March 10, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register March 10, 2000

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Agencies Publishing on March 10, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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This action announces the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) review of the Federal Seed Act Regulations, under the criteria contained in section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA).
Proposed Rule Mar 10, 2000
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amend its regulations, reducing the minimum Times Interest Earned Ratio (TIER) required to be met by distribution borrowers from 1.50 to 1.25. Reducing TIER to 1.25, while retaining the existing Debt...
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In October 1997 the Regional Forester appointed a Special Forest Products Task Group for the purpose of formulating recommendations on how the Alaska Region should manage commercial use of special forest product resources. This initiated a process of...
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Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces 90-day findings for a petition to add North American populations of smalltooth sawfish and largetooth sawfish to the List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife. NMFS finds that the petition and i...
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Notice is hereby given that Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000, has been issued an amendment to scientific research Permit No.758-1459.
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The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) is amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by revising License Exception CTP to reflect continuing technological advancement in the computer industry. Accordingly, High Performance Computers (HPC...
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The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Recreational Fisheries Data Task Force (RFDTF) will hold a meeting.
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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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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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Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has amended Commission Rule 4.14 to create an exemption from the Commodity Exchange Act's registration requirements for commodity trading advisors that provide standardized advice by means of media such as new...
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Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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The Commission is amending the flammability standards for children's sleepwear in sizes 0 through 6X and sizes 7 through 14 by revising the laundering procedure specified in those standards. These laundering procedures help assure that any chemical f...
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The Commission is amending the flammability standard for mattresses and mattress pads by revising the laundering procedure specified in that standard for mattress pads which contain a chemical fire retardant. These laundering procedures help assure t...
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The Commission is amending the flammability standards for carpets and rugs and for small carpets and rugs by revising the laundering procedure specified in those standards. The laundering procedures help assure that any fire retardant treatment used...
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In the Federal Register of December 15, 1999 (64 FR 69992), the Consumer Product Safety Commission published a notice in accordance with provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) to announce the agency's intention to se...
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Defense Department logo Defense Department

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The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DESI) for the Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay, Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Study, Port Monmouth, New Jersey. The purpose of the stu...
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The Alaska District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, intends to prepare an EIS for navigation improvements for the DeLong Mountain Terminal in northwestern Alaska. The terminal loads ore concentrate from the world's largest zinc mine onto bulk carrier...
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The Board will conduct a public meeting to obtain information from veterans service organizations and the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services regarding the design of a successor organization to OSAGWI. The meeting...
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Notice is hereby given of the forthcoming meeting of the Historical Records Declassification Advisory Panel. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss recommendations to the Department of Defense on topical areas of interest that, from a historical p...
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Education Department logo Education Department

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The Leader, Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Western Area Power Administration's (Western) Desert Southwest Customer Service Region is initiating a rate adjustment process for the Boulder Canyon Project (BCP). Western proposes to extend the existing rate setting formula, and approve the propose...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Fernald. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Feder...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that p...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Los Alamos. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in th...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92- 463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meeting...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in th...
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Notice is hereby given of the intent to issue Financial Assistance Solicitation No. DE-PS26-00NT40767 entitled "Recovery and Utilization of Coal Mine Methane: Pilot Scale Demonstration Phase. Pursuant to 10 CFR 600.6(b), DOE has determined that issua...
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Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy, is publishing this notice of proposed procedures to implement Subpart C--Power Marketing Initiative of the Energy Planning and Management Progr...
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This notice announces a meeting of the Subcommittee on Accelerator Transmutation of Waste of the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92- 463, 86 Stat. 770), requires that public notice of the me...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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EPA is proposing to approve a revision to the Commonwealth of Kentucky's State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted through the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet (KNREPC) on April 29, 1998. This revision adds a new regula...
Proposed Rule Mar 10, 2000
EPA is approving a revision to the Commonwealth of Kentucky's State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted through the Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet (KNREPC) on April 29, 1998. This revision adds a new regulation 401 KA...
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EPA expressed environmental objections based on issues with how the project purpose and need was formulated, the apparent phased approach to NEPA compliance, the lack of cumulative impact analysis, inadequate mitigation and the need for additional an...
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This notices announces the availability of the revised risk assessments and related documents for one organophosphate pesticide, disulfoton. In addition, this notice starts a 60-day public participation period during which the public is encouraged to...
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EPA is providing notice of a proposed administrative penalty for an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act. EPA is also providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed penalty. EPA is authorized under section 309(g) of the Act, 33 U.S.C....
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to enter into a cost recovery administrative settlement to resolve a claim under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (CERCLA), 42 U....
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Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

