August 6, 1999 (Volume 64)

Federal Register August 6, 1999

View all documents issued on August 6, 1999. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The proposed revised Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan), the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), and associated documents are being released for public review and comment on August 6, 1999. Six separate documents, and a set of m...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has established the Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture. In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), notice is hereby given of three public listening sessio...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This rule would increase the assessment rate from $0.02 to $0.025 per standard box of fresh Bartlett pears established for the Northwest Fresh Bartlett Pear Marketing Committee (Committee) under Marketing Order No. 931 for the 1999-2000 and subsequen...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
This document invites written comments on a proposal to suspend a portion of the supply plant shipping standard and a producer delivery requirement of the Southwest Plains Federal milk marketing order (Order 106) for the period of September 1999 thro...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Notice Aug 06, 1999
NMFS has determined that the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) General category restricted-fishing day (RFD) schedule should be adjusted, i.e., certain RFDs should be waived, in order to allow for maximum utilization of the General category June- August su...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
In response to a timely request by Thai Benkan Corporation, Ltd., (TBC), the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings (pipe fittings)...
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Notice of extension of time limits for preliminary results of antidumping administrative review.
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In the Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Brazil, 64 FR 38756, 38792 (July 19, 1999) (Hot-Rolled Steel Final Determination) the Department of Commerce (the...
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On May 10, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the Department''), pursuant to sections 751(c) and 752 of the Tariff Act from 1930, as amended (``the Act''), determined that revocation of the antidumping duty order on natural bristle paint brushes fro...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
On February 4, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the Department''), pursuant to sections 751(c) and 752 of the Tariff Act from 1930, as amended (``the Act''), determined that revocation of the antidumping duty order on sorbitol from France would be...
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On January 4, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') initiated a sunset review of the antidumping duty order on carbon steel wire rope from Mexico (64 FR 364) pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act'...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
NMFS issues a final rule that amends regulations implementing the License Limitation Program (LLP) by adding an application process and a transfer process for LLP licenses. This action is necessary to complete final implementation of the LLP, and is...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
NMFS announces that the commercial salmon fishery in the area from Fort Ross to Point Reyes, CA, was closed at midnight, July 12, 1999. The Northwest Regional Administrator, NMFS (Regional Administrator), has determined that the commercial quota of 2...
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The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on industrial nitrocellulose (INC) from the United Kingdom in response to a request by the petitioner, Hercules Incorporated. This review...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on persulfates from the People's Republic of China in response to requests by the petitioner, FMC Corporation, and by two manufacturers/exporters of the s...
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As a result of a remand from a Binational Panel, convened pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Department of Commerce is amending its final results in the ninth antidumping duty administrative review of Porcelain-on-Steel Cookware...
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The Department of Commerce is announcing the final Procedures for Delivery of HEU Natural Uranium Component in the United States.
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Pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act from 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the United States International Trade Commission (``the Commission'') determined that revocation of the antidumping finding on stainless steel plate from Sweden is not...
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The Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on sebacic acid from the People's Republic of China in response to requests from the petitioner, Union Camp Corporation, and the following three responden...
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In response to a request by Tohoku Steel Co., Ltd. (Tohoku), the Department of Commerce (the Department) is initiating a changed- circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and issuing an intent to revoke in part the antidumping duty order...
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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 Aug 06, 1999
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
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Education Department logo Education Department

