FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX, January--December, 1996
 
 
 
 
 
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 Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Construction safety and health standards: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 9228, 31427 
 
             General industry safety and health standards applicable to 
 construction work; incorporation, 41738 
 
             Scaffolds, 46026 
 
                 Correction and partial stay, 59831 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Administrative Review Board; establishment and review 
 procedures, 19982 
 
         Safety and health standards: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 9228, 31427 
 
             Grain handling facilities, 9578 
 
             Personal protective equipment for general industry, 19547 
 
                 Correction, 21228 
 
         Safety and health standards, etc.: 
 
             1,3-Butadiene (BD); occupational exposure, 56746 
 
             Asbestos; occupational exposure 
 
                 Correction, 43454 
 
             Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 5507 
 
         Shipyard employment safety and health standards: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 9228, 31427 
 
             Personal protective equipment, 26322 
 
                 Correction, 29957 
 
         State plans; development, enforcement, etc.: 
 
             Kentucky et al., 55098 
 
             Minnesota, 36824 
 
             North Carolina, 28053, 66593 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Construction safety and health standards: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 37849 
 
             Powered industrial truck operator training; public 
 hearing, 3094 
 
             Steel Erection Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee 
 
                 Re-establishment, 66002 
 
         Fire Protection in Shipyard Employment Negotiated Rulemaking 
 Advisory Committee 
 
             Intent to establish, 28824 
 
             Meetings, 28824, 45923, 69058 
 
         Occupational injury and illness; recording and reporting 
 requirements, 4030, 15435, 27850 
 
             Preliminary economic analysis; executive summary, 7758 
 
         Safety and health standards: 
 
             Exit routes (means of egress), 47712 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 37849 
 
         Safety and health standards, etc.: 
 
             1,3-Butadiene; occupational exposure, 9381, 15205 
 
             Powered industrial truck operator training -- 
 
                 Public hearing and comment period extended, 3092 
 
             Respiratory protection, 1725 
 
         State plans; development, enforcement, etc.: 
 
             California, 48443, 58358 
 
             North Carolina, 48446 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1604, 2267, 10384, 
 30261, 38225, 38226, 42063, 45988, 48983, 51305 
 
         Air contaminants; permissible exposure limits (PEL), 1947 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Maritime Advisory Committee, 3056 
 
             Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and 
 Health, 15523 
 
             Metalworking fluids, occupational exposure; standards 
 advisory committee, 45459 
 
         Emergency response plans: 
 
             National Response Team's integrated contingency plan 
 guidance; availability, 28642 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Construction Safety and Health Advisory Committee, 10600, 
 40863, 56065, 65083 
 
             Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and 
 Health, 15524 
 
             Occupational Safety and Health Maritime Advisory 
 Committee, 40662 
 
             Occupational Safety and Health National Advisory 
 Committee, 9199, 13221, 18628, 25507, 28600, 33541, 43080, 58223 
 
         Memorandums of understanding: 
 
             Energy Department, Environment, Safety and Health Office; 
 facilities and operations at Savannah River Site, SC, 15059 
 
             Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Energy Policy Act; gaseous 
 diffusion plants, 40249 
 
         Nationally recognized testing laboratories, etc.: 
 
             Canadian Standards Association, 36763, 59110 
 
             ETL Testing Laboratories, Inc., 41659 
 
             Inchcape Testing Services NA, Inc., 59111 
 
             MET Laboratories, Inc., 41661, 59114 
 
             Wyle Laboratories, 36764, 59115 
 
         State plans; development, enforcement, etc.: 
 
             California, 50335 
 
         State plans; standards approval, etc.: 
 
             Vermont, 47195 
 
             Washington, 8667 
 
 
 
 
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 Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 14024 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             E-Z Trial pilot program implementation and simplified 
 proceedings for adjudicative process; rules revision -- 
 
                 Pilot program extension, 50711 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 31192, 47988 
 
 
 
 
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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 the Special Counsel 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 68325 
 
 
 
 
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 Office of United States Trade Representative 
 
     See Trade Representative, Office of United States 
 
 
 
 
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 Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 36094, 54214 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 19319, 24329, 
 30257, 37767, 41652, 43075, 51129, 54215, 68053 
 
         Hearings, 58702 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 8986, 27097, 47177, 64364 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 25239 
  
 
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 Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Power plan amendments: 
 
             Northwest power in transition plan, 13892 
 
 
 
 
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 Panama Canal Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Debarment, suspension and ineligibility, 3846 
 
         Canal tolls rates and vessel measurement rules -- 
 
             Approval authority transfer from President to Canal 
 Commission, 16718 
 
         Health, sanitation, and communicable disease surveillance; and 
 radio communication: 
 
             Disinfecting vessels requirement; technical amendments, 
 36497 
 
         Shipping and navigation: 
 
             Canal tolls rates and vessel measurement rules -- 
 
                 Toll rate increase and on-deck container capacity 
 measurement, 60610 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23834, 63328 
 
         Shipping and navigation: 
 
             Canal tolls rates and vessel management rules -- 
 
                 Toll rates increase and on-deck container capacity 
 measurement, 46407, 53886 
 
 
 
 
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 Parole Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Federal prisoners; paroling and releasing, etc.: 
 
             Original jurisdiction cases procedures, 13763 
 
             Parole date advancements; substance abuse treatment 
 program completion, 4350 
 
             Transfer treaty cases; special transferee hearings, 38569, 
 54096 
 
                 Correction, 54096 
 
             Voting quorums establishment, 55742 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11064, 14346, 37290, 37291, 40451, 
 49155, 50053, 51721, 53935, 64534, 65421 
 
 
 
 
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 Patent and Trademark Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Communications with agency; mailroom site creation, 
 mailing addresses, etc., 56439 
 
         Patent cases: 
 
             Correspondence practice changes; signature and filing 
 requirements, 64027 
 
             Fee revisions, 39585 
 
                 Correction, 43400 
 
         Patent cases and secrecy of inventions and licenses to export 
 and file applications in foreign countries: 
 
             Patent applications; 18-month publication schedule, 42790 
 
         Patents: 
 
             Acquisition and protection of foreign rights in 
 inventions, licensing of foreign patents acquired by Government; CFR 
 parts removed 
 
                 Federal regulatory reform, 40997 
 
         Services of Process: 
 
             Testimony by employees and the production of documents in 
 legal proceedings; CFR parts removed, 42807 
 
         Trademark cases: 
 
             Opposition filing time extensions notice, consented 
 requests; proof of service requirement eliminated, 36825 
 
         Trademarks: 
 
             Fastener Quality Act -- 
 
                 Insignias of manufacturers and private label 
 distributors; recordation fees establishment, 55223 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Patent cases: 
 
             Fee revisions, 19224 
 
                 Correction, 20877 
 
             Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences; submission in 
 computer readable form, 51855 
 
         Patent practitioners; registration examination, continuing 
 education requirement, and annual fee, 51072 
 
         Patents: 
 
