May 17, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register May 17, 2000

View all documents issued on May 17, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

101 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on May 17, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Rural Business-Cooperative Service's (RBS) intention to request an extension for a currently approved information collection in support of the program for Rural Coopera...
Notice May 17, 2000

Child nutrition program:

Title Type Published
Meun planning alternatives; correction
Correction May 17, 2000

Electric loans:

Title Type Published
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is proposing to amending its regulations to modify the requirement that borrowers must seek bids from all sources if funding is requested for generation projects equal to or greater than 10 megawatt or for modificati...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is amending its regulations to allow flexibility in determining whether a borrower needs to solicit bids from all sources for new or replacement generation. It is also deleting the requirement that borrowers seek bid...
Rule May 17, 2000

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations for Implementing NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500-...
Notice May 17, 2000

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

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We are proposing to amend the regulations by adding Denmark to the list of regions where bovine spongiform encephalopathy exists because the disease has been detected in a native born animal in that region. Denmark is currently listed among the regio...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 established new authority for a program of Federal grants to support the development of community food projects designed to meet the food needs of low-income people; increase the self-relianc...
Notice May 17, 2000

Noxious weed regulations:

Title Type Published
We are extending the comment period for an advance notice of proposed rulemaking that considers revising the noxious weed regulations issued under the Federal Noxious Weed Act. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

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The Department of Agriculture published in the Federal Register of February 4, 2000, a document of revising 7 CFR Part 2, Revision of Delegations of Authority. This document corrects the amendatory instructions in that document. The revisions to the...
Rule May 17, 2000

Plant-related quarantine, domestic:

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We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the Asian longhorned beetle regulations by expanding the quarantined area in the city of Chicago, IL, and adding two new areas in Cook County, IL. As a result of the interi...
Rule May 17, 2000

Program regulations:

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The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is amending the disaster set- aside program requirement to allow FSA to set aside portions of loan installments that could not be made as scheduled due to a natural disaster, as declared by the President or Secretary of...
Rule May 17, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On January 26, 2000, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel cooking ware from the People's Republic of China ("PRC") for one manufacturer/exporter of the su...
Notice May 17, 2000
On January 11, 2000, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register the preliminary results and partial rescission of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel wire rod from India (65...
Notice May 17, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for species that comprise the deep-water species fishery by vessels using trawl gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary because the second seasonal apportionment of the 2000 Pacific halibut byca...
Rule May 17, 2000
This document clarifies tables 2,3,4, and 5 for Pacific Coast groundfish species and trip limits that were published in the Federal Register on May 4, 2000.
Rule May 17, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On January 5, 2000, in the Federal Register (65 FR 681-688), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the availability of funds for the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) to promote the widespread use of adv...
Notice May 17, 2000

Permits:

Title Type Published
This document contains a correction to an announcement of receipt of an application for an EFP for northern anchovy in an area off San Francisco ordinarily closed to vessels fishing to reduce the catch into products such as fish meal and oil, that wa...
Notice May 17, 2000

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 17, 2000

Education Department logo Education Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
On April 28, 2000, a notice inviting applications for new awards under the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; Grant Applications under Part D, Subpart 2 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was published in the Fed...
Notice May 17, 2000
Smaller Learning Communities Program
Notice May 17, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
ED, DOL
The Advisory Council for School-to-Work Opportunities was established by the Departments of Education and Labor to advise the Departments on implementation of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. The Council shall assess the progress of School-to-Wo...
Notice May 17, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Hydroelectric applications
Notice May 17, 2000
Hydroelectric applications
Notice May 17, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has submitted the energy information collection listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency processing under provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995...
Notice May 17, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Southern Company Services, Inc.
Notice May 17, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Hanford Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the...
Notice May 17, 2000
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Fed...
Notice May 17, 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 notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) entitled: Data Acquisition for Anticipated Residue and Percent of Crop Treated (EPA ICR No. 1911.01), has bee...
Notice May 17, 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: NESHAP f...
Notice May 17, 2000

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States:

Title Type Published
EPA is taking direct final action on revisions to the California State Implementation Plan for the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District (AVAPCD). The six revisions consist of: three rule recissions with accompanying negative declarations fo...
Rule May 17, 2000
EPA is approving revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District (AVAPCD). There are six revisions: three rule recissions with accompanying negative declarations for source categories...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000

Integrated risk information system:

Title Type Published
The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data base that contains EPA scientific consensus positions on human health effects that may result from chronic exposure to chemical substances in the environme...
Notice May 17, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
There will be a 2-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to review the following set of scientific issues being considered by the Agency pe...
Notice May 17, 2000
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission. This meeting is for the Ozone Transport Commission to deal with appropriate matters within the Ozone Transport Region in the No...
Notice May 17, 2000

Pesticides; emergency exemptions, etc.:

Title Type Published
EPA has received a specific exemption request from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to use the pesticide buprofezin (CAS No. 95737-68-1) to treat up to 100,000 acres of cotton to control whiteflies. The Applicant proposes the use of...
Notice May 17, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Agency has issued Pesticide Registration (PR) Notice 2000- 5 entitled "Guidance for Mandatory and Advisory Labeling Statements." This PR notice provides guidance to the registrant for improving the clarity of labeling statements in order to avoid...
Notice May 17, 2000

Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc.:

Title Type Published
In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative cost recovery settlement under Section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA conc...
Notice May 17, 2000
In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement for recovery of past and projecte...
Notice May 17, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc.
Notice May 17, 2000

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
This document addresses issues raised in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking relating to the formula used to calculate maximum just and reasonable rates utilities may charge for pole attachments made to a pole, duct, conduit or right-of-way pursuant. T...
Rule May 17, 2000