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The Secretary proposes to amend the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations governing participation in the student financial assistance programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (Title IV, HEA progra...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
The Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education (Assistant Secretary) issues regulations that apply the eight percent (8%) indirect cost limitation for the Department's educational training grants to all funds that States and local educational ag...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve an amendment to the carbon monoxide (CO) State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Minnesota. Minnesota submitted this amendment to the SIP to the EPA in four separate submittals, dated November...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
EPA is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern New Source Review permitting requirements for stationary sources in San Diego County. EPA also proposes to elimin...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published June 17, 1999 (64 FR 32458), regarding visibility impairment at the Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) and the possibility...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding lack of an air quality impact analysis to determine impacts from prescribed burning, the lack of information and commitment to carrying out a monitoring program to identify impacts from the implementatio...
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EPA is amending the procedural requirements for training and certification of workers involved in lead-based paint activities in target housing and child-occupied facilities by extending the effective dates for certification of individuals and firms...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for combined residues of N-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-(1-methylethyl)-2-[[5- (trifluoromethyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl]oxy]acetamide and its metabolites containing the 4-fluoro-N-methylethyl benzenamine moiet...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
EPA is requiring registrants of neurotoxic pesticides to conduct acute, subchronic, and developmental neurotoxicity studies and submit the results to EPA. These studies are designed to show the effects of a chemical on the nervous system. EPA will is...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This notice announces the availability for public comment of a Pesticide Registration Notice that presents EPA's proposed approach for managing risks from organophosphate pesticides to occupational users. The approach described in this notice applies...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
Notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (CERCLA), concerning the Upper Tenmile Creek Watershed site in Lewis and Clark County and Jefferson County, Mo...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
Notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLE) concerning the Upper Tenmile Creek Watershed Site, in Lewis and Clark and Jefferson Counties, Montana (the `...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This regulation extends a time-limited exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the desiccant sodium chlorate in or on wheat for an additional 1\1/2\-year period. This exemption from the requirement of a tolerance will expire and...
Rule Aug 06, 1999

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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The Commission revised its Schedule of Regulatory Fees on June 11, 1999, in order to recover the amount of regulatory fees that Congress has required it to collect for fiscal year 1999. See Report and Order in the Matter of Assessment and Collection...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
The Commission's amendments to 47 CFR 76.952 and 47 CFR 76.990, which contain information collection requirements, will become effective on August 31, 1999. These amendments, which were published in the Federal Register on July 2, 1999, relate to imp...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
On July 2, 1999, the Commission published a final rule which implemented provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that reform several parts of Title VI of the Communications Act of 1934, including a provision concerning notice by cable operat...
Rule Aug 06, 1999

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is proposing to amend its regulation establishing an outreach program for minority- and women-owned businesses and announcing its intention to utilize that portion of the Fede...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
On April 14, 1997, the FDIC published a proposed rule to provide that the FDIC certify the eligibility of businesses and law firms for the minority and women contracting program (62 FR 18059). The formal certification procedure would have replaced th...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend its regulations governing 180-day generic drug exclusivity under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act). The proposed rule clarifies existing eligibility requirements for abbrev...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled ``Infant Formula Recall Regulations'' has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of effectiveness, target animal safety, and human food safety data that may be used in support of a new animal drug application (NADA) or supplemental NADA for veterinary prescript...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the expanded safe use of 5,7-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-hydroxy-2(3H)-b...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Department of Health and Human Services notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet standards of Subpart C of Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (59 FR 29916, 29925). A similar notice li...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to include a limitation in the approval of Pliva d.d.'s abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA). The regulation did not state that use of Pliva d.d.'s oxytetracycl...
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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 nystatin, neomycin, thiostrepton, and tr...
Rule Aug 06, 1999

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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This rule identifies communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). These communities have applied to the program and have agreed to enact certain floodplain management measures. The communities' participation in the progra...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
FEMA announces the allocation of Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 funds for grants to States to address disaster-related needs not met by Federal disaster relief programs. The amount of $230 million is available to certain States for use in communities that hav...
Notice Aug 06, 1999

