August 15, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register August 15, 1997

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The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to provide timber for the Ketchikan Area timber sale program. The Record of Decision will disclose how the Forest Service has decided to provide harve...
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The Secretary of Agriculture is establishing a Committee of Scientists, under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., to provide scientific and technical advice on improvements to the National Forest System land and resource management pla...
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is announcing that, in light of the current situation regarding the overburdened national delivery system, RUS will accept Distance Learning and Telemedicine loan and grant applications received after the August 12,...
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The Eastern Washington Cascades Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on September 24, 1997, at the Wenatchee National Forest Supervisors Office, 215 Melody Lane, Wenatchee, Washington. The Provincial Advisory Committee members will meet at the Sup...
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CCC requests comments on two options to modify the regulations found at 7 CFR part 1493, subpart B, governing CCC's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) and Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-103). One option would permit CCC to g...
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) intends to hold public scoping workshops and prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) in connection with possible RUS financing assistance relating to a project proposed by Plains Electric Generation and Transmission...
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The Southwest Oregon PIEC Advisory Committee will meet on August 26 at the Illinois Valley Visitor Center in Cave Junction, Oregon. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and continue until 5:00 p.m. The meeting will be primarily a field tour. Agenda it...
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The USDA Forest Service, Kootenai National Forest (KNF) in conjunction with Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will prepare a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) for ASARCO's proposal to develop the Rock Cree...
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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is holding a public technical meeting on August 20, 1997. The purpose of the meeting is to solicit scientific information, including data, on a proposed survey to determine the frequency with which hambur...
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The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is proposing to revise the United States Standards for Whole Dry Peas, Split Peas and Lentils. Specifically, GIPSA is proposing to eliminate the classes Persian and Mixed lentils, an...
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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will permit the use of glycerine as a humectant in shelf stable meat snacks at a level not to exceed 2 percent of the formulation weight of the product. This action is being taken in response to a petitio...
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The Yakima Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on September 25, 1997, at the Cle Elum Ranger District Office, 803 W. 2nd Street, Cle Elum, Washington. The Provincial Advisory Committee members will meet at the Ranger District Office at 9:00 a.m.,...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted Amendment 34 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (FMP) for Secretarial review. Amendment 34 would authorize an allo...
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997
On March 3, 1997, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published in the Federal Register (62 FR 1874) a notice announcing the initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on anhydrous sodium metasilicate (ASM) from...
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NMFS issues a proposed rule that would implement Amendment 39 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (BSAI), Amendment 41 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alas...
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NMFS announces that the summer flounder commercial quota available to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been harvested. Vessels issued a commercial Federal fisheries permit for the summer flounder fishery may not land summer flounder in Massachus...
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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene public meetings.
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The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, a...
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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 services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
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The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List commodities and a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete a service previously furnished by suc...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Corps of Engineers is publishing notice of (1) changes to conditions for project deauthorization, enacted in the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-303; (2) the deauthorization of the Burlington Dam, North Dakota, project and th...
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Education Department logo Education Department

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The Director, Information Resources Management Group, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue a PRDA No. DE- RA26-98FT35008 entitled ``Global Climate Change--Novel Concepts for Management of Greenhouse Gases.'' The PRDA will solicit the submission of innovative, ``pathbreaking'' concepts to seques...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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EPA is taking direct final action on revisions to the California State Implementation Plan. The revisions concern negative declarations from the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD) for five source categories that emit...
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The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the state of Iowa to achieve attainment of the primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) for Muscatine County, Iowa. The...
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997
The EPA is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the state of Missouri to create a new statewide fugitive dust rule. In addition, the EPA is proposing to rescind four area specific fugitive dust rules which the n...
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997
Pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the EPA has notified the state of Missouri that the Doe Run-Herculaneum nonattainment area failed to attain the NAAQS for lead (Pb) by June 30, 1995, as required under the provisions of the Act and the...
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On October 4, 1994, Tennessee submitted, through the Department of Environment and Conservation, a new chapter 1200-3-5 Visible Emissions to replace the existing chapter 1200-3-5 Visible Emissions in the Tennessee State Implementation Plan (SIP). The...
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On October 4, 1994 Tennessee submitted, through the Department of Environment and Conservation, a new chapter 1200-3-5 Visible Emissions to replace the existing chapter 1200-3-5 Visible Emissions found in the Tennessee State Implementation Plan (SIP)...
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997
EPA is proposing to act on revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern five negative declarations from the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD) for the following Oxides of Nitrogen (NO<INF...
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997
This rule establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the biological pesticide Coat Proteins of Potato Virus Y and the genetic material necessary for its production in or on all raw agricultural commodities. Monsanto...
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This notice announces Agency approval of an application to register the pesticide product Eco-N Select 1.6, containing an active ingredient not included in any currently registered product pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(5) of the Federal...
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EPA expressed environmental objections due to wetland and water quality impacts associated with developing quarry or coral dredge sites. EPA requested additional information to demonstrate compliance with the Clean Water Act 404(b)(1) Guidelines incl...
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EPA is announcing an extension of the supplemental comment period that was first announced on July 18, 1997 for the limited purpose of taking comment on certain laboratory and field test data and related reports associated with the development of the...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 10, announces its intent to delete the Northwest Transformer South Harkness Street Site in Everson, Washington, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comment on this proposed act...
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997
Notice is hereby given that a proposed agreement and covenant not to sue regarding property which the City of Hastings intends to purchase at the Hastings Ground Water Contamination Superfund Site, Colorado Avenue Subsite, was signed by the United St...
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EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is giving notice of a public workshop for the Spray Drift Task Force Data Review.
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In accordance with the requirements of section 122(g)(4) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., notice is hereby given of proposed de minimis settlement agreements un...
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This rule establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the biological pesticide Replicase Proteins of Potato Leaf Roll Virus and the genetic material necessary for its production in or on all raw agricultural commoditi...
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This rule establishes 11 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) health effects test guidelines in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Establishment of these guidelines is necessary to ensure enforceable test standards in test rules promulgated under...
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Today EPA promulgates a clarified and more flexible transportation conformity rule. The conformity rule requires that transportation plans, programs, and projects conform to state air quality implementation plans (SIPs) and establishes the criteria a...
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Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

