May 8, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register May 8, 2000

View all documents issued on May 8, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

135 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 8, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request an extension to a currently approved information collection for Regulations Governing...
Notice May 08, 2000
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on proposed information collections. This notice announces the intent of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to conti...
Notice May 08, 2000

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The Forest Service published a White Mountain National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan in the Federal Register on March 9, 2000 (Vol. 65, No. 47, FR 12505, Mar. 9, 2000). The Forest Service is extending the public comment period on that noti...
Notice May 08, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the availability of housing funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 for the Rural Housing Demonstration Program. For FY 2000, RHS has set aside $3 million for the Innovative Demonstration Initiatives and is solicitin...
Notice May 08, 2000

Meetings:

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will hold a public meeting to discuss and receive public comment regarding Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the initiatives the Agency took after its February 1999 pub...
Notice May 08, 2000

Plant-related quaratine, domestic:

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We are amending the Oriental fruit fly regulations by removing the quarantine on a portion of Los Angeles County, CA, and by removing the restrictions on the interstate movement of regulated articles from that area. This action is necessary to reliev...
Rule May 08, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

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On February 8, 2000, the Court of International Trade (CIT) affirmed the remand determination of the Department of Commerce (the Department) arising from the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on heavy forged hand tools (HFHTs) fro...
Notice May 08, 2000
On February 8, 2000, the Court of International Trade (CIT) affirmed the remand determination of the Department of Commerce (the Department) arising from the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on heavy forged hand tools (HFHTs) fro...
Notice May 08, 2000
Based on a request by a Greek producer, Tosoh Hellas A.I.C., the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on electrolytic manganese dioxide from Greece. We have preliminarily determined that sales by...
Notice May 08, 2000
Based on a request by a Japanese producer, Tosoh Corporation, the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on electrolytic manganese dioxide from Japan. We have preliminarily determined that sales by...
Notice May 08, 2000
In response to a request from two respondents and two U.S. producers, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) fro...
Notice May 08, 2000
Spain
Notice May 08, 2000
In response to requests by various interested parties, the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on static random access memory semiconductors from Taiwan. This review covers the U.S. sales and/or...
Notice May 08, 2000

Coastal zone management programs and estuarine sanctuaries:

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The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) announces its intent to evaluate the performance of the Ohio Coastal Zone Management Program and the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR). The Coastal Zone Managemen...
Notice May 08, 2000

Marine mammals:

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The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NMFS, issued an affirmative finding for the Government of Mexico under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) on April 12, 2000. This affirmative finding allows importation into the United States of yellowf...
Notice May 08, 2000
In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, and implementing regulations, notification is hereby given that letters of authorization (LOAs) to take bottlenose and spotted dolphins incidental to oil and gas structure remova...
Notice May 08, 2000

Meetings:

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The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Scallop Committee and Advisory Panel, Habitat Committee and Advisory Panel, Enforcement Committee, and Gear Conflict Committee and Advisory Panel in May and Ju...
Notice May 08, 2000

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

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 proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice May 08, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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The Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services proposes to establish a priority for one DRRP under the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for fiscal years 2000-2001. The Assis...
Notice May 08, 2000

Special education and rehabilitative services:

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Notice is hereby given that on November 16, 1998, an arbitration panel rendered a decision in the matter of Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services v. U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force (Docket No. R-S/97-4). This panel was...
Notice May 08, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
CNG Transmission Corp.
Notice May 08, 2000
Conectiv Energy Supply, Inc.
Notice May 08, 2000
Great Lakes Gas Transmission L.P.
Notice May 08, 2000
Merchant Energy Group of the Americas, Inc.
Notice May 08, 2000
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice May 08, 2000
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice May 08, 2000
Ozark Gas Transmission, L.L.C.
Notice May 08, 2000
Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C.
Notice May 08, 2000
Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C.
Notice May 08, 2000
Questar Pipeline Co.
Notice May 08, 2000
Reliant Energy Shelby County, LP, et al.
Notice May 08, 2000
Smarr EMC
Notice May 08, 2000
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Notice May 08, 2000
Trunkline LNG Co.
Notice May 08, 2000
Trunkline LNG Co.
Notice May 08, 2000
Trunkline LNG Co.
Notice May 08, 2000
Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Notice May 08, 2000

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
XENERGY, Inc., et al.
Notice May 08, 2000

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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: Title: M...
Notice May 08, 2000

