FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX, January--December, 1999
 
 
 
 
 
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 Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Construction safety and health standards: 
 
             Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 18809 
 
         Longshoring; safety and health standards: 
 
             Powered industrial truck operator training requirements; 
 stay of compliance dates, 46846 
 
             Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 61504 
 
         Marine terminals; safety and health standards: 
 
             Powered industrial truck operator training requirements; 
 stay of compliance dates, 46846 
 
             Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 61504 
 
         Safety and health standards, etc.: 
 
             Dipping and coating operations (dip tanks), 13897 
 
             Methylene chloride; CFR correction, 13700 
 
             Permit-required confined spaces; correction, 204 
 
             Powered industrial truck operator training requirements; 
 correction, 22552 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Construction safety and health standards: 
 
             Fall protection, 38078, 51722 
 
                 Correction, 47461 
 
             Steel Erection Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee -- 
 
                 Meetings, 66595 
 
                 Reestablishment, 26713 
 
         Consultation agreements; procedural changes, 35972 
 
         Occupational safety and health standards: 
 
             Ergonomics program, 65768 
 
                 Correction, 73448 
 
         Safety and health standards, etc.: 
 
             Nationally recognized testing laboratories; fees; reduction 
 of public comment period on recognition notices, 45098 
 
             Personal protective equipment; employer payment, 15402, 
 27941, 33810 
 
             Tuberculosis; occupational exposure, 32447, 34625 
 
         State plans; development, enforcement, etc.: 
 
             Nevada, 62138 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 18938, 22652, 33527, 
 34828, 34829, 34830, 34831, 35699, 36049, 36926, 39174, 42150, 43734, 
 43735, 43736, 43737, 44962, 46960, 48207, 48208, 48209, 49247, 49248, 
 50544, 52351, 56812, 57127, 61369, 70056, 72366 
 
             Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 10025, 12379, 
 19806, 57128 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             On-site consultation projects; project manager orientation 
 course, 27606 
 
             Susan Harwood Training Program, 4719, 16761 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Construction Safety and Health Advisory Committee, 1825, 
 18939, 24682, 28834, 43226, 63059 
 
             Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and 
 Health, 10491, 31019, 57128 
 
             Metalworking Fluids Standards Advisory Committee, 912, 
 23360, 32279 
 
             Occupational Safety and Health Federal Advisory Council, 
 46214 
 
             Occupational Safety and Health National Advisory Committee, 
 2236, 17421, 44751, 67598 
 
         Nationally recognized testing laboratories, etc.: 
 
             Applied Research Laboratories, Inc., 68388 
 
             Canadian Standards Association, 60240 
 
             Canadian Standards Association et al., 38926 
 
             Curtis-Straus LLC, 69552 
 
             Electro-Test, Inc., 11500 
 
             Entela, Inc., 11501, 37815 
 
             Factory Mutual Research Corp., 18939, 44240 
 
             MET Laboratories, Inc., 11502 
 
             Southwest Research Institute, 11503 
 
             Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 33913, 44241, 68389 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Safe and healthful working conditions; voluntary protection 
 programs; revisions, 55390 
 
             Voluntary employer safety and health self-audits; policy 
 statement, 54358 
 
         State plans; standards approval, etc.: 
 
             Oregon, 183, 913, 17686 
 
             Washington, 184 
 
         Variance applications, etc.: 
 
             Dixie Divers, Inc., 71242 
 
 
 
 
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 Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Settlement judge procedure; settlement part procedure 
 addition; pilot program, 8243 
 
 
 
 
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 Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight 
 
     See Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Office 
 
 
 
 
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 Office of Management and Budget 
 
     See Management and Budget Office 
 
 
 
 
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 Office of Motor Carrier Safety 
 
     RULES 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Office of Motor Carrier Safety; CFR chapter revision, 58355 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Motor carrier safety standards: 
 
             Railroad-highway grade crossing; safe clearance; public 
 meeting, 58372 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 66961 
 
         Motor carrier safety enforcement cases; decisions and orders, 
 63371 
 
         Motor carrier safety standards: 
 
             Controlled substances and alcohol random testing 
 requirements; exemption applications, 71181 
 
             Driver qualifications -- 
 
                 Aldridge, Terry J., et al.; vision requirement 
 exemptions, 66962 
 
                 Blaschke, Rodney D., et al.; vision requirement 
 exemptions, 68195 
 
                 Durham, James F.; vision requirement exemption, 69586 
 
             Hours of service of drivers -- 
 
                 Van Wyk Freight Lines, Inc.; exemption application, 
 72373 
 
             Parts and accessories necessary for safe operation -- 
 
                 Minimum fuel tank fill rate and certification labeling 
 requirements; exemption applications, 71184, 71186 
 
 
 
 
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 Office of the Special Counsel 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22160, 65266 
 
 
 
 
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 Office of United States Trade Representative 
 
     See Trade Representative, Office of United States 
 
 
 
 
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 Operations Office 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Donation of excess research equipment; priorities and 
 administrative guidelines, 41049 
 
 
 
 
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 Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
 
     RULES 
 
         Administrative provisions: 
 
             Legal proceedings; production of nonpublic records and 
 testimony of OPIC employees, 8239 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             International Development Cooperation Agency abolished; and 
 CFR chapter heading revised, 32805 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22162 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 10721, 56514, 72677 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 27009, 58441, 
 58442 
 
         Hearings, 68115 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 9171, 10012, 28012, 29668, 49025, 67934 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             International Development Cooperation Agency; abolishment, 
 32890 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 37152, 69033 
  
 
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 Panama Canal Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         General regulations and shipping and navigation regulations; CFR 
 subchapters removed, 73413 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22164, 65268 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Accumulated unpaid balances relating to Canal Zone postal- 
 savings deposits and certificates and postal money orders; agency's 
 release from liability, 59814 
 
         Panama Canal Zone Government; vital statistic records 
 transferred to Commission; location change, 70296 
 
 
 
 
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 Parole Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Federal prisoners; paroling and releasing, etc.: 
 
             District of Columbia Code; prisoners serving sentences, 5611 
 
             Rescission guidelines, 59622 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 528, 2518, 17684, 22646, 34270, 34271, 
 36404, 50829, 52349, 69801, 72102 
 
 
 
 
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 Patent and Trademark Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Patent and trademark cases: 
 
             Fee revisions (2000 FY), 67774 
 
         Patent cases: 
 
             Copy fees; clarification, 67486 
 
             Interference proceedings; consideration of interlocutory 
 rulings, 12900 
 
         Trademark cases: 
 
             Copy fees; clarification, 67486 
 
         Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act; implementation, 48900 
 
             Correction, 51244 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Patent cases: 
 
             Patent business goals, 53772 
 
             Payment of fees by credit card; changes, 59701 
 
         Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act; implementation, 25223 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 10277, 16709, 18402, 
 27967, 66170, 66458, 68332, 69509 
 
         Electronic information dissemination: 
 
             Internet usage policy, 33056 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Trademark Affairs Public Advisory Committee, 60791 
 
         New Act of Hague Agreement; international registration of 
 industrial designs; public hearing and comment request, 19135 
 
         Patents: 
 
             Human drugs and drug products -- 
 
                 Roboxetine mesylate; interim term extension, 10449 
 
             Patent application examination -- 
 
                 Prior art identification issues; comment request and 
 hearing, 28803 
 
                 Revised utility examination guidelines; comment request, 
 71440 
 
                 Supplemental guidelines, 41392 
 
                 Written description requirement; guidelines; comment 
 request, 71427 
 
             Reexaminations; compliance with decision in case, In re 
 Portola Packaging, Inc.; guidelines, 15346 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 56488 
 
         Trademark protection: 
 
             Native American Tribes, official insignia; statutorily 
 required study, 13004, 29841 
 
                 Hearings, 32027 
 
 
 
 
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 Peace Corps 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22168, 65270 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 10169, 20026 
 
 
 
 
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 Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Employee Retirement Income Security Act: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 42246 
 
             Individual retirement accounts; payroll deduction programs; 
 interpretive bulletin, 33000 
 
         Group health plans; access, portability, and renewability 
 requirements; comment request, 57520 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Employee Retirement Income Security Act: 
 
             Documents furnished to Labor Department Secretary on 
 request; civil penalties assessment, 42797 
 
             Employee benefit plans; claims procedures; hearing, 65 
 
             Employee pension and welfare benefit plans; recordkeeping 
 and disclosure requirements; use of electronic media, 4506 
 
             Plan and summary plan descriptions; superseded regulations 
 removed and other technical amendments, 42792 
 
             Section 3(40) Collective Bargaining Agreements Negotiated 
 Rulemaking Advisory Committee -- 
 
                 Meetings, 3463, 15143, 30452, 38390, 51277, 57611 
 
             Small pension plan assets; security, 67436 
 
         Group health plans; access, portability, and renewability 
 requirements: 
 
             National Medical Support Notice; child support orders; 
 health care coverage provisions, 62054 
 
         Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998; implementation: 
 
             Breast reconstruction and related services after mastectomy; 
 coverage, 29186 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 42717, 58455, 72696, 
 72697, 72698 
 
         Employee benefit plans; class exemptions: 
 
             Cross-trades of securities by Index and Model-Driven Funds, 
 70057 
 
             Individual retirement accounts and Keogh plans, 11042, 11044 
 
             Interest free loans, 66666 
 
         Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions: 
 
             Aetna Inc. et al., 25916, 52546 
 
             Allfirst Bank et al., 57129 
 
             Anvil Construction Co., Inc., et al., 61132 
 
             Bankers Trust Co., 40623 
 
             Bankers Trust Co. et al., 30360, 51793, 70748 
 
             Business Men's Assurance Co. of America et al., 70732 
 
             Chase Manhattan Bank et al., 34281, 46419 
 
             First Security Corp. et al., 19807, 34293 
 
             Genito-Urinary Surgeons, Inc., et al., 3342, 11045 
 
             Hanson Operating Co. et al., 38480 
 
             Keystone Financial, Inc., et al., 7667 
 
             Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. et al., 43738 
 
             Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. et al., 66201 
 
             MICO, Inc., et al., 28835, 53736 
 
             Moody-Day, Inc., et al., 3318 
 
             Pacific Coast Roofers et al., 46724, 56812 
 
             Pacific Life Corp. et al., 39532, 61136 
 
             Plumbers and Pipe Fitters National Pension Fund, 61944 
 
             Premier Funding Group, Inc., et al., 40626 
 
             RREEF America L.L.C. et al., 29895, 42717 
 
             Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., 16486 
 
             Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., et al., 4127 
 
             Standard Bank Employees, 7672 
 
             Standard Bank Employees et al., 24422 
 
             VECO Corp. et al., 10491, 11052, 28838 
 
             Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al., 4132, 16493 
 
         Employee Retirement Income Security Act: 
 
             Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (1999 Form 
 5500); computer scannable versions; comment request, 34686 
 
             Cross-trades of securities by investment managers; hearing, 
 70070 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans Advisory Council, 
 5841, 12379, 12380, 18940, 18941, 26790, 26791, 34296, 34297, 43757, 
 43758, 51146, 51147, 55760, 57154, 57155 
 
             Medical Child Support Working Group, 6919, 15382, 22652, 
 39174, 50304, 58858, 68391 
 
         Memorandums of understanding: 
 
             IRS and HCFA; Health Insurance Portability and 
 Accountability Act of 1996; implementation, 70164 
 
 
 
 
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 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 
 
     RULES 
 
         Premium payments: 
 
             Self-correction of premium underpayments, 66383 
 
         Single-employer plans: 
 
             Allocation of assets -- 
 
                 Interest assumptions for valuing benefits, 2569, 7083, 
 12745, 18575, 26287, 31975, 32103, 38114, 38534, 44128, 49986, 51587, 
 55828, 61787, 69922 
 
                 Valuation of benefits and assets; expected retirement 
 age, 67165 
 
             Benefits payable in terminated plans; disclosure to 
 participants, 67163 
 
         Waivers for major disaster area residents due to severe weather: 
 
             Hurricanes Floyd and Irene; various States, 65658 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Premium payments: 
 
             Self-correction of premium underpayments, 22589 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22172, 65274 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 2689, 29722, 35702, 
 35703, 36937, 69298 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 17040, 46733, 
 48440, 52558, 66936 
 
         Alternative dispute resolution; policy statement, 17696 
 
         Employee Retirement Income Security Act: 
 
             Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (1999 Form 
 5500); computer scannable versions; comment request, 34686 
 
         Multiemployer plans: 
 
             Interest rates and assumptions, 2689, 7218, 12825, 18644, 
 26465, 32072, 38224, 44246, 50119, 55996, 61949, 70099 
 
         Single-employer plans: 
 
             Interest rates and assumptions, 2689, 12825, 18644, 32072, 
 38224, 55996 
 
 
 
 
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 Personnel Management Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Absence and leave: 
 
             Emergency leave transfer program, 72250 
 
             Restored annual leave; Year 2000 (Y2K) computer conversion 
 efforts, 46257 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Health benefits, Federal employees -- 
 
                 Defense Department demonstration project, 36271 
 
         Combined Federal Campaign; solicitations authorizations, 27169 
 
         District of Columbia Courts and Justice Technical Corrections 
 Act of 1998; implementation: 
 
             Federal retirement, health insurance, and life insurance 
 coverage for certain District of Columbia employees; extensions and 
 exclusions, 15286 
 
         Employment: 
 
             Displaced former Panama Canal Zone employees; interagency 
 career transition assistance, 24503 
 
             Federal employees performing military duty; reemployment 
 rights, 31485 
 
             Positions restricted to preference eligibles, 40505 
 
             Reduction in force -- 
 
                 Service credit; retention records, 16797, 23531 
 
             Retention allowances; agency payment criteria, 71633 
 
             Selective Service System; statutory bar to appointment of 
 persons failing to register; technical amendment, 28713 
 
             Surplus and displaced Federal employees; career transition 
 assistance, 40506 
 
             Temporary appointment pending establishment of register 
 (TAPER) authority; promotion possibility for employees appointed, 15285 
 
         Group life insurance, Federal employees: 
 
             Court orders, 16601, 54761 
 
             Life insurance improvements, 72459 
 
             New premium rates, 22543, 71983 
 
         Health benefits, Federal employees: 
 
             Contributions and withholdings; weighted average of 
 subscription charges, 15633 
 
             Defense Department demonstration project, 36237 
 
         Pay administration: 
 
             Authority delegations to agencies to take certain actions 
 without prior OPM approval; correction, 68931 
 
             Back pay, holidays, and physicians' comparability 
 allowances, 72457 
 
             Compensation; miscellaneous changes, 69165 
 
             Hazardous duty pay, 1501 
 
             Lump-sum payments for accumulated and accrued annual leave 
 for employees who separate from Federal service, 36763 
 
             Premium pay; availability pay for criminal investigators, 
 4517 
 
             Senior Executive Service performance awards, 72889 
 
         Prevailing rate systems, 9905, 9906, 17941, 23531, 33175, 53179, 
 60087, 61769, 69183, 72249 
 
             Environmental differential pay for working at high 
 altitudes, 15915 
 
         Retirement: 
 
             Voluntary early retirement authority, 53581 
 
                 Technical amendment, 72256 
 
         Voting Rights Program: 
 
             Chickasaw and Leake Counties, MS; new offices for filing 
 applications or complaints, 42039 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Absence and leave: 
 
             Restored annual leave; Year 2000 (Y2K) computer conversion, 
 31735 
 
         Employment: 
 
             Selective Service System; statutory bar to appointment of 
 persons failing to register, 14842 
 
             Senior Executive Service; career and limited appointments; 
 Qualifications Review Board certification, 41334 
 
             Suitability for employment in competitive service positions 
 and Senior Executive Service career appointments; determinations and 
 procedures, 4336 
 
         Federal Tort Claims Act; administrative claims, 33226 
 
         Health and counseling programs, Federal employees: 
 
             Child care costs for lower income employees; appropriated 
 funds use, 72037 
 
         Pay administration: 
 
             Payments during evacuation, 69936 
 
         Prevailing rate systems, 20221, 33427, 61793, 72292 
 
         Retirement: 
 
             Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) -- 
 
                 State income tax withholding and voluntary allotment 
 program; expansion, 33429 
 
             Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) -- 
 
                 State income tax withholding and voluntary allotment 
 program; expansion, 33429 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22132, 65240 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 535, 1830, 8412, 9360, 
 20027, 20339, 33327, 33328, 34302, 36410, 42732, 44247, 48212, 51806, 
 54930, 60246, 63348 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 536, 1245, 4476, 
 4727, 8413, 18945, 20027, 28015, 33119, 33327, 34302, 34303, 36411, 
 44247, 48212, 60247, 72704 
 
         Combined Federal Campaign; limitation on recognition of national 
 federations, 63349 
 
         Excepted service: 
 
             Schedules A, B, and C; positions placed or revoked -- 
 
                 Consolidated list, 48462 
 
                 Update, 536, 14772, 24684, 33328, 38044, 56816, 65738, 
 72369 
 
         Health benefits, Federal employees: 
 
             Medically underserved areas (2000 CY), 48213 
 
         Internal Revenue Service broadbanding systems; interim OPM 
 criteria, 38486, 43014 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, 11510, 29722, 
 40632, 53424 
 
             Federal Salary Council, 53757 
 
             National Partnership Council, 5081, 32296, 48213, 68124 
 
         Pay under General Schedule: 
 
             Basic and locality pay for certain Federal employees; 
 adjustments, 20340 
 
         Personnel management demonstration projects: 
 
             Army Department -- 
 
                 Aviation Research, Development, and Engineering Center, 
 Federal Center, St. Louis, MO, 11074 
 
                 U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center et 
 al., 12216 
 
                 U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort 
 Detrick, MD, 30378 
 
             Commerce Department -- 
 
                 Various operating units; alternative personnel 
 management system, 52810 
 
             Defense Department; civilian acquisition workforce project, 
 1426 
 
             Navy Department -- 
 
                 Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers, 39179 
 
                 U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 8964, 
 33970 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 50306 
 
             Systems of records, 4727, 51807, 53424, 54930, 54934, 59221, 
 60247, 60249, 61949, 72705, 73108 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Career positions reserved during 1998; list, 8904 
 
 
 
 
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 Postal Rate Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 58335 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Consumer Advocate Office; mission statement, 37401 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Domestic mail classification schedule; postage rates, fees, 
 and classifications; changes, 1392 
 
                 Correction, 4493 
 
             Library reference rule, 67487 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 57982 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 50031 
 
         International mail services; cost, revenue, and volume data 
 analysis, 66436 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Electronic filing requirements, etc., 72622 
 
             Library reference rule, 52725 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 49120 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Complaint cases: 
 
             Electronic delivery service pilot program, 28015 
 
         Domestic mail classifications and rates: 
 
             Bulk parcel return service; legal definition expansion, 
 29931 
 
             Experimental online mailing service and fees; market test; 
 termination, 28225 
 
             Mailing online experimental classification proceeding, 66514 
 
             Nonletter-sized business reply mail; accounting methods, 
 13613 
 
             Nonprofit and classroom periodicals class mailers; mail 
 classification case, 18946 
 
         Domestic rates, fees, and mail classifications: 
 
             Experimental mail classification docket, 54693 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Mailers' presentation, 28539 
 
             Technical and settlement conference, 49530, 56819 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 32558 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Docket room; change in hours of operation, 4477 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Bulk parcel return service fee; complaint, 49824 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 48875, 56819 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             International mail report, 3991 
 
         Visits to facilities, 917, 8413, 31024, 36725, 37822, 49032, 
 56819, 67348 
 
 
 
 
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 Postal Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Domestic Mail Manual: 
 
             Breast cancer research semi-postal stamp; terms and 
 conditions for use and determination of value, 10950 
 
             Bulk parcel return service, 50449 
 
             Commercial mail receiving agency; delivery of mail; 
 procedure clarification, 14385 
 
             Delivery confirmation service; classification and fees, 
 12072 
 
                 Stay applicability for customers sending mail to APO/FPO 
 destinations, 17102 
 
             Experimental nonletter-size business reply mail categories 
 and fees; implementation standards, 31121 
 
             Location-based post office box fees; expansion; and rate, 
 fee, and classification changes; correction, 6802 
 
             Mailing Online market test termination; changes in domestic 
 classifications and fees, 57571 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 36 
 
             Nonprofit and classroom periodicals classification changes 
 and notice of refund procedures, 38831 
 
             Nonprofit standard mail rate matter; eligibility 
 requirements, 48092 
 
             Package reallocation for periodicals and standard mail (A) 
 flats placed on pallets and new labeling list L001; implementation, 
 16814 
 
             Rural and highway contract delivery routes; shared mail 
 receptacles; addressing requirements, 2141 
 
         International Mail Manual: 
 
             Global Direct -- Canada Admail service, 2855, 9915 
 
             Global Direct -- Canada Publications Mail, 46277 
 
             Global Package Link service -- 
 
                 Argentina, 46141 
 
             International priority airmail service; postage rates and 
 service conditions changes, 10219, 43292 
 
             Postal rate changes, 20178 
 
             Priority Mail Global Guaranteed; enhanced expedited service 
 from selected U.S. locations to selected European countries, 19039, 
 60106 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Information release and records management, 41289 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Environmental regulations -- 
 
                 Floodplain and wetland procedures, 56253 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Domestic Mail Manual: 
 
             Curbside mailboxes; design standards -- 
 
                 Consensus Committee establishment and meeting, 44681 
 
                 Consensus Committee meetings, 66143 
 
             Flat-size periodicals and standard mail; packaging material 
 standards, 11402 
 
                 Withdrawn, 28130 
 
             Nonautomation mail processing instructions and letter tray 
 label revisions, 57419 
 
             Plant Verified Drop Shipment (PVDS) mailings; loading 
 requirements, 72044 
 
             SAVE verification procedures and revisions; First-Class and 
 Standard Mail (A) automation letter mail; combined postage payment 
 standards, 68965 
 
             Special services labels; barcode requirements, 54255 
 
             Standard Mail destination entry mailings; procedure changes, 
 71702 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 30929, 46630 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Environmental regulations -- 
 
                 Floodplain and wetland procedures, 48124 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Domestic Mail Manual: 
 
             Periodicals rate anomaly, 20340 
 
         Domestic rates, fees, and mail classifications: 
 
             Experimental nonletter-size business reply mail 
 classifications and fees; changes, 31325 
 
             Periodicals rate anomaly, 38930 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Consensus Committee, 56543 
 
             Universal Postal Union; international postal issues, 2690 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 3992, 6922, 8153, 13458, 19208, 23881, 
 28225, 32296, 36050, 40051, 45986, 51809, 56823, 66215, 71834 
 
         Postage meters: 
 
             Information based indicia program; performance criteria and 
 security architecture for -- 
 
