Federal Register Resource

The United States Federal Register is the official publication for federal Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of federal agencies, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

The AIBS Public Policy Office regularly monitors the Federal Register for items of importance to AIBS members and Member Societies and Organizations. To assist scientists and educators interested in providing comments on proposed federal Rules and Regulations related to the biological sciences, AIBS has established the AIBS Federal Register Resource. The AIBS Federal Register Resource provides timely information about pending federal regulatory matters. Each Monday, AIBS posts a summary of Federal Register notices from the previous week that may be of interest to a broad cross-section of biologists. An internet link provides detailed information about the notice, including contact information and comment submission guidelines.

The focus of the AIBS Federal Register Resource is on federal Rules and Regulations that are national in scope and potentially affect all biologists. As possible, notices of federal meetings, such as for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy or NSF advisory councils will be posted. If you wish to track federal Rules and notices of specific interest to you (e.g., meetings of area resource planning councils or federal actions related to a specific species) you may wish to use www.regulations.gov which enables you to search for items using keywords. Note, however, not all agencies use this system and some notices may not regularly appear on the Regulations.gov website.

Information about the federal regulatory process is available at www.regulations.gov.

AIBS offers tips for submitting comments.

To submit comments on items posted to the AIBS Federal Register Resource, follow the directions provided in the official notice. Alternatively, it is possible to submit some comments online at the government's www.regulations.gov website. Please be aware that some agencies do not currently participate in this website.

For older reports (back to July 2004), see our Federal Register Resource archive.

Current and Recent Notices

Week Ending 20 November 2009

• Agriculture: Availability of an Environmental Assessment for a Biological Control Agent for Water Hyacinth

• Education: Office of Postsecondary Education; Overview Information Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN); Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards For Fiscal Year (FY) 2010

• Environmental Protection Agency: FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Public Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: Good Neighbor Environmental Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Environmental Information; Announcement of Availability and Comment Period for Revised Environmental Sampling, Analysis and Results Data Standards (ESAR)

• Executive Office of the President: America Recycles Day, 2009

• Health and Human Services: National Biodefense Science Board: Notification of Public Teleconference

• Interior: Proposed Information Collection; Program Announcement for the Establishment of DOI Regional Climate Change Response Centers, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center

• Interior: Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park System

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board; Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

Week Ending 13 November 2009

• Commerce: New NOAA Cooperative Institutes (CIs)

• Council on Environmental Quality: Revision of Freedom of Information Act Regulations

• Environmental Protection Agency: Executive Order 13508 Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Section 203 Draft Strategy and Section 202 Federal Agency Reports

• Environmental Protection Agency: NACEPT Subcommittee on Promoting Environmental Stewardship

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Risk and Technology Review Methods Review Panel

• Health and Human Services: Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention--Ethics Subcommittee (ES)

• Health and Human Services: Grants for Research Projects

• Health and Human Services: Office of Biotechnology Activities, Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Announcement of National Geospatial Advisory Committee Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Native Species That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions

• Interior: Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board; Meeting

• Marine Mammal Commission: Sunshine Act Notice

Week Ending 6 November 2009

• Commerce: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the 2011-2012 Biennial Harvest Specifications and Management Measures

• Energy: Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS); Announcement of Availability of Literature Searches for IRIS Assessments

• Environmental Protection Agency: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee

• Health and Human Services: Draft Guidance on Institutional Review Board Approval of Research With Conditions

• Health and Human Services: Draft Guidance on Institutional Review Board Continuing Review of Research

• Health and Human Services: Public Workshop: International Conference on Harmonisation S2 Genetic Toxicology Issues; Request for Comments

• Interior: Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); Fifteenth Regular Meeting; Provisional Agenda; Announcement of Public Meeting

Week Ending 30 October 2009

• Arctic Research Commission: Meeting

• Commerce: Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Advisory Panel

• Commerce: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States

• Commerce: Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee; Public Meetings

• Commerce: U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Public Meeting and Public Comment

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Lead Review Panel

• Environmental Protection Agency: Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases

• Environmental Protection Agency: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Drinking Water Committee

• Executive Office of the President: National Forest Products Week, 2009

• Health and Human Services: Science Advisory Board to the National Center for Toxicological Research Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in the United States

• Interior: Invasive Species Advisory Committee

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: Nanomaterials and Human Health & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods Workshop: Public Meeting

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods Workshop: Nanotechnology Primer Public Meeting

Week Ending 23 October 2009

• Agriculture: Environmental Impact Statement; Movement of Plant Pests, Biological Control Organisms, and Associated Articles

• Commerce: International Fisheries; Pacific Tuna Fisheries; Fishing Restrictions in the Longline and Purse Seine Fisheries in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in 2009, 2010, and 2011

• Commerce: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Northeast (NE) Multispecies Fishery; Amendment 16

• Commerce: Sea Turtle Conservation; Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts for the SAB Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures Review Panel

• Environmental Protection Agency: Good Neighbor Environmental Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Modification to 2008 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges From Construction Activities

• Environmental Protection Agency: Request for Nominations to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board

• Health and Human Services: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Notice of Establishment

• Health and Human Services: Solicitation for Members of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Request for Comments and Notice of Roundtable on Work Sharing for Patent Applications

