July 25, 1996 (Volume 61)

Federal Register July 25, 1996

View all documents issued on July 25, 1996. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

128 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on July 25, 1996

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This notice announces that the fee to be charged for the 1997 quota year for each license issued to a person or firm by the Department of Agriculture authorizing the importation of certain dairy articles which are subject to tariff-rate quotas set fo...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA or the Department) is proposing to amend its regulations pertaining to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act as part of the USDA regulatory reinvention initiative to improve its regulations. Thes...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee will meet on August 7, 1996, at the Robert Duncan Plaza Building, 333 SW First Ave., Portland, Oregon 97208 in the Regional Forester's conference room on the 6th floor. The purpose of the meeting is to continu...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of expansion of Lost Trail Powder Mountain ski area, including construction of a new ski lodge, a new warming hut facility, two new cha...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of expansion of Lost Trail Powder Mountain ski area, including construction of a new ski lodge, a new warming hut facility, two new cha...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is establishing requirements applicable to meat and poultry establishments designed to reduce the occurrence and numbers of pathogenic microorganisms on meat and poultry products, reduce the incidence of...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
The Salt Lake Ranger District, of the Uinta and Wasatch-Cache National Forests, will prepare an EIS on Solitude Ski Resort's (Solitude) proposal to update their Master Development Plan.
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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This Notice announces the implementation of the Best Global Practices Award by the International Trade Administration (ITA) of the Department of Commerce to recognize the programs and practices of U.S. companies that have exhibited extraordinary lead...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
NMFS closes the fishery for school Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT) conducted by Angling category fishermen in the waters off Delaware and states south. Closure of this fishery is necessary because the annual quota of 65 metric tons (mt) of school ABT all...
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NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for northern rockfish in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the northern rockfish total allowable catch (TAC) in this area.
Rule Jul 25, 1996
NMFS announces the availability of the Draft Implementation Plan for the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (Code) and is requesting comments from the public. The Code was negotiated under the sponsorship of the Food and Agriculture Organizati...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and their Coastal Migratory Committee with Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Bluefish Board, Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Committee (with Monitoring Committee and A...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from Argentina in response to requests by the petitioners <SUP>1 and the respondents.<SUP>2 This review covers shipments...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
In accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended, notification is hereby given that an Incidental Harassment Authorization to take small numbers of bowhead whales and other marine mammals by harassment incidental to...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, proposes to update the Master Plan for Jennings Randolph Lake. The existing master plan was prepared in 1973 and does not address changes that have occurred since its development or since completi...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Director, Information Resources Group, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The Director, Information Resources Group, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice Jul 25, 1996
On June 24, 1996, the Department of Energy (DOE or Department) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (61 FR 32588) (DOE-NOPR) to amend the Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation (DEAR) to incorporate certain contract reform initiatives. Amon...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
Various participants have requested additional time to comment on the Commission's notice of proposed rulemaking in this proceeding. The proposed rule specifies filing requirements to be followed by public utilities in making transmission tariff fili...
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is issuing an order clarifying Order No. 582, the final rule amending part 154 of the Commission's regulations under the Natural Gas Act. Pursuant to Order No. 582, two working groups were established to resol...
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is amending Part 346 of its regulations to make the cost-of-service filing requirements of that Part applicable to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) carriers and carriers delivering oil dire...
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The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to 10 CFR Sec. 1021.315, and in consultation with the Department of State, is revising the Record of Decision issued on May 13, 1996 (61 Fed. Reg. 25092) on the Final Environmental Impact Statement on a Propos...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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EPA has authorized its contractor Chemical Abstract Services (CAS), and its subcontractor TMC Micrographic Services (TMC), both of Columbus, Ohio for access to information which has been submitted to EPA under sections 5 and 8(b) of the Toxic Substan...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
EPA has authorized its contractor, Versar, Inc. (VER), of Springfield, Virginia, and Versar's subcontractors, General Science Corporation (GSC) of Laurel, Maryland, for access to information which has been submitted to EPA under sections 4, 5, 6, and...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D), this notice announces that the Information Collection Requests (ICRs) NSPS for Hot Mix Asphalt Facilities (Subpart I) and NSPS for Pressure Sensitive Tape and Label Surface Coat...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
On September 15, 1995, EPA proposed to approve the State implementation plans (SIP) submitted by the State of Connecticut for the purpose of bringing about the attainment of the national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for carbon monoxide (CO)....
Rule Jul 25, 1996
EPA is approving portions and conditionally approving other portions of a vehicle inspection and maintenance (I/M) State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Illinois on June 29, 1995, based on the State's April 22, 1996, lett...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
EPA is taking direct final action on revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions concern rules from the following Districts: Kern County Air Pollution Control District (KNCAPCD), Placer County Air Pollution Control Dist...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
On May 5, 1995, and May 31, 1995, the State of Illinois submitted a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishing regulations for motor vehicle refinishing operations in the Chicago and Met...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
The EPA is approving revisions to the Louisiana State Implementation Plan (SIP) adopted by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality on October 20, 1992, and March 26, 1993. This SIP revision contains regulations which require the implementat...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
This document takes final EPA action on certain elements of a request by the State of New Jersey to revise its State Implementation Plan (SIP) for carbon monoxide. EPA is approving New Jersey's vehicle miles travelled forecast and multi-state coordin...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the approval of portions of a request by the State of New York to revise its State Implementation Plan for Carbon Monoxide. EPA is approving New York's carbon monoxide plan which includes a vehi...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern the control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from metal parts and products coating, semiconductor manufacturing, petroleum refineries an...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
EPA proposes to approve the attainment demonstration portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Washington Department of Ecology, as part of its Puget Sound nonattainment area carbon monoxide (CO) attainment pla...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
EPA is approving the attainment demonstration portion of the Puget Sound carbon monoxide (CO) State implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted on September 30, 1994, by the State of Washington Department of Ecology (Washington) for the purpose of d...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
EPA is proposing to promulgate corrections to the American Samoa State Implementation Plan (SIP), the Arizona SIP, the California SIP, the Hawaii SIP, and the Nevada SIP. These corrections concern the deletion from the SIPs of the rules summarized in...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
This Notice announces the conclusion of the Special Review of cyanazine and EPA's acceptance of requests for the voluntary cancellation of cyanazine registrations. EPA is concluding the Special Review because the registrants have agreed to voluntaril...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
EPA is modifying the listing for hydrochloric acid on the list of toxic chemicals subject to the reporting requirements under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and section 6607 of the Pollution Prev...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
The EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision request submitted by the State of Illinois on May 5, 1995, and May 31, 1995, which establishes regulations for motor vehicle refinishing operations in the Chicago and Metro-East...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
Today's action revises the motor vehicle Inspection/ Maintenance (I/M) requirements by adding a special low enhanced performance standard for qualified areas in Ozone Transport Regions (OTR). This additional performance standard applies to certain at...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
On March 26, 1996, the President signed the Land Disposal Program Flexibility Act of 1996. This statute overrules certain parts of the D.C. Circuit's opinion in Chemical Waste Management v. EPA, 976 F. 2d 2 (D.C. Cir. 1992), cert. denied 113 S.Ct. 19...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of request for amendment by registrants to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice announces that EPA has received a pesticide petition for exemption from the requirement of tolerances for a certain pesticide ingredient to include all raw agricultural commodities.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hereby giving notice that it proposes to enter into an administrative settlement for recovery of past response costs that it has incurred in connection with removal activities performed for the L.H. Inc. S...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in WT Docket No. 96-148 and GN Docket No. 96-113, the Commission proposes modifications to the broadband personal communications services (PCS) rules to expand geographic partitioning and spectrum disaggregation...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
On July 13, 1995, the Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (CC Docket No. 95-116) seeking comments on a wide variety of policy and technical issues related to number portability. On June 27, 1996, the Commission adopted a First Report an...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
On June 13, 1995, The Commission adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (CC Docket No. 95-116) regarding telephone number portability . The First Report and Order released July 2, 1996, promulgates rules and regulations implementing the statutory re...
Rule Jul 25, 1996

