January 15, 1999 (Volume 64)

Federal Register January 15, 1999

View all documents issued on January 15, 1999. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

131 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on January 15, 1999

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the availability of a paper prepared by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) that sets forth its new Meat Safety Enhancement Program (MSEP) for slaughter inspection in est...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
We are establishing animal health regulations to provide for the payment of indemnity by the United States Department of Agriculture for the voluntary depopulation of herds of swine known to be infected with pseudorabies. The payment of indemnity wil...
Rule Jan 15, 1999

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

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The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has established an advisory committee to assist it in developing a proposed rule on accessibility standards for electronic and information technology covered by the Rehabil...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has established an advisory committee to assist it in developing a proposed rule on accessibility guidelines for newly constructed and altered passenger vessels covered by...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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NMFS solicits comments on proposed regulations to implement proposed management measures for the American lobster fishery in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from Maine through North Carolina. The intent of these regulations is, in combination with...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
Notice is hereby given that the Interim Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures will be held January 31 through February 4, 1999, at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting is open to the public. The Natio...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Data Encryption Standard (DES) provides specifications for the Data Encryption Algorithm and is used by federal agencies (and others outside the government) for the protection of sensitive information. This standard, first issued in 1977, is revi...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Marine Fisheries Service are publishing for public comment a draft Memorandum of Agreement describing procedures for enhancing coordination regarding the protection of endan...
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NMFS solicits information on marine and anadromous species that may qualify as candidates for possible addition to the List of Endangered and Threatened Species, including information on the status of species currently classified as candidate species...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
NMFS corrects a notice of availability of Amendment 16A to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico to indicate the availability of a minority report. The minority report opposes Amendment 16A as inconsistent with...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
NMFS issues this final rule to implement measures contained in Framework 26 of the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This final rule implements management measures that expand the April Gulf of Maine (GOM) closure area and adds an...
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NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring 5,000 lb (2,268 kg) of commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Virginia from its 1999 quota. NMFS adjusted the quotas and announces the revised commercial quota for each...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
Notice is hereby given that: the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, 2570 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2396, has requested an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 848-1335; and the...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
Notice is hereby given that Sea World, Inc., 7007 Sea World Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821-8097 has been issued a permit to take Hawaiian monk seals, Monachus schauinslandi, for scientific research and enhancement purposes.
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory committees will meet in Anchorage, AK, the week of February 1, 1999.
Notice Jan 15, 1999
On November 30, 1998, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register (63 FR 65748) a notice announcing the initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on vector supercomputers, covering the peri...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

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 a commodity and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List commodities previously furnished by such...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List commodities and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete a commodity previously furnished by su...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty) of the Navy has...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The Department of the Navy is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Admiralty) of the Navy has...
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The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to update instructions for completion of a form that DoD contracting officers use to place orders for supplies and serv...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The Director of Defense Procurement has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 807 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999. Section 807...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to update guidance on simplified acquisition procedures for consistency with the reorganization of simplified acquisiti...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The Director of Defense Procurement is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to add procedures for reporting payment information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); to revise the procedures for obtaining...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999

Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary proposes funding priorities for one Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) and two Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERCs) under the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for fiscal...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice Jan 15, 1999
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Idaho Operations Office (ID) is seeking applications for cost-shared research and development of technologies which will enhance economic competitiveness, reduce energy consumption and reduce environmental impacts...
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Pursuant to Section 14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, App.2, and section 101-6.1015(a)(1), title 41, Code of Federal Regulations and following consultation with the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administration, n...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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On September 16, 1998, the State of Illinois submitted to EPA amendments to Volatile Organic Material (VOM) rules affecting Illinois' ozone attainment area (the area of the State not including the Chicago and Metro-East ozone nonattainment areas), as...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
EPA is finalizing a limited approval and limited disapproval of a revision to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) proposed in the Federal Register on August 7, 1998. This final action will incorporate this rule into the federally approved...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
EPA is finalizing a limited approval and limited disapproval of a revision to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) proposed in the Federal Register on August 3, 1998. This final action will incorporate this rule into the federally approved...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The USEPA is approving a requested source specific revision to the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone in the form of a variance from the otherwise applicable SIP requirements for DB Hess Company, Incorporated's lithographic printing p...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
USEPA is proposing to approve a requested source specific revision to the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone in the form of a variance from the otherwise applicable SIP requirements for DB Hess Company, Incorporated's lithographic pri...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
EPA is proposing to approve the September 16, 1998, Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision request containing amendments to Volatile Organic Material (VOM) rules affecting Illinois' ozone attainment area (the area of the State not includin...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin to accept proposals for the 1999 Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots on January 15, 1999. The brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund pilots (each funded up to $500,000) te...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
In association with its efforts to implement Presidential Executive Order 12873, ``Federal Acquisition, Recycling and Waste Prevention,'' and Executive Order 13101, ``Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention, Recycling and Federal Acquisition...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
EPA expressed environmental concerns. EPA requested more information to ensure that antidegradation requirements for water quality will be met, to discuss project impact to health ecosystem, and to further address cumulative impacts of this and other...
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This notice announces the availability of documents that were developed as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's process for making reregistration eligibility decisions for the organophosphate pesticides and for tolerance reassessments consis...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of its receipt of requests for amendment by Bayer Corporation, the sole U.S. registrant of the insecticide isof...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
On February 6, 1998 (63 FR 6288), the EPA proposed standards (the proposal or proposed standards) to limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) from existing and new natural gas transmission and storage facilities under section 112 of the Clea...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
On November 30, 1998, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol M. Browner announced the creation of a blue-ribbon panel of leading experts from the public health and scientific communities, automotive fuels industry, water utilities,...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission logo Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), that the February 11, 1999 regular meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board) will not be held. The Board will hold a special meeting at 9:00 a...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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By this Report and Order (``Order'') the Commission adopts a plan for non-Government operations in the 36.0-51.4 GHz band by providing separate primary designations for non-Government wireless and fixed-satellite services throughout the band. The Com...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The Commission amended its rules regarding access to cable programming. These rules contained new and modified information collection requirements and became effective on December 23, 1998.
Rule Jan 15, 1999
In this document, we grant the Rural Health Care Corporation's request to reconsider the Commission's decision regarding the funding year for the rural health care universal service support mechanism. We conclude that the public interest will be serv...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
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 Jan 15, 1999
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Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

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The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) published in the Federal Register of May 20, 1998, a document containing an interim final rule that made technical revisions to the Affordable Housing Program (AHP or Program) regulation, to clarify P...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is announcing the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) members it has selected for the 1998-99 fourth quarter review cycle under the Finance Board's community support requirement regulation. This notice a...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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This document corrects Appendix A to part 520 in the proposed rule published December 21, 1998 (63 FR 70368). The proposed rule concerned the requirements for carrier automated tariff systems in accordance with the Shipping Act of 1984, as modified b...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of silver chloride- coated titanium dioxide as a preservative in polymeric coatings for polyolefin films intended for use in contact with foo...
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This Notice provides the status of ATSDR's Superfund-mandated Substance-Specific Applied Research Program (SSARP), which was last updated in a Federal Register notice in 1996 (61 FR 14420). Authorized by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Comp...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Jan 15, 1999
This NOFA announces the availability of approximately $3.0 million for the Community Development Work Study Program (CDWSP). Purpose of the Program: To provide assistance to economically disadvantaged and minority graduate students who participate in...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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Notice Jan 15, 1999
In the Federal Register of December 28, 1998 (Vol. 63, Number 248), a notice was published. This amends that notice. Because of expressed interest, the public comment period is extended to March 1, 1999.
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The purpose of this announcement is to issue the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) administrative instructions for the implementation of Public Law (Pub. L.) 93-638, as amended. These administrative instructions are designed to provide BIA personnel wit...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
Periodic removals of wild horses are necessary in order to maintain a thriving natural ecological balance on the public rangelands. These removals are intended to bring the populations down to the established AML (Appropriate Management Levels). Thes...
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Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) have updated their MOU concerning responsibilities for offshore facilities. The update was necessary to add responsibilities associated with floating facilities, the Oil Pollu...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed approval by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of a lease of approximately 320 acres of Indian trust lands on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation for the purpose of constructing and oper...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Northern Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska has prepared a final environmental impact statement on a proposal to make the Squirrel River, located in northwestern Alaska, a component of the national wild and scenic rivers syst...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
This notice advises the public that the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) (63 FR 32238, June 12, 1998) for a proposed general plan and master lease of approximately 590 acres held in trust by the federal government for the Cabazon Band of M...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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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 Jan 15, 1999
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 Jan 15, 1999
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...
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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National Science Foundation

