July 13, 2001 (Volume 66)

Federal Register July 13, 2001

View all documents issued on July 13, 2001. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

116 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on July 13, 2001

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Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (Department or USDA) is seeking comments on an industry-funded research, promotion, industry information, and consumer information program for Hass avocados. A proposed program--the Hass Avocado Research, Promotion,...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001
The purpose of this rule is to establish procedures which the Department of Agriculture (USDA or the Department) will use in conducting a referendum to determine whether the issuance of the proposed Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information O...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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The Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) of 1990, as amended, requires the establishment of a National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). The NOSB is a 15 member board that is responsible for developing and recommending to the Secretary a proposed Nation...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 CFR part 1500); and the National Resources Conservation Service Guidelines (7 CFR part 650); the Natural Resources Con...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Exportation and importation of animals and animal products:

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We are proposing to amend the regulations governing the importation of fruits and vegetables to expand the number of States in which fresh avocado fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in Michoacan, Mexico, may be distributed. W...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001
We are amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by removing Uruguay from the list of regions considered free of rinderpest and foot-and- mouth disease. We are also removing Uruguay from th...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Submission for OMB review; comment request
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Antidumping:

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

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Audiovox Specialized Applications, LLC; motor vehicle audio/video products manufacturing plant
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS issues an emergency rule closing the Northeast Distant Statistical Reporting (NED) Area to pelagic longline fishing. Additionally, this emergency rule requires operators of all vessels that use pelagic longline gear and have been issued, or are...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Permits:

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Notice is hereby given that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has submitted a Fisheries Management and Evaluation Plan (FMEP) pursuant to the protective regulations promulgated for Snake River (SR) steelhead under the Endangered S...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Commission of Fine Arts logo Commission of Fine Arts

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Meetings
Notice Jul 13, 2001

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
This action adds to the Procurement List services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
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, and to delete commodity previously furnished by such agencies.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Consumer Product Safety Commission logo Consumer Product Safety Commission

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The Commission has received a submission that contains a request that the Commission ban use of chromated-copper-arsenate (CCA) treated wood in playground equipment. This request has been docketed as petition under number HP 01-3 under the Federal Ha...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Notice.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Army contracting:

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This action removes the Department of the Army regulations on Contractor Manhour Reporting Requirement. The Director of Defense Procurement directed the Department of the Army to withdraw the regulations pending approval of, and further rulemaking on...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

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Section 302 of Public Law (Pub. L.) 99-662 established the Inland Waterways Users Board. The Board is an independent Federal advisory committee. Its 11 members are appointed by the Secretary of the Army. This notice is to solicit nominations for five...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the Kings River Conservation District and Kings River Water Association, have prepared a DFR/DEIS-EIR for the Pine Flat Dam, Fish and Wildlife Habitat Restoration Investigation. This investigatio...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

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 Jul 13, 2001

Postsecondary education:

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Accrediting agencies and State approval agencies for vocational and nurse education institutions; national recognition; comment request
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Energy Department logo Energy Department

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Hydroelectric applications
Notice Jul 13, 2001
The Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) of the Department of Energy (DOE) announces the proposed procedures for the disbursement of $6,672,934, plus accrued interest, in refined petroleum overcharges obtained by the DOE pursuant to a remedial order...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Raton Gas Transmission Co.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Southern California Edison Co.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Title Type Published
PECO Emergy Co. et al.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Extension of due dates for notices inviting grant applications.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Natural gas exportation and importation:

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The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy gives notice that during June 2001, it issued Orders granting and amending authority to import and export natural gas. These Orders are summarized in the attached appendix and may be found...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

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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 Jul 13, 2001

Air pollutants, hazardous; national emission standards:

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This action proposes national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for integrated iron and steel manufacturing facilities. The EPA has identified integrated iron and steel manufacturing facilities as a major source of hazardous ai...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001

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

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EPA is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Maryland. These revisions establish the three percent per year emission reduction rate-of-progress (ROP) requirement for the period from 1996 through 2005...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

