December 16, 1999 (Volume 64)

Federal Register December 16, 1999

View all documents issued on December 16, 1999. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

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Agencies Publishing on December 16, 1999

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announces the availability of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) for the Eme...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
On November 24, 1999, the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, published proposed regulations for recovering costs associated with processing applications for special use authorizations to use and occupy National Forest System lands and monitor...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a proposed rule on April 13, 1998 (63 FR 17959) to clarify the regulations and to supplement the rules for ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements for deriving meat using advances in m...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
On October 5, 1999, the Forest Service published a proposed rule to guide land and resource management planning on national forests and grasslands (64 FR 54074). The public comment period for this proposed rule is scheduled to end on January 4, 2000....
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of vegetation management through timber harvest and prescribed burning; road maintenance, reconstruction and construction; and habita...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This final rule amends regulations governing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to allow State agencies the option to defer the collection of blood test data for up to 90 days after the date of certifica...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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Notice Dec 16, 1999
NMFS adjusts the daily retention limit for the Angling category fishery for Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) in all areas to one large school or small medium BFT (measuring 47 to less than 73 inches (119 to less than 185 cm) curved fork length) per vessel...
Rule Dec 16, 1999
NMFS will present workshops on recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the Alaska groundfish fisheries.
Rule Dec 16, 1999
Notice is hereby given that Permit No. 938, issued to Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, P.O. Box 450, Moss Landing, CA 95039-0450 [Principal Investigator: Dr. James T. Harvey], was amended to extend the expiration date to December 31, 2000.
Notice Dec 16, 1999
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...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Economic Subcommittee will hold a meeting which is open to the public.
Notice Dec 16, 1999
NMFS is closing the waters of Pamlico Sound, North Carolina to fishing with gillnets with a mesh size larger than 5 inches (12.7 cm) stretched mesh for a 30-day period. The closed area includes all inshore waters of Pamlico Sound south of 35 deg.23'...
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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs adjusting limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing a limit.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing a limit.
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Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs extending suspension of the Group II restriction for certain products from India.
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Education Department logo Education Department

