The Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), published a notice of proposed procedures and call for applications, ParkerDavis ProjectPost2008 Resource Pool in the Federal Register on October 1, 2004. This notice extends the filing date for the submission of comments on the

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

In the October 7, 2004 Federal Register (69 FR 60242), we published a correction to the final rule that appeared in the August 11, 2004 Federal Register entitled ``Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2005 Rates.'' This amendment corrects errors in that final rule and the correction of the

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Western Area Power Administration

This document contains final regulations governing portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

These proposed rules would clarify certain portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. These rules propose to implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health Service Act enacted as

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

The Departments invite comments about benefit-specific waiting periods. This solicitation is to ensure that the public can provide input into any criteria used to determine whether a benefitspecific waiting period utilized by a group health plan or issuer is a preexisting condition exclusion under HIPAA. The Departments are requesting this

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

This proposed rule would amend the consolidated plan regulations of state and local governments to make clarifying and streamlining changes that are expected to make the consolidated plan of state and local jurisdictions more resultsoriented and useful to communities in assessing their own progress toward addressing the problems of lowincome

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Western Area Power Administration

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Memorandum of December 8, 2004

Assignment of Functions Implementing the HELP Commission Act
Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Administrator

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Presidential Determination No. 2005-10 of December 8, 2004

Waiver of Restrictions on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by

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Presidential Determination No. 2005-14 of December 15, 2004

Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by

Presidential Documents : Western Area Power Administration

The Deputy Secretary of Energy confirmed and approved Rate Order No. WAPA116, placing a rate formula for the Provo River Project (Project) of Western Area Power Administration (Western) into effect on an interim basis. The provisional power rate formula will remain in effect on an interim basis until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

The Deputy Secretary of Energy confirmed and approved Rate Order No. WAPA115, which includes Rate Schedules CVF11, CPP1, CVT1, CVNWT3, COTPT1, PACIT1, CVTPT6, CVSPR3, CVSUR3, CVRFS3, and CV EID3, placing formula rates for power, transmission, and ancillary services for the Central Valley Project (CVP), transmission service on the CaliforniaOregon

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western) is revising its Open Access Transmission Service Tariff (Tariff). Western's existing Tariff was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) on April 12, 2002. Western intends to update certain Tariff provisions, adopt the principal features of the Commission's Standard Large

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

This final rule sets forth an update to the 60-day national episode rates and the national pervisit amounts under the Medicare prospective payment system for home health agencies. As part of this final rule, we are also rebasing and revising the home health market basket to ensure it continues to adequately reflect the price changes of efficiently

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Western Area Power Administration

This final rule removes barriers to the participation of religious (also referred to as ``faithbased'') organizations in HUD regulations implementing the Indian HOME Program, the Indian Community Development Block Grant Program, the Indian Housing Block Grant Program, the Title VI Loan Guarantee Assistance Program, and the Section 184 Loan

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Western Area Power Administration

This final rule updates HUD's regulations that govern equal employment opportunity to make HUD's requirements for equal employment opportunity plans consistent with a recently issued Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) management directive.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Western Area Power Administration

This Notice informs the public that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has changed the name of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY : Western Area Power Administration

This final rule adopts without substantive change a proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register by the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service). This final rule amends the Department of Homeland Security's (Department's) regulations by adding Actuaries and Plant Pathologists to Appendix 1603.D.1 of the North American

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration's (Western) Upper Great Plains Customer Service Region, a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy, announces the Post2005 Resource Pool Power Allocations (Power Allocations) to fulfill the requirements of the Energy Planning and Management Program (Program). The Power Allocations come from a

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), is seeking comments on proposed procedures and calling for applications from preference entities interested in an allocation of Federal power from the ParkerDavis Project. Western's Energy Planning and Management Program (Program)

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA) requires the Secretary to publish FMRs periodically, but not less than annually, adjusted to be effective on October 1 of each year. FMRs are used to determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program, to determine initial renewal rents for some expiring

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Western Area Power Administration

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations relating to accrued benefits, death compensation, and certain special rules applicable upon the death of a VA beneficiary and to relocate them in a new part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). We propose to reorganize these regulations in a more logical order, add new

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Western Area Power Administration

We are proposing rule amendments to enable registrants to submit voluntarily supplemental tagged financial information using the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format as exhibits to specified EDGAR filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940. Registrants choosing to participate in the

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

Data tagging provides a method for searching, retrieving, and analyzing information through automated means. As part of our initiative to improve the filing, information collection and disclosure process, we are seeking to determine the impact and usefulness of tagged data generally and, more specifically, the adequacy and efficacy of Extensible

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

This action is to extend the existing Parker-Davis Project (P- DP) firm electric service rate schedule PDF6, and the transmission service rate schedules PDFT6, PDFCT6, and PDNFT6 through September 30, 2006. Without this action, the existing rate methodologies will expire on September 30, 2004, and no rate methodologies will be in effect for these

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

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Presidential Determination No. 2004-45 of September 10, 2004

Continuation of the Exercise of Certain
Authorities under the Trading with the Enemy Act

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