Week Ending 16 October 2009

• Agriculture: National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

• Commerce: Science Advisory Board (SAB); Meetings

• Energy: Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee

• Energy: Production Incentives for Cellulosic Biofuels; Reverse Auction Procedures and Standards

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board (SAB)

• Health and Human Services: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Request for Nominations for Voting Members To Serve on the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' (NIEHS) Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmenta

• Health and Human Services: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters

• Interior: Notice of Meeting of the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Education and Human Resources; Notice of Meeting

• Tennessee Valley Authority: Meeting of the Regional Resource Stewardship Council

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Changes to Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims, and Examination of Claims in Patent Applications

Week Ending 9 October 2009

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species; Recovery Plans

• Defense: Board on Coastal Engineering Research

• Defense: Notice of Meeting of the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel

• Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) Meeting Dates and Agenda

• Environmental Protection Agency: Operating Permit Programs; Flexible Air Permitting Rule; Final Rule

• Environmental Protection Agency: Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD): Reconsideration of Interpretation of Regulations That Determine Pollutants Covered by the Federal PSD Permit Program

• Executive Office of the President: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance

• Executive Office of the President: National Information Literacy Awareness Month, 2009

• Health and Human Services: Food and Drug Administration Transparency Task Force; Public Meeting; Request for Comments

• Health and Human Services: Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Southwest Alaska Distinct Population Segment of the Northern Sea Otter

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Teleconference and Webcast

• National Science Foundation: Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering; Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 2 October 2009

• Agriculture: Notice of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board Meeting

• Commerce: Fisheries in the Western Pacific; Fishery Ecosystem Plans

• Defense: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Scientific Advisory Board

• Executive Office of the President: National Public Lands Recognition Day, 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, Computational Toxicology Subcommittee Meeting--October 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Human Studies Review Board; Notice of Public Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: National and Governmental Advisory Committees to the U.S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation

• Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Rulemaking To Establish Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

• Health and Human Services: Ethics Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition to Revise Critical Habitat for the Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA Advisory Council; Science Committee; Earth Science Subcommittee; Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Polar Programs; Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 25 September 2009

• Commerce: Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas; Second Fall Meeting

• Council on Environmental Quality: Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force--Interim Report

• Environmental Protection Agency: Draft Integrated Science Assessment for Carbon Monoxide

• Environmental Protection Agency: Exposure Modeling Public Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: Final Risk and Exposure Assessment Report for Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of Sulfur

• Environmental Protection Agency: NACEPT Subcommittee on Promoting Environmental Stewardship

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office Request for Nominations of Experts To Provide Advice on Ecological Impacts Associated With Mountaintop Mining and Valley-Fill Operations

• Environmental Protection Agency: SFIREG Environmental Quality Issues Working Committee Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of Biotechnology Activities; Recombinant DNA Research: Actions Under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH Guidelines)

• Health and Human Services: Proposed Collection: Comment Request; 0MB No. 0925-0601/exp. 2/ 28/2010, Request for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Line To Be Approved for Use in NIH Funded Research

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters

• National Nanotechnology Coordination Office: Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Subcommittee, National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Technology; Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods Workshop: Nanotechnology Primer Public

• National Nanotechnology Coordination Office: Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Subcommittee, National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Technology; Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods Workshop: Public Meeting

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Notice of Meeting: Meeting of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Week Ending 18 September 2009

• Commerce: Announcement of NIST Partnership Opportunities for Technology Transfer

• Commerce: Availability of Seats for the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council

• Commerce: Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization; Amendment

• Commerce: Department of Commerce: National Webinar for Industry on Climate Change Negotiations Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

• Commerce: Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic; Gulf of Mexico Fisheries; Generic Amendment for Annual Catch Limits

• Defense: Estuary Habitat Restoration Council; Open Meeting

• Defense: Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery Project, Virginia & Maryland

• Environmental Protection Agency: Clean Water Act Section 303(d): Preliminary Notice of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Development for the Chesapeake Bay

• Environmental Protection Agency: FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Public Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Public Forums

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reinstatement of Protections for the Gray Wolf in the Western Great Lakes in Compliance With Settlement Agreement and Court Order

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board; Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

Week Ending 11 September 2009

• Defense: US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Notice of Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, Computational Toxicology Subcommittee Meetings--Fall 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Release of Draft Documents Related to the Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter

• Executive Office of the President: National Wilderness Month, 2009

• Health and Human Services: Ethics Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Pacific Walrus as Threatened or Endangered

• Interior: Request for Comments on the Strategic Plan Framework as Input for Revision and Updating of the Departmental Strategic Plan

• State: Notice of Public Meeting

Week Ending 4 September 2009

• Commerce: Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT); First Fall Meeting

• Commerce: Definition of Marine Debris for Purposes of the Marine Debris Research, Prevention, and Reduction Act

• Energy: Environmental Management Advisory Board

• Energy: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board Chairs

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting-- September 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Extension of Public Comment Period: Second External Review Draft Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter

• Environmental Protection Agency: Federal Requirements Under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program for Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Geologic Sequestration (GS) Wells; Notice of Data Availability and Request for Comment

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly as Endangered with Critical Habitat

• Interior: Federal Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling

• Transportation: Surface Transportation Environment and Planning Cooperative Research Program (STEP)