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Minority and women outreach program-contracting:

Title Type Published
The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is amending its regulation establishing an outreach program for minority- and women-owned businesses and announcing its policy to utilize that portion of the Federal Affirmati...
Rule May 17, 2000

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice May 17, 2000

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
DW Millennium Freight Systems, Inc., et al.
Notice May 17, 2000

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 17, 2000

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
The consent agreements in these five matters settle 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 th...
Notice May 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2000

Government Accountability Office logo Government Accountability Office

Title Type Published
Notice of new exposure draft on accounting for Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees.
Notice May 17, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice of meeting on June 8 and 9, 2000.
Notice May 17, 2000

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
By designation of the Administration for Children and Families, a member of the Departmental Appeals Board will be the presiding officer for appeals concerning ACF's imposition of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System penalties for t...
Notice May 17, 2000
The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Head Start Bureau announces the availability of $1,000,000 in funds for one Priority Area: Head Start-- Higher Education Hispanic Service Partnerships (HS-H...
Notice May 17, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice May 17, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice May 17, 2000

Grant and cooperative agreement awards:

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Communities living around hazardous waste sites; determining prevalence of multiple sclerosis; applied research and development
Notice May 17, 2000
Emerging infectious diseases treatment; new medications; development and testing
Notice May 17, 2000
This notice announces the availability of financial assistance for FY 2000 Basic Center Program for Runaway and Homeless Youth (BCP), FY 2001 Transitional Living Program (TLP), FY 2000 Street Outreach Program (SOP), and the FY 2000 Youth Development State Collaboration Demonstration Projects (SCDP).
Notice May 17, 2000
Mind/Body Research Program
Notice May 17, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Infant Mortality Advisory Committee
Notice May 17, 2000

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish four temporary safety zones for fireworks displays located on New York Harbor, the East River, and Hudson River, and one temporary safety zone for Search and Rescue demonstrations on the Hudson River. This action...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
Notice of receipt of application.
Notice May 17, 2000

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), reopen the comment period on the proposal to list the plant Gaura neomexicana ssp. coloradensis (Colorado butterfly plant) as a threatened...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000

Federal Geographic Data Committee:

Title Type Published
The FGDC is conducting a pubic review of the National Hydrographic Data Content Standard for Coastal and Inland Waterways (hereafter called the Hydrographic Standard). The purpose of this public review is to provide software vendors and data users an...
Notice May 17, 2000

National Register of Historic Places:

Title Type Published
Pending nominations
Notice May 17, 2000

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
This action informs the public of the transfer of PD lands into trust for the Coquille Tribe and designated as the Coquille Forest.
Notice May 17, 2000
The Bureau of Land Management has determined that the lands described below are suitable for public sale under section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1713:
Notice May 17, 2000

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

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 respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continu...
Notice May 17, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
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...
Notice May 17, 2000

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 17, 2000

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice May 17, 2000
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; weekly notices
Notice May 17, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency...
Notice May 17, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

P
Postal Regulatory Commission

Post office closings; petitions for appeal:

Title Type Published
The Commission has established a docket to consider an objection to the closing of the Roanoke, WV post office. It also has issued a procedural schedule.
Notice May 17, 2000

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes procedures for the issuance of administrative subpoenas in investigations of false representations and lotteries under 39 U.S.C. 3005(a). It adopts with changes a proposed rule published for public comment on March 16, 200...
Rule May 17, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice May 17, 2000

State Department logo State Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Overseas Security Advisory Council
Notice May 17, 2000

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (BHTC) Model 407 helicopters, that currently requires installing a tail rotor pitch-limiting left-pedal stop (pedal stop)...
Proposed Rule May 17, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to Eurocopter Model EC 135 helicopters. This AD requires replacing a certain oil cooler fan splined drive shaft (shaft) with a different airworthy shaft and re-identifying the part...
Rule May 17, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to Eurocopter France Model SA-365N1, AS-365N2, and SA-366G1 helicopters and requires conducting inspections of each tail rotor blade for bonding separation, measuring the clearance...
Rule May 17, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for MD Helicopters Inc. (MDHI) Model MD900 helicopters. This action requires visually inspecting the drive shaft to determine the assembly part number (P/N) and marking the drive shaft assembly...
Rule May 17, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all McDonnell Douglas Model DC-10 series airplanes, that requires a one-time detailed visual inspection to determine if wire segments of the wire bundle routed through the feed t...
Rule May 17, 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 PFC at Mid Delta Regional Airport under the provisions of the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990) (Title IX of the Omnibus Bud...
Notice May 17, 2000

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Air commerce:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Customs Regulations by revising the list of user fee airports. User fee airports are those which, while not qualifying for designation as international or landing rights airports because of insufficient volume or value of bus...
Rule May 17, 2000

Customs bonded warehouses:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Customs Regulations to conform with the provisions of the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1999 regarding the permissible location of a duty-free store. In addition to the existing permissible locations, a...
Rule May 17, 2000

Financial and accounting procedures:

Title Type Published
This document adopts as a final rule interim amendments to the Customs Regulations which conformed those regulations to existing statutory provisions and judicial precedent regarding the assessment of interest due to underpayments or overpayments to...
Rule May 17, 2000

Organization and functions; field organization, ports of entry, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Customs Regulations pertaining to the field organization of Customs by extending the geographical limits of the consolidated port of Puget Sound, Washington. This change is being made as part of Customs continuing program to...
Rule May 17, 2000

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Department of Veterans Affairs published a document in the Federal Register on April 18, 2000, to revise an existing routine use to the system of records entitled "Personnel and Accounting Pay System--VA" (27VA047) as set forth in the Federal Reg...
Notice May 17, 2000

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