January 16, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register January 16, 1998

View all documents issued on January 16, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

116 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 16, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.L. No. 104-13) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR Part 1320 (60 FR 44978, August 29, 1995), this notice announces the Economic Research Service's (ERS) intention...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
This rule relaxes, for 1997 and subsequent crop peanuts, several provisions regulating the handling of domestically produced peanuts marketed in the United States. The relaxation includes: Eliminating need for approval of certain facilities; allowing...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
Correction Jan 16, 1998

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
In response to timely requests for administrative review, the Department of Commerce has conducted an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on ferrosilicon from Brazil. Because we determined that Companhia Brasileria Carbureto de Calcio...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
NMFS proposes a regulatory amendment to separate shortraker rockfish and rougheye rockfish (SR/RE) from the aggregated rockfish bycatch species group and reduce maximum retainable bycatch (MRB) percentages for SR/RE in the Aleutian Islands Subarea (A...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
NMFS announces its decision to not undertake the rulemaking requested in a petition submitted by the State of Connecticut, Commissioner of Environmental Protection (Connecticut). Connecticut petitioned the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to elimina...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
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Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Title Type Published
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List commodities and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List commodities and a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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Notice Jan 16, 1998

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the Policy Committee of the Advisory Council on Education Statistics (ACES). Notice of this meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committ...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The 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.
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
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 Committee meeting: Environmental Management Site- Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Los Alamos Nation...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
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Notice Jan 16, 1998
Consistent with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770), notice is hereby given of the following advisory committee meeting:
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
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: ``Export...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to wetlands and recommended the Southern alignment and the single point interchange be chosen. ERP No. D-FHW-G40146-NM Rating LO, New Mexico Highway 126 (NM-126), Cuba-La Cueva Road (also Known as Fo...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The EPA is taking action today to identify ozone areas where the 1-hour standard is no longer applicable. Therefore, the 40 CFR part 81 for ozone is being amended to reflect such changes. Today's regulation is being published in direct response to th...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
The EPA proposes to approve the identification of ozone areas attaining the 1-hour standard and to which the 1-hour standard is no longer applicable. In the final rules section of this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the amendment to 40 CFR pa...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
In accordance with section 122(i)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA,'' commonly referred to as Superfund), 42 U.S.C., 9622(i) and section 7003(d) of the Resource Conservation...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The EPA publishes today notification of a limited exclusion from applicability for gasoline distribution facilities that would be, but for this action, subject to the air toxic provisions of 40 CFR part 63, subpart R, the National Emission Standards...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
In accordance with section 122 of 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. 9622, notification is hereby given that...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
EPA is proposing to update a portion of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Air Regulations. Requirements applying to OCS sources located within 25 miles of states' seaward boundaries must be updated periodically to remain consistent with the requireme...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) entitled: Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools Rule and Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan Rule [EPA ICR...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(I), notification is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement by consent, pursuant to CERCL...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
EPA is withdrawing a proposed rule published in the Federal Register on February 12, 1996 (61 FR 5364). The proposed rule would have amended the applicability of certain effluent limitations guidelines and new source performance standards governing m...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
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 Jan 16, 1998
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Memorandum Opinion and Order in the wireless Enhanced 911 (E911) rulemaking proceeding, reaffirming its commitment to the rapid implementation of technologies needed to bring emergency help to wirel...
Rule Jan 16, 1998

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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Notice Jan 16, 1998

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
In 1995 and 1996, the Board proposed three sets of amendments to its securities credit or margin regulations (Regulations G, T and U). These amendments were proposed in part based on a review of the margin regulations the Board is conducting pursuant...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
The Board is adopting final amendments to Regulations G, T and U, the Board's securities credit regulations. These amendments are based on proposed amendments issued for comment by the Board in December 1995 (Docket R-0905), April 1996 (Docket R-0923...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Correction Jan 16, 1998

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
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In accordance with section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice announces a meeting of the National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research, and Evaluation.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for Territory of Guam (FEMA-1193-DR), dated December 17, 1997, and related determinations.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the Territory of Guam (FEMA-1193-DR), dated December 17, 1997, and related determinations.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (FEMA-1194-DR), dated December 24, 1997, and related determinations.
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to inform the public and interested State and local government officials of the filing of Plats of Survey in Nevada.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The plat of survey of the following described land is scheduled to be officially filed in the Montana State Office, Billings, Montana, thirty (30) days from the date of this publication.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The Lower Snake River District Resource Advisory Council will meet in Boise to discuss management of redband trout and sage grouse in southwest Idaho, as well as implementation of new grazing management plans in the Bruneau and Owyhee Resource Areas.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
A meeting of the John Day-Snake Resource Advisory Council will be held on February 19, 1998 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on February 20 from 8:00 a.m. to noon at the Doubletree Inn, 304 SE Nye Ave., Pendleton, Oregon. The meeting is open to the pu...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice is hereby given that the area legally described below is seasonally closed to shooting.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), 5 U.S.C. Appendix, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the meeting of the Upper Columbia--Salmon Clearwater Districts Resou...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to offer Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) tracts in parts of the Gulf of Mexico for lease with suspension of royalties for a volume, value, or period of production. This applies to tracts in water depths of 20...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This rule establishes conditions for reducing royalties on producing leases; provides for suspension of royalty payments on certain deep water leases issued as the result of lease sales held before November 28, 1995; and describes the information req...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, Medford, and Coos Bay Districts and Klamath Falls Resource Area (in the Lakeview District) are initiating the collection of the supplemental information and analyses required for simultaneo...
Notice Jan 16, 1998