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Notice is hereby given that on November 12, 1998, an arbitration panel rendered a decision in the matter of Steven Erickson v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind (Docket No. R-S/97- 1). This panel was convened by the U.S. Department of E...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
Notice is hereby given that on September 25, 1998, an arbitration panel rendered a decision in the matter of David J. Stewart v. Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services (Docket No. R-S/97- 12). This panel was convened by the U.S. Department of...
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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The Office of Isotope Programs, Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) solicits responses for research programs for new and innovative uses of isotopes, including alpha emitting isotopes in the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, HIV and other infectious disease...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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This notice announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to r...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
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): RCRA Corrective...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) consisting of the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration for the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton severe nonattainment area (the Philadelphia area) submitted by the Delaware Department...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plans (SIPs) consisting of the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration for the Metropolitan Washington D.C. serious nonattainment area (the Washington area) submitted by the District of Columbia'...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) consisting of the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration for the Baltimore severe nonattainment area submitted by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) on April 29, 1998 an...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) consisting of the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration for the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton severe nonattainment area (the Philadelphia area) submitted by the Maryland Department...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) consisting of the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration for the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton severe nonattainment area (the Philadelphia area) submitted by the Pennsylvania Depart...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to conditionally approve the ground-level one-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Connecticut portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island severe ozone nonattainment area submitt...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the ground-level one-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Greater Connecticut ozone nonattainment area submitted by the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the ground-level 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration State implementation plan (SIP) for the Atlanta nonattainment area submitted by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GAEPD) on October 28, 1999, and supp...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to conditionally approve the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP or plan) for the Chicago-Gary-Lake County severe ozone nonattainment area submitted by the Illino...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to conditionally approve the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP or plan) for the Chicago-Gary-Lake County severe ozone nonattainment area submitted by the Indian...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to approve the ground-level one-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Springfield (Western Massachusetts) ozone nonattainment area submitted by the then Commissioner of the Massachusetts Depa...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
EPA is proposing to approve New Jersey's Ozone Attainment Demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island nonattainment area(NAA) and the Philadelphia, Wilmington, Trenton NAA or in the alternative to di...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
EPA is proposing to approve New York's 1-hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island nonattainment area or in the alternative to disapprove it, depending on whether New York sub...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The EPA is proposing to conditionally approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision for the Houston/Galveston nonattainment area submitted by the State of Texas on May 19, 1998. This submission was supplemented by a modeled control strategy an...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to conditionally approve the 1-hour ozone attainment demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Milwaukee-Racine, Wisconsin severe ozone nonattainment area submitted by the Wisconsin D...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
EPA is proposing a State Implementation Plan (SIP) call to require the State of Alabama to submit a 1-hour ozone attainment SIP for the Birmingham marginal nonattainment area within six months of final action on the SIP call. EPA is proposing to issu...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for a proposed action published November 9, 1999 (64 FR 61046). On November 9, 1999, the EPA proposed disapproval of requested revisions to the Michigan State Imp...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
This document provides information on the availability of fiscal year 2000 investigator-initiated grants program announcements, in which the areas of research interest, eligibility and submission requirements, evaluation criteria, and implementation...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for the combined residues of metsulfuron methyl and its 4-hydroxy metabolite (methyl 2-[[[[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2- yl)amino]carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl]-4-hydroxybenzoate) in or on sorghum...
Rule Dec 16, 1999
Today's document announces the availability of funding and solicits proposals from state, local, multi-state and tribal air pollution control agencies for mobile sources-related public education and outreach projects. The funding will be allocated by...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of certain pesticide chemicals in or on various food commodities.
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This document announces that, elsewhere in today's Federal Register, EPA is proposing individually to approve or conditionally approve, and, in the alternative, to disapprove attainment demonstration State implementation plans (SIPs or plans) for ten...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
This notices announces the availability of the revised risk assessments and related documents for one organophosphate pesticide, dimethoate. In addition, this notice starts a 60-day public participation period during which the public is encouraged to...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This notice announces that EPA expects to have approximately $5 million available in fiscal year 2000 grant/cooperative agreement funds under the Pollution Prevention Incentives for States (PPIS) grant program. Grants/cooperative agreements will be a...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This document provides information on the availability of a fiscal year 2000 grants program announcement for the award of up to five Hazardous Substances Research Centers. The areas of research interest, outreach activities, eligibility and submissio...
Notice Dec 16, 1999

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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The Board of Directors of the FDIC (Board) is amending its regulation governing assessments to change the reporting date used to determine the capital component of the assessment risk classifications assigned by the FDIC to insured depository institu...
Rule Dec 16, 1999

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Government Ethics Office logo Government Ethics Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Government Ethics has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a moderately revised version of the OGE- sponsored Standard Form (SF) 278 Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report for a three-year extens...
Notice Dec 16, 1999

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

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Notice Dec 16, 1999
This notice announces the availability of one final toxicological profile on unregulated hazardous substances prepared by ATSDR for the Department of Defense.
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This notice announces the availability of two new final toxicological profiles, comprising the 1st set developed for the Department of Energy, prepared by ATSDR.
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled, ``Guidance for Resorbable Adhesion Barrier Devices for Use in Abdominal and/or Pelvic Surgery.'' This draft guidance is not final nor is it in effec...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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We (FEMA) are increasing the limit of liability under Coverage D--Increased Cost of Compliance of the Standard Flood Insurance Policy from $15,000 to $20,000. New information indicates an expected decrease in annual claims, and based on this decrease...
Rule Dec 16, 1999
The Coast Guard is delaying indefinitely the effective date of the interim rule on regatta and marine parades published in the Federal Register on June 26, 1996. The interim rule more precisely identifies those marine events that require a permit, th...
Rule Dec 16, 1999