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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On February 26, 1999, HUD published its Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for HUD's Housing, Community Development, and Empowerment programs. In the FY 1999 SuperNOFA, HUD advised that it would publish in the Fede...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This document provides guidance on certain admissions and occupancy requirements for those public housing agencies that must implement changes in the United States Housing Act of 1937 regarding rents that are effective October 1, 1999.
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Eastern Washington Resource Advisory Council will take a field tour on August 26, 1999. The tour will start at 8:30 a.m., at the Spokane District Office of the Bureau of Land Management, 1103 N. Fancher, Spokane, Washington 99212-1275. The Counci...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management proposes to withdraw approximately 112,790 acres of Federal lands and minerals to protect prehistoric archeological sites and other valuable resources of the Perry Mesa area in central Arizona...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Bureau of Land Management has filed an application to withdraw 9,360.74 acres of public lands in Imperial County, California, to protect the archaeological and cultural resources located in the Indian Pass Area of Critical Environmental Concern a...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
OSM is reopening the public comment period on a proposed amendment to the Ohio regulatory program (Ohio program) under the surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Ohio is proposing revisions to Section 1501:13-1-04 of the Ohio Adm...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
Correction to final Notice of Sale for Sale 174.
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In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), announcement is made of a meeting of the Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Task Force.
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International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

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Notice Aug 06, 1999
The Commission received a request from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on August 2, 1999, to provide probable effects advice on proposed modifications to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) rules of origin. The United States...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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On January 5, 1999, the Attorney General designated Honduras and Nicaragua under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for a period of 18 months. Under the terms of the designation, applicants could apply for TPS during the registration period...
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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Notice Aug 06, 1999
This notice sets a date, time and place for a public hearing in connection with MSHA's accident investigation of the July 5, 1999 explosion at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Company's Gramercy Works facility in Gramercy, Louisiana. The United States Depa...
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a direct final rule that amends the Commission's regulations to permit power reactor licensees to implement certain quality assurance (QA) program changes without obtaining prior NRC approval of these ch...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Revision...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Revision 2....
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This notice announces the schedule and agenda for a Public Workshop to address the issues associated with developing License Termination Plans (LTPs) to support the decommissioning of nuclear power reactors and guidance to support the decommissioning...
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Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

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Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') for an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f-2 under the Act.
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Applicant, a unit investment trust, seeks an order declaring that it has ceased to be an investment company. On June 3, 1998, applicant made a liquidating distribution to its unitholders at net asset value per share. Expenses of approximately $9,600...
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State Department logo State Department

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The Department of State has conducted an environmental assessment of the proposed conversion by Portland Pipe Line Corporation of an existing pipeline from natural gas service to crude oil service crossing the international boundary near North Troy,...
Notice Aug 06, 1999

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

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DOT, STB
Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM) has filed an application seeking approval for its participation in an existing railroad agreement for the pooling of services related to multilevel cars used to transport motor vehicles and boxcars used to tr...
Notice Aug 06, 1999

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed its review of the Niagara Falls International Airport (IAG) preliminary application for participation in the airport privatization pilot program. The preliminary application is accepted for revi...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100) series airplanes, that currently requires revising the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) to re...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
This document revises an earlier proposed airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Fokker Model F27 Mark 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, and 700 series airplanes and Model F27 Mark 050 series airplanes, that would have required revising the...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to MDHI Model MD-900 helicopters, that currently requires applying specified serial numbers and establishing life limits for certain parts. This amendment is prompted by a...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-9, DC-9-80 and C-9 (military) series airplanes, and Model MD-88 airplanes. This proposal would require revising the wir...
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This notice announces a one day public meeting to be conducted by RSPA's Office of Pipeline Safety to review the final report of the Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework Working Group. This informal working group, consisting of representatives of the gas...
Notice Aug 06, 1999
This final rule amends the airworthiness standards to provide improved safety standards for rotorcraft load combination (RLC) certification. Several accidents occurred in the past 15 years involving the carriage of humans external to the rotorcraft....
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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This document contains final regulations relating to the adoption by the IRS of a balanced system to measure organizational performance within the IRS. These regulations further prescribe rules relating to the measurement of employee performance and...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
This document contains final regulations that provide guidance to employers covered by the Railroad Retirement Tax Act. The Railroad Retirement Tax Act imposes a supplemental tax on those employers, at a rate determined by the Railroad Retirement Boa...
Rule Aug 06, 1999
This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations with regard to the basic importation and entry bond condition under which, if merchandise is conditionally released to the principal named in the bond, the principal agrees to furnish Customs wi...
Proposed Rule Aug 06, 1999

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