October 31, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register October 31, 2000

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120 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 31, 2000

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is making efforts to reduce the paperwork burden. USAID invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following proposed and/or continuing informatio...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
We preliminarily determine that imports of certain cut-to- length carbon plate products, known as grader blade and draft key steel, falling within the physical dimensions outlined in the scope of the order, and containing a minimum of both 0.0008 per...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory Board
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
This document corrects regulatory text in the final rule that implements Amendment 58 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (FMP), which was published in the Federal Registeron October 1...
Rule Oct 31, 2000
The Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) announces the cancellation of the Federal moratorium on fishing for horseshoe crabs in the Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia) waters and the removal of regulations prohibiting the possession of horseshoe crabs i...
Rule Oct 31, 2000
NMFS informs the public that the interim rule published on May 4, 2000, to implement specifications and seasonal trip limits for fishing year 2000 (May 1, 2000, through April 30, 2001) for the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) fishery, is extended th...
Rule Oct 31, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Recreational Fisheries Data Task Force (RFDTF) will hold a meeting.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that Dr. Charles A. Mayo, Center for Coastal Studies, 59 Commercial Street P.O. Box 1036, Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657, has requested an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 633-1483.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is proposing to amend Commission Rule 1.32 to permit a futures commission merchant ("FCM"), in computing the amount of customer funds required to be held in segregated accounts pursuant to secti...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
GSA, DOD
The Department of Defense cancelled the following Optional Form because of low usage:
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

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The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council (the Councils) are considering whether there is a need at this time for guidance on the use of reverse auction techniques and, if so, how it can be most effective...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

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The Leader, Regulatory 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 Oct 31, 2000
The Leader, Regulatory Information Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
ANR Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Algonquin Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
FPL Energy Cape, LLC
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
GridFlorida LLC et al.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Nicole Energy Marketing of Illinois, Inc.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Northwest Pipeline Corp.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Kentucky Utilities Co. et al.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of Energy (DOE) announces the release of the Draft Long-Term Stewardship Study (Draft Study) for public review, comment and public hearing. This Draft Study has been prepared in accordance with the terms of a 1998 Settlement Agreement...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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

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The EPA is proposing approval of rules into the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP). This rulemaking covers three separate actions. First, we are proposing to approve revisions to the Texas Nitrogen Oxides ( NO<INF>X</INF>) rules for electric gener...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000

Pesticides; emergency exemptions, etc.:

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On October 25, 2000, Aventis CropScience (Aventis) submitted new information in support of its petition (PP 9F5050) for an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for the genetically engineered "plant-pesticide" materials in StarLink corn. Thes...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its Forty-Third Report to the Administrator of the EPA on November 19, 1998. In the 43<SUP>rd</SUP> Report, which is included with this notice, the ITC revised th...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
An August 2, 1985 letter from EPA erroneously equates monomer acid and its derivatives with Tall Oil Fatty Acid (TOFA) and its corresponding derivatives for Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory purposes when, in fact, they are chemically dis...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document amends the Commission's rules to change the date by which carriers must notify the National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. (NECA) of any changes in their participation in the association's access tariff filing. Previously, incumbent...
Rule Oct 31, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, Public Law 92-463, as amended, this notice advises interested persons of the seventh meeting of the Technological Advisory Council ("Council"), which will be held at the Federal...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Radio stations; table of assignments:

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The Commission, at the request of New Directions Media, Inc., seeks comment on four petitions for rulemaking requesting the allotment of Channel 288C2 at Heber, Arizona; Channel 258C2 at Snowflake, Arizona; Channel 232C3 at Overgaard, Arizona; and Ch...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000
This document proposes four new allotments to Paradise, MI; Lynchburg, TN; Clinton, TN; and Rincon, TX. The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by David C. Schaburg proposing the allotment of Channel 234A at Paradise, Michigan, as the co...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation logo Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Federal Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 requires all federal agencies with statutory authority to impose civil money penalties (CMPs) to evaluate and adjust those CMPs every four years. The FDIC last adjusted its CMP statu...
Rule Oct 31, 2000

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Banks and bank holding companies:

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Commission has delegated authority to the Associate Director of the Division of Planning and Information to share certain non-public information with Canadian agencies and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. With respect to Canadi...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Prohibited trade practices:

Title Type Published
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 Oct 31, 2000

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Acquisition regulations:

No documents available.

