February 12, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register February 12, 1998

View all documents issued on February 12, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

115 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on February 12, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This notice describes the activities of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex); describes the duties of the United States delegate and alternate delegate to Codex committees; provides the criteria and procedures to be used in selecting non-governm...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

Arctic Research Commission logo Arctic Research Commission

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Notice Feb 12, 1998

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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On April 2, 1996, the Department of Commerce initiated changed circumstances reviews of the countervailing duty orders on Leather from Argentina (55 FR 40212), Wool from Argentina (48 FR 14423), Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina (49 FR 46564),...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Pursuant to section 406 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), which requires NMFS to establish an advisory panel to develop recommendations to expand the application of ecosystem principles in fishery...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
NMFS corrects and updates regulations pertaining to general provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). This rule corrects references to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which was amended by the Sustain...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
Funds in the amount of $150,000 are available to conduct a competitive grant solicitation for the most qualified applicant who will plan, organize and coordinate the appropriate resources of the public and private sectors for the development of a sel...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
In response to a letter filed on January 26, 1998, by the Ad Hoc Committee of Domestic Nitrogen Producers (petitioners) indicating that they have no further interest in the importation or sale of solid urea from the former German Democratic Republic...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
On May 1, 1995, the Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of its changed circumstances review to examine the effect, if any, that the reunification of Germany had on the antidumping duty order covering solid urea from the five Germ...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Notice Feb 12, 1998

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces a meeting of the Defense Partnership Council. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This meeting is open to the public. The topics to be covered will include the DoD Per...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This notice sets forth the schedule and summary agenda for the meetings of the Long-Range Air Power Panel on February 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, and March 13 and 14, 1998 from 0800 to 1800. In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The President's Security Policy Advisory Board has been established pursuant to Presidential Decision Directive/NSC-29, which was signed by the President on September 16, 1994. The Board will advise the President on proposed legislative initiatives a...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The Marine Corps announces the proposed extension of a previously approved public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The Marine Corps announces the proposed extension of a previously approved public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Pursuant to section 102(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, and the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy announces its decision to construct a 14,500 foot-long levee...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

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Delaware River Basin Commission

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The EPA withdraws its proposed approval (62 FR 16124, April 4, 1997) of revisions to the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality (``Pima'' or ``County'') title V operating permits program. In this document EPA also proposes approval of the fo...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
In this action, EPA is informing the public that the extension of the temporary exemption from the NO<INF>X</INF> control requirements of sections 182(f) and 182(b) of the Clean Air Act (the Act) for the Houston/Galveston (HGA) and Beaumont/Port Arth...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
The Director, Office of Water, EPA Region 10 is issuing a modified General NPDES permit for facilities related to Oil and Gas Extraction on the North Slope of the Brooks Range in Alaska. This general permit regulates activities related to the extract...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This document announces the availability of an External Review Draft titled, Health Risk Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene (EPA/600/P-98/ 001A), for public review and comment. The draft was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The Clean Air Act (CAA) directs EPA to promulgate regulations specifying those provisions of the Act for which it is appropriate to treat Indian tribes in the same manner as states. For those provisions specified, a tribe may develop and implement on...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
This notice publishes revisions made or which have been proposed to the list of categories of sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) and the corresponding schedule for the promulgation of emission standards. Required under Sections 112 (c) and (e)...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-499 (``CERCLA''), and section 7003(d) of t...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to enter into an administrative cost recovery settlement to resolve claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
EPA will hold a series of training courses on the reporting requirements as mandated by section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and section 6607 of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA). This series...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Correction Feb 12, 1998

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Notice Feb 12, 1998

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

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Presidential Document Feb 12, 1998

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
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 Feb 12, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of sodium mono- and dimethyl naphthalene sulfonates as an aid in the steam/scald vacuum peeling of tomatoes without a subsequent potable wate...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ``Environmental Assessment of Human Drug and Biologics Applications.'' This draft guidance is intended to provide information on when an e...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Correction Feb 12, 1998

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
Current vessel response plan regulations require that the owners or operators of vessels carrying groups I through V petroleum oil as a primary cargo identify in their response plans a salvage company with expertise and equipment, and a company with...
Rule Feb 12, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The Safford Field Office, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management has completed the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area Management Plan, Environmental Assessment, and Record of Decision. The Arizona Desert Wildern...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposes endangered status pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), for the plant Thlaspi californicum (Kneeland Prairie penny-cress). Thlaspi californicum is known from Kneeland P...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This proposed rule would modify the regulations to establish the value for royalty purposes of oil produced from Indian leases and establish a new Minerals Management Service (MMS) form for collecting value and value differential data. These changes...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This order withdraws approximately 7,493 acres of public lands from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, pursuant to Section 22(j)(2) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. This ac...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This order partially revokes two Secretarial orders insofar as they affect 178.31 acres of public land withdrawn for stock driveway purposes. The land is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was withdrawn. The revocation is needed to permit...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
The Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge Act requires that when sufficient property is acquired, public notices be published. The Connecticut River Watershed Council donated Third Island, Deerfield, Massachusetts, to the U.S. Fish and Wi...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This is a proposed rule to implement tribal Self-Governance, as authorized by Title IV of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. This proposed rule has been negotiated among representatives of Self-Governance and non-Self-Governa...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Staff of the USITC plans to make telephone contacts with a broad representation of U.S. companies and trade associations. The survey worksheets contain fewer that 10 questions that require responses from industry and are designed to provide staff wit...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

