November 4, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register November 4, 1997

View all documents issued on November 4, 1997. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

114 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 4, 1997

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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In accordance with 7 CFR 1610.10, the Rural Telephone Bank (Bank) fiscal year 1997 cost of money rates have been established as follows: 5.98% and 6.54% for advances from the liquidating account and financing account, respectively (fiscal year is the...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on proposed information collections. Section 6(o) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended by Section 824 of the Pers...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

Assassination Records Review Board logo Assassination Records Review Board

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The Assassination Records Review Board (Review Board) met in a closed meeting on October 14, 1997, and made formal determinations on the release of records under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act). By...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS is prohibiting retention of sablefish by vessels using trawl gear in the Central Regulatory Area in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). NMFS is requiring that catches of sablefish by vessels using trawl gear in this area be treated in the same manner as p...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene a public meeting of the Florida/Alabama Habitat Protection Advisory Panel (AP).
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Minority Business Development Agency is revising the announcement to solicit competitive applications to operate its Atlanta, GA Minority Business Development Center program to change the closing and start dates. The solicitation was originally p...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) will hold a public hearing, and reopen the comment period, on changes to certain rules and practices of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that were proposed in June of 1997 (62 FR 30802, June 5, 1997). Interes...
Proposed Rule Nov 04, 1997
The Minority Business Development Agency is revising the announcement to solicit competitive applications to operate its Native American Business Consultant program to change the closing and start dates and to notify interested parties of a pre-appli...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Minority Business Development Agency is revising the announcement to solicit competitive applications to operate its Cherokee Native American Business Development Center program to change the closing and start dates. The solicitation was original...
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The Minority Business Development Agency is revising the announcement to solicit competitive applications to operate its Northwest Native American Business Development Center program to change the closing and start dates The solicitation was original...
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The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting of its Habitat Committee and Habitat Research and Monitoring Subgroup, Joint Habitat Committee and Habitat Advisory Panel chairmen and agency representatives to the Habitat A...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
NMFS has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the alternatives being considered for implementation of the Atlantic Offshore Cetacean Take Reduction Plan. NMFS is requesting comments on the EA before it is finalized.
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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 (CBT or Exchange) has applied for designation as a contract market in nine options on PCS catastrophe single-event insurance. The options include a national contract plus eight regional and state-based contracts representin...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Generally, the offer or sale of commodity options is prohibited except on designated contract markets. One of several specified exceptions to the general prohibition on off-exchange options is for ``trade options.'' Trade options are defined as off-e...
Proposed Rule Nov 04, 1997

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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Under Provisions of its Rules of Practice for Adjudicative Proceedings (16 CFR part 1025), the Consumer Product Safety Commission must publish in the Federal Register complaints which it issues. Published below is a complaint in the matter of Black &...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Pub. L. 104-164 dated, July 21, 1996.
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Pub. L. 104-164 dated July 21, 1996.
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Pub. L. 104-164 dated July 21, 1996.
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Director of Defense Procurement is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to remove domestic source restrictions on commercial ball or roller bearings that are components of noncommercial end items.
Proposed Rule Nov 04, 1997
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is exempting a system of records identified as DUSP 11, entitled POW/Missing Personnel Office Files. The exemption is needed to protect information properly classified under E.O. 12958, Classified National Secur...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: NSPS for...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
EPA has authorized its contractor, Armstrong Data Services (ADS), of Vienna, VA to retain temporary employees, via a temporary employment agency, to perform an audit of EPA's collection of Confidential Business Information submitted to EPA under all...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
EPA is promulgating a significant new use rule (SNUR) under section 5(a)(2) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for the chemical substance described as dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether (DGDE), which was the subject of premanufacture notice (P...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
There will be a 2-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to review a set of scientific issues being considered by the Agency in connection...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Region 6 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issues a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category, in the Territorial Seas of Louisiana. The...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The Order on Reconsideration (Order) released August 20, 1997 reconsiders the Second Report and Order in this docket (61 FR 59340 (November 22, 1996)). The Order modifies the Second Report and Order by: adopting permissive detariffing for interstate,...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
The Commission, at the request of Simmons Broadcasting Company, substitutes Channel 276C3 for Channel 221A at Parris Island, South Carolina, and modifies Station WGZO(FM)'s license accordingly. To accommodate the upgrade, we also substitute Channel 2...
Rule Nov 04, 1997

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (the ``Agencies'') may not conduct...
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Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

