December 2, 1997 (Volume 62)

Federal Register December 2, 1997

View all documents issued on December 2, 1997. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

126 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 2, 1997

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, (the 1938 Act) as amended, requires that the national peanut poundage quota for the 1998 crop be announced by December 15, 1997. The Agricultural Act of 1949, (the 1949 Act), as amended, requires that the addi...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
The document contains a correction to the final rule that was published on Friday, March 28, 1997 (62 FR 14775-14780). The rule pertains to the insurance of fresh market tomatoes (dollar plan).
Rule Dec 02, 1997
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) amends the General Crop Insurance Regulations; Canning and Processing Tomato and Rice Endorsements; Fresh Market Tomato (Guaranteed Production Plan) Crop Insurance Regulations; and the Common Crop Insuran...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection for Repo...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 35), Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is announcing an opportunity for the public to comment on its intention to request an extension for a currently app...
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Commodity Credit Corporation (``CCC'') invites proposals for ``agricultural market development plans'' to be considered by CCC in connection with approval of agreements under Title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, (...
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Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (``OETCA''), International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, has received an application to amend an Export Trade Certificate of Review. This notice summarizes the proposed amendment and reques...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
NMFS reduces the commercial trip limit in the hook-and-line fishery for king mackerel in the Florida west coast sub-zone to 500 lb (227 kg) of king mackerel per day in or from the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This trip limit reduction is necessary...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 46 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (FMP) which has been submitted by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) for Secretarial review. Amendment 46 woul...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
Notice is hereby given that a request for amendment of scientific research permit no. 917 submitted by The Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1097, has been granted.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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The Commission finds that certain heaters made by Cadet present a potential hazard to consumers and that, to protect the public health and safety, the customary manufacturer comment and notification periods preceding public release of certain informa...
Notice Dec 02, 1997

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary announces priorities for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The Secretary may use these priorities in fiscal year 1998 and subsequent years. Th...
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The Secretary gives notice to institutions of higher education of the deadline for an institution to submit a written request for a waiver of the allocation reduction being applied to its Federal Perkins Loan, FWS, or FSEOG allocation for the 1998-99...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Geothermal Technologies, Advanced Drilling Systems Research Program, via the Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID), is soliciting comments on its draft solicitation for cost-shared cooperative agreements, industry...
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The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is responsible under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended (NWPA), for accepting and transporting spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from commercial nuclear reactor sites to a federal facil...
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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. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that EPA is planning to submit the following proposed and/or continuing Information Collection Requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
In this action, the EPA proposes to conditionally approve in part, and fully approving in part, revisions to the Louisiana State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions incorporate regulations to control Volatile Organic Compound emissions from majo...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
In this action, the EPA is conditionally approving in part, and fully approving in part, revisions to the Louisiana State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions incorporate regulations to control Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from major...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
This action proposes to find that the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, carbon monoxide (CO) nonattainment area has not attained the CO national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The CO nonattainment occurred after...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
On October 22, 1997 (62 FR 54900), EPA published a final Compliance Assurance Monitoring Rule (CAM). The final rule preamble described a Guidance Development Process in which the Agency would develop non-prescriptive examples of the types of monitori...
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Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) proposes to revise the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan requirements, found at 40 CFR part 112, to reduce its information collection burden. Proposed revisions would: gi...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
The Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) is a voluntary partnership between the pesticide user community and EPA. EPA, in conjunction with the National Foundation for IPM Education, will hold two meetings in December to allow PESP membe...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
In accordance, with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (Act), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed partial consent decree, which was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by the Unit...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
This regulation establishes an import tolerance for residues of the fungicide 4,6-dimethyl-N-phenyl-2-pyrimidinamine expressed as pyrimethanil in or on the raw agricultural commodity (RAC) wine grapes at 5.0 ppm. AgrEvo USA Company submitted a petiti...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
This notice announces receipt of an application (EUP No. 524- EUP-II) from Monsanto Company requesting an experimental use permit for a genetically engineered microbial plant-pesticide CryIA(c) expressed in tomato plant cells. The Agency has determin...
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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), through the FCA Board (Board), issues a direct final rule amending its regulations relating to loan sales into a secondary market. This action conforms FCA regulations to recent statutory amendments to the Farm C...
Rule Dec 02, 1997

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 Dec 02, 1997
The Commission, at the request of Mountain Tower Broadcasting, allots Channel 258A at Chugwater, Wyoming, as the community's first local aural transmission service. See 61 FR 65509, December 13, 1996. Channel 258A can be allotted to Chugwater in comp...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
This document requests comments on a petition for rule making filed on behalf of 550-AM, permittee of Station WZEW(FM), Channel 239A, East Brewton, Alabama, requesting the substitution of Channel 239C3 for Channel 239A at East Brewton, the reallotmen...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
The Commission, at the request of Connoisseur Communications of Quad Cities, L.P., substitutes Channel 285C3 for Channel 285A at Geneseo, Illinois, reallots Channel 285C3 from Geneseo to DeWitt, Iowa, and modifies Station WGEN-FM's license accordingl...
Rule Dec 02, 1997

