August 18, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register August 18, 1997

View all documents issued on August 18, 1997. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

103 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on August 18, 1997

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The purpose of this final rule is to codify the national marketing quotas and price support levels for the 1997 crops for several kinds of tobacco announced by press release on February 27, 1997. In accordance with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
We are amending the regulations governing the importation of swine and pork and pork products by removing the Dominican Republic from the list of countries considered to be free from hog cholera. We are taking this action based on reports we have rec...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
This notice extends the application deadline for participation in the Foreign Market Development Cooperator (Cooperator) Program for Fiscal Year 1998 and permits facsimile applications.
Notice Aug 18, 1997
This rule terminates the Federal marketing order regulating the handling of fresh peaches grown in Georgia (order) and the rules and regulations issued thereunder. The Georgia peach industry has not operated under the order since its provisions were...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
The Forest Service, USDA, will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on Plum Creek Timber Company's (Plum Creek) application to acquire easements which allow the construction and maintenance of roads across portions of the Mt. Baker-Snoqual...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments concerning the method for determining the minimum export edible sales price for sales by the CCC of price support loan inventory of additional peanuts and the actual CCC sales price for export edible...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Correction Aug 18, 1997
On April 8, 1997, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of administrative reviews of the countervailing duty orders on certain welded carbon steel pipes and tubes and welded carbon steel...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
On August 9, 1996, NMFS completed a comprehensive status review of west coast steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss, or O. mykiss) populations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California, and identified 15 Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) within thi...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
NMFS has made final listing determinations for five Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) of west coast steelhead under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESUs listed as threatened or endangered species are the Upper Columbia River (endangered),...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997
NMFS is closing the scallop fishery in Registration Area Q (Bering Sea). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the Chionoecetes opilio (C. opilio) Tanner crab bycatch limit (CBL) in this area.
Rule Aug 18, 1997
NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 49 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (FMP). This proposed rule would require all vessels fishing for groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) to retain all pollock and P...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is clarifying its reparations jurisdiction over certain commercial agricultural cash market participations and nonprofit general farm organizations referred to in Section 4m(1) of the Commodit...
Rule Aug 18, 1997

Congressional Budget Office logo Congressional Budget Office

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

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Pursuant to the King Holiday and Service Act of 1994, which amended the National and Community Service Act of 1990, the Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation) seeks to mobilize more Americans to observe the Martin Luther Kin...
Notice Aug 18, 1997

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) prepared a programmatic environmental assessment pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508) for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy...
Notice Aug 18, 1997

Education Department logo Education Department

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This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming teleconference meeting of the Reporting and Dissemination Committee of the National Assessment Governing Board. This notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming workshop and meeting of the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board. This notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this meeting is required...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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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), Oak Ridge Reservatio...
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DOE proposes to allow Chem-Nuclear Systems, L. L. C. (CNS) to use SRS for landing transport barges at the existing SRS boat ramp and off-loading trailered low-level radioactive waste packages for movement across SRS to the nearby CNS facility. Projec...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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EPA has authorized its contractor, Armstrong Data Services (ADS), Incorporated of Vienna, Virginia and ADS's subcontractor, Premier Incorporated, 6551 Loisdale Court, Springfield, Virginia, for access to information which has been submitted to EPA un...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Obtaining...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
Notice is hereby given that EPA, in accordance with 40 CFR part 53, has designated another equivalent method for the measurement of ambient concentrations of sulfur dioxide.
Notice Aug 18, 1997
EPA is proposing to disapprove a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP). This revision withdraws EPA's previously proposed approval of the nitrogen oxide...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997
This notice announces EPA's approval of an application for a test marketing exemption (TME) under section 5(h)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and 40 CFR 720.38. EPA has designated this application as TME-97-9. The test marketing condit...
Notice Aug 18, 1997

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The Commission has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on its continued implementation of the pole attachment provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. We seek comment on a methodology to ensure just, reasonable, and nondi...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997

