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Part VII: Executive Office of the President, Presidential Documents,
Published: 2004-12-23
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7857 of December 20, 2004
To Implement the United States-Australia Free Trade
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By the President of the United
Part VI: Labor Department,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Secretary of Labor announces that the National
Administrative Office (NAO) of the Bureau of International Labor
Affairs (ILAB) is renamed as the Office of Trade Agreement
Implementation (Office) and will serve as the Contact Point for
purposes of administering the labor chapters of the U.S.Chile and
U.S.Singapore Free Trade Agreements, as well
Part V: Housing and Urban Development Department,
Published: 2004-12-23
This proposed rule would establish regulations for the
Department's housing counseling program, as authorized by the Housing
and Urban Development Act of 1968, and for which, the past several
years, notices of funding availability have been issued on an annual
basis. Codification of these requirements would reflect the permanence
of this program.
Part IV: Housing and Urban Development Department,
Published: 2004-12-23
HUD's regulations addressing the predatory practice of
property ``flipping'' establish certain time restrictions regarding the
sale of properties whose purchase is being financed with Federal
Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance. The regulations
include an exception from the time restrictions for properties acquired
and subsequently
Part III: Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Published: 2004-12-23
With this final rule, NMFS implements the 2005-2006 fishery
specifications and management measures for groundfish taken in the U.S.
exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and
California. This rule includes the levels of the acceptable biological
catch (ABC) and optimum yields (OYS). The commercial OYS (the total
catch
Part II: Environmental Protection Agency,
Published: 2004-12-23
EPA is taking final action to exempt production and import of
methyl bromide for critical uses from the accelerated phaseout
regulations that govern the production, import, export, transformation
and destruction of substances that deplete the ozone layer under the
authority of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Today's amendments establish the
framework for
NOTICES: Poverty threshold (2003); weighted average,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hereby gives notice of
the weighted average poverty threshold established for 2003 for one
person (unrelated individual) as established by the Bureau of the
Census. The amount is $9,393.
NOTICES: Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing,
Published: 2004-12-23
The invention listed below is owned by the U.S. Government as
represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is available for
licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 and/or
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) Collaboration
under 15 U.S.C. 3710a to achieve expeditious commercialization of
results
NOTICES: Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing,
Published: 2004-12-23
The invention listed below is owned by the U.S. Government as
represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is available for
licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 and/or
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) Collaboration
under 15 U.S.C. 3710a to achieve expeditious commercialization of
results
NOTICES: Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing,
Published: 2004-12-23
The invention listed below is owned by the U.S. Government as
represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is available for
licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 and/or
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) Collaboration
under 15 U.S.C. 3710a to achieve expeditious commercialization of
results
NOTICES: Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing,
Published: 2004-12-23
The invention listed below is owned by the U.S. Government as
represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is available for
licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 and/or
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) Collaboration
under 15 U.S.C. 3710a to achieve expeditious commercialization of
results
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Office of General Counsel (OGC), Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the
proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed
collection of
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Office of Management (OM), Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed
collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish
notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Office of Management (OM), Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed
collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish
notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Office Management (OM), Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed
collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish
notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Office of Management (OM), Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed
collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish
notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of
RULES: Suspicious activity and blocking reports; filing requirements,
Published: 2004-12-23
This FinCEN interpretive guidance clarifies that reports filed
with the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control
(``OFAC'') of blocked transactions with Specially Designated Global
Terrorists, Specially Designated Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist
Organizations, Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker Kingpins, and
Specially
NOTICES: Sierra Northern Railway,
Published: 2004-12-23
Sierra Northern Railway (Sierra) has filed a notice of exemption
\1\ under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart FExempt Abandonments to abandon an
approximately 9.27mile line of railroad extending from milepost 90.5
in the City of West Sacramento to a point south of Pumphouse Road, in
Yolo County, CA. The line traverses United States Postal Service Zip
Codes
NOTICES: Annual inflation operating revenues of railroads; indexing,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Board has approved the first quarter 2005 rail cost
adjustment factor (RCAF) and cost index filed by the Association of
American Railroads. The first quarter 2005 RCAF (Unadjusted) is 1.107.
The first quarter 2005 RCAF (Adjusted) is 0.546. The first quarter 2005
RCAF5 is 0.521.
NOTICES: American Music Abroad Program,
Published: 2004-12-23
Announcement Type: New Grant.
Funding Opportunity Number: ECA/PE/C/CU0514.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 00.000.
Key Dates: Application Deadline: February 15, 2005.
Executive Summary: The Cultural Programs Division in the Office of
Citizen Exchanges within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
(ECA)
NOTICES: Systems of records,
Published: 2004-12-23
SBA is revising its Privacy Act Systems of Records, SBA 20,
DISASTER LOAN CASE FILES. SBA is amending this system to account for
modernization of its disaster loan making and record keeping processes.
Two new routine uses have been added to address sharing of data with
the Department of the Treasury to provide for loan disbursements, and
with the
NOTICES: Alaska,
Published: 2004-12-23
In accordance with a notice received from the Department of
Homeland SecurityFederal Emergency Management Agency, effective
December 9, 2004, the above numbered Public Assistance declaration is
hereby amended to reestablish the incident period for this disaster as
beginning on October 18, 2004, and continuing through and including
October 24,
NOTICES: Telecommunications plant; depreciation rates; publication,
Published: 2004-12-23
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the
depreciation rates for telecommunications plant for the period ending
December 31, 2003.
NOTICES: Interest rates,
Published: 2004-12-23
In accordance with 7 CFR 1610.10, the Rural Telephone Bank
(Bank) fiscal year 2004 cost of money rates have been established as
follows: 6.18% and 5.36% for advances from the liquidating account and
financing account, respectively (fiscal year is the period beginning October 1 and ending September 30).
All loan advances made during fiscal year
NOTICES: Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and approvals,
Published: 2004-12-23
Summary: In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506
(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides
opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries of proposed data collections.
Comments are Invited on: (a) Whether the proposed