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to request reinstatement of this collection. In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), we are providing an opportunit...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans prescribes interest assumptions for valuing benefits under terminating single-employer plans. This final rule amends the regulation to adopt intere...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This notice informs the public of the interest rates and assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published elsewhere (or are derivable from rates published elsewhere), but...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation intends to request that the Office of Management and Budget extend its approval of a collection of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The purpose of the information collection, which will be conduc...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Postal Service logo Postal Service

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The U.S. Department of State will hold a briefing meeting January 26, 1999, for the public and for U.S. government agency representatives on international postal issues in the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The meeting is part of the process of formul...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

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Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974 (Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2242), requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or deny fair and equitable mar...
Notice Jan 15, 1999

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Agusta S.p.A. Model A109C and A109K2 helicopters. This amendment requires removing the main rotor pitch link assemblies, measuring the radial play of the upper and lower spherica...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A320 series airplanes, that requires installation of a rubber strip and replacement of connection sheets and the seal retainer on the avionics compartment ac...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A320 and A321 series airplanes. This amendment requires modification of the slat and flap control computer (SFCC) in the aft electronics rack. This amendment...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Fokker Model F.28 Mark 0100 series airplanes, that requires modification of the aft cabin sidewall area to improve decompression venting and, for certain airplanes, modif...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Lockheed Model L-1011-385-1 series airplanes, that requires modification of the power drive units and the lower drive sprocket assemblies of the galley lift system. This...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to RHC Model R22 helicopters, that currently requires initial and repetitive inspections of the forward flexplate (flexplate) at specified time intervals. This amendment a...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting Airworthiness Directive (AD) 98-17-15 which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Model S-76A, B, and C helicopters by individ...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This action amends the legal description of Jet Route 522 (J- 522) in the Rochester, NY, area, between the Toronto Flight Information Region/Control Area (FIR/CTA) and the Hancock Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range/Distance Measuring Equipment...
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Concordia, KS.
Rule Jan 15, 1999
This action amends Class E airspace areas at Garden City Municipal Airport, Garden City, KS. A review of the Class E airspace area for Garden City Municipal Airport indicates it does not comply with the criteria for 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL)...
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This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Grinnell, IA.
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This action amends Class E airspace area at Liberal Municipal Airport, Liberal, KS. A review of the Class E airspace area for Liberal Municipal Airport indicates it does not comply with the criteria for 700 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) airspace requ...
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Notice Jan 15, 1999
The FHWA is announcing the availability of a draft of Volume III, Scenario Analysis of the report for the Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight (TS&W) Study (October 1998) for review and comment. The document will be mailed to individuals that have pre...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Coordinating Council on Thursday, February 4, 1999. The following designations are made for each item: (A) is an ``action'' item; (I) is an ``information item;...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at Will Rogers World Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budge...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
In accordance with the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5117(c), RSPA is publishing the following list of exemption applications that have been in process for 180 days or more. The reason(s) for delay and the expected completion date for action on each appl...
Notice Jan 15, 1999
This notice proposes to modify Class D airspace and Class E airspace and establish Class E airspace at Kenosha, WI. This action would amend the effective hours of the Class D surface area and the associated Class E airspace to coincide with the airpo...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (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 extension of currently a...
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document contains proposed regulations relating to timely mailing treated as timely filing and paying under section 7502. The proposed regulations generally reflect changes to the law made since 1960. The proposed regulations affect taxpayers th...
Proposed Rule Jan 15, 1999
This document contains temporary and final regulations relating to timely mailing treated as timely filing and paying under section 7502. The temporary regulations generally reflect changes to the law made by the Internal Revenue Service Restructurin...
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