October 26, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register October 26, 1998

View all documents issued on October 26, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

120 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 26, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the final rule that was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, September 24, 1998 (63 FR 50965-50979). The rule pertains to the insurance of nursery crops.
Rule Oct 26, 1998
This document contains corrections to the proposed rule (Docket No. 97-054P) which was published Friday, September 11, 1998 (63 FR 48961). The proposed rule would limit the amount of water retained by raw, single-ingredient, meat and poultry products...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS announces the submission of the draft Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) for Secretarial review. The draft HMS FMP integrates existing management for the Atlantic tunas, swordfish, and shark fisheries, defines ov...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted Amendment 56 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska and Amendment 56 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Ale...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene public meetings.
Notice Oct 26, 1998
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The Pacific Northwest Crab Industry Advisory Committee has scheduled a meeting.
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) requests comments on a proposed Internet usage policy. The policy is intended to provide guidance to PTO employees regarding the use of the Internet for official PTO business. The policy is to cover (1) communica...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
NMFS has received a request from the BP Exploration (Alaska), 900 East Benson Boulevard, Anchorage, AK 99519 (BPXA) for an authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals by harassment incidental to construction of an offshore oil platform and...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
The Secretary proposes a Long-Range Plan (LRP) for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for fiscal years (FY) 1999-2004. As required by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, the Secretary takes this action to...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Leader, Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Financial and Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Leader, Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Financial and Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Leader, Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Financial and Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) intends to hold a staff technical conference on November 5, 1998 at 9:00 AM, in the Commission Meeting Room, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., to discuss the proposed pre-filing collaborat...
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The Department of Energy announces a competitive solicitation for applications for grants and cooperative agreements for information dissemination, public outreach, training, and related technical analysis and technical assistance activities involvin...
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NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) has applied to the Department of Energy (DOE) for a Presidential permit to construct a 500,000-volt transmission line originating at the switchyard of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona, and extendi...
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is proposing to revise its regulations governing oil pipelines. The goals of these proposed revisions are to clarify the Commission's regulations and bring them up to date.
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to...
Notice Oct 26, 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: Non-road...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
EPA is providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessment. Under 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders assessing civil penalties of various violations of the Act. EPA may issue such orders after filing a Complaint co...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
In this action, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine that the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 10 micrometers (PM10) that...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92- 463), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gives notice of a meeting of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board. The Good Neighbor Environmental Board was created by the Enterprise for...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
EPA is extending the comment period for the proposed significant new use rule (SNUR) for twelve chemical substances. As initially published in the Federal Register of September 9, 1998 (63 FR 48157) (FRL-6020-8) the comments were to be received on or...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
This final rule announces the revocation of tolerances for residues of the pesticides listed in the regulatory text. EPA is revoking these tolerances because EPA has canceled the food uses associated with them. The regulatory actions in this document...
Rule Oct 26, 1998
This final rule announces the revocation of tolerances for residues of the pesticides listed in the regulatory text. EPA is revoking these tolerances because EPA has canceled the food uses associated with them. The regulatory actions in this document...
Rule Oct 26, 1998
EPA will transfer to its contractor, Dynamac Corporation and its subcontractors: DynCorp and ISSI Confidential Business Information (CBI) that has been or will be submitted to EPA under section 3007 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
Over the past year, the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Mobile Sources (OMS) have begun a collaborative publ...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission will consider implementing Section 335 of the Communications Act regarding public interest requirements for Direct Broadcast Satellite Systems.
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission logo Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA)...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a final rule to reclassify the tweezer-type epilator from class III (premarket approval) to class I (general controls) when intended to remove hair. FDA is also exempting this device from the premarke...
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Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to announce the OMB approval number for the collection of information pertaining to Section 941.205 which request the Public Housing Agency (PHA) to submit contracts/ certificate, HUD-52427, HUD-52484, required for the d...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The purpose of this notice is to announce the OMB approval number for the collection of information pertaining to Sections 941.101, 941.303, 941.606, 941.610 which requires the Public Housing Agency (PHA) to submit information for the development of...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
This notice amends existing delegations and redelegations of authority to issue the administrative sanctions of suspension, debarment, and limited denial of participation (LDP) under 24 CFR part 24. This amendment also requires that the Office of Gen...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arizona State Office and Tucson Field Office, in response to a land exchange proposal from ASARCO Incorporated (Asarco) has prepared a DEIS in compliance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
The U.S. Parole Commission is amending the Point Assignment Table it uses to determine the suitability for parole of prisoners serving sentences under the District of Columbia Code. The amended Point Assignment Table is intended to clarify the scorin...
Rule Oct 26, 1998

