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[Federal Register: September 12, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 177)]
[Contents]
[Page III-VI]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr12se03-121]

                  CONTENTS

[[Page III]]

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Health Care Policy and Research Special Emphasis Panel, 53741

Agricultural Marketing Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Burley Tobacco Advisory Committee, 53708

Agricultural Research Service
NOTICES
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    Aerotech Laboratories, Inc., 53708

Agriculture Department
See  Agricultural Marketing Service
See  Agricultural Research Service
See  Forest Service
See  Rural Utilities Service

Air Force Department
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA; land conveyance, construction,
            development, and consolidation, 53724 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Science Advisory Board, 53724

Army Department
See  Engineers Corps
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Fort Bliss, TX; brackish water desalination plant and support
            facilities, 53724 [HTML] or [PDF]

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
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53741-53742

Coast Guard
RULES
Ports and waterways safety:
    Portland, OR; large passenger vessels; safety and security zone,
            53677-53680

Commerce Department
See  International Trade Administration
See  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
See  Patent and Trademark Office

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
RULES
Nonprofit agencies; annual certifications; due dates, 53684-53685
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 53709-53711

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    New Markets Tax Credit Program, 53780-53781

Defense Department
See  Air Force Department
See  Army Department
See  Engineers Corps

Drug Enforcement Administration
RULES
Schedules of controlled substances:
    Anabolic steroid products
        Suspension withdrawn, 53677

Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53726-53727

Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53753-53754

Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general
          wage determination decisions, 53754-53755

Energy Department
See  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Engineers Corps
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Port of Long Beach, CA; Pier S Marine Terminal Project, 
	53725-53726 [HTML] or [PDF]

Environmental Protection Agency
PROPOSED RULES
Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act;
          implementation:
    All Appropriate Inquiry Negotiated Rulemaking Committee--
        Meetings, 53687 [HTML] or [PDF]
Water pollution control:
    Ocean dumping; site designations--
        Long Island Sound, CT, 53687-53696 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 53728-53730 [HTML] or [PDF]

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        Weekly receipts, 53730 [HTML] or [PDF]
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Yucaipa Valley Water District, CA; Regional Non-Potable Water
            Distribution System Project, 53730-53731 [HTML] or [PDF]
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Region III Urban Initiative, 53731-53734 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, 53734-53735 [HTML] or [PDF]
    Ecological Processes and Effects Committee, 53735-53736 [HTML] or [PDF]
    Science Advisory Board Executive Committee, 53736-53737 [HTML] or [PDF]

Executive Office of the President
See  Presidential Documents

Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness standards:
    Special conditions--
        Cessna Model 680 Sovereign airplane, 53672-53674
Class D and Class E airspace, 53674-53675
Class E airspace, 53675, 53676
NOTICES
Exemption petitions; summary and disposition, 53776
Technical standard orders:
    Transport airplane seats certified by static testing, 53776-53777

Federal Communications Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Common carrier services:
    Antenna structures; construction, marking, and lighting--
        Communications towers; effects on migratory birds, 53696-53702
    Satellite communications--
        Satellite and earth station license procedures; electronic
                filings requirements, 53702-53705
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53737-53740
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc., 53740

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    North Hartland, LLC., et al., 53727-53728

Federal Reserve System
RULES
Availability of fund and collection of checks (Regulation CC):
    Check processing operations restructuring; amendments
        Correction, 53672
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 53740-53741

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Employee Thrift Advisory Council, 53741

Fish and Wildlife Service
PROPOSED RULES
Importation, exportation, and transportation of wildlife:
    Injurious wildlife--
        Boiga snakes, 53705-53706
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species and marine mammal permit
          applications, 53746 [HTML] or [PDF]
                        53746-53747 [HTML] or [PDF]
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 
53747 [HTML] or [PDF]
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Survival enhancement permits--
        Southwestern willow flycatcher and Little Colorado River
                spinedace; Apache County, AZ; safe harbor agreement,
                53747-53748 [HTML] or [PDF]
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Incidental take permits--
        Pima County, AZ; Multi-Species Conservation Plan, 
		53748-53751 [HTML] or [PDF]
Marine mammal permit applications, 53751
Meetings:
    Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council, 53751

Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Anti-counterfeit drug initiative; correction, 53742-53743

Forest Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Resource Advisory Committees--
        Northeast Oregon Forests, 53708

