May 1, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register May 1, 1998

View all documents issued on May 1, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

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Agencies Publishing on May 1, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., this notice announces a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition.
Notice May 01, 1998
This final rule amends current regulations providing for Market-Related Contract Term Additions, by requiring the use of Industry Series Producer Price Indices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, rather than the previously required indices in the Co...
Rule May 01, 1998
The Angostura Diversity Unit Vegetation Management Plan original NOI which was published in the Federal Register / Vol. 57, No. 44 / Thursday, March 5, 1992 / Notices on page 7906 is hereby cancelled. A decision on this proposed action is no longer n...
Notice May 01, 1998

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Department of Commerce, 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, a...
Notice May 01, 1998
This proposed rule defines the term "harm," which is contained in the definition of "take" in the Endangered Species Act. The purpose of this rulemaking is to clarify the type of harm that may result in a take of a listed species under the ESA. This...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998
On April 14, 1997, the Department of Commerce received an application requesting circumvention inquiries of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled lead and bismuth carbon steel products from Germany and the United Kingdom. The a...
Notice May 01, 1998
NMFS revises guidelines for national standards 1 (optimum yield), 2 (scientific information), 4 (allocations), 5 (efficiency), and 7 (costs and benefits); and adds guidelines for new national standards 8 (communities), 9 (bycatch), and 10 (safety of...
Rule May 01, 1998
On April 14, 1998, Cemex, S.A. de C.V. filed a first Request for Panel Review with the U.S. Section of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. A second request for Panel Review was filed by Cementos...
Notice May 01, 1998
The U.S.-Haiti Business Development Council (BDC) was established in December, 1994 as a principal component of the Department of Commerce's program of activities in support of the Clinton Administration's Haiti Recovery Initiative. The BDC is chaire...
Notice May 01, 1998
The Department of Commerce, 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, a...
Notice May 01, 1998

Commission of Fine Arts logo Commission of Fine Arts

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Notice May 01, 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 adds to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List commodities and services previously furnished by such age...
Notice May 01, 1998
The Committee has received proposal(s) to add to the Procurement List a commodity and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE: June 1, 19...
Notice May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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On January 16, 1998, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a Concept Release concerning the regulation of noncompetitive transactions executed on or subject to the rules of a contract market. Through this release, the Commission solicited c...
Notice May 01, 1998
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is proposing to amend Commission Regulation 1.41(k) to allow additional changes in trading hours to be deemed approved by the Commission one business day after receipt of written notice of a cha...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998

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

Title Type Published
The Corporation for National and Community Service (hereinafter the "Corporation"), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal age...
Notice May 01, 1998

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Department of the Navy (DON) is removing certain regulations for adjustments to prices under shipbuilding contracts contained in the Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement (48 CFR part 5243, Secs. 5252.243-9000 and 5252.243-9001). The National De...
Rule May 01, 1998
In accordance with 37 CFR 404.6, announcement is made of the availability of U.S. Patent Application SN 09/035,910 entitled "Improved Method for Purifying Cholera Toxin." This patent has been assigned to the United States Government as represented by...
Notice May 01, 1998
The proposed action evaluated by the DEIS is the disposal of the Stratford Army Engine Plant (SAEP), in accordance with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, Public Law 101-510, as amended. The DEIS addresses the environmental impacts...
Notice May 01, 1998
The proposed action evaluated by this EA is the disposal of the DDMT, in accordance with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, Public Law 101-510, as amended. The EA addresses the environmental consequences of the disposal and subsequ...
Notice May 01, 1998
The United States Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry as the Board shall deem necessary into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the N...
Notice May 01, 1998

