October 21, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register October 21, 1998

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Agencies Publishing on October 21, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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Correction Oct 21, 1998
In response to the continued need of the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of the Interior for advice on coordination and implementation of the Record of Decision (ROD) of April 13, 1994, of Management of Habita...
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The Secretary of Agriculture announces the new appointments to fill 12 vacancies on the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board.
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In response to the continued need of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) for advice on coordination and implementation of the Record of Decision (ROD) of April 13, 1994, of Managem...
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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., the United States Department of Agriculture announces a meeting of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board.
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This proposed rule would revise the United States Standards for Grades of Table Grapes (European or Vinifera Type). These standards are issued under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946. The proposal would change the specific varietal reference thr...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS announces the dates and locations of four additional workshops for longline vessel operators scheduled during 1998. NMFS held one workshop on October 9, 1998, in New Bedford, MA. Additional workshops will be held through February 1999, to meet r...
Rule Oct 21, 1998
Notice is hereby given that the following entities have applied for scientific research permits authorizing the take of endangered and/or threatened species: Thomas R. Payne and Associates (TRPA) in Arcata, CA (1180), Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC)...
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The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the ACE Basin (SC) and Wells (ME) National Estuarine Research Reserves. These evaluations will be conducted pursuant to sections 312 a...
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Notice is hereby given of the availability of the Final Administrative Changes to the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program Guidance (Administrative Changes), developed under section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 199...
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NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock by vessels catching pollock for processing by the offshore component in the Bering Sea subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceedi...
Rule Oct 21, 1998
NMFS proposes specifications for the 1999 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries. The implementing regulations for the Fishery Management Plan for the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries (FMP) require NMFS to publish spec...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
NMFS has identified overfished stocks or stocks that are approaching a condition of being overfished, as required by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson- Stevens Act), as amended by the Sustainable Fisheries Act (SF...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The President's Export Council (PEC) will hold a full Council meeting to discuss topics related to export expansion. The meeting will include briefings on trade priorities and issues, the Asia monetary crisis, the World Trade Organization, economic s...
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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the Technical Advisory Committee to Develop a Federal Information Processing Standard for the Federal Key Management Infrastructure will hold a meeting on Nove...
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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has submitted information collection 3038-0026, Gross Margining of Omnibus Accounts, to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13. A carrying futures commission mer...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has submitted information collection 3038-0012--Futures Volume, Open Interest, Price Deliveries and Exchange of Futures for Physicals to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,...
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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 (the Corporation) will use approximately $100,000 to award one or two grants to organizations that currently operate a national service program enrolling AmeriCorps members, for the purpose of increa...
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Defense Department logo 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 requirement of section 155 of Pub. L. 104-164 dated 21 July 1996.
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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 Pub. L. 104-164 dated 21 July 1996.
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This final rule establishes financial protections for TRICARE Prime enrollees in limited circumstances when they receive covered services from a non-network provider.
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Pursuant to the provisions of Subsection (d) of Section 10 of Public Law 92-463, as amended by Section 5 of Public Law 94-409, notice is hereby given that a closed meeting of the DIA Science and Technology Advisory Board has been scheduled as follows...
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This document removes information in Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations concerning enlisted administrative separations. This part has served the purpose for which it was intended in the CFR and is no longer necessary.
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Emerald Creek Garnet Company is proposing to initiate dredge mining of alluvial garnet deposits on an approximately 416 acre site along the St. Maries River in Benewah and Shoshone Counties, Idaho. The site contains approximately 160 acres of wetland...
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The DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
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Working Group C (Electro-Optics) of the DOD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
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Working Group B (Microelectronics) of the DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
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Working Group A (Microwave Devices) of the DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
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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, Kirtland Area Office (Sandi...
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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), Oak Ridge Reserva...
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Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is hereby given of the following Advisory Committee meeting: Environmental Management Site- Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Rocky Flats.
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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EPA is extending the comment period for a document published on September 16, 1998 (63 FR 49517). In this document, EPA proposed approval of Pennsylvnia's August 21, 1998 State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision for the enhanced motor vehicle inspect...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
Due to receipt of adverse comment, EPA is withdrawing the direct final rule for the approval of revisions to the Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP). EPA published the direct final rule on September 16, 1998 (63 FR 49436), approving revision...
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EPA is approving the recodification of the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) regulations controlling emissions of lead from stationary sources. The recodification consists of a renumbering of the sections and administrative changes to the rules....
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
In this action, the EPA is approving the recodification of the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) regulations controlling emissions of lead from stationary sources. The recodification consists of a renumbering of the sections and administrative ch...
Rule Oct 21, 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 Oct 21, 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 Oct 21, 1998
In accordance with the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA is proposing Federal implementation plans (FIPs) that may be needed if any State fails to revise its State implementation plan (SIP) to comply with the nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) SIP call just com...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
In accordance with section 126 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA is proposing action on petitions filed by eight Northeastern States seeking to mitigate what they describe as significant transport of one of the main precursors of ground-level ozone, ni...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
Idaho has applied for final authorization of the revision to its hazardous waste program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This authorization addresses regulations promulgated between July 1, 1993 and July 1, 1996 with the exce...
Rule Oct 21, 1998
The EPA proposes to grant final authorization to the hazardous waste program revisions submitted by the State of Idaho. In the final rules section of this Federal Register, EPA is authorizing the State's program revisions as an immediate final rule b...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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On reconsideration, the Commission is deleting from the Electronic Filing of Documents in Rulemaking Proceedings the requirement that comments filed electronically over the Internet include the telephone number of the commenting party. This ruling wi...
Rule Oct 21, 1998
This document corrects portions of the Commission's rules that were published in the Federal Register of October 15, 1998 (63 FR 55389).
Notice Oct 21, 1998

