Federal Register February 20, 1998
View all documents issued on February 20, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.
128 documents were published on this date.
Agencies Publishing on February 20, 1998
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Commerce Department
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Defense Department
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Energy Department
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Federal Communications Commission
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Agriculture Department
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This rule establishes the quantity of spearmint oil produced in the Far West, by class, that handlers may purchase from, or handle for, producers during the 1998-99 marketing year. The Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee (Committee), the agency re...
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulation on RUS Telecommunications Standards and Specifications for Material, Equipment and Construction. This action codifies RUS Form 397, Special Equipment Contract (including installat...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 1998 |
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The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare a supplement to the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Summit Fire Recovery on the Long Creek Ranger District of the Malheur National Forest. The final EIS and Record of Decision for the Summit F...
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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...
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This document sets forth ways to improve technical management of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). Specifically, it describes the process by which the Federal government will transfer management of the Internet DNS to a private not-for-profit co...
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NOAA makes use of a public Interagency Committee to assist in preparing for meetings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). This notice sets forth guidelines for participating on the Committee and a tentative schedule of meetings and other im...
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NMFS announces an extension of the public comment period on the interim final regulations containing guidelines for the description and identification of essential fish habitat (EFH) in fishery management plans. The public comment period is hereby ex...
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Notice is hereby given that Dr. Christopher W. Clark, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, has been issued an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 875-1401.
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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the National Technical Information Service Advisory Board (the ``Board'') will meet on Tuesday, March 10, 1998, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and from 1:30 p...
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The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (OETCA), International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, is seeking a private sector partner to produce and distribute both a print and an electronic directory of U.S. exporters and export inte...
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The Western Pacific Fishery Council (Council) will hold meetings of its Bottomfish and Crustaceans Plan Teams in Honolulu, HI.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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On September 10, 1997, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') published for comment proposed amendments to its rules concerning the mandatory risk disclosure obligations of futures commission merchants (``FCMs'') and in...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is planning to renew information collection 3038-0005, Rules Pertaining to the Operations and Activities of Commodity Pool Operators and Commodity Trading Advisors and to Monthly Reporting by Futures Commissio...
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Corporation for National and Community Service
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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 Public Law 104-164 dated 21 July 1996.
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The Department of Defense is amending the effective date of a Computer Matching notice between DoD and HUD. This amendment brings the notice into compliance with the 30-day statutory public comment period.
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The Department of the Army is updating the address directory located at the back of the inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.
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On March 17, 1997, the DLA, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, published the revised procedures to implement Title 10, United States Code, Chapter 142, as amended, in Volume 62, Number 51, pages 12610-12622 of the Federal Registe...
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The Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee is publishing Civilian Personnel Per Diem Bulletin Number 198. This bulletin lists revisions in the per diem rates prescribed for U.S. Government employees for official travel in Alaska, Haw...
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Environmental Protection Agency
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This rulemaking finalizes the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) disapproval of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by Michigan containing start-up, shutdown and malfunction (SSM) regulations which would apply...
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EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential impacts to wetlands and requested the purpose and need include future water needs. ERP No. D-FRC-B03008-00 Rating EO2, Portland Natural Gas Transmission System Project (PNGTS) and (PNGTS)/Maritimes...
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This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of certain pesticide chemicals in or on various agricultural commodities.
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This Order grants a 5-year exemption from the senior-adult test and younger-adult test effectiveness specifications, described in 16 CFR 1700.15(b)(2) (Ease of adult opening), for prefilled, nonrefillable termite insecticide bait stations not designe...
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing revisions to its federal sector complaint processing regulations to implement recommendations made by the Chairman's Federal Sector Workgroup. The Commission proposes to require that agencies e...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 1998 |
Federal Communications Commission
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The Commission amended its rules to revise its international settlement benchmarks. Section 43.61(b) of these rules contained new and modified information collection requirements and became effective on January 23, 1998.
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The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by Charles M. Anderson proposing the substitution of Channel 264C3 for Channel 264A at Beaver Dam, the reallotment of Channel 264C3 from Beaver Dam to Brownsville, Kentucky, and the modification of...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 1998 |
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This document allots Channel 242A to Farmersburg, Indiana, as that community's first local aural transmission service in response to a petition filed on behalf of Farmersburg Community Broadcasting. See 62 FR 49190, September 19, 1997. Coordinates us...
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The Commission, at the request of JoeMyers Productions, Inc., allots Channel 221A at Fredonia, Kentucky, as the community's first local aural transmission service. See 62 FR 7981, February 21, 1997. Channel 221A can be allotted to Fredonia in complia...
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This document denies a Petition for Reconsideration filed by Eaton P. Govan, III and Berton B. Cagle directed to the Report and Order in this proceeding. The Report and Order denied their proposals for a reallotment of a channel from Jefferson City t...
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The Commission, at the request of Charles D. Hall, allots Channel 257C2 to Monroe, Utah, as the community's first local aural transmission service. See 62 FR 61719, November 19, 1997. Channel 257C2 can be allotted to Monroe, Utah, in compliance with...
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The Commission, at the request of Rock Communications of Mount Vernon, allots Channel 270A at Brodhead, Kentucky, as the community's first local aural transmission service (RM-8879). See 61 FR 54142, October 17, 1996. Channel 270A can be allotted to...