J
Judicial Conference of the United States

Title Type Published
Section 108 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 established the mechanism for the automatic three-year adjustment of dollar amounts in certain sections of the Bankruptcy Code by adding subsection (b) to section 104 of title 11. That provision states...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Notice Feb 12, 1998
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 Feb 12, 1998
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 Feb 12, 1998
MSHA is extending the comment period on its advance notice of proposed rulemaking addressing the use of roof-bolting machines in underground mines.
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998

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National Capital Planning Commission

Title Type Published
The National Capital Planning Commission (Commission) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with James T. Lewis Enterprises, Ltd. on May 7, 1985, relating to the PortAmerica development in Prince George's County, Maryland. \1\ The original...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

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National Education Goals Panel

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the date and location of a forthcoming meeting of the National Education Goals Panel. This notice also describes the functions of the Panel. Date and Time: Saturday, February 21, 1998 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Notice Feb 12, 1998

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National Science Foundation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Peace Corps logo Peace Corps

Title Type Published
The Associate Director for Management invites comments on information collection requests as required pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). This notice announces that the Peace Corps has submitted to the Office of Management...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35) this notice announces that the Peace Corps has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request to approve the reinstatement of the Peace Corps Volunteer Application. A copy of...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
The Postal Service will be hosting another Public Meeting in conjunction with IBIP. The purpose of the meeting will be to present the current status and an orientation regarding IBIP. It will be held Thursday March 12, 1998, at the Las Vegas Hilton,...
Notice Feb 12, 1998

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Railroad Retirement Board

Title Type Published
The Railroad Retirement Board (Board) hereby proposes to amend its regulations regarding recovery of overpayments to explain what actuarial tables and interest rates are used to calculate an actuarial adjustment in an individual's annuity in order to...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

State Department logo State Department

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This document revises an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A310 and A300-600 series airplanes, that would have required modifying the rudder trim switch and control knob. That proposal was prompted by r...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to Alexander Schleicher Model ASK-21 sailplanes that have certain modifications installed. The proposed action would require changing the sailplane flight manual's we...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to Alexander Schleicher (Schleicher) Model ASK-21 sailplanes. The proposed action would require inspecting the S-shaped rudder pedal tube for displacement, and correc...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Fokker F27 Mark 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, and 700 series airplanes. This proposal would require a modification of the lapjoint below the chine...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to certain SOCATA Groupe Aerospatiale Model TBM 700 airplanes. The proposed action would require inspecting the elevator trim tab for cracks, and replacing any elevat...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This document proposes to revise an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD) that would have required installing external fuel ramp assemblies on The New Piper Aircraft, Inc. (Piper) Models PA-23 (PA-23-150), PA-23-160, PA-23-235, and PA-23-250...
Proposed Rule Feb 12, 1998
This amendment modifies the Class E airspace area at New Bern, NC. The required weather observation information is available on a continuous basis to the air traffic control facility providing service to Craven County Airport, New Bern, NC. Therefore...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
This amendment modifies the Class E airspace areas at Owensboro, KY. A VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Runway (RWY) 5 Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) has been developed for Owensboro-Daviess County Airport. As a result additional contro...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
This action amends the Class E airspace area at Mason City Municipal Airport, Mason City, IA. The FAA has developed an Instrument Landing System (ILS) Runway (RWY) 35 Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to serve the Mason City Municipal Air...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
This action amends Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) at Ravenswood, WV. The development of new Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) at Jackson County Airport has made th...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed project in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This notice announces a series of four public meetings to provide information and accept questions regarding regulations issued under Docket HM-200, ``Hazardous Materials in Intrastate Transportation,'' published in the Federal Register on January 8,...
Notice Feb 12, 1998
This action amends the Class E airspace areas at Yuma, AZ. The development of a Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to Runway (RWY) 17 and a GPS SIAP to RWY 21R at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS)-Yuma In...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
This action amends the Class D airspace area at Hayward, CA. The existing Class D airspace area at Hayward Air Terminal extends outward to 5.6 miles. The FAA has determined that the existing 5.6-mile radius is unjustified based on existing air traffi...
Rule Feb 12, 1998
This amendment revises the Class E airspace at Eastland, TX. The development of a Nondirectional Radio Beacon (NDB) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) and a Global Positioning System (GPS) SIAP to Runway (RWY) 35 at Eastland Municipal Airp...
Rule Feb 12, 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 Feb 12, 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 Feb 12, 1998

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e), notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending three systems of records notices to update the ``Access/ Safeguards'' statements.
Notice Feb 12, 1998

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