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VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:10 Nov 07, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4710 Sfmt 4710 E:\FR\FM\08NOWS.LOC 08NOWS mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with FED-WS III Contents Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 216 Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Agriculture Department Community Living Administration See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service NOTICES NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Submissions, and Approvals, 78565 Evaluation of the State Health Insurance Assistance Performance Review Board Membership, 78565–78566 Program, 78601–78602 Senior Medicare Patrol Program National Beneficiary Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Survey, 78599–78600 RULES Meetings: Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products: Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Packaging and Labeling; Technical Amendments, 78499– Disabilities, President’s Committee for People with 78500 Intellectual Disabilities, 78601 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Consumer Product Safety Commission Submissions, and Approvals: NOTICES Importation of Fresh Citrus Fruit from Uruguay, Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Including Citrus Hybrids and Fortunella spp., into Submissions, and Approvals: the Continental United States, 78566–78567 Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Database, 78570–78574 Biological Control of Giant Reed, 78567–78568 Copyright Office, Library of Congress Field Release of Genetically Engineered Diamondback NOTICES Moths; Withdrawal, 78567 Section 512 Study, 78636–78642 Army Department Defense Department NOTICES See Army Department Meetings: NOTICES Board of Visitors, United States Military Academy, Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, 78575–78576 Submissions, and Approvals: Performance Review Board Membership, 78574–78575 Preaward Survey Forms, 78594–78595 Privacy Training, 78595–78596 Manual for Courts-Martial; Supplementary Materials, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 78576–78589 NOTICES Meetings: Education Department Compliance with the Federal Select Agent Program, NOTICES 78596–78597 Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Foreign Schools Eligibility Criteria Apply to Participate NOTICES in Title IV HEA Programs, 78590 Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Implementation of Title I and II–A Program Initiatives, Submissions, and Approvals, 78597 78589–78590 Environmental Protection Agency Children and Families Administration RULES NOTICES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Promulgations: Submissions, and Approvals: Texas; Clean Air Act Redesignation Substitute for the Child and Family Services Plan, Annual Progress and Dallas-Fort Worth 1-hour Ozone and 1997 8-hour Services Review, and Annual Budget Expenses Ozone Nonattainment Areas, 78688–78691 Request and Estimated Expenditures, 78599 Texas; Clean Air Act Redesignation Substitute for the National Study of Title IV–E Child Welfare Waiver Houston-Galveston-Brazoria 1997 8-hour Ozone Demonstrations, 78598–78599 Nonattainment Area, 78691–78694 Pesticide Tolerances: Coast Guard Fluxapyroxad, 78509–78513 PROPOSED RULES RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Special Local Regulations: Promulgations: Saint Andrew Bay; Panama City, FL, 78507–78509 Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 Lead, 2008 Ozone, 2010 NO2, 2010 SO2, and 2012 PM2.5 Commerce Department National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Wyoming, See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 78529–78539 VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:27 Nov 07, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4748 Sfmt 4748 E:\FR\FM\08NOCN.SGM 08NOCN mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with FED-CONTENTS IV Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 216 / Tuesday, November 8, 2016 / Contents NOTICES Meetings: Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets: Ninth Annual Sentinel Initiative, 78607–78608 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; Attainment Demonstration, 8- Study Data Standardization Plan Template, 78602–78603 Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes, 78591 General Services Administration Meetings: NOTICES National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Technology; Assumable Waters Subcommittee, Submissions, and Approvals: 78590–78591 Preaward Survey Forms, 78594–78595 Privacy Training, 78595–78596 Federal Aviation Administration NOTICES Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Meetings: NOTICES RTCA Program Management Committee, 78683–78684 Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board Membership, 78596 Federal Communications Commission PROPOSED RULES Health and Human Services Department Emergency Alert System: See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wireless Emergency
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