November 1, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register November 1, 2000

View all documents issued on November 1, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

97 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 1, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agency information collection activities:

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of our seed analysis program with Can...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Agricultural commodities:

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The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting, as a final rule, with a minor change, the provisions of an interim final rule which decreased the assessment rate established for the Northwest Fresh Bartlett Pear Marketing Committee (Committee...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The USDA Forest Service intends to prepare an environmental impact statement for revising the Hoosier National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5) and USDA Forest Service National Forest System Land...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Meetings:

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The National Drought Policy Commission recommended that a National Drought Council (Council) be established to coordinate activities between and among Federal Agencies, States, local governments, tribes and others. The Council was established through...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
The Southwest Washington Provincial Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 15, 2000, at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest Office, located at 10600 NE 51st Circle, Vancouver, Washington. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and continue unt...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

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This final rule is being issued to adjust each civil monetary penalty provided by law within the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce (the Department). The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collect...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Nov 01, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Antidumping:

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On June 23, 2000, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published in the Federal Register (65 FR 39129) the preliminary results of the full sunset review of the countervailing duty order on grain-oriented electrical steel ("GOES") from Italy,...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
On June 23, 2000, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") published a notice of preliminary results of the full sunset review of the antidumping duty order on aramid fiber formed of poly para-phenylene terephthalamide ("aramid fiber") from the...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Florida
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS announces the closure of the directed fishery for Pacific mackerel in the exclusive economic zone off the Pacific coast October 27, 2000.The Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan (FMP) and its implementing regulations require NMFS to s...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) Pacific cod from trawl catcher/processors and vessels using jig gear to vessels using hook- and-line or pot gear. These actions are necessary t...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Textile and apparel categories:

Title Type Published
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs exempting certain textile and apparel articles from quota, Guaranteed Access Levels (GALs), visa and GAL certification requirements.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Corporation for National and Community Service logo Corporation for National and Community Service

Nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in federally assisted education programs or activities:

Title Type Published
In a document published in the Federal Register on August 30, 2000 (65 FR 52857), the Corporation for National Service (Corporation) joined many other Federal agencies in issuing final regulations providing for the enforcement of Title IX of the Educ...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Acquisition regulations:

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 clarify and encourage the use of electronic signatures in Federal procurement.
Proposed Rule Nov 01, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
DoD is issuing a correction to the notice published at 65 FR 63844 on October 25, 2000, that requested comments regarding a proposed extension of an approved information collection requirement. The notice inadvertently omitted recordkeeping hours fro...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
Notice.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Army, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, in coordination with the U.S. Army Reserves and the Army National Guard, announce the final revision of the Integrated Total Army Personnel Data Base (ITAPDB) Data Element...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Education Department logo Education Department

Postsecondary education:

Title Type Published
The Secretary amends the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program regulations. These final regulations implement changes made to the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, (HEA)...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
The Secretary amends the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program regulations and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program regulations. These regulations are intended to reduce administrative burden for program participants,...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
The Secretary amends the Federal Perkins Loan (Perkins Loan) Program regulations. These final regulations are intended to improve collections in the Perkins Loan Program by providing greater flexibility in the process of assigning defaulted Perkins l...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
The Secretary amends the regulations governing the Federal Perkins (Perkins) Loan Program, Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program, and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program to strengthen and improve the processes for grantin...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
The Secretary amends the Institutional Eligibility, the Student Assistance General Provisions, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) Programs, and the Federal Pell Grant Program regulations. These final regulations implement changes negotiated under the negot...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
These final regulations govern the new Special Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (SLEAP) Program. These regulations implement changes made to the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), by the Higher Education Amendments of 1998,...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
The Secretary amends the Student Assistance General Provisions, Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program, William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program, and Federal Pell Grant Program regulations. In these final regulations, the requi...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
Illinois Power Co. et al.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Electric utilities (Federal Power Act):

Title Type Published
The Commission is revising the BPS Document adopted by the Commission on February 25, 2000 in Open Access Same-Time Information System and Standards of Conduct, Order No. 638, FERC Stats. & Regs. para. 31,093 (2000). The revisions reflect the Commiss...
Rule Nov 01, 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 EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): National Oil a...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following proposed and continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): U...
Notice Nov 01, 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: NSPS, Su...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) entitled: Request for Contractor Access to TSCA Confidential Business Information (EPA ICR No. 1250.06; OMB...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: Renewal an...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit the following continuing Information Collection Request (ICR) entitled: "Alternate Threshold for Low Annual Reportable Amo...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
This document announces the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) responses to Agency clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Clean Air Act:

Title Type Published
Through this notice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting applications for consideration at the Thirteenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the Protocol) to be held in 2001...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, as amended (5 U.S.C., App. 2) notification is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), The Board of Scientific Counselors (BOS...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
This notice announces a conference call meeting of the Inert Disclosure Stakeholder Workgroup. The workgroup was established to advise the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee on ways of making information on inert ingredients more available to the p...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the deletion of the Publicker Industries Inc. Superfund Site (Site) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL constitutes Appendix B of 40 CFR Part 300 which is...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
EPA has developed a draft National Action Plan to address the remaining risks to the Level 1 priority Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) pesticide pollutants. This proposed National Action Plan covers the chemical compounds: Aldrin, Dieldri...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Toxic substances:

Title Type Published
EPA is proposing to clarify that PCB waste in United States' territories and possessions outside the customs territory of the United States may be returned to the U.S. Customs Territory for proper disposal. This proposed rule interprets the prohibiti...
Proposed Rule Nov 01, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
This document contains corrections to the final regulations, which were published in the Federal Register on September 20, 2000 (65FR56799). The regulations related to the information concerning Radio Broadcasting Services in Weiser, ID. This documen...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Casualty and nonperformance certificates:

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
Air Cargo Centralam, Inc.
Notice Nov 01, 2000
Logistics USA, Inc
Notice Nov 01, 2000

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Acquisition regulations:

No documents available.