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This action removes a provision of a final rule concerning emission limitations for the second phase of the Nitrogen Oxides Reduction Program under Title IV of the Clean Air Act ("Act"). The provision was recently remanded to EPA by the U.S. Court of...
Rule May 01, 1998
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 Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):...
Notice May 01, 1998
A public meeting will be held by the Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards to review the EPA's announced plan to submit the following proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Bu...
Notice May 01, 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: Complian...
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice announces EPA's approval of an application for test marketing exemption (TME) under section 5(h)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and 40 CFR 720.38. EPA has designated this application as TME-98-02. The test marketing conditi...
Notice May 01, 1998
EPA used a screening tool to conduct a limited review of this action. Based upon the screen, EPA does not foresee having any environmental objections to the proposed project. Therefore, EPA will not be conducting a detailed review. ERP No. D-BLM-L080...
Notice May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998
The State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group(SFIREG) Pesticide Operations and Management Working Committee will hold a 2-day meeting, May 18 and 19, 1998. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentati...
Notice May 01, 1998
On March 12, 1997 (62 FR 11329), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a direct final rule concerning the approval of a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Delaware, consisting of two con...
Rule May 01, 1998
On May 29, 1997 (62 FR 29072), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule issuing final approval of a petition from the State of Louisiana requesting that the Lake Charles marginal ozone nonattainment area be e...
Rule May 01, 1998
On April 1, 1997 (62 FR 15402), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a direct final rule concerning the approval of Wisconsin's request for delegation of the Federal Air Toxics program contained within 40 CFR parts 61...
Rule May 01, 1998
On May 2, 1997 (62 FR 24045), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule that corrected the tolerance level for cranberries that had been listed incorrectly in a document published in the Federal Register on Ap...
Rule May 01, 1998
On May 21, 1997 (62 FR 27694), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule concerning the correction of two cross-references in a significant new use rule issued pursuant to section 5 of the Toxic Substances Con...
Rule May 01, 1998
On March 10, 1997 (62 FR 10703), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule concerning the establishment of tolerances for residues of the herbicide sulfentrazone (N-[2,4-dichloro-5-[4-(difluromethyl)-4,5-dihyd...
Rule May 01, 1998
On November 13, 1996 (61 FR 58303), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule concerning the extension of the time period during which certain alternative analytical test methods may be used in the Federal Ref...
Rule May 01, 1998

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM"), the Commission seeks comment or ways to simplify and make more uniform the Cable Television Service pleading and complaint process rules. This proceeding is initiated in conjunction with the Commission's...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
By this action, the Commission denies a petition for reconsideration filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated. QUALCOMM contends that the Commission is obligated to consider on its merits QUALCOMM's request for a pioneer's preference in the 2 GHz broadband Per...
Rule May 01, 1998
In order to implement the changes mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to serve the public more quickly and efficiently, the Commission is expanding the use of electronic filing in FCC proceedings. The Commission is amending its rules to pe...
Rule May 01, 1998
The Federal Communications Commission published in the Federal Register of December 9, 1997, a summary of a Report and Order that it adopted on November 25, 1997, that created a new regulatory framework for international telecommunications. The Commi...
Rule May 01, 1998

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
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 May 01, 1998

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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Notice May 01, 1998

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Title Type Published
The Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Board) is publishing a final rule adopting as final without change the revision of the Board's regulations concerning correction of administrative errors affecting Thrift Savin...
Rule May 01, 1998

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Trade Commission ("Commission") issued Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims ("guides") on July 28, 1992. The guides included a provision for public comment and review three years after adoption to determine whether there w...
Rule May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Notice May 01, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) filed by Marsam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The ANADA provides for inhalational use of isoflurane USP f...
Rule May 01, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. The NADA provides for veterinary prescription use of spectinomycin solution as...
Rule May 01, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is publishing the preliminary regulatory impact analysis (PRIA) that it has prepared under Executive Order 12866 and initial regulatory flexibility analysis (IRFA) that it has prepared under the Regulatory Flexi...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, to provide a 60-day advance opportunity for public comment on proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) is publishing for comment a summa...
Notice May 01, 1998