Week Ending 28 August 2009

• Arctic Research Commission: Arctic Research Commission; Meeting

• Commerce: Applications for the FY 2010 Ocean Exploration (OE) Program

• Commerce: Fisheries in the Western Pacific; Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Fisheries; 2009-10 Main Hawaiian Islands Bottomfish Total Allowable Catch

• Commerce: Listing Endangered and Threatened Species: Change in Status for the Upper Columbia River Steelhead Distinct Population Segment

• Commerce: Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Experimental Permitting Process, Exempted Fishing Permits, and Scientific Research Activity

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of an Upcoming Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Committee on Science Integration for Decision Making

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters

• Homeland Security: Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters; Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Black-Footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) as Threatened or Endangered

• Interior: Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope Science Initiative--Science Technical Advisory Panel

• Interior: Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board; Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for International Science & Engineering; Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 21 August 2009

• Agriculture: National Aquatic Animal Health Plan for the United States; Notice of Availability

• Agriculture: Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act

• Commerce: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program--Re-opening of FY 2010 Competition

• Commerce: Taking and Importing Marine Mammals: Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Navy Operations of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active Sonar

• Energy: Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Availability of the External Peer Review Draft of Using Probabilistic Methods To Enhance the Role of Risk Analysis in Decision- Making With Case Study Examples

• Environmental Protection Agency: Gulf of Mexico Program Citizens Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Changes to Renewable Fuel Standard Program; Notice of Availability of Expert Peer Review Record

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of the Science Advisory Board; Ecological Processes and Effects Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Two Public Teleconference Meetings of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

• Health and Human Services: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Notice of Meeting: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Partial 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List 206 Species in the Midwest and Western United States as Threatened or Endangered with Critical Habitat

• National Science Foundation: Responsible Conduct of Research

Week Ending 14 August 2009

• Agriculture: Notice of Opportunity To Submit Content Request for the 2010 Census of Aquaculture

• Commerce: Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Atlantic Shark Management Measures; Amendment 3

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species; Initiation of a Status Review for the Humpback Whale and Request for Information

• Commerce: Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee; Public Meeting

• Defense: Proposed Suspension and Modification of Nationwide Permit 21

• Energy: Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee

• Health and Human Services: National Center for Research Resources; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of Critical Path Programs--Critical Path Initiative

• Health and Human Services: The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), a Federal Advisory Committee to the Secretary; Request for Public Comment

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Seven Brazilian Bird Species as Endangered Throughout Their Range

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee For Biological Sciences; Notice of Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education; Notice of Meeting

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Requirements for Patent Applications Containing Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino Acid Sequence Disclosures

Week Ending 7 August 2009

• Commerce: Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Meeting of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel

• Commerce: International Fisheries; Western and Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species; Fishing Restrictions and Observer Requirements in Purse Seine Fisheries for 2009-2011 and Turtle Mitigation Requirements in Purse Seine Fisheries

• Commerce: Request for Nominations for Members To Serve on National Institute of Standards and Technology Federal Advisory Committees

• Defense: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Scientific Advisory Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Chartered Science Advisory Board: Additional Information

• Executive Office of the President: Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research

• Interior: Announcement of National Geospatial Advisory Committee Meeting

• Interior: Limiting Mountain Lion Predation on Desert Bighorn Sheep on Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Yuma and La Paz Counties, AZ

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA Advisory Council; Science Committee; Earth Science Subcommittee; Meeting

Week Ending 31 July 2009

• Agriculture: Conservation Stewardship Program

• Commerce: External Advisory Panel for NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative

• Commerce: Listing Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Designating Critical Habitat; 90-day Finding for a Petition to Revise Designated Critical Habitat for Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals

• Commerce: Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee

• Commerce: National Sea Grant Advisory Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: NACEPT Subcommittee on Promoting Environmental Stewardship

• Environmental Protection Agency: Nanomaterial Case Studies: Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide in Water Treatment and Topical Sunscreen

• Health and Human Services: National Biodefense Science Board: Notification of a Public Teleconference

• Health and Human Services: Science Board to the Food and Drug Administration; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Request for Nominations for the Invasive Species Advisory Committee Extension of Submission Deadline

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board; Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

• Office of Management and Budget: Proposed Revision of the Policy on Web Tracking Technologies for Federal Web Sites

• State: Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Preparation of Fifth U.S. Climate Action Report

Week Ending 24 July 2009

• Agency for International Development: Board for International Food and Agricultural Development; One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Meeting; Notice of Meeting

• Agriculture: Notice of Solicitation for Members of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board

• Commerce: Availability of Seats for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council

• Commerce: Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations; Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan Regulations

• Energy: Notice of Solicitation of Nominations for Appointment as a Member of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee Meeting--August 6, 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Flexible Approaches to Environmental Measurement--The Evolution of the Performance Approach

• Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Stipulated Injunction Involving Pesticides and Eleven Species Listed as Threatened or Endangered Under the Endangered Species Act; Notice of Availability; Reopening of Comment Period

• Interior: Invasive Species Advisory Committee

• Interior: Migratory Bird Permits; Changes in the Regulations Governing Falconry

