March 31, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register March 31, 2000

View all documents issued on March 31, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

119 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on March 31, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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On January 20, 2000, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a direct final rule "Food Additives for Use in Meat and Poultry Products: Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Acetate, Sodium Lactate and Potassium Lactate" in the Federal Register. Th...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The comment period for the proposed rule is being extended in order to provide opportunities to further comment on this rule and its criteria as requested by several parties. This proposed rule was initially published in the Federal Register on Novem...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant to Azure Waves Seafood, Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio, an exclusive license for certain uses in the field of seafood breading and batters of U...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
It is the intention of the NRCS in Texas to issue a revised conservation practice standard in Section IV of the FOTG for the following practice: Nutrient Management (code 590).
Notice Mar 31, 2000
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Rural Business-Cooperative Service's intention to request an extension for a currently approved information collection in support of the program for 7 CFR Part 1942-G R...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), is giving notice that it proposes to add a new system of records. FNS is...
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Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board logo Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

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The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) proposes accessibility standards for electronic and information technology covered by section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. Section 508 requires the Acc...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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The Department of Commerce has received a request to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from the People's Republic of China. In accordance with 19 C.F.R. 351.214(d), we are initiating this review...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of section 4402 of the "American Inventors Protection Act of 1999." These provisions of the "American...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
Notice Mar 31, 2000
On December 28, 1999, in response to a November 29, 1999, request made by Dinsen Fastening System, Inc., a producer/exporter of collated roofing nails from Taiwan, the Department of Commerce published the initiation of an administrative review of the...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
NMFS is opening directed fishing for flathead sole, shallow water flatfish, arrowtooth flounder, and deep water flatfish by catcher vessels that are non-exempt under the American Fisheries Act (AFA) in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alask...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in the West Yakutat District of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the pollock total allowable catch (TAC) specified for the West Yakutat District established by th...
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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 services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the Procurement List a commodity and a service previously furnished by such ag...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement List commodities and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and to delete commodities and services previously fu...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Defense Department logo Defense Department

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Correction Mar 31, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) adopts a set of uniform business practices implementing the Commission's policies on transmission service price negotiation and on improving interactions between transmission providers and custome...
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Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of glufosinate ammonium (butanoic acid, 2-amino-4- (hydroxymethylphosphinyl)-mono ammonium salt) and metabolites (3- methylphosphinico-propionic acid and 2-acetamido-4-methylphosphinico- bu...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
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 5 continuing Information Collection Requests (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before subm...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Applicat...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The U.S. EPA has made a proposed determination that reductions in expenditures of non-Federal funds for the Washoe County District Health Department (WCDHD) in Reno, Nevada are a result of non-selective reductions in expenditures. This determination,...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
EPA is proposing a disapproval of revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) in the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District (AVAPCD) and South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). These revisions would allow the dis...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
EPA is taking final action to approve a revision to the Missouri State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action approves a revision to Missouri's fugitive dust rule. This action also responds to comments submitted during the public comment period for t...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The purpose of this notice is to announce that EPA is approving a request for delegation of the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards for gasoline distribution, organic hazardous air pollutants, off-site waste recovery operations, an...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The EPA proposes interim approval of the title V operating permits program submitted by the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District (Antelope Valley, or "District") for the purpose of complying with federal requirements that mandate that state...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding the maintenance of existing and proposed roads, the cumulative impacts of log transfer facilities to the substrate, water quality, and the benthic environment. EPA also requested that the EIS include a d...
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EPA today proposes to designate an ocean dredged material disposal site located offshore of Coos Bay, Oregon, for the disposal of dredged material removed from the federal navigation project at Coos Bay, Oregon, and for materials dredged during other...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
EPA is announcing the availability of the revised version of the pesticide science policy document entitled "Assigning Values to Non-Detected/Non-Quantified Pesticide Residues." This notice is the sixteenth in a series concerning science policy docum...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
EPA is proposing to revoke 67 meat, milk, poultry, and egg tolerances for residues of the organophosphate pesticides fenthion, methidathion, naled, phorate, and profenofos. EPA determined that there are no reasonable expectations of finite residues i...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revising the Water Quality Planning and Management regulation to remove the requirement in most cases that States, Territories and authorized Tribes submit to EPA for review by April 1, 2000, lists of wate...
Rule Mar 31, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
This document announces the auction of licenses for the 800 MHz SMR frequencies in the lower 80 channels, the 856-860 MHz Band, (Auction No. 36) scheduled to commence on September 13, 2000 and seeks comment on the reserve prices or minimum opening bi...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
This document announces the auction of licenses for the 800 MHz SMR Service General Category Frequencies in the 851-854 MHz Band (Auction No. 34) scheduled to commence on August 23, 2000 and seeks comment on the reserve prices or minimum opening bids...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
This document requests comments on "software defined radio", which the Commission believes could have wide range implications for radio technology and our regulatory policies. Software defined radios have the potential to change the way users can com...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document denies a petition for rule making filed by Mountain West Broadcasting proposing the allotment of FM Channel 249C3 to Amelia, Louisiana, as that locality's first local aural transmission service. Petitioner failed to establish the availa...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document allots Channel 238A to Elaine, Arkansas, as that community's first local aural transmission service in response to a petition for rule making filed on behalf of Phillips County Broadcasting. See 64 FR 51285, September 22, 1999. Coordina...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document allots Channel 289C2 to Hays, Kansas, as that community's third local FM transmission service in response to a petition for rule making filed on behalf of Gatoradio Media Group, Inc. See 64 FR 51286, September 22, 1999. Coordinates used...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document allots Channel 253C3 to Ringgold, Louisiana, as that community's first local aural transmission service in response to a petition for rule making filed on behalf of Black Lake Broadcasting. See 64 FR 51285, September 22, 1999. Coordinat...
Rule Mar 31, 2000