                 Closed IBI systems, 4728 
 
                 Open IBI postage evidencing systems, 38225 
 
                 Postage evidencing product submission procedures, 44760 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 42733 
 
             Systems of records, 8876, 16765, 36051, 41476, 63062 
 
 
 
 
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 Presidential Documents 
 
     PROCLAMATIONS 
 
         Lamb meat -- 
 
             Adjustment to competition from imports (Proc. 7208), 37389 
 
             Imports (Proc. 7214), 42265 
 
         Maritime activities; contiguous zone of the U.S. (Proc. 7219), 
 48701 
 
             Correction, 49276, 49844 
 
         Mongolia; extending normal trade relations and elimination of 
 tariffs on certain pharmaceuticals and chemical imtermediaries (Proc. 
 7207), 36549 
 
         Russian Federation; restraints on imports of certain steel 
 products (Proc. 7210), 40723 
 
         Sugar-containing products and other agricultural products; 
 tariff-rate quotas (Proc. 7235), 55611 
 
         Trade: 
 
             Generalized System of Preferences; modification of duty-free 
 treatment (Proc. 7206), 36229 
 
         Wheat gluten, imports (Proc. 7202), 29773 
 
         Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of, and Serbia; suspension of entry 
 into U.S. of persons who are responsible for repression of the civilian 
 population or for policies that obstruct democracy (Proc. 7249), 62561 
 
         Special observances: 
 
             Adoption Month, National (Proc. 7245), 59103 
 
             African American History Month, National (Proc. 7165), 5585 
 
             AIDS Day, World (Proc. 7256), 67691 
 
             America Goes Back to School (Proc. 7218), 47337 
 
             American Heart Month (Proc. 7166), 6181 
 
             American Indian Heritage Month, National (Proc. 7247), 60085 
 
             America Recycles Day (Proc. 7250), 62563 
 
             Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (Proc. 7189), 24275 
 
             Battle of the Bulge, 55th Anniversary of the (Proc. 7261), 
 71629 
 
             Blackmun, Harry A., death, 11373 
 
             Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National (Proc. 7228), 54193 
 
             Cancer Control Month (Proc. 7177), 17075 
 
             Captive Nations Week (Proc. 7209), 39895 
 
             Character Counts Week, National (Proc. 7242), 56665 
 
             Child Abuse Prevention Month, National (Proc. 7178), 17077 
 
             Child Health Day (Proc. 7232), 54757 
 
             Child Mental Health Month (Proc. 7246), 60083 
 
             Children's Day, National (Proc. 7238), 55617 
 
             Citizenship Day and Constitution Week (Proc. 7222), 51183 
 
             Columbus Day (Proc. 7239), 55619 
 
             Consumer Protection Week, National (Proc. 7164), 5581 
 
             Crime Victims' Rights Week, National (Proc. 7187), 22777 
 
             D.A.R.E. Day, National (Proc. 7180), 17939 
 
             Defense Transportation Day, National, and National 
 Transportation Week (Proc. 7197), 27439 
 
             Disability Employment Awareness Month, National (Proc. 
 7229), 54195 
 
             Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National (Proc. 7230), 
 54197 
 
             Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month, National (Proc. 
 7257), 68269 
 
             Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A. (Proc. 7176), 15123 
 
             Equal Pay Day, National (Proc. 7179), 17499 
 
             Family Caregivers Week, National (Proc. 7254), 66087 
 
             Family Week, National (Proc. 7253), 66085 
 
             Farm-City Week, National (Proc. 7252), 66083 
 
             Farm Safety and Health Week, National (Proc. 7224), 51415 
 
             Father's Day (Proc. 7205), 33737 
 
             Fire Prevention Week (Proc. 7231), 54755 
 
             Flag Day and National Flag Week (Proc. 7204), 32381 
 
             Forest Products Week, National (Proc. 7241), 56397 
 
             Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, National (Proc. 
 7182), 18321 
 
             Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (Proc. 7203), 32379 
 
             General Pulaski Memorial Day (Proc. 7234), 55405 
 
             German-American Day (Proc. 7233), 54759 
 
             Gold Star Mother's Day (Proc. 7226), 52625 
 
             Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of 
 Greek and American Democracy (Proc. 7175), 14807 
 
             Hispanic Heritage Month, National (Proc. 7220), 50417 
 
             Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, National 
 (Proc. 7225), 51417 
 
             Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week 
 (Proc. 7258), 69161 
 
             Irish-American Heritage Month (Proc. 7169), 10381 
 
             Jewish Heritage Week (Proc. 7183), 19017 
 
             Jordan, death of King Hussein I (Proc. 7167), 6777 
 
             Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, National (Proc. 7213), 
 41005 
 
             Law Day, U.S.A. (Proc. 7191), 24279 
 
             Legal Services Corporation, 25th Anniversary of the (Proc. 
 7212), 41003 
 
             Leif Erikson Day (Proc. 7236), 55613 
 
             Loyalty Day (Proc. 7192), 24281 
 
             Maritime Day, National (Proc. 7199), 28709 
 
             Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday (Proc. 7163), 2991 
 
             Minority Enterprise Development Week (Proc. 7216), 47091 
 
             Mother's Day (Proc. 7194), 25191 
 
             Older Americans Month (Proc. 7190), 24277 
 
             Older Workers Employment Week, National (Proc. 7173), 12879 
 
             Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, National (Proc. 
 7185), 19681 
 
             Ovarian Cancer Awareness Week (Proc. 7223), 51185 
 
             Pan American Day and Pan American Week (Proc. 7181), 18317 
 
             Parents' Day (Proc. 7211), 41001 
 
             Park Week, National (Proc. 7184), 19439 
 
             Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week (Proc. 7195), 
 25797 
 
             Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, National (Proc. 7259), 69163 
 
             Poison Prevention Week, National (Proc. 7174), 14353 
 
             POW/MIA Recognition Day, National (Proc. 7221), 50731 
 
             Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day (Proc. 7201), 29769 
 
             Prayer, National Day of (Proc. 7193), 25189 
 
             Red Cross Month, American (Proc. 7168), 10101 
 
             Religious Freedom Day (Proc. 7162), 2989 
 
             Safe Boating Week, National (Proc. 7198), 28083 
 
             Save Your Vision Week (Proc. 7171), 10385 
 
             School Lunch Week, National (Proc. 7237), 55615 
 
             Science and Technology Week, National (Proc. 7188), 23005 
 
             Small Business Week (Proc. 7200), 28711 
 
             Small Manufacturing Week (Proc. 7217), 47093 
 
             Smokeout Day, National Great American (Proc. 7251), 66081 
 
             Thanksgiving Day (Proc. 7255), 66093 
 
             United Nations Day (Proc. 7244), 57967 
 
             Veterans Day (Proc. 7248), 61473 
 
             Veterans of Foreign Wars, 100th Anniversary of the (Proc. 
 7227), 53877 
 
             Volunteer Week, National (Proc. 7186), 19683 
 
             Washington, George; bicentennial commemoration of death 
 (Proc. 7260), 70563 
 
             White Cane Safety Day (Proc. 7240), 56393 
 
             Women's Equality Day (Proc. 7215), 46813 
 
             Women's History Month (Proc. 7170), 10383 
 
             World Trade Week (Proc. 7196), 27437 
 
             Wright Brothers Day (Proc. 7262), 71631 
 
             Young People and Gun Violence, National Day of Concern About 
 (Proc. 7243), 57767 
 
     EXECUTIVE ORDERS 
 
         Afghanistan; blocking property and prohibiting transactions with 
 the Taliban (EO 13129), 36759 
 
         Armed Forces, U.S.: 
 
             Health protection of military personnel participating in 
 particular military operations (EO 13139), 54175 
 
             Selected and Individual Ready Reserves; ordering to active 
 duty (EO 13120), 23007 
 
         Biobased products and bioenergy; development and promotion (EO 
 13134), 44639 
 
         Chemical weapons; implementation of convention and implementing 
 act (EO 13128), 34703 
 
         Child labor; prohibition of acquisition of products produced by 
 forced or indentured (EO 13126), 32383 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Advisory Committees, Federal; continuance (EO 13138), 53879 
 
             Bioethics Advisory Commission, National; amendment (EO 
 13137), 50733 
 
             Coast Guard, Interagency Task Force on the Roles and 
 Missions of the U.S.; establishment (EO 13115), 15283 
 
             Information Technology Advisory Committee, President's; 
 amendments (EO 13113), 7489 
 
             Infrastructure Assurance Council, National; establishment 
 (EO 13130), 38535 
 
             Internet, Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on; 
 establishment (EO 13133), 43895 
 
             Labor Organization, President's Committee on the 
 International; amendment (EO 13135), 47339 
 
             Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (EO 
 13110), 2419 
 
             Southwest Border, Interagency Task Force on the Economic 
 Development of the; establishment (EO 13122), 29201 
 
             Sustainable Development, President's Council on; amendment 
 (EO 13114), 10099 
 
             Women in American History, President's Commission on the 
 Celebration of; amendment (EO 13136), 48931 
 
         Courts-Martial Manual, United States, 1984; amendments (EO 
 13140), 55115 
 
         Enterprise for the Americas Initiative; amendment (E0 13131), 
 40733 
 
         Environmental review of trade agreements (EO 13141), 63169 
 
         Export control regulations; amendment (EO 13117), 16591 
 
         Government agencies and employees: 
 
             Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, increasing 
 participation in Federal programs (EO 13125), 31105 
 
             Classified National Security Information; amendment (EO 
 13142), 66089 
 
             Efficient energy management (EO 13123), 30851 
 
             Electronic systems; year 2000 conversion; amendment (EO 
 13127), 32793 
 
             Federalism (EO 13132), 43255 
 
             Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998; 
 implementation (EO 13118), 16595 
 
             Pay rates (EO 13144), 72237 
 
             Psychiatric disabilities, Federal employees with, amendment 
 to civil service rules (EO 13124), 31103 
 
             Technology training (EO 13111), 2793 
 
         Invasive species (EO 13112), 6183 
 
         Taliban; blocking property and prohibiting transactions (EO 
 13129), 36759 
 
         Trade; identification of expansion priorities and discriminatory 
 procurement practices (EO 13116), 16333 
 
         Waterfront facilities, vessels, harbors, and ports; safeguarding 
 (EO 13143), 68273 
 
         Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro), Federal Republic of, Albania, 
 and airspace and adjacent waters, designation of combat zone (EO 13119), 
 18797 
 
         Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Federal Republic of, 
 Republic of Serbia, Republic of Montenegro; sanctions regarding the 
 situation in Kosovo (EO 13121), 24021 
 
     ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS 
 
         Angola (UNITA), National Union for the Total Independence of; 
 continuation of emergency (Notice of September 21, 1999), 51419 
 
         Australia; proposed agreement on uranium (Presidential 
 Determination No. 2000-3 of October 25, 1999), 58757 
 
         Belarus; continuation of waiver authority under the Trade Act of 
 1974 (Presidential Determination No. 99-26 of June 3, 1999), 31109 
 
         Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business 
 Transactions, Convention on Combating; delegation of responsibility to 
 Secretary of State 
 
             (Memorandum of June 10, 1999), 32795 
 
         Burma: 
 
             Conditions and U.S. policy (Memorandum of October 27, 1999), 
 60647 
 
             Continuation of emergency (Notice of May 18, 1999), 27443 
 
         Canada; civil uses of atomic energy; proposed protocol amending 
 the agreement with U.S. (Presidential Determination No. 99-30 of June 
 23, 1999), 35921 
 
         China; continuation of waiver authority under the Trade Act of 
 1974 (Presidential Determination No. 99-28 of June 3, 1999), 31113 
 
         Columbia; continuation of emergency with respect to significant 
 narcotics traffickers (Notice of October 19, 1999), 56667 
 
         Croatia; military assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99- 
 21 of April 8, 1999), 18551 
 
         Cuba; anchorage and movement of vessels, regulation; 
 continuation of emergency (Notice of February 24, 1999), 9903 
 
         East Timor; military assistance to multinational force 
 (Presidential Determination No. 99-39 of September 21, 1999), 53575 
 
         Economic Community of West African States' Monitoring Group 
 (ECOMOG); military assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99-34 of 
 Aug. 13, 1999), 47343 
 
         Europe, Organization for Security and Cooperation in; financial 
 assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99-31 of June 30, 1999), 
 37033 
 
             Correction, 38075 
 
         Export control regulations; continuation of emergency (Notice of 
 August 10, 1999), 44101 
 
         Family planning, international; waiver of restrictions 
 (Memorandum of November 29, 1999), 68275 
 
         Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998: 
 
             Delegation of authority (Memorandum of March 31, 1999), 
 17079 
 
             Delegation of authority to Secretary of State (Memorandum of 
 May 26, 1999), 29539 
 
         Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
 Appropriations Act, 1999: 
 
             Delegation of authority to Secretary of State (Memorandum of 
 March 23, 1999), 14809 
 
             Determination (Presidential Determination No. 99-11 of 
 January 28, 1999), 6773 
 
         Immigration; custody and screening of aliens encountered on 
 vessels interdicted on the high seas (Memorandum of September 24, 1999), 
 55809 
 
         India and Pakistan; waiver of sanctions: 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-38 of September 21, 
 1999), 53573 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-44 of September 30, 
 1999), 54503 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 2000-4 of October 27, 1999), 
 60649 
 
         Iran; continuation of emergency: 
 
             (Notice of March 10, 1999), 12239 
 
             (Notice of November 5, 1999), 61471 
 
         Iraq: 
 
             Continuation of emergency (Notice of July 20, 1999), 39897 
 
             Foreign assistance to democratic opposition organizations 
 (Presidential Determination No. 99-13 of February 4, 1999), 6781 
 
             Military assistance (Presidential Determination No. 2000-5 
 of October 29, 1999), 60651 
 
         Ireland, International Fund for; U.S. contributions 
 (Presidential Determination No. 99-41 of September 22, 1999), 53579 
 
         Jerusalem Embassy Act; suspension of limitations: 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-29 of June 17, 1999), 
 33739 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 2000-8 of December 17, 
 1999), 72887 
 
         Jordan; military drawdown (Presidential Determination No. 99-18 
 of March 25, 1999), 16337 
 
         Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization; U.S. 
 contributions: 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-9 of December 24, 1998), 
 983 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-16 of March 4, 1999), 
 13495 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-24 of May 18, 1999), 
 28087 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-42 of September 29, 
 1999), 54499 
 
         Kosovo: 
 
             Migration and refugee assistance -- 
 
                 (Presidential Determination No. 99-10 of January 25, 
 1999), 5925 
 
                 (Presidential Determination No. 99-19 of March 31, 
 1999), 17081 
 
                 (Presidential Determination No. 99-22 of April 29, 
 1999), 24501 
 
             Military assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99-20 of 
 March 31, 1999), 17083 
 
             Refugee assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99-19 of 
 March 31, 1999), 17081 
 
             United Nations Interim Administration Mission in: military 
 assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99-40 of September 21, 1999), 
 53577 
 
         Lamb meat; imports (Memorandum of July 7, 1999), 37393 
 
         Libya; state of emergency (Notice of December 30, 1998), 383 
 
         Middle East peace process; continuation of emergency regarding 
 terrorists who threaten to disrupt (Notice of January 20, 1999), 3393 
 
         Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962; availability of 
 funds: 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-23 of May 18, 1999), 
 28085 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 2000-7 of November 10, 
 1999), 65653 
 
         Montenegro, Republic of; waiver of prohibition on assistance 
 (Presidential Determination No. 99-14 of February 16, 1999), 9263 
 
         Narcotics: 
 
             Certification of major illicit drug producing and transit 
 countries (Presidential Determination No. 99-15 of February 26, 1999), 
 11319 
 
             Counternarcotics assistance to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and 
 Panama (Presidential Determination No. 99-43 of September 30, 1999), 
 54501 
 
         Northern Mariana Islands; vessels located in the area 
 (Memorandum of April 16, 1999), 53883 
 
         Palestine Liberation Organization; waiver of statutory 
 provisions relating to terrorism: 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 99-25 of May 24, 1999), 
 29537 
 
             (Presidential Determination No. 2000-2 of October 21, 1999), 
 58755 
 
         Refugee admissions: 
 
             FY 2000 authorizations (Presidential Determination No. 99-45 
 of September 30, 1999), 54505 
 
             Revised allocations (Presidential Determination No. 99-33 of 
 August 12, 1999), 47341 
 
         Religious Freedom Act of 1998, International; delegation of 
 authority (Memorandum of Aug. 17, 1999), 47345 
 
         Russia; delegation of authority to conclude an agreement on the 
 importation of steel products (Memorandum of July 9, 1999), 38101 
 
         Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
 Year 1999; delegation of authority to the Secretary of Defense 
 (Memorandum of July 16, 1999), 40503 
 
         Sudan; continuation of state of emergency (Notice of October 29, 
 1999), 59105 
 
         Trading With the Enemy Act; continuation of exercise of 
 authorities (Presidential Determination No. 99-36 of September 10, 
 1999), 51885 
 
         Tunisia; military assistance (Presidential Determination No. 99- 
 32 of July 1, 1999), 37035 
 
             Correction, 38075 
 
         Vietnam: 
 
             Continuation of waiver authority under the Trade Act of 1974 
 (Presidential Determination No. 99-27 of June 3, 1999), 31111 
 
             Prisoners of war and missing in action, cooperation in 
 accounting for (Presidential Determination No. 99-12 of February 3, 
 1999), 6779 
 
         Weapons of mass destruction; state of emergency (Notice of 
 November 10, 1999), 61767 
 
         Yugoslavia: 
 
             Federal Republic of (Serbia and Montenegro); continuation of 
 emergency (Notice of May 27, 1999), 29205 
 
             United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for the former; drawdown 
 of services and commodities (Presidential Determination No. 99-35 of 
 August 17, 1999), 47347 
 
 
 
 
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 President's Council on Sustainable Development 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 2259 
 
 
 
 
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 Presidio Trust 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Management of Presidio; general provisions, etc., 2870 
 
             Environmental quality, 39951, 51488 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22178, 65280 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Letterman Complex, Presidio of San Francisco, CA, 22662, 
 32899 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Public Health Service Hospital Complex, 31883 
 
         Meetings, 9209, 57910 
 
         Wireless telecommunications facilities sites; applications: 
 
             Bay Area Cellular Telephone Co.; comment request, 26466 
 
 
 
 
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 Prisons Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         Donations; acceptance, 
 
         Inmate control, custody, care, etc.: 
 
             Birth control, pregnancy, child placement, and abortion, 
 9429 
 
             Classification and program review; team meetings, 9428 
 
             Correspondence; return address, 32170 
 
             Donations; acceptance, 17270 
 
             Incarceration fee cost, 43880 
 
             Inmate financial responsibility program; spending 
 limitations, 72798 
 
             Inmate personal property, 36750 
 
             State custody transfers; victim/witness notification, 68264 
 
             Visitor notification requirements, 25794 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Inmate control, custody, care, etc.: 
 
             Aliens; release gratuities, transportation, and clothing, 
 53871, 53872 
 
             Correspondence; inspection of outgoing general 
 correspondence, 40718 
 
             Federal Tort Claims Act, 32172 
 
             Inmate commissary account deposit procedures, 20126 
 
             Inmate discipline respecting violations of telephone and 
 smoking policies, 9432 
 
             Over-the-counter (OTC) medications; inmate access, 10094 
 
             Searches of housing units, inmates, and inmate work areas, 
 and persons other than inmates; use of electronic devices, 9431 
 
             Smoking/no smoking areas, 24468 
 
             Visiting regulations; prior relationships, 27166 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 17014 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 34271 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Contractor-owned/operated correctional facility for 1000 
 District of Columbia inmates; construction and operation, 46955 
 
             Saint Francis County, AR; medium-security Federal 
 correctional institution, 58451 
 
             South Carolina; medium-security Federal correctional 
 facility, 70728 
 
             Yazoo County, MS; Federal correctional complex, 57124 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Criminal alien populations; housing in non-Federal low- 
 security correctional facilities, 20021 
 
             Lassen County, CA; Federal correctional facility 
 construction, 29071 
 
             South Carolina; high security or medium security federal 
 correctional facilities development, 41464 
 
         Inmate control, custody, care, etc.: 
 
             Incarceration cost for Federal inmates; annual determination 
 of average cost, 43882 
 
 
 
 
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 Program Support Center 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 24413, 49497 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 42406 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 37990 
 
 
 
 
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 Public Debt Bureau 
 
     See Fiscal Service 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 5344, 5345, 36970, 
 49542, 54411, 69818, 69819 
 
 
 
 
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 Public Health Service 
 
     See Agency for Health Care Policy and Research 
 
     See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 
 
     See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
 
     See Food and Drug Administration 
 
     See Health Resources and Services Administration 
 
     See Indian Health Service 
 
     See National Institutes of Health 
 
     See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Grants: 
 
             Health professions, nursing, public health, and allied 
 health training grant program regulations removed, 54263 
 
         Human drugs: 
 
             Narcotic drugs use in maintenance and detoxification 
 treatment of narcotic dependence (opioid addiction), 39810 
 
                 Hearing, 56294 
 
         Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act; 
 implementation: 
 
             Individuals employed in positions involving regular contact 
 with or control over Indian children; minimum standards of character and 
 employment suitability, 14560, 28778 
 
         Occupational safety and health: 
 
             Respiratory devices used to protect workers in hazardous 
 environments; approval, 46178 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Human Exposure Assessment; Role in Prevention of 
 Environmental Disease; workshop, 47511 
 
             National Toxicology Program -- 
 
                 Alternative Toxicological Methods Advisory Committee, 
 6111, 50297 
 
                 Carcinogens report; review procedures and listing 
 criteria, 54343 
 
                 Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction; 
 phthalates review; comment request, 42707, 63327 
 
                 Scientific Counselors Board, 17402, 63326 
 
                 Special Emphasis Panel, 18040 
 
         National Toxicology Program: 
 
             Carcinogens Report, Tenth Edition -- 
 
                 Substances, mixtures, and exposure circumstances for 
 listing or delisting, 15983, 19188, 37992 
 
             Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction; 
 phthalates review; comment request, 18921, 23903 
 
             Chemicals nominated for toxicology studies; testing 
 recommendations; comment request, 36704 
 
             Frog embryo teratogenesis assay-Xenopus (FETAX) evaluation; 
 data request and suggested expert panelists, 48662 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8396, 17674, 
 25897 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Murine local lymph node assay; test method for assessing 
 allergic contact dermatitis potential of chemicals/compounds (NIEHS), 
 14006 
 
             National toxicology program -- 
 
                 Corrositex; in vitro test method for assessing dermal 
 corrosivity of chemicals, 33109 
 
             Toxicological methods validation status evaluation; 
 submissions to Alternative Methods Validation Interagency Coordinating 
 Committee; general guidelines, 67579 
  