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EPA expressed concerns about adverse effects of timber harvest on water quality. EPA indicated that harvest methods and mitigation measures should avoid and minimize further adverse impacts to fire stressed water bodies and recommended additional mit...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Weekly receipts
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Hazardous waste:

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The EPA is proposing to grant a petition submitted by Texas Arai Manufacturing Facility (Texas Arai) to exclude (or delist) certain solid wastes generated by its Houston, Texas, facility from the lists of hazardous wastes. The Agency bases its propos...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001

Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:

Title Type Published
This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Radiation protection programs:

Title Type Published
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, or "we") is announcing the availability of, and soliciting public comments for 30 days on, Department of Energy (DOE) documents on waste characterization programs applicable to certain transuranic (TRU) radio...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001

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

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In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement for recovery of past response cos...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Toxic and hazardous substances control:

Title Type Published
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisi...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Common carrier services:

Title Type Published
Miscellaneous rules; effective date notes removed; CFR correction
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Federal Housing Finance Board logo Federal Housing Finance Board

Federal home loan bank system:

Title Type Published
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is proposing to amend its regulation on Community Investment Cash Advance (CICA) Programs (CICA Regulation) to make certain technical revisions clarifying CICA Program requirements and improving the o...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001
The Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) is announcing the Federal Home Loan Bank (Bank) members it has selected for the 2000-01 sixth quarter review cycle under the Finance Board's community support requirement regulation. This notice also...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

General Services Administration logo General Services Administration

Agency information collection activities:

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Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the General Services Administration (GSA) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a previously appr...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Agency information collection activities:

Food additive petitions:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Novus International, Inc., has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulation be amended to provide for the safe use of ethoxyquin phosphate in animal feeds.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
Brownfields decisions and actions; State, county, or local public health departments participation enhancement
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This document contains a correction to the Notice that was published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, June 27, 2001 (66 FR 34206). On page 34208, second column, first paragraph the following statement "Current grantees whose grant project period...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Harmonisation International Conference; guidelines availability:

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance entitled "S7A Safety Pharmacology Studies for Human Pharmaceuticals." The guidance was prepared under the auspices of the International Conference on Harmonisation of...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Human drugs:

Title Type Published
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that cyclosporine capsules USP (Neoral Soft Gelatin Capsules), 50 milligrams (mg), were not withdrawn from sale for reasons of safety or effectiveness. This determination will allow FDA to approve...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

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Compensation and Analysis Office
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "Levothyroxine Sodium Products--Enforcement of August 14, 2001, Compliance Date and Submission of New Applications." This guidance discusses how...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Vaccines:

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The Secretary has made findings as to a condition that can reasonably be determined in some circumstances to be caused by vaccines containing live, oral, rhesus-based rotavirus. Based on these findings, the Secretary proposes to amend the Vaccine Inj...
Proposed Rule Jul 13, 2001

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Title Type Published
The National Boating Safety Advisory Council (NBSAC) recommended that the Coast Guard (we) extend the application of our existing authority so that, when necessary, we can recall defective inflatable liferafts carried on recreational vessels. We woul...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Disaster and emergency areas:

Title Type Published
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Minnesota (FEMA-1370-DR), dated May 16, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of North Dakota (FEMA-1376-DR), dated May 28, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (FEMA-1383-DR), dated June 21, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, (FEMA-1383-DR), dated June 21, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of West Virginia, (FEMA-1378-DR), dated June 3, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Wisconsin, (FEMA-1369-DR), dated May 11, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster for the State of Wisconsin (FEMA-1369-DR), dated May 11, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Wisconsin, (FEMA-1369-DR), dated May 11, 2001, and related determinations.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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We (FEMA) give notice that we will devolve major management responsibility of the Public Assistance Program in small disasters to interested States with demonstrated capability beginning on or after the date this notice is published. Interested India...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

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 Jul 13, 2001

Interior Department logo Interior Department

No documents available.

