October 1, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register October 1, 1998

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The designation of Michigan Grain Inspection Services, Inc., (Michigan), has been amended to include the former Lima Ohio area.
Notice Oct 01, 1998
GIPSA announces designation of the following organizations to provide official services under the United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act): Amarillo Grain Exchange, Inc. (Amarillo); Fostoria Grain Inspection, Inc. (Fostoria); D.R. Schaal A...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Foreign Agricultural Service (``FAS'') invites proposals from interested parties to use Costa Rican, Dominican Republic, Guatemalan, Jamaican, and Sri Lankan currencies acquired by the United States government for market development projects and...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
Section 615 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998, specifies that ``the Secretary shall sponsor a conference to be known as the National Conference on Food Safety Research, for the purpose of beginning the task of...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
GIPSA requests comments on the applicants for designation to provide official services in the geographic area assigned to Alton Grain Inspection Department (Alton).
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The designations of the official agencies listed below will end in May and June 1999. GIPSA is asking persons interested in providing official services in the areas served by these agencies to submit an application for designation. GIPSA is also aski...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
GIPSA is currently running three pilot programs; timely service, open season, and barge, under one of the 1993 amendments to the United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act). This amendment provides that GIPSA may conduct pilot programs allowi...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is soliciting comments on its proposal to certify wheat protein content results on any specified moisture basis requested by applicants, in addition to certifying results on the curr...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
We are adopting a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the list of suppressive areas under the witchweed quarantine and regulations by removing areas from 12 counties in North Carolina and 3 counties in South Carolina. The interim...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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On July 13, 1998, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain agricultural tillage tools from Brazil for the period Jan...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
NMFS issues a final rule implementing part of Amendment 39 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI), Amendment 41 to the FMP for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (GO...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
NMFS is closing directed fishing for pollock by trawl vessels using nonpelagic trawl gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 1998 Pacific halibut bycatch allowance specifie...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
NMFS is closing directed fishing for pollock by trawl vessels using nonpelagic trawl gear in Bycatch Limitation Zone 1 (Zone 1) of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) except for the red king crab savings subarea. This action is...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
NMFS is opening directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 630 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to fully utilize the total allowable catch (TAC) of pollock in that area.
Rule Oct 01, 1998
NMFS issues this final rule to amend the dealer reporting requirements for the summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, surf clam, ocean quahog, Northeast (NE) multispecies, Atlantic sea scallop, Atlantic mackerel, squid, and butterfish fisheries and t...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
NMFS announces that the Regional Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS, is considering approval of an experimental fishing proposal that would allow vessels to conduct operations otherwise restricted by regulations governing the Fisheries of the Nort...
Proposed Rule Oct 01, 1998
Notice is hereby given that Dr. Bruce R. Mate, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon 97365-5296, has been issued a permit to take various species of large whales and opportunistically take by Level B harassment other species of marine mammals, for...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
On September 1, 1998, U.S. Steel, LTV Steel Company, Inc., Bethlehem Steel Corp., National Steel Corporation, and Inland Steel Industries, Inc. (collectively) filed a First Request for Panel Review with the Canadian Section of the NAFTA Secretariat p...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
In accordance with section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is automatically initiating five-year (``sunset'') reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders, findi...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) published a final rule in the Federal Register of July 24, 1998, that revised certain patent fee amounts for fiscal year 1999. Since then, a continuing resolution appropriations bill has been passed by the Congre...
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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 preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal a...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The invention listed below is assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and is available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/025033 entitled ``Optically Stimula...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Military Sealift Command 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 ne...
Notice Oct 01, 1998

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Energy Department logo Energy Department