 
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 Railroad Retirement Board 
 
     RULES 
 
         Emergency regulations: 
 
             Plan of operation during national emergency; procedures 
 update, 66381 
 
         Railroad Retirement Act: 
 
             Disability determination, 62976 
 
                 CFR correction, 36239 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Emergency regulations: 
 
             Plan of operation during national emergency; procedures 
 update, 44670 
 
         Railroad Retirement Act: 
 
             Disability determination -- 
 
                 Reviews for medical recovery of annuitants; 
 discontinuance, 62996 
 
             Evidence required for payment, 66433 
 
             Family relationships; inheritance rights, 68647 
 
         Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: 
 
             Remuneration; definition, 62135 
 
             Sickness and unemployment benefits; waiting period 
 shortened, etc., 67811 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22182, 65284 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1034, 2527, 3581, 
 5081, 11975, 12192, 13241, 13458, 14020, 15841, 23137, 28539, 33329, 
 33935, 40914, 42733, 44969, 46216, 50307, 58462, 60464 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 10506, 11976, 
 14021, 14477, 17204, 19833, 25927, 27015, 28540, 28844, 33530, 36052, 
 38931, 39546, 47541, 49826, 51809, 54696, 66516, 68396, 70099, 71834, 
 72705 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Actuarial Advisory Committee, 30554 
 
             Lessor or non-operating entity considered as employer or 
 not; examiner appointment; comment request; hearing, 38491 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 25928, 33936, 44069 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 17041 
 
         Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: 
 
             Monthly compensation base and other determinations (2000 
 CY), 63063 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 66671 
 
         Supplemental annuity program; determination of quarterly rate of 
 excise tax, 10729, 35221, 50308, 69575 
 
 
 
 
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 Reclamation Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program: 
 
             Colorado River water offstream storage, and interstate 
 redemption of storage credits in Lower Division States, 58986 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Farm operations in excess of 960 acres, information 
 requirements; and formerly excess land eligibility to receive non-full 
 cost irrigation water, 2870, 12141 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 174, 175, 27806 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 28009, 28011, 
 61662, 71492 
 
         Central Valley Project Improvement Act: 
 
             Water management plans; evaluation criteria, 1217, 50103, 
 61122 
 
             Water transfer provisions implementation; guidelines, 69031 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Task Force, 3974 
 
         Contract negotiations: 
 
             Tabulation of water service and repayment; quarterly status 
 report, 3544, 22640, 39171, 56807 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             CALFED Bay-Delta Program, CA, 34677, 43223 
 
                 Hearing, 49023 
 
             California; Central Valley Improvement Act; implementation, 
 43207 
 
             Central Valley Project Improvement Act, CA, 38214, 58437 
 
             Clark County, NV; Las Vegas Wash Wetlands Park, 11946 
 
             Contra Loma Reservoir Project, CA; future use and operation, 
 3974, 51786 
 
             Elephant Butte/Caballo Reservoirs, NM; resource management 
 plan, 51787, 66643 
 
             Orange County, CA; groundwater replenishment system, 2503 
 
             Republican River basin, NE and KS; long-term water supply 
 contracts renewal, 55746 
 
             San Joaquin County, CA; Lower Mokelumne River Restoration 
 Program, 59790 
 
             San Joaquin River Agreement (1999-2010); flow objectives, 
 5074 
 
             Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration, CA, 56364 
 
             Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project, WA, 3714, 
 12177 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Albuquerque, NM; water resources strategy implementation, 
 drinking water supply project, 49024 
 
             Animas-La Plata Project, CO and NV, 176 
 
             Central Arizona Project, AZ; water supply allocation and 
 expected long-term contract execution, 46720 
 
             Central Valley Project, CA, 66931 
 
             Central Valley Project Improvement Act, CA, 33504 
 
             Colorado River; management plan; surplus criteria 
 development, 27008, 68373 
 
             Colorado River Storage Project, Navajo Unit, NM and CO; 
 operations; meetings, 53407 
 
             Grassland Bypass Project, CA; continuation, 47860 
 
             Imperial Irrigation District/San Diego County Water 
 Authority Water Conservation and Transfer Project, CA, 52102 
 
             Klamath Project, OR and CA; long-term operations, 6911 
 
             Lower Colorado River, AZ, NV, and CA; Multi-Species 
 Conservation Program, 27000 
 
             Placer County Water Agency American River Pump Station 
 Project, CA, 32889 
 
             Tracy Fish Facility, Central Valley Project, CA, 8401 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Bay-Delta Advisory Council, 2918, 11038, 18447, 23669, 
 25905, 29337, 31875, 33907, 37152, 40389, 44940, 47197, 52795, 55485, 
 57906, 63830, 65725, 71829 
 
             Colorado River; surplus criteria for water delivery to 
 Arizona, California, and Nevada, 29068 
 
             Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Advisory Council, 
 53408, 54639 
 
             Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Work Group, 25905, 54639, 
 61122 
 
             Glen Canyon Technical Work Group, 6116, 10487, 47517, 54639, 
 61122 
 
             Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Task Force, 10721, 
 30355, 42961, 61369 
 
             Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Conservation 
 Advisory Group, 25365, 52342 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 6912, 8119, 13234, 29874, 29876, 33504, 
 40894, 43714, 69032 
 
         Water resources planning; discount rate change, 72676 
 
 
 
 
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 Refugee Resettlement Office 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Refugee resettlement program: 
 
             Public/private partnership program; refugee cash and medical 
 assistance; requirements, 1159 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Community and family strengthening and integration services; 
 discretionary social service funds, 34662 
 
             Community service employment opportunities for refugees 
 experiencing long-term difficulties with assimilation, 34667 
 
             Refugee resettlement program -- 
 
                 Individual development accounts establishment for 
 refugees, 31009 
 
                 Refugees and Cuban and Haitian entrants; alternative 
 approaches to provision of cash assistance, medical assistance, social 
 services, and case management (Wilson/Fish projects), 19793 
 
                 Refugees in local areas of high need, 11927, 43388 
 
                 Social services funds; State allocations, 22626, 43398 
 
 
 
 
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 Regulatory Information Service Center 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, 
 20940, 63885 
 
 
 
 
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 Research and Special Programs Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Hazardous materials: 
 
             Editorial corrections and clarifications, 51912 
 
                 Correction, 54730, 61219 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Liquefied compressed gases; continued manufacture of 
 MC331 cargo tanks, 9923 
 
                 Liquefied compressed gases; transportation and 
 unloading, 28030 
 
             Hazardous materials transportation -- 
 
                 Chemical oxidizers and compressed oxygen aboard 
 aircraft, 45388 
 
                 Harmonization with UN recommendations, International 
 Maritime Dangerous Goods Code, and International Civil Aviation 
 Organization's technical instructions, 10742, 44426, 44578 
 
                 Packages intended for transportation in international 
 commerce; limited extension of requirements for labeling materials 
 poisonous by inhalation, 50260, 51719 
 
             Import and export shipments; poison inhalation hazard; CFR 
 correction, 45457 
 
             Liquefied compressed gases; transportation and unloading, 
 36802 
 
         Pipeline safety: 
 
             Drug and alcohol testing; random testing rate, 66788 
 
             Gas and hazardous liquid pipeline repair, 69660 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Breakout tanks; industry standards adoption, 15926, 
 40777 
 
                 Older hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipelines; 
 pressure testing within terminals and tank farms; correction, 6814 
 
             Natural gas transportation, etc. -- 
 
                 Gas pipelines; corrosion extent determination, 56978 
 
             Pipeline personnel; qualification requirements, 46853 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Hazardous materials: 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Liquefied compressed gases; continued manufacture of 
 MC331 cargo tanks, 1789 
 
                 Liquefied compressed gases; transportation and 
 unloading, 13856 
 
                 Liquefied compressed gases in cargo tank motor vehicles; 
 safety standards for unloading; negotiated rulemaking committee; 
 meetings, 70, 9115, 16882 
 
             Hazardous materials transportation -- 
 
                 Cargo tank rollover damage protection requirements, 
 62161 
 
                 Compatibility with International Atomic Energy Agency 
 regulations, 72633 
 
                 DOT cylinder specifications and maintenance, 
 requalification, and repair requirements, 9114, 28965 
 
                 Loading, unloading, and storage; regulatory 
 applicability, 22718, 40810 
 
                 Registration and fee assessment program, 18786, 28135 
 
             Incident reporting requirements and Detailed Hazardous 
 Materials Incident Report form; revision, 13943 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 53166 
 
             Rulemaking and program procedures, etc.; Regulatory 
 Flexibility Act and plain language reviews, 71098 
 
         Pipeline safety: 
 
             Enforcement procedures, 43972 
 
             Gas and hazardous liquid pipeline corrosion control, 16885 
 
             Gas gathering lines, definition; electronic discussion 
 forum, 12147, 23256, 35580 
 
             Gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipelines in high- 
 consequence areas; enhanced safety and environmental protection, 56725, 
 71713 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage; 
 definition, 38173, 73464 
 
                 Liquefied compressed gases, 16882 
 
                 Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities, 47157 
 
             Natural gas transportation, etc. -- 
 
                 Gas pipelines; corrosion extent determination, 28136 
 
             Pipeline personnel; qualification requirement; environmental 
 assessment, 5018, 29834 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3333, 3585, 5091, 
 46746, 54065, 57182, 57183 
 
             Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 19856 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 29413, 60875, 
 70314 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             University Transportation Centers Program, 11980 
 
         Hazardous materials: 
 
             Applications; exemptions, renewals, etc., 2701, 3334, 3335, 
 8437, 8441, 8442, 11081, 13467, 13468, 20055, 20056, 20057, 28556, 
 28558, 32605, 32606, 36962, 40057, 40059, 43420, 46006, 46007, 51365, 
 51366, 56241, 56242, 56383, 65760, 70758, 71847 
 
             Exemption applications delayed; list, 29082, 49536 
 
         Hazardous materials transportation: 
 
             Department-wide program evaluation, 11528 
 
                 Meetings, 36734 
 
             International standards on transport of dangerous goods -- 
 
                 Substances dangerous to environment; requirements and 
 criteria development; comment request, 14497 
 
             Preemption determinations, 14965, 33949, 35239, 44265, 
 54474, 59231 
 
             Registration requirements and fee assessment, 14788 
 
             Safety advisories -- 
 
                 Aluminum pressure relief valves use on portable tanks 
 and cargo tanks in anhydrous ammonia service, 51824 
 
                 Batteries and electrical storage devices; transportation 
 packagings, 36743 
 
                 Carbon dioxide service; DOT-3AL cylinders; manufacturer 
 product recall, 56835 
 
                 Compressed gas cylinders; unauthorized marking, 15394, 
 68412, 69590 
 
                 Flammable gas torches, 52573 
 
                 Potential computer problems related to Year 2000 (Y2K) 
 conversion, 29080 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Hazardous materials transportation; hazard analysis and 
 critical control points or similar methodologies; applicability; study, 
 54954 
 
             International standards on transport of dangerous goods, 
 23897, 60875 
 
             Mechanical damage and cracking in pipelines, detection; 
 quarterly performance review, 12209, 43421 
 
             Pipeline Safety Advisory Committee, 15869, 54065 
 
             Pipeline safety -- 
 
                 Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework Working Group; report, 
 43012 
 
                 Damage prevention (``path forward''), 56570 
 
                 One-call systems study, 28866 
 
                 Rapid isolation of ruptured sections of gas transmission 
 pipelines, 54066 
 
         Pipeline Risk Management Demonstration Program: 
 
             Participants -- 
 
                 Chevron Pipe Line Co., 8900 
 
                 Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, 1067, 5091 
 
                 Northwest Pipeline Corp., 67602 
 
         Pipeline safety: 
 
             Advisory bulletins -- 
 
                 Directional drilling and other trenchless technology 
 operations near underground pipelines; damage prevention program review, 
 46967 
 
                 High pressure aluminum seamless and aluminum composite 
 hoop-wrapped cylinders, 56243, 58906 
 
                 Natural gas distribution systems; Century polyethylene 
 plastic pipe; potential failure due to brittle-like cracking, 12211 
 
                 Natural gas distribution systems; potential failures due 
 to brittle-like cracking of older plastic pipe, 12212 
 
                 Supervisory control and data acquisition systems; 
 potential service interruptions, 38501 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Facility response plans; environmental assessment, 47228 
 
             Response plan review and exercise program, 57694 
 
             System Integrity Inspection Pilot Program; candidate 
 companies screening, 69590 
 
         Pipeline safety; waiver petitions: 
 
             Chevron Pipe Line Co., 28867, 43422 
 
         Year 2000 (Y2K) problems; compliance policy, 33541 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Risk Management Agency 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Risk Management Advisory Committee, 12152, 18875 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Rural Business-Cooperative Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Grants: 
 
             Rural Business Opportunity Program, 71984 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Community Facilities Grant Program, 32387 
 
                 Correction, 56399 
 
             Community Programs Guaranteed Loans Program, 28333 
 
             Farm labor housing loans and grants; requests processing, 
 24476 
 
             Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996; 
 implementation -- 
 
                 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program, 32370 
 
             Manufactured housing thermal requirements, 48083 
 
             Preferred lender program implementation and guaranteed loan 
 regulations streamlining, 7358 
 
                 Correction, 38297 
 
             Real estate and chattel appraisals; regulatory streamlining, 
 62566 
 
                 Correction, 69322 
 
             Servicing and collections -- 
 
                 Delinquent Farm Loan Program borrowers; debt cross- 
 servicing notice, 62971 
 
                 Suspension of collection of recapture amount for 
 borrowers with shared appreciation agreements, 19863 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Farm loan programs account servicing policies; servicing 
 shared appreciation agreements, 61221 
 
             Indian Tribes and tribal corporations; loan debt 
 forgiveness, 10235 
 
             Loans to Indian Tribes and tribal corporations, 59131 
 
             Section 502 Guaranteed Rural Housing Program; 
 administration, 70124 
 
         Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program, 69937 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 13960, 25474, 50792, 
 50793, 53315, 69223, 69683 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Board, 28155 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Rural business enterprise program; technical assistance for 
 rural transportation systems, 844 
 
             Rural Cooperative Development, 17612 
 
             Rural cooperative opportunities and problems research, 17613 
 
             Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program; maximum 
 dollar amounts on awards, 61817 
 
         Hog production: 
 
             Loans, direct and guaranteed; suspension, 3926 
 
         Intermediary Relending Program loans; sale under expanded pilot, 
 61575 
 
         Loan guarantee authority; maximum portion available (2000 FY), 
 13961, 66875 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Board, 1590 
 
             Rural Community Development Initiative; stakeholder's 
 meeting, 61817 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Rural Housing Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Community Facilities Grant Program, 32387 
 
                 Correction, 56399 
 
             Community Programs Guaranteed Loans Program, 28333 
 
             Farm labor housing loans and grants; requests processing, 
 24476 
 
             Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996; 
 implementation -- 
 
                 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program, 32370 
 
             Manufactured housing thermal requirements, 48083 
 
             Preferred lender program implementation and guaranteed loan 
 regulations streamlining, 7358 
 
                 Correction, 38297 
 
             Real estate and chattel appraisals; regulatory streamlining, 
 62566 
 
                 Correction, 69322 
 
             Servicing and collections -- 
 
                 Delinquent Farm Loan Program borrowers; debt cross- 
 servicing notice, 62971 
 
                 Suspension of collection of recapture amount for 
 borrowers with shared appreciation agreements, 19863 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Farm loan programs account servicing policies; servicing 
 shared appreciation agreements, 61221 
 
             Indian Tribes and tribal corporations; loan debt 
 forgiveness, 10235 
 
             Loans to Indian Tribes and tribal corporations, 59131 
 
             Section 502 Guaranteed Rural Housing Program; 
 administration, 70124 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 28156, 33460, 35986, 
 40814, 41913, 43648, 47563, 50793, 69223, 69683 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Farm labor housing loans and grants for off-farm housing, 
 24483 
 
             Multi-family and single family housing programs, 71592 
 
             Section 514 Farm Labor Housing Loans and Section 516 Farm 
 Labor Housing Grants for off-farm housing, 71609 
 
             Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Program, 2877, 71604 
 
             Section 533 Housing Preservation Program, 71607 
 
             Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program, 32373, 
 42084, 71601 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Rural Community Development Initiative; stakeholder's 
 meeting, 61817 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Rural Telephone Bank 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Loan policies: 
 
             Interest rates, 63008 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 4067, 23819, 40547, 59737, 60406 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Rural Utilities Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Electric loans: 
 
             Fidelity and insurance requirements, 1 
 
             Insured loans -- 
 
                 General and pre-loan policies and procedures, 33176 
 
                 Post-loan policies and procedures, 72488 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Community Facilities Grant Program, 32387 
 
                 Correction, 56399 
 
             Community Programs Guaranteed Loans Program, 28333 
 
             Farm labor housing loans and grants; requests processing, 
 24476 
 
             Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996; 
 implementation -- 
 
                 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program, 32370 
 
             Manufactured housing thermal requirements, 48083 
 
             Materials and construction; electric standards and 
 specifications -- 
 
                 Electronic overhead distribution lines; specifications 
 and drawings for 24.9/14.4 kV line construction, 14813, 17219, 42005 
 
             Preferred lender program implementation and guaranteed loan 
 regulations streamlining, 7358 
 
                 Correction, 38297 
 
             Real estate and chattel appraisals -- 
 
                 Regulatory streamlining, 62566, 69322 
 
             Servicing and collections -- 
 
                 Delinquent Farm Loan Program borrowers; debt cross- 
 servicing notice, 62971 
 
                 Suspension of collection of recapture amount for 
 borrowers with shared appreciation agreements, 19863 
 
         Rural development: 
 
             Distance learning and telemedicine loan and grant program, 
 14355 
 
                 Effective date confirmation and correction, 25422 
 
         Telecommunications loans: 
 
             Fidelity and insurance requirements, 1 
 
             General policies, types of loans, and loan requirements, 
 50428 
 
         Telecommunications standards and specifications: 
 
             Materials, equipment, and construction -- 
 
                 Borrower contractual obligations; standard contract 
 forms requirements, 6498 
 
                 Central office equipment contract (not including 
 installation) (RUS Form 545), 53886 
 
         Telecommunications system construction policies and procedures: 
 
             Telecommunications borrowers preloan and postloan 
 requirements; reduction of RUS oversight with respect to preparation of 
 plans and specifications, etc., 16602 
 
         Water and waste loans and grants: 
 
             Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration 
 and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; implementation, 29945 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Electric loans: 
 
             Insured loans -- 
 
                 General and pre-loan policies and procedures, 33228 
 
                 Post-loan policies and procedures, 72575 
 
             Load forecasts; borrower requirements, 36609 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Farm loan programs account servicing policies; servicing 
 shared appreciation agreements, 61221 
 
             Indian Tribes and tribal corporations; loan debt 
 forgiveness, 10235 
 
             Loans to Indian Tribes and tribal corporations, 59131 
 
             Section 502 Guaranteed Rural Housing Program; 
 administration, 70124 
 
         Rural development: 
 
             Distance learning and telemedicine loan and grant program, 
 14401 
 
         Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program, 69937 
 
         Telecommunication loans: 
 
             Guaranteed and insured loans; post-loan policies and 
 procedures, 69946 
 
         Telecommunications loan: 
 
             General policies, types of loans, and loan requirements, 
 50476 
 
         Telecommunications standards and specifications: 
 
             Materials, equipment, and construction -- 
 
                 Borrower contractual obligations; standard contract 
 forms requirements, 6577 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 42640, 46636, 48577, 
 50269, 52290, 57841, 66875, 69223, 69476, 69683, 71407, 71408, 71725 
 
         Electric loans: 
 
             Quarterly municipal interest rates, 13541, 34630, 36423, 
 50270, 70693 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Alabama Electric Cooperative, 71408 
 
             Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., 49440, 61580 
 
             East Kentucky Power Cooperative, 55695, 68316 
 
             Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water Existing System North/Lyon 
 County Phase and Northeast Phase Expansion Project, MN, 28796, 53661 
 
             M&A Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., 52290, 61580 
 
             Pohnpei Utilities Corp., 66876 
 
             Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc., et 
 al., 48577 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Alabama Electric Cooperative, Inc., 4636 
 
             Great River Energy, 57437 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program, 
 25475, 60765 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Rural Community Development Initiative; stakeholder's 
 meeting, 61817 
  
 
FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX, January--December, 1999
 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Advisory Board, 7687, 32304, 54729, 67618 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Science and Technology Policy Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 46391 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             National Bioethics Advisory Commission, 54891 
 
         Government Performance and Results Act: 
 
             Agency performance evaluation; survey, 32871 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, 
 5801, 22609, 47502, 67569 
 
         National innovation system; Federal policy; call for issues 
 papers, 44524 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Government-university research partnership; statement of 
 principles; comment request, 71454 
 
         Research misconduct; Federal policy to protect integrity of 
 research record; comment request, 55722 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Secret Service 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 57514 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Boards; membership, 49843 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Securities and Exchange Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Accounting bulletins, staff: 
 
             Exit activities and business combinations; expenses 
 accounting and disclosure, 67154 
 
             Financial statements -- 
 
                 Materiality thresholds; assessment, 45150 
 
                 Revenue recognition, 68936 
 
         Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR): 
 
             Filer manual -- 
 
                 System modernization, 27888 
 
                 Update adoption and incorporation by reference, 27897, 
 56430 
 
         Investment advisers: 
 
             Advisers between Commission and States; reallocation of 
 responsibilities; and transactions not deemed assignments; technical 
 corrections, 2566 
 
             Multi-state investment advisers; exemption; and investment 
 advisers with principal offices and places of business in Colorado or 
 Iowa; technical changes, 2120 
 
             Ohio investment advisers; transition rule, 15680 
 
         Investment companies: 
 
             Deregistration of registered investment companies; 
 electronic filing requirements, 19469 
 
             Investment advisers; temporary exemption, 68019 
 
             Investment company assets; custody outside United States, 
 5156, 24488 
 
             Investment company boards of directors; independent 
 directors role; interpretive issues, 59877 
 
             Personal investment activities fraud prevention; adoption of 
 policies and codes of ethics, 46821 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Investment Management Division Director; authority to cancel 
 registration of investment advisers, 34539 
 
         Securities: 
 
             Audit committee disclosure, 73389 
 
             Belgium; securities exemption for purposes of trading 
 futures contracts, 10564 
 
             Broker-dealer registration and reporting -- 
 
                 Form BD; uniform broker-dealer registration form; 
 electronic filing, 37586 
 
                 Form BDW; uniform request for withdrawal from broker- 
 dealer registration, 25144 
 
