that were removed when the agency published a final rule reorganizing that standard on December 4, 2007.
Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection; Importation of Mangoes From India Into the Continental United States
Document Number: 2012-29283
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with the regulations for the importation of mangoes from India into the continental United States.
Notice of Meeting for the Indian Oil Valuation Negotiated Rulemaking Committee
Document Number: 2012-29282
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of the Interior, Office of Natural Resources Revenue
The Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announces additional meetings for the Indian Oil Valuation Negotiated Rulemaking Committee (Committee). The seventh through ninth meetings of the Committee will take place on January 15 and 16, March 5 and 6, and April 17 and 18, 2013, in Building 85 of the Denver Federal Center. The Committee membership includes representatives from Indian tribes, individual Indian mineral owner organizations, minerals industry representatives, and other Federal bureaus. The public will have the opportunity to comment between 3:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. Mountain Time on January 15, 2013; March 5, 2013; and April 17, 2013.
Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received
Document Number: 2012-29280
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of the petition or its final disposition.
Secondary Direct Food Additives Permitted in Food for Human Consumption; Sodium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate
Document Number: 2012-29279
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (CAS No. 25155-30-0) as an antimicrobial agent for use in wash water for fruits and vegetables without the requirement of a potable water rinse. This action is in response to a petition filed by Ecolab, Inc.
Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received
Document Number: 2012-29278
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of the petition or its final disposition.
Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received
Document Number: 2012-29277
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of the petition or its final disposition.
Type Certification Procedures for Changed Products
Document Number: 2012-29276
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
The FAA is revising a final rule published on June 7, 2000 (65 FR 36244). In that final rule, the FAA amended its regulations for the certification of changes to type-certificated products. That amendment was to enhance safety by applying the latest airworthiness standards, to the extent practical, for the certification of significant design changes of aircraft, aircraft engines, and propellers. The existing rule requires the applicant show that the ``changed product'' complies with applicable standards. This action revises that requirement so that an applicant is required to show compliance only for the change and areas affected by the change. The intended effect of this action is to make the regulation consistent with the FAA's intent and with the certification practice both before and after the adoption of the existing rule.
Certain Steel Threaded Rod From the People's Republic of China: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Circumvention of the Antidumping Duty Order
Document Number: 2012-29275
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
The Department of Commerce (``Department'') preliminarily determines that imports from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') of certain steel threaded rod products with 1.25 percent or more chromium, by weight, produced by Gem-Year Industrial Co., Ltd. (``Gem- Year''), and otherwise meeting the description of in-scope merchandise, are within the class or kind of merchandise subject to the Order.\1\
Minimum Altitudes for Use of Autopilots
Document Number: 2012-29274
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
The FAA proposes to amend and harmonize minimum altitudes for use of autopilots for transport category airplanes. The proposed rule would enable the operational use of advanced autopilot and navigation systems by incorporating the capabilities of new and future autopilots, flight guidance systems, and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) guidance systems while protecting the continued use of legacy systems at current autopilot minimum use altitudes. The proposed rule would accomplish this through a performance-based approach, using the certified capabilities of autopilot systems as established by the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) or as approved by the Administrator.
Over-the-Road Bus Accessibility Grant Program
Document Number: 2012-29272
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Transit Administration, Department of Transportation
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects to be funded under Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 appropriations for the Over-the-Road Bus (OTRB) Accessibility Program, authorized by Section 3038 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). The OTRB Accessibility Program makes funds available to private operators of over-the-road buses to help finance the incremental capital and training costs of complying with DOT's over-the-road bus accessibility rule, published in the Federal Register on September 24, 1998. Under the rule, all new buses obtained by large fixed-route carriers after October 30, 2000, must be accessible with wheelchair lifts and tie downs that allow passengers to ride in their own wheelchairs. October 29, 2012 was the deadline whereby the fixed-route bus fleets of large carriers must be 100 percent accessible.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Student Assistance General Provisions-Readmission for Servicemembers
Document Number: 2012-29271
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Education
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an existing information collection.
