March 21, 1996 (Volume 61)

Federal Register March 21, 1996

View all documents issued on March 21, 1996. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

137 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 21, 1996

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the Meats, Prepared Meats, and Meat Products (Grading, Certification and Standards) by adding definitions, changing certificate forms, removing two outdated official stamp imprints, and adding thre...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This final rule adopts, without change, the proposed rule published in the Federal Register at 60 FR 55807 on November 3, 1995, allowing producers to extend maturing wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oat, and rye price support loans during times of...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee (IAC) will meet on April 4, 1996, at the Howard Johnson Airport Hotel, 7101 NE 82nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97220. The purpose of the meeting is to continue discussions on the implementation of the Northwest...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
We are amending the National Poultry Improvement Plan (the Plan) and its auxiliary provisions by providing new or modified administrative and testing procedures for Plan participants and participating flocks. These changes, which were voted on and ap...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This notice lists the newspapers that will be used by all ranger districts, forests, and the Regional Office of the Intermountain Region to publish legal notice of all decisions subject to appeal under 36 CFR 215 and 36 CFR 217. The intended effect o...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Foreign Agricultural Service's (FAS) intention to request an extension for a currently approved information collection that aids in analyzing existing information produ...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
The USDA, Forest Service, and the USDI, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of oil and gas leasing and reasonable foreseeable actions resulting from subsequent exp...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
We are amending the Rules of Practice Governing Formal Adjudicatory Proceedings Instituted by the Secretary Under Various Statutes and the Rules of Practice Under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. This final rule provides that the adjudica...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Forest Service will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to analyze and disclose the environment effects of a site- specific proposal to harvest timber in the Coon Creek area of the Hayden Ranger District of the Medicine Bow/Routt National F...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Notice Mar 21, 1996
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limits of the preliminary and final results of the new shipper antidumping duty administrative review of certain forged stainless steel flanges from India. The review covers one manufa...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
On January 13, 1994, we preliminarily determined that (i) pipe certified to American Petroleum Institute (API) 5L line pipe specifications (API 5L line pipe or line pipe) and (ii) pipe certified to both the API 5L line pipe specifications and the les...
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NMFS is closing the directed fishery for Pacific cod for processing by the inshore component in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the allocation of Pacific Cod for processing by the...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document contains a correction to a closure (I.D. 030196B) which was published Wednesday, March 6, 1996 (61 FR 8888).
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limits of the preliminary and final results of the third antidumping duty administrative review of high-tenacity rayon filament yarn from Germany. The review covers one manufacturer/ex...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
On September 15, 1989, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published an antidumping duty order on new steel rail, except light rail, from Canada. The Department published a countervailing duty order on new steel rail, except light rail, from...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
The New York Futures Exchange (NYFE or Exchange) has applied for designation as a contract market in options on its British Pound, Deutsche Mark, Japanese Yen, and Swiss Franc futures contracts. The Acting Director of the Division of Economic Analysi...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following committee meeting:
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This Notice provides information regarding the redevelopment authority that has been established to plan the reuse of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Warminster, Pennsylvania, and the surplus property that is located at that base clo...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announce the availability for public review and comment of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Completion of the West Valley...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This Floodplain Statement of Findings for the West Tributary Surface Water Monitoring Improvements Project has been prepared in accordance with 10 CFR Part 1022. DOE proposes to replace an existing V-notched, contracted, weir that is located within t...
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The Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) is offering partnering opportunities with United States companies in the area of hot gas desulfurization for developers of transport reactor systems, system integrators, and developers of novel sorbents....
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In the Defense Appropriations Conference Report, dated September 26, 1994, Congress agreed to provide funding to the Department of Defense (DoD) for a competitive, cost-shared, near-term, Climate Change Fuel Cell Program. The responsibility for procu...
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DOE proposes to remediate sediment and soil containing elevated levels of uranium-238 from a floodplain and wetland, a floodplain and wetland buffer zone, and from the Massachusetts coastal zone in Essex County, Massachusetts. In accordance with 10 C...
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Title XXXIV, Subtitle B, of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106) directs the Secretary of Energy to sell the Federal government's interests in Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 (NPR-1, also called ``Elk Hi...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submittin...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
EPA is proposing to approve Massachusetts' revised 310 CMR 7.12, ``Inspection Certificate, Record Keeping and Reporting'' and incorporating it into Massachusetts' SIP. EPA received revisions to the Massachusetts SIP revising 310 CMR 7.12 on three sep...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
EPA is approving Massachusetts' revised 310 CMR 7.12, ``Inspection Certificate, Record Keeping and Reporting'' and incorporating it into Massachusetts' SIP. EPA received revisions to the Massachusetts SIP revising 310 CMR 7.12 on three separate occas...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The USEPA is approving the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's (OEPA) request for redesignation of Clinton County, Ohio from transitional ozone nonattainment to attainment. The USEPA is also approving the maintenance plan and emissions inventory f...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) approves, through direct final procedure, Illinois' November 14, 1995 request to incorporate an exemption for acetone from the definitions of Organic Material and Organic Materials, Petroleum...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) proposes to approve Illinois' November 14, 1995 request to incorporate an exemption for acetone from the definitions of Organic Material and Organic Materials, Petroleum Liquid, and Volatile O...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the purpose of establishing a Clean-Fuel Fleet Program. Indiana submitted the SIP revision request on December 20,...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is giving full approval through a direct final action to a state implementation plan (SIP) revision request submitted on December 20, 1995, and February 14, 1996, by the State of Indiana for the purpos...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 announces its intent to delete the New Castle Spill Site (Site) from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this proposed action. The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR p...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following proposed and/or continuing information colle...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, this notice advises interested persons of the next meetings of the five Subcommittees and Steering Committee of the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee. The N...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
The Commission, at the request of Atlantis Broadcasting Co., LLC, allots Channel 242A at Atlanta, Illinois, as the community's first local aural transmission service (RM-8704). We also deny the mutually exclusive proposal filed by WMSI, Inc., proposi...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document grants an Application for Review filed by Channel 17 Associates, Ltd., licensee of Station WDBB, Channel 17, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, directed to the Report and Order. 55 FR 4884, February 12, 1990. In doing so, it grants the proposal to re...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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Notice Mar 21, 1996

