A recently-enacted federal law directs the Commission to develop rules to implement a new postal ratemaking system. This proposal responds to that directive by presenting rules addressing market dominant and competitive products, including negotiated service agreements, the regulatory calendar, and product lists. This document incorporates a

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

NMFS issues a final rule to implement Amendment 85 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (FMP) as partially approved by NMFS, and to implement recent changes to the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MagnusonStevens Act). This final rule modifies the current

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : Western Area Power Administration

FRA proposes revisions to the regulations governing freight power brakes and equipment by adding a new subpart addressing electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brake systems. The proposed regulations are designed to provide for and encourage the safe implementation and use of ECP brake system technologies. The proposal contains specific

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION : Western Area Power Administration

The FAA is amending the certification standards for original and amended type certificates for aircraft engines by modifying the standards for engine lifelimited parts. This final rule establishes new and uniform standards for the design and testing of lifelimited parts for aircraft engines certificated by the FAA and the European Aviation Safety

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION : Western Area Power Administration

The FAA is amending the safety analysis type certification standard for turbine aircraft engines. This rule establishes a nearly uniform safety analysis standard for turbine aircraft engines certified in the United States under part 33 and in European countries under the Certification Specifications for Engines, thereby simplifying airworthiness

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western) is proposing changes to current regulations that require customers to prepare integrated resource plans (IRP). Western is proposing to facilitate public review of customer IRPs by making them more readily available, such as by posting customer IRPs on Western's external Web site. Western is also

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases relating to continuing applications and requests for continued examination practices, and for the examination of claims in patent applications. The Office is revising the rules of practice to require that any third or subsequent continuing

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : Western Area Power Administration

NMFS, upon application from the U.S. Navy, is issuing regulations to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to Navy operation of the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) Sonar. Issuance of regulations, and Letters of Authorization issued under these regulations, is required by the Marine

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for rebuilding the Granby Pumping PlantWindy Gap transmission line in Grand County, Colorado. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will participate in the preparation of the EIS, which will address the proposed

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

The Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') is adopting amendments to Regulation M to further safeguard the integrity of the capital raising process and protect issuers from manipulative activity that can reduce issuer's offering proceeds and dilute security holder value. The amendments eliminate the covering element of the former

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

We are removing a number of references to filers' IRS identification numbers currently found in several disclosure schedules and forms because we do not need that information to process the documents, nor is the information material to investors.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

We propose to revise Regulation D to provide additional flexibility to issuers and to clarify and improve the application of the rules. We propose to create a new exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 for offers and sales of securities to ``large accredited investors.'' The exemption would permit limited

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

NMFS announces the availability of the draft Amendment 2 to the Consolidated Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) and its accompanying proposed rule. Amendment 2 examines different management alternatives available to rebuild sandbar, dusky, and porbeagle sharks, consistent with the 2006 shark stock assessments, the

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : Western Area Power Administration

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its 60\th\ ITC Report to the Administrator of EPA on June 14, 2007. In the 60\th\ ITC Report, which is included with this notice, the ITC is revising the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List by adding ``lead and lead compounds'' to the Priority Testing List

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Western Area Power Administration

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Proclamation 8163 of July 24, 2007

Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, 2007
By the President of the United States of America A

Presidential Documents : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western), an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the construction and operation of the proposed NextGen Energy Facility (Project) in South Dakota. Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) has applied to interconnect the proposed

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

The Western Area Power Administration (Western) announces its Final Resource Adequacy (RA) Plan for load in the California Independent System Operator Corporation's (CAISO) Balancing Authority Area. This notice responds to the comments received on the proposed Final Resource Adequacy Plan (Final RA Plan) and sets forth the Final RA Plan. Western

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

This action is to temporarily extend the existing Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) transmission and ancillary services rates through September 30, 2010. The existing transmission and ancillary services rates will expire September 30, 2007.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

As a non-regulated electric utility, the Western Area Power Administration (Western) must consider and determine whether to implement certain standards under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct of 2005), which amended the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). Western considered five standards: Net metering, fuel source

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

Based on its review of the air quality criteria for ozone (O3) and related photochemical oxidants and national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for O3, EPA proposes to make revisions to the primary and secondary NAAQS for O3 to provide requisite protection of public health and welfare, respectively, and to

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Western Area Power Administration

The staffs of the OCC, the Board, the FDIC, and OTS (collectively, the ``agencies'') have combined three previously adopted publications of informal staff guidance answering questions regarding community reinvestment (Interagency Questions and Answers). The Interagency Questions and Answers address frequently asked questions about community

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Western Area Power Administration

The Commission is proposing to accept from foreign private issuers their financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (``IFRS'') as published by the International Accounting Standards Board (``IASB'') without reconciliation to generally accepted accounting principles (``GAAP'') as used in the United

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration

White Wind Farm, LLC (Applicant), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navitas Energy, Inc., has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Western Area Power Administration (Western), to interconnect its proposed White Wind Farm Project (Project) to Western's transmission system at the existing White Substation, near Brookings, South Dakota. The

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Western Area Power Administration

Pursuant to section 183(e)(3)(C) of the Clean Air Act, EPA proposes to determine that control techniques guidelines will be substantially as effective as national regulations in reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds in ozone national ambient air quality standard nonattainment areas from the following three product categories: Paper,

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Western Area Power Administration

The Commission is proposing two exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for compensatory employee stock options. The first exemption would be available to issuers that are not required to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act. The proposed exemption would apply only to the issuer's compensatory

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION : Western Area Power Administration