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[Federal Register: December 30, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 250)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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Agency for International Development
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
Voluntary Foreign Aid Advisory Committee, 78385
Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Onions grown in--
South Texas, 78296-78298
PROPOSED RULES
Milk marketing orders:
Arizona-Las Vegas, 78355-78359
Pacific Northwest, 78351-78355
Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See Food and Nutrition Service
See Forest Service
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78385-78386
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 Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78412-78419
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Youth Violence Prevention Through Community-Level Change Program,
78419-78426
Meetings:
Tuberculosis Elimination Advisory Council, 78426
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
RULES
Group health plans and insurance issuers; access, portability, and
renewability requirements, 78719-78799
Medicare:
Hospital inpatient prospective payment systems and 2005 FY rates
Correction, 78525-78717
Hospital outpatient prospective payment system and 2005 CY payment
rates
Correction, 78315-78335
Medicare+Choice program; managed care provisions; correction,
78336-78338
PROPOSED RULES
Health coverage portability; tolling certain time periods and
interaction with Family and Medical Leave Act, 78799-78825
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; benefit-specific
waiting periods, 78824-78827
NOTICES
Clinical Laboratories Improvement Amendments programs:
National accreditation organizations; approval--
American Association of Blood Banks, 78426-78428
Medicaid and Medicare:
Program issuances and coverage decisions; quarterly listing,
78428-78442
Medicare:
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of
2003, implementation--
Regulations publication timeline; extension exception and
transition period, 78442-78444
National accreditation organizations; approval--
Medicare Advantage local preferred provider organizations,
78444-78445
Skilled nursing facilities prospective payment system and
consolidate billing; update; correction, 78445-78464
Meetings:
Medicare--
Ambulatory Payment Classification Groups Advisory Panel,
78464-78466
Applications for new medical services and technologies add-on
payments under hospital inpatient prospective payment
system (2006 FY); town hall meeting, 78466-78468
Coast Guard
RULES
Drawbridge operations:
Connecticut, 78306-78307
New York, 78306
Ports and waterways safety:
Chicago River Main Branch, IL; safety zone, 78310-78312
East Rockaway Inlet to Atlantic Beach Bridge, Nassau County, Long
Island, NY; regulated navigation area, 78307-78310
PROPOSED RULES
Drawbridge operations:
Virginia, 78373-78375
NOTICES
Meetings:
Houston/Galveston Navigation Safety Advisory Committee, 78470
Vessel inspection:
Towing vessels; safety management; public meetings, 78471-78472
Commerce Department
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
See Technology Administration
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Pre-award notification requirements, 78389-78396 [HTML] or [PDF]
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 78388-78389
Comptroller of the Currency
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78522
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Copyright Office, Library of Congress
NOTICES
Satellite royalty funds:
Satellite carrier compulsory license; rate adjustment, 78482-78483
Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78400
Meetings:
Indian Education National Advisory Council, 78400-78401
Employee Benefits Security Administration
RULES
Group health plans and insurance issuers; access, portability, and
renewability requirements, 78719-78799
PROPOSED RULES
Health coverage portability; tolling certain time periods and
interaction with Family and Medical Leave Act, 78799-78825
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; benefit-specific
waiting periods, 78824-78827
Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Adjustment assistance:
Alexvale/Kincaid Furniture, 78476
Arista Beaver Brook Circuits, 78476
Arrow Electronics, Inc., 78477
California Cedar Products Co., 78477
Coats American, Inc., 78477
Interdynamics, Inc., et. al., 78477-78479
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78479-78481
Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78481-78482
Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
See Western Area Power Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various
States:
New Mexico, 78312-78315 [HTML] or [PDF]
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various
States:
New Mexico, 78375 [HTML] or [PDF]
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Agency statements--
Comment availability, 78409 [HTML] or [PDF]
Weekly receipts, 78409-78410 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
Exposure Modeling Work Group, 78410-78411 [HTML] or [PDF]
Scientific Counselors Board, 78411-78412 [HTML] or [PDF]
Executive Office of the President
See Presidential Documents
See Trade Representative, Office of United States
Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica, S.A. (EMBRAER), 78300-78303
Airworthiness standards:
Special conditions--
Dessault Aviation Model Falcon Fan Jet, Falcon Fan Jet series
D, E, and F, and Mystere-Falcon Models 20-C5, 20-D5,
20-E5, 20-F5, and 200 series airplanes, 78298-78300
PROPOSED RULES
Airworthiness directives:
Pratt & Whitney, 78359-78370
Class E airspace, 78370-78373
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78520-78521
Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Common carrier services:
Communications disruptions; reporting requirements
Effective date, 78338-78339
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991; implementation--
Autodialed or prerecorded message calls to wireless numbers;
national do-not-call registry; safe harbor provisions;
effective date, 78339
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Complaints filed:
BP West Coast Products LLC et al., 78405
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings, 78405-78407
Hydroelectric applications, 78407
Meetings:
Crown Landing, LLC; technical conference, 78407-78408
Gulfterra Texas Pipeline, LP; technical conference, 78408
Market based rates for public utilities; technical conference,
78408
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
CenterPoint Energy-Mississippi River Transmission Corp., 78401
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., 78401
Columbia Gulf Transmission Co., 78402-78403
Cranberry Pipeline Corp., 78403
Gulfstream Natural Gas System, L.L.C., 78403
Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P., 78403-78404
Portland General Electric Co., 78404
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., 78404-78405