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
The EPA is taking direct final action to amend the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for Polyether Polyols Production; Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (also known as Hazardous Organic NESHAP, or HON);...
Rule May 08, 2000

Air pollutants; hazardous; national emission standards:

Title Type Published
The EPA is proposing to amend the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Polyether Polyols Production; the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (also known as the Hazardous Organics NESHAP, or HON); Epoxy R...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Air programs:

Title Type Published
In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the motor vehicle emissions budget for carbon monoxide in the submitted revised attainment demonstration for the New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island...
Notice May 08, 2000
Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated, in accordance with 40 CFR part 53, two new reference methods for measuring concentrations of PM<INF>2.5</INF> and four new equivalent methods for measuring concentr...
Notice May 08, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Hazardous waste:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to implement a project under the Project XLC program for certain facilities in Steele County, Minnesota. The terms of the project are defined in a draft Final Project Agreement (FPA) which was ma...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Meetings:

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This notice announces the Sixth Meeting of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force. The purpose of this Task Force consisting of Federal, State, and Tribal members, is to lead efforts to coordinate and support nutrient mana...
Notice May 08, 2000

Project XL (excellence and leadership) innovative technologies projects:

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EPA is requesting comments on a proposed Project XL Final Project Agreement (FPA) for the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Big Island, Virginia XL Project (hereafter "Georgia-Pacific"). The FPA is a voluntary agreement developed collaboratively by Georgia...
Notice May 08, 2000

Solid wastes:

Title Type Published
Section 4005(c)(1)(B) of the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984, 42 U.S.C. 6945(c)(1)(B) requires States to develop and implement permit programs or other systems of prior...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Water pollution control:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to 40 CFR 123.62 and 40 CFR part 501, the State of Wisconsin has submitted to EPA an application to modify the existing Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) program to include administration and enforcement of the sludge...
Notice May 08, 2000

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Title Type Published
This notice lists forty (40) counties as additions to various High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) programs. These new counties are: Mohave in the Arizona HIDTA; the Colorado counties of Boulder, Larimer, Weld, Pueblo, Grand, Routt and Moffat...
Notice May 08, 2000

Special observances:

Title Type Published
Prayer, National Day of (Proc. 7303)
Presidential Document May 08, 2000

Export-Import Bank logo Export-Import Bank

Meetings:

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The Sub-Saharan African Advisory Committee was established by Pub. L. 105-121, November 26, 1997, to advise the Board of Directors on the development and implementation of policies and programs designed to support the expansion of the Bank's financia...
Notice May 08, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document concerning the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service clarifies the method by which quarterly line count data will be incorporated in the new high-cost mechanism for purposes of calculating and targeting support amounts. It also...
Rule May 08, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This document advises interested persons of a meeting of the Public Safety National Coordination Committee ("NCC"), which will be held in Washington, D.C. The Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, requires public notice of al...
Notice May 08, 2000

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 08, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

No documents available.

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Federal home loan bank system:

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is proposing to amend its Advances Regulation and other regulations to implement the requirements of the Federal Home Loan Bank System Modernization Act of 1999 by: allowing the Federal Home Loan Bank...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Shipping Act of 1984; implementation:

Title Type Published
The Federal Maritime Commission is amending its regulations implementing the Shipping Act of 1984 to clarify the definition of "ocean common carrier" to reflect the Commission's interpretation of the term. As a result, only common carriers that opera...
Rule May 08, 2000

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Title Type Published
The Federal Trade Commission (the "Commission") has extended the date by which comments must be submitted concerning the review of its regulations ("smokeless tobacco regulations" or "the regulations") implementing the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft complaint that ac...
Notice May 08, 2000
The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or practices or unfair methods of competition. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both the allegations in the draft...
Notice May 08, 2000

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice May 08, 2000
Under the provisions of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and appr...
Notice May 08, 2000

National vaccine injury compensation program;:

Title Type Published
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ("the Program"), as required by section 2112(b)(2) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act,...
Notice May 08, 2000

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) is publishing a notice of the establishment of a new system of records, Child Care Subsidy Program. The new system will collect family inc...
Notice May 08, 2000

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
At the request of the U.S. Navy, the Coast Guard is establishing a temporary security zone covering the area of territorial sea and land adjacent to the bombing and gunnery range (Impact Area) at the naval installation on the eastern end of Vieques I...
Rule May 08, 2000

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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 May 08, 2000
The proposed information collection requirement concerning the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Research to Improve the Evaluation and Control of Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazards will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (...
Notice May 08, 2000

