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[Federal Register: August 15, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 158)]
[Contents]
[Page III-VII]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr15au03-149]

                  CONTENTS

[[Page III]]

Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Milk marketing orders:
    Central, 48770-48771
Nectarines and peaches grown in--
    California, 48767-48770

Agricultural Research Service
NOTICES
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    Fiorini Ranch, 48876

Agriculture Department
See  Agricultural Marketing Service
See  Agricultural Research Service
See  Forest Service
See  National Agricultural Statistics Service

Air Force Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Scientific Advisory Board, 48889-48890

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
PROPOSED RULES
Alcohol; viticultural area designations:
    Dundee Hills, OR, 48839-48843

Antitrust Division
NOTICES
National cooperative research notifications:
    Digital Subscriber Line Forum, 48940-48941
    Multiservice Switching Forum, 48941
    National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Inc., 48941-48942
    Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium, Inc., 48942

Army Department
See  Engineers Corps
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 48890
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    Compositions and methods for enhancing bioassay performance through
            nanomanipulation, 48890

Blind or Severely Disabled, Committee for Purchase From People Who Are
See  Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
          Disabled

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
RULES
Medicare:
    Claims; electronic submission, 48805-48813
PROPOSED RULES
Medicare:
    Physician fee schedule (2004 CY); payment policies and relative
            value unit adjustments, 49029-49300
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48922

Children and Families Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48922-48923
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Developmental disabilities programs--
        Help America Vote Training and Technical Assistance Projects;
                correction, 48923

Coast Guard
RULES
Ports and waterways safety:
    Long Island Sound Marine Inspection and Captain of Port Zone;
            regulated navigation areas and safety and security zones,
            48798-48803 [HTML] or [PDF]
PROPOSED RULES
Regattas and marine parades:
    Sunset Lake Hydrofest, Wildwood Crest, NJ, 48846-48848
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK; Gravina Access Project, 
	48924-48925 [HTML] or [PDF]

Commerce Department
See  International Trade Administration
See  National Institute of Standards and Technology
See  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 48878-48880

Comptroller of the Currency
RULES
Community and economic development entities, community development
          projects, and other public welfare investments, 48771-48783

Defense Department
See  Air Force Department
See  Army Department
See  Engineers Corps
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Advisory Board, 48886
Courts-Martial Manual; amendments, 48886-48888
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Institutions of higher education ineligible for Federal funds;
            list, 48888
Meetings:
    Historical Records Declassification Advisory Panel, 48889
    Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, 48889
    Women in Services Advisory Committee, 48889

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Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Clark, Cordell M., M.D., 48942-48943
    Serai, Kanwaljit S., M.D., 48943-48944
    Smiley, Karen Joe, M.D., 48944-48945

Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48892-48893

Employee Benefits Security Administration
NOTICES
Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:
    Liberty Media 401(k) Savings Plan, 49301-49321

Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general
          wage determination decisions, 48946-48947

Energy Department
See  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Next-Generation Circulating Fluidized Bed Coal Generating Unit
            Demonstration Plant Project, Fountain, CO, 
			48893-48896 [HTML] or [PDF]
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Fusion Science Centers, 48896-48898

Engineers Corps
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Milton, Cabell County, WV; Lower Mud River Watershed Project,
            48890-48891 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Multimedia Environmental Modeling Federal Interagency Steering
            Committee, 48891-48892

Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various
          States:
    Pennsylvania, 48803-48805 [HTML] or [PDF]
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    California, 48848-48851 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 48900-48901 [HTML] or [PDF]
        Weekly receipts, 48901-48902 [HTML] or [PDF]
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Lead-based paint programs, 48902-48908 [HTML] or [PDF]
Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:
    Bayer CropScience, 48908-48913 [HTML] or [PDF]
Toxic and hazardous substances control:
    New chemicals--
        Receipt and status information, 48913-48919 [HTML] or [PDF]
Water pollution control:
    Clean Water Act--
        Class II administrative penalty assessments, 48919 [HTML] or [PDF]
Water supply:
    Public water supply supervision program--
        Colorado, 48919-48920 [HTML] or [PDF]
        North Dakota, 48921-48922 [HTML] or [PDF]
        South Dakota, 48920-48921 [HTML] or [PDF]

Executive Office of the President
See  Management and Budget Office

Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Bombardier; correction, 48783-48784
Class E airspace; correction, 48994
PROPOSED RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Boeing, 48833-48835
    McDonnell Douglas, 48835-48837

Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Disaster and emergency areas:
    Florida, 48925
    Indiana, 48925
    Nebraska, 48925-48926
    North Dakota, 48926
    Ohio, 48926-48928
    Tennessee, 48928
    Texas, 48928-48929
    West Virginia, 48929
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Community Emergency Response Team Training Program, 48929-48931

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Allegheny Energy Supply Co., LLC, et al., 48898-48899
    New York Independent System Operator, Inc., et al., 48899-48900

Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK; Gravina Access Project, 
	48924-48925 [HTML] or [PDF]

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Motor carrier safety standards:
    Special training requirements--
        Entry-level commercial motor vehicle operators; minimum
                training requirements, 48863-48875
NOTICES
Motor carrier safety standards:
    Driver qualifications--
        Adams, Gene E., et al.; vision requirement, 48989-48991

