December 29, 1998 (Volume 63)

Federal Register December 29, 1998

View all documents issued on December 29, 1998. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

95 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 29, 1998

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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On December 17, 1998, the Rural Utilities Service published a notice announcing the interest rates for advances on municipal rate loans. The interest rate table was incorrect. Therefore, in notice document 98-33433, beginning on page 69611 in the iss...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
This notice informs the public of the annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates for meals served in the Summer Food Service Program for Children (SFSP). These adjustments reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index and are required by the statute...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) maintains the Commerce Control List (CCL), which identifies those items subject to Department of Commerce export licensing requirements. Consistent with technological changes, this interim rule adjusts the Li...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
Notice Dec 29, 1998
NMFS issues a correction to the final rule, published in the Federal Register of November 19, 1998, which revised the rules of conduct and financial disclosure provisions applicable to Council nominees, appointees, and voting members. This correction...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
Notice is hereby given that Dr. Bruce R. Mate, Oregon State University, has requested an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 369-1440.
Notice Dec 29, 1998
On October 30, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105- 330. This law requires that the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) study a variety of issues surrounding trademark protection for the official insignia of federally and/or state recognized...
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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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Notice Dec 29, 1998

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), announcement is made of the following meeting: Name of Committee: Distance Learning/Training Technology Subcommittee of the Army Education Advisory Committee....
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to provide guidance on the applicability of certain clauses to cost-reimbursement architect-engine...
Proposed Rule Dec 29, 1998
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to increase the required penal amount of payment bonds on construction contracts over $6,250,000 a...
Proposed Rule Dec 29, 1998
The Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have agreed to issue an addendum to correct Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 97-07 to make amendments to the Federal Acquisition R...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
This announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FESS) which assesses the potential environmental impacts of the construction and operation of a facility to pilot test the chemical neutralization process followed by superc...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Education Department logo Education Department

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Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year 1999 under the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program.
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The Secretary of Education proposes to establish absolute priorities for the FY 1999 grant competitions under the Native Hawaiian Curriculum Development, Teacher Training and Recruitment Program and the Native Hawaiian Family-Based Education Centers...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice Dec 29, 1998
This notice grants the ``Petitions for Extension,'' dated October 6, 1998, from the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association (GAMA) on behalf of Aero Environmental Limited, American Water Heater Company, Bock Water Heaters, Bradford-White Corporation,...
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The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed closing of high- level waste tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina. DOE proposes to close the tanks to protect human...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted the proposed information collection request (ICR) described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub....
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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This document announces an amendment to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory Update Rule (IUR) that extends the reporting deadline for 1998. The time for reporting has been extended so that IUR reports are now due by January 31, 1999. Th...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: 1999 Hazar...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Air Pollut...
Notice Dec 29, 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: Informat...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: National E...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) on November 19, 1990, to provide the independent advice and counsel to EPA on policy issues associated with implementation of the Clean Air Act of 1990...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
This document announces a stakeholders meeting sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Risk Assessment Forum (Forum). The Forum intends to develop Agency-wide guidance on setting ecological management goals. This meeting will provide...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92- 463), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives notification of a two-day meeting of the Title VI Implementation Advisory Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environ...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Lodi Municipal Well Superfund Site (Site) located in Lodi, Bergen County, New Jersey, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is t...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Hill Property (HP) portion of the American Cyanamid Superfund Site from the National Priorities List (NPL). The American Cyanamid Site is located in Bound Brook, Ne...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Frontera Creek Superfund Site (Site) located in Rio Abajo within the Municipality of Humacao, Puerto Rico, from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CF...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region II announces the deletion of the Denzer & Schafer X-Ray Company Site in Bayville, New Jersey from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR part 300 which is the National Oil...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
EPA is extending the public comment period on the Notice of Data Availability of the draft RCRA Waste Minimization PBT Chemical list (63 FR 60332, November 9, 1998) to February 16, 1998.
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission modifies its practices and procedures regarding the assignment of call signs to radio and television broadcast stations. The document replaces the Commission's existing manual procedures with an...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
On December 22, 1998, the Commission released a public notice announcing the January 7, 1999, conference call meeting and agenda of the North American Numbering Council (NANC). The North American Numbering Council (NANC), has scheduled a meeting to b...
Notice Dec 29, 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, as required by the P...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection requirements described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is soliciting public comments o...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The Federal Trade Commission Rules of Practice and certain other Rules are being revised to reflect certain address changes.
Rule Dec 29, 1998