             Practice rules; assignment recording, and rights of 
 assignee and national and international patents and inventions; 
 Federal regulatory review, 49820 
 
         Trademarks: 
 
             Fastener Quality Act -- 
 
                 Insignias of manufacturers and private label 
 distributors; recordation fees establishment, 48872 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1749, 6632, 8260- 
 8262, 10430, 13156, 16759, 19261, 42007, 50807 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 28857, 37722, 
 40199 
 
         Applications, prima facie incomplete filing date; procedure 
 change, 30041 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Trademark Affairs Public Advisory Committee, 34801 
 
         Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring 
 Rights Questions: 
 
             Chairman's text; public briefing, 54159 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Nucleic acid sequences search systems, 8922 
 
         Patent cases: 
 
             Human drug products -- 
 
                 REMERON active ingredient; term extension, 8263 
 
             Nucleic acid sequences related issues patent protection; 
 hearings and comment request, 9980 
 
             Payor numbers; extension of use to matters involving 
 pending patent applications, 54622 
 
             Therapeutic and diagnostic methods; patent protection; 
 hearings and comment request, 10320 
 
         Patents: 
 
             Computer-generated icons; design patent applications; 
 examination guidelines, 11380 
 
             Computer-related inventions applications; examination 
 guidelines, 7478 
 
             Technical documentation; accessibility to patent examiners 
 and public; hearing and comment request, 19611 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 54626 
 
         Two-year exclusivity period claims: 
 
             G.D. Searle & Co.; oxaprozin, 25635 
 
 
 
 
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 Peace Corps 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23838, 63332 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 12114, 27939, 
 27940, 40865, 47215, 47216, 53984, 59251 
 
 
 
 
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 Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation 
 
     RULES 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Transfer of responsibilities to General Services 
 Administration et al.; effectiveness of regulations after agency 
 termination, 11308 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 5587 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 7305 
 
 
 
 
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 Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Employee Retirement Income Security Act: 
 
             Interpretive bulletins and regulations removed; Federal 
 regulatory reform, 33847 
 
             Participant investment education -- 
 
                 Investment-related information provision; interpretive 
 bulletin, 29586 
 
             Plan assets; participant contributions, 41220 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Employee Retirement Income Security Act: 
 
             Health insurance portability; comment request, 68697 
 
             Insurance company general accounts; clarification, 59845 
 
             Interpretive bulletins and regulations removal; Federal 
 regulatory review, 14690 
 
             Plan assets; participant contributions, 1879 
 
         Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- 
 
             Portability, access, and renewability provisions; comment 
 request, 68697 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 63870-63872 
 
         Employee benefit plans: 
 
             Form 5500 series filing requirement changes, 3735, 5808 
 
         Employee benefit plans; class exemptions: 
 
             Authorized transactions between plans and parties in 
 interest, 39988 
 
             Bank collective investment fund (CIF) conversion 
 transactions, 58224, 59244 
 
             Plan asset transactions determined by in-house asset 
 managers, 15975 
 
             Receipt of investment services by individuals for whose 
 benefit IRAs or KEOGHs have been established or maintained, 39996 
 
             Restoration of delinquent contributions to plans, 9199, 
 40459 
 
         Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions: 
 
             Aultman Retirement Savings Plan et al., 5572, 20276 
 
             Beall Corp., et al., 55321, 68787 
 
             Bill Ussery Motors Inc. et al., 31954 
 
             Biscayne Bay Pilots, Inc., et al., 18159 
 
             Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine et al., 3467, 14827 
 
             Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia et al., 25899, 
 64763 
 
             Budge Clinic, 10014 
 
             Chase Manhattan Bank et al., 47195, 59465 
 
             Dimensional Fund Advisors Inc. et al., 49155, 58231 
 
             Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States et al., 
 47205 
 
             Everett Clinic et al., 28237 
 
             First Hawaiian Bank et al., 3478 
 
             GE Capital Investment Advisors, Inc., et al., 59912 
 
             General Electric et al., 21501 
 
             General Motors et al., 11875 
 
             Hassan Zekavat, M.D., P.A., et al., 3483 
 
             Jacor Communications Inc. et al., 18421, 31958 
 
             Keebler Co., et al., 68791 
 
             Lehman Brothers, Inc., et al., 55325 
 
             Masters, Mates and Pilots, et al., 51463 
 
             Mewbourne Oil Co., Inc., 37924 
 
             Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. et al., 28243, 58237 
 
             NBD Bancorp et al., 8670 
 
             PaineWebber Inc., 40000 
 
             Pikeville National Bank & Trust Co., 57461 
 
             Real Estate Equity Trust No. 1 et al., 66314 
 
             RREEF USA Fund et al., 25909 
 
             RREEF USA Fund-I et al., 11878 
 
             San Diego National Bank et al., 20278, 36766 
 
             Smith Barney Shearson Prototype Defined Contribution Plan 
 et al., 54224, 66333 
 
             Society National Bank et al., 44081 
 
             Sprague Electric Co. et al., 28244 
 
             Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America et al., 
 54229 
 
             Wells Fargo Bank et al., 15123, 37933 
 
             Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al., 64150 
 
             Westinghouse Savannah River Co., 40005 
 
             Westinghouse Savannah River Co./Bechtel Savannah River, 
 Inc., et al., 49171 
 
             WLI Industries, Inc., et al., 3488 
 
             World Omni Financial Corp., 10025 
 
             Zekavat, Hassan, M.D., P.A., 51470 
 
             Zerhusen and Ghazi, M.D., Inc., 44085 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans Advisory 
 Council, 9203, 18161, 18162, 25912, 25918, 25919, 34880, 43386, 43387, 
 50053, 50053, 50054, 54237, 54238, 55017 
 
         Pension payback program; restoration of delinquent participant 
 contributions voluntary compliance program; adoption, 9203, 40462 
 
 
 
 
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 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 
 
     RULES 
 
         Multiemployer plans: 
 
             Late premium payments and employer liability underpayments 
 and overpayments; interest rates, 1126 
 
             Valuation of plan benefits and plan assets following mass 
 withdrawal -- 
 
                 Interest rates, 1127, 5945, 10674, 16388, 24444, 30160 
 
             Withdrawal liability; notice and collection; interest 
 rates, 16391 
 
         Regulations; reorganization, renumbering, and reinvention; 
 Federal regulatory reform, 34002 
 
             Correction, 36626, 37316, 37795, 67942 
 
         Single-employer plans: 
 
             Allocation of assets -- 
 
                 Benefits valuation for plan termination; expected 
 retirement age, 65476 
 
                 Benefits valuation for termination; interest rates, 
 36968, 48406 
 
                 Interest assumptions for valuing benefits, 58479 
 
                 Interest rates and assumptions, 65474 
 
                 Interest rates for valuing benefits, 42384, 53623 
 
             Disclosure to participants, 24694 
 
                 Terminated plans; benefits payable, 65473 
 
             Late premium payments and employer liability underpayments 
 and overpayments; interest rates, 1126, 16387 
 