Federal Labor Relations Authority logo Federal Labor Relations Authority

Title Type Published
The Federal Labor Relations Authority had previously invited all interested parties to file briefs as amici curiae on significant issues arising in a case pending before the Authority. Because that case is no longer pending, the Authority withdraws i...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

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Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Board is publishing revisions to the official staff commentary to Regulation Z (Truth in Lending). The commentary applies and interprets the requirements of Regulation Z. The revisions address short-term cash advances commonly called "payday loan...
Rule Mar 31, 2000

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish noti...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of ethylene-vinyl acetate-vinyl alcohol copolymers with revised specifications that provide for a decreased minimum acceptable ethylene conte...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is publishing a list of premarket approval application (PMA) approvals. This list is intended to inform the public of the existence and the availability of summaries of safety and effectiveness of approved PMA's...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending procedural regulations that pertain to obtaining, submitting, executing, and filing certain documents to reflect new addresses in the agency. All filings and other documents subject to these regulati...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reclassifying 28 preamendments devices from class III (premarket approval) into class II (special controls). FDA is also identifying the special controls that the agency believes will reasonably ensure the sa...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revoking its regulations governing access to and promotion of nicotine-containing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to children and adolescents. This action is being taken in response to the Supreme Court deci...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confirming the effective date of April 24, 2000 for the final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of December 10, 1999 (64 FR 69188). The direct final rule amends the regulation that lists the veterina...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces the availability of $15 million to support up to10 State grants for the development of plans to provide access to health insurance coverage for all State residents. This funding has be...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes regulations that would require response plans for Marine Transportation-Related facilities that could reasonably be expected to cause substantial or significant and substantial harm to the environment by releasing a hazardous...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
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 31, 2000
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency review and approval, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comment...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The proposed information collection requirement described below has been 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 propos...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The CALFED Bay-Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program will hold a Pre-Submittal Workshop for the 2001 Proposal Solicitation Package (PSP). This workshop is an opportunity for the public to ask questions regarding the PSP. Adaptive management and concept...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the North Dakota regulatory program (hereinafter, the "State program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). N...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
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Notice Mar 31, 2000
Members of the public are hereby invited to participate with Western Minerals, Inc., and KCP, Inc., a joint venture d/b/a Decker Coal Company, in a program for the exploration of coal deposits owned by the United States of America in the following-de...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
OSM is announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma regulatory program (Oklahoma program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Oklahoma proposes revisions to and/or additions of rules concerning restrict...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
This notice announces that the Information Collection Request for Documented Petitions for Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe will expire July 31, 2000. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are seeking comments on this inform...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
Pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10(h), notice is hereby given that the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs proposes to determine that the Eastern Pequot Indians of Connecticut, Holly Green Plaza Unit 2A East, 391 Norwich Westerly Road, PO Box 208, North Stonin...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
Pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10(h), notice is hereby given that the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs proposes to determine that the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Indians of Connecticut, c/o Ms. Agnes E. Cunha, P.O. Box 370, North Stonington, Connecticut 06359...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
In accordance with Title 43, Code of Federal Regulations Section 8365.1-6, the State Director may establish supplementary rules in order to provide for the protection of persons, property and public lands and resources. This authority was delegated t...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Revised schedule for the subject 5-year reviews.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of full reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(5)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on certain welded stainless s...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Title Type Published
Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
Notice of Information Collection Under Review; H-1B Data Collection and Filing Fee Exemption.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
This rule amends the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Service) regulations relating to administrative revocation of naturalization by changing the burden of proof the Service must satisfy in order to administratively revoke a grant of naturali...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