Federal Labor Relations Authority logo Federal Labor Relations Authority

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The Federal Labor Relations Authority provides an opportunity for all interested persons to file briefs as amici curiae on significant issues arising in a case pending before the Authority. The Authority is considering this case pursuant to its respo...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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Notice Mar 21, 1996
The Federal Maritime Commission is amending its regulations governing the information submission requirements for agreements among ocean common carriers subject to the Shipping Act of 1984. Certain kinds of newly filed agreements are required to be a...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
This document amends the Rules and Regulations under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile Rules) by adding the International System of Units (SI metric system) equivalents beside the inch/pound unit measurements in Textile Rules 10,...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

Government Publishing Office logo Government Publishing Office

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency processing under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The purpose of the prop...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance manual entitled ``Computer Assisted Product License Application (CAPLA) Guidance Manual (March 1996).'' This guidance manual was developed by FDA's Center for Biologi...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of March 4, 1995 (61 FR 8214). The document published with an incorrect section number designation. This document corrects that error.
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of January 30, 1996 (61 FR 3118). The document amended the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of sucrose esterified with medium...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations (animal use) to provide for the safe use of the food additive poly(2-vinylpyridine-co-styrene) as a coating agent in the preparation of rumen-stable, abomasum-dispersibl...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is providing notice of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) between the FDA, the Subsecretaria de Regulacion y Fomento Sanitario, Mexico, and the Health Protection Branch, Canada. The purpose of the MOC is to expan...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for voting members to serve on the Science Advisory Board (the Board) to the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR). Nominations will be accepted for two vacancies that will...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
A meeting of the Industry Executive Subcommittee of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee will be held on Thursday, March 21, 1996, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The meeting will be held at Booz,Allen & Hamilton, 828...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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This final rule implements at 24 CFR part 290 the regulatory requirements under the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994 that affect the management and disposition of HUD-owned properties and properties with HUD-held mortgages,...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing its intention to request renewal of approval to collect certain information from the Governors of States to allow the BLM to compute units of pa...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing its intention to request extension of approval for the collection of information from applicants to lease solid minerals other than coal and oil...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
The following public lands in Beaverhead County, Montana, have been examined and found suitable for classification for lease or conveyance to the State of Montana under the provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 8...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This Notice will open 60 acres to location and entry under the public land laws and general mining laws.
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Application for Certificate of Citizenship in Behalf of an Adopted Child.
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This document contains a correction to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (DEA Number 139P) which was published on March 5, 1996 (61 FR 8503). The proposed rule related to regulatory reinvention initiatives under the President's National Performance R...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
Notice Mar 21, 1996

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Earth Systems Science and Applications Advisory Committee.
Notice Mar 21, 1996

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
This final rule changes existing references from ``Criminal Referral Form'' to ``Suspicious Activity Report'' to conform the language in the rule to the new Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) which the financial regulatory agencies and the Department o...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