             Reportable events and annual reporting requirements, 63988 
 
             Valuation of plan benefits -- 
 
                 Interest rates and factors, 1127, 5945, 10674, 16388, 
 21228, 24444, 25513, 30160 
 
             Withdrawal liability; notice and collection; interest 
 rates, 1129 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Premium payments: 
 
             Premium filings-rated information; submission of records, 
 66247 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23842, 63336 
 
         Single-employer plans: 
 
             Reportable events and annual reporting requirements, 38409 
 
             Reportable Events Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee 
 -- 
 
                 Meetings, 13117 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 15839, 59917 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 14164, 36771, 
 47774, 59252 
 
         Multiemployer plans: 
 
             Bond/escrow requirement; exemption requests -- 
 
                 Dunham-Bush, Inc., 67355 
 
                 St. Louis Cardinals, L.P., 38480, 53463 
 
                 Tuscan Dairy Farms, Inc., 38481, 53465 
 
             Interest rates and assumptions, 36970, 53772 
 
             Variable-rate premiums and benefits following mass 
 withdrawal; interest rates and assumptions, 42448, 48513, 58598, 65607 
 
         Premium-related information; penalties for failure to provide, 
 reassessment, 36837, 66338 
 
         Premiums payment and late payment or underpayment reduction 
 penalty charges; policy statement, 63874 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 18184, 53466 
 
         Single-employer plans: 
 
             Interest rates and assumptions, 36970, 53772 
 
         Waivers for major diaster area residents due to blizzard of 
 1996, 1414 
 
 
 
 
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 Personnel Management Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Absence and leave: 
 
             Family and Medical Leave Act; implementation, 64441 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Health benefits, Federal employees -- 
 
                 Suits brought by covered individuals because of health 
 benefit denial, 15196 
 
         Administrative law judge positions examination administration; 
 funding, 39267 
 
             Correction, 56271 
 
         Allowances and differentials: 
 
             Cost-of-living allowances and post differential; 
 nonforeign areas; partnership pilot project, 59173 
 
             Separate maintenance allowance for Johnston Island duty, 
 27243 
 
         Child support and/or alimony; garnishment orders; processing: 
 
             Legal process; designated agents lists, 67378 
 
                 Correction, 68821 
 
         Conflict of interests, 36993 
 
         Employment: 
 
             Career and career-conditional -- 
 
                 Former overseas employees; noncompetitive employment, 
 9321 
 
             Federal employees' political activities, permitted and 
 prohibited (1993 Hatch Act Reform Amendments), 35088 
 
             Federal employee training, 21947, 66189 
 
                 Correction, 68119, 68821 
 
             Federal employment information; agencies funding 
 requirements, 11499 
 
             Private sector temporaries; government use, 19509 
 
             Surplus and displaced Federal employees; career transition 
 assistance programs development; correction, 691 
 
         Federal civilian and uniformed service personnel; solicitation 
 for contributions to private voluntary organizations; correction, 4585 
 
         Health benefits, Federal employees: 
 
             Coverage continuance; leave without pay or insufficient 
 pay status; Agencies notification requirement, 37807 
 
             Disputed claims procedures and court actions, 15177 
 
             Family and Medical Leave Act; implementation, 64441 
 
             Inpatient hospital charges, physician charges, and FEHB 
 benefit payments; Medicare limitations, 50689 
 
             Legal actions; CFR correction, 25775 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Voting rights program; applications or complaints; Alameda 
 County, CA examination point designation, 11747 
 
         Organizations representing Federal employees and other 
 organizations; Agency relationships, 32913 
 
         Pay under General Schedule: 
 
             Locality-based comparability payments -- 
 
                 Interim geographic adjustments; termination, 3539, 
 34713, 50535, 51319, 52497, 53491 
 
                 Metropolitan areas; removed, 40949, 42939, 43574 
 
         Prevailing rate systems, 3175, 5921, 5922, 10879, 20701, 
 27243, 27995, 27996, 36609, 47661, 48817, 49649, 67447 
 
         Retirement: 
 
             Coverage elections by current and former nonappropriated 
 fund employees, 41714 
 
             Federal Employees Retirement System -- 
 
                 Alternative forms of annuity; critical medical 
 condition standards; establishment, 21953 
 
         Retirement, health benefits, and life insurance, Federal 
 employees: 
 
             Distirct of Columbia Financial Control Authority; employee 
 coverage as Federal employees, 58457 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Executive, management, and supervisory development, 46531 
 
         Voting rights program: 
 
             Jefferson and Galveston Counties, TX, 64998 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Health benefits, Federal employees -- 
 
                 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994; 
 implementing amendments, 32401 
 
         Allowances and differentials: 
 
             Cost-of-living allowances in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, 
 Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands; partnership pilot project, 41746 
 
         Employment: 
 
             Federal employment information; agencies funding 
 requirements, 546 
 
             Merit promotion program -- 
 
                 Internal merit selection procedures design, intensive 
 training programs use, and appointment-appropriate employee 
 assignment, 6324 
 
             Suitability, national security positions, and personnel 
 investigations -- 
 
                 National security and non-sensitive positions; 
 distinctions, 394 
 
             Temporary and term employment; appointment system 
 streamlining, 47450 
 
             Mobility assignments between Federal agencies and non- 
 Federal entities; appointment system streamling, 65189 
 
         Execepted service: 
 
             Schedule A authority for temporary organizations 
 positions, 63762 
 
         Health benefits, Federal employees: 
 
             Opportunities to enroll and change enrollment, 35973 
 
         Pay under General Schedule: 
 
             Locality-based comparability payments -- 
 
                 Metropolitan areas; removals, 55227 
 
         Prevailing rate systems, 4940 
 
         Retirement: 
 
             Civil Service Retirement System -- 
 
                 Merit Systems Protection Board direct appeals; claims 
 adjudication, 66948 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23810, 63306 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 423, 4689, 4690, 
 6662, 6663, 7284, 8082, 9507, 13223, 16655, 19963, 20867, 21507, 
 22076, 22077, 26549, 28910, 30645, 33550, 35817, 36771, 40865, 41664, 
 41812, 56574, 56575, 58599 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 6663, 14346, 
 15316, 22077, 26550, 27374, 27375, 30930, 35272, 37096, 42072, 46491, 
 48514, 53468, 56575, 56724, 60127, 66063, 66064 
 
         Agriculture Department; alternative personnel management 
 system; demonstration project, 9507, 49178 
 
         Allowances and differentials: 
 
             Cost-of-living allowances in Alaska; winter 1995 surveys 
 report; availability, 4070 
 
         Excepted service: 
 
             Schedules A, B, and C; positions placed or revoked -- 
 
                 Consolidated list, 46835 
 
                 Update, 565, 6663, 10601, 15529, 19963, 28251, 33150, 
 39483, 46491, 50886, 56575, 65249 
 
         Federal position classification structure; occupational series 
 reduction, 16654 
 