• Interior: Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park System

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 17 July 2009

• Agriculture: Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program

• Commerce: Availability of Grant Funds for Fiscal Year 2010; Notice

• Commerce: Notice of Solicitation for Members of the NOAA Science Advisory Board

• Commerce: Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Training Operations Conducted Within the Gulf of Mexico Range Complex

• Commerce: Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; Navy Training Activities Conducted Within the Northwest Training Range Complex; Proposed Rule

• Energy: Klickitat Hatchery Program

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Nitrogen Dioxide

• Interior: Call for Nominations to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee

• Interior: Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); Fifteenth Regular Meeting: Proposed Resolutions, Decisions, and Agenda Items Being Considered; Taxa Being Considered for Amendment

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List 14 Parrot Species as Threatened or Endangered

• National Science Foundation: Committee Management; Notice of Establishment

Week Ending 10 July 2009

• Commerce: Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO)

• Commerce: Draft Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Science Plan; Public Meetings

• Commerce: Science Advisory Board (SAB)

• Commerce: Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; U.S. Navy's Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Activities Within the Naval Sea Systems Command Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport Range Complex; Proposed Rule

• Education: National Board for Education Sciences

• Environmental Protection Agency: California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards; Notice of Decision Granting a Waiver of Clean Air Act Preemption for California's 2009 and Subsequent Model Year Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for New Motor Vehicles; Notice

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education Staff Office; Notice of Public Meetings for the National Environmental Education Advisory Council

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Candidates for the National Environmental Education Advisory Council

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office Request for Nominations of Experts To Augment the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee

• Executive Office of the President: National Summer Learning Day, 2009

• Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research

• Health and Human Services: Request for Nominations of Candidates to Serve on the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (BSC, NCEH/ATSDR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Health and Human Services: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 5-Year Status Reviews of 23 Southeastern Species

Week Ending 3 July 2009

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species: Notice of Availability for Public Comment on Guidance for Monitoring the Recovery of Pacific Northwest Salmon and Steelhead Listed under the Federal Endangered Species Act

• Commerce: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act; Regional Fishery Management Councils; Operations

• Commerce: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Sea Turtle Conservation and Recovery in Relation to the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Trawl Fisheries and to Conduct Public Scoping Meetings

• Commerce: Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

• Council on Environmental Quality: Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies; Initiation of Revision and Request for Suggested Changes

• Energy: Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Stipulated Injunction Involving Pesticides and Eleven Species Listed as Threatened or Endangered Under the Endangered Species Act; Notice of Availability

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Request for Nomination of Experts Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Carbon Monoxide Review Panel

• Interior: Coastal Barrier Resources System Digital Mapping Pilot Project

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List the Northern Leopard Frog (Lithobates [=Rana] pipiens) in the Western United States as Threatened

• Interior: Notice of Availability of Maps and Additional Public Scoping for Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement To Develop and Implement Agency-Specific Programs for Solar Energy Development; Bureau of Land Management Approach for Processing Existing ...

Week Ending 26 June 2009

• Commerce: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

• Commerce: Technology Innovation Program Advisory Board

• Energy: Amended Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Request for Nominations to the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC)

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Science Advisory Board Integrated Nitrogen Committee

• Health and Human Services: Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics; Cancellation

• Interior: Notice of Offering of Five Alternative Energy Interim Policy Leases for Wind Resource Data Collection on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Delaware and New Jersey

• Interior: Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope Science Initiative, Science Technical Advisory Panel, Alaska

• Interior: Policy on Special Park Uses, Draft Directors Order 53

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: Update of Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States for the Next Decade: An Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy (aka "Charting the Course"): Request for Public Input

Week Ending 19 June 2009

• Agriculture: National Animal Identification System

• Commerce: Fisheries in the Western Pacific; Amended Marine Conservation Plan for Pacific Insular Areas; Western Pacific Sustainable Fisheries Fund

• Commerce: Incidental Taking of Marine Mammals; Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to the Explosive Removal of Offshore Structures in the Gulf of Mexico

• Commerce: Marine Mammal Protection Act; Stock Assessment Report

• Commerce: New Conservation and Management Measures and Resolutions for Antarctic Marine Living Resources Under the Auspices of CCAMLR

• Commerce: International Fisheries Regulations; Fisheries in the Western Pacific; Pelagic Fisheries; Hawaii-based Shallow-set Longline Fishery

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species; Determination of Endangered Status for the Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment of Atlantic Salmon; Final Rule

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species; Designation of Critical Habitat for Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment

• Executive Office of the President: National Oceans Month, 2009

• Executive Office of the President: National Policy for the Oceans, Our Coasts, And the Great Lakes

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revised Designation of Critical Habitat for the Quino Checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha quino); Final Rule

• Interior: Safety and Environmental Management Systems for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Operations

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Species; Determination of Endangered Status for the Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment of Atlantic Salmon

• State: United States Global Change Research Program

Week Ending 12 June 2009

• Agriculture: Conservation Practice Technical Assistance

• Commerce: Fisheries of the United States Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Fisheries of the Arctic Management Area; Bering Sea Subarea

• Commerce: List of Fisheries for 2010

• Defense: Nominations for Membership on the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel (ORRAP)

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notice of Open Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB)

• Environmental Protection Agency: Request for Nominations to the National and Governmental Advisory Committees to the U.S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation