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The General Service Administration (GSA) is providing notice of the establishment of a new system of records, Personal Property Sales Program (GSA/FSS-13). The new system will collect information for use in soliciting bids and awarding contracts on s...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The invention listed below is owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and is available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally funded research and development.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), is proposing to withdraw approval of the new animal drug application (NADA) for use of the fluoroquinolone enrofloxacin in poultry. This action is based on CVM's determinat...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the renewals of certain FDA advisory committees by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (the Commissioner). The Commissioner has determined that it is in the public interest to renew the charters of...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Medicaid:

Title Type Published
This proposed rule would change the current requirement that limits on Federal Financial Participation (FFP) must be applied before States use less restrictive income methodologies than those used by related cash assistance programs in determining el...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000

Medicare, Medicaid, and CLIA programs:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the continued approval of COLA (formerly the Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation) as an accreditation organization for laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program. We have f...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Medicare:

Title Type Published
This notice describes the criteria and standards to be used for evaluating the performance of fiscal intermediaries and carriers in the administration of the Medicare program beginning October 1, 2000. The results of these evaluations are considered...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Director's Council of Public Representatives
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Cancer Institute
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Cancer Institute
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Cancer Institute
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Cancer Institute
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Notice Oct 31, 2000
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites Citizens Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Scientific Review Center
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Scientific Review Center
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability for public comment of a document entitled "Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral."
Notice Oct 31, 2000
This notice announces the availability for public comment of a document entitled "Revised U.S. Public Health Service Recommendations for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Screening of Pregnant Women."
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Drawbridge operations:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary final rule governing the operation of the Willis Avenue Bridge, mile 1.5, and the Madison Avenue Bridge, mile 2.3, both across the Harlem River, and the Pulaski Bridge, mile 0.6, across Newtown Creek in New...
Rule Oct 31, 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 Oct 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 Oct 31, 2000

Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac):

Title Type Published
This final rule establishes new housing goal levels for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (collectively, the "Government Sponsored Enterprises," or the "GSEs") for the...
Rule Oct 31, 2000

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
The Secretary of HUD has established an Enforcement Center to consolidate HUD's enforcement actions. In addition, pursuant to the regulations at 24 CFR Part 30, the Assistant Secretary for Housing- Federal Housing Commissioner has the authority to in...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
This notice announces that the National Park Service's (NPS') intention to request from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a reinstatement of, and revisions to, a previously approved information collection for certain activities related to 36...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces a public hearing concerning the proposed action of offering a Federal coal lease tract for competitive coal lease sale and requests public comment on the fair market value of the coal resources and acknow...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Park Service is preparing an environmental impact statement for the general management plan (GMP) revision for Petrified Forest National Park. The environmental impact statem...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service announces the availability of the Winter Use Plans, Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), 5 U.S.C. Appendix, notice is hereby given that the next meeting of the Front Range Resource Advisory Council (Colorado) will be held on November 9 in Canon City, Colorado. The meet...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice of meeting.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Natural resource damage assessment plans; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice is given that the "Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan, [for the] Lower Fox River and Green Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment" is available for public review and comment. The public comment period started at a public meeting i...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Missouri regulatory program (Missouri program) and the Missouri Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan (Missouri plan) under the Surface...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
The plats of the following described lands were officially filed in the Idaho State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, Idaho, effective 9:00 a.m., on the dates specified: The plat representing the dependent resurvey of a portion of the subdivi...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice of information collection under review; request for certification of military or naval service.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice of information collection under review; application for issuance or replacement of Northern Mariana card.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice of information collection under review; application to file declaration of intention.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice of information collection under review; application for action on an approved application or petition.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice of information collection under review; application for replacement/initial nonimmigrant arrival-departure document.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice of information collection under review; application for temporary protected status.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Assessment, which is available to the public, concludes that the methamphetamine investigation and clandestine laboratory closure activities of the Methamphetamine/Drug Hot Spots Program will not have a significant impact on the qua...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
OSHA solicits public comment concerning its request for an extension of the information-collection requirements contained in its Asbestos in Construction Standard at 29 CFR 1926.1101 (the "Standard"). Request for Comment: The Agency has a particular...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
OSHA solicits public comment concerning its request for an extension of the information-collection requirements contained in its Asbestos in Shipyard Standard at 29 CFR 1915.1001 (the "Standard").
Notice Oct 31, 2000
OSHA solicits public comment concerning its request for an extension of the information-collection requirements contained in its Asbestos in General Industry Standard at 29 CFR 1910.1001 (the "Standard"). Request for Comment: The Agency has a particu...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains notices of pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of proposed exemptions from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Inte...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), announces a second demonstration program to test the ability of the workforce development system to create projects or industry-led consortia for the purpose of upgradi...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