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The Farm Credit Administration (FCA or Agency), through the FCA Board (Board), issues a final rule amending its regulations that apply to the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac or Corporation) by adding a subpart to govern a receiv...
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Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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This document clarifies the status of the requirements in the Payphone Orders in light of the D.C. Circuit's decision in Illinois Public Telecommun., and establishes a pleading cycle for comment on issues remanded by that Court.
Proposed Rule Aug 15, 1997

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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New York has scheduled a special election on November 4, 1997, to fill the U.S. House seat in the Thirteenth Congressional District vacated by Representative Susan Molinari. Committees required to file reports in connection with the Special General E...
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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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These final regulations specify the criteria HCFA uses to determine if a facility that furnishes dialysis services to Medicare patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) qualifies for a higher payment under an exception to its prospectively determi...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its new drug application (NDA) and abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) regulations to reflect a reorganization in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). This action will improve the...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing new regulations requiring pediatric studies of certain new drug and biological products. Many new drugs and biological products represent treatments that are, at least at times, the best available t...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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The Coast Guard is establishing permanent special local regulations for the Hurricane Offshore Classic. This event will be held annually during the third Saturday and Sunday of August, between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). There wil...
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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 Aug 15, 1997
On July 16, 1997, the Department published a notice seeking requests for qualifications (RFQ) under a statutory Demonstration Program. The July 16, 1997 RFQ advised that the Department is carrying out a statutory Demonstration Program that is intende...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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This Notice of Information (NOI) is an update from the prohibitions identified in NOI 13. Specifically, this NOI removes the prohibition on trade in specimens of Eunectes notaeus from Argentina identified in NOI 13, published on April 6, 1987 (52 FR...
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Notice is hereby given that effective immediately, all public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Worland District in T.47 N, R. 88 W., sections 23, 24, 25 and 26 and T.47 N., R. 87 W., section 19 are closed to all motorized ve...
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Notice is hereby given that certain public lands west of Red Rock Road, Washoe County, Nevada, are closed to all motorized vehicles. This closure is necessary due to unauthorized road construction and off-road vehicle use which is causing considerabl...
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Notice is hereby given that the boundary of the Jumbo-Bailey Watershed Limited Use Area. Washoe County, Nevada, has been expanded. Furthermore, motorized vehicle traffic is restricted to designated routes. The term ``designated routes'' replaces the...
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The next meetings of the Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council will be held on Tuesday, September 9, 1997, in Grand Junction, Colorado; and Friday, November 7, 1997, in Eagle, Colorado.
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The plat of survey described below will be officially filed in the New Mexico State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 5, 1997. New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico:
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Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Kingman Field Office, will be directing the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) to analyze the impacts of a propos...
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A field trip and meeting of the John Day-Snake Resource Advisory Council will be held on September 16 and September 17, 1997 in John Day, Oregon. On September 16 the Council will tour the Summit Fire on the Malheur National Forest and the Nature Cons...
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The following described public lands in Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, have been examined and found suitable for conveyance (patent) to Nye County under the provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of June 14, 1926, as amended (43 U.S.C. 86...
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs proposes to change the assessment rates for operating and maintaining the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project for 1998 and subsequent years from the current rate of $18.45 per acre to $19.95 per acre, an increase of $1.50...
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The Worland District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently prepared an environmental assessment (EA) documenting the analysis of two alternatives for managing noxious weeds on public lands in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. The EA's proposed...
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Temporary closure of certain public lands, Carson City District, in Lyon, Mineral, Churchill, and Douglas Counties on and adjacent to two Off Highway Vehicle Race courses:
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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This notice establishes revised 1997 aggregate production quotas for controlled substances in Schedules I and II of the Controlled Substances Act.
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This rule proposes to amend the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) regulations by codifying the Service's longstanding practice of authorizing, on a discretionary basis, multiple landing privileges for certain maritime crewmembers activ...
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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 pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or co...
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Merit Systems Protection Board logo Merit Systems Protection Board

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The Board is amending its rules of practice and procedure to rescind its rule requiring dismissal of an agency's petition for review of an administrative judge's initial decision where the agency inadvertently exceeds the requirements of the judge's...
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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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The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service has approved an amendment to its bylaws. The amendment describes how the cost of a development real estate project is determined for purposes of applying the bylaw requirement for Board appro...
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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

State Department logo State Department

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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In compliance with the Paperwork Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) this notice announces that the information collection request described below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The FAA issued a final...
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The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared for the development of Improved Highway Access to the Environmental Management District of Western Johnston and Cranston.
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In accordance with requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the FAA is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) to serve John F. Kenned...
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This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 1992 and 1994-1997 BMW 750iL passenger cars that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal mo...
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This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 1996-1997 Ducati 748 Biposto motorcycles that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor...
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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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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
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The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
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The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
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The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collection...
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Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), this notice announces the appointment of members of the Departmental PRB. The purpose of this PRB is to review and make recommendations concerning proposed performance appraisals, ratings, bonuses and other appropriat...
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Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs is designating the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Durham, North Carolina for an Enhanced-Use development. The Department intends to enter into a long-term lease of real property under VA's contr...
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The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs is designating the Portland, OR, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) for an Enhanced-Use development. The Department intends to enter into a long-term lease of real property with th...
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