• Environmental Protection Agency: Rulemaking To Reaffirm the Promulgation of Revisions of the Acid Rain Program Rules

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Committee on EPA's Report on the Environment

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Southwest Alaska Distinct Population Segment of the Northern Sea Otter

• Interior: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Request for Nominations for the Invasive Species Advisory Committee

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Panel for Integrative; Notice of Meeting; Committee of Visitors Panel for the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Notice of Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE); Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 5 June 2009

• Agriculture: Notice of Solicitation for Members of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board

• Arctic Research Commission: Arctic Research Commission

• Commerce: Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; Aquaculture

• Commerce: Recovery Act Measurement Science and Engineering Research Fellowship Program

• Commerce: Recovery Act Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Program

• Commerce: Recovery Act National Institute of Standards and Technology Construction Grant Program

• Environmental Protection Agency: Human Studies Review Board; Notice of Public Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: NACEPT Subcommittee on Promoting Environmental Stewardship

• Executive Office of the President: Great Outdoors Month, 2009

• Health and Human Services: Draft Guidance for Industry and Researchers on the Radioactive Drug Research Committee: Human Research Without an Investigational New Drug Application; Availability

• Health and Human Services: National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR); Notice of National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures Kick-Off Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Public Meeting of the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Hawaiian Hawk From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

• Interior: Meeting Announcements: North American Wetlands Conservation Council; Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Advisory Group

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting

Week Ending 29 May 2009

• Agriculture: Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act (RCA); Meetings

• Commerce: Hydrographic Services Review Panel; Membership Solicitation

• Commerce: Notice Requesting Nominations for the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES)

• Commerce: Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

• Commerce: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings; Correction

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Science Advisory Board Radiation Advisory Committee Augmented for the Review of EPA's Radiogenic Cancer Risk Assessment

• Health and Human Services: National Toxicology Program (NTP); Office of Liaison, Policy and Review Meeting of the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors

• Health and Human Services: Office of Biotechnology Activities, Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics

• Health and Human Services: Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for Which Public Health Service Funding Is Sought and Responsible Prospective Contractors; Request for Comments

Week Ending 22 May 2009

• Agriculture: Notice of Opportunity To Submit Content Request for the 2012 Census of Agriculture

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Proposed Rulemaking to Establish Take Prohibitions for the Threatened Southern Distinct Population Segment of North American Green Sturgeon

• Commerce: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

• Commerce: International Fisheries; Western and Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species; Initial Implementation of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention

• Commerce: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings

• Commerce: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

• Commerce: Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations; Atlantic Pelagic Longline Take Reduction Plan

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notice of Receipt of a Clean Air Act Waiver Application To Increase the Allowable Ethanol Content of Gasoline to 15 Percent; Extension of Comment Period

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notice of Upcoming Joint Rulemaking To Establish Vehicle GHG Emissions and CAFE Standards

• Environmental Protection Agency: Public Hearing for the RFS2 Rule

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Committee on Science Integration for Decision Making

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Coaster Brook Trout as Endangered

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revised Designation of Critical Habitat for the Wintering Population of the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in Texas; Final Rule

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Short-Tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus): Initiation of 5-Year Status Review; Availability of Final Recovery Plan

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Teleconference and Webcast

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: Executive Office of the President; Transparency and Open Government

Week Ending 15 May 2009

• Commerce: Hydrographic Services Review Panel Meeting

• Commerce: New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

• Commerce: Notice of Web Site Publication

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--June 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notice To Terminate the National Environmental Performance Track Program

• Environmental Protection Agency: Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattainment New Source Review (NSR): Aggregation

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

• Executive Office of the President: Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration

• Health and Human Services: National Biodefense Science Board; Notification of a Public Teleconference

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Rule To Reclassify the Oregon Chub (Oregonichthys crameri) From Endangered to Threatened

• Interior: Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board; Meeting

Week Ending 8 May 2009

• Commerce: Implementation of New Competitive Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) Program and Regional Rotation of the Existing and New National Competitive HAB Programs

• Commerce: Interagency Cooperation Under the Endangered Species Act

• Commerce: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Sea Turtle Conservation and Recovery in Relation to the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Trawl Fisheries and To Conduct Public Scoping Meetings

• Commerce: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums

• Executive Office of the President: Biofuels And Rural Economic Development

• Health and Human Services: Office of Biotechnology Activities; Recombinant DNA Research: Notice of Extension for Public Comment Period for the Consideration of a Proposed Action Under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH Guidelines); Notice

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the American Pika as Threatened or Endangered with Critical Habitat

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Southwest Alaska Distinct Population Segment of the Northern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni)

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board: Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

Week Ending 1 May 2009

• Commerce: General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission; Meeting Announcement

• Commerce: Professional Research Experience Program (PREP); Availability of Funds

• Commerce: Science Advisory Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference and Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Drinking Water Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts for the Review of Technical Guidance on Nutrient Criteria Development

• Health and Human Services: Public Consultation Meeting of the Working Group on Strengthening the Biosecurity of the United States

• Health and Human Services: Science Board to the Food and Drug Administration; Notice of Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for GPRA Performance Assessment; Notice of Meeting