This project will provide technical assistance to correctional agencies to update and improve objective classification systems; to build capacities in correctional agencies that will enable them to continue improvements; to validate or re-validate cl...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 94- 463), the U.S. National Administrative Office (NAO) gives notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Committee for the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), which was esta...
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The Employment and Training Administration published a document in the Federal Register of February 28, 2000 (65 FR 10547), concerning the availability of grant funds to respond to employers' identified skills shortages through the establishment or s...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) awards funds to nonprofit organizations to conduct safety and health training and education in the workplace. This notice announces grant availability for two different types of Susan Harwood T...
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Notice of consideration of amendment request for decommissioning of Department of the Army, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Building 611B at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, and opportunity for a hearing.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
Notice of consideration of amendment request for decommissioning of Department of the Army, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Depleted Uranium Study Area of the Transonic Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and Opportunity for a Hearing.
Notice Mar 31, 2000
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received, by letter dated December 30,1999, a request from Quivira Mining Company to amend License Condition (LC) 40 B(1) of Source Material License SUA-1473 for the Ambrosi...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Title Type Published
With this rule, SBA amends its regulation regarding the liquidation and sale of loans. As part of a government-wide initiative, federal credit agencies are being directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to sell their loan portfolios. Pre...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), agencies are required to submit proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements to OMB for review and approval, and to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying th...
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Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Title Type Published
The proposed information collection described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). The Tennessee Valley Authority is so...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
Executive Order 12260 requries the U.S. Trade Representative to set the U.S. dollar thresholds for application of Title III of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2511 et seq.), which implements U.S. obligations under the World Trade Organiza...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600- 1A11 (CL-600) and CL-600-2A12 (CL-601) series airplanes. This proposal would require modification of the main landing gea...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Bombardier Model DHC-8-100 and -300 series airplanes. This proposal would require revising the Aircraft Log Book to correct the airplane Productio...
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document adopts design and performance specifications for a new 12-month-old infant dummy. The new dummy is especially needed to evaluate the effects of air bag deployment on children who are in rear- facing child restraints installed in the fro...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
Interested parties are invited to submit comments on an application by the American Trucking Associations, Inc. for an administrative determination whether Federal hazardous materials transportation law preempts certain New Mexico requirements concer...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
This action establishes Class E airspace at Andrews--Murphy, NC. A Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP), helicopter point in space approach, has been developed for Andrews--Murphy, NC. As a result, additional...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, May 4, 2000. The meeting begins at 1:00 p.m. The letter designations that follow each item mean the following: (I) is an inform...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will hold a meeting of its Coordinating Council meeting on Sunday, April 30, 2000. The following designations are made for each item: (A) Is an "action" item; (I) is an "information item...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
This document amends 49 CFR Part 587 by adding specifications for an offset deformable barrier. This barrier is used in offset deformable barrier tests to evaluate the crashworthiness of vehicles. In this type of test, one side of a vehicle's front e...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document grants in full the petition of General Motors Corporation (GM) for an exemption of a high-theft line, the Chevrolet Malibu, from the parts-marking requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard. This petition is gra...
Notice Mar 31, 2000

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
This document withdraws the notice of proposed rulemaking as it relates to diesel fuel dye injection systems which was published on March 14, 1996. It affects certain enterers, refiners, terminal operators, and throughputters.
Proposed Rule Mar 31, 2000
To comply with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 concerning proposed extensions of information collection requirements, FinCEN is soliciting comments on currency transactions on the Currency Transaction Report ("CTR"), Internal...
Notice Mar 31, 2000
This document contains final regulations relating to the kerosene and aviation fuel excise taxes, the tax on the use of certain highway vehicles, and the tax on the first retail sale of certain tractors and truck, trailer, and semitrailer chassis and...
Rule Mar 31, 2000
This document contains corrections to final regulations which were published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, February 8, 2000 (65 FR 6001), relating to amendments to the regulations governing certain notices and consents required in connection wi...
Rule Mar 31, 2000

United States African Development Foundation logo United States African Development Foundation

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