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Environmental Federal Register Summary
July 21- 25, 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

EPA - Development of Land-Use Scenarios Consistent With Climate Change Emissions Storylines

Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - State Innovation Grant Program

Preliminary Notice and Request for Input on the Development of a Solicitation for Proposals for 2009 Awards

Correction

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 - Science Advisory Board

Committee to Provide Advice on Future Development of EPA's Report on the Environment

Request for Nominations

Web site

 

USDA/APHIS - Corn Genetically Engineered for Insect Resistance
Notice of Determination of Nonregulated Status

Web site

 

USDA/APHIS - Soybean Genetically Engineered for Tolerance to Glyphosate and Acetolactate Synthase-Inhibiting Herbicides

Notice of Determination of Nonregulated Status

Web site

 

Homeland Security

DHS/CBP - Border Crossing Information
Privacy Act of 1974: Implementation of Exemptions

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Web site

 

DHS/CBP - Border Crossing Information

Notice of Privacy Act Systems of Records
Web site  (PDF)

 

DHS/CBP - Non-Federal Entity Data System, Systems of Record

Notice of Privacy Act Systems of Records
Web site 

 

DHS - Infrastructure Protection Data Call

Submission of Information Collection for Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DHS - Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

DHS/FEMA - National Disaster Housing Strategy

Notice of Availability; Comment Request

Web site

 

DHS/FEMA - Disaster Assistance Directorate Policy Numbers 9100.1 and 9523.1 Snow Assistance and Severe Winter Storm Policy
Notice of Proposed Policy; Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/BIS - Additional Protocol Regulations
Proposed Rule; Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/BIS - Technical Advisory Committees

Notice of Recruitment of Private-Sector Members
Web site

 

DOC/BIS - Materials Processing Equipment, Technical Advisory Committee
Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

Web site

 

DOD - US Nuclear Command and Control System Comprehensive Review Advisory Committee

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

FCC - Commercial Mobile Alert System

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

FCC - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Information Collection Approved by OMB; Comment Request

Web site

 

HHS/FDA - Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project
Notice of Availability of Funding

Web site

 

The President - Continuation of Emergency Regarding Export Control Regulations

Notice of July 23, 2008

Web site

 

Treasury/FinCEN - Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended

Notice of Systems of Records

Web site  (PDF)

 

Water and Wastewater

EPA - Federal Requirements Under the Underground Injection Control Program for Carbon Dioxide Geologic Sequestration Wells

Proposed Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Discharges from Dewatering Activities in the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire: the Dewatering General Permit

Notice of Availability of Draft NPDES General Permits

Web site

 

EPA - Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard

Notice of Determination (1 of 2)
Web site

 

EPA - Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard

Notice of Determination (2 of 2)
Web site

 

Microbiology

HHS/FDA - Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project
Notice of Availability of Funding

Web site

 

Toxics, Hazardous Materials and Waste

DOT/PHMSA - Petitions for Interim Standards for Rail Tank Cars Used to Transport Toxic-by-Inhalation Hazard Materials

Comment Request

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Applications for Special Permit (hazardous materials)
Notice of Receipt

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Applications for Modification of Special Permit (hazardous materials)
Notice of Receipt

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOT/PHMSA - Special Permits Applications (hazardous materials)
List of Applications Delayed more than 180 days

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Fludioxonil; Pesticide Tolerance for Emergency Exemption

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Testing of Certain High Production Volume Chemicals (TSCA)

Second Group of Chemicals

Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Draft Demonstration of Alternative Asbestos Control Method Demolition for Two Asbestos-Containing Buildings

Notice of Availability; Expert Peer Review Meeting

Web site

 

EPA - Sulfluramid Registration Review Proposed Decision

Notice of Availability
Web site

 

EPA - Dichlorvos (DDVP)

Notice of Order Denying NRDC's Objections and Requests for Hearing

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - North American Free Trade Agreement Technical Working Group on Pesticides

Proposed Five-Year Strategy, 2008-2013

Notice of Availability

Web site

 

EPA - Pesticide Product Registration Applications

Notice of Receipt

Web site

 

EPA - Old Village Mill, LLC, Brunswick Mill Site and Carvill Combing Company Site

Plainfield, Connecticut
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel

Notice of  Meeting

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research

Notice of Availability of Revised Draft; Comment Request

Web site

 

HHS/FDA - Science Advisory Board to the National Center for Toxicological Research

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

Air Quality

EPA - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

Area Source Standards for Nine Metal Fabrication and Finishing Source Categories
Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard

Addressing a Portion of the Phase 2 Ozone Implementation Rule Concerning Reasonable Further Progress Emissions Reductions Credits Outside Ozone Nonattainment Areas

Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Draft Risk and Exposure Assessment Report for Sulfur Dioxide
Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Draft Integrated Science Assessment for Sulfur Oxides -- Health Criteria

Extension of Comment Period

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Ferroalloys Production: Ferromanganese and Silicomanganese (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Architectural Coatings (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

Oxides of Nitrogen Primary NAAQS Review Panel
Notice of Meeting

 

Energy and Nuclear

DOE - High Energy Physics Advisory Panel

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

DOE - State Energy Advisory Board

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

DOE/FERC - Proposed Hydroelectric Project

Crocker Dam, Whitman River, Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comment, Motions to Intervene, and Competing Applications

Web site

 

DOE/FERC - Proposed Hydroelectric Project

Westminster Reservoir Pond Dam, Whitman River, Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comment, Motions to Intervene, and Competing Applications

Web site

 

NRC - Administrative Changes

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Integrity and Test Specifications for Selected Brachytherapy Sources

Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

Web site

 

NRC - Qualification of Safety-Related Motor Centers for Nuclear Power Plants

Notice of Issuance of Draft Regulatory Guide

Web site

 

NRC - James Salsman

Denial of Petition for Rulemaking

Web site  (PDF)

 

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

Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

Subcommittee on the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor

Notice of Meeting

Web site

 

NRC - Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings

Web site

 

Land and Mineral Management

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

 

DOI/USGS - Industrial Minerals Surveys

Information Collection Activities: Submitted for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

USDA/FS - National Environmental Policy Act Procedures

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

USDA/FS - Manual 2360 for Heritage Program Management
Notice of Availability of Final Directive

Web site


USDA/FS - Extension of Timber Sales

Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

Fish and Wildlife

DOC/NOAA - Highly Migratory Species Vessel Logbooks and Cost-Earnings Data Reports

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Community-based Restoration Program Progress Reports

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Application to Shuck Surf Clams/Ocean Quahogs at Sea
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - Financial Assistance: Wildlife Restoration, Sport Fish Restoration, Hunter Education and Safety
Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/FWS - Addresses for Applications for Eagle and Migratory Bird Permit Applications
Final Rule

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - Proposed Frameworks for Early-Season Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations

Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/FWS - Mourning Dove Call Count Survey

Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - North American Woodcock Singing Ground Survey

Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

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