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Health and Human Services notifies Federal agencies of the laboratories currently certified to meet standards of Subpart C of Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (59 FR 29916, 29925). A similar notice li...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) filed by Elanco Animal Health. The NADA provides for use of approved, single-ingredient narasin and tylosin pho...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for four members to serve on the Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. FDA has special interest in ensuring that women, minority groups...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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This document contains a correction to the Notice that was published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, September 13, 2000. On page 55256, in the State of Alaska, in the Funding for the following counties column, delete "$797,487" and replace with...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Medicare:

Title Type Published
This final rule with comment period makes several changes affecting Medicare Part B payment. The changes include: refinement of resource-based practice expense relative value units (RVUs); the geographic practice cost indices; resource-based malpract...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee to the Director
Notice Nov 01, 2000
On October 20, 2000, AHRQ held a public meeting to hear comments from the public on specific qualifying criteria for identifying clinical trials appropriate for Medicare coverage. To provide additional time for organizations and institutions interest...
Notice Nov 01, 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 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 Nov 01, 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 document notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year 2000 Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
In accordance with section 102 (a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this document notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year 2000 Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program. The purpose of th...
Notice Nov 01, 2000
In accordance with section 102 (a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this document notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year 2000 Hispanic- serving Institutions Assisting Communities Program. The...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90-day finding on a petition to remove the woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) from the Federal list of endangered species pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amende...
Proposed Rule Nov 01, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), a Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Resource Advisory Council meeting will be held as indicated below. Topi...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (th...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Library of Congress logo Library of Congress

Cable royalty funds:

Title Type Published
The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is announcing the schedule for the 180-day arbitration period for the Phase II distribution of the 1997 cable royalty funds for the syndicated programming category.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acquisition regulations:

No documents available.

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a NASA Advisory Council, Aero-Space Technology Advisory Committee, Aviation Safety Reporting System Subc...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

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

Title Type Published
NASA hereby gives notice that Tektronix, Inc., of Beaverton, OR has applied for an exclusive license to practice the inventions disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 5,629,780 and 5,426,512 both entitled "Image Data Compression Having Minimum Perceptual Erro...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Domestic Mail Manual:

Title Type Published
The Postal Service proposes to revise USPS STD 7A, which governs the design of curbside mailboxes. The proposed revision was developed through a consensus process and was approved by a committee of representatives from mailbox manufacturers, mailbox...
Proposed Rule Nov 01, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Notice of application for an order under sections 6(c) and 57(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") for an exemption from sections 57(a)(1) and 57(a)(2) of the Act, and under section 57(i) of the Act and rule 17d-1 under the Act authorizing certain joint transactions otherwise prohibited by section 57(a)(4) of the Act.
Notice Nov 01, 2000
Public utility holding company filings
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Notice of application for an order pursuant to Section 26(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act") approving certain substitutions of securities and an order of exemption pursuant to Section 17(b) of the Act from Section 17(a) of the Act.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad services abandonment:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
CSX Transportation, Inc.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Tennessee Valley Authority logo Tennessee Valley Authority

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
This notice is provided in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality's regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500 to 1508) and TVA's procedures implementing the National Environmental Policy Act. TVA will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

T
Trade Representative, Office of United States

Generalized System of Preferences:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a process for considering changes to the product eligibility list for India under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program; lists the schedule for the public hearing that is part of this process, for requesting partic...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
This action informs the public that FMCSA intends to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew approval for the information collection required by the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program. That information consists of grant applic...
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document corrects information in an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 737- 100, -200, -200C, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes. That AD supersedes AD 99-05-15, amendment 39-11063, to require a one-tim...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain International Aero Engines AG (IAE) V2500-A5 and -D5 series turbofan engines, identified by serial number. This amendment requires the removal of engines assembled...
Rule Nov 01, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Learjet Model 45 series airplanes, that requires repetitive application of grease to the rotating disk assembly of the nose landing gear squat switch mechanism. Applicati...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
We rewrote Regulations Governing Fiscal Agency Checks and Regulations Governing Book-Entry Conversion of Detached Bearer Coupons and Bearer Corpora, in plain language. We also made two changes in the regulations. We removed references to the Federal...
Rule Nov 01, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Treasury Telework and Flexiplace Program
Notice Nov 01, 2000

Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; implementation:

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury is announcing that it will shortly prescribe procedures for making payments to persons who hold certain categories of judgments against Cuba or Iran.
Notice Nov 01, 2000

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