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The Commission, at the request of George G. Callicut, allots Channel 268A to New Albany, Mississippi, as an additional FM service to the community. See 62 FR 61721, November 19, 1997. Channel 268A can be allotted to New Albany in compliance with the...
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The Commission, at the request of Ryan Broadcasting Company, allots Channel 228A at Ocean Shores, Washington, as the community's first local aural transmission service. See 62 FR 6928, February 14, 1997. Channel 228A can be allotted to Ocean Shores i...
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In response to a request by New Directions Media, Inc., licensee of Station KATR-FM, Wray, Colorado, this document substitutes Channel 252C1 for Channel 252C2 at Wray, reallots Channel 252C1 to Otis, Colorado, and modifies the license for Station KAT...
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As part of the FDIC's systematic review of its regulations and written policies under section 303(a) of the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 (CDRI), the FDIC is adopting modifications recently made by the Federal Fi...
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Federal Reserve System
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Health and Human Services Department
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additives regulations to provide for the safe use of sodium stearate as an anticaking agent in animal feeds. This action is in response to a food additive petition (animal use) filed by Bett...
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Rule | Feb 20, 1998 |
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The inventions listed below are owned by agencies of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Fo...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of polyamide/polyether block copolymers prepared by reacting a copolymer of omega-laurolactam and adipic acid with poly(tetramethylene ether...
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This notice announces the estimated median income for four- person families in each state and the District of Columbia for FY 1999 (October 1, 1998 to September 30, 1999). LIHEAP grantees may adopt the state median income estimates beginning with the...
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Housing and Urban Development Department
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This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
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Interior Department
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Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act, 40 CFR 1500-1508 and 43 CFR 3809, notice is given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared, with the assistance of a third-party consultant, a FEIS for Alta Gold Com...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, proposes to withdraw an additional 10,503 acres of National Forest System lands adjacent to the Keystone Ski Area at Keystone, Colorado, for 10 years to protect recreational facilities and high reso...
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Justice Department
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This notice announces that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS or Service) is expanding its Direct Mail Program to include the New Orleans District Office and the Louisville and Memphis Suboffices on the list of direct mail sites for fili...
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This notice announces that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS or Service) is expanding its Direct Mail Program to include the San Francisco District Office and the Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento and San Jose Suboffices on the current list o...
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Labor Department
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is announcing that a collection of information regarding occupational injuries and illnesses has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of...
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The purpose of this notice is to announce a hearing, open to the public, on Submission #9703. Submission #9703, was filed with the U.S. National Administrative Office (NAO) on December 15, 1998, by the Echlin Workers Alliance, a group that includes t...
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MSHA is announcing a public comment period concerning the Interpretative Bulletin providing notice of the Secretary's interpretation of the statutory phrase ``significant and substantial'' appearing in sections 104(d) and (e) of the Federal Mine Safe...
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National Archives and Records Administration
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National Credit Union Administration
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The NCUA has submitted the following final rule information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). This information collection...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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As announced earlier (63 FR 6968), the Licensing Support System Advisory Review Panel (LSSARP) will hold its next meeting on February 24 and 25, 1998, in Las Vegas, Nevada. No location for the meeting was given at that time. It is now being announced...
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Notice of Application for Exemption under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (``Advisers Act'').
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Social Security Administration
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Surface Transportation Board
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The Surface Transportation Board proposes to adopt 1.096 (9.6%) as the measure of average growth in railroad productivity for the 1992-1996 (5-year) period. The current value of 5.0% was developed for the 1991 to 1995 period.
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The Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations will hold a meeting on March 26, 1998 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The meeting will be closed to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The meeting will include a review and discussion of curr...
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Transportation Department
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This action revises the Class D airspace area at Westfield, MA (KBAF) to reflect the results of improved airspace computations through the use of computer mapping to determine the controlled airspace requirements for standard instrument approach proc...
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This action revises the Class E airspace at Laconia, NH (KLCI) to provide for adequate controlled airspace for those aircraft using the new GPS RWY 26 standard instrument approach procedure to Laconia Municipal Airport.
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This rule modifies the airspace designations for several jet routes, Federal airways, and the one domestic reporting point in the State of Florida. The Tallahassee, FL, Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range/Tactical Air Navigation (VORTAC) is bei...
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The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a Passenger Facility Charge at Burlington International Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (...
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Notice | Feb 20, 1998 |
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The FHWA is announcing a public meeting to discuss requirements for brake hoses used on commercial motor vehicles. The meeting is intended to initiate dialogue between the FHWA; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); manufacturer...
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Proposed Rule | Feb 20, 1998 |
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This notice announces a public meeting at which NHTSA will describe and discuss specific research and development projects. Further, the notice requests suggestions for topics to be presented by the agency.
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Treasury Department
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Columbia Inspection, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, has applied to U.S. Customs for an extension of accreditation to perform petroleum analysis methods under Sec. 151.13 of the Customs Regulations (19 CFR 151.13) to their Portland, Oregon, Fife, Washingt...
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This is Supplement No. 9 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 1997 Revision, published July 1, 1997, at 62 FR 35548.
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This is Supplement No. 8 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 1997 Revision, published July 1, 1997, at 62 FR 35548.
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