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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This document amends the regulation issued by GSA for donations made to educational activities of special interest to the armed services. The amendment is necessary to comply with subsection 203(j)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Servic...
Rule Oct 21, 1998

Government Ethics Office logo Government Ethics Office

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After this first round notice and public comment period, OGE plans to submit a slightly revised version of its OGE Form 450 for confidential financial disclosure reporting under its existing executive branch regulations for review and three-year appr...
Notice Oct 21, 1998

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency processing under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA). The proposed...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency processing under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA). The proposed...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled ``Registration of Cosmetic Product Establishment'' has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a new FDA reference panel for tests intended to detect antibody to human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type II (HTLV-II Reference Panel 1). The HTLV-II Reference Panel 1 is used for...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), Section 104(i)(3) [42 U.S.C. 9604(i)(3)] directs the Administrator of ATSDR to...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Great Lakes Chemical Corp. has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of siloxanes and silicones, methyl hydrogen, reaction produc...
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This notice announces the inpatient hospital deductible and the hospital and extended care services coinsurance amounts for services furnished in calendar year 1999 under Medicare's hospital insurance program (Medicare Part A). The Medicare statute s...
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As required by section 1839 of the Social Security Act, this notice announces the monthly actuarial rates for aged (age 65 or over) and disabled (under age 65) enrollees in the Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) program for 1999. It also...
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This notice announces the hospital insurance premium for calendar year 1999 under Medicare's hospital insurance program (Part A) for the uninsured aged and for certain disabled individuals who have exhausted other entitlement. The monthly Medicare Pa...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance document (dated September 1998) entitled ``Guidance for Industry: Current Good Manufacturing Practice for Blood and Blood Components: (1) Quarantine and Disposition o...
Notice Oct 21, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The Minerals Management Service (MMS) will hold a day-long meeting with parties interested in the development of deep water leases that may involve subsea well completions. We are interested in developing specific criteria to be used in distinguishin...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposes to remove the Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris fisheri Merriam) from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew was listed as a threaten...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) provides notice that the public comment period on the proposed rule to list the northern Idaho ground squirrel (Spermophilus brunneus brunneus) as a threatened species is being reopened to consider new scientif...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
Pursuant to section 2(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended by section 4 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 1083, 30 U.S.A. 201(b), and to the regulations adopted as 43 CFR, subpart 3410, all interes...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
Correction Oct 21, 1998

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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Revised schedule for the subject investigations.
Notice Oct 21, 1998

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

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This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (th...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The purpose of this notice is to announce the annual list of labor surplus areas.
Notice Oct 21, 1998
This document contains a notice of pendency before the Department of Labor of a proposed amendment to PTE 93-33. PTE 93-33 is a class exemption that permits the receipt of services at reduced or no cost by an individual for whose benefit an individua...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
This document contains a notice of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of a proposed amendment to PTE 97- 11. PTE 97-11 is a class exemption that permits the receipt of services at reduced or no cost by an individual for whose be...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Inte...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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This is a final rule amending the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) to revise its existing coverage on phased acquisitions and down-selections to reflect changes in NASA Procedures and Guidance (NPG) 7120.5A, NASA Program and Project Management Processes and...
Rule Oct 21, 1998

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission

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At the meeting of the Research Subcommittee of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, established under Public Law 104-169, dated August 3, 1996, the members of the Subcommittee will discuss issues related to its research agenda, including th...
Notice Oct 21, 1998

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National Science Foundation

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Ti...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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This notice announces the schedule for a series of workshops on the draft guidance, the website address and structure, and staff plans to hold additional technical meetings and telephone conferences, as needed, to discuss emerging issues and to prepa...
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to amend its regulations concerning the authority for licensees of production or utilization facilities, such as nuclear reactors, and independent spent fuel storage facilities, to make changes to the fa...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the completion and availability of NUREG-1556, Vol. 8, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance About Exempt Distribution Licenses,'' dated September 1998.
Notice Oct 21, 1998
This notice is to remind all importers and distributors of consumer products containing radioactive material regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of NRC licensing requirements governing the distribution of these products to unlicensed...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Revision...
Notice Oct 21, 1998

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is publishing an interim regulation to increase the cost-of-living allowance (COLA) rate paid to General Schedule, U.S. Postal Service, and certain other Federal employees in the City and County of Honolulu, H...
Rule Oct 21, 1998
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published an interim regulation for comment on March 25, 1997, (62 FR 14188) to increase the cost-of-living allowance (COLA) rates paid to General Schedule, U.S. Postal Service, and certain other Federal emplo...
Rule Oct 21, 1998
This notice publishes the ``Report on 1997 Surveys Used to Determine Cost-of-Living Allowances in Nonforeign Areas.'' The results of the surveys are used to determine cost-of-living allowances (COLAs) paid to General Schedule, U.S. Postal Service, an...
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Postal Service logo Postal Service

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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Notice of application for an order under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'').
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Notice of application for an order under section 17(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') for an exemption from section 17(a) of the Act.
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Notice of an application under section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Investment Company Act of 19940 (the ``Act'') for an exemption from section 12(d)(1) of the Act, and under sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from section 17(a) of the Act.
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Trade Representative, Office of United States

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The Industry Sector Advisory Committee (ISAC-1) will hold a meeting on October 21, 1998 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The meeting will be upon to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and closed to the public from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model MD-90-30 series airplanes. This proposal would require modification of the right and left main landing gear (MLG) hydrauli...
Proposed Rule Oct 21, 1998
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardo...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardo...
Notice Oct 21, 1998
The Coast Guard is establishing an emergency safety zone for the port of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This safety zone is necessary to protect vessels and the port from navigation hazards associated with downed electrical power cables that stretch into Guan...
Rule Oct 21, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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