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Recordkeeping Requirements for Certain Financial Records

The Board of Governors is amending its regulation which governs recordkeeping and reporting requirements for funds transfers and transmittals of funds, to conform the citations and references to organizational changes adopted by the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in 2010.

Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is updating its Waste Confidence Decision and Rule. The NRC intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to support the rulemaking to update the Commission's Waste Confidence Decision and Rule, and is conducting a scoping process to gather information necessary to prepare the EIS.

Fresh Garlic From the People's Republic of China

The Department of Commerce is conducting new shipper reviews of the antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from the People's Republic of China.

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources

The EPA published in the Federal Register a proposed rule reconsidering certain provisions in the final National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources that was promulgated on October 29, 2009.

Amateur Service Rules

The Commission proposes to amend the amateur radio service rules to grant examination credit for expired and beyond- the-grace-period-for renewal amateur radio operator licenses.

Generic Drug User Fee-Abbreviated New Drug Application, Prior Approval Supplement, and Drug Master File Fee Rates for Fiscal Year 2013

The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the rate for the Abbreviated New Drug Application, Prior Approval Supplement, and Drug Master File fees related to the Generic Drug User Fee Program for fiscal year 2013.

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