         Health benefits, Federal employees: 
 
             Medically underserved areas (CY 1997), 47530 
 
         Locality pay; President's Pay Agent; salary tables, 30645 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, 2848, 11067, 
 21507, 24837, 33550, 43565, 46669, 67584 
 
             Federal Salary Council, 8082, 34911, 49801 
 
             National Partnership Council, 1654, 4295, 5045, 9510, 
 15151, 19328, 35818, 46871, 52978, 56724, 64177 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Claims settlement procedures transferred from General 
 Accounting Office, 51730 
 
         Personnel management demonstration projects: 
 
             Air Force; Armstrong, Phillips, Rome and Wright science 
 and technology reinvention laboratories, 24622, 60400 
 
             Veterans Affairs Department; pay for applied skills system 
 -- 
 
                 New York and Detroit Benefits Regional Offices, 58942 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 35818, 50351, 50352, 60127 
 
             Systems of records, 9510, 36919 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Career positions reserved during 1995 list, 25018 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 37942 
 
 
 
 
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 Physician Payment Review Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 17737, 46669 
 
 
 
 
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 Postal Rate Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Domestic mail classification schedule -- 
 
                 Preferred rate mailers rates changes, etc.; 
 correction, 37316 
 
                 Revisions, 32656, 55100 
 
             Market testing; postal services, 24447 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Omnibus rate proceeding -- 
 
                 Cost attribution methods and rate design principles, 
 67760 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Complaints filed: 
 
             Coalition Against Unfair USPS Competition, 40671, 67356 
 
         Domestic mail classification schedule: 
 
             Preferred rate mailers rates changes, etc., 16129 
 
             Revisions, 67860 
 
             Special services fees and classifications, 31968, 42449 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 1256, 30104, 37097, 65092, 65093 
 
         Post office closings; petitions for appeal: 
 
             Atlantic, ME, 55175 
 
             Bruington, VA, 6397 
 
             Cuyama, CA, 59120 
 
             DiGiorgio, CA, 67584 
 
             Eagle Harbor, NY, 35819 
 
             Forest Grove, MT, 18632, 24341 
 
             Green Mountain, IA, 55175 
 
             Huntley, NE, 28910 
 
             Kemp, OK, 15151 
 
             Lewiston, NE, 28627 
 
             Moriah, NY, 40675 
 
             Morrison, IA, 2269 
 
             Oakley, IL, 64401 
 
             Oquossoc, ME, 7832 
 
             Plevna, MO, 66721 
 
             Salem, NE, 26939 
 
             Shiloh, VA, 42922 
 
             Templeville, MD, 57722 
 
             Trevett, ME, 30930 
 
             Walters, MN, 14586 
 
             West Rushville, OH, 35819 
 
         Visits to facilities, 16944, 19646 
 
 
 
 
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 Postal Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Board of Governors bylaws: 
 
             Conflict of interests and Sunshine Act provisions, 36498 
 
         Domestic Mail Manual: 
 
             Deposit, collection and delivery -- 
 
                 Packages weighing 16 ounces or more; deposit in 
 collection receptacles, restrictions, 52702 
 
             Experimental first-class and priority mail small parcel 
 automation rate category; zip code realignments in test areas, 17206, 
 53322 
 
             Mail classification reform; implementation standards, 
 10068, 17190, 42478, 48071, 64618 
 
             Mail preparation standards, etc., 48572, 60190 
 
                 Implementation standards, 67218 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 55750, 
 56450 
 
         Inspection Service/Inspector General authority: 
 
             Commercial espionage as criminal activity added to mail 
 cover regulations, 42557 
 
             Mail reasonably suspected of being dangerous to persons or 
 property; treatment, 28059 
 
         International Mail Manual: 
 
             Global Priority Mail -- 
 
                 Expansion, 14025 
 
             Implementation, 13775 
 
             International package consignment service -- 
 
                 Additional destination countries, 13765, 39592, 55572 
 
                 Implementation, 36500 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Domestic Mail Manual: 
 
             Address correction information requests by mailers, 53280 
 
             Mail classification reform; implementation standards, 
 32606 
 
             Mail with insufficient postage deposited for delivery; 
 treatment, 15205 
 
         Inspection Service/Inspector General authority: 
 
             Commercial espionage as criminal activity added to mail 
 cover regulations, 21404 
 
         Organization and administration: 
 
             Mail reasonably suspected of being dangerous to persons or 
 property; treatment, 7452 
 
         Postal electronic commerce services; electronic postmark 
 services prototype system test, 42219 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Domestic mail classification and rates, 10220, 42464 
 
         Domestic Mail Manual: 
 
             Postage meters manufacture and use -- 
 
                 Postal security devices and indicia (postmarks); 
 specifications, 34460, 36940, 44094, 53468, 55676 
 
             Transition book; revision, 55053 
 
         Domestic rates, fees, and mail classifications: 
 
             Experimental first-class and priority mail small parcel 
 automation rate category, 17210 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 2581, 3088, 5605, 6297, 6894, 10406, 
 11906, 16655, 16944, 18185, 24341, 25928, 31979, 33783, 36586, 38232, 
 38482, 42072, 43566, 50353, 54245, 56576, 56577, 58431, 58715, 59473, 
 65092, 68071 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 9736 
 
             Systems of records, 10038, 24837, 29774, 31562, 39674, 
 52069 
 
 
 
 
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 Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 195, 2549, 7284, 9737, 15316, 25720, 28911, 34461, 
 37942, 41812, 47216, 52816 
 
 
 
 
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 Presidential Documents 
 
     PROCLAMATIONS 
 
         Bulgaria; extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most- 
 favored-nation treatment) to products of (Proc. 6922), 51205 
 
         Burma: 
 
             Suspension of entry of certain persons into U.S. as 
 immigrants and nonimmigrants who formulate or implement policies that 
 are impeding the transition to democracy or who benefit from such 
 policies (Proc. 6925), 52233 
 
         Cuba; national emergency and emergency authority relating to 
 regulations of anchorage and movement of vessels (Proc. 6867), 8843 
 
         Feed grain from the disaster reserve; state of emergency 
 declaration and release of (Proc. 6907), 35083 
 
         Generalized System of Preferences; amendments (Proc. 6942), 
 54719 
 
         Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, establishment 
 (Proc. 6920), 50223 
 
         Imports and exports: 
 
             Broom corn brooms, imports (Proc. 6961), 64431 
 
             Harmonized Tariff Schedule of U.S.; amendments (Proc. 
 6948), 56385 
 
         Israel: 
 
             Implementing the U.S.-Israel agreement on trade in 
 agricultural products (Proc. 6962), 64581 
 
         Romania; extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most- 
 favored-nation treatment) to products of (Proc. 6951), 58129 
 
         Sudan; suspension of entry of certain persons as immigrants 
 and nonimmigrants who are members or officials of the government or 
 armed forces (Proc. 6958), 60007 
 