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. 3501 et seq.), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for OMB review and approval of the informatio...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
In accordance with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for OMB review and approval of the informatio...
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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Notice Aug 18, 1997
This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on June 18, 1997 entitled ``Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule, Other Part B Payment Policies,...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997
This rule establishes uniform criteria for determining the effective dates of Medicare and Medicaid provider agreements and of the approval of Medicare suppliers when the provider or supplier is subject to survey and certification as a basis for dete...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public workshop entitled ``Pulmonary Artery Catheter and Clinical Outcomes Workshop'' to address critical concerns related to the use of pulmonary artery catheters, and to identify any other sign...
Notice Aug 18, 1997

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is revising the regulation governing the operations of the Maple Street bridge and U.S. Route 31 bridge, miles 1.1 and 1.4, respectively, over the Manistee River in Manistee, MI. This revision was made at the behest of recreational ve...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
The Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee (MERPAC) will conduct two meetings to discuss various issues relating to merchant marine personnel. Both meetings will be open to the public.
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Correction Aug 18, 1997
The Coast Guard is seeking applications for appointment to membership on the Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC). TSAC provides advice and makes recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on matters relating to shallow-draft inland and co...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
The National Vessel Documentation Center will hold a public meeting as a follow-up to its November 14, 1996, notice of requests for comments on vessel documentation matters. The meeting will be held to discuss combining the Builder's Certificate and...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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On June 3, 1997 (62 FR 30380), HUD published a notice announcing the availability of approximately $50 million for two categories of lead hazard control activities in privately-owned housing. The June 3, 1997 notice of funding availability (NOFA) pro...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Eluid Martinez, on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, has released the Draft Basin Conservation Plan for the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Program for a public comment period. The Draft Conservation Pla...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) proposes to adjust the electric power rates for customers of Mission Valley Power (MVP), the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal entity operating the power facility of the Flathead Irrigation and Power Project o...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement/General Managment Plan (FEIS/GMP) for the Missouri/Niobrara/...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
NASA hereby gives notice that Utilex, Inc. of P.O. Box 991, Greenville, NC 27834, has applied for a partially exclusive license to practice the inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,166,679; 5,214,388; 5,363,051; 5,442,347; 5,373,245...
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National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

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National Science Foundation

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Postal Regulatory Commission

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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to Aerospace Technologies of Australia Pty Ltd. (ASTA) Models N22B, N22S, and N24A airplanes. The proposed action would require repetitively inspecting the aft wing b...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997
This amendment supersedes Airworthiness Directive (AD) 97-13- 11, which currently requires inspecting the \1/4\-inch and \5/16\-inch bolt hole areas on the lower spar caps for fatigue cracking on Ayres S2R series airplanes, and replacing any lower sp...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain British Aerospace BAe Model ATP airplanes, that requires modification of the hydraulic system, and a revision to the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) to include revised proce...
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RSPA is revising and extending requirements issued in an interim final rule (IFR) on February 19, 1997. Revisions are being made to address commenters' concerns particularly in the area of operator attendance requirements and to improve safety. The r...
Rule Aug 18, 1997
In this advance notice of proposed rulemaking, RSPA requests comments concerning the need, if any, for amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations with regard to emergency discharge control features required on cargo tank motor vehicles in liquefied...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997
This document announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that a 1995 Ferrari F50 that was not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standar...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The...
Notice Aug 18, 1997

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document provides interested members of the public an additional 60 days to submit written comments on a proposal to amend the Customs Regulations regarding the country of origin marking of imported frozen produce. The proposed amendment would r...
Proposed Rule Aug 18, 1997
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Notice Aug 18, 1997
In order to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 concerning new information collection requirements, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (``FinCEN'') is soliciting comments concerning a proposed new Treasury Form TD F 90-22.49, Suspic...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
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...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
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...
Notice Aug 18, 1997
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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