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Environmental Federal Register Summary
March 3 - 7, 2008 

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

DHS/Coast Guard - Proceedings of the Marine Safety and Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety and Security at Sea

Information Collection Request to OMB; Comment Request

Web site

 

DHS/Coast Guard - Collections of Information Under Review by OMB

Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Weather Modification Activities Reports

Submission if Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOD/Navy - Introduction of the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) Into the US Fleet

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Notice of Hearings

Web site

 

EPA - Experimental Use Permit

Notice of Receipt of Application; Amendment

Web site

 

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

Web site

 

EPA - Environmental Impact Statements
Weekly Receipts

Web site

 

EPA - Human Studies Review Board

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

EPA - Board of Scientific Counselors

Executive Committee

Notice of Teleconference

Web site

 

EPA - Science Advisory Board

Committee on Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services

Web site

 

FTC - Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims

The Green Guides and Packaging

Notice of Workshop

Web site  (PDF)

 

USDA/FSIS - Codex Alimentarius Commission

Committee on Food Additives
Notice of Meeting; Comment Request

Web site

 

VA - Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans

Notice of Establishment

Web site

 

Homeland Security

DHS - Privacy Impact Assessments

Notice of Publication

Web site

 

DHS - Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee

Notice of Closed Meeting

Web site

 

DOE/NNSA - Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
Notice of Additional Public Hearing

Web site

 

State Dept. - Export Declaration of Defense Technical Data or Services
Notice of Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

Water and Wastewater

EPA - Revised NPDES Permit Regulations for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Web site  (PDF)

 

Microbiology

EPA - Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Pesticides and Revisions to Product Chemistry Data Requirements for Conventional Pesticides
Notification to the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services
Web site

 

HHS/FDA - Revision of the Requirements for Live Vaccine Processing

Direct final Rule; Confirmation of Effective Date

Web site

 

HHS/FDA - Food Canning Establishment Registration

Acidified Foods and Thermally Processed Low-Acid Foods in Hermetically Sealed Containers

Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

USDA/FSIS - Codex Alimentarius Commission

Committee on Contaminants in Foods
Notice of Meeting; Comment Request

Web site

 

Toxics, Hazardous Materials and Waste

DOJ - Industri-plex Superfund Site, Woburn Massachusetts

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the CERCLA; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Pipeline Safety

Issues Related to Mechanical Couplings Used in Natural Gas Distribution Systems
Notice of Issuance of Advisory Bulletin

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Special Permits Applications (hazardous materials)

List of Applications Delayed More than 180 Days

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Acetic acid, [(5-chloro-8-quinolinyl) oxy]-, 1-methylhexyl ester (Cloquintocet-mexyl); Pesticide Tolerance

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Bifenazate; Pesticide Tolerance

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Flumioxazin; Pesticide Tolerance

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Methoxyfenozide

Pesticide Tolerances and Time-Limited Pesticide Tolerances
Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Community Right-to-Know

Corrections and 2007 Updates to the Toxics Release Inventory North American Industry Classification System Reporting Codes

Proposed Rule; Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Pesticides and Revisions to Product Chemistry Data Requirements for Conventional Pesticides
Notification to the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services
Web site

 

EPA - Draft Toxicological Review of 2-Hexanone

In Support of the Summary Information in the Integrated Risk Information System

Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Acetonitrile Petition

Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting

Notice of Data Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Certain New Chemicals (TSCA)

Receipt and Status Information

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Draft Toxicological Review of Propionaldehyde

In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System

Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Experimental Use Permit

Notice of Receipt of Application

Web site

 

EPA - NSPS for Municipal Waste Combustors (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

HHS/ATSDR - Hazardous Substances That Will Be the Subject of Toxicological Profiles
Notice of the Revised Priority List
Web site

 

HHS/CDC - NIOSH Alert: Preventing Chronic Beryllium Disease and Beryllium Sensitization

Notice of Draft Document Available for Comment

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

HUD - Application for Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Grant Programs and Quality Assurance Plans

Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

USDA/FSIS - Codex Alimentarius Commission

Committee on Contaminants in Foods
Notice of Meeting; Comment Request

Web site

 

Air Quality

EPA - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories

Gasoline Distribution Bulk Terminals, Bulk Plants, and Pipeline Facilities; and Gasoline Dispensing Facilities

Final Rule; Correction

Web site

 

EPA - Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2006
Notice of Availability; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Recent Posting to the Applicability Determination Index

Notice of Availability

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Draft Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen-Health Criteria
Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Nonattainment New Source Review

Final Rule for Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Beryllium Rocket Motor Fuel Firing (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NSPS for Municipal Waste Combustors (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - Revisions to the General Conformity Regulations
Notice of Hearing; Corrected Docket Number

Web site

 

Energy and Nuclear

DOC/NOAA - Proposed Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal, Fall River, Massachusetts

Notice of Stay -- Closure of Administrative Appeals Decision Record

Web site

 

DOE - Waste Management Program: Treatment and Storage of Transuranic Waste
Amendment to Record of Decision

Web site

 

DOE - Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products

Notice of Representative Average Unit Costs of Energy

Web site

 

DOE/NNSA - Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
Notice of Additional Public Hearing

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Pipeline Safety

Issues Related to Mechanical Couplings Used in Natural Gas Distribution Systems
Notice of Issuance of Advisory Bulletin

Web site

 

EPA - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories

Gasoline Distribution Bulk Terminals, Bulk Plants, and Pipeline Facilities; and Gasoline Dispensing Facilities

Final Rule; Correction

Web site

 

NRC - Reactor Site Criteria

Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste and Materials

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

NRC - Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notice of Hearing and of Opportunity to Make Limited Appearance Statements
Web site

 

NRC - Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings

Web site

 

Land and Mineral Management

DOI/BIA - Proposed Trust Acquisition of an Initial Reservation/Gaming Facility for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Mashpee, Barnstable County and Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Notice of Intent to Prepare Environmental Impact Statement

Web site

 

DOI/NPS - National Register of Historic Places

Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions

Web site

 

DOT/FTA - Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program

Tribal Transit Program
Notice of Award

Web site

 

Fish and Wildlife

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan

Temporary Rule

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act Provisions
Weakfish Fishery
Final Rule
Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

Northeast Multispecies Fishery

2008 Georges Bank Cod Hook Sector Operations Plan and Agreement and Allocation of Georges Bank Cod Total Allowable Catch
Proposed Rule; Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

Monkfish Fishery

Proposed Rule; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Petition to Reclassify the Loggerhead Turtle in the Western North Atlantic Ocean
Notice of 90-day Finding; Request for Information and Comments

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Fleet Active Sonar Training (AFAST) Activities
Notice of Receipt of Application for Letter of Authorization; Request for Comments and Information

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - New England Fishery Management Council

Atlantic Sea Scallop

Notice of Intent to Prepare Environmental Impact Statement; Re-initiation of Scoping Process; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Vessel and Gear Marking
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request
Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Shark Identification and Protected Species Safe Handling, Release, and Identification

Notice of Workshops
Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - New England Fishery Management Council

Herring Oversight Committee
Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

 

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