                 Web CRD postponement contingency plan; reinstatement of 
 Legacy CRD, 42594 
 
             Compensatory benefit arrangements; offers and sales 
 exemption, 11095 
 
                 Correction, 61497 
 
             Cross-border tender and exchange offers, business 
 combinations, and rights offerings, 61382 
 
             Disclosure documents; delivery to households, 62540 
 
             Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System 
 (EDGAR) -- 
 
                 Institutional investment managers; Form 13F electronic 
 filing requirements, 2843, 5865 
 
             Equity securities purchases by issuer or affiliated 
 purchaser, 52428 
 
             Exchanges and alternative trading systems -- 
 
                 Correction, 13065 
 
                 Technical amendment, 19450 
 
             Form S-8; securities offer and sale to consultants and 
 advisors, and exercise of stock options by family members of employee 
 optionees, 11103 
 
             International disclosure standards; foreign private issuers 
 conformance, 53900 
 
                 Correction, 61962 
 
             Operating segments; financial reporting requirements; 
 technical amendments, 1728 
 
             Registered broker-dealers and transfer agents and Year 2000 
 compliance; operational capability requirements, 42012 
 
             Reports made by brokers and dealers; CFR correction, 39918 
 
             Seed capital exemption, 11090 
 
             Sweden; securities exemption for purposes of trading futures 
 contracts, 29550 
 
                 Correction, 31493, 32924 
 
             Takeovers and security holder communications (tender offers, 
 mergers, acquisitions, and similar extraordinary transactions), 61408 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and confidential 
 treatment rules; amendments, 19732 
 
         Investment advisers: 
 
             Broker-dealers deemed not to be investment advisers, 61226 
 
             Ohio investment advisers; transition rule, 5722 
 
             Political contributions, 43556 
 
         Investment companies: 
 
             Canadian tax-deferred retirement savings accounts; offer and 
 sale of securities, 14648 
 
                 Correction, 18481 
 
             Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) 
 system modernization, 12908 
 
             Investment company assets; custody outside United States, 
 24489 
 
             Investment company boards of directors; independent 
 directors role, 59826 
 
         Public utility holding companies: 
 
             Acquisition of U.S. utilities by foreign companies; 
 internationalization, 71341 
 
         Securities: 
 
             Audit committee disclosure, 55648 
 
             Broker-dealer registration and reporting -- 
 
                 Form BD; uniform broker-dealer registration form, 25153 
 
             Canadian tax-deferred retirement savings accounts; offer and 
 sale of securities, 14648 
 
                 Correction, 18481 
 
             Form S-8; securities offer to consultants and advisors, 
 etc.; abuse prevention, 11118 
 
             International disclosure standards; foreign private issuers 
 conformance, 6261 
 
             Market information dissemination; fees and revenues 
 regulation, 70613 
 
             Portugal; securities exemption for purposes of trading 
 futures contracts, 41056 
 
             Proxy and information statements; delivery to households, 
 62548 
 
             Publication or submission of quotations without specified 
 information, 11124, 18393 
 
             Registered broker-dealers and transfer agents and Year 2000 
 compliance; operational capability requirements, 12127 
 
             Repurchase agreements and refunded securities treatment as 
 acquisition of underlying securities, 52476 
 
             Revised transfer agent form and related rule, 15310 
 
             Securities offerings, regulatory structure; modernization 
 and clarification, 15143 
 
             Selective disclosure and insider trading, 72590 
 
             Short sales; limits lifted, etc., 57996 
 
             Subsidiary issuers and guarantors; financial statements and 
 periodic reports, 10579 
 
             Sweden; securities exemption for purposes of trading futures 
 contracts, 9948 
 
             Transfer agents; recordkeeping requirements; use of 
 electronic storage media to produce and preserve records, 29608 
 
             Unlisted trading privileges, 69975 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22402, 65504 
 
             Correction, 69073 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1034, 1245, 2528, 
 5843, 6119, 7678, 7915, 8413, 8415, 16766, 17204, 19833, 25088, 25385, 
 25386, 27015, 28845, 30069, 30554, 32558, 32560, 33531, 37577, 37578, 
 38045, 42156, 44248, 44558, 48678, 48878, 55315, 55498, 60857, 63832, 
 66215, 66216, 67956, 68397, 69575, 70750, 72110 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 11976, 13044, 
 14021, 18948, 19391, 19834, 20027, 20029, 20030, 23903, 31883, 34303, 
 38045, 38046, 38697, 40399, 42157, 43232, 44558, 45986, 46733, 47541, 
 50120, 50842, 55499, 55997, 57668, 61674, 61675, 70752 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Technology Advisory Committee, 26470 
 
         Consolidated Tape Association and Quotation Plans; amendments, 
 36412, 40651, 47204, 55503, 63350 
 
         Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System 
 (EDGAR): 
 
             Voluntary Y2K test filings; EDGAR test system availability, 
 31886 
 
         Inter-market linkage plan for multiply-traded options; 
 submission order to options exchanges, 57674 
 
         Intermarket Trading System; plan amendments, 17700, 42734, 70297 
 
         Investment Company Act of 1940: 
 
             Deregistration applications -- 
 
                 Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association et al., 30076 
 
                 Berwyn Fund, Inc., et al., 66517 
 
                 BlackRock Fund Investors I et al., 60464 
 
                 Kemper Gold Fund et al., 15852 
 
                 Midwest Equity Trust, Financial Securities Series 1, et 
 al., 43003, 46974 
 
                 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Intermediate Term U.S. 
 Treasury Trust et al., 10732 
 
                 Old Mutual Equity Growth Assets South Africa Fund et 
 al., 5690 
 
                 PB Series Trust, 52812 
 
                 Pinnacle Fund et al., 35222 
 
                 Premium Portfolios et al., 48224 
 
             Exemption applications -- 
 
                 AIM Advisors, Inc., et al., 58462 
 
                 Alger Fund et al., 66944 
 
                 Allmerica Financial Life Insurance & Annuity Co. et al., 
 48678 
 
                 Bankers Trust Co., 13459 
 
                 Conning Asset Management Co. et al., 66679 
 
                 Corporate Income Fund et al., 66217 
 
                 Davis Variable Account Fund, Inc., et al., 65752 
 
                 Elk Associates Funding Corp. et al., 60859 
 
                 Equity Managers Trust et al., 57161 
 
                 Evergreen Select Fixed Income Trust et al., 72705 
 
                 Federated Investors, Inc., et al., 57162 
 
                 First Australia Prime Income Fund, Inc., et al., 66517 
 
                 Fortis Series Fund, Inc., et al., 66941 
 
                 GW Capital Management, LLC, et al., 56825 
 
                 J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., 62237 
 
                 J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 54058 
 
                 Jackson National Life Insurance Co. et al., 69047 
 
                 Liberty Funds Trust IX et al., 49254 
 
                 MONY Life Insurance Co. et al., 55499 
 
                 OLDE Asset Management, Inc., 66520 
 
                 Pacific Live Insurance Co. et al., 65746 
 
                 Pacific Select Fund et al., 51810 
 
                 PFL Life Insurance Co. et al., 63352 
 
                 Prudential Investments Fund Management LLC et al., 61952 
 
                 Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc. et al., 68397 
 
                 Salomon Brothers Series Funds Inc. et al., 33531 
 
                 STI Classic Funds et al., 63357 
 
                 SunAmerica Asset Management Corp. et al., 66519 
 
                 Target/United Funds, Inc., et al., 47550 
 
                 Templeton Variable Products Series Fund et al., 51812 
 
                 Van Eck/Chubb Funds, Inc., et al., 55502 
 
             Joint transaction applications -- 
 
                 Putnam American Government Income Fund et al., 66945 
 
             Shares substitution applications -- 
 
                 American General Annuity Insurance Co. et al., 67957 
 
                 Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. et al., 66219 
 
                 Hartford Life Insurance Co. et al., 61372 
 
                 Protective Life Insurance Co. et al., 14028 
 
         Investmet Company Act of 1940: 
 
             Deregistration applications -- 
 
                 Empirical Growth Fund et al., 72122 
 
         Joint industry plan: 
 
             Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., 27839 
 
             National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., et al., 
 1834 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Securities laws uniformity annual conference; proposed 
 agenda; comment request, 17042 
 
             Technology Advisory Committee, 52114 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 538, 1037, 3727, 7679, 7930, 7931, 8632, 
 9209, 9551, 11074, 11976, 13835, 15399, 16017, 18954, 20345, 23366, 
 26471, 26795, 29366, 31662, 33941, 38493, 40054, 42157, 44248, 45988, 
 47205, 48681, 49832, 50547, 50843, 52115, 53757, 55323, 55998, 57499, 
 58111, 58870, 60862, 61957, 63359, 66522, 67962, 69303, 70307 
 
         Options Price Reporting Authority: 
 
             Options message traffic increase; study request by American 
 Stock Exchange LLC et al., 50126 
 
             Participation fee payable by each new party to plan, 56543 
 
             Subscriber fees; revision, 66221 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 19840, 69051 
 
         Securities: 
 
             Foreign issuers; registration exemptions; list, 26795 
 
             Suspension of trading -- 
 
                 C.P.R. Corp., 8633 
 
                 Citron, Inc., 5087 
 
                 Cosmos Ventures, Inc., 14293 
 
                 DCI Telecommunications, Inc., 24211 
 
                 Digitcom Interactive Video Network, 37826 
 
                 Electronic Transfer Associates, Inc., 5087 
 
                 Golden Mountain, Inc., 9209 
 
                 Ikar Mineral Corp., 13046 
 
                 Invest Holdings Group, Inc., 5087 
 
                 Las Vegas Entertainment Network, Inc., 56545 
 
                 Leah Industries, Inc., 13046 
 
                 Metro Match, Inc., 9210 
 
                 Net Command Tech, Inc., 32074, 34699 
 
                 Polus, Inc., 5087 
 
                 Powertech, Inc., 2929 
 
                 Redwing, Inc., 8632 
 
                 Sagamore Trading Group, Inc., 38494 
 
                 Shebolt International, Inc., 8632 
 
                 Smartek, Inc., 5088 
 
                 Uniprime Capital Acceptance, Inc., 40401 
 
                 USA Talks.com, Inc., 5087 
 
             Transfer agents; registration, cancellation, etc. -- 
 
                 Non-bank transfer agents, 27840, 41983, 58112 
 
         Self-regulatory organizations: 
 
             Clearing agency registration applications -- 
 
                 Delta Clearing Corp., 40401 
 
                 Government Securities Clearing Corp., 10510, 48682 
 
                 International Securities Clearing Corp., 10521 
 
                 MBS Clearing Corp., 15854 
 
                 Thomson Financial Technology Services, Inc., 5691, 25948 
 
             Exchange registration applications -- 
 
                 International Securities Exchange LLC, 29367 
 
         Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes: 
 
             American Stock Exchange, Inc., 3727, 6405 
 
             American Stock Exchange, Inc., et al., 63837 
 
             American Stock Exchange LLC, 1037, 1836, 4480, 5327, 6404, 
 6726, 7679, 10511, 10512, 10515, 11510, 11519, 11520, 12194, 13836, 
 19393, 22663, 23138, 23883, 25931, 28845, 29367, 31331, 31886, 32563, 
 33346, 33533, 33941, 35222, 36055, 36057, 37178, 42174, 43233, 43792, 
 44976, 45294, 47206, 47878, 48882, 50128, 50843, 51155, 51156, 51566, 
 52559, 55505, 55998, 56545, 57167, 60254, 61675, 61677, 63380, 63834, 
 63836, 66947, 67631, 71518 
 
             American Stock Exchange LLC et al., 63064, 71158 
 
             Boston Stock Exchange, Inc., 1039, 1040, 1041, 1838, 1839, 
 1841, 10516, 15384, 27609, 28225, 31332, 36058, 42424, 43793, 48885, 
 48887, 57676, 60863 
 
             Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 1044, 4482, 4485, 
 4911, 4915, 4916, 5693, 6410, 8156, 8893, 10033, 10517, 11523, 12197, 
 16017, 16771, 17702, 19395, 19842, 23691, 25091, 25932, 25936, 25937, 
 26808, 28226, 29370, 31662, 32568, 32906, 36414, 36725, 38058, 38494, 
 38495, 39546, 40924, 41477, 41984, 41985, 42736, 43793, 44980, 44981, 
 45578, 46218, 46220, 46221, 46465, 47881, 48682, 48888, 49255, 50313, 
 50845, 50846, 50847, 51158, 51160, 51818, 52813, 52815, 53757, 56547, 
 57499, 57502, 62238, 63065, 63380, 66952, 66954, 68706, 68707, 68708, 
 72707 
 
             Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., et al., 1842, 5702 
 
             Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., 1043, 1046, 1253, 1845, 1847, 
 3730, 5696, 5844, 8167, 14032, 23885, 32570, 32572, 33331, 34699, 36726, 
 36938, 38060, 50848, 51161, 54701, 54702, 54703, 55324, 56548, 56553, 
 57504, 58870, 60864, 63380, 68709, 69304, 71835, 71852 
 
             Cincinnati Stock Exchange, Inc., 1048, 6413, 8421, 10035, 
 11527, 17204, 19843, 25939 
 
             Depository Trust Co., 7931, 9368, 10522, 10523, 14478, 
 20034, 28540, 28541, 29377, 30077, 31663, 32574, 33124, 33333, 33539, 
 40925, 40927, 41171, 42157, 43004, 43005, 43795, 47882, 48690, 51162, 
 51360, 52115, 57168, 69054, 72709 
 
             Emerging Markets Clearing Corp., 5329, 17704, 17705, 27841, 
 28848, 33540, 37181, 39181, 42745, 43006, 44982, 47207, 57169, 63097, 
 67963 
 
             Government Securities Clearing Corp., 6727, 7932, 13242, 
 20346, 37181, 44249, 46737, 68124 
 
             International Securities Clearing Corp., 67362 
 
             MBS Clearing Corp., 33125, 35228, 37183, 44250, 44251, 
 48692, 52816, 57170, 67363 
 
             Midwest Clearing Corp., 28542, 47557 
 
             Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, 539, 544, 5702, 7219, 
 8894, 13837, 14479, 15855, 23886, 30078, 33334, 38061, 47209, 53759, 
 55326, 57505, 60865, 69808, 70099, 72123 
 
             Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board et al., 25940 
 
             National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 548, 549, 
 554, 555, 918, 1049, 1050, 1255, 1258, 2930, 3142, 3993, 4729, 5329, 
 5331, 5846, 6415, 7223, 9552, 10037, 10041, 12198, 14034, 14293, 14778, 
 15386, 17428, 17429, 17707, 19573, 19844, 20036, 20347, 22664, 23366, 
 23887, 23889, 24430, 25386, 25942, 25945, 27016, 28227, 29075, 30081, 
 31024, 31335, 32575, 32907, 32910, 33335, 34699, 34835, 34836, 36059, 
 36415, 36416, 36728, 38226, 41478, 42158, 42160, 43797, 44983, 49256, 
 49261, 50850, 51165, 52817, 53761, 53762, 54704, 54712, 55508, 55510, 
 55793, 56000, 56002, 56004, 56554, 57677, 57678, 58112, 58875, 59815, 
 60256, 60869, 61678, 61680, 66681, 68125, 68400, 68404, 69305, 69821, 
 69811, 70307 , 70309, 70753, 71523, 71836, 72125, 72710, 72712 
 
             National Securities Clearing Corp., 3328, 4920, 10171, 
 16018, 16513, 16772, 31664, 31666, 32586, 33336, 42160, 44252, 44569, 
 46742, 48692, 48693, 48694, 57171, 63380, 67364 
 
             New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 561, 1051, 1054, 1055, 2693, 
 3329, 3330, 5332, 5702, 7680, 8422, 8424, 9369, 9370, 10050, 12202, 
 13460, 13462, 13620, 13838, 14294, 14306, 17206, 23142, 23710, 24435, 
 24437, 25092, 25387, 26809, 26810, 27610, 28848, 29723, 30088, 31338, 
 31667, 32588, 32595, 32596, 32911, 32912, 35229, 35231, 36731, 36940, 
 38063, 38228, 39547, 40633, 40928, 41986, 43007, 43802, 43804, 44069, 
 44985, 46228, 47883, 50129, 51170, 52565, 55514, 56005, 56007, 56560, 
 57172, 57679, 57681, 60870, 60872, 61375, 61962, 66956, 66957, 67365, 
 68710, 69311, 71160, 71162, 71529, 73596 
 
             Options Clearing Corp., 5333, 5334, 10051, 10172, 16772, 
 17709, 20043, 28543, 30091, 30092, 31889, 32599, 32600, 36062, 42174, 
 45295, 49039, 51819, 51820, 67964, 68712, 71852 
 
             Pacific Exchange, Inc., 1057, 1058, 1059, 2694, 2932, 5335, 
 5336, 5848, 7681, 8426, 10052, 12826, 15388, 15856, 20349, 22888, 23370, 
 23722, 25093, 28850, 31674, 31890, 36063, 36417, 37184, 38064, 39548, 
 43805, 44072, 47210, 49263, 49265, 50851, 51171, 51173, 51822, 54713, 
 54716, 56008, 56562, 57681, 57684, 58117, 58119, 58876, 60259, 67366, 
 68136, 68713, 68714, 71839, 72712 
 
             Pacific Stock Exchange, Inc., 25096 
 
             Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 1061, 1263, 1849, 3581, 
 3734, 4921, 4922, 5697, 10053, 10054, 12203, 14036, 15391, 15399, 15857, 
 16019, 18648, 19396, 22665, 23144, 23378, 25388, 25946, 29725, 29726, 
 29727, 29729, 33127, 35232, 37185, 37187, 38066, 41480, 44073, 45579, 
 47214, 47885, 47887, 48695, 54717, 56012, 57180, 57685, 58877, 61682, 
 62239, 63098, 63099, 63101, 66223, 66224, 66528, 66684, 66958, 70101, 
 73109, 73111 
 
             Stock Clearing Corp. of Philadelphia, 1264, 1851, 17711, 
 42746 
 
         Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: 
 
             AAL Variable Product Series Fund, Inc. et al., 6392 
 
             ABM Industries Inc., 4477 
 
             Advantage Marketing Systems, Inc., 59814 
 
             Aetna Life Insurance & Annuity Co. et al., 72111 
 
             AIM Advisor Funds, Inc., et al., 27829 
 
             All Communications Corp., 3142 
 
             Allegiance Telecom, Inc., 27608 
 
             Alliance Capital Management, L.P., 41978 
 
             Allied Capital Corp., 45293 
 
             Altos Hornos De Mexico, S.A., De C.V., 57488 
 
             American AAdvantage Funds et al., 20341 
 
             American Capital Strategies, Ltd., 19570 
 
             American Century Mutual Funds, Inc., et al., 65739 
 
             American Franklin Life Insurance Co. et al., 48213 
 
             American Skandia Advisors Funds, Inc., et al., 42999 
 
             American Skandia Life Assurance Corp. et al., 7917 
 
             American Skandia Trust et al., 18452 
 
             Ameritas Variable Life Insurance Corp. et al., 55316 
 
             AMR Investment Services Trust et al., 18454 
 
             Amway Mutual Fund Trust et al., 43412 
 
             Anchor National Life Insurance Co. et al., 27831, 37822 
 
             Anchor Resource & Commodity Trust et al., 44766 
 
             Aquinas Funds, Inc., et al., 16767 
 
             Arizona Stock Exchange, Inc., 4908, 25928 
 
             Armor Holdings, Inc., 27835 
 
             Bankers Trust Co. et al., 24427, 25929 
 
             Bergstrom Capital Corp., 1035 
 
             Bestfoods, 17696, 33936 
 
             BHF Finance (Delaware) Inc., 44559 
 
             BondNet, 49826 
 
             Bowne & Co., Inc., 38046 
 
             Brantley Capital Corp., 16769, 23881 
 
             Brinson Funds et al., 14023 
 
             Caisse des Depots et Consignations, 41980 
 
             CareMatrix Corp., 27836 
 
             CenterTrust Retail Properties, Inc., 8892 
 
             Chapman Funds, Inc., et al., 44560 
 
             Charles Schwab Family of Funds et al., 6723 
 
             Chartwell Dividend & Income Fund, Inc., 14952 
 
             CIBC World Markets Corp., 38047 
 
             CityFed Financial Corp., 4165 
 
             Clarion CMBS Capital Value Fund et al., 46963 
 
             Colchester Street Trust et al., 19834, 40052 
 
             Conseco Series Trust et al., 8415 
 
             Core Trust (Delaware) et al., 46735 
 
             Cornell Corrections, Inc., 3142 
 
             CSX Financial Management, Inc., 34834 
 
             Daewoo Capital Management Co., Ltd., et al., 53426 
 
             Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange, Inc., 37175 
 
             Delmarva Power & Light Co., 13458 
 
             Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 40915 
 
             Dow Target Variable Fund LLC, 44563 
 
              e4L, Inc., 30555 
 
             Eaton Vance Management et al., 17697 
 
             Elk Associates Funding Corp. et al., 43414 
 
             Emerging Markets Growth Fund, Inc., et al., 31654 
 
             Endeavor Series Trust et al., 6397, 53428 
 
             Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States et al., 
 18457, 37175, 46456 
 
             Evergreen Equity Trust et al., 37824, 56823 
 
             Evergreen Variable Annuity Trust et al., 51150 
 
             First Commonwealth Fund, Inc., 44565 
 
             First Defined Portfolio Fund LLC, 31326, 42764 
 
             FirstLink Communications, Inc., 13834 
 
             Forest Laboratories, Inc., 57159 
 
             Franklin Gold Fund et al., 1831, 51356 
 
             Frank Russell Investment Co. et al., 2529 
 
             Gabelli Equity Trust Inc. et al., 22882 
 
             Galaxy Fund et al., 49032 
 
             Gildan Activewear Inc./Les Vetements de Sports Gildan Inc., 
 57159 
 
             Global TeleSystems Group, Inc., 32296 
 
             Goldman Sachs Asset Management et al., 36052 
 
             Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., et al., 18062 
 
             Gradison Growth Trust et al., 6120 
 
             Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. et al., 57489 
 
             Grubb & Ellis Co., 917 
 
             Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc., 1036 
 
             Harris Insight Funds Trust et al., 69299 
 
             Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance Co. et al., 3322, 9361, 
 72114 
 
