September 23, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register September 23, 1997

View all documents issued on September 23, 1997. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

134 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on September 23, 1997

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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We are amending the regulations concerning animals destroyed because of tuberculosis to allow the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay herd owners some of their expenses for transporting tuberculosis- exposed cattle, bison, and cervids to slaughter...
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The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service will prepare a Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Port Houghton/Cape Fanshaw Timber Sale(s) located on the Stikine Area and the Chatham Area of the Tongass National Forest. This notice o...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Olympic PIEC Advisory Committee will meet on October 17, 1997 at the Olympic Forest Headquarters Building located at 1835 Black Lake Blvd., SW., Olympia, Washington. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue until 3:00 p.m. Agenda items to...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Southwest Oregon PIEC Advisory Committee will meet on October 7 at the Oregon State Extension Office, on Hanley Road, Central Point Oregon. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and continue until 5:00 p.m. Agenda items to be covered include: (1) M...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a public meeting of the Reef Fish Stock Assessment Panel.
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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a public meeting of the Socioeconomic Assessment Panel (SEP).
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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 the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT or Exchange) has applied for designation as a contract market in futures and futures options on the Dow Jones Utility Average Index and the Dow Jones Transportation Average Index. The Acting Director of the Division o...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Defense Science Board Task Force on Control of Military Excess/Surplus will meet in closed session on October 7-8, 1997 at Strategic Analysis, Inc., 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia. The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise...
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The Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Acquisition Reform, Phase IV will meet in open session on October 3, 1997 at the Pentagon, Room 1E801#4, Arlington, Virginia. The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secretary of Defen...
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The Defense Science Board Task Force on Satellite Reconnaissance will meet in closed session on October 8-9, October 24, and December 8, 1997 at Headquarters NRO, Chantilly, Virginia. The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secretar...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to clarify requirements for the inclusion of FAR provisions and clauses in subcontracts for commer...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to provide consistency with the cost accounting standards for composition and measurement of pensi...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to add increased taxes resulting from a contractors sale of a segment to the list of unallowable c...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
Pursuant to Pub. L. 92-463, notice is hereby given of a forthcoming meeting of the Group of Advisors to the National Security Education Board. The purpose of the meeting is to review and make recommendations to the Board concerning requirements estab...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
Pursuant to Pub. L. 92-463, notice is hereby given of a forthcoming meeting of the National Security Education Board. The purpose of the meeting is to review and make recommendations to the Secretary of Defense concerning requirements established by...
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Education Department logo Education Department

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The Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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The Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, 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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Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770), notice is given of a meeting of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.
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Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is hereby given of the following Advisory Board Committee Meeting: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Monticello Site. Date...
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Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770), notice is given of a meeting of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.
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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. 3507(a)(1)(D)), 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: Standards...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
EPA is approving the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Maine for the purpose of implementing General Conformity (Section 176(c)(4)(C) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), and its regulations, 40 CFR part 51, subpart W), which...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Maine for the purpose of implementing General Conformity (Section 176(c)(4)(C) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and its regulations 40 CFR part 51, Subpart W)....
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
EPA is granting conditional approval of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Maryland, for the Maryland portion of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. serious ozone nonattainment area, to meet the 15 percent reasonable...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
EPA is reopening the comment period for a proposed rule published on August 18, 1997 (62 FR 43959). In the August 18 document, EPA proposed to disapprove the April 19, 1995 Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection proposal for nitrogen oxi...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
The EPA is announcing approval of three (3) revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone submitted by the State of New York. These revisions consist of source-specific reasonably available control technology (RACT) determinations for co...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The EPA proposes to approve three (3) State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of New York related to development of reasonably available control technologies for oxides of nitrogen from various sources in the State. In the Fi...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
This document announces a technical amendment revising the address to be used by foreign pesticide producing establishments when submitting applications for registration and annual reports to EPA.
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is extending the comment period on the Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) which takes comment on the few remaining issues necessary to finalize the regulations for the National LEV program, and...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
Notice of charter renewal.
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 announces the deletion of the Spokane Junkyard and Associated Properties Site from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil and...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative cost recovery settlement concerning the Fo...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative cost recovery settlement concerning the Fo...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9600 et seq., notice is hereby given that on August 16...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The State of West Virginia has applied for approval of its underground storage tank program under Subtitle I of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reviewed the State of West Virginia's app...
Rule Sep 23, 1997