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National Science Foundation

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations requiring each agency to pay a fee for its share of the cost of providing employment information through OPM to Federal employees and the public. The regulations implement a perman...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

State Department logo State Department

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Bell Helicopter Textron, A Division of Textron Canada, Ltd., (BHTC) Model 206A and 206B helicopters, that currently requires an inspection of the main transmission inpu...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment supersedes two existing airworthiness directives (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 727 series airplanes, that currently require repetitive visual inspections to detect cracks of the elevator rear spar, and repair, if necessary....
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747-100, -200, -300, and SP series airplanes, that requires revising the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) to prohibit the use of the autoland function. This amen...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Boeing Model 767 series airplanes. This proposal would require repetitive operational tests to verify proper deployment of the ram air turbine (RAT),...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to three Boeing Model 767 series airplanes, serial numbers 26847, 27048, and 27049. This action requires a functional check of the trailing edge flap drive bypass valve, and...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all British Aerospace Model BAC 1-11 200 and 400 series airplanes, that currently requires visual inspections to detect cracks in the flight deck canopy area, and repai...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-10-10, -15, -30, and -40 series airplanes, and Model KC-10A (military) airplanes. This amendment requires inspection(s) to detect cracks...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Royal Inventum Company DR1 and DR6 Series Galley Water Heaters, that requires the installation of a pressure relief valve, and 3-phase safety devices on each Royal Inventum Compa...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Saab Model SAAB SF340A and SAAB 340B series airplanes. This proposal would require installation of an automatic flight idle stop on the control qu...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to The Enstrom Helicopter Corporation Model (Enstrom) F-28A, F-28C, 280, and 280C helicopters, that currently requires an initial and repetitive visual inspections of the...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The application for a determination of preemption is dismissed, and this docket is closed because the City of El Paso passed an ordinance that deleted the permit requirement for transportation of hazardous materials in El Paso.
Notice Mar 21, 1996
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In this final rule, NHTSA rescinds the Federal motor vehicle safety standard that regulates the reflectivity of specified metallic components located in front of the driver. This action is part of the agency's efforts to implement the President's Reg...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Coordinating Council on April 14, 1996. The session is expected to focus on: (1) Federal Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) reports; (2) ITS AMERICA Pres...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on April 16, 1996. The session is expected to focus on: (1) Federal Report by Mort Downey; (2) Report of the DSRC Task Force; (3) Report of...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This notice announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that a 1985 Maserati Bi-Turbo that was not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety sta...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This notice announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that a 1986 Volkswagen Golf that was not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety stand...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulation (49 CFR Part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardou...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardo...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and dispositions of petitions for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This notice lists those forms, reports, and recordkeeping requirements imposed upon the public which were transmitted by the Department of Transportation to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its approval in accordance with the requirement...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
The Rails to Trails Conservancy seeks the issuance of a certificate of interim trail use under section 8(d) of the National Trails System Act, 16 U.S.C. 1247(d), for a 71.5-mile rail line of Union Pacific Railroad Company between milepost 16.5, near...
Notice Mar 21, 1996

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document contains a correction to temporary regulations (TD 8638), which were published in the Federal Register Tuesday, December 26, 1995 (60 FR 66739), that amend the Income Tax Regulations with respect to certain transfers of stock or securit...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document contains a correction to final regulations [TD 8648] which were published in the Federal Register for Thursday, December 21, 1995 (60 FR 66077). The final regulations relate to the rules for adjusting the basis of a controlling corporat...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
The agenda for this meeting includes remarks by the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Committee Co-chairs; and reports on Leadership Model, Community Oriented Policing (COP), and the COP Fellowship.
Notice Mar 21, 1996
In the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register, the IRS is issuing temporary regulations relating to the deposit of Federal taxes by electronic funds transfer under section 6302 of the Internal Revenue Code. The text of th...
Proposed Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document contains temporary regulations relating to the deposit of Federal taxes by electronic funds transfer (EFT) under section 6302 of the Internal Revenue Code. The document also includes temporary regulations providing authority for the vol...
Rule Mar 21, 1996
This document contains a correction to the final regulations [TD 8653] which were published in the Federal Register for Monday, January 8, 1996 (61 FR 517). The final regulations relate to the character and timing of gain or loss from certain hedging...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

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Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following proposals for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U...
Notice Mar 21, 1996
This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition Regulations (VAAR) to correct typographical errors and to update office names and job titles due to administrative changes within the Department. Also, the threshold for Architect-En...
Rule Mar 21, 1996

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