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are submitting to OMB for review and approval two information collection requests (ICRs). We are also soliciting comments from the public on these ICRs., titled "Form MMS-126, Well Potentia...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are submitting to OMB for review and approval an information collection request (ICR), titled "30 CFR part 250, subpart E, Oil and Gas Well- Completion Operations." We are also soliciting c...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task Force. The meeting topics are identified in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ's") initial determination ("ID") amending the complaint and notice of investigation in the above-captioned...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
On July 5, 2001, the Department of Commerce and the Commission received a letter from petitioner in the subject investigations (Importers Service Corporation, Jersey City, NJ) withdrawing its petition. Commerce has not initiated investigations as pro...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to adopt two initial determinations ("IDs") (Orders Nos. 12 and 13) issued by the presiding administrative law judge (ALJ) in the above-captioned investigation, granti...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review the presiding administrative law judge's ("ALJ's") initial determination ("ID") granting complainants" motion to amend the complaint and notice of invest...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Various countries
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general wage determination decisions
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Department of Labor (Department), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on propos...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and other federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and c...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and other Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and c...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Legal Services Corporation logo Legal Services Corporation

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is the national organization charged with administering federal funds provided for civil legal services to the poor. Congress has adopted legislation requiring LSC to utilize a system of competitive bidding for th...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a forthcoming meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Space Science Advisory Committee.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation logo Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Multiemployer and single employer plans:

Title Type Published
This notice informs the public of the interest rates and assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published elsewhere (or are derivable from rates published elsewhere), but...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Single employer plans:

Title Type Published
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulations on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans and Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans prescribe interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits under terminating single-e...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Securities:

Title Type Published
Forms; CFR correction
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Small Business Administration logo Small Business Administration

Disaster loan areas:

Title Type Published
West Virginia
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Notice of meeting.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

State Department logo State Department

Fees:

No documents available.

International Traffic in Arms regulations; implementation:

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Title Type Published
This action establishes a Class E Surface Area at the Van Nuys Airport in Van Nuys, CA. The purpose of this action is to provide additional controlled airspace at this high-density airport during hours when the control tower is closed. A Class D Surf...
Rule Jul 13, 2001
Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief fr...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction At of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below had been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and re...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all Boeing Model 767-300 series airplanes modified by Supplemental Type Certificate ST00118SE, that requires modification of the in-flight entertainment (IFE) system and revision...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Airworthiness standards:

Title Type Published
These special conditions are issued for Gulfstream G-V airplanes modified by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. These modified airplanes will have a novel or unusual design feature when compared to the state of technology envisioned in the airworthine...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Coastwise trade laws; administrative waivers:

Title Type Published
As authorized by Pub. L. 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 su...
Notice Jul 13, 2001
As authorized by Pub. L. 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 su...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

Title Type Published
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to address anticipated environmental impacts associated with the implementation of proposed improvements at James M. Cox-Dayton International Airport...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice (1) announces a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) information conference, to be held at the Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, October 21-24, 2001, (2) provides information about the conference for prospective attendees; and (3)...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Motor carrier safety standards:

Title Type Published
The FMCSA announces the initiation of a pilot program to grant an exemption from the weekly hours-of-service restrictions for drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) making home heating oil deliveries that occur within a 100 air-mile radius of a...
Notice Jul 13, 2001

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Railroad services abandonment:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Title Type Published
The Department of the Treasury, Departmental Offices, is issuing an interim rule and requesting comments on this rule, which implements the provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, as amended (Act). The Act assigns the Secretary of the Treasury...
Rule Jul 13, 2001

Fees:

No documents available.

Investment securities, bank activities and operations, and leasing

Title Type Published
Correction
Correction Jul 13, 2001

Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds:

Title Type Published
This is Supplement No. 20 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 2000 Revision, published June 30, 2000 at 65 FR 40868.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Liquidation of an insurance company formerly certified by this Department as an acceptable surety/reinsurer on Federal bonds.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
This is Supplement No. 21 to the Treasury Department Circular 570; 2000 Revision, published June 30, 2000 at 65 FR 40868.
Notice Jul 13, 2001
Liquidation of an insurance company formerly certified by this Department as an acceptable surety/reinsurer on Federal bonds.
Notice Jul 13, 2001

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