March 6, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register March 6, 1998

View all documents issued on March 6, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

128 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 6, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service is publishing this document to provide information to owners and operators of federally inspected establishments about what actions they must take to comply with the requirement, in the hazard analysis and criti...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
The USDA Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the potential environmental effects of implementing aquatic, vegetative, and wildlife habitat improvement activities in the Iron Honey Resource Area on the Coeur...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Agencies to request an extension for a currently approved information collection in support of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act an...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
This final rule clarifies the regulations governing Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC) procedures for purchasing processed agricultural commodities for donation overseas under Title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 195...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This document revises the delegations of authority from the Secretary of Agriculture in order to reflect the Secretary's designation of the Chief Financial Officer as the Department official responsible for establishing nonprocurement debarment and s...
Rule Mar 06, 1998

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management, Roseburg District Office at Roseburg, OR (BLM) (1122) and the Fish Ecology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS at Seattle, WA (NWFSC) (1137) have applied in due form for permit...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Notice is hereby given that the Fish Passage Center at Portland, OR (FPC) has applied in due form for a modification to a permit that would authorize takes of endangered and threatened anadromous steelhead for the purpose of scientific research.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Geological Survey at Cook, WA (USGS) has applied in due form for modifications to permits that would authorize takes of Endangered Species Act-listed steelhead for the purpose of scientific research.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by vessels catching Pacific cod for processing by the inshore component in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the interim specifi...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
NMFS issues this final rule to implement Amendment 46 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (FMP). Amendment 46 removes black and blue rockfish from the complex of species managed under the FMP. The rule makes conforming...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This document contains a correction that is related to the final specifications for the 1998 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries, which were published on Thursday, December 18, 1997. A revision was inadvertently not made to a portion...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
In response to a request by the respondent, Illovo Sugar Ltd., the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from the Republic of South Africa. The review covers one manufacturer/e...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene public meetings of the Socioeconomic Panel (SEP). DATES: A joint meeting of the SEP Coastal Pelagics Subgroup and the Coastal Migratory Pelagics (Mackerel) Stock Assessment Panel wi...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene a public meetings of the Coastal Migratory Pelagics (Mackerel) Stock Assessment Panel (MSAP).
Notice Mar 06, 1998
NMFS issues regulations to require operators of vessels fishing for Pacific halibut in U.S. Convention waters off Alaska to conduct fishing operations in a specified manner and to employ specified measures intended to reduce seabird bycatch and incid...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on mechanical transfer presses (MTPs) from Japan in response to a request by petitioners, Verson Division of Allied Products Corp., the U...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
In response to a request from one respondent and three U.S. producers, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) fr...
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In response to requests by the petitioner, The Timken Company (``Timken''), and the respondent, Tehnoimportexport, S.A. (``TIE''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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This action deletes from the Procurement List services previously furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List a service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete a service previously furnished by such agencies.
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

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The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the ``Corporation''), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the ``Corporation''), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Defense Logistics Agency proposes to exempt a system of records identified as S500.60 CA, entitled `DLA Complaint Program Records' from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. The exemptions are intended to increase the value of the system of reco...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Control of Military Excess/Surplus met in closed session on March 4, 1998 at Science Applications International Corporation, Arlington, Virginia. The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secret...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Subsection (e)(12) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, (5 U.S.C. 552a) requires agencies to publish advance notice of any proposed or revised computer matching program by the matching agency for public comment. The DoD, as the matching agency und...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Defense Logistics Agency proposes to add a system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. DATES: This action will be effective without further notice on April 6, 1998, unless c...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary of Education proposes to establish absolute priorities for the FY 1998 grant competition under the Native Hawaiian Curriculum Development, Teacher Training and Recruitment Program. Under the priorities, funds would be reserved to suppor...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
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.
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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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), Nevada Test Site.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
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), Savannah River Si...
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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. 3051 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: National...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture or import a new chemical to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisions pertaining to the manufacture or import of substances not on the TSCA...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture or import a new chemical to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisions pertaining to the manufacture or import of substances not on the TSCA...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The EPA seeks to establish a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with a commercial partner to develop, market and distribute to small businesses accounting software templates designed to introduce small and medium-sized businesses...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
EPA Region 10 used a screening tool to conduct a limited review of the White Pass Ski Area. Based upon the screen, EPA does not foresee having any environmental objections to the proposed project. Therefore, EPA will not be conducting a detailed revi...
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This Notice, pursuant to section 6(f)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq., announces that EPA has issued Notices of Intent to Suspend pursuant to sections 3(c)(2)(B) and 4 of FIFRA. The Notices...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (``CERCLA'' or ``the Act''), as amended, requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (``NCP'') include a list of national priorit...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA'' or ``the Act''), requires that the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (``NCP'') include a list of national priorities among the known...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
EPA is announcing the availability of approximately $498 thousand in fiscal year 1998 grant/cooperative agreement funds under section 20 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) as amended, (the Act), for grants to States an...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
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.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The EPA is providing notice of OMB approval of a revised Notice of Intent (NOI) for stormwater discharges associated with construction activities (EPA Form No. 3510-9, OMB Approval No. 2040- 0188). This form will replace all previous NOI forms used f...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The EPA is implementing a project under the Project XL program for the OSi Specialties, Inc. plant, a wholly owned subsidiary of Witco Corporation, located near Sistersville, West Virginia (the ``Sistersville Plant''). The terms of the XL project are...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
The EPA is implementing a project under the Project XL program for the OSi Specialties, Inc. plant, a wholly owned subsidiary of Witco Corporation, located near Sistersville, West Virginia (the ``Sistersville Plant''). The terms of the XL project are...
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Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

