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--- schema: federal-register doc_type: fedreg source_file: FR-2003-11-14.xml --- 68 220 Friday, November 14, 2003 Contents Agricultural Agricultural Marketing Service RULES Nectarines and peaches grown in— California, 64499-64502 03-28521 Oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, and tangelos grown in— Florida, 64494-64499 03-28520 Raisins produced from grapes grown in— California, 64502-64504 03-28519 Agriculture Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Service See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service See Federal Crop Insurance Corporation See Forest Service See Natural Resources Conservation Service See Rural Utilities Service Animal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service RULES Poultry improvement:
National Poultry Plan and auxiliary provisions— Plan participants and participating flocks; new or modified sampling and testing procedures, 64507-64512 03-28511 User fees: Veterinary services— Pet food facility inspection and approval, 64504-64507 03-28512 NOTICES Meetings: Veterinary biological products; manufacture, distribution, and use, 64585 03-28513 Blind Blind or Severely Disabled, Committee for Purchase From People Who Are See Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled Bonneville Bonneville Power Administration NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Fish and Wildlife Implementation Plan; preferred alternative policy direction, 64614-64615 03-28507 Children Children and Families Administration NOTICES Native American programs: Social and economic development strategies and language and environmental programs; clarifications and modifications; comment request, 64685-64717 03-28443 Citizenship Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64636-64637 03-28486 Coast Guard Coast Guard RULES Ports and waterways safety:
Port of Miami, FL; regulated navigation area and security zones, 64527-64531 03-28531 Commerce Commerce Department See International Trade Administration See National Institute of Standards and Technology See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Committee for Purchase Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled NOTICES Procurement list; additions and deletions, 64588-64589 03-28522 03-28523 Consumer Consumer Product Safety Commission NOTICES Meetings:
Natural rubber latex to be declared strong sensitizer; petition, 64610 03-28458 Defense Defense Department RULES Acquisition regulations: Activity address codes in contract numbers, 64555-64557 03-28439 Central contractor registration, 64557-64559 03-28441 Provisional award fee payments, 64561-64568 03-28442 Purchases from a required source; competition requirements, 64559-64561 03-28440 Education Education Department NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64610-64611 03-28476 Employee Employee Benefits Security Administration NOTICES Employee benefit plans; individual exemptions:
John Hancock Life Insurance Co., et al., 64643-64657 03-28546 Sorensen Broadcasting Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust et al., 64657-64660 03-28545 Employment Employment Standards Administration NOTICES Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions, 64660-64661 03-28408 Energy Energy Department See Bonneville Power Administration See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission See National Nuclear Security Administration NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Surplus plutonium disposition; mixed oxide fuel assemblies fabrication in France, 64611-64614 03-28506 Energy Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office NOTICES Meetings: Federal Energy Management Advisory Committee, 64615 03-28509 EPA Environmental Protection Agency RULES Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States: California, 64537-64540 03-28305 Delaware, 64540-64543 03-28417 Kansas, 64532-64537 03-28307 Texas, 64543-64550 03-28416 Hazardous waste program authorizations:
Colorado, 64550-64554 03-28578 Superfund program: Hazardous chemical reporting; emergency planning and community right-to-know programs— Trade secrecy claims and disclosures to health professionals, 64719-64725 03-28419 PROPOSED RULES Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States: California, 64576 03-28306 Delaware, 64576-64578 03-28418 Hazardous waste program authorizations: Colorado, 64578 03-28577 Superfund program: Hazardous chemical reporting; emergency planning and community right-to-know programs— Trade secrecy claims and disclosures to health professionals, 64725-64727 03-28420 NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Agency statements— Comment availability, 64621-64622 03-28571 Weekly receipts, 64622-64623 03-28572 Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: National Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants; correction, 64623 03-28576 Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.: Knoll Bioproducts Co., Inc., et al., 64623-64625 03-28424 Executive Executive Office of the President See Presidential Documents FAA Federal Aviation Administration RULES Airworthiness standards:
Special conditions— Honeywell, Inc., Pilatus PC-12/45 airplanes, 64520-64522 03-28530 Class E airspace, 64522-64525 03-28535 03-28537 03-28538 Restricted areas, 64525 03-28529 PROPOSED RULES Air carrier certification and operations: Multi-engine airplanes; extended operations, 64729-64798 03-28407 Airworthiness directives: Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (EMBRAER), 64572-64574 03-28495 Class D airspace, 64574-64575 03-28539 Class E airspace, 64575-64576 03-28534 NOTICES Airport revenue use; policy and procedures; correction, 64683 C3-27753 FCC Federal Communications Commission RULES Radio stations; table of assignments:
Ohio, 64555 03-28464 Various States, 64555 03-28465 PROPOSED RULES Digital television stations; table of assignments: Alabama, 64578-64579 03-28463 Indiana, 64579 03-28462 NOTICES Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc., 64625 03-28461 Federal Crop Federal Crop Insurance Corporation PROPOSED RULES Crop insurance regulations: Processing tomato crop insurance provisions, 64570-64571 03-28219 Federal Election Federal Election Commission RULES Allocations of candidate and committee activities:
Party committee telephone banks; expenses allocation, 64517-64520 03-28472 Contribution and expenditure limitations and prohibitions: Multicandidate committees and biennial contribution limits, 64512-64517 03-28469 PROPOSED RULES Federal Election Campaign Act: Political committee mailing lists; sale, rental, and exchange Terminated, 64571-64572 03-28473 NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 03-28677 64625-64626 03-28678 Federal Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Freeport LNG Development, L.P., 64616-64617 E3-00216 Hydroelectric applications, 64617-64620 E3-00212 E3-00213 E3-00214 E3-00215 *Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:* TransColorado Gas Transmission Co., 64615-64616 E3-00211 Transwestern Pipeline Co., 64616 E3-00210 Federal Highway Federal Highway Administration NOTICES Environmental statements; notice of intent: Bartow County, GA, 64673-64674 03-28490 Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Study, VA, 64674 03-28541 Federal Railroad Federal Railroad Administration NOTICES Meetings:
Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, 64674-64675 03-28527 Federal Reserve Federal Reserve System NOTICES Banks and bank holding companies: Change in bank control, 64626 03-28550 Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 64626 03-28505 Federal Transit Federal Transit Administration NOTICES Environmental statements; notice of intent: Hudson River, NJ and NY; alternatives to increase transit capacity, 64675-64677 03-28481 Fish Fish and Wildlife Service NOTICES Endangered and threatened species and marine mammals permit applications, 64637-64639 03-28516 03-28517 Marine mammal permit applications, 64639 03-28515 Meetings:
Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, 64639-64640 03-28518 Food Food and Drug Administration NOTICES Harmonisation International Conference; guidelines availability: Q3B(R) impurities in new drug products; revision, 64628-64629 03-28457 Forest Forest Service NOTICES Environmental statements; notice of intent: Allegheny National Forest, PA, 64585-64586 03-28161 Meetings: Resource Advisory Committees— Quachita-Ozark, 64587 03-28489 Southwest Idaho, 64586-64587 03-28488 GSA General Services Administration NOTICES Environmental statements; notice of intent:
Del Rio Port of Entry, TX; phase III expansion, 64626-64627 03-28491 Health Health and Human Services Department See Children and Families Administration See Food and Drug Administration See National Institutes of Health See Public Health Service NOTICES Meetings: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee, 64627-64628 03-28579 Homeland Homeland Security Department See Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau See Coast Guard Housing Housing and Urban Development Department NOTICES Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Facilities to assist homeless— Excess and surplus Federal property, 64637 03-28385 Interior Interior Department See Fish and Wildlife Service See Land Management Bureau International International Trade Administration NOTICES Antidumping: Processed hazelnuts from— Turkey, 64589-64591 03-28662 International International Trade Commission NOTICES Import investigations: Audio digital-to-analog converters and products containing same, 64641 03-28532 Ball bearings from— Various countries, 64641-64642 03-28533 Ductile iron waterworks fittings from— China, 64642 03-28510 Justice Justice Department NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64642-64643 03-28484 Pollution control; consent judgments:
Brothers Machine & Tool, Inc., et al., 64643 03-28459 Labor Labor Department See Employee Benefits Security Administration See Employment Standards Administration Land Land Management Bureau NOTICES Meetings: Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Advisory Committee, 64640 03-28485 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Advisory Committee, 64640 03-28524 Maritime Maritime Administration NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64677-64678 03-28477 National Highway National Highway Traffic Safety Administration RULES Motor vehicle safety standards:
Defect and noncompliance— Potential defects; information and documents reporting, 64568-64569 03-28480 NOTICES Meetings: Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network, 64678 03-28482 Motor vehicle safety standards: Nonconforming vehicles— Importation eligibility; determinations, 64678-64680 03-28525 64680-64681 03-28526 National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology NOTICES Meetings: Voting systems; building trust and confidence; symposium, 64591 03-28552 National Fire Codes:
Fire safety codes and standards, 64591-64593 03-28553 Technical committee reports; comment request, 64593-64594 03-28554 NIH National Institutes of Health NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64629-64630 03-28561 Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 64630 03-28559 Meetings: National Cancer Institute, 64630-64631 03-28555 National Human Genome Research Institute, 64631 03-28558 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 64633 03-28566 National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, 64632 03-28563 64633 03-28569 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 03-28568 64633-64634 03-28570 National Institute of Mental Health, 64632 03-28564 03-28565 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 03-28556 64631-64632 03-28557 Scientific Review Center, 03-28562 64634-64636 03-28567 National National Nuclear Security Administration NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building Replacement Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, 64620-64621 03-28508 NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration PROPOSED RULES Fishery conservation and management: Northeastern United States fisheries— Atlantic mackerel, squid, and butterfish, 64579-64584 03-28548 NOTICES Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, 64594 03-28467 Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, 64594-64595 03-28468 Marine mammals:
Incidental taking; authorization letters, etc.— California Transportation Department, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, CA; east span construction; California sea lions, etc., 64595-64609 03-28549 Permits: Exempted fishing, 64609-64610 03-28547 National Science National Science Foundation NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 64661-64662 03-28642 NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Taylor Creek-Nubbin Slough Watershed, FL, 64587 03-28503 Nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Commission NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
BWX Technologies, Inc., 64665-64668 03-28499 Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 64668-64671 03-28498 *Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:* Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., 64662-64663 03-28501 Entergy Operations, Inc., 64664-64665 03-28502 System Energy Resources, Inc., 64665 03-28497 Pension Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation RULES Single-employer plans: Allocation of assets— Interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits, 64525-64527 03-28542 NOTICES Multiemployer plans:
Interest rates and assumptions, 64671 03-28543 Personnel Personnel Management Office RULES Prevailing rate systems, 64493-64494 03-28466 Presidential Presidential Documents PROCLAMATIONS *Special observances:* Veterans Day (Proc. 7733), 64491-64492 03-28683 Public Public Health Service NOTICES National Toxicology Program: Test methods, new, revised, and alternative; nominations and submissions request and guidelines availability, 64636 03-28560 Railroad Railroad Retirement Board NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64671-64672 03-28504 RUS Rural Utilities Service NOTICES Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals, 64587-64588 03-28460 SEC Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES Meetings;
Sunshine Act, 64672 03-28707 03-28708 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: Ethics code; approved, 64672-64673 03-28474 Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes: New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 64673 03-28475 Surface Surface Transportation Board NOTICES Motor carriers: Control applications— Lincolnshire Equity Fund II, L.P., et al., 64681-64682 03-28514 Transportation Transportation Department See Federal Aviation Administration See Federal Highway Administration See Federal Railroad Administration See Federal Transit Administration See Maritime Administration See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration See Surface Transportation Board Separate Parts In This Issue Part II Health and Human Services Department, Children and Families Administration, 64685-64717 03-28443 Part III Environmental Protection Agency, 64719-64727 03-28419 03-28420 Part IV Transportation Department, Federal Aviation Administration, 64729-64798 03-28407 Reader Aids Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this issue for phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, reminders, and notice of recently enacted public laws.
