Federal Register Items of Interest to the Department of the Interior
December 29, 2008-January 2, 2009
Below is the weekly list of Federal Register Items of Interest to the Department of the Interior. This list includes items appearing in the Federal Register during the week of December 29, 2008-January 2, 2009. If you have any questions or wish to receive full-text copies of any of the items on this list, please contact the Department of the Interior Library by phone at (202) 208-5815, e-mail at Library@nbc.gov, or in person or by mail at 1849 C Street, NW, MS 1151, Washington, DC 20240.
DECEMBER 29, 2008
1. 73 FR 79367, Rules and Regulations, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) Forest Service, 36 CFR Parts 223 and 261, RIN 0596-AB81, Sale and Disposal of National Forest System Timber; Special Forest Products and Forest Botanical Products, ACTION: Final Rule.
2. 73 FR 79424, Proposed Rules, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) Forest Service, 36 CFR Part 251, RIN 0596-AC87, Management of National Forest System Surface Resources With Privately Held Mineral Estates, ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; request for comment.
3. 73 FR 79464, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), [Docket No. PF08-31-000; Docket No. PF08-32-000 ], Florida Gas Transmission Company; Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Mobile Bay Lateral Extension Project and the Pascagoula Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues.
4. 73 FR 79471, Notices, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), [ER-FRL-8588-9], Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments.
5. 73 FR 79473, Notices, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), [FRL-8757-3, EPA-HQ-OW-2008-0055], Final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Discharges Incidental to the Normal Operation of a Vessel, ACTION: Notice of availability.
6. 73 FR 79496, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) United States Coast Guard (USCG), [USCG-2004-19621], Dry Cargo Residue Discharges in the Great Lakes; Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement, ACTION: Notice of intent; request for comments; notice of public scoping meeting.
7. 73 FR 79502, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [F-14867-B; AK-964-1410-KC-P], Alaska Native Claims Selection, ACTION: Notice of decision approving lands for conveyance.
8. 73 FR 79503, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [LLCONO134-09-L17110000-AL0000-241A], Notice of Public Meetings, McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area Advisory Council Meetings, ACTION: Announcement of meetings.
9. 73 FR 79503, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [LLNV912000.L1220000.PA0000; 09-08807; TAS: 14X1109], Northeastern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council Meetings, Nevada, ACTION: Notice of meetings.
10. 73 FR 79504, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, ACTION: Notice.
11. 73 FR 79504, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: Muskegon County Museum, Muskegon, MI, ACTION: Notice.,
12. 73 FR 79506, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ACTION: Notice.
13. 73 FR 79507, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee: Nomination Solicitation, ACTION: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee; Notice of Nomination Solicitation.
14. 73 FR 79541, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Environmental Impact Statement for the California High Speed Train Project from San Francisco to San Jose, CA, ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.
DECEMBER 30, 2008
15. 73 FR 79705, Rules and Regulations, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 50 CFR Part 600, [Docket No. 071001548-81392-02] RIN 0648-AW10, Marine Recreational Fisheries of the United States; National Saltwater Angler Registry Program, ACTION: Final rule.
16. 73 FR 79770, Proposed Rules, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), 50 CFR Part 17, RIN 1018-AV51 [FWS-R4-ES-2008-0058; 92210-1117-0000-FY08-B4], Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Alabama Sturgeon (Scaphirhyncus suttkusi), ACTION: Revised proposed rule; reopening of comment period, notice of availability of draft economic analysis, announcement of public hearing, and amended required determinations.
17. 73 FR 79773, Proposed Rules, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 50 CFR Part 679, [Docket No. 0808011016-81595-02] RIN 0648-AX14, Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska License Limitation Program, ACTION: Proposed rule; request for comments.
18. 73 FR 79822, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), [Docket No. 080318443-81628-02] RIN 0648-XG53, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; Notice of 12-Month Finding on a Petition to List the Ribbon Seal as a Threatened or Endangered Species, ACTION: Status review; notice of finding.