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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 continuing information collecti...
Notice May 01, 1998
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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 extension of a currently approv...
Notice May 01, 1998
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has submitted the following proposed information collection to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C....
Notice May 01, 1998
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has submitted the following proposed information collection to the Office of Management and Budget for emergency processing in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C....
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Alabama, (FEMA-1214-DR), dated April 9, 1998, and related determinations.
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Alabama (FEMA-1214-DR), dated March 9, 1998, and related determinations.
Notice May 01, 1998
This proposed rule would revise the categories of projects currently eligible for funding under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) by defining eligible mitigation activities under the HMGP to include nonstructural flood hazard mitigation meas...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Florida (FEMA-1195-DR), dated January 6, 1998, and related determinations.
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice lists the names of the members of the FEMA Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board.
Notice May 01, 1998
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone in the navigable waters of the Colorado River, Laughlin, Nevada, for the Laughlin River Days marine event on May 30 and 31, 1998. The Laughlin River Days event consists of various watercraft rac...
Rule May 01, 1998
This notice implements the special local regulations during the transit of participating vessels from Annapolis Harbor, Maryland, to the race start area on the Chesapeake Bay for Leg 8 of the Whitbread Round-the-World sailing race on May 3, 1998. The...
Rule May 01, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Tennessee (FEMA-1215-DR), dated April 20, 1998, and related determinations.
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Tennessee (FEMA-1215-DR), dated April 20, 1998, and related determinations.
Notice May 01, 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 May 01, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Notice correction.
Notice May 01, 1998
The Office of Surface Mining (OSM) of the United States Department of the Interior is making available for public comment, the draft PED/EIS for a petition to designate certain lands in the watershed and viewshed of Fall Creek Falls State Park and Na...
Notice May 01, 1998
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces its intention to request renewal of an existing approval to collect certain information from private landowners which will allow BLM to determine ro...
Notice May 01, 1998
The purpose of this notice is to inform the public and interested state and local government officials of the latest filing of Plats of Survey in California.
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Notice May 01, 1998
Public scoping meetings for an application for a Special Recreation Permit in an attempt to break the world land speed record
Notice May 01, 1998
In notice document Vol. 63, No. 62 beginning on page 15858 in the issue of Wednesday of April 1, 1998, make the following correction: The legal land description was written as follows:
Notice May 01, 1998
The following public lands, are located in Pinal County, Arizona, and found suitable for lease or conveyance under the provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 869, et seq.). The lands are not needed for federal pur...
Notice May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committees Act (Public Law 92-463) and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Public Law 94-579), the U. S. Bureau of Land Management's Northwest California Resource Advisory Council will meet...
Notice May 01, 1998
The temporary 2-year segregation of a proposed withdrawal of 20.00 acres of National Forest System land for the protection of the Nez Perce Indian Chinook Salmon Rearing Ponds expires June 24, 1998, after which the land will be open to mining. The la...
Notice May 01, 1998
In Public Land Order No. 7310, published January 14, 1998, as FR Doc. 98-852, on 63 FR 2260, third column, make the following corrections: 1. In the Heading, insert the word "Partial" prior to "Revocation of Executive Order Dated July 2, 1910". 2. In...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service), has established a District Advisory Council on Immigration Matters (DACOIM) to provide the New York District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service with recommendations on ways to...
Notice May 01, 1998
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Notice May 01, 1998
The Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services ("COPS") announces the availability of Universal Hiring Program (UHP) grants to pay up to 75 percent of the total salary and benefits for new officers over three years, and up...
Notice May 01, 1998
The Department of Justice is revising its administrative guidelines regarding preclearance of voting changes under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The amendment is necessary to conform the Department's guidelines with recent case law.
Rule May 01, 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 May 01, 1998

Labor Department logo Labor Department

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (...
Rule May 01, 1998
NCUA is adopting as final the interim final amendments to the investment regulation as issued last year. The final amendments revise the broker-dealer and safekeeping provisions. NCUA is also deleting the references to the High Risk Securities Test f...
Rule May 01, 1998

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
Notice May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Small Business Administration's intentions to request approval on a new, and/or currently approved information collection.
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State Department logo State Department

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain British Aerospace BAe Model ATP airplanes. This proposal would require repetitive inspections for discrepancies of the spring strut assembly of th...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Pratt & Whitney (PW) JT8D series turbofan engines, that currently requires initial and repetitive inspections of the No. 7 fuel nozzle and suppo...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
Correction May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice announces the FAA's policy with respect to foreign mandatory continuing airworthiness information, when no aircraft of the affected design are currently in operation in the U.S.
Notice May 01, 1998
Notice May 01, 1998
This notice proposes to modify the Class E airspace at Ukiah, CA, by lowering a portion of the base of controlled airspace from 9,500 feet mean sea level, (MSL) to 1,200 feet above ground level (AGL). This action is due to the proposed establishment...
Proposed Rule May 01, 1998
FRA is revising 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 cars, o...
Rule May 01, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document announces that as of April 25, 1998, Customs will no longer be collecting the Harbor Maintenance Fee for cargo loaded on board a vessel for export at a port subject to the Harbor Maintenance Fee. Further, this document announces that pr...
Notice May 01, 1998

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