Health and Human Services Department
See  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
See  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See  Food and Drug Administration
See  National Institutes of Health

Homeland Security Department
See  Coast Guard
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53745
Meetings:
    Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of
            2002; application process; seminars, 53745

Housing and Urban Development Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 53791-53813

Interior Department
See  Fish and Wildlife Service
See  Land Management Bureau
See  Reclamation Bureau

Internal Revenue Service
PROPOSED RULES
Procedure and administration:
    Testimony or production of records in court or other proceeding
        Correction, 53687
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53781-53783
Meetings:
    Taxpayer Advocacy Panels, 53783-53784

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International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Synthetic indigo from--
        China, 53711-53712

International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
    Insect traps, 53752-53753

Justice Department
See  Drug Enforcement Administration

Labor Department
See  Employment and Training Administration
See  Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Research misconduct; policy statement, 53861-53866

Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Pocatello Field Office, ID; relocation and address change, 
              53751-53752

Maritime Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53777

National Archives and Records Administration
RULES
NARA facilities:
    Exhibition Hall; hours of operation, 53680-53681

National Communications System
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53755

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53777-53778

National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53743
Meetings:
    National Cancer Institute, 53744
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 53744
    National Institute on Aging, 53744-53745

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Pacific cod, 53686
    West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries--
        West Coast salmon, 53685-53686
PROPOSED RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic fisheries--
        Snapper-grouper, 53706-53707 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan; cowcod, bacaccio,
            widow rockfish, and yelloweye rockfish; rebuilding plans,
            53712-53714 [HTML] or [PDF]
Marine mammals:
    Incidental taking; authorization letters, etc.--
        Norwegian Sea, Norway; oceanographic surveys at Storegga Slide,
                53714-53720 [HTML] or [PDF]
Permits:
    Scientific research, 53720-53721

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    STP Nuclear Operating Co., 53760-53761 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
    Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 53761
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Omaha Public Power District, 53755-53758
    STP Nuclear Operating Co., 53758-53760

Patent and Trademark Office
PROPOSED RULES
Practice and procedure:
    21st Century Strategic Plan; implementation, 53815-53859
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53721-53724

Personnel Management Office
RULES
Pay administration:
    Extended assignment incentives, 53667-53672

Postal Rate Commission
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Data reporting systems merger; briefing; correction, 53761

Presidential Documents
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
Terrorist attacks; continuation of national emergency with respect to
          certain (Notice of September 10, 2003), 53665
Afghanistan; transmittal of report to the Congress on security needs
          (Memorandum of July 22, 2003), 53867-53869

Railroad Retirement Board
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53761-53762

Reclamation Bureau
NOTICES
Central Valley Project Improvement Act:
    Water management plans; evaluation criteria, 53752

Rural Utilities Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
          approvals, 53709

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Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 53762-53770
    Pacific Exchange, Inc., 53770-53773
    Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 53773-53774

Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Disaster loan areas:
    Florida, 53774
    Nevada, 53774
Meetings:
    Veterans Business Affairs Advisory Committee, 53774

State Department
NOTICES
Art objects; importation for exhibition:
    Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, 53774-53775
    The Raphael, Cellini and a Renaissance Banker: The Patronage of
            Bindo Altoviti, 53775
Meetings:
    Public Diplomacy, U.S. Advisory Commission, 53775
Senior Executive Service:
    Performance Review Board; membership, 53775-53776

Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Consolidated Rail Corp., 53778
    CSX Transportation, Inc., 53779
    R.J. Corman Equipment Co., LLC, 53779-53780

Transportation Department
See  Federal Aviation Administration
See  Maritime Administration
See  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
See  Surface Transportation Board

Treasury Department
See  Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
See  Internal Revenue Service

Veterans Affairs Department
RULES
Board of Veterans' Appeals:
    Appeals regulations and rules of practice--
        Aging veterans; speeding appellate review process, 53682-53684
        Grounds of clear and unmistakable error decisions, 53681-53682
PROPOSED RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Sealed bidding and competitive proposals; withdrawn, 53705
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Medical Research Service Merit Review Committee, 53784
    VA Nursing National Commission, 53784
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 53784-53789

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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Housing and Urban Development Department, 53791-53813

Part III
Commerce Department, Patent and Trademark Office, 53815-53859

Part IV
Labor Department, 53861-53866

Part V
Executive Office of the President, Presidential Documents, 53867-53869

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