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

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This notice lists two (2) new High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas designated by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. HIDTAs are domestic regions identified as having the most critical drug trafficking problems that adversely...
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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 proposed rule to amend its capital adequacy and related regulations to address interest rate risk as it pertains to Farm Credit System (System) institutions, the...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997

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Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation

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The Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (Corporation), through the Corporation Board (Board), issues a final rule amending its regulations governing the release of information. The objective of this action is to conform applicable Corporation re...
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Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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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 information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Sep 23, 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 information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Commission, at the request of Stellar Communications, Inc., reallots Channel 282C2 from Temple to Taylor, Texas, and modifies Station KKIK(FM)'s license accordingly. See 61 FR 58361, November 14, 1996. Channel 282C2 can be allotted to Taylor in c...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Commission will consider addressing technical requirements for the implementation of ``V-Chip'' program blocking technology. 2--Wireless Telecommunications--Title: Calling Party Pays Service Option in the Commercial Mobile Radio Services. Summary...
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Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

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The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft...
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General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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This document gives notice, under the Privacy Act of 1994, 5 U.S.C. 552a, of GSA's proposal to revise a record system maintained by GSA. GSA proposes to revise the record system, Payroll Information Processing System, PPFM-9, to reflect that GSA plan...
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Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its approval of the application by Advanced Bionics<SUP>TM</SUP> Corp., Sylmar, CA, for premarket approval, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act), of the CLARION<Register> Multi-...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its approval of the application by Avanta Orthopaedics Corp., San Diego, CA, for premarket approval, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act), of the Braun-Cutter Trapezo-metacarpal...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend the regulations requiring licensed manufacturers of biological products to report errors and accidents in manufacturing that may affect the safety, purity, or potency of a product. FDA is p...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations to establish the notification procedures for manufacturers, packers, or distributors of dietary supplements who are marketing dietary supplement products that bear statements under a...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations to: Define the term ``high potency'' as a nutrient content claim; define nutrient content claims using the term ``antioxidant'' (e.g., ``good source of antioxidants,'' ``high in antio...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its nutrient content claims regulations to change the terminology used to describe dietary supplements; provide for the use of statements that characterize the percentage level of dietary ingredients...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its food labeling regulations to establish requirements for the identification of dietary supplements and for their nutrition labeling and ingredient labeling in response to the Dietary Supplement He...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled ``Archiving Submissions in Electronic Format--NDA's.'' This guidance is intended to describe how to submit records and other documents in electr...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance document entitled ``Interim Recommendations for Deferral of Donors at Increased Risk for HIV-1 Group O Infection,'' dated December 11, 1996. The guidance document, wh...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its approval of the supplemental application by Mallinckrodt, Inc., St. Louis, MO, for premarket approval, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act), of Albunex<Register> . After rev...
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Correction Sep 23, 1997
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 requires the Secretary to establish a Negotiated Rulemaking Committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The Committee's purpose will be to negotiate the solvency standards for provider-sponsored organiza...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is establishing the procedure by which a manufacturer or distributor of dietary supplements or of a new dietary ingredient is to submit under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) the information on...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance document entitled ``Revised Precautionary Measures to Reduce the Possible Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) by Blood and Blood Products,'' dated Decembe...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend its regulations to require that all inhalation solutions for nebulization be sterile. Inhalation solutions for nebulization, as the term is used in this document, refers to inhalation solut...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responding to comments that were submitted in response to a final rule establishing January 1, 2000, as the uniform compliance date for food labeling regulations that the agency issues between January 1, 1997...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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On July 30, 1996, the Coast Guard published a final rule requiring the owners, masters, or operators of tank vessels of 5,000 gross tons or more that do not have double hulls and that carry oil in bulk as cargo to comply with certain operational meas...
Rule Sep 23, 1997