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing an amendment to a notice of receipt of request by registrant to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations.
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Chief Information Officer for the Environmental Protection Agency has granted a waiver to the Agency to use the cryptographical features provided in Travel Manager Plus in lieu of the Secure Hashing Standard (FIPS PUB 180-1), Digital Signature St...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
EPA is extending the comment period for a proposed rule establishing standards for lead-based paint hazards in most pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities under authority of section 403 of the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). The proposed...
Proposed Rule Oct 01, 1998
The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an Implementation Order to Streamline Small Grants. The purpose of the order is to simplify and improve the administration of Small Grants. The Agency has determined that small grant recipients should no...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
This notice announces the availability of an updated version of the Pesticide Data Submitters List which supersedes and replaces all previous versions.
Notice Oct 01, 1998

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

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This notice lists one (1) new High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area designated by the Director of National Drug Control Policy.
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Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The Commission seeks additional comment in wireless Enhanced 911 (E911) rulemaking proceeding with respect to an ex parte presentation filed by Ad Hoc Alliance for Public Access to 911 (Alliance) on September 17, 1998. In its ex parte filing and its...
Proposed Rule Oct 01, 1998
This action revises the Commission's list of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved public information collection requirements with expiration dates. This list will provide the public with a current list of public information collection requi...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
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 t...
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service logo Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

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The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is seeking comments on the following information collection requests. FMCS submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of three FMCS forms. The forms are Arbitrator...
Notice Oct 01, 1998

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board logo Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

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Government Accountability Office logo Government Accountability Office

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Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463), as amended, notice is hereby given that the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board will hold a two-day meeting on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 2...
Notice Oct 01, 1998

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105-89) signed into law on November 19, 1997, includes a section requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare a report to the Congress on children in foster care who are placed in...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting any comments, information, or data regarding topically applied allergenic products used for the diagnosis of Type IV allergies (also referred to as delayed hypersensitivity or cell-mediated immune...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
In the July 31, 1998 issue of the Federal Register (63 FR 40594), we published a final rule revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for operating costs and capital- related costs to implement applicable statutory requirem...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
On June 26, 1998, we published in the Federal Register, at 63 FR 34968. an interim final rule with comment period that explains and implements those provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 that established the Medicare+Choice program. This noti...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This notice reopens the comment period for a proposed rule affecting Medicare payments to ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) that was originally published in the Federal Register on June 12, 1998 (63 FR 32290). This document gives notice of a delay i...
Proposed Rule Oct 01, 1998
Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is given of a meeting of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. The Commission will continue addressing (1) the protection of the rights an...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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The Coast Guard adopts as final, with changes, an interim rule published on May 20, 1996 that revises the lifesaving equipment regulations for U.S. inspected vessels.
Rule Oct 01, 1998
The Coast Guard, after consultation with the Department of Justice, Department of Interior and the Department of Commerce, is establishing a permanent Regulated Navigation Area (RNA) along the northwest Washington coast and in a portion of the entran...
Rule Oct 01, 1998

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 requires the Secretary to publish FMRs annually to be effective on October 1 of each year. FMRs are used for the Section 8 Rental Certificate Program (including space rentals by owners of manuf...
Rule Oct 01, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we) amends the regulations for wildlife and plant permits to update the addresses for submission of permit applications. Recently revised Office of Management and Budget information collection numbers also ar...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
In accordance with Section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and Section 1501 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, an environmental assessment and proposed resource management plan amendment has been prepared for...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we), in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management, the Colorado Division of Wildlife, and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will reintroduce black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) into northw...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) provides notice of the availability of an EA/HCP for the Lazy K Bar Ranch in Pima County, Arizona. LKB, LLC (Applicant) has applied to the Service for an incidental take permit pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
Public notice is hereby given that no new Special Recreation Permit applications for commercial operations on the Gulkana National Wild River will be authorized for a period of three years, the tentative time frame under which a Limits of Acceptable...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is streamlining its exchange regulations at 43 CFR group 2200 by amending Sec. 2200.0-7 of part 2200 and by removing parts 2210, 2240, 2250, and 2270. Section 2200.0-7 states that, apart from the Federal Land Polic...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
Notice is given that the document titled ``Addendum #1 to the Assessment Plan for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the Grand Calumet River, Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, Indiana Harbor and Associated Lake Michigan Environments'' (``The Addendum...
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This final rule of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) amends regulations addressing the public availability of mineral resource information. The purpose of this rule is to remove conflicts between the Department of the Interior (the Department) regu...
Rule Oct 01, 1998

