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Prune Crop Insurance Provisions

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation finalizes the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Prune Crop Insurance Provisions. The intended effect of this action is to provide policy changes and clarify existing policy provisions to better meet the needs of insured producers, and to reduce vulnerability to program fraud, waste, and abuse. The changes will apply for the 2013 and succeeding crop years.

Adhesives and Sealants Rule

EPA is approving a revision to Pennsylvania's State Implementation Plan in order to include in the SIP amendments to relating to control of emissions of volatile organic compounds from the manufacture, sale, use, or application of adhesives, sealants, primers, and solvents.

United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement

This rule amends the U.S. Customs and Border Protection regulations on an interim basis to implement the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the United States- Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement entered into by the United States and the Republic of Colombia.

Tolerance Actions

EPA is revoking specific tolerances, in follow-up to canceled uses or where a commodity is no longer a significant feed item, for butylate, clethodim, dichlorvos, dicofol, isopropyl carbanilate, methanearsonic acid, methomyl, naled, primisulfuron-methyl, tralomethrin, and ziram, and the tolerance exemption for pine oil.

Cessna Aircraft Company Airplanes

This new airworthiness directive for certain Cessna Aircraft Company Model 500, 501, 550, 551, S550, 560, 560XL, and 650 airplanes was prompted by multiple reports of smoke and/or fire in the tailcone caused by sparking due to excessive wear of the brushes in the air conditioning motor.

Epilepsy Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration will be issuing noncompetitive supplemental funding under the Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Epilepsy Program to the Epilepsy Foundation of America to support additional evaluation activities.

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