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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California has scheduled a special election on January 13, 1998, to fill the U.S. House seat in the Twenty-Second Congressional District held by the late Congressman Walter Capps. Should no candidate achieve a majority vote, a Special Runoff Election...
Notice Dec 02, 1997

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) has submitted information collection requirements associated with the Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Trade Regulation Rule, 16 CFR Part 435, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') has conducted a comprehensive review of ``Made in USA'' and other U.S. origin claims in product advertising and labeling. Historically, the Commission has held that a product must be wholly dom...
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General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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An analysis of lodging and meal cost survey data reveals that the listing of maximum per diem rates for locations within the continental United States (CONUS) should be updated to provide for the reimbursement of Federal employees' expenses covered b...
Rule Dec 02, 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

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Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA)...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its decision to amend the regulation that authorizes a health claim on sugar alcohols and dental caries to include the sugar alcohol erythritol among the substances that may be the subject of the c...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the nutrition labeling regulations to change the reference amount customarily consumed per eating occasion for the food category ``Salt, salt substitutes, seasoning salts (e.g., garlic salt)'' from a...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
This interim final rule with a request for comments establishes the methodology that will be employed to assess fees applicable to Medicare risk-sharing contractors for fiscal year (FY) 1998. Under section 4002 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this document announced the dates and location for the sixth and seventh set of meetings by the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on the Shared Risk Exception. The purpose of this committee is to n...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
Notice Dec 02, 1997
Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is given of a meeting of the Genetics Subcommittee of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. The subcommittee members will continue address...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, this notice informs the public and other Federal agencies of the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of two collections of information. The Paperwork Reduct...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
Notice is hereby given of the availability of the joint Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Impact Report (DEIS/EIR) prepared by the Bureau of Land Management and the County of Imperial for a 60-day public review.
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The collection of information listed below has been submitted to OMB for approval under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act. Copies of the proposed information collection requirement, related forms, and explanatory material may be obtained...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing receipt of additional explanatory information pertaining to a previously proposed amendment to the Montana regulatory program (hereinafter, the ``Montana program'') under the Su...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997
Notice Dec 02, 1997
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and Use and Occupancy Under the Mining Laws regulations (43 CFR 3715), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) that evaluates the impac...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
OSM is reopening the public comment period on a proposed amendment to the Ohio permanent regulatory program (hereinafter referred to as the ``Ohio program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). The proposed amendment...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Request OMB emergency approval; guarantee of payment.
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

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This announcement notifies the public of an amendment that slightly modifies the administrative procedures for qualifying to use the group registration of serials option. Under the amendment, the letter currently addressed to the General Counsel's Of...
Rule Dec 02, 1997

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council.
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National Science Foundation

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Ti...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. This is the required notice.
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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...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its regulations to delete certain security requirements associated with an internal threat. This action follows the NRC's reconsideration of nuclear power plant physical security requirements to ide...
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to permit NRC licensees to distribute a radioactive drug containing one microcurie of carbon-14 urea to any person for ``in vivo'' diagnostic use. The NRC has determined that the rad...
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Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing regulations that implement four changes in the nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance (COLA) program. One change removes obsolete references to hiring authorities no longer in use. A second change clari...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
This document contains a correction to the final regulations, which were published in the Federal Register of Tuesday, December 17, 1996 (61 FR 66189). The regulations implemented policies related to the training of Federal employees.
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Notice Dec 02, 1997
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations governing the Student Educational Employment Program. The regulations make no fundamental changes to the Program. The regulations recodify the two components of the Program; impl...
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Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

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We are proposing to provide a description of how DOS and INS will provide the SSA with information, collected as part of the immigration process, to enable SSA to assign SSNs and issue SSN cards to lawfully admitted aliens. We also propose: to amend...
Proposed Rule Dec 02, 1997

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Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

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Pursuant to section 127(b)(1) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) (19 U.S.C. 3537(b)(1), the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice that the government of Korea has requested the establishment of a dispute...
Notice Dec 02, 1997

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This final rule increases from $6,500 to $6,600 the monetary threshold for reporting railroad accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur on or after January 1, 1998. This action is needed to ensure and maintain comparability be...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
The Department of Transportation is directing all interested persons to show cause why it should not issue orders (1) finding Global Air Cargo, Inc., fit, willing, and able, and (2) awarding it a certificate to engage in interstate and foreign charte...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 this notice announces the Maritime Administration's (MARAD's) intentions to request extension of approval for three years of a currently approved information collection.
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use PFC revenue at Idaho Falls Municipal Airport under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40117 and Part 158 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 158).
Notice Dec 02, 1997
The FAA publishes a monthly notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals and disapprovals under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) (Pub. L. 101-508) and par...
Notice Dec 02, 1997
This interim final rule amends the agency's National Driver Register (NDR) regulations to implement a recent amendment to the National Driver Register Act of 1982, as amended. The amendment authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to request and...
Rule Dec 02, 1997
The proposed Advisory Circular (AC) provides guidance about the information that should be contained in a certificated air carrier's approved carry-on baggage program and updates, provides clarification, and additional information to AC 121-29, Carry...
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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act 1995 (44 USC Chapter 35), this notice announces that the Information Collection Requests (ICRs) abstracted below have been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. T...
Notice Dec 02, 1997

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