May 2, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register May 2, 2000

View all documents issued on May 2, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

98 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 2, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the following Federally owned inventions are available for licensing and that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service intends to grant to the University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Corn...
Notice May 02, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service announces its intention to request an extension of a currently approved, multi-agency-sponsored information collection. This collection is necessary to ensure that the Forest...
Notice May 02, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Drought Policy Commission (Commission) shall conduct a thorough study and submit a report to the President and Congress on national drought policy. This notice announces a meeting to be held on May 16, 2000. The Commission will submit th...
Notice May 02, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Meetings:

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); binational panel reviews:

Title Type Published
On April 10, 2000, Cemex, S.A. de C.V. ("CEMEX") filed a First Request for Panel Review with the United States Section of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. A second request was filed by Cemento...
Notice May 02, 2000

Overseas trade missions:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Commerce invites U.S. companies to participate in a corporate session with Nigerian Government officials as part of the U.S.-Nigeria Joint Economic Partnership Commission on June 14, 2000 in Abuja, Nigeria. The corporate sessio...
Notice May 02, 2000

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Title Type Published
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs adjusting limits and increasing a guaranteed access level.
Notice May 02, 2000

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

Title Type Published
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council (Councils) are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to permit federally insured credit unions to participate in the maintenance of special...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Leader, Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice May 02, 2000

Elementary and secondary education:

Title Type Published
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as reauthorized by the Improving America's Schools Act (Pub. L. 103-382), permits the Secretary of Education to grant waivers of certain Federal program requirements in order to further effective inn...
Notice May 02, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Notice May 02, 2000
Lakefield Junction, L.P.
Notice May 02, 2000
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice May 02, 2000
Questar Pipeline Co.
Notice May 02, 2000
Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Co.
Notice May 02, 2000

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Indeck Colorado, LLC, et al.
Notice May 02, 2000
Midwest Generation, LLC, et al.
Notice May 02, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
H.E.E.D. Co., Inc.; Slaughterhouse Gulch Project.; revocation
Notice May 02, 2000

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
On April 11, 2000, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced the Department of Energy's (DOE) proposal to relocate missions at Technical Area 18 (TA-18), a group of facilities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), by the end of 2004. Secreta...
Notice May 02, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Notice of Solicitation Availability issued by the Chicago Operations Office, DOE, that appeared in the Federal Register, Volume 65, No. 21, on Tuesday, February 1, 2000 is amended to eliminate the requirement for teaming arrangements as a qualifi...
Notice May 02, 2000

Natural gas exportation and importation:

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The Office of Fossil Energy of the Department of Energy gives notice that it has issued an order to BC Gas Utility Ltd. amending the natural gas import and export authorization granted by DOE/FE Order No.1149 (1 FE para. 71,240). Order 1149-A extends...
Notice May 02, 2000
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of receipt of an application filed jointly on March 22, 2000, by Phillips Alaska Natural Gas Corporation (PANGC) and Marathon Oil Company (Marathon) to amend their author...
Notice May 02, 2000

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Air programs; approval and promulgation; State plans for designated facilities and pollutants:

Title Type Published
We are approving the section 111(d) Plan submitted by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) on November 17, 1999, to implement and enforce the Emissions Guidelines (EG) for existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (MW...
Rule May 02, 2000
We propose to approve the section 111(d) Plan submitted by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality on November 17, 1999, to implement and enforce the Emissions Guidelines (EG) for existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (MWI)...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
Emergency preparedness; global disaster information network (EO 13151)
Presidential Document May 02, 2000

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of the special meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board).
Notice May 02, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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(s), as required by th...
Notice May 02, 2000
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(s), as required by th...
Notice May 02, 2000
The Federal Communications Commissions, 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...
Notice May 02, 2000
The Federal Communications Commissions, 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...
Notice May 02, 2000

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document dismisses the petitions filed by the National Telephone Cooperative Association (NTCA) and Omnipoint Corporation (Omnipoint) requesting reconsideration of a previous Commission decision that: eliminated the restriction permitting partit...
Rule May 02, 2000
In this document, the Commission dismisses in part, and grants in part thirty-seven petitions for reconsideration filed against an earlier Federal Communications Commission (Commission) order. The Commission also dismisses a petition for declaratory...
Rule May 02, 2000