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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On April 8, 1997 (62 FR 17024), HUD published a notice announcing the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1997 funding for three of its programs that assist communities in combatting homelessness. Since the issuance of the April 8, 1997 NOFA, HUD has pu...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The Alaska Resource Advisory Council will conduct an open meeting Monday, October 27, 1997, from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, October 28, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to elect a council chair and provide orie...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
This notice extends the Notice of Realty Action published in the Federal Register on December 20, 1996, on Page 67342 of Vol. 61, No. 246, by the Yuma Field Office for a public land sale. The following land in Quartzsite, La Paz County, Arizona has b...
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Northeast California Resource Advisory Council will meet Friday, Oct. 17, 1997, at the BLM's Eagle Lake Resource Area Office, 2950 Riverside Drive, Susanville, CA 96130
Notice Sep 23, 1997
Public notice is hereby given that the National Park Service proposes to award a concession contract authorizing ferry services for the public between Sayville, New York and Sailors Haven, New York within Fire Island National Seashore for a period of...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Extension of an Existing Collection: Short-Form Registration or Statement of Individuals (Foreign Agents).
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Extension of an Existing Collection: Exhibit B to Registration Statement (Foreign Agents).
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Extension of an Existing Collection: Registration Statement of Individuals (Foreign Agents).
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Extension of an Existing Collection: Exhibit A to Registration Statement (Foreign Agents).
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Extension of an Existing Collection: Supplemental Registration Statement of Individuals (Foreign Agents).
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Extension of an Existing Collection: Amendment to Registration or Supplemental Registration Reports (Foreign Agents).
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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This document is a request for information to assist the Department of Labor (the Department) in assessing the need for a regulation clarifying certain statutory notice requirements set forth in section 606 of Title I of the Employee Retirement Incom...
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Merit Systems Protection Board logo Merit Systems Protection Board

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The Merit Systems Protection Board is amending its organization and functions statement to reflect changes in the Board's headquarters organization and assignment of functions. These changes have been made to further streamline the Board's headquarte...
Rule Sep 23, 1997

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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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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Office of National Drug Control Policy

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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

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We are amending our rules to establish authority to test elimination of the final step in the administrative review process used in determining claims for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits based on disability. Under the...
Rule Sep 23, 1997
We propose to clarify Sec. 201.00(h) of the medical-vocational guidelines in appendix 2 of subpart P of regulations part 404. This section provides guidance for evaluating disability in individuals under age 50 who have a severe impairment(s) that do...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

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The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice of the country-by-country allocations of the in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quotas for imported raw cane sugar, refined sugar, and sugar containing products for the...
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Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Saab Model SAAB 2000 series airplanes. This proposal would require inspection of the two-way check valve on the engine fire extinguishing system f...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
This notice denies the petition by John Chevedden for the issuance of a mandatory Federal regulation that would require all new cars to be manufactured with windshield edge coating in the space between the center rear view mirror and the lowered sun...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
FRA is proposing a rule establishing comprehensive Federal safety standards for railroad passenger equipment. The proposed rule contains requirements concerning equipment design and performance criteria related to passenger and crew survivability in...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
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...
Notice Sep 23, 1997
This action is being taken pursuant to the ICC Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA), which, among other things, directs the Secretary of DOT to adopt regulations governing the standards to approve motor carriers as self-insurers. The FHWA proposes to exam...
Proposed Rule Sep 23, 1997
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comme...
Notice Sep 23, 1997

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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The purpose of this document is to remind the public of the existing Customs Service's interpretation of the application of the country of origin marking law to imported fruit juice concentrate. Customs has previously published guidance on applicatio...
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This document amends the Customs Regulations to reflect the imposition of import restrictions on culturally significant archaeological artifacts from the region of the Niger River Valley of Mali and the Bandiagara Escarpment (Cliff), Mali. These rest...
Rule Sep 23, 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 Sep 23, 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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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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Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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