             Hasbro, Inc., 38052 
 
             HEICO Corp., 10033 
 
             Horace Mann Mutual Funds et al., 6122 
 
             HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. et al., 47197 
 
             HyperFeed Technologies, Inc., 54058 
 
             IAT Resources Corp., 40918 
 
             IDS Bond Fund, Inc., et al., 40919 
 
             IKON Office Solutions, Inc., 59814 
 
             Infinity Mutual Funds, Inc., et al., 7923, 54696 
 
             InfoCure Corp., 10169 
 
             Innovative Medical Services, 14292 
 
             Integrated Security Systems, Inc., 12826 
 
             Integrity Life Insurance Co. et al., 48217 
 
             InterCept Group, Inc., 18645 
 
             International FiberCom, Inc., 14293 
 
             International Securities Exchange, LLC, 57668 
 
             Internet Capital Group, Inc., 42421 
 
             Intertape Polymer Group Inc., 44970 
 
             INVESCO Bond Funds, Inc., et al., 20031, 67348 
 
             INVESCO Global Health Sciences Fund et al., 18645 
 
             Ivy Fund et al., 2924 
 
             J.P. Morgan Series Trust et al., 33330 
 
             JNL Variable Fund LLC, 58108 
 
             John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. et al., 44767 
 
             K2 Design,Inc., 17042 
 
             Kemper Floating Rate Fund et al., 23881 
 
             K-V Pharmaceutical Co., 19572 
 
             Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. et al., 2927 
 
             Local Financial Corp., 50121 
 
             London Pacific Life & Annuity Co. et al., 48222 
 
             LSA Variable Series Trust et al., 49530 
 
             Manufacturers Investment Trust et al., 15842 
 
             Market Street Funds, Inc., et al., 13617 
 
             MAS Funds et al., 67353 
 
             Massachusetts Investors Trust et al., 49252 
 
             Maxim Series Fund, Inc., et al., 49035 
 
             MBL Life Assurance Corp. et al., 4477 
 
             MediaBay, Inc., 65744 
 
             Mentor Variable Insurance Portfolios et al., 30069 
 
             Mercury Asset Management International Ltd. et al., 32073 
 
             Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Co. et al., 18461 
 
             Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., 54698 
 
             MFS Series Trust XI et al., 20033 
 
             Midland Co., 31885 
 
             Mitchell Hutchins Series Trust et al., 47541 
 
             Monitor Investors, L.P., et al., 32900 
 
             Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Institutional Fund, Inc., et al., 
 27339 
 
             Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Variable Investment Series, 9365 
 
             Nasdaq-100 Trust, Series 1, et al., 5082 
 
             NationsBanc Coinvest Fund 1999, L.P., et al., 5322 
 
             Nations Funds Portfolios, Inc., et al., 13044 
 
             Nations Fund Trust et al., 22883, 42423 
 
             Navellier Variable Insurance Series Fund, Inc., et al., 1245 
 
             New England Funds Trust I et al., 26466 
 
             Noble International, Ltd., 57669 
 
             Norwest Advantage Funds et al., 31330, 46216 
 
             Nuveen Floating Rate Fund et al., 54937 
 
             Nuveen Unit Trusts et al., 40921 
 
             Ohio National Life Insurance Co. et al., 49827 
 
             Old Mutual South Africa Equity Trust, 4479 
 
             Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund et al., 44771 
 
             Pacific Bell, 63833 
 
             PaineWebber Group Inc. et al., 33120 
 
             PaineWebber Inc., et al., 18646 
 
             Paragon Portfolio et al., 24686 
 
             Parkstone Advantage Fund et al., 44971 
 
             Payden & Rygel Investment Group et al., 69300 
 
             PFL Life Insurance Co. et al., 15844 
 
             PolyMedica Corp., 19572 
 
             Premier Bancshares, Inc., 33936 
 
             Premier Capital Trust I, 33937 
 
             Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc., 29074 
 
             Principal Management Corp. et al., 3725 
 
             Prudential Insurance Co. of America et al., 18464 
 
             Prudential Series Fund, Inc., et al., 6922 
 
             Public utility holding company filings, 1036, 1645, 4728, 
 6124, 6128, 6928, 9550, 10729, 12391, 12397, 13619, 14774, 15383, 16508, 
 17698, 18949, 18952, 19838, 23691, 24687, 26467, 26794, 27836, 29075, 
 30075, 32904, 33937, 36054, 37177, 38491, 40399, 43001, 46974, 47201, 
 48878, 50546, 51809, 52558, 53430, 54939, 56236, 56372, 57160, 57910, 
 61951, 63349, 65744, 66672, 66937, 67631, 69302, 72118 
 
             Puget Sound Alternative Investment Series Trust et al., 
 57669 
 
             Quaker Oats Co., 41981 
 
             RBB Fund, Inc., et al., 19839 
 
             Robertson Stephens Investment Trust, 6402 
 
             Rydex Variable Trust et al., 5685 
 
             SAFECO Life Insurance Co. et al., 69576 
 
             Salomon Smith Barney Inc., 6929 
 
             Schwab Capital Trust et al., 54939 
 
             Scudder California Tax Free Trust et al., 67357 
 
             Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc., et al., 8153 
 
             Scudder New Europe Fund, Inc., 41982 
 
             Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. et al., 15191 
 
             Security Equity Fund et al., 72120 
 
             SEI Insurance Products Trust et al., 57493 
 
             Select Ten Plus Fund, LLC, 49829 
 
             Sentry Life Insurance Co. et al., 57671 
 
             Sessions Group et al., 1251 
 
             Short Term Bond Portfolio et al., 38052 
 
             Sirrom Funding Corp., 12192 
 
             Sirrom Investments, Inc., 12193 
 
             Smith Breeden Trust et al., 40923 
 
             SoftNet Systems, Inc., 29933 
 
             Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 63833, 66938 
 
             SSgA Funds et al., 66938 
 
             Starwood Financial Trust, 65745 
 
             Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., 57160 
 
             Stein Roe Floating Rate Income Fund et al., 51152 
 
             Stephens Group, Inc., et al., 6930, 55790 
 
             STI Classic Funds et al., 22886 
 
             Strategic Global Income Fund, Inc., 32561 
 
             Sun Capital Advisers Trust et al., 15846 
 
             T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., et al., 60250 
 
             TCW Galileo Funds, Inc., et al., 13834 
 
             Tejon Ranch Co., 44773 
 
             Tektronix, Inc., 43232 
 
             Templeton Dragon Fund, Inc., 3326 
 
             Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 13619 
 
             Todd Investment Advisors, Inc., 14776 
 
             Tradepoint Financial Networks plc, 14953 
 
             Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. et al., 50121, 
 63380 
 
             Travelers Insurance Co. et al., 50308 
 
             Turner Corp., 8892 
 
             Union Central Life Insurance Co. et al., 47548 
 
             Unistar Financial Service Corp., 57673 
 
             Unocal Corp., 19572 
 
             Van Wagoner Funds, Inc., et al., 46462 
 
             Viacom, Inc., 19573 
 
             Victory Portfolios et al., 4909, 10730, 47202 
 
             Vision Group of Funds, Inc., et al., 50311 
 
             Wachovia Funds et al., 38055 
 
             Warburg Dillon Read LLC, 10507 
 
             Warburg Pincus Asset Management, Inc., et al., 25089 
 
             Washington Real Estate Investment Trust, 6932 
 
             Wayne Hummer Investment Trust et al., 38056 
 
             WEBS Index Fund, Inc., et al., 31658 
 
             Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio et al., 14024 
 
             WNC Housing Tax Credit Fund VI, L.P., Series 7 and 8, et 
 al., 44567 
 
             Zweig/Glaser Advisers et al., 7928 
 
 
 
 
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 Selective Service System 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22188, 65290 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 6129, 25950, 
 35703 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching program, 61957 
 
 
 
 
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 Small Business Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Business loans: 
 
             504 program financing and clarification of existing 
 regulations, 2115 
 
                 Correction, 27445 
 
             Collateral liquidation and commercial loans sale, 44109 
 
             Premier Certified Lenders Program; pilot program extended 
 and certified development company authority expanded, 26273 
 
             Unguaranteed portions of loans; securitization, sales, and 
 pledges, 6503 
 
         Disaster loan program: 
 
             Pre-disaster mitigation loans, 48275 
 
             Streamlining and clarification; correction, 13667 
 
         Government contracting programs: 
 
             Contract bundling and SBA's authority to appeal adverse 
 decisions made by procuring agency, 57366 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Disaster Area Counsel et al; administrative claims approval, 
 denial, etc., 40282 
 
         Small business investment companies: 
 
             Low and moderate income investments (LMI investments); 
 category establishment, 52641 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 70992 
 
         Small business size standards: 
 
             Engineering services, architectural services, and surveying 
 and mapping services, 26275 
 
         Surety bond guarantees: 
 
             Technical amendment, 18324 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Business loans: 
 
             Certified development companies -- 
 
                 Areas of operations, 60735, 67205, 69964 
 
                 Fees limitation, 15942 
 
             Liquidation of collateral and sale of commercial loans, 
 34745 
 
             Loan loss reserve fund, 40310 
 
             Microloan program; changes, 43636 
 
         Disaster loan program: 
 
             Pre-disaster mitigation loans, 36617 
 
         Education programs and activities receiving Federal financial 
 assistance; nondiscrimination on basis of sex, 58568 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Debt collection through offset, 3454 
 
         Government contracting programs: 
 
             Contract bundling, 2153 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Disaster Area Counsel et al.; administrative claims 
 approval, denial, etc., 23027 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22190, 65292 
 
         Small business investment companies: 
 
             Low and moderate income investments (LMI investments); 
 category establishment, 6256 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 18375 
 
         Small business size standards: 
 
             Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services, 29813 
 
             Freight and cargo transportation arrangement industry, 40314 
 
             General building contractors, heavy construction, dredging 
 and surface cleanup, special trade contractors, garbage and refuse 
 collection, and refuse systems, 40311 
 
             Health services industries, 23798 
 
             Help Supply Services; $10 million in average annual 
 receipts, 55873 
 
             Manufacturer and remanufacturer; definitions as they apply 
 to computer industry, 15708 
 
             North American Industry Classification System, 57188 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3582, 4923, 6933, 
 10055, 11075, 14779, 18467, 23724, 27018, 30368, 31341, 38228, 39181, 
 40929, 47557, 48441, 49267, 51175, 53433, 57918, 57919, 63359, 65758, 
 68140 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 3144, 12204, 
 17051, 20044, 22896, 33942, 33943, 36418, 37827, 39182, 41482, 50131, 
 52566, 53433, 54062, 55334, 61376, 63839, 65758, 69055 
 
         Business loan programs: 
 
             Securitization of Section 7(a) loans; initial benchmark 
 number establishment, 16021 
 
         Commercial loans sale, 43807 
 
         Disaster loan areas: 
 
             Alabama, 12204, 35233, 38497 
 
             Alaska, 8431 
 
             Arizona, 43415, 43809, 59222 
 
             Arkansas, 5698, 8431, 8633, 19208 
 
             California, 4730, 20045, 42161, 43415 
 
             California et al., 63102 
 
             Colorado, 29076, 30369, 35233 
 
             Connecticut, 54394, 54943, 57506 
 
             Delaware, 54394 
 
             Florida, 919, 3331, 28229, 54395, 55796, 59222, 59223, 
 60873, 70754 
 
             Florida et al., 59223 
 
             Georgia, 12204, 23892, 31892, 40402, 45988 
 
             Illinois, 31893, 35233 
 
             Indiana, 7224, 8432 
 
             Iowa, 29934, 31893, 33128, 42161, 43416, 45988 
 
             Kansas, 27018, 27846, 29076 
 
             Louisiana, 12205, 19208, 20045, 23379 
 
             Maine, 45989 
 
             Maryland, 54395 
 
             Massachusetts, 3331, 12205, 23379, 45989 
 
             Minnesota, 43416, 44074, 45989, 50132, 54719 
 
             Mississippi, 23380 
 
             Missouri, 23893, 27846, 29934 
 
             Nebraska, 47888 
 
             Nevada, 42162, 43415 
 
             New Hampshire, 3331, 12205, 23379, 45989 
 
             New Jersey, 54395, 54943, 63103, 63840 
 
             New Jersey et al., 8633 
 
             New Mexico, 33128 
 
             New York, 4731, 54396, 54943, 56827 
 
             North Carolina, 24212, 51361, 54396, 56827, 60873, 63103, 
 72370 
 
             North Dakota, 33129, 40402, 42162, 44074 
 
             Ohio, 7224, 20045 
 
             Oklahoma, 27019, 27846 
 
             Oregon, 5849, 72370 
 
             Pennsylvania, 8633, 50132, 53434, 54397, 54943, 57506, 63103 
 
             South Carolina, 45988, 54397, 54944, 56827 
 
             South Dakota, 33129, 40402 
 
             Tennessee, 5849, 8432, 8634, 12204, 16021, 28230, 29934, 
 38497 
 
             Texas, 919, 12205, 23380, 27019, 29076, 29934, 31893, 50132, 
 51175 
 
             Utah, 46466 
 
             Various States, 26471 
 
             Virginia, 51175, 53434, 54398, 54944, 57506 
 
             Virgin Islands, 69060 
 
             Washington, 5849, 14780, 16021 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             University of West Florida et al., 50547 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Drug-free workplace demonstration program, 17050 
 
             Financial counseling and other technical assistance to 
 women; Federal assistance, 2934 
 
             Women's Business Center projects, 20045, 70754, 70755 
 
         Interest rates; quarterly determinations, 18468, 35234, 54062, 
 72371 
 
         Intergovernmental review of agency programs and activities, 
 18064, 42162 
 
         License surrenders: 
 
             BCC Capital Corp., 36418 
 
             Cactus Capital Co., 17050 
 
             East River Ventures, L.P., 51361 
 
             Edwards Capital Corp., 54944 
 
             Enterprise Capital Corp., 26471 
 
             Enterprise Fund, L.P., 26471 
 
             European Development Capital L.P., 36419 
 
             Florida Capital Ventures, Ltd., 63840 
 
             Japanese American Capital Corp., 51361 
 
             KOCO Capital Co., L.P., 14781 
 
             Pioneer Ventures L.P., 18468 
 
             Polaris Capital Corp., 26472 
 
             SBC Equity Partners, Inc., 5849 
 
             Seaport Ventures, Inc., 70754 
 
             Southern Orient Capital Corp., 51362 
 
             TLC Funding Corp., 14781 
 
             Transpac Capital Corp., 73112 
 
             Transportation Capital Corp., 54944 
 
             TSG Ventures LP, 54944 
 
             VK Capital Co., 38932 
 
             Walnut Capital Corp., 63840 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board, 
 3144, 23724 
 
             New Markets Lending Company pilot loan program, 10055, 11075 
 
             Regional Fairness Boards -- 
 
                 Chairs, 5850 
 
                 Heartland States, 17050, 17051 
 
                 New England States, 23724 
 
                 Northwestern States, 23724 
 
                 Rocky Mountain States, 31893 
 
                 South Atlantic States, 31893 
 
         Meetings; district and regional advisory councils: 
 
             Connecticut, 2934 
 
             District of Columbia, 14781, 35234 
 
             Florida, 2934, 13463, 31894 
 
             Georgia, 56827 
 
             Maine, 24437 
 
             New York, 17051 
 
             Oregon, 4731, 56827 
 
             Pennsylvania, 19208 
 
             Texas, 5850 
 
             Wisconsin, 2934, 25097, 31894, 35234 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Administrator; order of succession, 44986 
 
             Assistant Administrator, Portfolio Management, 31341 
 
             District office name changes, 6130 
 
             Point of contact with small business concerns regarding 
 failure to comply with Federal rules due to Y2K problems, 50548 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 59819 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Alternative dispute resolution; use and case selection 
 criteria; policy statement, 27843 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 68140 
 
         Small business competitiveness demonstration program; policy 
 directive, 29693 
 
         Small business investment companies: 
 
             Computation of alternative maximum annual cost of money; 
 debenture rate, 56239 
 
         Small business size standards: 
 
             Full table of four-digit Standard Industrial Classification 
 codes; publication, 44986 
 
         Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: 
 
             Access Technology Investors, L.P., 69055 
 
             ACI Capital America Fund, L.P., 69055 
 
             All State Venture Capital Corp., 52566 
 
             Aspen Ventures, III, L.P., 69056 
 
             BancAmerica Capital Investors SBIC II, L.P., 69056 
 
             Bay Partners L.S. Fund, L.P., 69056 
 
             Bayview Capital Partners, L.P., 8429 
 
             Bever Capital Corp., 54393 
 
             BNY Capital Partners, L.P., 69056 
 
             BOCF, L.L.C., 37188 
 
             BOCNY, LLC, 14780 
 
             Caduceus Capital Health Ventures, L.P., 8429 
 
             CapEx L.P., 38932 
 
             Capital International SBIC, L.P., 8429 
 
             Chicago Venture Partners, L.P., 37188 
 
             CIVC SBIC Fund, L.L.C., 69056 
 
             Convergent Capital Partners I, L.P., 69057 
 
             Diamond Capital Corp., 54393 
 
             Dotcom Ventures L.P., 69057 
 
             Eagle Fund I, L.P., 38067 
 
             EDF Ventures, L.P., 63839 
 
             Emigrant Capital Corp., 37189 
 
             EOS Partners SBIC II, L.P., 13243 
 
             Everlast Capital Corp., 54393 
 
             Facilitator Capital Fund, L.P., 69057 
 
             First New England Capital 2, L.P., 8430 
 
             Formosa Capital Corp., 54394 
 
             Inglewood Ventures, L.P., 69057 
 
             InvestCare Partners, L.P., 14780 
 
             KCEP Ventures II, L.P., 14780, 37189 
 
             Key Mezzanine Capital Fund I, L.P., 8430 
 
             Leg Partners Debenture SBIC, L.P., 14960 
 
             Leg Partners III, SBIC L.P., 14960 
 
             LibertyView Equity Partners SBIC, L.P., 69057 
 
             Madison Investment Partners II, L.P., 69058 
 
             Megunticook Fund, L.P., 69058 
 
             NationsBanc Capital Investors SBIC, L.P., 8430 
 
             Needham Capital SBIC II, L.P., 69058 
 
             NHBDC Venture Partners, L.P., 69058 
 
             Norwest Equity Partners VII, L.P., 69058 
 
             Norwest Venture Partners VII, L.P., 8430 
 
             Orange Nassau Capital Corp., 54394 
 
             Piper Jaffray Healthcare Fund III, L.P., 69059 
 
             RBC Equity Investments, Inc., 8430 
 
             Red Rock Ventures II, L.P., 69059 
 
             RFE VI SBIC, L.P., 22896, 69059 
 
             River Cities Capital Fund II, L.P., 37189 
 
             Roser Partnership III, SBIC, L.P., 37189 
 
             Saugatuck Capital Co. L.P. IV, SBIC, 69059 
 
             Selby Venture Partners, L.P., 37189 
 
             Signal Capital Partners, L.P., 37189 
 
             Spring Capital Partners, L.P., 37190 
 
             T.S. Capital Corp., 37190 
 
             TBM II Capital Corp., 54394 
 
             TD Javelin Capital Fund, II, L.P., 37190 
 
             TD Origen Capital Fund, L.P., 38932 
 
             TD Origen Capital Fund, L.P., et al., 32601 
 
             U.S. Bancorp Capital Corp., 69059 
 
             Vadus Capital Corp., 54394 
 
             Virginia Capital, L.P., 8431 
 
             Viridian Capital, L.P., 8431 
 
             Wasatch Venture Fund II, L.L.C., 14960 
 
             Wolf Venture Fund III, L.P., 69060 
 
             Zero Stage Capital VI, L.P., 8431, 18467, 42747, 69060, 
 73112 
 
 
 
 
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 Social Security Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Social security benefits: 
 
             Federal old age, survivors, and disability insurance -- 
 
                 Body system listings; expiration date extensions, 29786, 
 67719 
 
                 Commissioner; definition; CFR correction, 10103 
 
                 Employer identification numbers for State and local 
 government employment, 33015 
 
                 Endocrine system and obesity impairments; revised 
 medical criteria for determining disability, 46122 
 
                 Guarantee cases; maximum family benefits, 17100 
 
                 Prehearing proceedings and decisions; attorney advisors 
 authority; extension, 13677, 51892 
 
                 Spouses, mothers, fathers, and children; technical 
 amendments, 14606 
 
                 Substantial gainful activity amounts; average monthly 
 earnings guidelines, 18566, 22903 
 
                 Title II benefits under family maximum provisions; 
 reduction in cases of dual entitlement, 57774 
 
         Supplemental security income: 
 
             Aged, blind, and disabled -- 
 
                 Prehearing proceedings and decisions; attorney advisors 
 authority; extension, 13677, 51892 
 
                 Substantial gainful activity amounts; average monthly 
 earnings guidelines, 18566, 22903 
 
             Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
 Act of 1996; implementation -- 
 
                 Benefits application effective date, 31969 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Organization and procedures: 
 
             Social security numbers; assignment for nonwork purposes, 
 55217 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22198, 65302 
 
         Social security benefits: 
 
             Federal old age, survivors, and disability insurance -- 
 
                 Age; clarification as vocational factor, 42310 
 
                 Disability benefits reduction on account of workers' 
 compensation and public disability benefits and payments; proration 
 methods; withdrawn, 6824 
 
                 Down syndrome in adults; medical criteria for 
 determining disability, 55215 
 
                 Substantial gainful activity amounts; average monthly 
 earnings guidelines, 7559 
 
         Supplemental security income: 
 
             Aged, blind, and disabled -- 
 
                 Age; clarification as vocational factor, 42310 
 
                 Substantial gainful activity amounts; average monthly 
 earnings guidelines, 7559 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1645, 2685, 4168, 
 5088, 5850, 8897, 12398, 13839, 14781, 17051, 18955, 26472, 28852, 
 32913, 35234, 36941, 38229, 40055, 41173, 42747, 47558, 49533, 50316, 
 52359, 54062, 55797, 58464, 61169, 62241, 69316 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 2695, 5088, 
 5850, 9553, 14781, 18956, 23145, 26472, 33130, 36941, 38229, 41173, 
 42747, 45580, 47558, 47888, 49533, 50316, 54062, 55335, 61169, 69316, 
 71164 
 
         Disability determination procedures: 
 
             Testing modifications -- 
 
                 Disability claims process redesign prototype, 47218, 
 49040 
 
                 Single decisionmaker model and full process model with 
 rationale summary; tests extension, 72134 
 
         Foreign insurance or pension systems: 
 
             Hungary, 13243 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Disability Research Institute; establishment, 55797 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Deputy Commissioner for Finance, Assessment and Management, 
 39550 
 
             Deputy Commissioner for Systems, 30369 
 
             Deputy Commissioner Office, Disability and Income Security 
 Programs, 19397, 71842 
 
             Deputy Commissioner Office, Human Resources, 19849 
 
             Deputy Commissioner Office, Operations, 31028, 47888 
 
             Deputy Commissioner Office, Operations, et al., 49832 
 
             Financial Policy and Operations Office, 29378 
 
             Inspector General Office, 70101 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 1266, 24688, 38067, 45296, 
 45297, 52566, 55517, 66686 
 