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The Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Board) is amending the Board's Privacy Act systems of records to show a change of address for Board offices. The Board relocated from 805 Fifteenth Street, NW., Washington, DC...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
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...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Title Type Published
Standard Form 517, Clinical Record--Anesthesia is cancelled. This form will now be Optional Form 517. Each anesthesia unit collects information diferrently; so a single standard form will not meet their needs. Therefore, this form is being changed to...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The GSA hereby gives notice under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 that it is requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reinstate information collection, 3090-0044, ``Application/Permit for Use of Space in Public Buildings and Ground...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Office of Acquisition Policy has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a reinstatement of a previously approved i...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Office of Acquisition Policy has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a reinstatement of a previously approved i...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The GSA hereby gives notice under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 that it is requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reinstate information collection, 3090-0228, ``Nondiscrimination in Federal Financial Assistance Programs.'' This...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Office of Acquisition Policy has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a reinstatement of a previously approved i...
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Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
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The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
This notice sets the schedule for the forthcoming meeting of the Dayton Aviation Heritage Commission. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463).
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (as amended) and the California Environmental Policy Act (CEQA), the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) have prepared a DEIR/DEIS fo...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Ecosystem Rountable (a subcommittee of the Bay-Delta Advisory Council) (BDAC) will meet in November to discuss the following issues: an update on restoration coordination and the CVPIA FY 98 annual workplans. The Ecosystem Rountable will also mee...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) determines threatened status pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act) for the northern population of the bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii), which ranges from New York and Massachuse...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing times and locations of meetings open to the public to discuss its early draft of a proposal for adding to the reclamation of abandoned mine lands already being accomplished...
Proposed Rule Nov 04, 1997
OSM is approving with certain exceptions a proposed amendment to the Indiana regulatory program (hereinafter referred to as the ``Indiana program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Indiana proposed revisions to t...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
BLM has released a plan and FEIS covering land management options and anticipated consequences regarding the Interlakes Special Recreation Management Area. Preparation of this plan and FEIS is a joint effort between the BLM, U.S. Forest Service, Nati...
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Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) intends to prepare a draft EIS on the proposed Orange County Regional Water Reclamation Project, Orange County, Califo...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed a plan amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan to partially exempt a proposed fiber optic cable right-of-way from a utility corridor for a portion of the p...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR Section 1505.2) and the implementing procedures of the National Park Service (NPS) for the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (40 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), the NPS...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is in the process of determining whether Mr. Walter D. Helmick has valid existing rights (VER) to surface mine coal on Federal lands within the Monongahela National Forest in Pocahontas C...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, (the Act), the Attorney General is authorized to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States to eligible nationals of designated foreign states (and to eligible ali...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, (the Act), the Attorney General is authorized to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States to eligible nationals of designated foreign states (or to eligible alie...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
Under section 244 of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, as amended, (the Act), the Attorney General is authorized to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States to eligible nationals of designated foreign states (or to eligib...
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (th...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or cont...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Inte...
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Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

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Management and Budget Office

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Notice Nov 04, 1997
Subsections 25(g) (1) and (2) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Act, as amended by Pub. L. 100-679, codified at 41 U.S.C. 421(g), require the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy to publish a report within six months after th...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

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National Transportation Safety Board

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

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This document amends the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission's procedural rules on eligibility under the equal Access to Justice Act by adding a paragraph requiring that the net worth and number of employees of an applicant shall be aggr...
Rule Nov 04, 1997

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the membership of the OPM SES Performance Review Board.
Notice Nov 04, 1997

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Boeing Model 727-100 series airplanes. This action requires a revision to the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) to prohibit stabilized operation between 60 and 75 perce...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain British Aerospace (Jetstream) Model HS 748 series airplanes. This action requires a one-time visual inspection of the retraction jack mounting brackets in the nose landin...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared on the proposed expansion of the Flying Cloud Airport. The expansion consists of the extension of two...
Notice Nov 04, 1997
These amended special conditions are issued to the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company for the Model 747 series airplanes. This airplane has a novel or unusual design feature associated with the overhead crew rest area. Special Conditions No. 25-ANM-1...
Rule Nov 04, 1997
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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Notice of members of Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board.
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Notice of Members of Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board.
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Notice of members of Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board.
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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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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 Nov 04, 1997
This notice is provided in accordance with IRC section 6039F, as amended, by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996. This listing contains the name of each individual losing United States citizenship (within the meani...
Notice Nov 04, 1997

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
In a document published in the Federal Register on October 3, 1997 (62 FR 51783), VA amended the ``Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 35'' regulations. The final rule, among other things, transferred the subject...
Rule Nov 04, 1997

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