19. 73 FR 79856, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) Department of the Navy, Notice of Public Hearings for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for the Northwest Training Range Complex, ACTION: Notice.
20. 73 FR 79877, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE) Southwestern Power Administration, Sam Rayburn Dam Power Rate Schedule, ACTION: Notice of Rate Order.
21. 73 FR 79895, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), [FWS-R9-IA-2008-N0334; 96300-1671-0000-P5], Issuance of Permits, ACTION: Notice of issuance of permits for endangered species.
22. 73 FR 79895, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), [FWS-R9-FHC-2008-N0287; 80221-1113-0000-L5], Marine Mammal Protection Act; Stock Assessment Report, ACTION: Notice of availability of final 2008 revised marine mammal stock assessment report for the southern sea otter in California; response to comments.
23. 73 FR 79898, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), [FWS-R5-FHC-2008-N0336; 53330-1335-0000-J3], Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Control Alternatives Workgroup, ACTION: Notice of meeting.
24. 73 FR 79898, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), [FWS-R9-IA-2008-N0335; 96300-1671-0000-P5], Receipt of Applications for Permit, ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications for permit.
25. 73 FR 79899, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [CA-340-08-1220-DD], Notice of Order Closing Public Lands at the Knoxville Recreation Area, Lake County, CA, to Recreational and Target Shooting., ACTION: Notice.
26. 73 FR 79900, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [LLWO300000.L91310000.PP000], Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments for Geothermal Leasing in the Western United States, ACTION: Notice of availability.
27. 73 FR 79902, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [WY-100-2008-1110-PI], Notice of Seasonal Closures of Public Lands to Human Presence and/or Motorized Vehicle Use, ACTION: Notice of Seasonal Closures of Public Lands to Human Presence and/or Motorized Vehicle Use.
28. 73 FR 79902, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ACTION: Notice.
29. 73 FR 79903, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK, and Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK, ACTION: Notice.
30. 73 FR 79904, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, California State Office, Sacramento, CA and University of California, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA, ACTION: Notice.
31. 73 FR 79904, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: Klamath County Museums, Klamath Falls, OR, ACTION: Notice.
32. 73 FR 79905, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM and Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, ACTION: Notice.
33. 73 FR 79907, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA, ACTION: Notice.
34. 73 FR 79908, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Oregon, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, Eugene, OR, ACTION: Notice.
35. 73 FR 79909, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Oregon, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, Eugene, OR, ACTION: Notice
36. 73 FR 79934, Notices, NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC), [Docket No. 03036785], Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment to Byproduct Materials License No. 29-30984-01, for Unrestricted Release of the Conopco, Incorporated's Waste Storage Facility in Trumbull, CT, ACTION: Issuance of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment.
37. 73 FR 79937, Notices, NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC), [Docket No. 030-34493], Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment to Byproduct Nuclear Materials License No. 45-25402-01, for Termination of the License and Unrestricted Release of the Upstate Group, Inc., Facility in Charlottesville, VA, ACTION: Issuance of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment.
DECEMBER 31, 2008
38. 73 FR 80367, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), RIN 0648-XM39, Marine Mammals; File No. 704-1698, ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit amendment.
39. 73 FR 80392, Notices, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), [FRL-8759-4], Recent Posting to the Applicability Determination Index (ADI) Database System of Agency Applicability Determinations, Alternative Monitoring Decisions, and Regulatory Interpretations Pertaining to Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, and the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Program, ACTION: Notice of Availability.
40. 73 FR 80420, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), [FWS-R2-ES-2008-N0316; 20124-1113-0000-F5], Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications, ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.
41. 73 FR 80421, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), [FWS-R4-R-2008-N0245; 40136-1265-0000-S3], Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde County, NC, ACTION: Notice of availability: Final comprehensive conservation plan and finding of no significant impact.
42. 73 FR 80423, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [F-14824-A and F-14824-A2; AK-965-1410-KC-P], Alaska Native Claims Selection, ACTION: Notice of decision approving lands for conveyance.