             Systems of records, 10173, 11076 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 56564, 57687 
 
         Social security acquiescence rulings: 
 
             Bloodsworth v. Heckler; judicial review of appeals council 
 dismissal of request for review of Administrative Law Judge decision, 
 57687 
 
             Florez on behalf of Wallace v. Callahan; supplemental 
 income; deeming of income from stepparent to child when natural parent 
 is not living in same household, 4923 
 
             Kerns v. Apfel; highly marketable skills for individuals 
 close to retirement age, definition, 12205 
 
             McQueen v. Apfel; definition of highly marketable skills for 
 individuals close to retirement age, 28853 
 
             Parisi by Cooney v. Chater; dual entitlement, reduction of 
 benefits under family maximum; rescission, 57919 
 
         Social security benefits: 
 
             Cost of living increase, SSI monthly benefit amounts 
 increase, average of total wages, contribution and benefit base, etc., 
 57506 
 
         Social security rulings: 
 
             Chronic Fatigue Syndrome disability claims; evaluation and 
 adjudication, 23380 
 
             Disability and blindness claims evaluation for individuals 
 age 65 and older, 33337 
 
             Termination of entitlement based on presumed death, 18468 
 
 
 
 
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 Southeastern Power Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Power rates: 
 
             Cumberland System of Projects, 6341, 37120 
 
 
 
 
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 Southwestern Power Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Integrated System power rates and opportunities: 
 
             New power rates; rate order approved and placed in effect on 
 interim basis, 6342 
 
             Rate schedule changes, 49483, 70010 
 
         Power rates: 
 
             Robert D. Willis Project, TX, 37529, 54292 
 
             Sam Rayburn Dam Project, 34797, 54293 
 
 
 
 
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 Special Counsel Office 
 
     See Office of the Special Counsel 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             System of records, 63359 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Special Trustee for American Indians Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 71493, 71494 
 
 
 
 
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 State Department 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 43618 
 
         Chemical Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention 
 Implementation Act: 
 
             Sample taking and record keeping and inspections, 73811 
 
         Consular services; fee schedule, 66769 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation: 
 
             National security information; classification, safeguarding, 
 and declassification, 25430 
 
         International Traffic in Arms regulations: 
 
             Commercial arms transfers; model regulations; 
 implementation, 17531 
 
             Commercial communications satellite control on U.S. 
 Munitions List, 13679 
 
         Nationality and passports: 
 
             Passports denial, revocation, or cancellation and consular 
 reports of birth cancellation; procedures, 19713 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 10949, 18808 
 
         United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, 
 Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; implementation: 
 
             Extradition of individual likely to be tortured; 
 prohibition, 9435 
 
         United States Information Agency's former regulations; repeal, 
 redesignation, and amendment, 54538 
 
         Visas; immigrant documentation: 
 
             Consular posts abroad; affidavits of support; uniform 
 acceptance procedures, 50751 
 
             Technical corrections, 55417 
 
         Visas; nonimmigrant documentation: 
 
             Border crossing identification cards, 45162 
 
             Consular posts abroad; affidavits of support; uniform 
 acceptance procedures, 50751 
 
             Passport and visa waivers, 28915 
 
             Photograph requirement, 13510 
 
             Technical corrections, 55417 
 
             Visa waiver pilot program -- 
 
                 Countries added and probationary entry status 
 eliminated, 35 
 
                 Portugal, Singapore, and Uruguay, 42032 
 
             Waiver by Secretary of State and Attorney General of 
 passport and/or visa requirements -- 
 
                 British Virgin Islands nationals entering U.S. through 
 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 7998 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Chemical Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention 
 Implementation Act: 
 
             Sample taking and record keeping and inspections, 39244 
 
         Consular services; fee schedule: 
 
             Changes, 6584, 28946 
 
         Education programs and activities receiving Federal financial 
 assistance; nondiscrimination on basis of sex, 58568 
 
         Inter-American Convention on International Commercial 
 Arbitration Commission; procedure rules, 53632 
 
         Nationality and passports: 
 
             Passports denial, revocation, or cancellation and consular 
 reports of birth cancellation; procedures, 5725 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 789 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 21558, 64674 
 
         Visas; immigrant documentation: 
 
             Immigrant visa fees; change in payment procedures, 58004 
 
         Visas; nonimmigrant documentation: 
 
             Immigrant visa fees; change in payment procedures, 58004 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3583, 10056, 25097, 
 38068, 38069, 62241 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16514, 25098, 
 25389, 37190, 46466, 69317 
 
         Antarctic fishing; conservation measures adoption by Commission 
 for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, 71165 
 
         Arms Export Control Act: 
 
             Determinations, 26474 
 
             Export licenses; Congressional notifications, 7934, 17430, 
 23145, 32074, 36942, 41174, 44571, 45989, 68140 
 
         Art objects; importation for exhibition: 
 
             Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641), 68190 
 
             Arts of Korea: Ancient to Modern, 56014 
 
             At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of 
 Architecture, 63840 
 
             Berlin Metropolis: Jew and the New Culture (1890-1918), 
 57512 
 
             Body Art: Marks of Identity, 57689 
 
             Crowning Glories: Two Centuries of Tiaras, 72135 
 
             Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar, 57919 
 
             Dead Sea Scrolls, 70312 
 
             Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili 
 Collection, 68190 
 
             Johannes Vermeer's ``The Art of Painting'', 59223 
 
             Painting in Focus: Nicolas Poussin's Holy Family on the 
 Steps, 57920, 61685 
 
             Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait, 58878 
 
             Salvador Dali: Optical Illusions, 68717 
 
             Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble 
 Family, 62242 
 
             Walker Evans, 71534 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board, 32601 
 
             Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, U.S. Section 
 Advisory Committee, 23724 
 
             Labor Diplomacy Advisory Committee, 10733 
 
             Overseas Presence Advisory Panel, 8160 
 
             Private International Law Advisory Commitee, 201 
 
         Cultural property: 
 
             El Salvador; request for U.S. protection of certain 
 categories of archaeological material from pillage, 60873 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Brownsville, TX; Penn Octane Corp. pipelines transporting 
 petroleum products across United States/Mexico border, 42163 
 
             Cox Communications, Inc., San Diego, CA; underground fiber- 
 optic link project; presidential permit, 51175 
 
             Farm to Market Road 3464 from Interstate Highway 35 to 
 Laredo Northwest International Bridge, TX, 32083 
 
             McAllen, Hidalgo, and Mission, TX; Anzalduas International 
 Crossing project, 44075 
 
             Portland Pipe Line Corp., North Troy, VT, 43009 
 
         Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 1998; 
 implementation: 
 
             Privacy Act; transfer of systems of records from Arms 
 Control and Disarmament Agency, 18956 
 
         Foreign Assistance Act, etc.; determinations: 
 
             Honduras, 15197 
 
             Nonproliferation controls, 53434 
 
         Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
 Appropriations Act: 
 
             Bosnia and Herzegovina; U.S. position on proposed credit 
 facility of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 13840 
 
             Kosovo donors conference; certification that U.S. shall not 
 exceed 15 percent of total resources pledged by all donors, 69317 
 
             U.S. bilateral assistance; waivers -- 
 
                 Bosnia and Serbia, 7224, 19398 
 
         Foreign passports validity; list of countries, 4731, 14300 
 
         Foreign terrorist organizations; designation, 55112 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             American Council of Learned Societies et al., 39183 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Anti-domestic violence and trafficking in women and children 
 training and technical assistance program, 28230 
 
             Book donation/information technology services program, 70312 
 
             Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union 
 Research and Training Program, 58119 
 
             International collaborative projects in science and 
 technology -- 
 
                 Egypt and United States, 40638 
 
                 Spain and United States, 46466 
 
             Newly Independent States -- 
 
                 Community College Partnerships Program, 62726 
 
                 Secondary School Partnership Program, 71535 
 
             Partners in Education Program, 69060 
 
             Public Policy Partnership for Institute of Public 
 Administration at Moscow State University Project, 62729 
 
             Ron Brown Fellowship Program, 71538 
 
         International agreements: 
 
             Satellite telecommunications; international anti-bribery and 
 fair competition laws, 14301 
 
         International Joint Commission: 
 
             Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 -- 
 
                 Niagara River projects, comment request, 919 
 
                 Rainy and Namakan Lakes; dams management; public 
 hearing, 32915 
 
             U.S.-Canada boundary water resources; use, diversion, and 
 removal; examination and report request, 9554 
 
         International Religious Freedom Act: 
 
             Countries of particular concern; list, 59821 
 
         International Traffic in Arms regulations; statutory debarment, 
 25389 
 
         Lethal military equipment; sanctions: 
 
             Kazakhstan, 70103 
 
             Russia, 23148 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             American indigenous groups; consultation to discuss 
 indigenous rights and other issues, 33130 
 
             Anti-Fouling Paints for Ships Federal Interagency Working 
 Group, 19399 
 
             Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board, 35704, 
 50548, 73112 
 
             Chemical classification and labeling systems; international 
 harmonization; government activities, 1266, 17435, 49834 
 
             Cultural Property Advisory Committee, 60874, 71178 
 
             Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union 
 Study Advisory Committee, 8898 
 
             Federal Interagency Ballast Water Working Group, 10524 
 
             Fine Arts Committee, 6731, 51362 
 
             Historical Diplomatic Documentation Advisory Committee, 
 7938, 10334, 24688, 42748, 62242 
 
             International Communications and Information Policy Advisory 
 Committee, 920, 7226, 20046, 44253, 55805, 72714 
 
             International Economic Policy Advisory Committee, 4732, 
 22666, 36065, 58122 
 
             International Law Advisory Committee, 9370 
 
             International Telecommunication Advisory Committee, 3331, 
 5698, 19575, 27341, 35235, 35705, 44773, 57920, 66687, 71179 
 
             Labor Diplomacy Advisory Committee, 47219, 66226 
 
             North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, U.S. Section 
 Advisory Panel, 57181 
 
             Overseas Presence Advisory Panel, 10334, 14037, 23893, 
 28022, 33341, 36733 
 
             Overseas Schools Advisory Council, 27342, 70103 
 
             Overseas Security Advisory Council, 5698, 28233, 56014 
 
             Private International Law Advisory Committee, 1852, 2934, 
 17435, 17436, 17437, 38070, 47220, 47559 
 
             Religious Freedom Abroad Advisory Committee, 25951 
 
             Shipping Coordinating Committee, 3144, 5089, 5337, 8432, 
 10524, 11079, 11080, 19399, 24212, 31029, 37578, 39184, 44774, 48889, 
 52360, 55805, 58466, 61376, 67965, 72714 
 
             Universal Postal Union -- 
 
                 International postal issues, 14960 
 
                 Reform initiatives; briefing, 73112 
 
             Universal Postal Union Congress; briefing, 35235 
 
         Missile technology proliferation activities; sanctions: 
 
             Middle East entities, 18957 
 
             Russian entities, 2935 
 
         Munitions export licenses; suspension, revocation, etc.: 
 
             CWP Industries, Inc., et al., 200 
 
             Indonesia, 55805 
 
             Nigeria, 34304 
 
             Russian entities, 2936, 31029 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; responsibilities 
 redelegated to Secretary of State, 41482 
 
             Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 
 57920, 63840 
 
             Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law 
 Enforcement Affairs, 1267 
 
             Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, 
 40403 
 
             Deputy Assistant Secretary for Records and Publishing 
 Services, 7227 
 
             Director General of Foreign Service and Director of 
 Personnel, 56564 
 
             Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International 
 Security, 17208 
 
             Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 56828 
 
             United States Information Agency; responsibilities 
 redelegated to Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public 
 Affairs et al., 56014 
 
         Parental kidnapping; application of United States extradition 
 treaties, 3735 
 
         Passport travel restrictions, U.S.: 
 
             Iraq, 14301 
 
             Libya, 67600 
 
         Pipeline facilities on U.S. borders; permit applications: 
 
             Penn Octane Corp., 28544 
 
             Portland Pipe Line Corp., 17052 
 
         Presidential permits: 
 
             Cox Communications, Inc.; international underground tunnel 
 at boundary between United States and Mexico; construction, operation, 
 and maintenance, 51178 
 
             Dakota Gasification Co.; carbon dioxide pipeline crossing 
 between North Dakota and Saskatchewan, Canada, 38070 
 
             El Paso County, TX; pipeline facilities crossing boundary 
 between United States and Mexico, 24689 
 
             Laredo Northwest International Bridge, TX, 32085 
 
             McAllen, Hidalgo, and Mission, TX; Anzalduas International 
 Crossing project, 44078 
 
             San Diego, CA; pedestrian toll bridge between Tijuana, Baja 
 California, Mexico, and San Diego, 9210 
 
             Sumas, WA, and Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; 
 construction of municipal water systems pipeline, 27847, 56375 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 921, 54398 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998; 
 implementation guidelines, 29731 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 47560, 51179 
 
         Shrimp trawl fishing; sea turtle protection guidelines; 
 certification, 14481, 36946, 57921 
 
         Territory of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban; modification 
 of description (EO 13129), 58879 
 
         Visas; immigrant documentation: 
 
             Diversity immigrant (DV-2001) visa program; registration, 
 41992 
 
 
 
 
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 State Justice Institute 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts; guidelines, 
 47610, 56022 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 28856, 60466 
 
 
 
 
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 Statistical Reporting Service 
 
     See National Agricultural Statistics Service 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         ADAMHA Reorganization Act; implementation: 
 
             Adults with serious mental illness; estimation methodology, 
 33890 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1634, 2907, 5668, 
 7205, 9517, 13029, 13030, 13806, 18434, 20317, 22632, 31283, 36890, 
 54345, 57641, 60822, 70047, 72673, 73570 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 522, 3704, 6368, 
 7657, 15777, 15984, 20008, 25897, 26995, 29051, 29052, 34261, 37995, 
 40888, 40889, 50298, 51330 
 
         Changing the conversation; national plan to improve substance 
 abuse treatment; comment request, 30531 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Standing review committees; peer reviewers, 67580 
 
         Federal agency urine drug testing; certified laboratories 
 meeting minimum standards, list, 171, 5813, 10480, 17193, 23848, 29664, 
 36707, 42952, 48663, 54049, 59194, 67581 
 
         Federal workplace drug testing programs; mandatory guidelines: 
 
             Custody and control form, 61916 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             Alaska Health and Social Services Department, Mental Health 
 and Developmental Disabilities Division, 18922 
 
             Farm Resource Center of Cairo, IL, 26995 
 
             Minority Fellowship Program -- 
 
                 American Nurses Association et al., 20009 
 
             Pace/Orchard Place-Child Guidance, Inc., 23850 
 
             Policy Research, Inc., 19799 
 
             Research Triangle Institute, 3704 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Child mental health initiative, 3533 
 
             Community-based practice/research collaboratives 
 development, 33897 
 
             Community-initiated interventions, 10311 
 
             Elementary and secondary education -- 
 
                 School violence prevention and early childhood 
 development activities, 5814, 5839 
 
             Emotionally disturbed children and their families; national 
 training and technical assistance center, 20318 
 
             Homeless families; women with psychiatric, substance use, or 
 co-occurring disorders and their dependent children, 30350 
 
             Mental Health Services Center -- 
 
                 CSAT Action Grant Program, 11027 
 
                 Mental health and substance abuse needs, 29666 
 
                 School action grant, 11935 
 
             Predictor variables by developmental stage grantees and 
 research coordinating center, 23091 
 
             Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, 15906, 15909, 
 31684 
 
             School violence prevention programs, 27590 
 
             Substance Abuse Prevention Center -- 
 
                 Family strengthening, 11938 
 
                 Targeted substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention, 11940, 
 33490 
 
                 Technical assistance; workshop, 23661 
 
             Substance Abuse Treatment Center -- 
 
                 Adolescent treatment models, 10482 
 
                 Community Treatment Program, 69544 
 
                 Mental health and substance abuse needs, 29666 
 
                 Targeted substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS 
 services, 33490, 11478 
 
                 Technical assistance; workshop, 23661 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Drug Testing Advisory Board, 5310, 22873, 41940, 61116 
 
             Grant programs technical assistance workshops, 8109 
 
             Mental Health Services Center National Advisory Council, 
 40890 
 
             SAMHSA National Advisory Council, 1635, 46702 
 
             SAMHSA National Advisory Council et al., 29053 
 
             SAMHSA special emphasis panels, 173, 1635, 6907, 10157, 
 18627, 18626, 28209, 28210, 30048, 31867, 32513, 36709, 37557, 37558, 
 39517, 42143, 46210, 61650 
 
             Substance Abuse Prevention Center National Advisory Council, 
 47195, 50823, 72096 
 
             Substance Abuse Treatment Center National Advisory Council, 
 2908, 26996, 42954 
 
             Women's Services Advisory Committee, 14007 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 2909 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Substance Abuse Treatment Center; Changing the Conversation; 
 National Plan to Improve Substance Abuse Treatment; comment request, 
 45267, 50100, 52339, 55301 
 
 
 
 
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 Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Abandoned mine land reclamation: 
 
             Projects financing, 7470 
 
         Initial and permanent regulatory programs: 
 
             Surface coal mining and reclamation operations -- 
 
                 Subsidence due to underground mining; interpretation, 
 70838 
 
                 Valid existing rights (VER) definition and claims 
 submission and processing procedures, 70766 
 
         Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan 
 submissions: 
 
             Alaska, 8510 
 
             Arkansas, 50754 
 
             Illinois, 3413, 6191, 68024, 72275 
 
             Indiana, 12890, 28362, 31691, 43911, 57565, 63681, 70578 
 
             Iowa, 66385 
 
             Louisiana, 68289 
 
             Maryland, 17978, 36784, 63684 
 
             Mississippi, 57567 
 
             Missouri, 57978 
 
             Montana, 3604, 3611 
 
             North Dakota, 1127, 12896, 38826, 60654 
 
             Ohio, 17980, 63688 
 
             Oklahoma, 3420, 52230, 70584 
 
             Pennsylvania, 14610, 30387 
 
             Texas, 23540, 43913 
 
             Utah, 8514 
 
             Various States, 20164 
 
             Virginia, 23542, 69399, 72277 
 
             West Virginia, 6201, 26288, 53200, 61506, 61507 
 
             Wyoming, 53203 
 
         Surface coal mining and reclamation operations: 
 
             Underground coal mining subsidence; court order compliance, 
 71652 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Federal and Indian lands programs: 
 
             Indian lands; definition clarification, 8464, 18585 
 
         Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan 
 submissions: 
 
             Alabama, 48573, 55878 
 
             Arkansas, 37067, 56179 
 
             Illinois, 44674 
 
             Indiana, 6150, 14412, 27484, 38165, 44448, 50026 
 
             Iowa, 54840 
 
             Kansas, 40323, 56982 
 
             Kentucky, 816, 3670, 4604, 29247, 38391 
 
             Louisiana, 49118 
 
             Maryland, 38392 
 
             Mississippi, 40326 
 
             Missouri, 32449 
 
             New Mexico, 71698, 71700 
 
             North Dakota, 18586 
 
             Ohio, 6005, 18857, 42887 
 
             Oklahoma, 43327, 56983 
 
             Pennsylvania, 12269, 36828, 66595, 66598, 70644, 72297 
 
             Texas, 7145, 29249 
 
             Virginia, 45489, 54843, 61805 
 
             West Virginia, 19327, 28771, 54845 
 
         Surface coal mining and reclamation operations: 
 
             Ownership and control of mining operations; definitions, 
 permit requirements, enforcement actions, etc., 8763, 15322, 23811 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 179, 2231, 4701, 8628, 
 13035, 13236, 18934, 33505, 41946, 66932, 71830 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 3136, 23669, 
 23857, 32254, 32520, 38917, 38918, 49820, 58099 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Fall Creek Falls State Park, TN; unsuitability for mining 
 operations, 4701 
 
             Valid existing rights; subsidence due to underground coal 
 mining, 70727 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Appalachian coalfields, WV; mountaintop mining and valley 
 fills, 5830 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Watershed Cooperative Agreement Program, 180, 72360 
 
             Wyoming -- 
 
                 Abandoned Coal Mine Land Research Program, 33506 
 
                 Cokeville High School Project, 33513 
 
                 Converse County Road 37 Project, 33510, 63337 
 
                 Etna Water Distribution System, 63336 
 
                 Frannie Water Distribution System, 63334 
 
                 Greybull Sewer Replacement Project, 33507 
 
                 Kaycee Community Health Center Project, 33511 
 
                 Lander Water Treatment System, 63333 
 
                 Ridgewater Improvement District Water Distribution 
 System Project, 18634 
 
                 Riverton Sewage Treatment Plant Pump, 63331 
 
                 Rock Springs Stormwater Drainage Channel Project, 33508 
 
                 Wright Water Distribution Looping Project, 63330 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Reforestation of surface coal mines; policy outreach 
 symposium, 909 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 16997, 17412, 17413, 20021 
 
         Revegetation; standards for success; meetings and comment 
 request, 26773 
 
 
 
 
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 Surface Transportation Board 
 
     RULES 
 
         Fees: 
 
             Licensing and related services; 1999 update, 5191 
 
         General provisions: 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 47709 
 
         Miscellaneous amendments, 53264 
 
         Rail procedures: 
 
             Rail rate reasonableness, exemption and revocation 
 proceedings; expedited procedures, 46594 
 
         Tariffs and schedules: 
 
             Transportation of property by or with water carrier in 
 noncontiguous domestic trade; publication, posting, and filing, 5194 
 
         Title 49 (Parts 1000-1199); republication; CFR correction, 10234 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Rail acquisitions, mergers, and consolidations; new 
 procedures; withdrawn, 66157 
 
             Transactions subject to statutory consolidation provisions; 
 class exemption; withdrawn, 66157 
 
         Rail carriers: 
 
             Carload Waybill Sample and public use file; confidentiality, 
 26723 
 
             Export corn and export soybeans; exemption; withdrawn, 66156 
 
         Rail procedures: 
 
             Rail rate reasonableness, exemption and revocation 
 proceedings; expedited procedures, 34185 
 
         Railroad consolidations, mergers, acquisitions of control, and 
 startup operations: 
 
             Safety integration plans, 19512 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22430, 65530 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 68718 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp., 11980 
 
             Illinois Central Corp. et al., 11083 
 
         Market dominance determinations; product and geographic 
 competition; policy statement, 6417 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 13845, 15200 
 
         Motor carriers: 
 