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices and unfair methods of competition, this consent agreement, accepted subject to final Commission approval, would require, among other things, the St....
Notice Jul 25, 1996
In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices and unfair methods of competition, this consent agreement, accepted subject to final Commission approval, would require, among other things, the Atla...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices and unfair methods of competition, this consent agreement, accepted subject to final Commission approval, would prohibit, among other things, the Cul...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Title Type Published
GSA proposes amending a record system that is subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 522a), as amended.
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation logo Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the Nominee Information Form (NIF) is coming up for renewal. This is the application that candidates are required to complete to be considered for a Truman Scholarship. Before submitting the renewal package to the Office of...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Notice Jul 25, 1996
Notice is hereby given that OCSE is amending one of its systems of records, the Federal Parent Locator System and Federal Tax Offset System (FPLS), DHHS/OCSE No. 09-90-0074. Information on this system was last published at 55 FR 34764, August 24, 199...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice is a quarterly announcement that contains a list of each site for which ATSDR has completed a public health assessment or issued an addendum to a previously completed public health assessment during the period January-March 1996. This lis...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Indiana (FEMA-1125-DR), dated July 3, 1996, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Minnesota (FEMA-1116-DR), dated June 1, 1996, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice amends the notice of an emergency for the State of Oklahoma (FEMA-3118-DR), dated February 27, 1996, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
FEMA gives notice of a request for review, evaluation and approval of the State of Rhode Island Ingestion Pathway Plan for Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Station and Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Connecticut and Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massa...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the U.S. Virgin Islands (FEMA-1126-DR), dated July 11, 1996, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) is giving an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) presentation in San Antonio, Texas, on September 26, 1996.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) gives notice that the deadline to determine whether the Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) is an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended, is extended for a pe...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
The FEIS for the Grass Creek Planning Area RMP describes and analyzes four alternative resource management plans, including the proposed RMP, for managing the BLM-administered public lands and Federal mineral estate in the Grass Creek Planning Area o...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice is to invite public participation in a meeting of the FGDC Facilities Working Group. The major topics for this meeting are: development of a Facility/Installation ID standard; development of a utility data content standard; and developmen...
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This order revokes in its entirety a Bureau order insofar as it affects 24,320 acres of National Forest System lands withdrawn for the proposed Bureau of Reclamation's Spruce Park Reservoir of the Flathead River Project. The lands are no longer neede...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This order withdraws 37.50 acres of National Forest System land from location and entry under the United States mining laws for a period of 50 years for the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, to protect the recreational opportunities and mine...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This order withdraws 3.25 acres of public land from surface entry, mining, and mineral leasing for a period of 20 years for the National Park Service to protect the fragile, unique, and endangered resources at Cape Johnson.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This order withdraws 4,409.18 acres of public land from surface entry and mining for a period of 50 years, for the Bureau of Land Management to protect the recreational, visual, and wildlife resources of the Racecourse and Agua Caliente Areas of Crit...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
The U.S. Parole Commission is amending its regulations on transfer treaty cases by reducing the number of hearing examiners required to conduct a hearing for a prisoner transferred to the United States pursuant to treaty. The number is reduced from t...
Rule Jul 25, 1996