M
Management and Budget Office

Title Type Published
Hospital and medical care and treatment furnished by United States, costs; rates regarding recovery from tortiously liable third persons (Circular A-25)
Notice Oct 31, 2000

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):

No documents available.

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Title Type Published
The public is invited to comment on National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) programs and activities available to persons with limited English proficiency (LEP) and steps that the agency could take to ensure that persons with LEP have mean...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

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

Meetings:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Notice is hereby given that the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has prepared a model safety evaluation (SE) relating to the elimination of requirements on post accident sampling imposed on licensees through orders, license conditions...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 31, 2000

S
Special Counsel Office

Title Type Published
The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is issuing a final rule amending its regulations at 5 CFR part 1800 to: provide basic information about OSC jurisdiction over complaints of improper employment practices, and over disclosures of information of wron...
Rule Oct 31, 2000

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Industry Functional Advisory Committee for Customs Matters will hold a meeting on November 9, 2000, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The meeting will be closed to the public from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon, and opened to the public from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to section 303 of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984, as amended, USTR is required to publish annually the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE). With this notice, the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is requesting...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Airbus Model A300 B2, A300 B4, A300 B4-600, A300 B4-600R, A300 F4-600R, and A310 series airplanes. This proposal would require modification of the...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000
This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 series airplanes, that currently requires, among other actions, certain revisions to the Airplane Flight Manual (AF...
Proposed Rule Oct 31, 2000

Coastwise trade laws; administrative waivers:

Title Type Published
As authorized by Public Law 105-383, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Drawbridge operations:

No documents available.

Meetings:

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Section 11 of the Debt Collection Act of 1982 (31 U.S.C. 3717), the Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for computing and publishing the percentage rate to be used in assessing interest charges for outstanding debts on claims owed th...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) hereby gives notice that a draft of its strategic plan is available at http:// www.occ.treas.gov/spln2000.pdf. Certain high level aspects of this strategic plan have been summarized in the strategic...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

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 Oct 31, 2000

Customhouse broker license cancellation, suspension, etc.:

Title Type Published
Customs Broker License Revocations.
Notice Oct 31, 2000
Customs Broker License Cancellations.
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Income taxes:

Title Type Published
This document contains final regulations relating to the allocation of nonrecourse liabilities by a partnership. The final regulations revise tier three of the three-tiered allocation structure contained in the current nonrecourse liability regulatio...
Rule Oct 31, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This document announces that the Customs Service will convene a major trade symposium to discuss the agency's programs, strategic plans, and its vision for trade in the 21st century. Members of the international trade and transportation community are...
Notice Oct 31, 2000
In 1991 the IRS established the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC) in response to a recommendation made by the United States Congress. The primary purpose of IRPAC is to provide an organized public forum for discussion of releva...
Notice Oct 31, 2000

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
National Research Advisory Council
Notice Oct 31, 2000

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