             Control exemptions -- 
 
                 Coach USA, Inc., 25392 
 
             Finance applications -- 
 
                 Academy Lines, Inc., 73119 
 
                 Coach USA, Inc., et al., 4174, 26475, 50133 
 
                 Global Passenger Services, L.L.C., et al., 50319 
 
                 Golden State Transportation Co., 54955 
 
                 Greyhound Lines, Inc., et al., 5859 
 
                 K.C. Irving, Ltd., et al., 13628 
 
                 Laidlaw, Inc., 1651 
 
                 Northwest Motor Coach L.L.C., 56571 
 
                 Stagecoach Holdings plc, 39555 
 
                 Stagecoach Holdings plc et al., 61687 
 
                 Tedesco Family ESB Trust, 73120 
 
                 Tedesco, Francis, et al., 36066 
 
             Pooling agreements -- 
 
                 Groendyke Transport, Inc., et al., 4743 
 
         Rail carriers: 
 
             Control exemptions -- 
 
                 RailAmerica, Inc., 50551, 62245 
 
             Cost of capital -- 
 
                 Railroad industry's 1998 decision, 27035 
 
                 Railroad industry's 1999 decision, 69320 
 
             Cost recovery procedures -- 
 
                 Adjustment factor, 14304, 33543, 51572, 72140 
 
                 Productivity adjustment factor, 4744 
 
             Declaratory order petitions -- 
 
                 Riverdale, NJ, et al., 51179 
 
             Pooling agreements -- 
 
                 Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, 43013 
 
             Railroad revenue adequacy determinations; Class I railroads, 
 49050 
 
             Waybill data; release for use, 65761 
 
         Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.: 
 
             Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road Co., 29942 
 
             Albany Bridge Co., Inc., et al., 6133 
 
             Ameren Corp., 60467 
 
             Arkansas Short Line Railroads, Inc., 72141 
 
             Ballard Terminal Railroad Co., L.L.C., 9556 
 
             Beaufort & Morehead Railway, 67619 
 
             Bethlehem Steel Corp., 51573 
 
             Blacklands Railroad Co., 7688 
 
             Blue Rapids Railway Co., 16780 
 
             BNSF Acquisition, Inc., 10526 
 
             Boston & Maine Corp., 71190 
 
             Boston & Maine Corp. et al., 71191 
 
             Branch & St. Joseph Counties Rail Users Association, Inc., 
 35249 
 
             Brandywine Valley Railroad Co., 18965 
 
             Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co., 1268, 3336, 
 5860, 9371, 12402, 17214, 25954, 29414, 30375, 32095, 32607, 38233 
 
             Canadian Pacific Railway, 26477, 28559 
 
             Cascade Rail Corp., Inc., 56244 
 
             Central New England Railroad, Inc., 4490 
 
             Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway Co., 1269 
 
             Columbiana County Port Authority, 72142 
 
             Consolidated Rail Corp., 15869, 24217, 27851, 36967 
 
             CSX Corp. et al., 71188 
 
             CSX Transportation, Inc., 18067, 24711, 33544, 36420, 55807 
 
             CSX Transportation, Inc., et al., 36968 
 
             Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp., 19407 
 
             Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 2534 
 
             Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad, Inc., 5861 
 
             Delaware Transportation Group, Inc., 34310, 34311 
 
             Delta Southern Railroad Co., 56572 
 
             Diamond State Port Corp. et al., 34311 
 
             Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co., 71190 
 
             Fredonia Valley Railroad, Inc., 1269, 7688 
 
             Gateway Western Railway Co. et al., 52574 
 
             Georgia Department of Transportation, 1068, 1270 
 
             Grand Trunk Western Railroad Inc., 10338, 30101, 34696, 
 37580, 38501, 38941 
 
             Grand Trunk Western Railroad Inc. et al., 37194 
 
             Great Western Railway of Colorado, L.L.C., 23391 
 
             Greenville County Economic Development Corp., 29942 
 
             Gulf & Ohio Railways, Inc., 25953 
 
             Illinois Central Railroad Co., 20354, 33544, 35249 
 
             IMC Global Inc., 17214 
 
             Indiana & Ohio Rail Corp. et al., 39185 
 
             Indiana Northeastern Railroad Co. et al., 35250 
 
             Jo-Davies/Carrol County Local Re-Development Authority, 
 50322 
 
             Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Co. et al., 69594 
 
             Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co., 39556 
 
             Milford-Bennington Railroad Co., 49537 
 
             New England Central Railroad, Inc., 9556 
 
             New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad Co., 18966 
 
             New Hampshire Transportation Department, 18966 
 
             New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway Co., 22898 
 
             New York Central Lines LLC, 34843, 50552 
 
             New York Central Lines LLC, et al., 39185 
 
             New York State Transportation Department, 39186 
 
             Nobles Rock Railroad, Inc., 50322 
 
             Norfolk Southern Corp., 70116 
 
             Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 26476, 26477, 73603 
 
             Norfolk Southern Railway Co. et al., 19215 
 
             North American RailNet, Inc., 25954 
 
             North Carolina Railroad Co., 46968 
 
             Oakland, CA, 1069 
 
             0geechee Railway Co., 1069 
 
             Pennsylvania Lines LLC, 60876 
 
             Penn Virginia Corp., 41486 
 
             Pioneer Railcorp., 26477 
 
             Pioneer Railcorp et al., 4490 
 
             Portland & Western Railroad, Inc., 26478 
 
             Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad, 26478 
 
             Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad, 57925 
 
             RailTex, Inc., et al., 3149, 58466 
 
             Rio Grande Pacific Corp., 22897 
 
             Rock & Rail, Inc., 23391, 34312 
 
             Salt Lake City Southern Railroad Co., Inc., 7234, 57695 
 
             San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co., 15200 
 
             Tacoma Rail, 70761 
 
             Tishomingo Railroad Co., Inc., 58128 
 
             Tongue River Railroad Co., 5339, 54957, 55808 
 
             Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1069, 1270, 6937, 11083, 18965, 
 57696, 63106, 71547, 72141 
 
             Utah Railway Co., 47229 
 
             Vermont Railway, Inc., 51825 
 
             Washington County Railroad Co., 59822, 61958 
 
             Winifrede Railroad Co., 41486 
 
             Wisconsin Central Ltd., 68200 
 
         Railroad services abandonment: 
 
             Boston & Maine Corp., 36067 
 
             Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co., 33544, 40412, 
 43813, 50323, 56016 
 
             Central Kansas Railway L.L.C., 14789 
 
             Columbus & Greenville Railway Co., 5701 
 
             CSX Transportation, Inc., 2702, 11084, 13629, 18967, 27852, 
 28868, 46227, 57696 
 
             Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 60261 
 
             Doniphan, Kensett & Searcy Railway, 7688 
 
             Dunn-Erwin Railway, 16022 
 
             Florida Midland Railroad Co., Inc., 8161 
 
             Fox Valley & Western Ltd., 58906 
 
             Gauley River Railroad, LLC, 13469 
 
             Grand Trunk Western Railroad Inc., 58906 
 
             Kansas Eastern Railroad, Inc., 46471 
 
             Kansas Southwestern Railway, L.L.C., 12213 
 
             Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Co., 6738 
 
             Lone Star Railroad, Inc., 31035 
 
             Mid-Michigan Railroad, Inc., 28559 
 
             Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 11530, 14045, 44576, 52119, 
 57926, 72376 
 
             Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad, Inc., 33134 
 
             Railroad Ventures, Inc., 30560 
 
             Red River Valley & Western Railroad Co., 10526, 67619 
 
             Rio Valley Railroad, Inc., et al., 23898 
 
             Rochelle Railroad Co., 11084 
 
             Salt Lake City Railroad Co., Inc., 52362 
 
             Soo Line Railroad Co., 3150, 45298, 57927, 57928 
 
             Southeastern International Corp., 23898 
 
             Union Pacific Railroad Co., 3740, 8901, 17056, 27617, 33545, 
 36968, 38942, 44079, 50863 
 
             Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co., 39186 
 
             Wisconsin Central Ltd., 56384 
 
             Yreka Western Railroad Co., 5343 
 
         Y2K (Year 2000) readiness, 45587 
  
 
FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX, January--December, 1999
 
 
 
 
 
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 Technology Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 37100 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation 
 Committee, 11445 
 
             United States-China Science and Technology Commission; Civil 
 Industrial Technology Coordinating Committee, 6050 
 
             United States-Greek Ministry of National Economy Initiative 
 for Technology Cooperation with Balkans; Joint Science and Technology 
 Cooperation Council, 6050 
 
             United States-Northern Ireland Industrial Research and 
 Technology Unit; Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Council, 6050 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Technology, 
 13543, 17717 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation 
 Committee, 35632 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 48992 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Tennessee Valley Authority 
 
     RULES 
 
         Electronic Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 4044 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Education programs and activities receiving Federal financial 
 assistance; nondiscrimination on basis of sex, 58568 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22220, 65324 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 2530, 24438, 29935 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 14485 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Land Between the Lakes Advisory Committee, 10176 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Columbia Dam and Reservoir Project, TN; unfinished dam 
 structure stabilization, 28856 
 
             Johnsonville Fossil Plant and Gallatin Fossil Plant, TN; 
 peaking capacity additions, 38932 
 
             Kingston Fossil Plant, TN; alternative coal receiving 
 systems, 27020 
 
             Lower Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, KY; Kentucky lock 
 addition, 55518 
 
             North Alabama Pipeline Project, AL, 4486 
 
             Shoreline management initiative; assessment of residential 
 shoreline development impacts in Tennessee Valley, 30092 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Haywood County, TN; greenfield sites; electric generation 
 peaking and baseload capacity addition, 29935 
 
             LSP Energy L.P.; option purchase agreement for supply of 
 electric energy; termination, 6130 
 
             Tellico Reservoir, TN, 2531, 5699 
 
             Tims Ford Reservoir, TN; land management plan, 39551 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Land Between the Lakes Advisory Committee, 25951, 41180 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 3994, 4924, 10056, 19400, 32086, 42164, 
 49535, 68190, 69317 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 29379 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Textile Agreements Implementation Committee 
 
     See Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Thrift Supervision Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Consumer credit classified as loss, slow consumer credit, and 
 slow loans; definitions removed, 6502 
 
         Federal Deposit Insurance Act: 
 
             Safety and soundness standards, 66706 
 
                 Year 2000 guidelines, 66700 
 
         Lending and investments: 
 
             Letters of credit issuance and suretyship and guaranty 
 agreements restrictions, 46560 
 
         Management official interlocks, 51673 
 
         Miscellaneous amendments, 69183 
 
         Risk-based capital: 
 
             Construction loans on presold residential properties, junior 
 liens on 1- to 4-family residential properties, etc., 10194 
 
         Savings associations: 
 
             Capital distributions, 2805 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Operations: 
 
             Savings associations; Know Your Customer programs 
 development; withdrawn, 14845 
 
         Regulated activities: 
 
             Exempt savings and loan holding companies and grandfathered 
 activities, 5982 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 9218, 15397, 16522, 
 28027, 28873, 29083, 46969, 46970, 46971, 46972, 48453, 52363, 58907 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 9218, 29943, 
 34849, 43815, 61688, 67969, 71547 
 
         Community Reinvestment Act regulations; Federal financial 
 supervisory agencies policy statement; withdrawn, 16578 
 
         Insured depository institutions; branch closings; policy 
 statement, 34844 
 
         Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: 
 
             Alaska Federal Savings Bank, 27354 
 
             Douglas Federal Bank, 26817 
 
             First Federal Bankshares, M.H.C., 8901 
 
             First Federal Savings Bank, 8901 
 
             Florida Parishes Bank, 27853 
 
             IGA Federal Savings, 46009 
 
             Indian Village Community Bank, 27354 
 
             Mechanics Savings & Loan, FSA, 27355 
 
             Mutual Federal Savings Bank, 63378 
 
             Oceanmark Bank, F.S.B., 38502 
 
             Palmyra Savings & Building Association, F.A., 8902 
 
             Security Federal Bank, A Federal Savings Bank, 61961 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Agency 
 
     See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Trade and Development Agency 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 68191 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Trade Representative, Office of United States 
 
     RULES 
 
         Tariff-rate quota amount determinations: 
 
             Lamb meat, 56429 
 
         Tariff-rate quota implementation for imports of sugar-containing 
 products, 67152 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act: 
 
             Program operation; report to Congress, 31342 
 
         Foreign trade barriers; national trade estimate report; comment 
 request, 59223 
 
         Free Trade Area of Americas Joint Government-Private Sector 
 Experts Committee; identification of private sector expert on electronic 
 commerce consumer issues; comment request, 26811 
 
         Free Trade Area of Americas; market access negotiations, 72715 
 
         Generalized System of Preferences: 
 
             Annual product and country eligibility practices review 
 (1998) -- 
 
                 Gabon, Mongolia, and Mauritania named as beneficiary 
 developing countries, 36952 
 
             Annual product and country eligibility practices review 
 (1999) -- 
 
                 Petitions accepted, etc., 72136 
 
                 Petitions submission deadline, 20046 
 
             Competitive need limitations; import statistics; comment 
 request, 4732 
 
             Mauritania; beneficiary developing country designation 
 criteria, 18957 
 
             Mongolia; beneficiary developing country designation 
 criteria, 3736 
 
             Soda ash petition; 1998 beneficiary country practices 
 review, 4168 
 
             South Africa; beneficiary developing country designation 
 criteria, 72138 
 
         Government-funded airport construction projects; list of 
 countries denying fair market opportunities, 24689 
 
         Harmonized Tariff Schedule: 
 
             Technical corrections, 32915, 38075 
 
         Intellectual property rights protection, countries denying; 
 policies and practices:, 2696 
 
             Various countries, 24438 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Industry Sector Advisory Committees -- 
 
                 Aerospace equipment, 3995, 10057 
 
                 Small and Minority Business, 32087, 49535, 70104 
 
             North American Free Trade Agreement Sanitary and 
 Phytosanitary Committee, 49267 
 
             Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, 19400 
 
             Trade Policy and Negotiations Advisory Committee, 16773, 
 28022 
 
             Trade Policy Staff Committee -- 
 
                 World Trade Organization; free trade area of the 
 Americas; market access negotiations, etc.; hearings and comment 
 request, 25525 
 
         North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): 
 
             Accelerated tariff eliminations -- 
 
                 Petitions request, 28857 
 
             Chapter 19 roster; invitation for applications for 
 inclusion, 61171 
 
             Special textile and apparel regime; duty-free treatment 
 extension -- 
 
                 Suit-type jackets from Mexico, 46964 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Discrimination in foreign government procurement pursuant to 
 Executive Order, 3116, 25525 
 
             Trade expansion priorities pursuant to Executive Order 
 13116, (Super 301),01, 24439 
 
         Tariff Act of 1930: 
 
             Subsidies agreement countries -- 
 
                 Macedonia, 17208 
 
         Tariff-rate quota amount determinations: 
 
             Beef from New Zealand, 18957 
 
             Cane sugar and sugar containing products; allocations to 
 Mexico and Canada, 54719 
 
             Raw cane sugar, 61172 
 
         Trade Policy Staff Committee: 
 
             Telecommunications equipment; mutual recognition agreement 
 negotiations by members of Inter-American Telecommunications Commission 
 (CITEL), 1853 
 
         Unfair trade practices, petitions, etc.: 
 
             Canada; tourism and sport fishing, 28545 
 
             Mexico; high fructose corn syrup; investigation and comment 
 request, 28860 
 
             Priority foreign country practices and foreign countries 
 engaging in discriminatory government procurement practices; c, 17053 
 
         United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act; 
 qualifying industrial zone designations, 13623, 56015 
 
         World Trade Organization: 
 
             Dispute settlement panel establishment requests -- 
 
                 Argentina; footwear imports, 45581 
 
                 Australia; salmonids importation, 69318 
 
                 Australia; U.S.'s safeguard measure on lamb meat 
 imports, 59224 
 
                 Canadian Patent Act; inconsistency with Canada's 
 obligations; examination, 39552 
 
                 Dispute settlement roster of panel candidates; 
 nominations, 61173 
 
                 European Communities; banana importation, sale, and 
 distribution, 19209 
 
                 European Communities; hot-rolled lead and bismuth carbon 
 steel products from United Kingdom, 17712 
 
                 European Communities; U.S. Copyright Act, Section 110(5) 
 examination, 29077 
 
                 European Communities; U.S.'s withholding of liquidation 
 on imports, 57689 
 
                 European Communities; wheat gluten import limitation, 
 33130 
 
                 Japan; Antidumping Act of 1916 examination, 32919 
 
                 Korea; government procurement practices, 27022 
 
                 Korea; imports of fresh, chilled, and frozen beef, 27847 
 
                 New Zealand; U.S.'s safeguard measure on fresh, chilled 
 or frozen lamb meat imports, 59225 
 
                 Trade Act of 1974; inconsistency with U.S.'s 
 obligations, 14037 
 
             Forest products sector; tariff elimination; economic and 
 environmental effects; comment request, 34304 
 
             Free trade area of Americas; market access negotiations, 
 etc., 18469 
 
             Germany; compliance with Basic Telecommunications Agreement; 
 comment request, 30094 
 
             Recommendations -- 
 
                 European Communities; meat and meat products, 14486, 
 40638, 43254 
 
             Telecommunications trade agreements and electronic commerce 
 market opportunities; comment request, 1854 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Transportation Department 
 
     See Coast Guard 
 
     See Federal Aviation Administration 
 
     See Federal Highway Administration 
 
     See Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 
 
     See Federal Railroad Administration 
 
     See Federal Transit Administration 
 
     See Maritime Administration 
 
     See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 
 
     See Office of Motor Carrier Safety 
 
     See Research and Special Programs Administration 
 
     See Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 
 
     See Surface Transportation Board 
 
     See Transportation Statistics Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 2436 
 
         Air carrier authority applications; procedures and evidence 
 
             Correction, 12084 
 
         Air travel; nondiscrimination on basis of disability: 
 
             Wheelchairs and other assistive devices; compensation for 
 damage, 41781 
 
         Computer reservation systems, carrier-owned 
 
             Expiration date extension, 15127 
 
         Disadvantaged business enterprise participation in DOT financial 
 assistance programs, 5096 
 
             Correction, 34569 
 
         Economic regulations: 
 
             Airline change-of-gauge services; disclosure, 12854, 38111, 
 46818 
 
             Airline code-sharing arrangements and long-term wet leases; 
 disclosure, 12838, 38111, 46818 
 
             Commuter air carriers; fitness applications; filing location 
 change, 3211 
 
             Domestic baggage liability, 70573 
 
             Foreign air carriers, charter trips; airline codesharing 
 agreements and authorization statements; filing location change, 3212 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 29601, 46594 
 
                 Correction, 3876 
 
             Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard; Federal Railroad 
 Administrator; and Federal Highway Administrator, 7813 
 
             Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard and Maritime Administration 
 Administrator, 36801 
 
             Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; CFR chapter 
 heading revised and part removed, 72959 
 
             Maritime Administration Administrator, 2150, 24959 
 
             Motor Carrier Safety Office, Director, 56270, 58356 
 
         Payment procedures: 
 
             Surface transportation projects; credit assistance, 29742 
 
         Standard time zone boundaries: 
 
             Nevada, 56705 
 
         Tariffs: 
 
             U.S. and foreign air carriers; exemptions from duty to file 
 international passenger tariffs with DOT, 40654 
 
         Uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisition 
 regulations for Federal and federally-assisted programs, 7127 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Administrative practice and procedure: 
 
             Special services; fees and charges, 3229 
 
         Airline service quality performance standards: 
 
             On-time disclosure rule; withdrawn, 3883 
 
         Air travel; nondiscrimination on basis of disability: 
 
             Equipment to facilitate boarding of aircraft by individuals 
 with disabilities, 46611 
 
             Meeting, 63279 
 
             Meeting postponed, 66590 
 
             Wheelchairs and other assistive devices; compensation for 
 damage, 7833 
 
         Computer reservation systems, carrier-owned, 9457 
 
         Economic regulations: 
 
             Domestic baggage liability, 34592 
 
         Education programs and activities receiving Federal financial 
 assistance; nondiscrimination on basis of sex, 58568 
 
         Motor carrier safety standards: 
 
             Inspection, repair, and maintenance of intermodal container 
 chassis and trailers; responsibilities; meeting, 56478 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 21566, 64682 
 
         Standard time zone boundaries: 
 
             Kentucky, 33035, 55892 
 
             Nevada, 40331 
 
         Workplace drug and alcohol testing programs: 
 
             Organizations certifying substance abuse professionals; 
 procedure to have members included in DOT's substance abuse professional 
 definition, 29831 
 
             Procedures; revision, 69076 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 15866, 23893, 35236, 
 46222, 47775 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 2697, 6416, 
 9210, 9212, 9213, 10057, 10058, 10334, 10335, 10733, 11976, 13046, 
 13624, 61957, 63104, 65759 
 
         Aviation proceedings: 
 
             Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 2698, 4924, 5851, 7938, 
 8634, 10058, 11528, 13047, 13840, 15393, 16774, 17713, 23894, 25390, 
 26812, 28233, 29404, 30555, 32088, 34838, 36733, 37578, 38698, 40641, 
 41995, 43235, 44774, 45992, 47560, 49040, 49535, 50852, 52116, 54064, 
 55520, 57690, 59226, 61175, 62732, 63841, 66959, 68407, 69812, 71541, 
 73113 
 
             Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign 
 air carrier permits; weekly applications, 201, 3737, 4925, 7938, 11528, 
 13047, 15393, 25390, 26813, 28233, 32088, 34838, 36733, 38698, 40641, 
 43236, 44774, 45993, 47561, 49040, 50852, 54064, 55520, 56376, 57690, 
 59226, 61175, 62733, 63841, 66960, 68408, 71541, 73113 
 
             Hearings, etc. -- 
 
                 Inland Aviation Services, Inc., 38071 
 
                 JetBlue Airways Corp., 45582 
 
                 Kiwi International Air Lines, Inc., 14782 
 
                 National Airlines, Inc., 4743 
 
                 Nevis Express, 46467 
 
                 Ozark Air Lines, Inc., 37827 
 
                 Puerto Rico Airways, Corp., 38934 
 
                 Southern Air Transport, Inc. et al., 62732 
 
                 Sun Jet International, Inc., 6130 
 
                 Trans International Express, 8898 
 
                 Wrangell Mountain Air, Inc., 14302 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Transportation Equity Act for 21st Century -- 
 
                 Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act 
 of 1998; eligible surface transportation projects, 29754 
 
         Hazardous materials transportation: 
 
             Department-wide program evaluation, 11528 
 
                 Meetings, 36734 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Amtrak Reform Council, 17713, 24446, 25529, 30555, 43236, 
 53434, 58123 
 
             Economic analysis rulemaking forum, 24689 
 
             NAFTA Land Transportation Standards Subcommittee and 
 Transportation Consultative Group: annual plenary session, 49269, 54064 
 
