April 15, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register April 15, 1997

View all documents issued on April 15, 1997. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

123 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on April 15, 1997

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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We are amending our regulations by adding The Netherlands to the list of countries where bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) exists because the disease has been detected in a cow in that country. The effect of this action is to prohibit or restric...
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Rural Business-Cooperative Service's (RBS) intention to request clearance for a new information collection in order to render service to associations of producers of ag...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products from the Netherlands. This review covers on...
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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published the preliminary results of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain cold-rolled and corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea. T...
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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products and certain cut-to-length carbon...
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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Germany. This review covers one manufacturer...
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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Brazil. This review covers one manufacturer/...
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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Sweden. This review covers one manufacturer/...
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On October 4, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its 1994-95 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to- length carbon steel from Finland. The review covers one manufactur...
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The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received requests to conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain fresh cut flowers from Colombia. A request for revocation from the antidumping duty order was also received...
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The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (``OETCA''), International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an application to amend an Export Trade Certificate of Review. This notice summarizes the proposed amendment and reques...
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NMFS issues this proposed rule to retain, for 1997, the 1996 recreational management measures for the scup fishery implemented under the regulations implementing Amendment 8 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea...
Proposed Rule Apr 15, 1997
This document contains corrections to a final rule; technical amendment [I.D. 011697A] that was published on March 27, 1997. The technical amendment corrected and clarified regulations implementing the fishery management plans (FMPs) for: Summer flou...
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This notice announces receipt of an application from John Gauvin, Groundfish Forum, Inc., for an Experimental Fishing Permit (EFP). If awarded, this permit would be used to systematically test the effects of a different trawl net design on species an...
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The Patent and Trademark Office is announcing, in accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), an open meeting of the Public Advisory Committee for Trademark Affairs.
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Public Law 104-91, section 3(c) requires the Secretary of Commerce to prepare and submit a report on necessary actions to resolve Federal responsibility on the Pribilof Islands. The Report was prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ...
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On March 28, 1997, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT) affirmed the International Trade Administration's remand determination that energy is physically incorporated into silicon metal during the production process and its consequent...
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is announcing the adoption of an optional, permanent program for commodity pool operators (``CPOs'') and commodity trading advisors (``CTAs'') electronically to file Disclosure Documents with...
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Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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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 survey to determine consumer exposure to the hazards associated with the use of All-Terrain Vehicles. Al...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty) of the Navy has...
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The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty) of the Navy has...
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The purpose of this reevaluation is to develop a plan that provides flood control in the St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway Basins, Missouri. This project was authorized for construction by the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-66...
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The Project involves changes in the operation of a confined disposal facility (CDF) built in 1984 to hold contaminated sediment dredged from the Chicago River, Chicago Harbor, and Calumet River and Harbor. The CDF was discussed in a Final Environment...
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The Corps proposes to amend its regulation which contains guidelines for granting shoreline use permits and conditions under which shoreline use permits can be used. We are proposing this to accommodate special needs of the public, and to incorporate...
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Education Department logo Education Department

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Notice is hereby given that on November 20, 1996, an arbitration panel rendered a decision in the matter of Chester Smalley v. New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (Docket No. R-S/95-7). This panel was convened by the U. S...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Appalachian Power Company, licensee for the Niagara Project, requests approval to lower the reservoir surface elevation down six feet from its normal operating level of 885 feet NGVD and to suspend its 8 cfs minimum flow. The six- foot drawdown and suspension of the 8 cfs minimum flow would be for the duration of the construction period from July 1, 1997 through December 1997. Construction will encompass spillway stability improvements for the rehabilitation of the dam and spillway.
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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The Clean Air Act section 112(r) required EPA to publish regulations to prevent accidental releases of chemicals and to reduce the severity of those releases that do occur. These accidental release prevention requirements build on the chemical safety...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scheduled a two-day public meeting on EPA's development of a National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Data Base. The purpose of this meeting is to have a dialogue with stakeholders and the publ...
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EPA received a petition under section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) on May 2, 1996, from a citizen requesting that the Agency promulgate a regulation under TSCA section 6 that would prohibit the manufacturing, processing, or distribut...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) proposes to clarify the coverage of the new source performance standards (NSPS) to limit their applicability to those facilities which store fresh granular triple superphosphate (GTSP). As a result of the...
Proposed Rule Apr 15, 1997
On August 6, 1975 the Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) promulgated new source performance standards (NSPS) to limit emissions of total fluoride compounds from several affected facilities in the phosphate fertilizers industry. Amongst the affe...
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This notice announces EPA's receipt of test data on tertiary amyl methyl ether (TAME) (CAS No. 994-05-8). These data were submitted pursuant to an enforceable testing consent agreement/order issued by EPA under section 4 of the Toxic Substances Contr...
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This notice announces the availability of an EPA White Paper and the scheduling of a public workshop regarding Tier 2 exhaust emission standards for motor vehicles.
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Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The International Bureau, Satellite and Radiocommunication Division announces that it will host a roundtable discussion to solicit views on rules and policies for entry of foreign-licensed satellites in the U.S. market, as proposed by the Commission...
Proposed Rule Apr 15, 1997
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...
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The First Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration, (Order) released March 11, 1997, affirms and clarifies the Commission's rules implementing section 251(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, which requires all LECs to offer lo...
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Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

