March 19, 1999 (Volume 64)

Federal Register March 19, 1999

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This final rule amends the current provisions of regulations on emergency livestock assistance to delete regulations for obsolete programs and to provide new terms and conditions for the Livestock Assistance Program (LAP) authorized in the Agricultur...
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The Rural Utilities Service hereby announces the interest rates for advances on municipal rate loans with interest rate terms beginning during the second calendar quarter of 1999.
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On March 2, 1999, the President, Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) determined that 20,000 metric tons of non-fortified nonfat dry milk in 25 kg domestic commercially-marked bags be made available for donation overseas under section 416(b) of the Agr...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Technology Administration's Office of Technology Policy (OTP) announces the availability of funding for the following competition to be held in fiscal year 1999 under the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Technology (EPSCoT). The EPSC...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites interested parties to attend two half-day workshops regarding conformity assessment bodies for the EMC/Telecom Annexes of the US/EC Mutual Recognition Agreement and Telecommunication C...
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NMFS closes the commercial hook-and-line fishery for king mackerel in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Florida west coast subzone. This closure is necessary to protect the overfished Gulf king mackerel resource.
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The Department of Commerce, 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 collections, a...
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The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA (AA), on behalf of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC), publishes annual management measures promulgated as regulations by the IPHC and approved by the Secretary of State governing the P...
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The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burdens, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the continuing information collections, as required...
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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs increasing a guaranteed access level.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME or Exchange) has applied for designation as a contract market in the Euro Index Futures and Options and as a contract market in S&P Euro Plus Index Futures and Options contracts. The Acting Director of the Divisio...
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In accordance with the Office of Personnel Management guidance under the Civil Services Reform Act of 1978, notice is hereby given that the following employees will serve as members of the Commission's Performance Review Board. Chairperson: Linda Fer...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The Threat Reduction Advisory Committee will meet in closed session on March 25th and 26th, 1999. The Committee advises the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) on technology security, counterproliferation, chemical and biological...
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In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology announces the proposed extension of a public information collection and seeks public comment...
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Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a curr...
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Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary announces funding priorities for two Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTCs) and two Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPs) under the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for...
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The Secretary gives notice to institutions of higher education of the deadline for an eligible institution to apply for participation in the Work-Colleges Program and to apply for funding under that program for the 1999-2000 award year (July 1, 1999...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The Department of Energy (DOE) announces the availability of three Final Environmental Impact Statements (EISs): (1) the Commercial Light Water Reactor (CLWR) EIS, DOE/EIS-0288; (2) the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) EIS, DOE/EIS-0270; and,...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced...
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The Department of Energy (DOE) announces the extension of the scoping period for the environmental impact statement (EIS) that is being prepared in connection with an application for a Presidential permit filed by Public Service Company of New Mexico...
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The Department of Energy announces that it intends to conduct a competitive Program Solicitation and award financial assistance (cooperative agreements) for the program entitled ``Emission Control Technologies for Fine Particulate Matter, Ozone, and...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): EPA Office of Si...
Notice Mar 19, 1999
The National Center for Environmental Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces a public meeting to review draft chapters of a forthcoming EPA document entitled, Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter. This meeting w...
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EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action is an administrative change which revises the definitions in Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management (SMAQMD) Rule 101, San J...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
EPA is approving revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action is an administrative change which revises the definitions in Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management (SMAQMD), San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution C...
Proposed Rule Mar 19, 1999
We propose to approve the section 111(d) Plan submitted by Oklahoma on December 18, 1998, to implement and enforce the Emissions Guidelines (EG) for existing Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfills. The EG require States to develop plans to collect lan...
Proposed Rule Mar 19, 1999
We are approving the section 111(d) Plan submitted by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) on December 18, 1998, to implement and enforce the Emissions Guidelines (EG) for existing Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfills . The EG req...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
EPA supports the restoration concept and encourages their proper implementation. EPA believes that improving water quantity delivery alone will not restore the Everglades and the South Florida ecosystem; instead, both water quantity and water quality...
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The national Tribal Solid Waste Interagency Workgroup (Workgroup) is soliciting proposals for its Tribal Open Dump Cleanup Project (Cleanup Project). Approximately $1.6 million is available to fund selected proposals with the possibility of additiona...
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The Charter for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Microbial Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Advisory Committee (MDBPAC) will be renewed for an additional two-year period, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Commi...
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EPA is announcing the availability of approximately $498 thousand in fiscal year 1999 grant/cooperative agreement funds under section 20 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) as amended, (the Act), for grants to States an...
Notice Mar 19, 1999
In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement concerning the J C Pennco Super...
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In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (``SARA''), Public Law 99-499, notice is...
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Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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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...
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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...
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This document released on February 24, 1999, under delegated authority, announced a unified policy regarding dismissing and returning applications and dismissing pleadings associated with applications. The policy is intended to promote: the correct f...
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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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Louisiana has scheduled a special election on May 1, 1999, to fill the U.S. House seat in the First Congressional District vacated by Congressman Robert Livingston. Under Louisiana law, a majority winner in a non-partisan special election is declared...
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Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

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General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