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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Notice Jul 25, 1996

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Notice of consideration of amendment request and opportunity for hearing related to materials license No. SNM-1999 for the Kerr- McGee Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) regarding the proposed decommissioning of the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corporation (SMC), Cambridge, Ohio, facility. This DEIS describes and evaluate...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a computer matching program that SSA plans to conduct with DOL.
Notice Jul 25, 1996

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 127(b)(1) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) (19 U.S.C. 3537(b)(1)), the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice that the United States has requested the establishment of a dispute settl...
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice announces the decision by NHTSA that 1994 Mercedes-Benz E500 passenger cars not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards are eligible for importation into the United States because they...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in Imperial County, California.
Notice Jul 25, 1996
FRA is publishing the penalty guideline amounts it uses in initial determinations of proposed civil penalty assessments for documented violations of DOT's Hazardous Materials Regulations. This action will make those against whom FRA enforces the Haza...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
The Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently prescribes financial responsibility requirements for licensees authorized to conduct commercial space launch activities on a case-b...
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
This notice announces an alternate location for information contained in Docket HM-200 (Hazardous Materials in Intrastate Transportation) during temporary closure of RSPA's Dockets Unit.
Proposed Rule Jul 25, 1996
This notice announces a public meeting to be held in Sacramento, California to seek information from the public on regulatory reform and improved customer service for RSPA's hazardous materials safety program. This meeting is a continuation of the in...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 1993 Mercedes-Benz 600SEC and 1994-1996 Mercedes-Benz S600 Coupe passenger cars that were not originally manufactured to com...
Notice Jul 25, 1996
Notice Jul 25, 1996
This notice announces the temporary closure of RSPA's Dockets Unit, which contains hazardous materials and pipeline safety rulemaking and other dockets. Provision, however, is being made for public access to dockets in which comment periods are open...
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RSPA is publishing a June 28, 1996 letter in which it denied petitions for reconsideration of a provision in the June 5, 1996 final rule in this proceeding which allowed rail shippers and carriers to discontinue use of the RESIDUE placard on June 30,...
Rule Jul 25, 1996
The Board, under 49 U.S.C. 10502, exempts the trackage rights described in STB Finance Docket No. 32959 <SUP>2 to permit the trackage rights to expire on August 1, 1996, in accordance with the agreement of the parties.<SUP>3
Notice Jul 25, 1996

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document notifies members of the trade community of the plans of the Customs Service and the Bureau of Census to implement significant outreach and educational programs. These programs are designed to help exporters improve the completeness, tim...
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Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3402 is required to maintain a program for part-time career employment within VA. VA has established regulations concerning this mandate (38 CFR 1.891 through 1.897). These regulations curr...
Rule Jul 25, 1996

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