November 24, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register November 24, 2000

View all documents issued on November 24, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

116 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on November 24, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Agricultural commodities:

Title Type Published
This rule exempts potatoes shipped for experimental purposes from the handling and assessment regulations of the Washington State potato marketing order. The marketing order regulates the handling of potatoes grown in Washington, and is administered...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Milk marketing orders:

Title Type Published
This document terminates the remaining administrative provisions of the Tennessee Valley Federal milk marketing order (Order 1011). All of the monthly operating provisions of the order were terminated as of October 1, 1997.
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board logo Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Title Type Published
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board adopts regulations establishing policies and procedures for requesting and disclosing records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA requires Federal agencies to create regulations est...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
Notice of postponement of final results of antidumping duty new shipper review.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Washington
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
NMFS has completed an Endangered Species Act (ESA) status review for Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), Pacific hake (Merluccius productus), and walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) populations from the eastern North Pacific Ocean between Puget So...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS has determined that the Gulf of Mexico red grouper fishery is overfished and has notified the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) of related responsibilities under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Mag...
Rule Nov 24, 2000
NMFS announces that the Maine mahogany quahog commercial quota has been harvested. Vessels issued a commercial Federal fisheries permit for the Maine mahogany quahog fishery may not land Maine mahogany quahogs in the State of Maine for the remainder...
Rule Nov 24, 2000
NMFS announces that the commercial fishery in the area from House Rock, OR to Humboldt South Jetty, CA, reached its 1,000-chinook guideline for the sub-area allocation off Oregon. The fishery in the sub-area from House Rock, OR to the Oregon-Californ...
Rule Nov 24, 2000
NMFS announces closures of several recreational and commercial fisheries from the Oregon-California border to the U.S.-Canada border. The Northwest Regional Administrator, NMFS (Regional Administrator), determined that the recreational and commercial...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) announces the availability of $55.8 million for economic adjustment assistance to support disaster recovery programs designed to assist affected states and local communities recover from the consequences...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has created an open electronic-mail discussion forum (or "listserv") on issues pertaining to the identification of radio spectrum for third generation wireless systems in the Unite...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures will be held January 14 through January 17, 2001, at the Hilton Mesa Pavilion, Mesa, Arizona. The meeting is open to the public. The National Conference...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Ocean and coastal resource management:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that NOAA is reopening the public comment on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published August 23, 2000. The ANPR was published by NOAA to evaluate whether changes to existing National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) regulations...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000

Patent cases:

Title Type Published
The United States Patent and Trademark Office amends its rules of practice in patent interferences to simplify certain requirements relating to the declaration of interferences and the presentation of evidence.
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled logo Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Title Type Published
The Committee is proposing to add to the Procurement List commodities and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Nov 24, 2000
This action adds to the Procurement List a commodity and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Title Type Published
The Department of Defense is publishing the unclassified text of a section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. This is published to fulfill the requirements of section 155 of Public Law 104-164 dated 21 July 1996.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Civilian health and medical program of uniformed services (CHAMPUS):

Title Type Published
This notice describes the changes made to the TRICARE/CHAMPUS DRG-based payment system in order to conform to changes made to the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS). It also provides the updated fixed loss cost outlier threshold, cost-to-charg...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Meetings:

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The Defense Science Board Task Force on Improving Fuel Efficiency of Weapons Platforms will meet in closed session on November 15-16, 2000, at the Institute for Defense Analyses, 1801 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311-1772. The mission of th...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Logistics Transformation Phase II was held in closed session on November 15-16, 2000, at SAIC, 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22203. The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Se...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
The Defense Science Board (DB) Task Force on Systems Technology for the Future U.S. Strategic Posture will meet in closed session on December 14-15, 2000; January 10-11, 2001; February 14-15, 2001; March 14-15, 2001; April 11-12, 2001; May 16-17, 200...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Science Board
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Military traffic management:

Title Type Published
The Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC), as the Department of Defense (DOD) Traffic Manager for surface and surface intermodal freight traffic management, hereby announces the mandatory use of USBank's Powertrack system as the transportation t...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Education Department logo Education Department

Title Type Published
This notice sets forth the date and location of a forthcoming meeting of the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP). This notice also describes the functions of the Panel.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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 Nov 24, 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 Nov 24, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Hydroelectric applications
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Consumers Energy Co.
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Idaho Power Co.
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Idaho Power Co.
Notice Nov 24, 2000
ONEOK Midstream Pipeline, Inc., et al.
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
run-of-river operation; (2) licensee's
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Idaho Operations Office (ID), is seeking applications for conceptual designs for steel making processes that will revolutionize the way steel is made in the 21st century. This is the next "stretch" step in advanci...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Powerplant and industrial fuel use; new electric powerplant coal capability:

Title Type Published
Rumford Power Associates, L.P., Tiverton Power Associates, L.P. and Los Medanos Energy Center, LLC submitted coal capability self- certifications pursuant to section 201 of the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, as amended.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
The Chief Information Officer for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted an extension to the waiver (published October 1, 1998, at 63 FR 52693) authorizing the Agency to continue to use the cryptographic features in the commercial soft...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

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: Standard...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 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: National Emis...
Notice Nov 24, 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: National...
Notice Nov 24, 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: Emission...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to adjust the applicability date for reinstating the 1-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) in Allegan County, Michigan and is proposing on a determination that this area has...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adjusting the applicability date for reinstating the 1-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) in Allegan County, Michigan and is determining that the area has attained the 1...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding preferred alternative identification, soils information, ground water depths, and habitat suitability. EPA requested that the final document provide additional information on these issues. ERP No. DS-BLM...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Weekly receipts
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Working Committee on Pesticide Operations & Management will hold a 2- day meeting, beginning on December 4, 2000, and ending on December 5, 2000. This notice announces the location and tim...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
This document proposes rules that will promote more efficient use and sharing of the radio spectrum between FSS earth stations and terrestrial fixed service stations by requiring the showing of actual or planned use of the spectrum when access to tha...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000

Digital television stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
The Commission, at the request of Alabama Educational Television Commission, licensee of noncommercial television station WDIQ-TV, substitutes DTV channel *11 for DTV channel *59 at Dozier, Alabama. See 65 FR 46684, July 31, 2000. DTV channel *11 can...
Rule Nov 24, 2000
The Commission, at the request of California Broadcasting, Inc., licensee of station KRCR-TV, substitutes DTV channel 34 for station KRCR-TV's assigned DTV channel 14 at Redding, California. See 65 FR 41036, July 3, 2000. DTV channel 34 can be allott...
Rule Nov 24, 2000
The Commission, at the request of Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises, licensee of station KDUH-TV, substitutes DTV channel 7 for DTV channel 20 at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. See 65 FR 51277, August 23, 2000. DTV channel 7 can be allotted to Scottsbluff at...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Banks and bank holding companies:

Truth in lending (Regulation Z):

Title Type Published
The Board is publishing a final rule amending the staff commentary that interprets the requirements of Regulation Z (Truth in Lending). The Board is required to adjust annually the dollar amount that triggers requirements for certain mortgages bearin...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Food for human consumption:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting an interim final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of September 8, 2000 (65 FR 54686). The interim final rule authorized the use in food labeling of health claims on the association betwee...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Foster care maintenance payments, adoption assistance, and child and family services:

Title Type Published
This document corrects the regulatory text of the final rule on Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews and Child and Family Services State Plan Reviews published in the Federal Register on January 25, 2000 (65 FR 4019-4093).
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Health care programs; fraud and abuse:

Title Type Published
This document contains a correction to the final regulations which were published in the Federal Register on October 26, 1999 (64 FR 57740). These regulations established a national health care fraud and abuse data collection program for the reportin...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Health insurance reform:

Title Type Published
This document corrects technical and typographical errors that appeared in the final rule published in the Federal Register on August 17, 2000, entitled "Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions" (65 FR 50312). The final rule ad...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to revoke the regulation that establishes conditions for marketing digoxin products for oral use. This regulation is no longer necessary because the products, which are new drugs, can be regulated u...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reaffirming its determination that digoxin products for oral use (tablets and elixir) are new drugs and announcing the conditions for marketing the products. Manufacturers who wish to begin to market or to co...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Medicare, Medicaid, and CLIA programs:

Title Type Published
In the October 31, 2000 issue of the Federal Register (65 FR 64966), we published a notice announcing the continued approval of COLA (formerly the Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation) as an accreditation organization for laboratories under...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
HIV and STD Prevention Advisory Committee
Notice Nov 24, 2000
National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This Notice identifies unutilized, underutilized, excess, and surplus Federal property reviewed by HUD for suitability for possible use to assist the homeless.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Title Type Published
The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Comprehensive conservation plans; availability:

Title Type Published
This notice advises that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to gather information necessary to prepare a Comprehensive Conservation Plan and associated environmental documents for Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge in north-central Colorado. Ar...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed annual Lease Sale 178 for the Central Planning Area of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf. In this EA, MMS has reexamined the potential envir...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Judgement funds; plans for use and distribution:

Title Type Published
This notice publishes the "Final Share Percentage Schedule" for the Class in Ramah Navajo Chapter, et al. v. Bruce Babbitt, et al., as required by paragraphs 11 and 12 of Appendix D of the Partial Settlement Agreement (PSA) previously approved by the...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Marine mammals:

Title Type Published
In accordance with section 101(a)(5)(A) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service implementing regulations (50 CFR 18.27(f)(3)), notice is hereby given that a Letter of Authorization to take polar...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Oil and gas leases:

Permanent program amd abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:

Title Type Published
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is approving an amendment to the Texas regulatory program (Texas program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Texas proposed revisions to and additions o...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submission:

Title Type Published
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is approving a proposed amendment to the Colorado regulatory program (hereinafter, the "Colorado program") under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Colorado p...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:

Title Type Published
The following public lands in Greenlee County, Arizona have been examined and found suitable for conveyance for airport purposes to the Town of Duncan, a political subdivision, under the provisions of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (9...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Survey plat filings:

Title Type Published
The plat of survey of the following described land is scheduled to be officially filed in the Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming, thirty (30) calendar days from the date of this publication.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Tribal-State Compacts approval; Class III (casino) gambling:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to Section 11 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA), Pub. L. 100-497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish, in the Federal Register, notice of approved Tribal-State Compacts for the purpose of engaging in...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Pursuant to Section 11 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, Public Law 100-497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish, in the Federal Register, notice of approved Tribal-State Compacts for the purpose of engaging in Clas...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Reinstatement, with change, of a previously approved collection for which approval has expired; National Survey of Prosecutors.
Notice Nov 24, 2000
Notice of review of a revision of a currently approved collection school crime survey (SCS).
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Federal prisoners; paroling and releasing, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Parole Commission is publishing interim rules to govern the supervision of released prisoners who are serving terms of supervised release imposed by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Commission has assumed this function pur...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This cooperative agreement will examine contemporary issues and newer developing topics in prison classification that will concentrate on classification of high risk, aggressive, disruptive and predatory offenders in general population, close custody...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Pollution control; consent judgments:

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Nov 24, 2000

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 24, 2000
Millcraft Industries, Inc.
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Title Type Published
As part of its ongoing efforts to improve the administration of regulatory programs and requirements, Legal Services Corporation is soliciting public comment on its regulations toward the development of a regulatory agenda for 2001 and beyond.
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000

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National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Public information dissemination; policies and practices
Notice Nov 24, 2000

National Credit Union Administration logo National Credit Union Administration

Credit unions:

Title Type Published
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is proposing a revised regulation to categorize activities deemed to be within the incidental powers of a federal credit union (FCU). The proposed rule also describes how interested parties may request...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

O
Office of National Drug Control Policy

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2 and 41 CFR 101-6.1013, the Office of National Drug Control Policy renewed the charter of the Drug Control Research, Data, and Evaluation Committee on October 16, 2000. The renewed charte...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

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Railroad Retirement Board

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

No documents available.

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Systems of records; correction
Correction Nov 24, 2000

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

No documents available.

Small business size standards:

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Nov 24, 2000

State Department logo State Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Global Educational Programs, Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Orientation Program award. Public and private non-profit o...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Public Diplomacy, U.S. Advisory Commission
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
The FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) to revise the requirements for filing the Motor Carrier Identification Report (MCS-150). A motor carrier is currently required to file this report before it begins to operate. As...
Rule Nov 24, 2000

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This document proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) that would apply to all Aerostar Aircraft Corporation (Aerostar) Models PA-60-600, PA-60-601, PA-60-601P, PA-60-602P and PA-60-700P airplanes. The proposed AD would require you to rep...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000
This amendment proposes the adoption of a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to GE CF6-50 turbofan engines. This proposal would require removal of old high pressure compressor (HPC) air ducts and mating hardware and replacement with newly...
Proposed Rule Nov 24, 2000

Aviation proceedings:

Title Type Published
The Department of Transportation is directing all interested persons to show cause why it should not issue an order finding Potomac Air, Inc., fit, willing, and able to conduct scheduled passenger operations as a commuter air carrier, and transferrin...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Hazardous materials:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardo...
Notice Nov 24, 2000
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, exemptions from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Part 107, Subpart B), notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardo...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Community Adjustment and Investment Program Advisory Committee
Notice Nov 24, 2000

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552(e)(4)) requires that all agencies publish in the Federal Register a notice of the existence and character of their systems of records. Notice is hereby given that VA is amending the system of records currently en...
Notice Nov 24, 2000

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