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document denies a petition for rule making filed by Mountain West Broadcasting proposing the allotment of FM Channel 265C to Littlefield, Arizona, as a first local aural transmission service, for failure to establish that locality is a bona fide...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000
This document reallots Channel 271C from Monahans, Texas, to Gardendale, Texas, and modifies the license for Station KFZX (formerly KCDQ) to specify operation on Channel 271C at Gardendale in response to a petition filed by Capstar Royalty II Corpora...
Rule May 02, 2000
This document allots Channel 267A to Madisonville, Texas, in response to a petition filed by Leon Hunt d/b/a Hunt Broadcasting. See 64 FR 36322, July 6, 1999. The coordinates for Channel 267A at Madisonville are 31-01-20 NL and 95-55-00 WL. There is...
Rule May 02, 2000
This document grants the Petition for Partial Reconsideration filed by 21st Century Radio Ventures, Inc. by substituting Channel 278A for Channel 237A at Tahoka. See 62 FR 14092 (March 25, 1997). In the Report and Order, the Commission took no action...
Rule May 02, 2000
This document allots Channel 222C2 to Seymour, Texas, in response to a petition filed by Seymour Radio Broadcasting Company. See 64 FR 68662, December 8, 1999. The coordinates for Channel 222C2 at Seymour are 33-34-49 NL and 99-18-01 WL. There is a s...
Rule May 02, 2000

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Title Type Published
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers
Notice May 02, 2000

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revising the authority citations for several of its regulations because one of the citations was repealed by Public Law 104-128, Sec. 2, 110 Stat., 1198. This action is being taken to make the regulations acc...
Rule May 02, 2000
In accordance with section 5201 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999, this proposed rule would set forth in the OIG's civil money penalty provisions in 42 CFR part 1003 a new safe harbor for u...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

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 May 02, 2000

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments:

Title Type Published
This notice removes the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) exemption previously granted to laboratories within the State of Oregon. Section 353(p) of the Public Health Service Act grants us the authority to exempt from CLIA cli...
Notice May 02, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice is to inform the public that a statement in the SAMHSA/CSAT Guidance for Applicants No. TI 00-004 entitled, Cooperative Agreement to Bridge the Gap: Phase II Implementation of Community-Based Practice/Research Collaboratives (Short Title:...
Notice May 02, 2000
Educational materials and messages and training programs for viral hepatitis control and prevention
Notice May 02, 2000
New antimalarial drug development and testing program
Notice May 02, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a public meeting to obtain input on the Medicare program policy for drugs and biologicals which cannot be self- administered and are furnished as an incident to a physician's professional service. The meeting will provide an opp...
Notice May 02, 2000

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District has issued a temporary deviation from the regulation governing the operation of the L&N Railroad / Old Gentilly Road drawbridge across the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, mile 2.9 at New Orleans, Orleans Pari...
Rule May 02, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
FEMA announces the following open meeting. Name: Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS). Date of Meeting: June 1, 2000. Place: Room N-309, Building N, National Emergency Training Center (NETC), 16825 South Seton Avenue i...
Notice May 02, 2000

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to decrease the safety zone ahead of loaded Liquefied Natural Gas tank vessels while the vessels transit Boston North Channel and Boston Harbor from two (2) miles ahead to one (1) mile ahead of the vessel. This action is nece...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000

Regattas and marine parades:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is implementing the special local regulations at 33 CFR 100.518 for the Navy Crew Rowing Race, a marine event to be held April 29 and May 26, 2000 on the waters of the Severn River at Annapolis, Maryland. These special local regulatio...
Rule May 02, 2000

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Public and Indian housing:

Title Type Published
On March 16, 2000, HUD published its final rule to implement the new formula system for allocation of funds to public housing agencies for their capital needs. This rule makes one amendment to the March 16, 2000 final rule to correct the regulatory p...
Rule May 02, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), we are notifying you that we have submitted the information collection request (ICR) discussed below to the OMB for review and approval. We are also inviting your com...
Notice May 02, 2000
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D)), the National Park Service (NPS) invites comments on a submitted request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve an extension, with revision, to a c...
Notice May 02, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice is published in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463). Pursuant to Executive Order 13112, the National Invasive Species Council (Council) on behalf of the Invasive Species Advisory Committee...
Notice May 02, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), in accordance with Federal Regulations (40 CFR 1501.4 and 1506.6) that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), announces the availability of NEPA-related Site-Specific Environmental Assessments (...
Notice May 02, 2000

Hearings and appeals procedures:

Title Type Published
The Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) today is making a technical change to its rules regarding summary distribution of decedents estates as published on August 24, 1999, (64 FR 46152). Under the existing regulations, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA...
Rule May 02, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Bay-Delta Advisory Council (BDAC) will meet on May 17, 2000 to discuss the BDAC Recommendation on the CALFED Solution, CALFED Implementation and hear reports from the CALFED Acting Executive Director and BDAC Chair. This meeting is open to the pu...
Notice May 02, 2000
The CALFED Bay-Delta Program Policy Group will meet on May 24, 2000. The agenda for the Policy Group meeting will include discussion of the CALFED Preferred Program Alternative in the Final Programmatic EIS/R. This meeting is open to the public. Inte...
Notice May 02, 2000
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with Public Laws 92-463 and 94-579, that the California Desert District Advisory Council to the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, will participate in a field tour of the BLM-administered...
Notice May 02, 2000
The Superintendent of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and the Chairperson of the Subsistence Resource Commission for Gates of the Arctic National Park announce a forthcoming meeting of the Gates of the Arctic National Park Subsistence...
Notice May 02, 2000

