October 17, 2002 (Volume 67)

Federal Register October 17, 2002

View all documents issued on October 17, 2002. This daily issue includes official rules, notices, and regulatory updates from federal agencies.

120 documents were published on this date.

Agencies Publishing on October 17, 2002

Agency for International Development logo Agency for International Development

Agency information collection activities:

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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has submitted the following information collections to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments regarding this information collection are bes...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

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Agricultural Marketing Service

Meetings:

No documents available.

Agriculture Department logo Agriculture Department

Title Type Published
This notice provides details of changes that will affect the distribution of Trade Leads to U.S. exporters of food, agricultural, seafood and forest products.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

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The USDA, Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of treating populations of Crupina vulgaris, an aggressive, non-native plant species invading the north shore of Lake Chelan, Washingt...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Grain Inspection Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Pursuant to the authorities in the Federal Advisory Committees Act (Public Law 92-463) and under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393) the Modoc National Forest's Modoc Resource Advisory Committee...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Siskiyou Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on Thursday, November 7, 2002. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at approximately 4:30 p.m. This meeting will be held at the Harbor Sanitary Building, at 16408 Lower Harbor Road, in...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Commerce Department logo Commerce Department

Antidumping:

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On August 27, 2002, in response to requests by two exporters, the Department of Commerce initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on sebacic acid from the People's Republic of China. The period of review is July 1, 2001, throu...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

Title Type Published
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Flint Ink North America Corp.; pigments, inks, and varnish products
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Ohio State University
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp.; industrial power generating equipment
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Texas
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Fishery conservation and management:

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NMFS is closing directed fishing for groundfish by vessels using trawl gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), except for directed fishing for pollock by vessels using pelagic trawl gear in those portions of the GOA open to directed fishing for pollock. Th...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

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Subject to the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2003 funds, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce, announces the solicitation of applications for planning and construction grants for public...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Meetings:

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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, notice is hereby given that the Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award will meet Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 8 a....
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Permits:

Title Type Published
Notice is hereby given that Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation, P.O. Box 25526, Juneau, AK, has been issued an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 358- 1585-01.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Privacy Act:

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This notice announces the Department's proposal for a new system of records under the Privacy Act. The system is entitled "Commerce/NOAA System-15: Alaska Region--North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program: Certified Domestic Observer Final Evaluation...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Department of Commerce is creating a new system of records listed under the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program: Scholarship Recipients. We invite public comment on the system announced in this position.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

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NMFS announces the availability of a stock assessment report on large coastal sharks (LCS) in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, prepared by the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center, and a final meeting report of the shark evaluation workshop held i...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

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Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:

Title Type Published
Issuing a directive to the Commissioner of Customs establishing limits and guaranteed access levels.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Defense Department logo Defense Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Defense Business Practice Implementation Board (DBB) will meet in open session on Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at the Pentagon, Washington, DC from 0900 until 1000. The mission of the DBB is to advise the Senior Executive Council (SEC) and the Secr...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Working Group A (Microwave Devices) of the DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Working Group C (Electro-Optics) of the DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The DoD Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) announces a closed session meeting.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of a forthcoming Meeting of the National Security Education Board. The purpose of the meeting is to review and make recommendations to the Secretary concerning requirements established by the Davi...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) will meet in closed session on October 30-31, 2002; November 21- 22, 2002; and December 3-5, 2002, at SAIC, Inc., 4001 N. Fairfax Street, Arlington, VA. This Task Force will review mo...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Seabasing will meet in closed session on November 5-6, 2002, and November 18-19, 2002, at Strategic Analysis, Inc., 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA. The Task Force will assess how seabasing of expeditionar...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Education Department logo Education Department

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Leader, Regulatory Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer, invites comments on the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Grantback arrangments; award or funds:

Title Type Published
The United States Department of Education (Department) intends to compromise a claim against the Louisiana State Department of Education (LSDE) now pending before the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ), Docket No. 01-24-R. Before compromising...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Energy Department logo Energy Department

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Office of Science (SC) of the Department of Energy (DOE) hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program areas: Basic Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Adv...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This notice announces a meeting of the American Statistical Association Committee on Energy Statistics, a utilized Federal Advisory Committee. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meet...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Department of Energy (We, DOE, or the Department) will hold four public workshops to enable interested persons to discuss and provide comments on possible improvements to the guidelines that now govern the Department of Energy's Voluntary Greenho...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Environmental Protection Agency logo Environmental Protection Agency

Meetings:

Title Type Published
The Office of Science and Technology within EPA's Office of Water is conducting public meetings during the comment period to discuss the proposed effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the CAAP industry. EPA will sponsor three public meeti...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Pesticides; emergency exceptions, etc.:

Title Type Published
On September 27, 2002, EPA published a notice soliciting public comments regarding the receipt of an application for a quarantine exemption from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA, APHIS) to u...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Water pollution; effluent guidelines for point source categories:

Title Type Published
This final rule represents the culmination of the Agency's effort to revise Clean Water Act (CWA) effluent limitations guidelines and standards for wastewater discharges from the iron and steel manufacturing industry. The final regulation revises tec...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Executive Office of the President logo Executive Office of the President

Special observances:

Title Type Published
National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week (Proc. 7608)
Presidential Document Oct 17, 2002
National School Lunch Week (Proc. 7609)
Presidential Document Oct 17, 2002
White Cane Safety Day (Proc. 7610)
Presidential Document Oct 17, 2002

Federal Communications Commission logo Federal Communications Commission

Title Type Published
The Commission will consider a Forfeiture Order concerning compliance with the shared transport condition of the SBC/Ameritech merger order. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Federal Communications Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burden invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection(s), as required by th...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Meetings:

Title Type Published
This document announces the agenda for the public forum on rights-of-way issues to be held on October 16, 2002.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Radio stations; table of assignments:

Title Type Published
In response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 67 FR 16706 (April 18, 2002), this document reallots Channel 276C2 from De Funiak Springs, Florida to Valparaiso, Florida and provides Valparaiso with its first local FM transmission service. The coord...
Rule Oct 17, 2002
This Notice of Proposed Rule Making requests comments on a petition for rule making filed jointly on behalf of Capstar TX Limited Partnership, licensee of Station WUSW(FM), Channel 279C, Hattiesburg, Mississisppi, and Clear Channel Radio Licenses, In...
Proposed Rule Oct 17, 2002
This document substitutes Channel 261C3 for Channel 261A at Emmetsburg, Iowa, modifies the license for Station KEMB accordingly, and deletes vacant Channel 262A at Sibley, Iowa, in response to a petition filed by Eisert Enterprises, Inc. See 66 FR 15...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Wireless telecommunications services:

Title Type Published
This document seeks comment on two petitions for declaratory ruling regarding the intercarrier compensation regime applicable to certain types of wireless traffic. Both petitions raise issues under consideration in CC Docket 01-92, Developing a Unifi...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Federal Election Commission logo Federal Election Commission

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Federal Maritime Commission logo Federal Maritime Commission

Title Type Published
Agreements filed, etc.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Ocean transportation intermediary licenses:

Title Type Published
Cargo, Inc. et al.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Expressair Cargo, Inc. et al.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Uni-Star Logistics, Inc. et al.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Federal Reserve System logo Federal Reserve System

Title Type Published
Meetings; Sunshine Act
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Federal Trade Commission logo Federal Trade Commission

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
The FTC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) information collection requirements contained in its regulations under the Fair Packaging Labeling Act (FPLA). The FTC is seeking pu...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Health and Human Services Department logo Health and Human Services Department

Meetings:

Title Type Published
Advisory Committee to Director
Notice Oct 17, 2002
This document announces a public hearing to receive information and views on the notice that proposes methodologies and processes for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program, published in the Federal Register (67 F...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Community Preventive Services Guide Task Force
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Injury Prevention and Control Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Notice.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory Committee
Notice Oct 17, 2002
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Notice Oct 17, 2002

Homeland Security Department logo Homeland Security Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
FEMA gives notice of the availability of funds for fiscal year (FY) 2002 for State and local all-hazards emergency operations planning; for the development or improvement of State and local Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs); and for further develop...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Ports and waterways safety:

Title Type Published
The Coast Guard is establishing permanent moving security zones around cruise ships that are transiting, anchored or moored in the Ports of Houston and Galveston, Texas. These security zones are needed for the safety and security of these vessels. En...
Rule Oct 17, 2002
The Coast Guard is establishing security zones within the Port of Port Lavaca-Point Comfort and Port of Corpus Christi Inner Harbor. These security zones are needed to protect personnel, vessels, waterfront facilities, and national security interests...
Rule Oct 17, 2002
The Coast Guard is establishing five security zones throughout the Captain of the Port St. Louis zone. These security zones are necessary to protect the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, the Cooper Nuclear Station in Brown...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Interior Department logo Interior Department

Endangered and threatened species:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the availability for public review of the Draft Recovery Plan for the Star Cactus (Astrophytum asterias). The star cactus is known to occur on one private land site in Starr County, Texas. Additi...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Coachella Valley Plan amends the CDCA Plan for a 1.2 million-acre planning area encompassing the Coachella Valley, California. The BLM administers approximately 28 percent, or 330,516 acres, of the planning area. The Coachella Valley Plan is bein...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

International Trade Commission logo International Trade Commission

Import investigations:

Title Type Published
Following receipt of a request from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on September 16, 2002, the Commission instituted investigation No. 332-448, Textiles and Apparel: Assessment of the Competitiveness of Certain Foreign Suppliers to the...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Justice Department logo Justice Department

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
Systems of records
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Systems of records
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Systems of records
Notice Oct 17, 2002
Systems of records
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Labor Department logo Labor Department

