April 8, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register April 8, 1997

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Agencies Publishing on April 8, 1997

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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We are reopening and extending the comment period for our advance notice of proposed rulemaking that solicits public comment on whether and how our regulations for importing cotton (including seed cotton, cottonseed, cotton lint and linters, cottonse...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
This document invites written comments on a proposal to suspend indefinitely or terminate part of a provision in the Eastern Colorado milk order which specifies that a distributing plant disposing of ten percent or more of its Grade A milk receipts,...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request an extension of and revision to the currently approved collections of information for...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request an extension for and revision of a currently-approved information collection for oliv...
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This notice announces the initial level of per-meal assistance for the Nutrition Program for the Elderly (NPE) for Fiscal Year 1997. The Fiscal Year 1997 initial level of assistance is set at $.5857 for each eligible meal in accordance with section 3...
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service revises the information on the organization and functions to reflect changes as a result of the USDA reorganization.
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Broadcasting Board of Governors logo Broadcasting Board of Governors

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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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On December 6, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on brass sheet and strip (BSS) from Canada (61 FR 64666). This review covers exports of this...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
On December 3, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain forged steel crankshafts from the United Kingdom (61 FR 64055). This review cover...
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In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain fresh cut flowers from Colombia for the period March 1, 1995 through February...
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The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting administrative reviews of the countervailing duty orders on certain welded carbon steel pipes and tubes and welded carbon steel line pipe from Turkey. For information on the net subsidy fo...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
Notice is hereby given that the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Tiburon Laboratory, NMFS at Tiburon, CA (SWFSC); Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service at San Francisco, CA (PR/GG); the Marin...
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On August 26, 1996, NMFS received a petition from Mr. Richard Max Strahan representing GreenWorld, Inc., requesting that NMFS and the U.S. Coast Guard undertake a variety of actions to protect and preserve marine wildlife and, in particular, the nort...
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The NIST is terminating validation services for: FIPS 127-2, Database Language SQL, and FIPS 128-2, Computer Graphics Metafile, Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support Profile (CGM (CALS)), and considering terminating validation services for FI...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
In response to a request from the petitioner, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc. (Du Pont), the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register (62 FR 2647, January 17, 1997) the notice of initiation of administrative r...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
NMFS issues this proposed rule to amend the regulations implementing the Fishery Management Plan for the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries (FMP). This rule proposes a possession limit of 10 fish per person and a minimum fish size of...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC''), subject to the conditions specified below, is:
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The President's Security Policy Advisory Board has been established pursuant to Presidential Decision Directive/NSC-29, which was signed by President on September 16, 1994. The Board will advise the President on proposed legislative initiatives and e...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
The Department of Defense adopts this interim rule to implement the National Defense Authorization Act of 1995, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, and the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 which state that no funds a...
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This notice sets forth the schedule and summary agenda for the meeting of the National Defense Panel on April 15 and 16, 1997. In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended [5 U.S.C. App. II, (1...
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The Defense Finance and Accounting Service proposes to alter a system of records notice in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. DATES: The alteration will be effective on May 8, 1997, unless...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has completed radiological surveys and taken remedial action to decontaminate Building 029 located at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) near Chatsworth, California. This property was found to contain radio...
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The Department of Energy (Department or DOE) proposes test procedures for measuring the energy consumption of an externally vented refrigerator and externally vented refrigerator-freezer, a technological innovation which is not accommodated by the ex...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is hereby given of the following Advisory Committee meeting: Environmental Management Site- Specific Advisory Board, Kirtland Area Office (Sandia).
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Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is hereby given of the following Advisory Committee meeting: Environmental Management Site- Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Paducah Gaseous Diff...
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Western Area Power Administration (Western) published its proposal to apply the Energy Planning and Management Program Power Marketing Initiative to the Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects on February 26, 1997 (62 FR 8709). At that time, Western...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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In this action USEPA is approving the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision request submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) on August 15, 1996. In the August 15 request, IEPA requested that the Marathon Oil Company in Robi...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
The USEPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision request submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) on August 15, 1996. In the August 15 request, IEPA requested that the Marathon Oil Company in Robi...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available for public comment data and information relating to its Notice published in the Federal Register on November 20, 1995 (60 FR 57747). That Notice proposed to amend EPA regulations under the...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
EPA has received requests to extend the comment period on the notice of data availability (NODA) published in the Federal Register on March 5, 1997 (62 FR 10004). The NODA solicited public comments on studies, and the results of a Peer Review of thos...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
Section 4005(c)(1)(B) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984, requires States to develop and implement permit programs to ensure that municipal solid waste landfills...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of a portion of the Geneva Industries Site (Site) in Houston, Texas, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The portion to be deleted (Source Control Portion of the Site) is described...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Triangle Chemical Company Site (Site) in Bridge City, Texas, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and Hazar...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
Pursuant to 40 CFR 501.31, the State of North Carolina has submitted an application for EPA to approve the existing North Carolina Domestic Waste Permit program for authorization to administer and enforce the federal sewage sludge management (biosoli...
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Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

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Presidential Document Apr 08, 1997

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The Commission released a Public Notice which establishes a pleading cycle for comments on specific issues relating to the scope and nature of the restrictions imposed by section 272(e)(4). Certain Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) filed a motion with...
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is amending the definition of ``appropriate FDIC regional office'' and other related terms contained in its applications regulation to change the way the FDIC designates the appropriate regional office...
Rule Apr 08, 1997