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
Pending nominations
Notice May 02, 2000

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 02, 2000

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 02, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 02, 2000

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Management and Budget Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides procedures and guidance to implement the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA). GPEA requires Federal agencies, by October 21, 2003, to allow individuals or entities that deal with the agencies...
Notice May 02, 2000

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Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 02, 2000

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Space Flight Advisory Committee.
Notice May 02, 2000

N
National Institute for Literacy

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The NIFL Director invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice May 02, 2000
The NIFL Director invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice May 02, 2000

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National Skill Standards Board

Title Type Published
The National Skill Standards Board was established by an Act of Congress, the National Skill Standards Act, Title V, Public Law 103- 227. The 23-member National Skill Standards Board will serve as a catalyst and be responsible for the development and...
Notice May 02, 2000

N
National Transportation Safety Board

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 02, 2000

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 02, 2000

Regulatory agreements:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that effective April 26, 2000, the section 274i agreement between the State of Louisiana and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is terminated, in response to the March 22, 2000 request from Louisiana Gov...
Notice May 02, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice of an application under section 17(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") and rule 17d-1 under the Act to permit certain joint transactions.
Notice May 02, 2000
Notice of an application for an order under section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from sections 12(d)(1)(A) and (B) of the Act, under sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an exemption from section 17(a) of the Act, and under section 17(d) of the Act and rule 17d-1 under the Act to permit certain joint transactions.
Notice May 02, 2000

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This action revises the legal description of the Hayward Air Terminal Class D airspace area by correcting a typographical error that refers to the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, CA, Class A airspace area. The reference should indicate th...
Rule May 02, 2000
This action proposes to modify Class D airspace at Gary, IN, and modify Class E airspace at Gary, IN. An Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to Runway (Rwy) 20, and a helicopter Instrument Landing System (Copter ILS)...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000
This action proposes to modify Class D airspace at Chicago, Aurora Municipal Airport, IL, and modify Class E airspace at Chicago, Aurora Municipal Airport, IL. A VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to Runway...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000
This document confirms the effective date of a direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Cuba, MO.
Rule May 02, 2000
This action proposes to modify Class E Airspace at Harbor Springs, MI. An Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Instrument Approach Procedure (SIAP) to Runway 10, and an RNAV SIAP to Rwy 28, have been developed for Harbor Springs Airport. Controlled airspa...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000
On December 3, 1999, the FAA published a final rule modifying Class E airspace at Marquette, MI, and revoking the Class E airspace at Sawyer, MI, and K.I. Sawyer, MI. An integral part of this airspace action is the decommissioning of the Marquette (M...
Rule May 02, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend the following currently approved information collec...
Notice May 02, 2000
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for extension of a c...
Notice May 02, 2000

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain McDonnell Douglas Model DC-8 series airplanes that have been converted from a passenger to a cargo-carrying ("freighter") configuration, that requires a revision to the A...
Rule May 02, 2000

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for Boeing Model 747-200 (E-4B) airplanes. These airplanes, modified by S.I.P. Technical Services, Inc., will have novel and unusual design features when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airwor...
Rule May 02, 2000

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Engineering and traffic operations:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is amending its regulation on the emergency relief (ER) program to revise the threshold used in determining eligibility for a disaster from $500,000 to $700,000. The threshold is used to distinguish between heavy maintenance or routine emerg...
Rule May 02, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces the availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for a proposed departure procedure at Sarasota Manatee International Airport and request for comments. The DEA was prepared pursuant to t...
Notice May 02, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
Notice May 02, 2000
Synopsis of April 18-19, 2000, Meeting with VISA Participants.
Notice May 02, 2000

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
The FMCSA is proposing to revise its hours-of-service (HOS) regulations to require motor carriers to provide drivers with better opportunities to obtain sleep, and thereby reduce the risk of drivers operating commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) while dr...
Proposed Rule May 02, 2000

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

Title Type Published
The FAA proposes to rule and invites public comment on the application to impose and use the revenue from a Passenger Facility Charge at Burlington International Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (...
Notice May 02, 2000

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Regattas and marine parades:

No documents available.

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552(e)(4)) requires that all agencies publish in the Federal Register a notice of the existence and character of their system of records. Notice is hereby given that VA proposes to establish a new system of records....
Notice May 02, 2000
The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 522a(e)(4)) requires that all agencies publish in the Federal Register a notice of the existence and character of their systems of records. Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is addin...
Notice May 02, 2000

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