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Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the guidance entitled ``Compliance Guidance: The Mammography Quality Standards Act Final Regulations Document #1.'' The final regulations implementing the Mammography Quality St...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ``Formal Dispute Resolution: Appeals Above the Division Level.'' This draft guidance is intended to provide guidance for industry on proce...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ``Formal Meetings with Sponsors and Applicants for PDUFA Products.'' This draft guidance document is intended to provide guidance to indus...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled ``Compliance Guidance: The Mammography Quality Standards Act Final Regulations Document #2.'' This draft guidance is neither final nor is it in effec...
Notice Mar 19, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Pfizer, Inc. The supplemental NADA provides for extended use of doramectin in cattle for...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp. The supplemental NADA provides for expanding the indi...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of phosphorous acid, cyclic neopentanetetrayl bis(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4- methylphenyl)ester as an antioxidant in polypropylene homopol...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) filed by Med-Pharmex, Inc. The ANADA provides for use of 40- and 80-gram packets and 32-ounce con...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Ticona has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of polyphenylene sulfone resins as articles or components of articles intended f...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation to regulations governing opening of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) swing bridge over the Mokelumne River at East Isleton, CA (the Mokelumne Rive...
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Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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HUD is establishing a Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The establishment of the committee is required by the Quality Housing and Work Opportunity Act of 1998, which requires issuance of regulations un...
Proposed Rule Mar 19, 1999
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Mar 19, 1999
The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.
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The proposed information collection requirement described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposa...
Notice Mar 19, 1999
This rule revises the chart in the public housing development regulations showing the numbers assigned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approving information collections contained throughout those regulations. This revision is necessary t...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
HUD is establishing a Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The establishment of the committee is required by the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, which requires issuance of regulations...
Proposed Rule Mar 19, 1999

Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The following list of original cadastral survey plats was accepted by the Chief for Public Services and Land Records Section, Utah State Office, Bureau of Land Management on August 10, 1998. The following list of official documents was also transmitt...
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This order withdraws 1,440 acres of public land from surface entry and mining for 20 years for the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Unaweep Seep Research Natural Area which includes riparian values and rare and endangered species. The land ha...
Notice Mar 19, 1999
MMS is proposing to update one document incorporated by reference and add one new document incorporated by reference in regulations governing oil and gas and sulphur operations in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The new editions of these documents...
Proposed Rule Mar 19, 1999

Justice Department logo Justice Department

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In March 1999, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) will begin offering the Basic Pilot to all employers in the state of Nebraska. The Basic Pilot is a free employment eligibility confirmat...
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This Treasury decision will establish a viticultural area in Napa County, California, to be known as ``Yountville.'' This viticultural area is the result of a petition submitted by the Yountville Appellation Committee.
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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Notice Mar 19, 1999
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general pubic and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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National Institute for Literacy

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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces an Information Collection Request (ICR) by the NIFL. the ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected cost and burden.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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By letter dated January 18, 1999, Entergy requested an exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR 72.214 to store BPRAs in VSC-24s at the ANO ISFSI. ANO is a general licensee, authorized by NRC to use spent fuel storage casks approved under 10 CFR Part 72, Subpart K. Furthermore, ANO is using the VSC-24 design approved by NRC under COC No. 1007 to store spent fuel at the ISFSI.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued draft NUREG-1701 entitled ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for the Advanced Vapor Laser Isotope System (AVLIS) Facility'' for review and comment.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a draft NUREG-1702 entitled ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for the Tank Waste Remediation System Privatization (TWRS- P) Project'' for review and comment.
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Postal Regulatory Commission

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Notice of new cases affecting nonletter-sized business reply mail.
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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

State Department logo State Department

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The Department has replaced the Burroughs visa with a machine- readable visa (MRV). Since the MRV displays a digitized photo of the visa recipient, the Department is amending the nonimmigrant visa regulations to require all applicants for nonimmigran...
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Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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K.C. Irving, Limited (Irving), a noncarrier holding company that controls several motor passenger carriers, and its subsidiary, S.M.T. (Eastern), Limited (SMT Limited), a motor passenger carrier, filed an application under 49 U.S.C. 14303 for control...
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Trade Representative, Office of United States

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Under the United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act (the ``FTA Act''), products of qualifying industrial zones encompassing portions of Israel and Jordan or Israel and Egypt are eligible to receive duty-free treatment. Effective upon pu...
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Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting Airworthiness Directive (AD) 99-03-10 which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of Agusta Model A109E helicopters by individual letters. This AD requires, be...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
This action confirms the effective date of Airworthiness Directive (AD) 99-02-15, which applies to certain Avions Pierre Robin Model R2160 airplanes. AD 99-02-15 requires repetitively inspecting the engine bearer for cracks, and replacing the engine...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to certain The New Piper Aircraft, Inc. (Piper) Model PA-46-350P airplanes. The proposed AD would require installing reinforcement plates to the wing forward and aft...
Proposed Rule Mar 19, 1999
This action corrects the title of the controlling agency from ``FAA, Pensacola RATCF,'' to ``FAA, Pensacola TRACON,'' and changes the using agency from ``Commander, Training Air Wing Six, Naval Air Station,'' to ``U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squad...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its findings on the noise compatibility program revision submitted by the City of Naples under the provisions of Title I of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 (Pub. L. 96-193) and 1...
Notice Mar 19, 1999
This document announces the availability of airworthiness design standards for acceptance of the Model Deland Travelaire airplane under the FAA's rules on designation of applicable regulations for primary category aircraft. A notice requesting commen...
Rule Mar 19, 1999
This action amends the Gulf of Mexico High Offshore Airspace Area. Specifically, this action modifies the Gulf of Mexico High Offshore Airspace Area by extending the boundaries further east and south of the current location to the Houston Air Route T...
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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...
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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 Mar 19, 1999
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The...
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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection(ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The I...
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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