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In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice advises interested persons of the first meeting of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (Council) under its charter renewed as of January 6, 2000. The meeting will be...
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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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Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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The Board is amending an interpretation of Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) to include the European Central Bank among the institutions that have been specifically designated by the Board as "supranational" entities for...
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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 a draft guidance for industry entitled "PET Drug Applications --Content and Format for NDA's and ANDA's." The draft guidance is intended to assist manufacturers of certain posit...
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In accordance with section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice announces a meeting of the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council. This meeting is open to the public.
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This proposed rule would establish national coverage and administrative policies for clinical diagnostic laboratory services payable under Medicare Part B to promote Medicare program integrity and national uniformity, and simplify administrative requ...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (the Commissioner) has concluded that certain commonly used positron emission tomography (PET) drugs, when produced under conditions specified in approved ap...
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By designation of the Administration for Children and Families, a member of the Departmental Appeals Board has been appointed as the presiding officer for an appeal of the Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) proposed disapproval of South...
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Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

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The Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District, has approved a temporary deviation from the regulations governing the operation of the CONRAIL Railroad Bridge across Darby Creek, mile 0.3, in Essington, Pennsylvania. Beginning at 7 a.m. on March 20, throu...
Rule Mar 10, 2000
The Coast Guard is codifying the existing traffic separation scheme (TSS) in the approaches to Delaware Bay. The current scheme consists of an Eastern approach, a Southeastern approach, a two-way route for use by tug and tow traffic, and a precaution...
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Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

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This notice announces the availability of up to $67,338,300 for the Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (ICDBG Program). This figure consists of $67,000,000 in fiscal year 2000 funds and $338,300 in...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
This document makes a technical correction to a final rule that amended the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Acquisition Regulation (HUDAR) by restoring language that had been inadvertently removed.
Rule Mar 10, 2000
Purpose of the Program. The purpose of this NOFA is to invite public housing agencies (PHAs) to apply for vouchers on a fair share allocation basis under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. The vouchers are for issuance to families on a PHA...
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Interior Department logo Interior Department

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The American Samoa Economic Advisory Commission (ASEAC) will conduct hearings in American Samoa from Monday, March 27 to Thursday, March 30, 2000. The purpose of the hearings is to gather relevant information from the American Samoa Government and co...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is announcing the intent to implement a demonstration project. Public Law 105-337, Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) Administrative Systems Act of 1998, Oct. 31,...
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Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a meeting of the Klamath Fishery Management Council, established under the authority of the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restoration...
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In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing its intention to request continued approval for the collections of information for 30 CFR parts 733 and 876.
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Justice Department logo Justice Department

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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is announcing the availability of a program announcement soliciting applications for the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP).
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Announcement of the ninth meeting of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence.
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Labor Department logo Labor Department

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The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) is announcing that a collection of information has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for the Interim Final Rule for Reporting by...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
Pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR Part 1500-08) implementing procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Job Corp...
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This notice contains all of the necessary information and forms needed to apply for grant funding. All applicants for grant funds should read this notice in its entirety. The U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)...
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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 public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on propos...
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Merit Systems Protection Board logo Merit Systems Protection Board

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The Merit Systems Protection Board has requested an advisory opinion from the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) concerning the interpretation of regulations promulgated by OPM. The Board is providing interested parties with an opportunity to submit amicus briefs on the same questions raised in the request to OPM. The Board's request to OPM is reproduced below: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 1204(e)(1)(A), the members of the Merit Systems Protection Board request that you provide an advisory opinion concerning the interpretation of regulations promulgated by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
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National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