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Space Science Advisory Committee, Solar System Exploration Subcommi...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
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.
Notice Oct 26, 1998
Notice of meeting change.
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National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
NARA is giving public notice that the agency has submitted to OMB for approval the information collection described in this notice. The public is invited to comment on the proposed information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 199...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
NARA is giving public notice that the agency has submitted to OMB for approval the information collection described in this notice. The public is invited to comment on the proposed information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 199...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

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National Council on Disability

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the schedule of the forthcoming conference calls for NCD's advisory committees--International Watch and Technology Watch. Notice of this meeting is required under Section 10(a)(1)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L....
Notice Oct 26, 1998

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

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended), notice is hereby given that the following meetings of the Humanities Panel will be held at the Old Post Office, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington,...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission

Title Type Published
At its sixth on-site meeting the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, established under Pub. L. 104-169, dated August 3, 1996, will hear presentations from invited panels of speakers, receive public comment, and conduct its normal meeting busin...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

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National Science Foundation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Title Type Published
The PBGC is considering: Discontinuing use of its existing lump sum assumptions for payment purposes and replacing them with a modified version of its existing annuity assumptions, effective sometime after December 2000, and discontinuing calculation...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation solicits public comment on its proposal to amend its regulations to provide for the use of a single set of valuation assumptions--those currently used by the PBGC to value benefits to be paid as annuities--for...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations governing the Student Educational Employment Program. The regulations recodify the two components of the Program; implement Executive Order 13024, which permits noncompetitive conv...
Rule Oct 26, 1998

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Title Type Published
These final rules add regulations relating to the use of SSA's telephone lines. In the new regulations, we describe the limited circumstances under which SSA employees may listen-in to or record telephone conversations and the procedures we will foll...
Rule Oct 26, 1998

State Department logo State Department

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
This notice announces the petitions that were accepted for the 1998 GSP Annual Review for modifications of GSP product eligibility; lists the schedule for the public hearing on these petitions, for requesting participation in the hearing, and for sub...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
A notice was published in the Federal Register dated October 16, 1998, Volume number 63, FR DOC. 98-27861, page 55673, announcing a meeting of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC) scheduled for October 30, 1998 from 1:00 p.m. t...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747- 400, 757, 767, and 777 series airplanes, that currently requires a revision to the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) to prohibit ce...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
This amendment revises an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Pratt & Whitney PW2000 series turbofan engines, that currently requires a reduction in the cyclic service life limit for hubs, disks, airseals, blade retaining plates, and...
Rule Oct 26, 1998
Correction Oct 26, 1998
We are issuing this document to announce that we will be holding a public meeting on technical issues relating to our proposal to require advanced air bags. The purposes of our public meeting are to review and discuss our technical paper on proposed...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
This notice announces receipt by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a petition for a decision that 1989- 1991 Volkswagen Golf 4-Door Sedans that were not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable Federal motor v...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
Notice Oct 26, 1998
On August 7, 1998, NHTSA sent to Congress a report titled, ``School Bus Safety: Safe Passage for America's Children.'' The report outlined NHTSA's current and future actions on school bus safety. A comprehensive research plan for the next generation...
Proposed Rule Oct 26, 1998
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption of new or revised criteria, or because of changes...
Rule Oct 26, 1998
This amendment establishes, amends, suspends, or revokes Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) for operations at certain airports. These regulatory actions are needed because of changes occurring in the National Airspace System, such as the...
Rule Oct 26, 1998
This document publishes interim implementation guidance on section 1110 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), Pub. L. 105-178, 112 Stat. 107, for the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program (CMAQ) to offer...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is amending its regulation governing international lending. This amendment removes the lengthy discussion concerning the accounting for fees on international loans and instead states that the accoun...
Rule Oct 26, 1998
The Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4701 et seq.) (the ``Act'') authorizes the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (``the Fund'') to select and provide assistance to eligible applicants un...
Notice Oct 26, 1998
The Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4701 et seq.) (the ``Act'') authorizes the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the ``Fund'') of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to select and provi...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

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United States Information Agency

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985, 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978 (43 F.R. 13359, March 29, 1978), and Delegation Orde...
Notice Oct 26, 1998

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