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Environmental Federal Register Summary
December 17 - 21, 2007 

Disclaimer: Although every effort is made to include all relevant Federal Register notices in this summary for the convenience of the reader, some notices may have been omitted inadvertently. Regulated parties are required to comply with all applicable federal regulations regardless of their inclusion or omission here. DEP assumes no liability for any error or omission in this summary.

General Information

EPA - Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations
Notice of Availability of EPA Comments

Web site

 

EPA - Environmental Impact Statements
Weekly Receipts

Web site

 

EPA - Information Collection Activities

Notice of OMB Responses

Web site

 

EPA - Board of Scientific Counselors

Global Change Research Program

Notice of Mid-Cycle Review Meetings

Web site

 

EPA - National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

HHS/NRSA - Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act

Announcement of Potential Eligibility for Compensation

Web site

 

OSTP - President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

USDA/NRCS - Conservation Innovation Grants

Fiscal Year 2008 Announcement of Program Funding

Web site  (PDF)

 

Homeland Security

DHS - Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council

Update of Membership

Web site

 

DOD - Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Program

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOD - Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Program Regulation

Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Geologic Repository Operations Area Security and Material Control and Accounting Requirements

Proposed Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Independent External Review Panel to Identify Vulnerabilities in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Materials Licensing Program

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

State Dept. - Amendment to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
Regarding Dual and Third Country Nationals
Final Rule

Web site

 

State Dept. - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics

Notice of Designation; Weapons of Mass Destruction

Web site

 

Treasury/OCC - Bank Secrecy Act/Money Laundering Risk Assessment

Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

Water and Wastewater

EPA - Draft Cruise Ship Discharge Assessment Report

Notice of Availability; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - National Water Quality Inventory Reports (Renewal)

Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Total Coliform Rule Distribution System Advisory Committee

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

Microbiology

DOI/FWS - Draft Mosquito and Mosquito-Borne Disease Management Policy

Notice of Reopening of Comment Period

Web site

 

EPA - Total Coliform Rule Distribution System Advisory Committee

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

USDA/APHIS - National Animal Identification System

User Guide and Additional Information Resources

Notice of Availability; Comment Request

Web site

 

Toxics, Hazardous Materials and Waste

DOT/PHMSA - Applications for Special Permits (hazardous materials)

Notice of Receipt

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Application for Modification of Special Permit (hazardous materials)

Notice of Receipt

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Special Permit Applications (hazardous materials)

List of Applications Delayed More than 180 days

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Pipeline Safety Standards Advisory Committees

Notice of Meetings and Workshop

Web site

 

EPA - Extension of Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions (Multiple Chemicals)
Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Glufosinate-ammonium; Pesticide Tolerance

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)

Announcement of 2008 Program; Information Request
Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Air Fresheners; TSCA Section 21 Petition

Notice of Denial

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Dichlorvos (DDVP)

Notice of Final Determination to Terminate Special Review
Web site

 

EPA - Siduron Risk Assessments

Notice of Availability, and Risk Reduction Options

Web site

 

EPA - Polypropylene Glycol Reregistration Eligibility Decision

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Aliphatic Solvents

Revised Reregistration Eligibility Decision for Low-Risk Pesticide

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Sulfluramid

Request to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations

Notice of Receipt

Web site

 

EPA - Nicotine, 4-Aminopyridine, and Fenoxycarb

Request to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations

Notice of Receipt

Web site

 

EPA - Requests to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations
Notice of Receipt

Web site

 

EPA - Pesticide Registration Review

New Dockets Opened for Review and Comment

Web site

 

EPA - Experimental Use Permit

Notice of Receipt of Application for Amendment
Web site

 

EPA - Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Request for Comments on Proposed Changes and the Renewal of Form R

Information Collection Activities, Proposed Collections

Web site

 

EPA - Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Request for Comments on Proposed Changes and the Renewal of the Form A Certification Statement

Information Collection Activities, Proposed Collections

Web site

 

EPA - TSCA Section 8(a) Preliminary Assessment Information Rule

Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Pre-Manufacture Review Reporting and Exemption Requirements for New Chemical Substances and Significant New Use Reporting Requirements for Chemical Substances

Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Certification of Pesticide Applicators

Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - List of Ingredients Added to Tobacco in the Manufacture of Cigarette Products (reinstatement with change)

Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Annual Submission of the Ingredients Added to, and the Quantity of Nicotine Contained in, Smokeless Tobacco Manufactured, Imported, or Packaged in the US (reinstatement with change)

Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

Web site

 

HHS/NTP - Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods
Notice of Ten-Year Anniversary Symposium; Availability of Five-Year Plan
Web site

 

Air Quality

EPA - Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Nonattainment New Source Review

Reasonable Possibility in Recordkeeping
Final Rule  (PDF)

 

EPA - National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Lead

Proposed Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Air Fresheners; TSCA Section 21 Petition

Notice of Denial

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Draft Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur -- Environmental Criteria

Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Detergent Gasoline (Renewal)

Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request

Web site

 

Energy and Nuclear

DOE/FERC - Ice House Power Project

Nashua River, Ayer, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment
Web site

 

DOE/FERC - Housatonic River Hydroelectric Project
Housatonic River, Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut

Notice of Application and Soliciting Comments
Web site

 

DOE/OEERE - Energy Conservation Standards for New Federal Commercial and Multi-Family High-Rise Residential Buildings and New Federal Low-Rise Residential Buildings

Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Detergent Gasoline (Renewal)

Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

NRC - Incorporation by Reference of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Cases
Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Occupational Dose Records, Labeling Containers, and the Total Effective Dose Equivalent

Final Rule; Deferral of Effective Date
Web site

 

NRC - Geologic Repository Operations Area Security and Material Control and Accounting Requirements

Proposed Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations

Biweekly Notice

Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Curagen Corporation Facility, Branford, Connecticut
License Amendment To Byproduct Materials License for Termination of the License and Unrestricted Release

Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

NRC - Nuclear Material Transaction Report and Concise Note

Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

NRC - Licenses and Radiation Safety Requirements for Irradiators

Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

NRC - Independent External Review Panel to Identify Vulnerabilities in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Materials Licensing Program

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

Subcommittee on ESBWR Design Certification

Notice of Meeting
Web site

 

NRC - Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings

Web site

 

NWTRB - Yucca Mountain

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

Land and Mineral Management

DOI/MMS - Royalty Relief for Deepwater Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leases

Conforming Regulations to Court Decision

Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/MMS - Performance Measures Data

Information Collection Activities: Submitted for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOI/NPS - National Register of Historic Places

Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions  (1 of 2)

Web site

 

DOI/NPS - National Register of Historic Places

Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions  (2 of 2)

Web site

 

GSA - Construction of a New US Commercial Port of Entry, Derby Line, Vermont
Notice of Availability of Record of Decision

Web site  (PDF)

 

USDA/FS - Sale and Disposal of National Forest System Timber

Special Forest Products and Forest Botanical Products
Extension of Comment Period

Web site

 

Fish and Wildlife

DOC/NOAA - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery; Framework Adjustment 20

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - Experimental Permitting Process, Exempted Fishing Permits, and Scientific Research Activity

Proposed Rule; Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery; Amendment 11
Proposed Rule; Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - Council Coordination Committee

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - Draft Mosquito and Mosquito-Borne Disease Management Policy

Notice of Reopening of Comment Period

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - Service Regulations Committee

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

 

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