October 6, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register October 6, 1997

View all documents issued on October 6, 1997. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

119 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 6, 1997

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This document invites written comments on a proposed amendment to the Department of Agriculture's Acquisition Regulation (AGAR). We are proposing to amend the AGAR to establish policy and procedures for set-asides and preferences for products develop...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
This document contains two corrections to final regulations (FV-96-905-2), which was published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, December 31, 1996, (61 FR 69011). The final regulations established procedures for limiting the volume of small red see...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
This proposal would increase the minimum diameter size requirement for Florida and imported tomatoes. For Florida tomatoes alone, the rule would change the size designations from Medium, Large, and Extra Large to numeric size designations of 6 x 7, 6...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; the Council of Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 CFR Part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Guidelines (7 CFR Part 650); the Natural Resources Cons...
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Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation

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In compliance with the Paperwork reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation is planning to submit, for extension, the following Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Managem...
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Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

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This notice announces the appointment of the Performance Review Board (PRB) of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Publication of PRB membership is required by 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4). The PRB provides fair and impartial review of the U.S. Comm...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS closes the commercial fishery for red snapper in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Gulf of Mexico. NMFS has projected that the annual commercial quota for red snapper will be reached on October 6, 1997. This closure is necessary to protec...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
NMFS is opening directed fishing for Pacific cod by vessels catching Pacific cod for processing by the inshore component in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to fully utilize the total allowable catch (...
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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene a public meeting of the Billfish Advisory Panel (AP).
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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following committee meeting: Name of Committee: Distance Learning/Training Technology Subcommittee of the Army Education Advisory...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following committee meeting: Name of Committee: U.S. Army War College Subcommittee of the Army Education Advisory Committee. Dates of...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
In accordance with 37 CFR 404.6, announcement is made of the availability for licensing of U.S. Patent No. 4,659,738 entitled ``Topical Prophylaxis Against Schistosomal Infections'' and issued on April 21, 1987. This patent has been assigned to the U...
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The Defense Science Board Task Force on Satellite Reconnaissance will meet in closed session on September 29-30, 1997 at Headquarters NRO, Chantilly, Virginia. In order for the Task Force to obtain time sensitive classified briefings, critical to the...
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The Defense Science Board Task Force on Open Systems will meet in closed session on October 9, 1997 at Strategic analysis, Inc., 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia. In order for the Task Force to obtain time sensitive classified briefing, cri...
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This document is published to identify institutions of higher education that are ineligible for contracts and grants by reason of a determination by the Secretary of Defense that the institution prevents military recruiter access to the campus or stu...
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The Department of the Army announces the general availability of exclusive, partially exclusive or non-exclusive licenses relative to United States patents 5,635,434, issued June 3, 1997, entitled ``Ceramic ferroelectric composite material-BSTO-magne...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
This notice provides for the updating of hospital-specific per diem rates for high volume providers and regional per diem rates for low volume providers; the updated cap per diem for high volume providers; the beneficiary per diem cost-share amount f...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has submitted the energy information collection(s) listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review under provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 1...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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DOJ, EPA
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), as amended in 1996, requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish a list of contaminants which, at the time of publication, are not subject to any proposed or promulgated national primary drinking w...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
EPA is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Connecticut. This revision establishes and requires Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) at stationary sources of nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>). The in...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Connecticut. This revision establishes and requires reasonably available control technology for major stationary sources of nitrogen oxides. In the Final...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
EPA has determined that the Richmond moderate ozone nonattainment area has attained the 1-hour .12 parts per million (ppm) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone. This determination is based upon the latest four years of ambient air...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
The EPA is extending the public comment period from October 2, 1997, to December 1, 1997, on the proposed rule to reclassify the Dallas/Fort Worth ozone nonattainment area from moderate to serious. The extension to the public comment period is being...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
EPA is providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessment. Under 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders assessing civil penalties for various violations of the Act. EPA may issue such orders after filing a Complaint c...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
EPA is providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessment. Under 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders assessing civil penalties for various violations of the Act. EPA may issue such orders after filing a Complaint c...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92- 463), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives notice of a meeting of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to the U.S. Government Representative to the North American Commis...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92- 463), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) to the U.S. Government Representative to the North American Commission...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of releases on certain properties at the Saegertown Industrial Area Superfund Site (Site) in Saegertown, Pennsylvania from the National Priorities List (NPL). Pursuant to Section 105 of...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') Region 6 announces its intent to delete the surface portion of the Prewitt Abandoned Refinery Superfund Site (``Site'') from the National Priorities List (``NPL'') and requests public commen...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4 announces its intent to delete the Monsanto Superfund Site from the NPL and requests public comment on this proposed action. The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National O...
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Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to implement a Performance Based Measurement System (PBMS) for environmental monitoring in all of its media programs to the extent feasible. The Agency defines PBMS as a set of processes wherein the dat...
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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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In the Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making (``FNPRM''), the Commission proposes rules and procedures governing competitive bidding for multilateration Location and Monitoring Service (``LMS'') frequencies.
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
In this Memorandum Opinion and Order, the Commission addresses the remaining issues raised by petitioners for reconsideration of its Report and Order in PR Docket No. 93-61, 60 FR 15248 (March 23, 1995), which established rules governing the licensin...
Rule Oct 06, 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...
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Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council logo Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

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The Consumer Compliance Task Force of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is supplementing, amending, and republishing its Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Community Reinvestment. The Interagency Questions and An...
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Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