Grant and cooperative agreement awards:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this notice announces the funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for funding under the Fiscal Year 1999 competition for...
Notice May 08, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request; correction
Correction May 08, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to authorities in the Federal Advisory Committees Act (Public Law 92-463) and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Pub. L. 94-579), the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Northeast California Resource Advisory Council is seeking nominat...
Notice May 08, 2000

Education:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is proposing to amend its regulations to allow the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute to develop a new alternative personnel system.
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Endangered Species Convention:

Title Type Published
We propose to revise the regulations that implement the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty that regulates international trade in certain protected species. CITES uses a system of internat...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ's") initial determination ("ID") granting a motion to amend the complaint and notice of investigation to w...
Notice May 08, 2000

J
Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries (Joint Board) established under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), is responsible for the enrollment of individuals who wish to perform actuarial services under ERISA. The Jo...
Notice May 08, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Executive Director of the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries gives notice of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations (portions of which will be open to the public) in Washington, DC at the Office of Director of Prac...
Notice May 08, 2000

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice of information collection under review; survey of best practices for hiring and retention of female and minority law enforcement officers.
Notice May 08, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Mallinckrodt, Inc.
Notice May 08, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services ("COPS") announces a new grant program, COPS in Schools, designed to combat school violence by helping local law enforcement agencies hire additional community policing officer...
Notice May 08, 2000
The Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services ("COPS") announces the availability of Universal Hiring Program (UHP) grants to pay up to 75 percent of the total salary and benefits for new officers over three years, and up...
Notice May 08, 2000
The Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services ("COPS") announces the Visiting Fellowship Program (VFP) designed to support training, technical assistance, research, program development and policy analysis to contribute to...
Notice May 08, 2000

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondents burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice May 08, 2000
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; correction
Correction May 08, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 08, 2000

Nationally recognized testing laboratories, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the Agency's final decision on the application of Curtis-Straus LLC. for recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) under 29 CFR 1910.7.
Notice May 08, 2000

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Public availability and use:

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration proposes to revise its regulation that lists NARA facilities and hours when the public and other Federal agency staff may use the records in those facilities. This proposal updates information on NARA...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities logo National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

O
Office of National Drug Control Policy

No documents available.

Personnel Management Office logo Personnel Management Office

Abscence and leave:

Title Type Published
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final regulations on the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to ensure that both employees' and agencies' rights are protected and their responsibilities fulfilled.
Rule May 08, 2000

Presidio Trust logo Presidio Trust

Wireless telecommunications facilities sites; applications:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the Presidio Trust's receipt of and availability for public comment on an application from Bay Area Cellular Telephone Company, dba Cellular One, for a wireless telecommunications facilities site in The Presidio of San Francisco...
Notice May 08, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 08, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 08, 2000

Securities:

Title Type Published
The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing for comment Rule 17a-25 under Section 17 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Proposed Rule 17a-25 would require brokers and dealers to submit electronically to the Commission, upon request, info...
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

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Trade Representative, Office of United States

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 533 of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as amended (49 U.S.C. 50104), the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") has determined not to include any countries on the list of countries that deny fair market opport...
Notice May 08, 2000
Notice is hereby given that the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has submitted its annual report on the identification of those foreign countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or deny fair and eq...
Notice May 08, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice if hereby given that the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") has submitted the annual report on discrimination in foreign government procurement, published herein, to the Committees on Finance and on Governmental Affairs of the United...
Notice May 08, 2000

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania.
Notice May 08, 2000

Hazardous materials transportation:

Title Type Published
This safety advisory notice is to make persons aware of safety concerns related to the intermodal transportation of propane in portable tanks and of the proper packaging requirements for such transportation. RSPA has become aware of several instances...
Notice May 08, 2000

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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 May 08, 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 May 08, 2000
The OCC, OTS, and FDIC (collectively, the "agencies"), as part of their continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invite financial institutions, the general public, and other Federal agencies to comment on a continuing information...
Notice May 08, 2000

Excise taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to Treasury Decision 8879, which was published in the Federal Register on Friday, March 31, 2000 (65 FR 17149). The corrections relate to the kerosene excise tax.
Rule May 08, 2000

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document provides notice of cancellation of a public hearing on proposed regulations relating to hyperinflationary currency for purposes of section 988.
Proposed Rule May 08, 2000

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Office of Information and Technology (IT), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Fede...
Notice May 08, 2000

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