October 25, 1996 (Volume 61)

Federal Register October 25, 1996

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

151 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 25, 1996

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is holding a meeting, ``Demonstration Projects for Small Plants.'' This meeting will focus on the problems and techniques of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems implementation and o...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration, will hold a conference, ``Federal/State Conference on Food Safety.'' This conference will focus on how FSIS and State agencies can effectively alloca...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
This notice extends the time for filing comments to the tentative partial decision which would incorporate a transportation credit balancing fund into four Federal milk marketing orders in the southern United States. The amendments are based on the r...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
This document suspends certain performance standards of the Eastern Colorado Federal milk order. Mid-America Dairymen, Inc., a cooperative association that supplies milk for the market's fluid needs, requested the suspension. The suspension will make...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, without change, the provisions of an interim final rule authorizing the use of smaller-sized olives in the production of limited-use styles for olives grown in California. This f...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limit for preliminary results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on color picture tubes (CPTs) from Japan, covering the period January 1, 1995, through December...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is amending the rules of practice to establish fees associated with recordation of insignia of manufacturers and private label distributors to ensure the traceability of a fastener to its manufacturer or private...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
On June 11, 1996, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'' published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on extruded rubber thread from Malaysia for the period January 1, 199...
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NMFS publishes inseason orders regulating fisheries in U.S. waters. The orders were issued by the Fraser River Panel (Panel) of the Pacific Salmon Commission (Commission) and subsequently approved and issued by the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) d...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Crab Fishery Management Plan Team will meet by teleconference on November 12, 1996, beginning at 11:00 a.m., Alaska Time.
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Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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This action adds to the Procurement List commodities and a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. EFFECTIVE DATE: November 25, 1996.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List commodities and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') is proposing to amend its Rule 1.10(d)(4), which requires that each Form 1-FR filed with the Commission contain an oath or affirmation attesting that, to the best knowledge and bel...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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It is the policy of the Commission to publish settlements which it provisionally accepts under the Consumer Product Safety Act in the Federal Register in accordance with the terms of 16 C.F.R. Section 1118.20(e). Published below is a provisionally-ac...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission requests comments on a proposed reinstatement of approval of a collection of information from manufacturers and importers of citizens ba...
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In the Federal Register of February 12, 1996 (61 FR 5537), the Consumer Product Safety Commission published a notice in accordance with provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) to announce the agency's intention to see...
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Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

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This notice provides information about an information collection request by the Corporation for National and Community Service, currently under review by OMB.
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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Precision Quincy Corporation has applied for an exclusive license to practice the Government owned invention described in U.S. Patent No. 5,511,908 entitled ``Mobile Safety Structure for Containment and Handling of Hazardous Material'' issued April 3...
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Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary provides the first list of ``ability-to- benefit'' tests and passing scores that the Secretary has approved under section 484(d) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), and the regulations that the Secretary promulgated t...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Department of Energy's contractor employee protection program provides recourse to DOE contractor employees who believe that they have been retaliated against for such activities as disclosing information regarding mismanagement of environmental,...
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is denying a request for rehearing of its final rule revising the Commission's regulations to require interstate natural gas pipelines to follow standardized procedures for critical business practices--nominat...
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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 proposed and/or continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
EPA is proposing to disapprove the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (for the Philadelphia ozone nonattainment area) to meet the rate-of-progress (ROP) requirements under the Clean Air Act (the Act...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
This notice announces Agency approval of an application submitted by Buckman Laboratories, Inc., to conditionally register the pesticide product Busan 1104 containing a new active ingredient not included in any previously registered product pursuant...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
EPA is seeking additional public comment on a July 1, 1996 (61 FR 33879), proposal to find that the Spokane, Washington carbon monoxide (CO) nonattainment area has not attained the CO national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) by December 31, 1995...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public meeting on November 19, 1996 to make information available on a project underway to revise the RCRA regulations governing hazardous waste recycling. Under the authority of the Resource Cons...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
EPA requested that these issues be further addressed in the Final document.
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This notice announces Agency approval of an application submitted by Johnson and Johnson Medical Inc., to conditionally register the pesticide product Cidex O.P.A. Antimicrobial containing an active ingredient not included in any previously registere...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
Montana has applied for final authorization of revisions to its hazardous waste program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reviewed Montana's application and has made a decision, sub...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region II, announces its intent to delete the Spence Farm Superfund Site (Site) from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this action. The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR pa...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region II, announces its intent to delete the Pijak Farm Superfund Site (Site) from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this action. The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR par...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
The EPA is hereby extending by 45 days, the closing date of the public comment period regarding EPA's proposed rulemaking, known as the NSR Reform Rulemaking, published on July 23, 1996 at 61 FR 38249. The original comment period was to close on Octo...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
In accordance with the requirements of section 122(i)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (CERCLA), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement under section 122(h) concerning...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
In the Federal Register of September 20, 1996, EPA extended the reopening of the comment period for a proposed rule that published in the Federal Register of September 24, 1992, which defined the specifics of reporting requirements under section 6(a)...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
During June 1994, EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (Board) issued guidance regarding the procedures for submission and review of petitions for reimbursement under section 106(b)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabi...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the availability of the final State Revolving Fund (SRF) Funding Framework and Policy and Guidance document. In an innovative partnership approach, the Agency has engaged in a policy dialog with state...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This notice announces Agency approval of an application to conditionally register the pesticide product Promexal X50 Preservative containing a new active ingredient not included in any previously registered product pursuant to the provisions of secti...
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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In accordance with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a request for OMB review of the information collection system d...
Notice Oct 25, 1996