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NARA proposes to amend 3 system of records notices in its inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. Sections 552a(e)(4) and (11) of the Privacy Act require that the public be given 30 days to comment...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has extended the public comment period on draft NUREG-1718, "Standard Review Plan for the Review of an Application for the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility," to allow interested parties additional ti...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
NRC will hold a public workshop at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), 1776 I Street, NW (Republic Place), in Washington, DC to provide the public, those regulated by the NRC, and other stakeholders, with information about and an opportunity to provi...
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Postal Service logo Postal Service

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The Postal Service, after considering the written responses to its proposed rule published in the Federal Register on December 22, 1999 (64 FR 71702-71704), requesting public comment on proposed amendments to the Domestic Mail Manual, gives notice th...
Rule Mar 10, 2000
The Postal Service has compiled a revised draft functional Performance Criteria for open systems of the Information-Based Indicia program (IBIP), as defined in this release. The current release contains the performance criteria for the Indicium, the...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
The Postal Service is amending a portion of its rule on postage and fees refunds, to clarify that payments may be made in some cases for unused adhesive stamps and adhesive stamps affixed to unmailed matter. The purpose of this change is to allow the...
Rule Mar 10, 2000

Presidio Trust logo Presidio Trust

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The Presidio Trust (Trust) announces the availability of the "Programmatic Agreement among the Presidio Trust, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Park Service and the California State Historic Preservation Officer Regarding D...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
Pursuant to section 101(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91-90 as amended), the Presidio Trust (Trust) has prepared a Final EIS analyzing the potential impacts of new development and uses on a 23-acre site within the 60...
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Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

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SBA proposes to amend its regulations governing the Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) program. This proposed rule would grant applicants seeking certification as an SDB a 45-day period to request that SBA reconsider its decision finding the applican...
Proposed Rule Mar 10, 2000

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

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.), Delegatio...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
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.), Delegati...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
Notice is hereby given that Orbit/FR, Inc. is statutorily debarred pursuant to section 127.7 (c) of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR parts 120-130). It shall be the policy of the Department of State to deny all export lice...
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Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

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This action withdraws a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A300 B2 series airplanes. That action would have required a supersedure of an existing AD that currently...
Proposed Rule Mar 10, 2000
This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises the Class E airspace at Marshall, MO, and corrects an error in the coordinates for the Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport, Airport Reference Point (ARP) as published in t...
Rule Mar 10, 2000
This document proposes to establish Class E airspace area at Salem Memorial Airport, Salem, MO. The Federal Aviation Administration has developed Area Navigation (RNAV) runway (RWY) 17, RNAV RWY 35 and VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR)-A Standard Instr...
Proposed Rule Mar 10, 2000
This action establishes Class E airspace at Whitesburg, KY. A Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP), helicopter point in space approach, has been developed for Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital, Whitesbu...
Rule Mar 10, 2000
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Maritime Administration's (MARAD) intentions to request approval for three years of an existing information collection entitled, "Approval of Underwriters for Marine Hu...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the second round of competitive grants under the Job Access and Reverse Commute grant program, authorized under section 3037 of the Transportation Equity Act...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
This action amends the legal descriptions of three Jet routes that use the Bellingham, WA, Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range/ Tactical Air Navigation (VORTAC) in their route structures. Currently, the VORTAC and the International Airport shar...
Rule Mar 10, 2000
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a PFC at La Crosse Municipal Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Bud...
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The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to use the revenue from a PFC at Minot International Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the Omnibus Budget Reconci...
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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 abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. Described...
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Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

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The Financial Management Service, 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 a continuing information collection. By this no...
Notice Mar 10, 2000
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is amending its regulations to implement section 121 of the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act, which authorizes national banks to conduct expanded financial activities through financial subsidiaries. The OCC...
Rule Mar 10, 2000
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 Mar 10, 2000
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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Legislation recently enacted requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to conduct a study of the use of subordinated debt to bring market forces and market discipline to bear o...
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