         Tariff-rate quotas for certain cheeses (Proc. 6914), 45851 
 
         West Bank and the Gaza Strip and qualifying industrial zones; 
 duty-free treatment to products (Proc. 6955), 58761 
 
         Special observances: 
 
             Adoption Month, National (Proc. 6947), 56383 
 
             African American History Month, National (Proc. 6863), 
 3777 
 
             America Goes Back to School (Proc. 6915), 48063 
 
             American Heart Month (Proc. 6864), 4347 
 
             American Indian Heritage Month, National (Proc. 6949), 
 56397 
 
             American Red Cross Month (Proc. 6866), 7685 
 
             Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (Proc. 6892), 21045 
 
             Boorda, Admiral Jeremy M., death of (Proc. 6898), 25767 
 
             Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National (Proc. 6926), 
 52675 
 
             Burke, Admiral Arleigh A.; death of (Proc. 6860), 381 
 
             Cancer Control Month (Proc. 6875), 14603 
 
             Captive Nations Week (Proc. 6909), 38049 
 
             Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Day (Proc. 
 6905), 32911 
 
             Character Counts Week, National (Proc. 6937), 54069 
 
             Child Abuse Prevention Month, National (Proc. 6881), 16037 
 
             Child Health Day, (Proc. 6933), 53301 
 
             Children's Day, National (Proc. 6939), 54073 
 
             Citizenship Day and Constitution Week (Proc. 6917), 49405 
 
             Columbus Day (Proc. 6940), 54075 
 
             Consumers Week, National (Proc. 6945), 55077 
 
             Crime Victims' Rights Week, National (Proc. 6888), 18045 
 
             D.A.R.E. Day, National (Proc. 6882), 16611 
 
             Day of Concern About Young People and Gun Violence, 
 National (Proc. 6935), 53593 
 
             Day of Prayer, National (Proc. 6877), 15175 
 
             Day of Remembrance of the Oklahoma City Bombing, National 
 (Proc. 6880), 16035 
 
             Death of Those Aboard U.S. Air Force Aircraft in Croatia 
 (Proc. 6878), 15363 
 
             Defense Transportation Day, National, and National 
 Transportation Week (Proc. 6896), 25129 
 
             Disability Employment Awareness Month, National (Proc. 
 6929), 53291 
 
             Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National (Proc. 6927), 
 52677 
 
             Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month, National 
 (Proc. 6960), 64245 
 
             Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A. (Proc. 6876), 14605 
 
             Family Caregivers Week, National (Proc. 6953), 58313 
 
             Family Week, National (Proc. 6956), 59301 
 
             Farm-City Week, National (Proc. 6952), 58311 
 
             Farm Safety and Health Week, National (Proc. 6916), 48815 
 
             Father's Day (Proc. 6904), 30797 
 
             Fire Prevention Week (Proc. 6930), 53293 
 
             Flag Day and National Flag Week (Proc. 6903), 29633 
 
             Forest Products Week, National (Proc. 6944), 54927 
 
             Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, National (Proc. 
 6879), 15871 
 
             General Pulaski Memorial Day (Proc. 6936), 53825 
 
             German-American Day (Proc. 6931), 53295 
 
             Gold Star Mother's Day (Proc. 6923), 51347 
 
             Great American Smokeout Day, National (Proc. 6957), 59803 
 
             Greek Independence Day (Proc. 6873), 13383 
 
             Hispanic Heritage Month, National (Proc. 6919), 49647 
 
             Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, 
 National (Proc. 6921), 50419 
 
             Honoring the Filipino Veterans of World War II (Proc. 
 6943), 54925 
 
             Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights 
 Week (Proc. 6964), 65455 
 
             Irish-American Heritage Month (Proc. 6868), 8847 
 
             Jewish Heritage Week (Proc. 6887), 18043 
 
             Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, National (Proc. 6910), 
 39551 
 
             Labor History Month (Proc. 6891), 20419 
 
             Law Day, U.S.A. (Proc. 6890), 19803 
 
             Leif Erikson Day (Proc. 6934), 53591 
 
             Loyalty Day (Proc. 6889), 19503 
 
             Maritime Day, National (Proc. 6900), 26067 
 
             Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday (Proc. 6861), 
 1207 
 
             Minority Enterprise Development Week (Proc. 6913), 44143 
 
             Mother's Day (Proc. 6893), 21047 
 
             Muskie, Edmund Sixtus; death of (Proc. 6874), 14233 
 
             National Park Week (Proc. 6870), 9899 
 
             Older Americans Month (Proc. 6894), 24661 
 
             Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, National (Proc. 
 6886), 18041 
 
             Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1996 (Proc. 6884), 
 16615 
 
             Parents' Day, (Proc. 6911), 39553 
 
             Pay Inequity Awareness Day, National (Proc. 6883), 16613 
 
             Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week (Proc. 6895), 
 24663 
 
             Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, National (Proc. 6963), 64957 
 
             Poison Prevention Week, National (Proc. 6871), 10445 
 
             POW/MIA Recognition Day, National (Proc. 6918), 49407 
 
             Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day (Proc. 6901), 26769 
 
             Religious Freedom Day (Proc. 6862), 1271 
 
             Roosevelt History Month (Proc. 6928), 53289 
 
             Safe Boating Week, National (Proc. 6897), 25765 
 
             Saudi Arabia, victims of the bombing (Proc. 6906), 33823 
 
             Save Your Vision Week (Proc. 6869), 8849 
 
             School Lunch Week, National (Proc. 6938), 54071 
 
             Small Business Week (Proc. 6902), 28465 
 
             Smithsonian Institution, 150th Anniversary (Proc. 6865), 
 5269 
 
             Student Voter Education Day, National (Proc. 6924), 51767 
 
             Thanksgiving Day (Proc. 6954), 58455 
 
             United Nations Day (Proc. 6946), 55545 
 
             Unity, A National Month of (Proc. 6908), 35587 
 
             Veterans Day (Proc. 6950), 56873 
 
             Volunteer Week, National (Proc. 6885), 17545 
 
             White Cane Safety Day (Proc. 6941), 54077 
 
             Wildlife Refuge Week, National (Proc. 6932), 53297 
 
             Women's Equality Day, 1996 (Proc. 6912), 43645 
 
             Women's History Month (Proc. 6872), 11707 
 
             World AIDS Day (Proc. 6959), 63691 
 
             World Trade Week (Proc. 6899), 25769 
 
             Wright Brothers Day (Proc. 6965), 66865 
 
     EXECUTIVE ORDERS 
 
         Alternative fueled vehicles, Federal leadership (EO 13021), 
 66529 
 
         Armed Forces Reserve Medal; eligibility requirements (EO 
 13013), 41483 
 
         Armed Forces Service Medal; establishment (EO 12985), 1209 
 
         Civil Justice Reform (EO 12988), 4729 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Bioethics Advisory Commission, National; amendment (EO 
 13018), 49045 
 
             Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care 
 Industry, Advisory Commission on (EO 13017), 47659 
 