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The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is amending its regulations on advances to members that are not qualified thrift lenders. The amendments revise an interim rule and implement the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act...
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Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Government Accountability Office logo Government Accountability Office

Title Type Published
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 establishes the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, with members to be appointed by the Comptroller General. This notice announces the appointment and terms of the initial members, and the designation of the chairman...
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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 an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
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This notice announces the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's. (AHCPR) intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to allow a proposed information collection of the ``Medical Expenditure Panel Survey--Insurance Component (...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the withdrawal, without prejudice to a future filing, of a food additive petition filed by Chemie Research and Manufacturing Co., Inc., proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to pr...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that chlorhexidine gluconate topical tincture 0.5% (Hibitane<Register>) was withdrawn from sale for reasons of safety. The agency will not accept abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA's) for chl...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
This notice describes the proposed methodology for identifying and estimating the number of children with a serious emotional disturbance (SED) within each State. This notice is being served as part of the requirement of Public Law 102-321, the ADAMH...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening until December 1, 1997, the comment period on a proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register of March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9826). The document proposed to revise the agency's human and animal...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled ``SUPAC-MR: Modified Release Solid Oral Dosage Forms; Scale-Up and Postapproval Changes: Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls; In Vitro Dissol...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for a hearing on a proposal to revoke the establishment license (U.S. License No. 458-001) and product licenses issued to Knickerbocker Biologicals, Inc., for the manufacture of Whol...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
In the August 29, 1997, issue of the Federal Register (62 FR 45966), we published a final rule with comment period revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating costs and capital-related costs to implement necessa...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
This document corrects the final rule published August 8, 1997 (62 FR 42859), that established a methodology to update the wage index used to adjust Medicare payment rates for hospice care included in the new wage index, to be effective October 1, 19...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd., has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of ethylene/propylene copolymers that contain up...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the Stilbene Whitening Agent Task Force has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of benzenesulfonic acid,2'2'-(1,2-ethenediyl)bi...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Zauder Bros., Inc., has filed a petition proposing that the color additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of zinc sulfide as a color additive in externally applied cosmetic...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard seeks applications for grants and cooperative agreements from national nongovernmental, nonprofit, public service organizations. These grants and cooperative agreements would be used to fund projects on various subjects promoting boat...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Coast Guard proposes to improve towing vessel and tank- barge safety measures by requiring the installation of equipment to suppress fires on towing vessels and to enhance existing standards for anchoring or retrieving a drifting tank barge. This...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Alaska OCS Region Offshore Advisory Committee of the Minerals Management Service will meet on November 6th and continue on November 7th (if necessary), 1997. The agenda will cover the following principal subjects:
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) hereby gives notice that it is extending the public comment period on an Interim final rulemaking and information collection, which was published in the Federal Register on August 5, 1997, (62 FR 42062). In respo...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
BLM is removing the regulations that explain the procedures for donating land to the Department of the Interior, and those that describe the Department's authority to acquire land by purchase or condemnation under the King Range National Conservation...
Rule Oct 06, 1997
The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively ``the Services''), and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection intend to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/ Environmental Impact Report fo...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The following land in Elko County, Nevada has been examined and identified as suitable for disposal by direct sale, including the mineral estate of no more than nominal value, under Section 203 and Section 209 of the Federal Land Policy and Managemen...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Extension of an existing collection; OMB emergency approval request; Standard Form 95, Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death.
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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 burdens, is conducting a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and...
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Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

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The Legal Services Corporation (LSC or Corporation) hereby announces its intention to award grants and contracts to provide economical and effective delivery of high quality civil legal services to eligible low-income clients, beginning January 1, 19...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations that implement the Paperwork Reduction Act to make changes required by statute and to make technical correcting amendments.
Rule Oct 06, 1997
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received, by letter dated September 11, 1997, an application from Pathfinder Mines Corporation (PMC) to amend License Condition (LC) 50 of its Source Material License No. SU...
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Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Notice of application for an Order under section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') for an exemption from section 12(d)(1), under section 6(c) of the Act for an exemption from section 14(a), and under section 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from section 17(a) of the Act.
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Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) invites the general public, industry and other Federal Agencies to comment on the continuing need and usefulness of DOT requiring...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain de Havilland Model DHC-8- 100, -200, and -300 series airplanes. This proposal would require repetitive inspections of certain refuel/defuel tube a...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to certain Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Models PC-12 and PC-12/45 airplanes. The proposed action would require inspecting the aileron tie-rod jam nuts for loosenes...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Short Brothers Model SD3-60 series airplanes. This proposal would require repetitive inspections to detect corrosion and/or wear of the top and bottom...
Proposed Rule Oct 06, 1997
Notice is given of two new harmonization tasks assigned to and accepted by the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC). This notice informs the public of the activities of ARAC.
Notice Oct 06, 1997
This document corrects errors in the final listing of high- theft lines for the 1998 Model Year (MY), that was published on July 31, 1997 (62 FR 40949) by incorporating information that manufacturers brought to the agency's attention subsequent to th...
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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 3501, et seq.) this notice announces that the Information Collection Requests (ICRs) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
This document describes three collections of information for which NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval. Under new procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval to collect information from the public, Federa...
Notice Oct 06, 1997
The Task Force on Assistance to Families in Aviation Disasters will hold a meeting to discuss assistance to families of passengers involved in aviation accidents. The meeting is open to the public.
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