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Presidential Document Mar 06, 1998

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 Mar 06, 1998
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes to amend and relocate the regulations covering the Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) service. The notice of proposed rulemaking also asks whether the FCC should consider adopting new rules addressin...
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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The FDIC, 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 collections, as required by the...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl) sebacate as a...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
In the August 29, 1997, issue of the Federal Register (62 FR 45966), we published a final rule with comment period revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating costs and capital-related costs to implement necessa...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
SAMHSA's CMHS plans to award a renewal MFP grant to the APA for the clinical training of psychiatric trainees who plan service careers working with ethnic minority populations with mental and addictive health disorders. The project period for the ren...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend its regulations on notice of certification of invalidity or noninfringement of a patent to provide additional methods for new drug and abbreviated new drug applicants to provide notice to p...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
The Family and Youth Services Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families is publishing notice of final program priorities and announcing the availability of funds for:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of acidified solutions of sodium chlorite as an antimicrobial agent in the processing of red meat. This action is in response to a petition f...
Rule Mar 06, 1998

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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FEMA announces the following public consultation sessions: Name: Draft FEMA American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Policy Consultation Sessions. Dates: The public consultation sessions will be held in Seattle, Washington, on March 3, 1998 (Northwes...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Housing and Urban Development Department logo 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.
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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Notice of receipt of applications.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).
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The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the availability for public review of Volume I of a two volume draft multi- species recovery plan for the threatened and endangered species of South Florida and the ecosystems upon which they depend....
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The following lands, located in Imperial County, California, have been examined and found suitable for conveyance to the County of Imperial under the provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of June 14, 1926, as amended (43 U.S.C. 869 et...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
In accordance with the objectives of the Government Performance and Results Act and the Vice-President's National Performance Review, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) of the U.S. Department of the Interior is soliciting...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The temporary 2-year segregation of a proposed withdrawal of 1,374.13 acres of National Forest System land for the protection of the Brundage Mountain Ski Area expires April 15, 1998, after which the land will be open to mining. The land is located i...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
This order revokes, in their entirety, a Secretarial order and a Bureau of Reclamation order as they affect 25,505.12 acres of lands withdrawn for the Bureau of Reclamation's Mogollon Mesa Project. The project has not been developed and there is no f...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Rule 41(h) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure authorizes the Attorney General to designate categories of federal law enforcement officers who may request the issuance of search warrants. This rule adds the Office of Inspector General of the U...
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The Department of Justice is adding a categorical exclusion for actions by the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau). This new categorical exclusion is for actions undertaken by the Bureau that normally do no require the preparation of either an environmental i...
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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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 Mar 06, 1998
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Notice of consideration of amendment request for decommissioning the Phillip's Research Center's Radiation Laboratory in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and oppportunity for a hearing.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the NRC Regulatory Agenda for the period covering July through December of 1997. This agenda provides the public with information about NRC's rulemaking activities. The NRC Regulatory Agenda is a com...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
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Postal Service logo Postal Service