             Counter-Narcotics, President's Council on; establishment 
 (EO 12992), 11287 
 
             HIV/AIDS, Presidential Advisory Council on; amendment to 
 EO 12963 (EO 13009), 30799 
 
             Mental Retardation, President's Committee on; continuation 
 (EO 12994), 13047 
 
             National Railway Labor Conference; labor disputes -- 
 
                 Emergency board establishment (EOs 13001, 13003, 
 13004, 13027), 21943, 25131, 25771, 58971 
 
             President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure 
 Protection; amendment (EO 13025), 58623 
 
                 Protection, establishment (EO 13010), 37347 
 
             President's Drug Policy Council; expansion and name change 
 (EO 13023), 57767 
 
             President's Export Council; amendment (EO 12991), 9587 
 
             Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority; labor 
 disputes, emergency board establishment (EO 13012), 38051 
 
             Tribal Colleges and Universities, Presidential Board of 
 Advisors on (EO 13021), 54929 
 
             United States -- Pacific Trade and Investment Policy, 
 Commission on; amendment (EOs 12987 and 13032), 4205, 68985 
 
             White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (EO 
 13015), 43937 
 
         Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EO 13028), 64589 
 
         Europe, Organization for Security and Cooperation; 
 Implementation of Annex 1 (EO 13029), 64591 
 
         Export controls; administration (EO 13020), 54079 
 
             Encryption (EO 13026), 58767 
 
         Export controls administration; encryption (EO 13026), 58767 
 
         Export controls and foreign assistance; administration (EO 
 13030), 66187 
 
         Federal facilities; locating on historic properties in central 
 cities (EO 13006), 26071 
 
         Federal procurement; empowerment contracting (EO 13005), 26069 
 
         Government agencies and employees: 
 
             Commerce Secretary, designation of officers to act as; 
 amendment (EO 12998), 15873 
 
             Competitive appointments of students who have completed 
 approved career-related work study programs (EO 13024), 58125 
 
             Contracts; Immigration and Naturalization Act provisions 
 compliance (EO 12989), 6091 
 
             Defense Secretary, order of succession of officers to act 
 as (EO 13000), 18483 
 
             Education technology; transfer of excess and surplus 
 computer equipment and employee assistance to classrooms (EO 12999), 
 17227 
 
             Federal Acquisition, Recycling, and Waste Prevention; 
 amendment (EO 12995), 13645 
 
             Federal information technology (EO 13011), 37657 
 
             Inspectors General; administrative allegations against (EO 
 12993), 13043 
 
             Pay and allowance rates (EOs 12984 and 13033), 237, 68987 
 
                 Uniform services (EO 12990), 8467 
 
             Wildlife Refuge System, National; management and general 
 public use (EO 12996), 13647 
 
         Indian sacred sites (EO 13007), 26771 
 
         International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural 
 Resources; immunity from suit (EO 12986), 16934 
 
         Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization; designation 
 as a public international organization (EO 12997), 14949 
 
         Midway Islands; administration (EO 13022), 56875 
 
         Narcotics control policies (EO 13008), 28721 
 
         Superfund implementation: 
 
             National Contingency Plan National Response Team; 
 authority delegations (EO 13016), 45871 
 
         Supporting Families: 
 
             Collecting Delinquent Child Support Obligations (EO 
 13019), 51763 
 
         Taiwan; maintaining unofficial relations with the people of 
 (EO 13014), 42963 
 
         Vietnam and adjacent waters; termination of combat zone 
 designation (EO 13002), 24665 
 
     ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS 
 
         Air Force, operating location near Groom Lake, NV, classified 
 information (Presidential Determination No. 96-54 of September 28, 
 1996), 52679 
 
         Alaskan North Slope crude oil exports (Memorandum of April 28, 
 1996), 19507 
 
         Albania; reconfirmation of findings with respect to trade 
 agreement (Presidential Determination No. 96-44 of August 27, 1996), 
 45859 
 
         Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakstan, 
 Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, and Tajikistan; Trade Act of 1974: 
 
             Continuation of waiver authority (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-30 of June 3, 1996), 29457 
 
         Angola, National Union for the Total Independence of (UNITA); 
 continuation of emergency with U.S. (Notice of September 16, 1996), 
 49047 
 
         Anti-Economic Discrimination Act of 1994; suspending 
 prohibitions on certain sales and leases (Presidential Determination 
 No. 96-23 of April 30, 1996), 26029 
 
         Argentina-U.S. nuclear energy cooperation agreement 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-12 of February 28, 1996), 9887 
 
         Armenia; reconfirmation of findings with respect to trade 
 agreement (Presidential Determination No. 96-47 of August 27, 1996), 
 45865 
 
         Belarus; renewal of trade agreement (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-15 of March 7, 1996), 49935 
 
         Bosnia and Herzegovina: 
 
             Compliance on withdrawal of foreign forces and terminating 
 intelligence cooperation with Iran (Presidential Determination No. 96- 
 34 of June 26, 1966), 36493 
 
             Eligibility to be furnished defense articles and services 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-10 of February 23, 1996), 8463 
 
             Receipt of defense articles and services from Department 
 of Defense (Presidential Determination No. 96-39 of July 6, 1996), 
 38053 
 
             Revitalization; aggregate bilateral contributions 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-40 of July 8, 1996), 38055 
 
         Broom corn brooms: 
 
             Action under section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974 
 (Memorandum of November 28, 1996), 64439 
 
             Determinations under section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974 
 and section 304 of the North American Free Trade Act (Memorandum of 
 August 30, 1996), 46697 
 
         Cambodia; military drawdown for POW/MIA purposes (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-50 of September 4, 1996), 48601 
 
         China: 
 
             Export-Import Bank loan for equipment and services for 
 Yangcheng power plant (Presidential Determination No. 97-3 of November 
 11, 1996), 59805, 59807 
 
             Export-Import Bank loan for equipment and services for 
 Xiaolangdi hydroelectric power plant in Henan (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-38 of June 29, 1996), 36991 
 
             Export-Import Bank loan for Nantong II power plant in 
 Jiangsu Province (Presidential Determination No. 96-35 of June 26, 
 1996), 36495 
 
             Export-Import Bank loan for plant equipment and services 
 at Qinshan II nuclear power plant (Presidential Determination No. 96- 
 37 of June 29, 1996), 36989 
 
             Reconfirmation of findings with respect to Trade Agreement 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-33 of June 21, 1996), 32631 
 
             Trade Act of 1974 restrictions; continuation of waiver 
 authority (Presidential Determination No. 96-29 of May 31, 1996), 
 29455 
 
         Colombia; significant narcotics traffickers; continuation of 
 emergency (Notice of October 16, 1996), 54531 
 
         Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and countries of Eastern Caribbean; 
 antinarcotics assistance (Presidential Determination No. 96-57 of 
 September 30, 1996), 56865 
 