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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The Federal Maritime Commission (``FMC'' or ``Commission'' is withdrawing the proposed rule amending its regulations governing the availability of the annual financial and operating statements filed by vessel-operating common carriers by water provid...
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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

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The Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is publishing interim regulations to implement sections 102 (e) and (f) of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995 (Act), as amen...
Rule Oct 25, 1996

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This notice also summarizes the procedures for the meeting and methods by which interested persons may participate in open public he...
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This notice announces forthcoming meetings of public advisory committees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This notice also summarizes the procedures for the meetings and methods by which interested persons may participate in open public hea...
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This Notice announces the Proposed Self-Certification Process for Tribal Child Counts Used to Calculate Tribal Allotments Under the Child Care and Development Block Grant. The purpose of utilizing a self-certification process for tribal grantees is t...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This notice advises the public that the Indian Health Service (IHS) is redesignating the geographic boundaries of the Contract Health Service Delivery Area (CHSDA) for the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe (``The Tribe''). The Jamestown S'Klallam CHSDA has b...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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This proposed rule would require that eligible costs associated with State and local repair or replacement standards (building codes), which change the predisaster construction of a facility, be limited to the standards that are in place at the time...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Maryland, (FEMA-1139-DR), dated September 17, 1996, and related determinations.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Coast Guard is publishing the results of a port access route study which evaluated the need for vessel routing measures in the approaches to California ports. The study concluded that the southern approach lanes of the existing traffic separation...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
The Department of Transportation is deleting the following systems from its inventory of Privacy Act systems of records notices.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of South Carolina (FEMA-1140-DR), dated September 30, 1996, and related determinations.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of South Carolina, (FEMA-1140-DR), dated September 30, 1996, and related determinations.
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This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the Commonwealth of Virginia (FEMA-1135-DR), dated September 6, 1996, and related determinations.
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Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This document provides revised designations of ``Difficult Development Areas'' for purposes of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (``LIHTC'') under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and provides the methodology used by the United States...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 2710, of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-497), the Secretary of the Interior shall publish, in the Federal Register, notice of approved Tribal-State Compacts for the purpose of engaging in Class III (casino...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
OSM is reopening the public comment period on a proposed amendment to the Kentucky permanent regulatory program (hereinafter referred to as the ``Kentucky program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). The proposed a...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463) and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (sec. 309), the Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield District Resource Advisory Council will meet in Three R...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This notice announces an upcoming meeting of the Mississippi River Coordinating Commission. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463).
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In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Bureau of Land Management, Yuma District, Havasu Field Office, has prepared a Yuma District proposed plan amendment and environmental assessment (EA) that assesses the impacts of a...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
The Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (SFEIS) for the proposed Swinomish Marina at LaConner, Washington, is now available for public review.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing its intention to request approval for the collections of information for 30 CFR part 783.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
On Thursday, September 18, 1996, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced in the Federal Register (61 FR 49151-49152), a Notice of Receipt of an Application, and availability of an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for an I...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
Notice of availability, Record of Decision for Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation's Lone Tree Mine Expansion Project.
Notice Oct 25, 1996
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements, the NPS invites public comment on a proposed information collection request (ICR). Comments are invited on: (1) The need for t...
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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This final rule establishes new requirements for the approval of diesel engines and other components used in underground coal mines; requirements for monitoring of gaseous diesel exhaust emissions by coal mine operators; and safety standards for the...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (th...
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This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restriction of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Inter...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
By notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register on May 2, 1996 (61 FR 19770), the Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) proposed alternative approaches for procedures to establish minimum health and welfare benefits requireme...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces NASA's intention to request an extension of the current NASA Safety Reporting System (NSRS) forms. The NSRS was established in response to the Report of the Presidential Co...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
Changes are proposed to update the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) coverage on contractor financial management reporting to make it compatible with current NASA reporting policy, including accounting requirements imposed by the Chief Financial Officers Act...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