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted a review pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on anhydrous sodium metasilicate...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on barium carbonate from Germany...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on television receivers from Japa...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted a review pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on high-power microwave amplifier...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted a review pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether termination of the suspended investigation on small electric motors from J...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted a review pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on sorbitol from France would be...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the countervailing duty order on sugar from the European Unio...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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Notice Oct 01, 1998
This final rule amends regulations relating to the manufacturers excise tax on firearms and ammunition. Under 26 U.S.C. 4181, a tax is imposed on the sale by the manufacturer, importer or producer of firearms, shells, and cartridges. The tax is 10 pe...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a forthcoming meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Space Science Advisory Committee, Structure and Evoluti...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

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Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A300 B2 and B4 series airplanes, that currently requires inspections for cracks of the fuselage, wings, and vertical stabilizer structures; and rep...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This amendment revises Airworthiness Directive (AD) 96-12-03 R1, which applies to Aviat Aircraft, Inc. (Aviat) Models S-1S, S-1T, S- 2, S-2A, S-2S, and S-2B airplanes that are equipped with aft lower fuselage wing attach fittings incorporating part n...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747-100, -200, and -300 series airplanes, that requires the replacement of certain switches located in the cabin attendant's panel at doors 1 and 3 right wit...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Mitsubishi) MU-2B series airplanes. This AD requires inspecting each forward attachment fitting bolt of the wing tip tanks for the cor...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing to amend the Transportation Acquisition Regulation (TAR) to implement and supplement the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Circulars 97-01 through 97-03, to delete unnecessary FAR implementation,...
Proposed Rule Oct 01, 1998
This action amends Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) at Berkeley Springs, WV. The development of a Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) at Potomac Airpark h...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises the Class E airspace at Cambridge, NE, and corrects the geographic coordinates of the Harry Struck Nondirectional Radio Beacon (NDB) as published in the direct final rule.
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This action amends Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) at Fort Drum, NY. The development of Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) based on the Instrument Landing System (ILS) and Global Positioning System...
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This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Newton, IA.
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This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Scottsbluff, NE.
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This document adopts as final most of the amendments made by interim final rules to the air bag warning label requirement in Standard No. 213, ``Child Restraint Systems'' (49 CFR 571.213). The required label warns that a rear-facing child restraint m...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This final rule corrects editorial errors, makes minor regulatory changes, and in response to requests for clarification, improves the clarity of certain provisions in the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR). The intended effect of this rule is to...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its findings on the noise compatibility program submitted by the Manchester Airport Authority under the provisions of Title I of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-19...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
This interim final rule implements a new program established by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), under which States can qualify for incentive grant funds if they adopt and implement effective programs to reduce highway dea...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This document amends an exemption from the odometer disclosure requirements for vehicles ``ten years old or older'' to clarify that the term ``years'' refers to ``model years.'' 49 CFR 580.17(a)(3). The rule also amends the exemption by including a f...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comme...
Notice Oct 01, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the OCC, the Board, and the FDIC (the ``agencies'') may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collec...
Notice Oct 01, 1998
This document provides notice of a public hearing on proposed regulations relating to the treatment of corporate subsidiaries of S corporations. In addition, this document announces that persons wishing to testify in the Los Angeles area will be able...
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This document contains temporary and final regulations relating to the use of mileage allowances to substantiate automobile business expenses. The regulations affect payors who make payments and employees who receive payments under reimbursement or o...
Rule Oct 01, 1998
This document contains proposed regulations relating to the use of mileage rates to substantiate automobile business expenses. The regulations affect taxpayers who deduct expenses, and payors who make payments and employees who receive payments under...
Proposed Rule Oct 01, 1998

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