December 13, 2000 (Volume 65)

Federal Register December 13, 2000

View all documents issued on December 13, 2000. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

109 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on December 13, 2000

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Child nutrition programs:

Title Type Published
This final rule amends the WIC Program regulations to incorporate two nondiscretionary funding provisions mandated by the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000. The first change modifies the methodology used to calculate the national administrativ...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Forest Service intends to prepare an environmental impact statement to analyze and disclose the environmental effects of implementing resource management activities that include fuelbreak construction consisting of a strategic system of defensibl...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

Title Type Published
We are amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by removing Artigas, a department in Uruguay, from the list of regions considered to be free of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease. We ar...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Milk marketing orders:

Title Type Published
This document announces a referendum to be conducted to determine whether producers favor issuance of the order regulating the handling of milk in the Upper Midwest marketing area, as proposed to be amended in the tentative final decision issued by t...
Proposed Rule Dec 13, 2000

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
This document revises the delegations of authority from the Secretary of Agriculture and general officers of the Department to make delegations of authority to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) designated pursuant to the provisions of the Clinger-C...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Broadcasting Board of Governors logo Broadcasting Board of Governors

Senior Executive Service:

Title Type Published
This Notice is issued to announce the membership of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Performance Review Board.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Civil Rights Commission logo Civil Rights Commission

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Rights Commission Amendments Act of 1994, Section 3, Public Law 103- 419, 108 Stat. 4338, as amended, and 45 CFR 702.3., that public hearings before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wi...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce (Departments) are proposing a new process for public review of and comment on mandatory conditions and prescriptions the Departments develop as part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Antidumping:

Title Type Published
On August 8, 2000, the Department of Commerce (the "Department") published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy. This review covers the following exporters/producers of subject...
Notice Dec 13, 2000
On August 8, 2000, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on canned pineapple fruit from Thailand. This review covers nine producers/exporters of the su...
Notice Dec 13, 2000
We determine that sales of the subject merchandise have not been made below normal value (NV).
Notice Dec 13, 2000
In response to a request by a pasta producer and its affiliated exporter in Turkey, Beslen Makarna Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., and Beslen Pazarlarma Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., respectively (collectively "Beslen"), the Department of Commerce ("the...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Fishery conservation and management:

Title Type Published
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by catcher processor vessels using hook-and-line gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2000 total allowable catch (TA...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

International services surveys:

Title Type Published
These final rules amend the reporting requirements for the BE- 93, Annual Survey of Royalties, License Fees, and Other Receipts and Payments Between U.S. and Unaffiliated Foreign Persons. The BE-93 survey is conducted by the Bureau of Economic Analys...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

C
Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Commodity Futures Trading Commission logo Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commodity Exchange Act:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting final rules to clarify the operation of the current swaps exemption. In addition, in a companion notice of final rulemaking published in this edition of the Federal Register, t...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is promulgating a new regulatory framework to apply to clearing organizations. These regulations for clearing organizations are part of an initiative that would also establish a new regula...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
As part of a comprehensive regulatory reform process, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has revised its rules relating to intermediation of commodity futures and commodity options (commodity interest) transactions. These n...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is promulgating a new regulatory framework to apply to multilateral transaction execution facilities, to market intermediaries and to clearing organizations. This new framework constitutes...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Commodity option transactions:

Title Type Published
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is proposing to amend the exemption from its agricultural trade option rule, to clarify its operation in light of amendments to the exemption for bilateral transactions, published elsewher...
Proposed Rule Dec 13, 2000

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

National Service Trust:

Title Type Published
We are amending a provision of our National Service Trust regulations relating to the permitted uses of the AmeriCorps education award. This change will expand the definition of "current" educational expenses to include expenses incurred after an ind...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
The Director of Defense Procurement has issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 8064 of the DoD Appropriations Act for Fiscal year 2001 and Section 805 of the DoD Authorizatio...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to revise the criteria for determining when review of a contractor's material management and accounting system (MMAS) i...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Director of Defense Procurement is adopting as final, without change, an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS). The rule converts programs based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to phase out restrictions on the acquisition of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) carbon fiber from foreign sources. The restrict...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Director Defense Procurement has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Section 813 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000. Section 813 requires DoD to revie...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
The Director of Defense Procurement has issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to clarify the authority of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) to indemnify a cont...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
FPL Group, Inc., et al.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Lighthouse Energy Trading Co., Inc.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
WFEC Genco, L.L.P.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Natural gas exportation and importation:

Title Type Published
The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy gives notice that during November 2000, it issued Orders granting, amending, transferring and vacating authority to import and export natural gas. These Orders are summarized in the appendi...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Title Type Published
This notice announces that pesticide related information submitted to EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Superfund program:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given of a proposed Prospective Purchaser Agreement and Covenant Not To Sue, executed between the United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), and Medure Development LLC ("Purchaser") in accordance wi...
Notice Dec 13, 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"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), and Section 7003(d) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S.C. 6973(d) no...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
The National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances (NAC/AEGL Committee) is developing AEGLs on an ongoing basis to provide Federal, State, and local agencies with information on short-term exposures to hazard...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Farm Credit Administration logo Farm Credit Administration

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of the forthcoming regular meeting of the Farm Credit Administration Board (Board).
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission will consider a Hearing Designation Order concerning applications for the assignment of licenses from Anderson Broadcasting Company to Cumulus Licensing Corp. 2.................. Mass Media................. Title: Definition of Radio M...
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Radio services, special:

Title Type Published
In this document, the Commission amends its rules to promote operational, technical, and regulatory flexibility for Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS) and high seas public coast stations. These final rules will eliminate the applicat...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Banks and bank holding companies:

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Acquisition regulations:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor is cancelling the following Standard Form because of low usage: SF 99, Notice of Award of Contract.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening for 60 days the comment period for a public meeting entitled "Human Bone Allograft: Manipulation and Homologous Use in Spine and Other Orthopedic Reconstruction and Repair" that was held on August 2...
Proposed Rule Dec 13, 2000
Notice of program exclusions.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Dec 13, 2000
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to allow a proposed information collection project: "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Componen...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) announces the availability of funds for universities, in partnership with the original 17 Early Head Start Research sites, to conduct the local...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Nurse Education and Practice National Advisory Council
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard proposes to establish ten permanent safety zones for fireworks displays located in the Port of New York/New Jersey, to expand the size of one current safety zone, and to modify effective times and notice requirements of existing perma...
Proposed Rule Dec 13, 2000

Housing and Urban Development Department logo Housing and Urban Development Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Purpose of the Program. The purpose of this NOFA is to invite public housing agencies (PHAs) to apply for vouchers on a fair share allocation basis under the Housing Choice Voucher Program. The vouchers are for issuance to families on a PHA's housing...
Notice Dec 13, 2000
In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for funding under the Fiscal Year 2000 N...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Interior Department logo Interior Department

No documents available.

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) submitted the collection of information requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). You may obtain copie...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice is published in accordance with 41 CFR Part 101-6, section 101-6.1015(a), Committee establishment, reestablishment, or renewal. Following the recommendation and approval of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the Secretary of the...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Criminal jurisdiction:

Title Type Published
The Bureau of Indian Affairs published a document in the Federal Register of December 5, 2000 (65 FR 75948), concerning the Tulalip Tribes' request that the state of Washington retrocede partial criminal jurisdiction to the tribes by Resolution No. 9...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Various countries
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The purpose of this notice is to announce a change to the deadline date of the submission of proposals to the Solicitation "Hate Crime Statistics Data Collection in Selected Police and Sheriffs' Departments" from December 31, 2000 to January 8, 2001.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) is announcing that a collection of information included in its Interim Final Rule for Reporting by Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements and Certain Other Entities That Offer or Provide Coverage...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This document announces the availability of the Year 2000 Form M-1, Annual Report for Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements and Certain Entities Claiming Exception. A copy of this new form is attached.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Title Type Published
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission amended its regulation concerning changes, tests, and experiments for nuclear reactors on October 4, 1999 (64 FR 53582). The effective date of this amendment was deferred until guidance on implementation of the revis...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Transient and accident analysis methods; standard review plan
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Postal Service logo Postal Service

Postage meters:

Title Type Published
This notice of the final plan for the retirement of manually set postage meters clarifies the second phase of the plan to take postage metering to a higher level of security. The Postal Service recently completed the first phase of an overall Postal...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

R
Railroad Retirement Board

Title Type Published
Supplemental annuity program; determination of quarterly rate of excise tax
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Investment Company Act of 1940:

Title Type Published
Applicants request an order to permit the proposed reorganizations of two series (the "Acquired funds") of the Forum Funds with and into two series of the Stratevest Funds (the "Acquiring Funds," and together with the Acquired Funds, the "Funds"). Be...
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Applicant requests an order under section 6(c) of the Act exempting applicant from all provisions of the Act. The order would permit applicant to sell certain debt securities and use the proceeds to finance the business activities of Telsim Mobile Te...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
American Stock Exchange LLC
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Depository Trust Co.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Emerging Markets Clearing Corp.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Emerging Markets Clearing Corp.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 13, 2000
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4) and (e)(11), we are issuing public notice of our intent to establish a new system of records. The proposed system of records is entitled Records of Individuals Authorized Entry into Secured Area...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

State Department logo State Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of State has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the emergency review procedures of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Type of...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Dodge City Ford Bucklin Railroad Co.
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This action makes a technical amendment to the Class D and Class E5 airspace at Vero Beach, FL. The geographic position coordinates for the Vero Beach Municipal Airport have been updated. Therefore, the airspace legal descriptions must be amended to...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This action makes a technical amendment to the Class E5 airspace at Columbus, GA. The Lawson VOR has been upgraded to a VOR/ DME. Therefore, the airspace legal description must be amended to reflect this change.
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the issuance of Advisory Circular (AC) 20-144, Recommended Method for FAA Approval of Aircraft Fire Extinguishing System Components. This AC provides guidance on the various aspects that should be considered in the FAA approval...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Aeronautical land use assurance; waivers:

Title Type Published
The FAA is considering a proposal that a portion of airport property (approximately 16 acres located West and North of the airport along Airport Road Extension) is no longer needed for aeronautical use, as shown on the Airport Layout Plan. There appe...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend the following currently approved information collec...
Notice Dec 13, 2000
Before a Federal Agency can collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federa...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Air traffic operating and flight rules, etc.:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the availability of and requests comments on commercial routes for the Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA). The commercial routes are not being published in today's Federal Register because they ar...
Notice Dec 13, 2000

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (BHTI) Model 205A-1, 205B, 212, 412, and 412CF helicopters. This action requires inspecting the locking washer on each main rotor actuator (actuator) for twisti...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2000-15-52, which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. Model (BHTI) Model 204B, 205A...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain EMBRAER Model EMB-135 and EMB-145 series airplanes, that currently requires a one-time inspection of the coupling hinge and locking fastener of the Gamah coupli...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Raytheon (Beech) Model MU-300, MU-300-10, 400, 400A, and 400T series airplanes, that requires a one-time inspection to detect hydraulic fluid leakage from the B-nut area,...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to Rolls-Royce plc RB211 Trent 768-60, Trent 772-60, and Trent 772B-60 series turbofan engines having common nozzle assembly part number (P/N) FK16544 or FK16558. This action...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Rolls-Royce plc RB211 Trent 800 series turbofan engines, that currently requires initial and repetitive ultrasonic inspections of fan blade roots for cracks, an...
Rule Dec 13, 2000
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to all S.N. CENTRAIR Model 201B gliders. This AD requires you to modify the rear canopy emergency release system. This AD is the result of mandatory continuing airworthiness inform...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Customs bonds:

Title Type Published
This document adopts as a final rule, with some changes, proposed amendments to the Customs Regulations regarding bond procedures for the entry of articles subject to an exclusion order issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission ("Commission")...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Employment taxes and collection of income taxes at source:

Title Type Published
This document amends the regulations dealing with the requirement that tipped employees report their tips to their employer. These final regulations permit employers to establish electronic systems for use by their tipped employees in reporting tips...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

Tariff-rate quotas:

Title Type Published
This document adopts as a final rule, without change, the interim rule amending the Customs Regulations that was published in the Federal Register on December 2, 1999, as T.D. 99-87. The interim rule set forth the form and manner by which an importer...
Rule Dec 13, 2000

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