Federal Railroad Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, 48991-48992

Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Recovery plans--
        Higgins' eye pearlymussel, 48933-48934 [HTML] or [PDF]
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 
    48931-48932 [HTML] or [PDF]
          48932 [HTML] or [PDF]
    48932-48933 [HTML] or [PDF]

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Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Landowner Incentive Program (non-tribal portion) for States,
            territories, and District of Columbia, 48934

Food and Drug Administration
RULES
Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:
    Trenbolone and estradiol; implant or injectable dosage, 48784-48785

Forest Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48876-48877

Health and Human Services Department
See  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See  Children and Families Administration
See  Food and Drug Administration

Homeland Security Department
See  Coast Guard
See  Federal Emergency Management Agency

Housing and Urban Development Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 48931

Indian Affairs Bureau
NOTICES
Land acquisitions into trust:
    Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Michigan, 48934-48935

Interior Department
See  Fish and Wildlife Service
See  Indian Affairs Bureau
See  Land Management Bureau
See  Reclamation Bureau
See  Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office

Internal Revenue Service
RULES
Procedure and administration:
    User fees; compromise offers processing, 48785-48787

International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Steel concrete reinforcing bars from--
        Latvia, 48880-48884
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Research Foundation of State University of New York, 48884-48885

International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
    Brake drums and rotors from--
        China, 48938
    Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol from--
        China, 48938-48939

Justice Department
See  Antitrust Division
See  Drug Enforcement Administration
See  Justice Programs Office
NOTICES
Americans with Disabilities Act:
    Maryland Accessibility Code; certification determination; hearings,
            48939-48940

Justice Programs Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48945-48946

Labor Department
See  Employee Benefits Security Administration
See  Employment Standards Administration
See  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Acquisition regulations; revision, 48995-49027

Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Upper Siuslaw River Late-Successional Reserve Restoration Plan, OR,
            48935-48936 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Pittsburg and Midway Coal Exchange, WY; public hearing, 
	48936 [HTML] or [PDF]
Resource management plans, etc.:
    Las Cienegas National Conservation Area et al., AZ, 
	48936-48937 [HTML] or [PDF]

Local Television Loan Guarantee Board
PROPOSED RULES
LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Program, 48814-48833 [HTML] or [PDF]

Management and Budget Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48960-48961
Commercial activities performance (Circular A-76):
    Revision; correction, 48961-48962

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook:
    NASA Center, facility, computer system, or technical information
            access; investigative requirements, 48838
    Photographs and illustrations in reports or publications; public
            acknowledgements, 48837-48838
NOTICES
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    National origin discrimination as it affects limited English
            proficient persons; prohibition; policy guidance to Federal
            financial assistance recipients, 48947-48956

National Agricultural Statistics Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48877-48878

National Archives and Records Administration
NOTICES
Agency records schedules; availability, 48956-48958

National Credit Union Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48958-48959

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:
    General Motors of North America, Inc., 48992

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Advanced Technology Visiting Committee, 48885

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
    North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 48885-48886

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Omaha Public Power District, 48959-48960 [HTML] or [PDF]

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Construction safety and health standards:
    Crane and Derrick Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee--
        Meetings, 48843-48844

Office of Management and Budget
See  Management and Budget Office

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
RULES
Single-employer plans:
    Allocation of assets--
        Interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits, 
                  48787-48789
NOTICES
Multiemployer plans:
    Interest rates and assumptions, 48962

Personnel Management Office
PROPOSED RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Federal Employees Health Benefits Program--
        Large provider agreements, subcontracts, and miscellaneous
                changes, 48851-48863
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Federal Salary Council, 48962-48963

Postal Rate Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 48963

Postal Service
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 48963

Railroad Retirement Board
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48963

Reclamation Bureau
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    California Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee, 48937

Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48963-48964
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    American Stock Exchange LLC, 48969-48974
    Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 48974-48975
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 48975-48977
    New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 48977-48978
    Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 48978-48980
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Nations Fund Trust et al., 48964-48969

Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Disaster loan areas:
    Indiana, 48980-48981
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Meridian Venture Partners II, L.P., 48980

Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48981-48984

State Department
NOTICES
Art objects; importation for exhibition:
    Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernando Olivier, 48984
Foreign terrorists and terrorist organizations; determinations:
    Mujahedin-e Khalq, 48984
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Human rights and democratization initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa,
            48984-48987
Migration and refugee assistance; qualified countries:
    Liberia, 48987

Statistical Reporting Service
See  National Agricultural Statistics Service

Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Pennsylvania, 48789-48798 [HTML] or [PDF]
PROPOSED RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Texas, 48844-48846 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 48937-48938

Transportation Department
See  Federal Aviation Administration
See  Federal Highway Administration
See  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
See  Federal Railroad Administration
See  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Aviation proceedings:
    Agreements filed, weekly receipts, 48987
    Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign air
            carrier permits; weekly applications, 48987

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Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Motor carrier financial information; exemption from reporting
            requiremenets; comment request, 48987-48989

Treasury Department
See  Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
See  Comptroller of the Currency
See  Internal Revenue Service
See  United States Mint

United States Mint
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, 48992-48993

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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Labor Department, 48995-49027

Part III
Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
          Services, 49029-49300

Part IV
Labor Department, Employee Benefits Security Administration, 
            49301-49321

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