         Debt amount owed to U.S. by poorest countries, reduction; 
 authority delegation to Secretary of Treasury (Memorandum of July 8, 
 1996), 38563 
 
         Economic Community of West African States' Peacekeeping Force; 
 drawdown of Defense articles and services (Presidential Determination 
 Nos. 96-55 and 96-56 of September 30, 1996), 56861, 56863 
 
         Endangered Species Act of 1973: 
 
             Suspension of proviso limiting implementation of certain 
 sections, contained in Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and 
 Appropriations Act of 1996 (Memorandum of April 26, 1996), 24667 
 
         Eritrea, Ethiopa, and Uganda; authorization to be furnished 
 emergency military assistance (Presidential Determination No. 96-53 of 
 September 26, 1996), 56859 
 
         Export control regulations; continuation of national emergency 
 (Notice of August 14, 1996), 42527 
 
         Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
 Appropriations Act, 1996: 
 
             Delegation of authority (Memorandum of November 20, 1996), 
 64247 
 
             Determination pursuant to section 523 (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-19 of March 19, 1996), 14235, 64247 
 
         Georgia; findings with respect to trade agreement 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-49 of August 27, 1996), 45869 
 
         Germany; delegation of authority to identify Germany under 
 title VII and modify or restrict title VII trade action taken against, 
 35079 
 
         Government agencies and employees: 
 
             Classified national security information (Order of 
 February 27, 1996), 7977 
 
         Haiti: 
 
             Delegation of authority under Foreign Operations, Export 
 Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 (Memorandum of 
 February 5, 1996), 5669 
 
             Drawdown of commodities and services from the Departments 
 of State, the Treasury, Defense, and Justice (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-52 of September 12, 1996), 50417 
 
         Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996; delegation of 
 responsibilities (memorandum of November 21, 1996), 64249 
 
         Iran emergency; continuation (Notices of March 8, 1996 and 
 October 29, 1996), 9897, 56107 
 
         Iraqi emergency; continuation (Notice of July 22, 1996), 38561 
 
         Iraq, northern: 
 
             Drawdown of commodities from the Department of Defense to 
 support peace monitoring force (Presidential Determination No. 96-29 
 of May 31, 1996), 67685 
 
         Israel: 
 
             Agreement governing Arrow Deployability Program 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-27 of May 28, 1996), 29001 
 
             Drawdown of commodities and services from the Departments 
 of Defense (including defense articles, defense services, and 
 training), Treasury, Transportation, and Justice (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-17 of March 7, 1996), 11123 
 
         Israel; loan guarantee authority (Presidential Determination 
 No. 96-58 of September 30, 1996), 56867 
 
         Jordan; designation as major non-NATO ally (Presidential 
 Determination No. 97 - 4 of November 12, 1996), 59809 
 
         Jordan; eligibility to be furnished defense articles and 
 services (Presidential Determination No. 96-11 of February 23, 1996), 
 8465 
 
         Kazakhstan; renewal of trade agreement (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-16 of March 7, 1996), 49937 
 
         Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization; U.S. 
 contribution (Presidential Determination 96-21 of April 4, 1996), 
 26021, 27767 
 
         Kyrgyzstan; reconfirmation of findings with respect to trade 
 agreement (Presidential Determination No. 96-45 of August 27, 1996), 
 45861 
 
         Libya; continuation of state of emergency with U.S. (Notice of 
 January 3, 1996), 383 
 
         Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of; elegibility to receive 
 defense articles and services (Presidential Determination No. 96-18 of 
 March 8, 1996), 11497 
 
         Mexico: 
 
             Drawdown of articles, services, military education and 
 training from Defense Department (Presidential Determination No. 97-9 
 of December 2, 1996), 65149 
 
             Drug control cooperation (Memorandum of April 8, 1996), 
 16039 
 
         Middle East Peace process; continuation of emergency regarding 
 terrorists who threaten to disrupt (Notice of January 18, 1996), 1695 
 
         Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962; availability of 
 funds (Presidential Determination No. 97-8 of November 27, 1996), 
 65147 
 
         Mojave National Preserve: 
 
             Suspension of Subsection 119(a) Department of the Interior 
 and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Memorandum of April 26, 
 1996), 24875 
 
         Moldova; reconfirmation of findings with respect to trade 
 agreement (Presidential Determination No. 96-48 of August 27, 1996), 
 45867 
 
         Mongolia; emigration policies; determination under Trade Act 
 of 1974 (Presidential Determination No. 96-51 of September 4, 1996), 
 48603 
 
         Narcotics; major producing and transit countries, 
 certification (Presidential Determination No. 96-13 of March 1, 1996), 
 9891 
 
         National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996; 
 delegation of authorities to Secretary of State (Memorandum of April 
 1, 1996), 26017 
 
         National Parks: 
 
             Public-private partnerships (Memorandum of April 22, 
 1996), 18231 
 
             Transportation impact; planning (Memorandum of April 22, 
 1996), 18229 
 
         Palestine Liberation Organization: 
 
             Suspending restriction on relations with U.S. 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-41 of August 12, 1996), 43137 
 
                 (Presidential Determination No. 96-20 of April 1, 
 1996), 26019 
 
                 (Presidential Determination No. 96-32 of June 14, 
 1996), 32629 
 
                 (Presidential Determination No. 96-8 of January 4, 
 1996), 2889 
 
                 Delegation of responsibilities to Secretary of State 
 (Memorandum of February 29, 1996), 9889 
 
         Refugee admissions numbers and authorizations of in-country 
 refugee status (Presidential Determination No. 96-59 of September 30, 
 1996), 56869 
 
         Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States; certification 
 of troop withdrawal from Latvia and Estonia (Presidential 
 Determination No. 96-31 of June 6, 1996), 30127 
 
         Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991; delegation of 
 authority to Secretary of State (Memorandum of May 10, 1996), 26033 
 
         Soviet Union, New Independent States of the Former; foreign 
 assistance (Presidential Determination No. 96-24 of May 9, 1996), 
 26031, 59171 
 
             Assistance program (Presidential Determination No. 96-14 
 of March 1, 1996), 9893 
 
         Tajikistan; findings with respect to Trade Agreement 
 (Presidential Determination No. 97-7 of November 26, 1996), 63695 
 
         Tongass National Forest: 
 
             Suspension of subsection 325(a) and (b) of the Department 
 of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
 (Memorandum of April 26, 1996), 19505 
 
         Trading With the Enemy Act; extension of the exercise of 
 certain authorities (Presidential Determination No. 96-43 of August 
 27, 1996), 46529 
 
         Turkey; waiver of statutory restrictions to permit assistance 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-25 of May 16, 1996), 27001 
 
         Turkmenistan; findings with respect to Trade Agreement 
 (Presidential Determination 97-5 of November 20, 1996), 59303 
 
         Ukraine; reconfirmation of findings with respect to trade 
 agreement (Presidential Determination No. 96-46 of August 27, 1996), 
 45863 
 
         Uzbekistan; findings with respect to Trade Agreement 
 (Presidential Determination No. 97-6 of November 26, 1996), 63693 
 