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

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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, Autodes...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
The Federal Trade Commission (the ``Commission'') announces that it has concluded a review of Section 23.7 of the Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter Industries (``the Guides''), 16 CFR Part 23. Section 23.7 of the Guides addresses cl...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
The Federal Trade Commission is issuing two statements describing its policies for assisting small businesses and other small entities. These policy statements implement requirements of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996....
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Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Notice Apr 08, 1997
The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children Youth and Families' Head Start Bureau announces the availability of competitively awarded cooperative agreement grants to assist qualified institutions and organizations in the...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its approval of the application by CIBA Vision Corp., Duluth, GA, for premarket approval, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act), of Unizyme Enzymatic Cleaner. FDA's Center for De...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a grassroots consumer exchange meeting between the general public and FDA officials. The meeting will be chaired by FDA's Cincinnati District Director and is intended to encourage dialogue between...
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The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children Youth and Families' Head Start Bureau announces the availability of competitively awarded cooperative agreements to assist qualified institutions and organizations in the provis...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
This interim final rule with comment period implements section 111 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which sets forth Federal requirements designed to improve access to the individual health insurance market. Certain...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
This document contains interim rules governing access, portability and renewability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document impl...
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Federal Register documents 97-8217 and 97-8275 in this issue include provisions that implement the health insurance portability, availability, and renewability provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Those docum...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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In accordance with the Federal Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, this final rule incorporates inflation adjustments for civil money penalties.
Rule Apr 08, 1997
The Coast Guard proposes to establish an optional Streamlined Inspection Program (SIP) to provide owners and operators of U.S. documented or registered vessels an alternative method of complying with Coast Guard inspection requirements. Vessel owners...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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This Notice announces the 1997 homeless assistance competition designed to help communities develop Continuum of Care systems to assist homeless persons. The process of developing a Continuum of Care system is part of the community's larger effort of...
Correction Apr 08, 1997

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The Carson City field office of the Bureau of Land Management proposes to amend the Lahontan and Walker Resource Management Plans to address the management of fire within the Carson City District. Fire is an integral part of the ecosystem of the Cars...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
The United States of America, pursuant to the provisions of section 315 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1745), proposes to disclaim all interest in the following described lands to the current owners of record. A disc...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
In accordance with the Paper Work Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing its intention to request renewal of existing approval to collect certain information from individuals who apply to construct, maintain and use...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Great Divide Resource Area, Rawlins, Wyoming, pursuant to Section 206 of the Act of October 21, 1976, as amended, 43 U.S.C. 1716, has entered into an agreement to initiate a land exchange in Carbon County, Wyoming...
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The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM`s) Cody Resource Area has examined the following described public land and Bureau of Reclamation- withdrawn (BOR) land in Park County, Wyoming and have determined the land to be suitable for classification and lea...
Notice Apr 08, 1997
This order withdraws 21,969.012 acres of public land from surface entry and mining for 5 years to protect recreational, cultural, wildlife, riparian, and watershed values in the Pah Rah Range while the Bureau of Land Management completes land use pla...
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The Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary is announcing a public meeting of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory Group.
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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This document contains interim rules governing the content of the summary plan description (SPD) for group health plans, the furnishing of summaries of material reductions in covered services or benefits by group health plans, and the disclosure of S...
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National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency...
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Postal Regulatory Commission

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Prospective Payment Assessment Commission

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Railroad Retirement Board

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In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries o...
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In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries o...
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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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The Commission is postponing the implementation of an updated edition of the EDGAR Filer Manual which was published in the Federal Register on February 27, 1997 (62 FR 8877) and March 24, 1997 (62 FR 13820) in order to resolve technical issues, resul...
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Notice of Application for Deregistration under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'').
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Notice of Application for Deregistration under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'').
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Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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Correction Apr 08, 1997
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model MD-11 and DC-10 series airplanes, and KC-10A (military) airplanes. That AD currently requires functional testing to verify proper...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Schempp-Hirth K.G. (Schempp-Hirth) Models Standard- Cirrus, Nimbus-2, Nimbus-2B, Mini-Nimbus HS-7, Mini-Nimbus B, Discus a, and Discus b sailplanes. This AD requires acc...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
This amendment modifies the Class E2 airspace at Brunswick Malcom-McKinnon Airport, GA from continuous to part time, as the required weather observations for Class E2 surface area airspace have been reduced from 24 to 16 hours a day. Therefore, the C...
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The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a supplement to a final environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in San Mateo County, California.
Notice Apr 08, 1997
On August 18, 1995, NHTSA published a final rule amending Standard No. 201, ``Occupant Protection in Interior Impact,'' to require passenger cars and trucks, buses, and multipurpose passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 10,0...
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This document responds to petitions for reconsideration of a final rule requiring that the rear of truck tractors be equipped with retroreflective material similar to that required on the rear of the trailers they tow to increase nighttime conspicuit...
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This document amends the financial responsibility regulations to more broadly define the term State, and removes an unnecessary definition for the term farm-to-market agricultural transportation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCS...
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This notice announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that a 1990 Mercedes-Benz 420 SEC that was not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety...
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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Notice Apr 08, 1997
Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, the IRS is issuing temporary regulations relating to group health plan portability, access, and renewability requirements added to the Internal Revenue Code by section 401 of the Health Insurance Porta...
Proposed Rule Apr 08, 1997
This document contains a correction regarding the preamble to the interim rules governing access, portability and renewability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan...
Rule Apr 08, 1997
Each year the tariff-rate quota for tuna fish described in subheading 1604.14.20, HTSUS, is based on the United States canned tuna production for the preceding calendar year.
Notice Apr 08, 1997

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, the National Cemetery System (NCS) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on this information collection. This request for comment is being made pur...
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The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U....
Notice Apr 08, 1997
The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U....
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