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission hereby gives notice of the institution of investigations and commencement of preliminary phase antidumping investigations Nos. 731-TA-776-779 (Preliminary) under section 733(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673b(a)) (the Act) t...
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
On December 23, 1997, MSHA published a notice soliciting comments on a report from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) entitled ``Prevalence of Hearing Loss For Noise-Exposed Metal/Nonmetal Miners.'' This notice extends...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
In the Federal Register of December 9, 1997 (62 FR 64886), the Department of Labor published a notice of availability of funds and SGA for engaging employers in State and local School-to-Work (STW) systems through efforts undertaken by industry group...
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Notice Jan 16, 1998
This notice announces the Agency's final decision on the Wyle Laboratories' request to remove a restriction in its recognition as a NRTL under 29 CFR 1910.7.
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is today adopting amendments to its rules relating to the reporting of beneficial ownership in publicly held companies. These amendments make the short- form Schedule 13G available, in lieu of Schedule 13D, to a...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
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Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice of application for an order under Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``1940 Act'') for exemptions from the provisions of Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a) and 15(b) of the 1940 Act and Rules 6e-2(b)(15) and 6e-3(T)(b)(15) thereunder.
Notice Jan 16, 1998

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Notice Jan 16, 1998
DOT, STB
The Board amends its complaint and investigation regulations at 49 CFR part 1111 to reflect the adoption of Simplified Rate Guidelines.<SUP>1</SUP>
Rule Jan 16, 1998
DOT, STB
(1) NOPB will grant IC non-exclusive bridge trackage rights over 3.4 miles of NOPB's Main Line and Siding Track between milepost JO.3, at Lampert Junction, and milepost 3.4, at Nashville Avenue; \1\ (2) IC will relocate its operation to NOPB trackage and will abandon its adjacent Main Line trackage between milepost 917.77, at Nashville Avenue, and milepost 921.13, at Lampert Junction, a distance of approximately 3.36 miles; (3) IC will grant NOPB non-exclusive bridge trackage rights over approximately 5,568 feet of IC's Main Line from Station 120+00.00, at Nashville Avenue, to Station 175+68.09, at Valence Street; and (4) IC and NOPB will perform such incidental relocation of signals and power switches as necessary to complete the proposed reconfiguration of operations contemplated by the exemption.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
DOT, STB
Notice Jan 16, 1998
DOT, STB
Applicants, Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc., of Springfield, MA, and Greyhound Lines, Inc., of Dallas, TX, jointly seek approval under 49 U.S.C. 14302 of a pooling agreement to govern their motor passenger and express operations (but not the revenues earne...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
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Notice Jan 16, 1998

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747 series airplanes, that currently requires repetitive inspections for discrepancies of the forward engine mount bulkhead of the nacelle strut, a...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Fokker Model F28 Mark 0100 and Mark 0070 series airplanes, that requires modification of the hook and latch engagement assemblies of the engine cowl doors, measurement of...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This action amends the Class E airspace area at Audubon County Airport. The FAA has developed a Global Positioning System (GPS) Runway (RWY) 32 Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to serve the Audubon County Airport. Additional controlled a...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This notice confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Kansas City, Richards-Gebaur Airport, MO.
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This notice confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Lee's Summit, MO.
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This action amends the Class E airspace area at Lincoln Municipal Airport, Lincoln, NE. A review of the airspace for Lincoln Municipal Airport indicates it does not meet the criteria for 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) Class E airspace as required...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This notice confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Vinton, IA.
Rule Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public that the January 22 meeting of the Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee, scheduled to discuss Aircraft Certification Procedures Issues (63 FR 122), has been cancell...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public that the January 22, 1998, meeting of the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) scheduled to discuss general aviation operations issues (63 FR 122, January 2, 1998) has been cancelled.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposed highway project located in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, is cancelled. The NOI was or...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Wichita Mid- Continent Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
This notice corrects the application number which was erroneously identified as 98-05-C-00-PHL in the previously published notice.
Notice Jan 16, 1998
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3051, 3506(c) (2) (A)), the FHWA is requesting public comment on its intent to ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reinstate the expired information collection that docume...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
FRA announces the next meeting of the RSAC, a Federal Advisory Committee that develops railroad safety regulations through a consensus process. The meeting will address a wide range of topics, including possible adoption of specific recommendations f...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption of new or revised criteria, or because of changes...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of changes occurring in the National Airspace System, such as the...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP's) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption of new or revised criteria, or because of change...
Rule Jan 16, 1998
FRA proposes to revise the regulations regarding the use and design of two-way end-of-train telemetry devices (two-way EOTs) to specifically address certain passenger train operations where multiple units of freight-type equipment, material handling...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Internal Revenue Service is planning to conduct an automated pilot program during 1998 for filing Low-Income Housing Credit forms to be filed electronically (via modem to modem). This pilot program will be available without geographic limitation,...
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Notice Jan 16, 1998
Correction Jan 16, 1998
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) proposes to revise its Municipal Securities Dealers regulation to remove unnecessary provisions. This change would not have any substantive effect on the operations of national banks, but would simp...
Proposed Rule Jan 16, 1998
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 Jan 16, 1998
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 Jan 16, 1998
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 Jan 16, 1998

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United States Information Agency

Title Type Published
The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy will meet on January 21 in Room 600, 301 4th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The Commission will meet with Mr. Kevin Klose, Director, International Bureau of Broadcasting,...
Notice Jan 16, 1998

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