Title Type Published
This revised proposed rule would establish alternate requirements for testing and evaluation of products that MSHA approves for use in gassy underground mines. It is being published in response to comments received as the result of a 1994 proposed ru...
Proposed Rule Oct 17, 2002

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
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 Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Oct 17, 2002
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or con...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Aliens:

Title Type Published
This document corrects the proposed rule withdrawal document which was published Thursday, September 24, 2002, (67 FR 59797), concerning the temporary employment of nonimmigrant farmworkers.
Proposed Rule Oct 17, 2002

Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:

Title Type Published
This document amends PTE 86-128, a class exemption that permits certain persons who serve as fiduciaries for employee benefit plans to effect or execute securities transactions on behalf of those plans, provided that specified conditions are met. The...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Organization, functions, and authority delegations:

Title Type Published
Administrative Review Board
Notice Oct 17, 2002

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Management and Budget Office

Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998; implementation:

Title Type Published
Agency inventories of activities that are not inherently governmental are now available to the public from the agencies listed below, in accordance with the "Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998" (Public Law 105-270) ("FAIR Act"). Agency i...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

National Archives and Records Administration logo National Archives and Records Administration

Privacy Act:

Title Type Published
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) proposes to add two system of records notices to its existing inventory of records systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. In this notice, NARA publishes NARA 35,...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

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

Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act of October 6, 1972 (Pub. L., 94-463, Stat. 770-776) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announces the Establishment of the Peer Review Committee for Source Term Modeling. The Nuclear Regulatory Commi...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance of a license amendment to ABB Prospects, Inc. Materials License No. 06-00217-06 to authorize dismantlement and deconstruction to grade level of the buildings in Building Complex...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Practice and procedure:

Title Type Published
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to allow the agency to recover its costs associated with contested hearings on licensing actions involving U.S. Government national security initiatives through licensing fees assess...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:

Title Type Published
On September 26, 2002 (67 FR 60520), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published a final rule amending its regulations to incorporate by reference a later edition and addenda of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler an...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

P
President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board

Title Type Published
Pursuant to the President's charge in Executive Order 12321, the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (the "Board") has been engaged in development of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. On September 18, 2002, the Board releas...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

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Railroad Retirement Board

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroads Retirement Board (RRB) has submitted the following proposal(s) for the collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approv...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission logo Securities and Exchange Commission

Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

Title Type Published
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Notice Oct 17, 2002
National Futures Association
Notice Oct 17, 2002
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Social Security Administration logo Social Security Administration

Agency information collection activities:

Title Type Published
Proposed collection; comment request
Notice Oct 17, 2002

State Department logo State Department

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

Title Type Published
The Study of the U.S. Branch, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, announces an open competition for two (2) assistance awards. Public and private non- profit organizations meeting the provisions described...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Surface Transportation Board logo Surface Transportation Board

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

Title Type Published
DOT, STB
TransitAmerica, LLC
Notice Oct 17, 2002

Transportation Department logo Transportation Department

Airworthiness directives:

Title Type Published
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain REVO, Incorporated (REVO) Models Lake LA-4, Lake LA- 4A, Lake LA-4P, Lake LA-4-200, and Lake Model 250 airplanes. This AD requires you to inspect the upper and lower win...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Motor vehicle safety standards:

Title Type Published
This document adopts a regulation implementing Section 6(b) of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act. Under this rule, motor vehicle and motor vehicle equipment manufacturers will be required to include...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Ports and waterways safety:

No documents available.

Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:

No documents available.

Treasury Department logo Treasury Department

Book-entry Treasury bonds, notes, and bills:

Title Type Published
We are implementing a new book-entry, online system for purchasing, holding and conducting transactions in Treasury securities. The system is known as New Treasury Direct. The only Treasury security that may be held in New Treasury Direct at its init...
Rule Oct 17, 2002

Currency and foreign transactions; financial reporting and recordkeeping requirements:

Title Type Published
FinCEN is proposing to amend the Bank Secrecy Act regulations to require currency dealers and exchangers to report suspicious transactions to the Department of the Treasury, and to require all money services businesses to which the suspicious transac...
Proposed Rule Oct 17, 2002
This document contains an amendment to the regulations implementing the statute generally referred to as the Bank Secrecy Act. The amendment requires insurance companies to report suspicious transactions to the Department of the Treasury. The amendme...
Proposed Rule Oct 17, 2002

Employment taxes and collection of income taxes at source:

Title Type Published
This document provides notice of cancellation of a public hearing on proposed regulations under sections 3406 and 6724 of the Internal Revenue Code. The proposed regulations clarify the method of determining whether the payor has received two notices...
Proposed Rule Oct 17, 2002

Veterans Affairs Department logo Veterans Affairs Department

Title Type Published
The invention listed below is owned by the U.S. Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is available for licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results o...
Notice Oct 17, 2002

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