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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This proposed regulation streamlines and simplifies the assignment of the disposal condition codes which Federal agencies use to report their excess personal property for utilization and donation. This amendment will reduce the number of codes from 1...
Proposed Rule Dec 29, 1998
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Office of Acquisition Policy has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously approved info...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Government Accountability Office logo Government Accountability Office

Title Type Published
This notice identifies interim and final rules published by Federal agencies in the Federal Register that were not received by the General Accounting Office prior to the announced effective dates.
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 94- 463), the U.S. National Administrative Office (NAO) gives notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Committee for the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), which was esta...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
This notice is to advise the public that the date and address of the previously announced MACOSH meeting has been changed. The location of this meeting, which was announced in the Federal Register of December 1, 1998 (63 FR 66202) has had to be chang...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
This proposed rule sets out the Department of Labor (DOL) rules for implementing the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended (the Act). The Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in programs and activities receiving Federal financial ass...
Proposed Rule Dec 29, 1998

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Management and Budget Office

Title Type Published
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), 48 CFR Subpart 19.12, contains regulations providing for an SDB Participation Program to be used when evaluating the extent of participation of SDB concerns in performance of contracts in authorized standard...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
This is a final rule to conform NASA FAR Supplement MidRange Procurement Procedures with FAR 19.10 and 13.5.
Rule Dec 29, 1998
This is a proposed rule to revise the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook to specify that for all awards of new grants and cooperative agreements and modifications of existing grants and cooperative agreements, management fee shall not be p...
Proposed Rule Dec 29, 1998

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Title Type Published
NCUA is amending part 707 of its regulations to implement certain statutory changes in the Truth in Savings Act (TISA). These amendments: modify the rules governing indoor lobby signs; eliminate subsequent disclosure requirements for automatically re...
Rule Dec 29, 1998

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National Transportation Safety Board

Title Type Published
The Board is correcting minor typographical errors and making other non-substantive changes primarily to update these rules to reflect the Board's current organization.
Rule Dec 29, 1998
The Board is modifying rules regarding the testimony of Board employees to clarify and codify existing policies.
Rule Dec 29, 1998

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Title Type Published
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Notice of application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'').
Notice Dec 29, 1998
Notice of application for an order under Section 26(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``1940 Act'') approving the proposed substitution of securities.
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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Notice Dec 29, 1998
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The Board is instituting a proceeding to determine the railroad industry's cost of capital for 1998. The decision solicits comments on: (1) the railroads' 1998 cost of debt capital; (2) the railroads' 1998 current cost of preferred stock equity capit...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
DOT, STB
Notice Dec 29, 1998

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
On or before January 21, 1999, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) intends to request authorization from the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to suspend tariff concessions on certain products of the Europe...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 747 series airplanes, that requires repetitive detailed visual inspections to detect corrosion on the rear spar web of the wing center section and adjacent b...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-10 series airplanes and KC-10A (military) airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections to detect cracking of the lower cap of the wing rear...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
Notice Dec 29, 1998
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that we have suspended preparation of an environmental impact statement for a proposed transportation improvement project in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
Notice Dec 29, 1998
This interim final rule amends the regulations that implement the Section 410 program, under which States can receive incentive grants for alcohol-impaired driving prevention programs. The amendments to the regulations reflect changes that were made...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
FRA is updating its announcement of RSAC's working group activities to reflect the current status of working group activities.
Notice Dec 29, 1998
FRA announces the next meeting of the RSAC, a Federal Advisory Committee that develops railroad safety regulations through a consensus process. The meeting will address a wide range of topics, including possible adoption of specific recommendations f...
Notice Dec 29, 1998
This is to notify the public that RSPA is investigating the unauthorized marking of high-pressure compressed gas cylinders by Fire Protection Service (FPS), in Canton, Ohio. RSPA has determined that FPS has marked cylinders indicating they had been r...
Notice Dec 29, 1998

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations that implement provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988. The final regulations generally affect a taxable corporation that transfers all or substantially...
Rule Dec 29, 1998
This document contains proposed consolidated return regulations relating to the treatment of overall foreign losses and separate limitation losses in the computation of the foreign tax credit limitation. The proposed rules are necessary to modify exi...
Proposed Rule Dec 29, 1998
This document contains temporary amendments to the consolidated return regulations. The temporary amendments modify the date temporary regulations apply as published in the Federal Register on January 12, 1998, and modified by amendments published in...
Rule Dec 29, 1998

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United States Information Agency

Title Type Published
This document amends the Agency's current regulations implementing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in order to conform with the amendments required by the Electronic Records Act of 1996.
Rule Dec 29, 1998

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