             Partnership Council, 6731, 31030, 58123 
 
             Regulatory flexibility analysis; public forum, 48441 
 
             Risk assessment public forum, 30095 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Point of contact with small business concerns regarding 
 problems arising out of Y2K failures and compliance with Federal 
 regulations, 45582 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Passenger, third-party, and property liability insurance 
 coverage for U.S. and foreign air carriers; non-approval of exclusions 
 related to Year 2000 problem, 20047 
 
         Secretarial determinations: 
 
             Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria; 
 notification of effective security measures, 73596 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Boards; membership, 46743 
 
         U.S. Coast Guard Roles and Missions Interagency Task Force; 
 study and report to President, 25098, 31343 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Transportation Statistics Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         ICC Termination Act; implementation: 
 
             Motor carriers of property and household goods; reporting 
 requirements, 13916 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Alaska commuter and small certificated air carrier data 
 collection program improvement; meeting, 34747 
 
         ICC Termination Act; implementation: 
 
             Motor carriers of property and household goods; reporting 
 requirements, 13948 
 
                 Withdrawn, 39111 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 27852, 56385 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 17437, 31345, 
 48232, 57927 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Transportation Statistics Advisory Council, 19582, 49273, 
 50552, 66526 
 
         Motor carriers: 
 
             Financial and operating information; public release of 
 reports; exemption requests, 48452, 57512 
 
 
 
 
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 Treasury Department 
 
     See Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau 
 
     See Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 
 
     See Comptroller of the Currency 
 
     See Customs Service 
 
     See Engraving and Printing Bureau 
 
     See Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 
 
     See Fiscal Service 
 
     See Foreign Assets Control Office 
 
     See Internal Revenue Service 
 
     See Internal Revenue ServiceReader Aids 
 
     See Public Debt Bureau 
 
     See Secret Service 
 
     See Thrift Supervision Office 
 
     See Thrift Supervision OfficeReader Aids 
 
     See United States Mint 
 
     RULES 
 
         Currency and foreign transactions; financial reporting and 
 recordkeeping requirements: 
 
             Bank Secrecy Act; implementation -- 
 
                 Funds tranmittals by financial institutions; conditional 
 exceptions to full compliance with safe harbor provisions of Travel 
 Rule, 41041 
 
                 Money services businesses; definitions and registration, 
 45438 
 
         Government Securities Act; implementation: 
 
             Brokers and dealers reporting requirement; Year 2000 
 compliance, 1735 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Official designation in case of absence, disability, or 
 vacancy, 62112 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Balanced Budget Act of 1997; implementation: 
 
             District of Columbia retirement plans; Federal benefit 
 payments, 69432 
 
         Education programs and activities receiving Federal financial 
 assistance; nondiscrimination on basis of sex, 58568 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 24454 
 
         Practice before Internal Revenue Service; general review of 
 regulations, 31994 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 1152 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 21748, 64870 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3585, 3741, 11531, 
 23899, 44267, 52363, 52371, 55337, 56576, 57928, 67620 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 2703, 3998, 
 3999, 4000, 4490, 4491, 5861, 6938, 8637, 8638, 10738, 12213, 13845, 
 13846, 14968, 16022, 17214, 17215, 18967, 18968, 19582, 20354, 20355, 
 20356, 23392, 25955, 27617, 27619, 27620, 28868, 29739, 30561, 33135, 
 33136, 33137, 33546, 33547, 35250, 35251, 35252, 38234, 39557 , 39557, 
 40059, 40642, 41187, 41188, 41996, 42169, 43252, 44778, 44779, 45298, 
 46008, 46969, 49537, 50135, 50864, 51573, 53766, 53767, 54959, 56244, 
 56245, 56836, 57513, 58129, 61179, 61958, 61959, 61960, 63842, 65761, 
 66526, 66692, 66966, 67369, 67620, 71849, 71850 
 
         Boycotts, international: 
 
             Countries requiring cooperation; list, 11085, 37581, 52821, 
 73121 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Bond Market Association Borrowing Advisory Committee, 35252 
 
             National Center for State and Local Law Enforcement Training 
 Advisory Committee, 56017 
 
         Federal grants, cooperative agreements, loans, and commitments 
 to insure or guarantee loan; lobbying restrictions, 49837 
 
         Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; 
 implementation: 
 
             Taxpayer confidentiality study, 54960 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Community Adjustment and Investment Program Advisory 
 Committee, 15870 
 
             Customs Service Commercial Operations Advisory Committee, 
 19857, 36969, 51574 
 
             Debt Management Advisory Committee, 2703, 18067, 37195, 
 55522 
 
             International Child Labor Enforcement Advisory Committee, 
 14499, 34697, 60262 
 
             International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, 
 46471, 49273, 52575, 57514, 59823, 60262, 66231, 71547, 72377 
 
             International Monetary Fund Advisory Committee, 46472, 60468 
 
         Memorandums of understanding: 
 
             General Accounting Office and OMB; Federal Accounting 
 Standards Advisory Board; Federal financial accounting concepts and 
 standards; statements approval, 54898 
 
         Notes, Treasury: 
 
             Large position reports, call for; 5 1/2 percent notes (May 
 2009), 38072 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial 
 Officer, 3336, 38234 
 
             Chief Information Officer, 4000 
 
             Commissioner, Customs Service, 6133 
 
             Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, 6134 
 
             Deputy Secretary et al., 6135 
 
             Director, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, 6418 
 
             District of Columbia Pensions Office, 70315 
 
             Information Systems, Deputy Assistant Secretary, et al., 
 4001 
 
             Secret Service Director, 4000 
 
             Tax Administration Office Treasury Inspector General, 4001, 
 4004 
 
             Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, 54411 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 67966 
 
         Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: 
 
             Capital Budgeting Study Commission; final report, 16780 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Combined Performance Review Board; membership, 45013 
 
             Departmental Performance Review Board; membership, 47229, 
 47230 
 
             Legal Division Performance Review Board; membership, 41486, 
 63842 
 
 
 
 
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 Twenty-First Century Workforce Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 60474, 69321 
  
 
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 U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Hearings, 56017, 60474, 60475, 72719 
 
 
 
 
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 Udall, Morris K., Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental 
 Policy Foundation 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Dispute Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals 
 National Roster; applications, 67969 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 18480, 57929 
 
 
 
 
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 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 2887, 16431, 36858, 52492, 72654 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Information Agency 
 
     RULES 
 
         Exchange visitor program: 
 
             Administrative processing fees, 51894 
 
             Au pair programs; oversight and general accountability, 
 53929 
 
             Foreign medical graduates; pursuit of graduate medical 
 education or training in U.S.; program administration issues; policy 
 statement, 34982 
 
             Reinstatement of J-1 exchange visitors who fail to maintain 
 valid program status; monitoring requirements, 44123 
 
             Return to home country two-year requirement; waiver 
 requests; processing fee, 6191, 40286 
 
             Short-term scholars; participation in seminars, workshops, 
 etc., 17975 
 
             Summer work travel programs, 17976 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Exchange visitor program: 
 
             Au pair programs; oversight and general accountability, 
 17988 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 22222 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 13852, 14048, 16523, 
 16524 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 6740, 27035, 
 27621, 28028 
 
         Art objects; importation for exhibition: 
 
             Adriaen de Vries, Imperial Sculptor, 46009 
 
             Alfred Hitchcock: Behind the Silhouette, 14969 
 
             Ancient Near Eastern Art, 37195 
 
             Beyond the Golden Fleece: The Jews of Georgia, 47231 
 
             Cezanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, 19215 
 
             Collecting Impressionism, 4744 
 
             Comtesse de la Rue, 40936 
 
             Contemporary Egyptian Art, 39559 
 
             Defining Russian Graphic Arts: From Diaghilev to Stalin 
 (1898-1934), 8444 
 
             Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America, 
 15205 
 
             Diego Rivera; Art and Revolution, 3587 
 
             Discovering the Secrets of Soft Paste Porcelain in the Saint 
 Cloud Manufactory (1690-1766), 30375 
 
             Drawings of Annibale Carracci, 46472 
 
             Dresden in the Ages of Splendor and Enlightenment: 18th 
 Century Paintings from the Old Masters Picture Gallery, 17060 
 
             Edouard Manet: The Still-Life Paintings, 51179 
 
             Egyptian Art in The Age of the Pyramids, 2277, 36745 
 
             Eva Levina-Rozengolts: Her Life and Work, 27621, 30571 
 
             Facing West: Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus, 22672 
 
             Francesco Clemente, 52120 
 
             Francis Bacon; A Retrospective Exhibition, 1874 
 
             From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and 
 Berlin, 47231 
 
             Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology Celebrated Discoveries 
 from the People's Republic of China, 41487 
 
             Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine, 
 46473, 54411 
 
             Goya: Another Look, 11999 
 
             Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), 2536, 14798 
 
             Impressionists in Winter: Effects de Neige, 11999 
 
             John Singer Sargent, 3152 
 
             Kremlin Gold-1000 Years of Russian Gems and Jewels, 45300, 
 46972 
 
             Land of Myth and Fire: The Ancient and Medieval Culture of 
 Georgia, 20058 
 
             Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland (1572-1764), 1653 
 
             Masks: Faces of Culture, 46473 
 
             Modern Masterworks from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 29416 
 
             Monet and Bazille: A Collaboration, 5346 
 
             Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, 1653 
 
             Nainsukh: Painter from the Punjab Hills, 13252 
 
             Only the Best: Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian 
 Museum, Lisbon, 49543 
 
             Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, 
 37581 
 
             Picasso: Painter and Sculptor in Clay, 1069 
 
             Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, 18074 
 
             Projects 68: William Kentridge, 11532 
 
             Ringing Thunder: Tomb Treasures from Ancient China, 19215 
 
             Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image, 29086 
 
             Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper (1963-1974), 4491 
 
             Spectacular St. Petersburg: 100 Years of Russian Theatre 
 Design, 42170 
 
             Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands (1550-1720), 49543 
 
             Ten Works of Art from the Republic of Korea, 10339 
 
             Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle 
 Ages, 46473 
 
             Topkapi Palace: Jewels and Treasures of the Sultans, 11087 
 
             Treasures of the Last Empire, 35253 
 
             Treasury of St. Francis of Assisi, 4175, 35711 
 
             Unseen Treasures: Imperial Russia and the New World, 41488 
 
         Cultural property: 
 
             Bolivia; request for U.S. protection of certain categories 
 of archaeological and ethnological material from pillage, 54962 
 
             Cambodia; request for U.S. protection of certain categories 
 of archaeological material from pillage, 28873 
 
             Italy; request for U.S. protection of certain categories of 
 archaeological material from pillage, 51574 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Africa Regional Internship Program, 18969 
 
             Azerbaijan; Secondary School Civic Education Curriculum 
 Development Project, 25956 
 
             Azores and Cape Verde School Partnership Program, 26817 
 
             Bosnia and Herzegovina; Youth Leadership Program, 23730 
 
             Burma Refugee Scholarship Program, 31346 
 
             China; Performing Arts Presenters Exchange Program, 52824 
 
             College and University Affiliations Program, 27036 
 
             Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program, 42759, 46972 
 
             Educational advising program for international students from 
 Hong Kong/China, 36971 
 
             English Language Enrichment Program, 14500 
 
             FREEDOM Support Act/Future Leaders Exchange Program, 49543 
 
             Fulbright senior scholar program 
 
                 Bidders conference, 2114, 2536 
 
             Future Leaders Exchange Program -- 
 
                 Administrative components, 31349 
 
                 Civic education workshop, 1070 
 
             Georgia, Republic of; Secondary School Civic Education 
 Curriculum Development and Teacher Training Program, 50324 
 
             Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program Washington Seminar, 
 3587 
 
             International education and cultural activities program, 
 41190 
 
             International visitor program, 6938 
 
             Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean; regional educational 
 advising coordinator, 38238 
 
             Mexico City, Mexico; educational advising center, 38236 
 
             Moldova; curriculum development project; secondary school 
 civic education, 9372 
 
             Newly Independent States -- 
 
                 College and University Partnerships Program, 50327 
 
                 Educational Advising Centers, 52822 
 
                 Exchanges and training programs, 51574 
 
             Nigeria; legislature development program, 14503 
 
             Russian Media Internship Program, 48233 
 
             South Africa Teacher Training Program, 31352 
 
             Summer Institutes in American Studies for Foreign University 
 Teachers, 51580 
 
             Teaching Excellence Awards Program, 25958 
 
             USIA-Bosnia and Herzegovina undergraduate development 
 program, 1072 
 
             Women's leadership training; small grants competition, 20356 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Cultural Property Advisory Committee, 1875, 28873, 40061, 
 51583, 51584 
 
             Public Diplomacy, U.S. Advisory Commission, 22673, 27622, 
 49546 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 32097 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Institute of Peace 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Solicited grants -- 
 
                 2000 Solicited Grant Competition Program; themes and 
 topics, 48235 
 
             Unsolicited grants -- 
 
                 Fall competition program, 33953 
 
                 Spring competition program, 7237 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 1074, 10527, 30571, 48458, 60475 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Mint 
 
     RULES 
 
         Exchange of paper currency and coin: 
 
             Melting discontinuance and substitution of mechanical means 
 to destroy mutilated coins, 39919 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Exchange of paper currency and coin: 
 
             Melting discontinuance and substitution of mechanical means 
 to destroy mutilated coins, 4063 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Sentencing Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Sentencing guidelines and policy statements for Federal courts, 
 68715, 72129 
 
 
 
 
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 Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Central Utah Project -- 
 
                 Diamond Fork System; campground construction, 925 
 
                 Diamond Fork System; pipelines, tunnels, and other 
 facilities; construction, 67370 
 
             Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System Angler-Access 
 Acquisition and Corridor Management Project, 63378 
  
 
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 Veterans Affairs Department 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Bonds and insurance, 40518 
 
             Improper business practices and personal conflicts of 
 interest; solicitation provisions and contract clauses, 30442 
 
             Simplified acquisition procedures, 69934 
 
             Tax-free tobacco products for gratuitous distribution to 
 present and former members of U.S. Armed Forces, 38592 
 
         Adjudication; pensions, compensation, dependency, etc.: 
 
             Compensation for additional disability or death due to 
 hospital care, medical or surgical treatment, examination, or training 
 and rehabilitation services, 1131 
 
             Dental conditions; service connection determination for 
 outpatient dental treatment purposes, 30392 
 
             Post-traumatic stress disorder; direct service connection, 
 32807 
 
             Returned and canceled checks following death of payee, 54206 
 
             Surviving spouse's benefit for month of veteran's death, 
 30391 
 
             Terminated marital relationships; reinstatement of benefits 
 eligibility, 30244 
 
             Veterans and surviving spouses receiving Medicaid-covered 
 nursing home care; pension benefits limitation, 32807 
 
         Board of Veterans Appeals: 
 
             Appeals regulations and rules of practice -- 
 
                 Board decisions revised on grounds of clear and 
 unmistakable error; representatives notification, 7090 
 
                 Grounds of clear and unmistakable error decisions, 2134, 
 73413 
 
         Disabilities rating schedule: 
 
             Ear and other sense organ diseases, 25202 
 
             Fibromyalgia, 32410 
 
         Loan guaranty: 
 
             Interest rate reduction refinancing loans; requirements, 
 19906 
 
                 Correction, 28363 
 
         Medical benefits: 
 
             Denied claims; reconsideration procedures, 44659 
 
             Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996; 
 implementation -- 
 
                 National enrollment system; provision of hospital and 
 outpatient care, 54207 
 
             Veterans' medical care or services; collection or recovery, 
 22676 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             National Cemetery Administration, 30244 
 
             Tort claims determination and reconsideration; miscellaneous 
 amendments, 47111 
 
         Vocational rehabilitation and education: 
 
             Reservists' education -- 
 
                 Montgomery GI Bill-Selected Reserve; educational 
 assistance rates increase, 26297 
 
             Veterans education -- 
 
                 Educational assistance; advance payments and lump-sum 
 payments, 52650 
 
                 Educational assistance and benefits; claims and 
 effective dates, 23769 
 
                 Educational assistance test program; increased 
 allowances, 44660, 46974 
 
                 Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty; administrative errors, 
 51901 
 
                 Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty; educational assistance 
 reduction; effective date, 38576 
 
                 Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty; rates payable increase, 
 31693 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Simplified acquisition procedures, 29981 
 
             Tax-free tobacco products, 4607 
 
         Adjudication; pensions, compensation, dependency, etc.: 
 
             Well-grounded claims, 67528 
 
         Board of Veterans Appeals: 
 
             Appeals regulations and rules of practice -- 
 
                 Simultaneously contested claims, 53302 
 
         Disabilities rating schedule: 
 
             Eye disabilities, 25246 
 
         Education programs and activities receiving Federal financial 
 assistance; nondiscrimination on basis of sex, 58568 
 
         Medical benefits: 
 
             Patient rights -- 
 
                 Medication prescribing authority, 23812, 27733 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 21848, 64964 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Advisory committees; annual reports; availability, 69595 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 4745, 4746, 4747, 
 4748, 13470, 13471, 16523, 20058, 20059, 20060, 20061, 20062, 32101, 
 33342, 33343, 33344, 33345, 34697, 35253, 36973, 36974, 40649, 42170, 
 42171, 42172, 42762, 43423, 43424, 43815, 47892, 50866, 50867, 50868, 
 50869, 51584, 51585, 51586, 52371, 52372, 54071, 56839, 58130, 66693, 
 66694, 66695, 66696, 66697, 67624, 67625, 67626, 67627, 67629, 72143, 
 72144 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 4746, 4749, 
 4750, 4751, 5091, 8637, 13471, 13472, 16525, 22898, 22899, 22900, 22901, 
 22902, 25403, 27622, 35254, 42427 , 42428 , 42429, 42430, 42431, 42763, 
 43816, 43817, 47892, 47893, 47894, 50869, 50870, 50871, 52372, 52373, 
 52374, 56840, 63844, 63845, 65762, 65763, 65764, 65765, 72145, 72146, 
 72147 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Cemeteries and Memorials Advisory Committee, 50137 
 
             Former Prisoners of War Advisory Committee, 50137 
 
             Medical Research Service Merit Review Committee et al., 
 35255 
 
             National Research Advisory Council, 56018 
 
             Veterans Readjustment Advisory Committee, 53446 
 
             Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee, 13472 
 
             Women Veterans Advisory Committe, 53446 
 
         Diseases not associated with exposure to herbicide agents; list, 
 59232 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program, 12402 
 
         Legal interpretations; General Counsel-precedent opinions: 
 
             Veterans' benefits under VA administered laws; summary, 
 31680, 52374 
 
         Medical benefits: 
 
             Veterans' medical care or services; collection or recovery; 
 methodology for calculating charges, 22684 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Cemeteries and Memorials Advisory Committee, 15206, 47894 
 
             Education Advisory Committee, 13048 
 
             Environmental Hazards Advisory Committee, 13852, 49051 
 
             Former Prisoners of War Advisory Committee, 14304, 56018 
 
             Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee, 50552 
 
             Medical Research Service Merit Review Committee, 10527, 
 49273 
 
             Minority Veterans Advisory Committee, 3339, 9218, 24711, 
 56019 
 
             Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs Advisory 
 Committee, 10738, 49274 
 
             Rehabilitation Advisory Committee, 3339, 25536 
 
             Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific 
 Merit Review Board, 38702, 70762 
 
             Research and Development Cooperative Studies Evaluation 
 Committee, 24712, 50871 
 
             Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services 
 Research and Development Service, 10179, 63846 
 
             Special Medical Advisory Group, 18972, 49275 
 
             Veterans Readjustment Advisory Committee, 6942 
 
             Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee, 20062, 56019 
 
             Women Veterans Advisory Committee, 10179, 56019 
 
         Poverty threshold (1998); weighted average, 68413 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 13048, 23163 
 
             Systems of records, 5862, 13049, 23900 
 
         Real property; enhanced-use leases: 
 
             Mountain Home, TN; James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical 
 Center, 36422 
 
         Service-connected benefits: 
 
             Rate adjustments, 29416 
 
 
 
 
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 Veterans Employment and Training, Office of Assistant Secretary 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 38481 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Federal Contractor Award Information System; transition, 
 16500, 26791 
 
             Rural Homeless Veterans Reintegration Projects, 19816 Reader 
 Aids 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Veterans Employment and Training Advisory Committee, 3574, 
 31650, 61668 
 
 
 
 
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 Vice President of the United States 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Regulatory Plan statement, 63883 
 
 
 
 
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 Victims of Crime Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Indian Country Post Rape Stress Video, 18935 
  
 
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 Wage and Hour Division 
 
     RULES 
 
         American Samoa; minimum wage rates, 48524 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Child labor; civil money penalties; inflation adjustment, 67130 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         American Samoa; special industry committee for all industries; 
 appointment, convention, and hearing, 13822 
 
 
 
 
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 Western Area Power Administration 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Energy Planning and Management Program: 
 
             Integrated resource planning approval criteria, 62604 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Central Valley Project, CA, and Salt Lake City Area Integrated 
 Projects, UT; size of project-specific resource pools; comment request 
 and meetings, 4646 
 
         Electric utility industry restructuring; impact on power 
 allocation policies, 34433 
 
         Energy Planning and Management Program Power Marketing 
 Initiative: 
 
             Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects, 34414 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Parker-Davis and Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest 
 Intertie transmission systems; interconnection with Griffith Power 
 Plant, 29023 
 
             Southpoint Power Plant Project, CA; Calpine Corp. 
 interconnection with WAPA's Parker-Davis No. 1 and No. 2 230-kilowatt 
 transmission lines, 15744 
 
             Sutter Power Project, Calpine Corp., CA; interconnection 
 with WAPA's Keswick-Elverta/Olinda-Elverta 230-kilovolt double-circuit 
 transmission line, 32041 
 
         Floodplain and wetlands protection; environmental review 
 determinations; availability, etc.: 
 
             Boulder City, NV; Mead Substation access road and water 
 supply improvements, 58057 
 
             Laramie, WY; Miracle Mile-Cheyenne No. 1 transmission line, 
 58057, 69265 
 
         Power marketing plans: 
 
             Sierra Nevada Customer Service Region; call for 2005 
 resource pool applications, 56343, 69018 
 
             Sierra Nevada Region (2004), 34417 
 
         Power rate adjustments: 
 
             Amistad and Falcon Projects, 25320 
 
             Boulder Canyon Project; firm power services base charge and 
 rates, 14227, 70011 
 
             Desert Southwest Customer Service Region, 25323, 28469 
 
             Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project, 6344 
 
         Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects; power allocation 
 procedures and call for applications; post-2004 resource pool, 48825 
 
 
 
 
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 Workers' Compensation Programs Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Federal Employees Compensation Act: 
 
             Disability and death of noncitizen Federal employees outside 
 U.S.; compensation, correction, 12684