43. 73 FR 80423, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [NM-920-1310-08); (OKNM 117608; OKNM 117609], Proposed Reinstatement of Terminated Oil and Gas Leases OKNM 117608; OKNM 117609, ACTION: Notice of reinstatement of terminated oil and gas leases.
44. 73 FR 80423, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee: Meeting, ACTION: Notice.
45. 73 FR 80424, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), National Register of Historic Places; Weekly Listing of Historic Properties.
46. 73 FR 80425, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions.
47. 73 FR 80433, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Petitions for Modification, ACTION: Notice of petitions for modification of existing mandatory safety standards.
48. 73 FR 80440, Notices, NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC), [Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286], Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 38 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3.
49. 73 FR 80656, Rules and Regulations, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), 30 CFR Parts 7 and 75, RIN 1219-AB58, Refuge Alternatives for Underground Coal Mines, Part V, ACTION: Final rule.
JANUARY 1, 2009
Federal Holiday
JANUARY 2, 2009
50. 74 FR 21, Notices, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), 40 CFR Part 82, RIN 2060-AG12, Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Notice 23 for Significant New Alternatives Policy Program, ACTION: Determination of Acceptability.
51. 74 FR 29, Rules and Regulations, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 50 CFR Part 648, [Docket No. 0809251266-81485-02] RIN 0648-XJ96, Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries; 2009 Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Specifications; Preliminary 2009 Quota Adjustments; 2009 Summer Flounder Quota for Delaware. ACTION: Final rule.
52. 74 FR 38, Rules and Regulations, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 50 CFR Part 679, [Docket No. 071106673-8011-02] RIN 0648-XM47, Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Inseason Adjustment to the 2009 Bering Sea Pollock Total Allowable Catch Amount. ACTION: Temporary rule; inseason adjustment; request for comments.
53. 74 FR 67, Rules and Regulations, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 50 CFR Part 697, [Docket No. 0812121592-81605-01] RIN 0648-AX40, Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act Provisions; American Lobster Fishery; Control Date for American Lobster. ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; Consideration of a control date for the American lobster fishery.
54. 74 FR 71, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) Forest Service, Bend/Ft. Rock Ranger District; Deschutes National Forest; Oregon; Kapka Butte Sno-Park Construction, ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.
55. 74 FR 96, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) Department of the Navy, Notice of Public Hearings for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for the Gulf of Mexico Range Complex. ACTION: Notice.
56. 74 FR 98, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) Department of the Navy, Notice of Public Hearings for the Swimmer Interdiction Security System at Naval Base Kitsap--Bangor, Kitsap County, WA Draft Environmental Impact Statement. ACTION: Notice.
57. 74 FR 105, Notices, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), [ER-FRL-8589-2], Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments.
58. 74 FR 115, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [NV-040-07-5101-ER-F164; N-82076; 8-08807; TAS: 14X5017], Notice of Availability of the Ely Energy Center Draft Environmental Impact Statement, White Pine County, NV. ACTION: Notice of availability.
59. 74 FR 116, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [ID-933-1430-01; DK-G08-0001; IDI-04790, IDI-15482], Public Land Order No. 7722; Revocation of Secretarial Order dated October 29, 1908, and Partial Revocation of Public Land Order No. 1703; Idaho. ACTION: Public land order.
60. 74 FR 117, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [CA-930; CACA 7670 and CACA 7672], Public Land Order No. 7723; Partial Revocation of Lighthouse Withdrawals Created by Two Executive Orders and Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction; California. ACTION: Public land order.
61. 74 FR 118, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [NM-120-1430-ET; NMNM 113684], Public Land Order No. 7721; Withdrawal of National Forest System Land for Water Canyon Recreation Area Expansion; New Mexico. ACTION: Public land order.
62. 74 FR 118, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [NM-030-1920-ET; NMNM 117830], Public Land Order No. 7724; Withdrawal of Public Land for Customs and Border Protection; New Mexico. ACTION: Public land order.
63. 74 FR 118, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Notice of Inventory Completion: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI; Correction. ACTION: Notice; correction.
64. 74 FR 162, Notices, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Environmental Impact Statement; Pierce County, WA. ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.