• State: 2009 Revised Exchange Visitor Skills List

Week Ending 24 April 2009

• Agriculture: Request for Proposals for Two Special Focus Grants From National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

• Agriculture: Solicitation of Input From Stakeholders on the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants Program

• Commerce: International Whaling Commission; 61st Annual Meeting; Announcement of Public Meetings

• Commerce: List of National System Marine Protected Areas

• Commerce: Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee; Public Meetings

• Commerce: Nominations to the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, Science and Technology for Sustainability Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meetings--Winter 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act; Proposed Rule

• Health and Human Services: Draft National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research Notice

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Education and Human Resources; Notice of Meeting

• Office of Science and Technology Policy: March 9, 2009 Presidential Memo on Scientific Integrity: Request for Public Comment

Week Ending 17 April 2009

• Agriculture: Importation, Interstate Movement, and Release Into the Environment of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species: Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Designate Critical Habitat for Cook Inlet Beluga Whales

• Commerce: International Whaling Commission; 61st Annual Meeting; Nominations

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee Meeting--May 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Ocean Acidification and Marine pH Water Quality Criteria

• Environmental Protection Agency: Physiological Parameters Database for PBPK Modeling

• Health and Human Services: Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health Statistics

• Health and Human Services: Notice of a Public Consultation Meeting on Proposed Revisions to the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecule (NIH Guidelines)

• Health and Human Services: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Peninsular Bighorn Sheep and Determination of a Distinct Population Segment of Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni); Final Rule

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revised Recovery Plan for the [revaps]Alala (Corvus hawaiiensis)

• National Science Foundation: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Opportunity for Comment

Week Ending 10 April 2009

• Agriculture: Notice of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board Meeting

• Commerce: Fisheries of the South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean; Southeastern Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) Steering Committee; Public Meeting

• Commerce: National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases; Proposed Rule

• Environmental Protection Agency: National and Governmental Advisory Committees to the U.S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts To Provide Advice on Mold Issues in Indoor Environments

• Health and Human Services: Meeting of the National Biodefense Science Board

• Interior: Coastal Barrier Resources System Digital Mapping Pilot Project

• Interior: Invasive Species Advisory Committee

• Interior: Migratory Bird Permits; Revision of Expiration Dates for Double-Crested Cormorant Depredation Orders

• Interior: National Geospatial Advisory Committee; Meeting

Week Ending 3 April 2009

• Agriculture: Solicitation of Input From Stakeholders on the Roadmap for Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension

• Agriculture: Solicitation of Nominations, Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture

• Commerce: Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee; Public Meeting

• Commerce: Unified Synthesis Product Development Committee

• Defense: Notice of Availability of Department of the Navy Report to the Council on Environmental Quality on the Use of Alternative Arrangements

• Education: Office of Postsecondary Education; Overview Information; Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP); Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Candidates for the EPA Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and EPA Science Advisory Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Guidance on the Development, Evaluation, and Application of Environmental Models

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Expert Elicitation Advisory Panel

• Health and Human Services: Office of Biotechnology Activities, Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Rule To Identify the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and To Revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Rule To Identify the Western Great Lakes Populations of Gray Wolves as a Distinct Population Segment and To Revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

• Interior: Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Scientific Committee (SC); Announcement of Plenary Session

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education; Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 27 March 2009

• Agriculture: Solicitation of Input From Stakeholders Regarding the Smith-Lever 3(d) Extension Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program

• Commerce: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act; Regional Fishery Management Councils; Operations

• Education: Institute of Education Sciences; Overview Information; Education Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010; Notice Research and Special Education Research Grant Programs

• Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) Meeting Dates, and Agenda

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notice of Availability for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Strategic Plan for Evaluating the Toxicity of Chemicals

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board (SAB)

• Executive Office of the President: Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds

• Health and Human Services: Ethics Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Health and Human Services: National Center for Research Resources; Notice of Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Significant Portion of the Range of Marine and Estuarine Areas of the Southwestern Washington/Columbia River Distinct Population Segment of Coastal Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Reviews of 58 Species in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah; Availability of Completed 5-Year Reviews in California and Nevada

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Polar Programs; Notice of Meeting

• National Science Foundation: U.S. Chief Financial Officer Council; Grants Policy Committee

Week Ending 20 March 2009

• Commerce: Schedule of Fees for Access to NOAA Environmental Data, Information, and Related Products and Services

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) Standing Subcommittee Meeting--2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Total Coliform Rule Revisions--Notice of Stakeholder Meeting

• Interior: Availability of Birds of Conservation Concern 2008

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Reviews of 103 Species in Hawaii

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA Advisory Council; Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences; Notice of Meeting

• Office of Management and Budget: Federal Regulatory Review

Week Ending 13 March 2009

• Agriculture: Introduction of Organisms and Products Altered or Produced Through Genetic Engineering

• Commerce: Notice of Decision to Expand Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement Analyzing Mitchell Act Funding and Operation of Columbia River Hatcheries

• Commerce: Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; Navy Training and Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation Activities Conducted within the Northwest Training Range Complex

• Defense: Notice of Revised Record of Decision for Hawaii Range Complex

• Energy: Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007

• Environmental Protection Agency: National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology

• Environmental Protection Agency: Partnership To Promote Innovation in Environmental Practice, Notice of Availability of Solicitation for Proposals for 2009 Assistance Agreement Award

• Environmental Protection Agency: Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee; Notice of Public Meetings

• Executive Office of the President: Executive Order 13505--Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells

• Executive Office of the President: Scientific Integrity

• Health and Human Services: Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (ACD, CDC)

• Health and Human Services: Rescission of the Regulation Entitled "Ensuring That Department of Health and Human Services Funds Do Not Support Coercive or Discriminatory Policies or Practices in Violation of Federal Law''; Proposal

Week Ending 6 March 2009

• Agriculture: Availability of an Environmental Assessment for a Biological Control Agent for Arundo donax

• Commerce: NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Project Grants

• Commerce: Nomination of Existing Marine Protected Areas to the National System of Marine Protected Areas

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts To Augment the Science Advisory Board Exposure and Human Health Committee

• Executive Office of the President: Government Contracting

• Executive Office of the President: The Endangered Species Act

• Health and Human Services: Office of Biotechnology Activities; Recombinant DNA Research: Proposed Actions Under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH Guidelines)

• Health and Human Services: Request for Nominations of Candidates To Serve on the Board of Scientific Counselors, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (BSC, CCID)

Week Ending 27 February 2009

• Commerce: Draft Management Plan and Environmental Assessment for Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Notice of Public Availability and Meetings

• Health and Human Services: Meeting of Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

• Health and Human Services: Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics

• Interior: 60-Day Notice of Intention To Request Clearance of Collection of Information; Opportunity for Public Comment

• Interior: Call for Nominations for Resource Advisory Councils

• Interior: Second Call for Nominations: North Slope Science Initiative, Science Technical Advisory Panel, Alaska

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Teleconference and Webcast

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board Meeting

• National Science Foundation: Responsible Conduct of Research

• Office of Management and Budget: Federal Regulatory Review

Week Ending 20 February 2009

• Agriculture: Healthy Forests Reserve Program

• Commerce: Availability of Grants Funds for Fiscal Year 2009; Amendment

• Commerce: Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet Active Sonar Training (AFAST)

• Commerce: Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; U.S. Navy Training in the Southern California Range Complex

• Commerce: Science Advisory Board (SAB)

• Defense: Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Scientific Advisory Board

• Economic Development Administration: Solicitation of Applications for the FY 2009 University Center Economic Development Program Competition in EDA's Atlanta and Seattle Regional Offices

• Environmental Protection Agency: FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Public Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Analysis of Comments and Implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board; Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

Week Ending 13 February 2009

• Agriculture: Memorandum of Understanding Between the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service To Promote the Conservation of Migratory Birds

• Commerce: Notice of Approval and Availability for the Revised Management Plan for the Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve.

• Commerce: Evaluation of State Coastal Management Programs and National Estuarine Research Reserves

• Education: Office of Postsecondary Education; Overview Information; Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN); Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference Meeting of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

• Health and Human Services: Science Board to the Food and Drug Administration; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Teleconference and Webcast

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revised Critical Habitat for the Marbled Murrelet

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Wyoming Pocket Gopher as Threatened or Endangered With Critical Habitat

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Endangered Status for Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander; Designation of Critical Habitat for Frosted Flatwoods Salamander and Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander; Final Rule

Week Ending 6 February 2009

• Energy: Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee Meetings--Fall 2008 and Winter 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Experts for EPA Science Advisory Board, Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Petition To Reclassify the Wood Bison From Endangered to Threatened

• Interior: Meeting Announcement: North American Wetlands Conservation Council

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Partial 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List 206 Species in the Midwest and Western United States as Threatened or Endangered With Critical Habitat

Week Ending 30 January 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Notice of Open Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB)

• Environmental Protection Agency: Good Neighbor Environmental Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, Science and Technology for Sustainability Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meetings--Winter 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Upcoming Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Expert Elicitation Advisory Panel

• Executive Office of the President: Clean Air Act; Request for Waiver, California (Memorandum of January 26, 2009)

• Health and Human Services: Notice of Meeting: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society

• Interior: Notice of an Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI)

• National Science Foundation: Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE); Notice of Meeting

Week Ending 23 January 2009

• Agriculture: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative

• Energy: Office of Science; Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--February 9-10, 2009

• Environmental Protection Agency: Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act

Week Ending 16 January 2009

• Agriculture: Environmental Quality Incentives Program

• Agriculture: Wetlands Reserve Program

• Agriculture: Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program

• Agriculture: Healthy Forests Reserve Program

• Commerce: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Draft Unified Synthesis Product Report: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Status for Black Abalone

• Commerce: National Sea Grant Advisory Board; Notice of public meeting

• Commerce: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Sea Grant Advisory Board; Notice of solicitation for nominations

• Environmental Protection Agency: Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee; Notice of meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental Research Standing Subcommittee Meeting--2009

• Interior: Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Amendment to Announcement of Public Meeting

• National Nanotechnology Coordination Office: Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Subcommittee, National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Technology; Human and Environmental Exposure Assessment Workshop: Public Meeting

Week Ending 9 January 2009

• Commerce: Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

• Commerce: Listing Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List Atlantic Wolffish as Threatened or Endangered under the Endangered Species Act

