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Environmental Federal Register Summary
September 22 - 26, 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 - Community-based Restoration Program Guidelines

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Access to EPA Library Services

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 - Environmental Financial Advisory Board
Request for Nominations

Web site

 

EPA - Science Advisory Board

Meeting

Web site

 

EPA - Integrated Nitrogen Committee

Meetings

Web site

 

EPA - Local Government Advisory Committee

Meeting

Web site

 

Treasury - Advisory Committee on the Ten Year Framework for Energy and Environment Cooperation With China

Notice of Establishment; Request for Nominations

Web site

 

USDA/AMS - 2008 National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program
Notice of Funds Availability

Web site

 

USDA/AMS - National Organic Standards Board

Meeting

Web site

 

USDA/NRCS - Regulations for Complying With the National Environmental Policy Act
Affirmation of Interim Final Rule as Final Rule

Web site

 

VA - Presumption of Service Connection for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Interim Final Rule

Web site

 

Homeland Security

DOC/NOAA - Feedback Survey for Annual Tsunami Warning Communications Tests
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOE/FERC - Mandatory Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Order on Proposed Clarification

Web site

 

FCC - Commercial Mobile Alert System

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

FCC - Wireless E911 Location Accuracy Requirements

Proposed Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Security and Continued Use of Cesium-137 Chloride Sources
Extension of Comment Period

Web site

 

NRC - David Lochbaum on Behalf of the Project on Government Oversight and the Union of Concerned Scientists
Petition for Rulemaking; Denial

Web site

 

The President - Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism

Notice of September 18, 2008

Web site

 

Treasury/FinCEN - Suspicious Activity Report by Money Services Business

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

Water and Wastewater

EPA - Lead and Copper Rule Remaining Long-Term Issues

Stakeholder Meeting
Web site

 

Microbiology

EPA - Health Effects of Microbial Pathogens in Recreational Waters: National Epidemiological and Environmental Assessment of Recreational (NEEAR) Water Study (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

Toxics, Hazardous Materials and Waste

DHS/Coast Guard - Consumer Price Index Adjustments of Oil Pollution Act of 1990 Limits of Liability -- Vessels and Deepwater Ports
Proposed Rulemaking

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOJ - Authority To Compromise Civil Claims Under CERCLA and to Make an Administrative Change to the Code of Federal Regulations
Final Rule

Web site

 

DOL/OSHA - The 13 Carcinogens Standard

Extension of the OMB Approval of Information Collection Requirements; Comment Request
Web site

 

DOL/OSHA - Inorganic Arsenic Standard

Extension of the OMB Approval of Information Collection Requirements; Comment Request
Web site

 

DOT/FAA - Hazardous Materials Training Requirements

Information Collection Activity Seeking OMB Approval

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Delays in Processing of Special Permits Applications (hazardous materials)

Web site

 

DOT/PHMSA - Pipeline Safety

Workshop on Anomaly Assessment and Repair

Web site

 

EPA - Food Packaging Treated with a Pesticide
Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Aldicarb, Ametryn, 2,4-DB, Dicamba, Dimethipin, Disulfoton, Diuron, et al.

Tolerance Actions
Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Cyfluthrin; Pesticide Tolerances

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Pendimethalin; Pesticide Tolerances

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

EPA - Azadirachtin

Pesticide Registration Docket Opened for Review and Comment
Web site

 

EPA - Pesticide Data Call-In Program

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

Web site

 

EPA - Final Authorization for Hazardous Waste Management Programs (Renewal)

Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Hazardous Waste Combustors (Renewal)

Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Association of American Pesticide Control Officials/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group

Working Committee on Pesticide Operations and Management

Meeting

Web site

 

EPA - Draft Toxicological Review of Ethylene Glycol Mono Butyl Ether (EGBE)

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

Peer Review Workshop

Web site

 

EPA - Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee

Meetings

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - A Strategy for Assigning the New NIOSH Skin Notations for Chemicals

Review of NIOSH Draft Current Intelligence Bulletin

Availability; Comment Request; Meeting

Web site

 

HHS/CDC - Board of Scientific Counselors

National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Meeting

Web site

 

Air Quality

DOL/OSHA - Coke Oven Emissions

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review: Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries
Final Rule; Reconsideration and Stay of Effective Date

Web site

 

EPA - NESHAP for Hazardous Waste Combustors (Renewal)

Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Web site

 

EPA - NSPS for Primary and Secondary Emissions From Basic Oxygen Furnaces (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NSPS for Glass Manufacturing Plants (Renewal)

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

Web site

 

EPA - NSPS for Metallic Mineral Processing Plants

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
Teleconference

Web site

 

EPA - Air Quality Modeling

Conference

Web site

 

Energy and Nuclear

DOE/FERC - Mandatory Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Order on Proposed Clarification

Web site

 

DOE/FERC - Proposed Barrington Hydroelectric Project, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comment, Motions to Intervene, and Competing Applications
Web site

 

DOE/FERC - Storage Hydroelectric Project
West and South Branch of Penobscot River, Piscataquis and Somerset Counties, Maine

Notice of Application for Amendment of License and Soliciting Comments, Motions to Intervene, and Protests
Web site

 

EPA - Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries
Final Rule; Reconsideration and Stay of Effective Date

Web site

 

NRC - Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation

Final Rule

Web site

 

NRC - Technical Specifications -- Restoring the Original Paragraph Designations
Final Rule

Web site

 

NRC - Security and Continued Use of Cesium-137 Chloride Sources
Extension of Comment Period

Web site

 

NRC - David Lochbaum on Behalf of the Project on Government Oversight and the Union of Concerned Scientists
Petition for Rulemaking; Denial

Web site

 

NRC - Guide for the Preparation of Applications for Licenses for Laboratory and Industrial Use of Small Quantities of Byproduct Material

Issuance of Regulatory Guide

Web site

 

NRC - Guide for the Preparation of Applications for the Use of Self-Contained Dry Source-Storage Gamma Irradiators

Issuance of Regulatory Guide

Web site

 

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

Biweekly Notice

Web site  (PDF)

 

NRC - Voluntary Reporting of Performance Indicators
Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

Meeting

Web site

 

NRC - Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes

Meeting
Web site

 

NRC - Sunshine Act Meetings

Web site

 

Land and Mineral Management

DOI/MMS - Minerals Management: Adjustment of Cost Recovery Fees

Final Rule

Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/NPS - National Park System Advisory Board

Meeting

Web site

 

DOI/NPS - National Register of Historic Places

Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions

Web site

 

Fish and Wildlife

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Highly Migratory Species

Atlantic Tuna Fisheries; Pelagic and Bottom Longline Fisheries

Gear Authorization and Turtle Control Devices
Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

DOC/NOAA - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery

Framework Adjustment 19; Correcting Amendment
Final Rule

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Permits for Incidental Taking of Endangered or Threatened Species
Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Permit Family of Forms

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Observer Notification Requirements

Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - New England Fishery Management Council

Meeting

Web site

 

DOC/NOAA - New England Fishery Management Council

Scientific and Statistical Committee

Meeting

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - Frameworks for Late-Season Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations

Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/FWS - Late Seasons and Bag and Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds
Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/FWS - Regulations on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for the 2008-09 Late Season
Final Rule
Web site  (PDF)

 

DOI/FWS - Revisions to Migratory Bird Import and Export Regulations
Correcting Amendments

Web site

 

DOI/FWS - North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Grant Programs
Information Collection Sent to OMB; Comment Request

Web site

 

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