Meeting of the Advisory Committee; Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29270
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
The Executive Director of the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries gives notice of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations (portions of which will be open to the public) in Washington, DC, on January 10-11, 2013.
Information Collection Available for Public Comments and Recommendations
Document Number: 2012-29268
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Maritime Administration's (MARAD's) intention to request extension of approval for three years of a currently approved information collection.
Advisory Committee Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29262
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Export-Import Bank of the United States
The Advisory Committee was established November 30, 1983, to advise the Export-Import Bank on its programs and to provide comments for inclusion in the reports of the Export-Import Bank of the United States to Congress.
New York; Amendment No. 2 to Notice of an Emergency Declaration
Document Number: 2012-29261
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for the State of New York (FEMA-3351-EM), dated October 28, 2012, and related determinations.
New York; Amendment No. 7 to Notice of a Major Disaster Declaration
Document Number: 2012-29259
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of New York (FEMA-4085-DR), dated October 30, 2012, and related determinations.
Changes in Flood Hazard Determinations
Document Number: 2012-29256
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
This notice lists communities where the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard determinations), as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and where applicable, in the supporting Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for each community, is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. The FIRM, and where applicable, portions of the FIS report, have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations (44 CFR part 65). The LOMR will be used by insurance agents and others to calculate appropriate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings and the contents of those buildings. For rating purposes, the currently effective community number is shown in the table below and must be used for all new policies and renewals.
Final Flood Elevation Determinations
Document Number: 2012-29255
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and modified BFEs are made final for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each community is required either to adopt or to show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Meeting Announcement: North American Wetlands Conservation Council
Document Number: 2012-29254
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
The North American Wetlands Conservation Council (Council) will meet to select North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant proposals for recommendation to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (Commission). This meeting is open to the public, and interested persons may present oral or written statements.
Avocados Grown in South Florida; Decreased Assessment Rate
Document Number: 2012-29253
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adopting, as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that decreased the assessment rate established for the Avocado Administrative Committee (Committee) for the 2012-13 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.37 to $0.25 per 55-pound bushel container of Florida avocados handled. The Committee locally administers the marketing order for avocados grown in South Florida. The interim rule decreased the assessment rate to reflect a reduction in expenditures for research and to help reduce industry costs.
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Georgia
Document Number: 2012-29252
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces EPA's approval of the State of Georgia's request to revise certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
Notice of Meeting Schedule for 2013
Document Number: 2012-29247
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, Agencies and Commissions
Tribal Consultation Policy
Document Number: 2012-29246
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Labor, Office of the Secretary
The Department of Labor (DOL) is issuing its final Tribal Consultation Policy. The Tribal Consultation Policy (hereinafter referred to as the ``policy'') establishes standards for improved consultation with federally-recognized Indian Tribes to the extent that no conflict exists with applicable federal laws or regulations. The policy applies to any Department action that affects federally- recognized Indian tribes and requires that the Department's government- to-government consultation involve appropriate Tribal and Departmental Officials. In addition to setting forth the final policy, this document also responds to comments on the proposed policy, which was published in the Federal Register on April 18, 2012 (77 FR 23283).
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment
Document Number: 2012-29245
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation
NHTSA is proposing to restore the side marker lamp requirements, for vehicles that are over 80 inches wide, and also less than 30 feet in overall length, to the Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) on lamps, reflective devices and associated equipment. These requirements were modified when the agency published a final rule reorganizing the standard on December 4, 2007.
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Document Number: 2012-29243
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
Document Number: 2012-29242
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a one-day meeting to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Notice of Telephonic Prehearing Conference
Document Number: 2012-29236
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-12-04
Agency: Consumer Product Safety Commission, Agencies and Commissions
Notice of telephonic prehearing conference for the consolidated case: In the Matter of MAXFIELD AND OBERTON HOLDINGS, LLC and ZEN MAGNETS, LLC, CPSC Docket No. 12-1 and CPSC Docket No.12-2.
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