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This rule amends NCUA's current regulations on NCUA Board procedure by providing that items will be placed on the Board agenda by determination of the Chairman or at the request of any two Board members. This amendment more clearly defines the author...
Rule Oct 25, 1996

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing proposed regulations to remove two metropolitan areas from the ``Rest of U.S.'' locality pay area and establish two new locality pay areas in January 1998 corresponding to these metropolitan areas. The tw...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Notice Oct 25, 1996
Notice of application for exemption under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'').
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Notice of application for exemption under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'').
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Notice of application for exemption under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (``Act'').
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Notice of application for an exemption pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``1940 Act'').
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Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

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The Commissioner has determined-- (1) A 2.9 percent cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (the Act), effective for December 1996; (2) An increase in the Federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI...
Notice Oct 25, 1996

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

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This notice announces that the hearings for the 1995 Annual Review under the Generalized System of Preferences will be held November 13 and 14, 1996 at the International Trade Commission, Main Hearing Room, 500 E Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20436....
Notice Oct 25, 1996
On April 30, 1996, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) initiated an investigation under section 302(b)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2412(b)(1)), with respect to certain acts, policies and practices of t...
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Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document revises an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Beech (Raytheon) Model BAe 125- 800A and Hawker 800 series airplanes, that would have required a detailed visual inspection of the fuel feed hose assemblies...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing priority letter airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. Model 412 helicopters, that currently requires a daily inspection of certain swashplate support as...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) hereby give notice that they intend to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), on the pro...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This notice proposes to amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations to maintain alignment with corresponding provisions of international standards. Because of recent changes to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code), the Internatio...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 1996
This final rule announces that the changes that were made in an interim final rule to the agency's regulations to implement the agency's drunk driving prevention incentive grant program, under 23 U.S.C. 410, will remain in effect. In addition, this f...
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The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to use the revenue from a PFC at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget R...
Notice Oct 25, 1996
This final rule implements a new program enacted by the National Highway System Designation (NHS) Act of 1995, which provides for the withholding of Federal-aid highway funds from any State that does not enact and enforce a ``zero tolerance'' law. Th...
Rule Oct 25, 1996
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for rulemaking (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions requesting the initiation of rulemaking procedures for th...
Proposed Rule Oct 25, 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...
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The Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) and its working groups will meet to discuss various issues relating to shallow-draft inland and coastal waterway navigation and towing safety. The agenda will include working group reports and discussion of...
Notice Oct 25, 1996

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document reopens the comment period for Notice No. 835, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on August 9, 1996 concerning exportation of alcoholic beverages, denatured alcohol, tobacco products, and cigaret...
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