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This proposed rule will amend the standards for mail matter eligible to be sent at the Nonprofit Standard Mail rates. Specifically, mail matter that seeks or solicits membership dues payments may contain ``promotional'' material concerning membership...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Applicant seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. Applicant has never made a public offering of its securities and does not propose to make a public offering or engage in business of any kind. Filing Date: The applica...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') is extending the comment periods for two releases proposing rules and rule amendments under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Release Nos. 34- 39454 and 34-39455) and one concept release (Rel...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
Notice of application for an order under sections 6(b) and 6(e) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (``Act'') granting an exemption from all provisions of the Act, except section 9, section 17 (except for certain provisions of sections 17(a), (d), (f), (g), and (j)), section 30 (except for certain provisions of sections 30(a), (b), (e), and (h)), and sections 36 through 53, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
Notice Mar 06, 1998
Notice of application for an order under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') for an exemption from section 19(b) and rule 19b-1 under the Act.
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to all Airbus Model A300, A300-600, and A310 series airplanes. This proposal would require repetitive tests to detect desynchronization of the rudder servo a...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Airbus Model A310 and A300-600 series airplanes, that requires a one-time visual inspection to determine the accuracy of the outer placards of the static ports. This amendmen...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Bombardier Model CL-215-6B11 (CL-215T) series airplanes. This action requires either replacement of the switching valve-to-rear inlet case sealing air tube assembly with a tu...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain British Aerospace (Jetstream) Model 4101 airplanes, that requires replacement of the stringer joint pieces at the left side of the fuselage with new, improved parts. This...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This document proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 96-19-07, which currently requires the following on Burkhart Grob Luft-und Raumfahrt (Grob) Models G115C, G115C2, G115D, and G115D2 airplanes: installing a placard that restricts the ne...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Dornier Model 328-100 series airplanes, that requires replacement of electrical relays 15KF and 16KF, which control the auxiliary propeller control feathering system, wit...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to Eurocopter France Model SA-365N, SA-365N1, AS-365N2, and SA-366G1 helicopters. This action requires inspecting for rotational play or looseness of the outboard fin attachm...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all IAI, Ltd., Model 1121, 1121A, 1121B, 1123, 1124, and 1124A series airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections of the trim actuator of the horizontal stabilizer to verify...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Raytheon Model DH 125-1A and -3A series airplanes, that requires repetitive eddy current inspections to detect fatigue cracking of the main entry door/frame pressing, and...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This action corrects a charting error in the description of revised Class E airspace at Laconia, NH (KLCI) published in the Federal Register on February 20, 1998 (63 FR 8563) and intended to provide adequate controlled airspace for those aircraft usi...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This action corrects the comment due date in a Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions of prior petitions; request for comments, published on March 3, 1998 (63 FR 10425).
Notice Mar 06, 1998
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 3501, et seq.) the Department of Transportation has submitted the following emergency processing public Information Collection Requests (ICRs) abstracted below to the Office of...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document contains proposed rules for the allocation among controlled taxpayers and sourcing of income, deductions, gains and losses from a global dealing operation; rules applying these allocation and sourcing rules to foreign currency transacti...
Proposed Rule Mar 06, 1998
This notice is being published to announce the reopening by the Department of the Treasury of its Coupons Under Book-Entry Safekeeping (CUBES), and the opening of its Bearer Corpora Conversion System (BECCS) programs, pursuant to the newly amended 31...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Financial Management Service, 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 a continuing information collection. By this no...
Notice Mar 06, 1998
The Department of the Treasury (Department or Treasury) is issuing in final form an amendment to its regulations governing the CUBES (Coupons Under Book-Entry Safekeeping) program. The amendment provides a method to convert United States Treasury bea...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This is Supplement No. 10 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 1997 Revision, published July 1, 1997, at 62 FR 35548.
Notice Mar 06, 1998

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Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission

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On February 23, 1998, Don A. Christiansen, Chairman of the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission signed the Record of Decision (ROD) which documents the selection of the Proposed Action (the Riverine Habitat Restoration Alternative)...
Notice Mar 06, 1998

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

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This document adopts as a final rule the provisions of an interim final rule which amended the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations regarding compensation for disabilities resulting from undiagnosed illnesses suffered by Persi...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This document amends regulations of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by revising the delegations of authority concerning decisionmaking regarding complaints alleging discrimination on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age...
Rule Mar 06, 1998
This final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations to provide (or to pay for the provision of) necessary medical treatment to certain human subjects injured as a result of participation in VA research. Under the final...
Rule Mar 06, 1998

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