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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

Presidential Documents : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR : Veterans Affairs Department

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.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : Veterans Affairs Department

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

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : Veterans Affairs Department

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.

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS : Veterans Affairs Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY : Treasury Department

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

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION : Surface Transportation Board

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.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION : Surface Transportation Board

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)

DEPARTMENT OF STATE : State Department

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

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION : Small Business Administration

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,

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION : Small Business Administration

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the depreciation rates for telecommunications plant for the period ending December 31, 2003.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Rural Utilities Service

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

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Rural Telephone Bank

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

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD : Railroad Retirement Board