• Defense: Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Stormwater Treatment Areas in Everglades Agricultural Area Located in Palm Beach and Hendry Counties, FL

• Environmental Protection Agency: Good Neighbor Environmental Board; Request for Nominations to the Good Neighbor Environmental Board

• Environmental Protection Agency: Good Neighbor Environmental Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Teleconference

• Environmental Protection Agency: Predicting Future Introductions of Nonindigenous Species to the Great Lakes

• Interior: Harvest and Export of American Ginseng; Notice of meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Partial 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List 475 Species in the Southwestern United States as Threatened or Endangered With Critical Habitat

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) Conservation Assessment

• Interior: Papahaanaumokuaakea Marine National Monument, Hawai`i

Week Ending 2 January 2009

• Commerce: Availability of Grant Funds for Fiscal Year 2009

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; Notice of 12-Month Finding on a Petition to List the Ribbon Seal as a Threatened or Endangered Species

• Education: Office of Innovation and Improvement; Overview Information; Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEA); Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009; Math and Science Priority

• Environmental Protection Agency: "Discharge of Dredged Material"; Final Rule Revisions to the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definition of

• Environmental Protection Agency: Scientific Workshop To Inform EPA's Response to National Academy of Science Comments on the Health Effects of Dioxin in EPA's 2003 Dioxin Reassessment

• Environmental Protection Agency: Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee; Biofuels meeting

Week Ending 26 December 2008

• Agriculture: Forest Resource Coordinating Committee; call for nominations

• Agriculture: National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council; Grant Program

• Energy: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site

• Environmental Protection Agency: Good Neighbor Environmental Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Teleconference

• Health and Human Services: National Toxicology Program (NTP); Office of Liaison, Policy and Review; Meeting of the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors

• Health and Human Services: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Notice of Meeting

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Three Foreign Bird Species From Latin America and the Caribbean as Endangered Throughout Their Range

Week Ending 19 December 2008

• Agriculture: Handling of Animals; Contingency Plans

• Education: NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program

• Environmental Protection Agency: Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC): Notice of Meeting

• Environmental Protection Agency: Air Emissions Reporting Requirements

• Environmental Protection Agency: National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Special Rule for the Polar Bear

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition to List Five Penguin Species Under the Endangered Species Act, and Proposed Rule To List the Five Penguin Species

• Interior: Notice of Availability of the Florida Panther Recovery Plan

• Interior: Interagency Cooperation Under the Endangered Species Act

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA Advisory Council; Science Committee; Earth Science Subcommittee; Meeting

Week Ending 12 December 2008

• Agriculture: Science and Technology Directorate; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

• Agriculture: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; CSREES Proposal Review Process

• Commerce: Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental Research Standing Subcommittee Meeting--2009

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Native Species That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions; Proposed Rule

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reinstatement of Protections for the Gray Wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Northern Rocky Mountains in Compliance With Court Orders

• Interior: Meeting Announcement: North American Wetlands Conservation Council

• Interior: Importation, Exportation, and Transportation of Wildlife; Inspection Fees, Import/Export Licenses, and Import/Export License Exemptions

• Interior: Multistate Conservation Grant Program; Priority List for Conservation Projects

Week Ending 5 December 2008

• Commerce: Endangered Fish and Wildlife; Final Rule To Implement Speed Restrictions To Reduce the Threat of Ship Collisions With North Atlantic Right Whales

• Environmental Protection Agency: Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC)

• Environmental Protection Agency: Amendment to the Universal Waste Rule: Addition of Pharmaceuticals; Proposed Rule

• Environmental Protection Agency: Exposure Modeling Public Meeting; Notice of Public Meeting

• Health and Human Services: Draft Guidance on Important Considerations for When Participation of Human Subjects in Research Is Discontinued

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Black-tailed Prairie Dog as Threatened or Endangered

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti) as Endangered with Critical Habitat

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board, Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

Week Ending 28 November 2008

• Commerce: Endangered and Threatened Species; Critical Habitat for Threatened Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals

• Environmental Protection Agency: Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--December 2008

• Environmental Protection Agency: Meetings: National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology

• Health and Human Services: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections; Solicitation of Nominations for Membership

• Interior: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Northern Mexican Gartersnake (Thamnophis eques megalops) as Threatened or Endangered with Critical Habitat

• Interior: Proposed Information Collection; OMB Control Number 1018-0119; Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts When Making Listing Decisions (PECE)

• National Science Foundation: National Science Board; Task Force on Cost Sharing; Committee on Strategy and Budget; Sunshine Act Meetings; Notice

• National Science Foundation: Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board Membership

Week Ending 21 November 2008

• Agriculture: Notice of the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture Meeting

• Agriculture: Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture; Solicitation of Nominations

• Agriculture: Information Collection; Evaluating Community Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Preferences Concerning Fire and Fuels Management in Southwestern Forest, Woodland and Grassland Ecosystems

• Commerce: Final Framework for the National System of Marine Protected Areas of the United States and Response to Comments

• Commerce: Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Application Form for Membership on a National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council

• Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference Meeting of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

• Interior: Oil Shale Management--General

• Interior: Policy on Wilderness Stewardship; Availability

• National Science Foundation: Proposal Review; Notice of Meetings

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