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  <title><![CDATA[  Notice of Availability of Biotechnology Quality Management System  Pilot Project Draft Audit Standard]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-08-24-E9-20294</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ We are reopening the comment period on the draft audit 
standard developed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
for its Biotechnology Quality Management System pilot project. This 
action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and 
submit comments. The Biotechnology Quality Management System is a 
voluntary compliance assistance program designed to help stakeholders 
develop sound management practices, thus enhancing compliance with the 
regulatory requirements for environmental releases and movements of 
regulated articles in accordance with 7 CFR part 340.
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  <pubDate>Mon, Aug 24 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Required Scale Tests ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-08-24-E9-20337</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Grain Inspection, 
Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is proposing to amend one 
section of the regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act of 
1921, as amended (P&S Act), regarding the requirement that stockyard 
owners, market agencies, dealers, packers, or live poultry dealers that 
weigh livestock, live poultry, or feed, have their scales tested at 
least twice each calendar year at intervals of approximately 6 months. 
This proposal would amend the current regulations to state that the 6
month interval in which scale owners must have their scales tested each 
calendar year is no longer approximate. Specifically, the proposal 
would require that scale owners complete the first of the two scale 
tests between January 1 and June 30 of the calendar year. The remaining 
scale test would be required to be completed between July 1 and 
December 31 of the calendar year. In addition, a minimum period of 120 
days would be required between these two tests. Mo<script type="text/javascript">
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  <title><![CDATA[DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-08-24-E9-20372</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ RUS and NTIA announce additional measures to ensure that any 
pending electronic applications experiencing difficulties uploading 
attachments into the Easygrants[reg] System for the Broadband 
Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities 
Program (BTOP) can be submitted by the extended application deadline of 
August 20, 2009. The Easygrants[reg] System will not accept 
applications after 5 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on August 20, 2009. In 
order to ensure that all pending electronic applications experiencing 
difficulties uploading attachments can be completed, the core 
application must be electronically submitted using the Easygrants[reg] 
System by 5 p.m. ET on August 20, 2009. The extension described herein 
pertains only to the attachments listed in the ``Uploads Checklist'' of 
the ``Uploads'' page of the Easygrants[reg] System, including documents  submitted as<br/> [[Page 42645]]<br/>
Supplemental Information. The core application is defined as all fields 
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