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Environmental Federal Register Summary
April 14 - 19, 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

DOC/NOAA - US Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product Draft Report 1.3

Re-analyses of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features. Implications for Attribution of Causes of Observed Change

Notice of Availability; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOD/USACE - Boston Harbor Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project, Massachusetts

Draft Feasibility Report and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Draft State Environmental Impact Report

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

DOT/FAA - National Parks Overflights Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee
Notice of Membership

Web site

 

EPA - Application of Watershed Ecological Risk Assessment Methods to Watershed Management

Notice of Availability

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 - Information Collection Activities

Notice of OMB Responses

Web site

 

Homeland Security

DHS/TSA - Flight Crew Self-Defense Training -- Registration and Evaluation
Intent to Request Renewal From OMB of One Current Collection of Information

Web site

 

DHS/TSA - Critical Facility Information of the Top 100 Most Critical Pipelines
Intent To Request Approval From OMB of One New Collection of Information

Web site

 

DOC/BIS - Technical Corrections to the Export Administration Regulations Based Upon a Systematic Review of the CCL
Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/BIS - Conforming Changes to Certain End-User/End-Use Based Controls in the EAR

Clarification of the Term "Transfer" and Related Terms as Used in the EAR
Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/BIS - Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee

Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Board of Scientific Counselors

Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases

Web site

 

State Dept. - International Security Advisory Board

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

Water and Wastewater

No items this week.

 

Microbiology

HHS/CDC - Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms

Airline, Maritime, Land/Border Crossing

Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Comment and Recommendations
Web site

 

HHS/CDC -  All Age Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance

Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Notice of Charter Renewal

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Board of Scientific Counselors

Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases

Web site

 

HHS/FDA - Antimicrobial Resistance

Notice of Hearing; Comment Request

Web site

 

Toxics, Hazardous Materials and Waste

CPSC - Understanding the Pending Lead Legislation and the Use of Lead in Consumer Products

Notice of Roundtable

Web site

 

DOL/OSHA - Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories Standard

Extension of OMB Approval of Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Enhancing Rail Transportation Safety and Security for Hazardous Materials Shipments

Railroad Safety Enforcement Procedures

Interim Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Information Collections

Notice of OMB Approval

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Improving the Safety of Railroad Tank Car Transportation of Hazardous Materials

Notice of Hearings

Web site

 

EPA - Thiamethoxam; Pesticide Tolerances

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances

Proposed AEGL Values

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Chromated Copper Arsenate Revised Risk Assessments

Notice of Availability and Solicitation of Risk Reduction Options

Web site

 

EPA - Pentachlorophenol Revised Risk Assessments

Notice of Availability and Solicitation of Risk Reduction Options
Web site

 

EPA - Creosote Revised Risk Assessments and Qualitative Economic Analysis of the Alternatives

Notice of Availability and Solicitation of Risk Reduction Options

Web site

 

EPA - Chloroneb

Notice of Termination of Certain Uses

Web site

 

EPA - Ethylene Oxide; Reregistration Eligibility Decision

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Prometon; Reregistration Eligibility Decision

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Triadimefon

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  (PDF)

 

EPA - Petition for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities

Notice of Filing (1 of 3)

Web site

 

EPA - Petition for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities

Notice of Filing (2 of 3)

Web site

 

EPA - Petition for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities

Notice of Filing (3 of 3)

Web site

 

EPA - Application for Registration of Pesticide-Producing and Device-Producing Establishments (EPA Form 3540-8) and Pesticide Report for Pesticide-Producing and Device-Producing Establishments

Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Security and Prosperity Partnership

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

EPA - FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel

Notice of  Meeting

Web site

 

HHS/ATSDR - Two Interaction Profiles (Draft Documents)
Notice of Availability

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Preventing Occupational Exposures to Lead and Noise at Indoor Firing Ranges

Notice of Draft Document Available for Public Comment

Web site

 

HHS/NTP - Board of Scientific Counselors

Notice of Meeting

Comment Request

Web site

 

USDA - Certified Applicators of Federally Restricted Use Pesticides

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

Air Quality

EPA - Draft Risk and Exposure Assessment Reports for Nitrogen Dioxide

Notice of Availability; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Requirements for Control Technology Determinations From Major Sources in Accordance With Clean Air Act Sections

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

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Marine Tank Vessel Loading Operations (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Pesticide Active Ingredient Production (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Chemical Recovery Combustion Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite, and Stand-Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Pulp and Paper Production (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Engine Test Cells/Stands (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - Science Advisory Board

Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis; Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

Request for Nominations

Web site

 

EPA - Science Advisory Board

Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

Energy and Nuclear

DOE - Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board
Notice of Renewal
Web site

 

DOE - High Energy Physics Advisory Panel

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

EPA - Science Advisory Board

Radiation Advisory Committee

Request for Nominations to Augment Expertise

Web site

 

NRC - Conduct of New Reactor Licensing Proceedings

Final Policy Statement
Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Specific Domestic Licenses to Manufacture or Transfer Certain Items Containing Byproduct Material

Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

Subcommittee on Plant License Renewal; Notice of Meeting

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

Subcommittee on Planning and Procedures

Notice of Meeting
Web site

 

NRC - Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings

Web site

 

Land and Mineral Management

DOI/MMS - Incorporate American Petroleum Institute Hurricane Bulletins

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/MMS - Outer Continental Shelf Regulations -- Technical Corrections

Final Rule

Web site 

 

DOI/MMS - Outer Continental Shelf

Notice of Nominations Received and Proposed Limited Alternative Energy Leases; Initiation of Coordination and Consultation

Web site

 

DOI/NPS - National Register of Historic Places

Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions

Web site

 

Fish and Wildlife

DOC/NOAA - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery

Amendment 11; Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports

Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - International Whaling Commission

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - New England Fishery Management Council

Skate Committee and Advisory Panel

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

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