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ACTION: Interim rule with request for comments. SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing an interim regulation to abolish the San Francisco, CA, Nonappropriated Fund
(NAF)Federal Wage System
(FWS)wage area. This regulation redefines San Francisco County to the Santa Clara, CA, NAF wage area as an area of application. Because of downsizing associated with closures of Federal installations in San Francisco, the San Francisco wage area no longer has an installation with sufficient local personnel or financial resources to conduct local NAF wage surveys. DATES: This interim rule is effective on November 30, 2003. OPM must receive comments by December 15, 2003. ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to Donald J. Winstead, Deputy Associate Director for Pay and Performance Policy, Strategic Human Resources Policy Division, Office of Personnel Management, Room 7H31, 1900 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20415-8200, e-mail *payleave@OPM.gov,* or FAX:
(202)606-4264. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Allen,
(202)606-2838; e-mail *maallen@opm.gov,* or FAX:
(202)606-4264. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: San Francisco, CA, is presently defined as a separate wage area for pay-setting purposes for Federal blue-collar workers who are paid from nonappropriated funds. The Department of Defense
(DOD)notified the Office of Personnel Management
(OPM)earlier this year that the Federal activity that hosts local wage surveys in the San Francisco wage area, Fort Mason Officers' Club, has closed, and there is no other NAF employer in the wage area capable of hosting local wage surveys. San Francisco County no longer meets OPM's regulatory criteria to be established as a separate wage area. Under 5 CFR 532.219, there must be at least 26 NAF FWS employees in a county for it to be established as an FWS wage area. The only remaining NAF employer in San Francisco County, the Department of Veterans Affairs Canteen Service, has fewer than the required 26 NAF FWS employees. Therefore, San Francisco County must be defined as an area of application to an existing NAF wage area for pay-setting purposes. OPM considers the following criteria when it combines two or more counties to constitute a single wage area:
(1)Proximity of largest activity in each county;
(2)Transportation facilities and commuting patterns; and
(3)Similarities of the counties in:
(i)Overall population;
(ii)Private employment in major industry categories; and
(iii)Kinds and sizes of private industrial establishments. In selecting a wage area to which San Francisco County should be redefined, proximity favors the Santa Clara, CA, NAF wage area. The transportation facilities criterion does not favor one wage area more than another. The commuting patterns criterion favors the Santa Clara wage area. A review of the population, employment, and industry criteria shows that San Francisco County is more similar to the Santa Clara than other nearby wage areas. Based on these findings, OPM is defining San Francisco County to the Santa Clara wage area as an area of application. OPM is abolishing the San Francisco wage area and defining San Francisco County to the Santa Clara wage area effective November 30, 2003, the date that the next wage schedule for the San Francisco wage area would have become effective if the wage area continued as a separate wage area. Remaining NAF FWS employees in San Francisco County will continue to be paid from the current San Francisco wage schedule until November 30. After that date, the employees will be assigned to the wage schedule for the Santa Clara wage area. The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, the national labor-management committee that advises OPM on matters affecting the pay of FWS employees, reviewed and recommended this wage area redefinition by majority vote. Waiver of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Delayed Effective Date Pursuant to section 553(b)(3)(B) and (d)(3) of title 5, United States Code, I find that good cause exists for waiving the general notice of proposed rulemaking to accommodate changes necessitated by downsizing of the Federal workforce. The notice is being waived because it is necessary to abolish the present San Francisco wage area and redefine San Francisco County to the Santa Clara wage area as soon as possible because no Federal activity has the capability to conduct a local wage survey in the San Francisco wage area. Regulatory Flexibility Act I certify that this regulation will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because it will affect only Federal agencies and employees. List of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 532 Administrative practice and procedure, Freedom of information, Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Wages. Office of Personnel Management. Kay Coles James, Director. Accordingly, the Office of Personnel Management is amending 5 CFR part 532 as follows: PART 532—PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS 1. The authority citation for part 532 continues to read as follows: Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5343, 5346; § 532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552. Appendix B to Subpart B of Part 532—Nationwide Schedule of Nonappropriated Fund Regular Wage Surveys—[Amended] 2. Appendix B to subpart B is amended by removing, under the State of California, “San Francisco.” Appendix D to Subpart B of Part 532—[Amended] 3. Appendix D to subpart B is amended for the State of California by removing the wage area listing for San Francisco, California, and revising the wage area listing for Santa Clara, California, to read as follows: * * * * * CALIFORNIA * * * * * SANTA CLARA *Survey Area* California: Santa Clara *Area of application. Survey area plus:* California: Alameda Contra Costa San Franciso San Mateo * * * * * [FR Doc. 03-28466 Filed 11-13-03; 8:45 am]
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