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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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 Dec 16, 1999
This notice is a follow-up to the PHAS notice published on October 21, 1999, which advised of transition assistance in connection with implementation of the PHAS for public housing agencies (PHAs) with fiscal years ending September 30, 1999, and Dece...
Notice Dec 16, 1999

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), we are notifying you that an information collection request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. We are also soliciting you...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
Pacific Bay Properties (the Applicant) has applied to the Fish and Wildlife Service for an incidental take permit pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. The Service proposes to issue a 30-year permit to the...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of a Final Comprehensive Design Plan for the White House and President's Park and Final Environmental Impact St...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The following applicants have applied for a scientific research permit to conduct certain activities with endangered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Notice Dec 16, 1999
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), reopen the comment period on the proposal to list the Santa Ana Sucker (Catostomus santaanae) as a threatened species. The comment period i...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The MMS is beginning preparation of an EA for proposed Lease Sale 177 (scheduled for August 2000) in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. In January 1997, MMS issued a Call for Information and Nominations/Notice of Intent (Call/NOI) to Prepare a...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
Under the provisions of Pub. L. 97-451, a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease MTM 88022, Stillwater County, Montana, was timely filed and accompanied by the required rental accruing from the date of termination. No valid lease has been is...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The Bureau of Land Management proposes to withdraw 131,340 acres of public land to protect the scenic and recreational values of portions of the Colorado, Dolores, and Green river corridors in Southeastern Utah. This notice segregates the lands for u...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This order withdraws 1,533 acres of public lands from mining, for a period of 50 years, for the Bureau of Land Management to protect the riparian areas, wildlife habitat, scenic quality, public access, and high value recreational resources of the Sou...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Pinedale Field Office invites the public to provide information on BLM-administered public lands and resources in the Snake River planning area and to identify issues and concerns to be addressed in the environme...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
This notice announces a meeting and tour of the Arizona Resource Advisory Council. The one-day business meeting will be held on January 21, 2000, in Phoenix, Arizona. The RAC meeting will begin at 9 a.m and will conclude at approximately 4 p.m. The m...
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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The Department of Justice proposes to exempt a Privacy Act system of records from subsections (c)(3) and (4); (d); (e)(1), (2), (3), (5), and (8); and (g) of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a. The system of records is: the ``Immigration and Naturalizati...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
The Department of Justice proposes to exempt a Privacy Act system of records from subsections (c)(3) and (4); (d); (e)(1), (2), (3), (5), and (8); and (g) of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a. The system of records is the ``Worksite Enforcement Activity...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title Type Published
This rule proposes to amend the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) by eliminating the term ``elements'' as a category in evaluations. NASA does not numerically weight and score ``elements'' and therefore they have ceased to have significance in the evaluation...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999

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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Panama Canal Commission

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This action notifies the general public the Panama Canal Commission records of birth, death, or marriage received from the Panama Canal Zone Government in 1979 have been transferred to either the Department of State or the National Archives and Recor...
Notice Dec 16, 1999

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

State Department logo State Department

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Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985, 22 U.S.C. 2459 ), the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.), Delegat...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The Office of Geographic Liaison (IIP/G) announces an open competition for a book donation/information technology services program. Private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in IRS regulation 26 CFR 1.501(c)(3) may submit prop...
Notice Dec 16, 1999

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to BHTC Model 407 helicopters. This proposal would require modifying the door latch assemblies on all four crew and passenger doors. This proposal is prompte...
Proposed Rule Dec 16, 1999
This amendment revises an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to various transport category airplanes equipped with certain Mode ``C'' transponder(s) with single Gillham code altitude input. That AD currently requires repetitive tests t...
Rule Dec 16, 1999
Notice; Changes and Corrections.
Notice Dec 16, 1999
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) published a notice seeking public comments on a proposed renewal of an information collection for the Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program for Pi...
Notice Dec 16, 1999
The Federal Railroad Administration has consolidated its docket operations with those of other Department of Transportation operating elements. DOT's nine separate docket facilities have been consolidated into the Centralized Docket Management System...
Rule Dec 16, 1999

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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