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    <description>Daily Publications of Meetings and Rules Changes for the Federal Government</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, Dec 2 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  National Organic Program; Proposed Amendment to the National List  of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (Livestock)]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-15390</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ This proposed rule would amend the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture's (USDA) National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances 
(National List) to reflect one recommendation submitted to the 
Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) by the National Organic Standards 
Board (NOSB) on May 22, 2008. Consistent with the recommendation from 
the NOSB, this proposed rule would revise the annotation of one 
substance on the National List, Methionine, to extend its use in 
organic poultry production until October 1, 2010.
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  <pubDate>Mon, Jul 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  National Organic Program (NOP); Sunset Review (2008) ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-15389</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ This proposed rule would amend the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture's (USDA) National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances 
(National List) regulations to reflect recommendations submitted to the 
Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) by the National Organic Standards  Board (NOSB) on November 30, 2007, and May 22, 2008. The <br/>
recommendations addressed in this proposed rule pertain to the 
continued exemption (use) and prohibition of 12 substances in organic 
production and handling. Consistent with the recommendations from the 
NOSB, this proposed rule would renew the 11 exemptions and 1 
prohibition on the National List (along with any restrictive 
annotations) and correct the Tartaric acid listings by adding 
annotations originally recommended to the Secretary on November 1, 
1995.
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  <pubDate>Mon, Jul 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Payment Limitation and Payment Eligibility ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-16007</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ As announced by this notice, the Commodity Credit Corporation 
(CCC) is implementing the provisions of the Food, Conservation, and 
Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Farm Bill) regarding payment limitation 
and payment eligibility provisions (including the average adjusted 
gross income limitation) for the 2008 crop, fiscal, or program year. 
The 2008 Farm Bill authorizes payment limitations and payment 
eligibility provisions that were previously authorized for preceding 
commodity and conservation programs under the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (the 2002 Farm Bill). As a result of this 
notice, CCC will be able to commence administration of payment 
limitation and payment eligibility provisions applicable to commodity 
and conservation programs for the 2008 crop, fiscal, or program year. 
Through a subsequent rule, CCC will implement payment limitation and 
payment eligibility provisions for 2009 through 2012.
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  <guid>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-16007</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, Jul 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-16026</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ On March 14, 2008, we published a final rule that established 
regulations for seasons, harvest limits, methods, and means related to 
taking of fish and shellfish for subsistence uses during the 200809 
regulatory year. This rule, which became effective April 1, 2008, and 
remains effective through March 31, 2009, contained an error in the 
regulatory text. This document corrects that error.
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  <guid>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-16026</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, Jul 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Notice of Proposed Changes to the Natural Resources Conservation  Service's National Handbook of Conservation]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-16024</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Notice is hereby given of the intention of NRCS to issue a 
series of revised conservation practice standards in its National 
Handbook of Conservation Practices. These standards include: Residue 
Management, Seasonal (Code 344); Grassed Waterway (Code 412); Mulching 
(Code 484); Stripcropping (Code 585); Cross Wind Ridges (Code 588); 
Terrace (Code 600); Underground Outlet (Code 620); and Water and 
Sediment Control Basin (Code 638). NRCS State Conservationists who 
choose to adopt these practices for use within their States will 
incorporate them into Section IV of their respective electronic Field 
Office Technical Guide. These practices may be used in conservation 
systems that treat highly erodible land or on land determined to be a 
wetland.
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  <pubDate>Mon, Jul 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.: Notice of Availability  of an Environmental Assessment]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-07-14-E8-15915</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service, an 
agency delivering the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 
Rural Development Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as Rural 
Development and/or the Agency, is issuing an Environmental Assessment 
(EA) in connection with possible impacts related to the construction 
and operation of a second 500 megawatt combinedcycle combustion 
turbine generation unit at Brazos Electric Power Cooperative's (Brazos) 
existing Jack County Plant Site, as proposed by Brazos, of Waco, Texas.
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  <pubDate>Mon, Jul 14 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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