Federal Railroad Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, 78521
Financial Management Service
See Fiscal Service
Fiscal Service
NOTICES
Interest rates:
Renegotiation Board and prompt payment rates, 78522-78523
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Food and Drug Administration
RULES
Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:
Chlortetracycline, 78305-78306
Tilmicosin, 78306
Food additives:
Secondary direct food additives--
Acidified sodium clorite solutions, 78303-78305
NOTICES
Biological product licenses:
Nonclinical and clinical electronic datasets pilot project; request
for volunteers, 78468-78469
Universal Reagents, Inc.; revocation, 78469-78470
Food and Nutrition Service
PROPOSED RULES
Child nutrition programs:
National School Lunch, School Breakfast, and Special Milk Programs;
procurement requirements, 78340-78351
NOTICES
Child nutrition programs:
Summer Food Service Program--
Reimbursment rates (2005 CY), 78386-78387
Forest Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
White River National Forest, CO; Southern Rockies Lynx Amendment
process, 78387-78388 [HTML] or [PDF]
Meetings:
Resource Advisory Committees--
Crook County, 78388
Health and Human Services Department
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See Food and Drug Administration
Homeland Security Department
See Coast Guard
Housing and Urban Development Department
PROPOSED RULES
Community planning and development programs; consolidated submissions:
Consolidated plan; revisions and updates, 78829-78843
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Homeless assistance; excess and surplus Federal properties, 78472
Interior Department
See Land Management Bureau
Internal Revenue Service
RULES
Excise taxes:
Group health plans and insurance insurers; access, portability, and
renewability requirements, 78719-78799
PROPOSED RULES
Excise taxes:
Health coverage portability; tolling certain time periods and
interaction with Family and Medical Leave Act, 78799-78825
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; benefit-
specific waiting periods, 78824-78827
International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
San Diego, CA; South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant,
78483-78484 [HTML] or [PDF]
International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
Pet food treats, 78473-78474
Polychloroprene rubber from--
Japan, 78474-78475
Labor Department
See Employee Benefits Security Administration
See Employment and Training Administration
See Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78475-78476
Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Meetings:
Pinedale Anticline Working Group task groups, 78472-78473
Library of Congress
See Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Mexico and United States, International Boundary and Water Commission
See International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and
Mexico
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
Robotic and Human Lunar Exploration Strategic Roadmap Committee,
78485
Universe Exploration Strategic Roadmap Committee, 78485
National Credit Union Administration
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Community Development Revolving Loan Fund for Credit Unions, 78485
National Labor Relations Board
NOTICES
Senior Executive Service:
Performance Review Board; membership, 78485-78486
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Fishery conservation and management:
West Coast and Western Pacific fisheries--
Bigeye tuna, 78397-78398
Meetings:
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 78398
Office of United States Trade Representative
See Trade Representative, Office of United States
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Personnel Management Office
RULES
Health benefits, Federal employees:
Two-option limitation modification and coverage continuation for
annuitants whose plan terminates an option, 78295-78296
Presidential Documents
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
HELP Commission Act; assignment of functions implementing (Memorandum
of December 8, 2004), 78845-78847
Jerusalem Embassy Act; suspension of limitations (Presidential
Determination No. 2005-14 of December 15, 2004), 78851
Palestinian Authority; waiver of restrictions on providing funds
(Presidential Determination No. 2005-10 of December 8, 2004),
78849
Public Debt Bureau
See Fiscal Service
Research and Special Programs Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Hazardous materials:
Transportation--
External product piping on cargo tanks transporting flammable
liquids; safety requirements, 78375-78384
Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 78486
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
American Stock Exchange LLC, 78486-78499
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, 78499-78508
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 78508-78511
New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 78511-78514
Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78514-78515
State Department
NOTICES
Biometric Visa Program:
Nonimmigrant and immigrant visa applicants; biometric identifiers
collection, 78515
Meetings:
International Telecommunication Advisory Committee, 78515-78516
Presidential permits:
Border Trade Association Foundation; commercial cargo lanes
construction, operation and maintenance at Mariposa Port of
Entry, Nogales, AZ, 78516
Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
South Buffalo Railway Co., 78521
Technology Administration
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
United States-Russia Innovation Council on High Technologies,
78398-78400
Trade Representative, Office of United States
NOTICES
Trade Act of 1974:
Chinese currency valuation, 78516-78517
World Trade Organization:
Dispute settlement panel establishment requests--
European Communities; countervailing duty measures concerning
certain products, 78517-78518
Thailand; shrimp; provisional antidumping measures, 78518-78519
Transportation Department
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Railroad Administration
See Research and Special Programs Administration
See Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78519-78520
Treasury Department
See Comptroller of the Currency
See Fiscal Service
See Internal Revenue Service
Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 78523-78524
Western Area Power Administration
NOTICES
Energy planning and management program:
Parker-Davis Project; post-2008 resource pool; power allocation
procedures and applications call, 78408-78409
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, 78525-78717
Part III
Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services; Labor Department, Employee Benefits Security
Administration; Treasury Department, Internal Revenue
Service, 78719-78827
Part IV
Housing and Urban Development Department, 78829-78843
Part V
Executive Office of the President, Presidential Documents, 78845-78847,
78849, 78851
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