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Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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On March 6, 1997 (62 FR 10247), HUD published a notice that announced three series of negotiated rulemaking meetings sponsored by HUD to develop the regulations necessary to carry out the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act...
Proposed Rule Apr 15, 1997

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The Fish and Wildlife Service (hereinafter Service) will conduct an open meeting on April 22, 1997, to discuss potential regulatory alternatives for setting duck-hunting seasons.
Notice Apr 15, 1997
This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (Pub. L. 2-463). Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has renewed the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Gila Box Riparian N...
Notice Apr 15, 1997
Pursuant to Section 11 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 25 U.S.C. Sec. 2710, 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 gaming on Indian...
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The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is approving a proposed amendment to the Navajo Nation abandoned mine land reclamation (AMLR) plan (hereinafter, the ``Navajo Nation plan'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamati...
Rule Apr 15, 1997
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA), to consider a proposed amendment to the Box Elder Resource Management Plan (RMP). The proposed amendment would consider alternatives for Off-Highway Vehicle use in Box...
Notice Apr 15, 1997
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing that the information collection request for the title described below has been forwarded to the Office of Management...
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This notice corrects the information published beginning on page 53236 in the issue of Thursday, October 10, 1996, (Vol. 61, No. 198). On page 53237, the first column should read as follows: The following land has been found suitable for sale under a...
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Availability of the proposed notice of sale.
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The District Manager of the Rawlins District BLM in Wyoming is proposing a requirement that all BLM visitors and permittees in the Rawlins District use certified noxious weed-free hay, straw, or mulch when visiting BLM administered lands in the Distr...
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This notice is published in accordance with Section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-463). Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has renewed the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) San Pedro Ripar...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Notice of information collection under review; report of mail order transactions.
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
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The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or cont...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Panama Canal Commission

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This document announces a test of a revised vessel transit reservation system. The interim rule to be tested incorporates certain new features, including increasing the number of available reserved transit slots, creation of a third booking period, e...
Rule Apr 15, 1997

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans prescribes interest assumptions for valuing benefits under terminating single-employer plans. This final rule amends the regulation to adopt intere...
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This notice informs the public of the interest rates and assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published elsewhere (or are derivable from rates published elsewhere), but...
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Postal Service logo Postal Service

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This document publishes notice of a new Privacy Act system of records, Collection and Delivery Records--Customer Public Key Certificate Records, USPS 010.090. The new system consists of an electronic database containing limited information about post...
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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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State Department logo State Department

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 series airplanes. That AD currently requires revising the Limitations Section of the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) t...
Proposed Rule Apr 15, 1997
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all de Havilland Model DHC-7 series airplanes. This proposal would require revising the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) to prohibit positioning of the power...
Proposed Rule Apr 15, 1997
This action corrects errors in the airspace description of a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on March 21, 1997 (62 FR 13537), Airspace Docket No. 96-AWP-32. That final rule amended the Class E airspace area at Battle Mountain, N...
Rule Apr 15, 1997
This action confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which modified the Class E airspace at New Haven, CT (KHVN) by removing the Class E airspace extending upward from the surface, effective during the times when the Airport Traffic Control...
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This notice announces the decision by NHTSA that certain motor vehicles not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards are eligible for importation into the United States because they are substantiall...
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The Department of Transportation is issuing its final DOT Order, which will be used by DOT to comply with Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. The Order generally...
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The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in the City of Ogden, Weber County, Utah.
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Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). The meeting will take place on Wednesday, M...
Notice Apr 15, 1997
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40117 (Pub. L. 103-272) and Part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR Part 158). This notice is published pursuant to p...
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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United States Information Agency

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A meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will be held on April 16 in Room 600, 301 4th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., from 10:00 a.m. To 12:00 noon. At 10:00 a.m. The Commission will meet with Dr. Barry M. Blechman, Chairman, Th...
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Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Acquisition Regulations (VAAR) by removing certain limitations on cost comparisons related to contracting out of activities at VA health-care facilities that are not direct patient care act...
Rule Apr 15, 1997

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