         Vietnam: 
 
             Cooperation in accounting for POW/MIA (Presidential 
 Determination No. 97-10 of December 3, 1996), 29453, 65151 
 
             Military drawdown for POW/MIA location efforts 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-42 of August 24, 1996), 46699 
 
         Weapons of mass destruction; continuation of emergency (Notice 
 of November 12, 1996), 58309 
 
         Wheat reserve release (Presidential Determination No. 96-9 of 
 January 22, 1996), 4207 
 
         Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of (Serbia and Montenegro) and 
 Bosnian Serbs; continuation of emergency (Notice of May 24, 1996), 
 2887, 26773 
 
         Yugoslavia, former; refugee and migration assistance 
 (Presidential Determination No. 96-22 of April 18, 1996), 26027 
 
 
 
 
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 President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 53242, 56976 
 
 
 
 
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 President's Council on Sustainable Development 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 24839, 50354, 59473 
 
 
 
 
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 Prisons Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         Contact with persons in community: 
 
             Incoming publications; nudity or sexually explicit 
 material or information; distribution to inmates, 57568 
 
         Inmate control, custody, care, etc.: 
 
             Acts of violence and terrorism prevention, 25120 
 
             Administrative remedy program, 86 
 
             Central inmate monitoring system, 40142 
 
             Classification and program review, inmate discipline, 
 etc.; Federal regulatory reform, 47794 
 
             Drug abuse treatment programs and early release 
 consideration, 25121 
 
             Education tests; minimum standards for administration, 
 interpretation, and use; regulation rescinded, 47795 
 
             Hostage situation management, 38042 
 
             Inmate organizations -- 
 
                 Fund-raising activities; prohibition, 11274 
 
                 Intensive confinement center program, 18658 
 
             Inmate restraints application and use of force, 39800 
 
             Medical services -- 
 
                 Plastic surgery, 13322 
 
             Records access and information release, 64950 
 
             Release from custody -- 
 
                 Standarized release preparation program; exceptions, 
 38042 
 
             Telephone regulations and inmate financial responsibility 
 -- 
 
                 Effective date delayed, 90 
 
             Unescorted transfers and voluntary surrenders, 64953 
 
             Work and compensation -- 
 
                 Drug abuse treatment programs and pretrial inmates, 
 378 
 
         Institutional management: 
 
             Food service; special food or meals, 16374 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Inmate control, custody, care, etc.: 
 
             Authorized personal property lists standardization and 
 transportation procedures, 14440 
 
             Correspondence of pretrial inmates; restricted special 
 mail procedures, 5846, 64954 
 
             Inmate legal activities and inmate personal property, 
 56096 
 
             Records access and information release, 32258 
 
             Telephone and commisary privileges limitations; inmate 
 financial responsibility, 92 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Martin County, KY, 43267 
 
         Inmate control, custody, care, etc.: 
 
             Incarceration cost; annual fee determination, 39802 
 
 
 
 
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 Prospective Payment Assessment Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 15840, 28252, 36940, 51731, 64401 
 
 
 
 
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 Public Debt Bureau 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 53262 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 32478 
 
 
 
 
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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 
 
     RULES 
 
         Fellowships, internships, training: 
 
             National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 
 hazardous substances basic research and training grants, 55113 
 
             National Institutes of Health training grants, 55110 
 
         Grants: 
 
             Investigators; conflict of interests; CFR correction, 
 56631 
 
             National Institutes of Health center grants, 55106 
 
             Nurse practitioner and nurse midwifery programs, 51787 
 
             Public health and allied health personnel training, 6118 
 
                 Correction, 9532, 51020 
 
             Research projects grants, 55102 
 
             Teaching facilities construction, educational 
 improvements, scholarships and student loans -- 
 
                 Correction, 9532 
 
         Interstate shipment of etiologic agents: 
 
             Facilities transferring or receiving select infectious 
 agents; additional requirements, 55190 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Senior Biomedical Research Service; establishment, 6556 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Interstate shipment of etiologic agents: 
 
             Facilities transferring or receiving select infectious 
 agents; additional requirements, 29327 
 
         Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; operation 
 framework and Federal oversight provisions: 
 
             Human liver allocation policies, 58158 
 
         Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: 
 
             Vaccine injury table revision, 4249 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 29103 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             National Vaccine Advisory Committee, 64919 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             ASPIRA Association, Inc., 60110 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Family planning services personnel training program, 14212 
 
         Indian Health Service facilities; inpatient and outpatient 
 medical care; reimbursement rates (CY 1996), 30088, 33130 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             National Bioethics Advisory Commission, 63853, 63854 
 
             National Toxicology Program; Scientific Counselors Board, 
 11216, 17314, 29413, 55165, 58698, 58698 
 
         National toxicology program: 
 
             Annual plan (FY 1995); availability, 28883 
 
             Biennial Report on Carcinogens; criteria and process used 
 in listing substances, 50499 
 
             Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies -- 
 
                 1-Amino-2,4-dibromoanthraquinone, 66055 
 
                 2,2-Bis(Bromomethyl)-1,3-Propanediol, 66056 
 
                 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, etc. (skin paint 
 studies of mice), 50500 
 
                 Acetonitrile, 50500 
 
                 Allyl bromide, etc., 22066 
 
                 Benzethonium chloride, 19306 
 
                 Codeine, 66055 
 
                 Diethylphthalate, etc., 19305 
 
                 Isobutyl nitrite, 66055 
 
                 Methylphenidate hydrochloride, 19306 
 
                 Nickel oxide, 66054 
 
                 Nickel subsulfide, 66054 
 
                 Nickel sulfate hexahydrate, 66056 
 
                 O-Benzyl-p-chlorophenol, 19306 
 
                 T-Butyl alcohol, 19305 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48959, 49785 
 
             National Institutes of Health, 14804, 19944, 25234, 36737, 
 42433, 47952, 54451, 58078, 58079, 65071 
 
         Secretary's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 
 Objectives for 2010; establishment, 54668 
 
         Xenotransplantation, infectious disease issues; guideline 
 availability, 49920 
  
 
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 Railroad Retirement Board 
 
     RULES 
 
         Prohibition of Cigarette Sales to Minors in Federal Buildings 
 and Lands Act; implementation, 8213, 54732 
 
         Public information availability; fee schedule, 25390 
 
         Railroad Retirement Act: 
 
             Railroad employers' reports and responsibilities -- 
 
                 Payroll records disposal or utilization, 31395 
 
         Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: 
 
             Employers' contributions and contribution reports -- 
 
                 Unemployment contributions based on experience rating 
 system, 20070 
 
             Representative payee program administration, 42377 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 54745 
 
         Public information availability; fee schedule, 1252 
 
         Railroad Retirement Act: 
 
             Railroad employers' reports and responsibilities -- 
 
                 Payroll records disposal or utilization, 5970 
 
         Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: 
 
             Representative payee program administration, 16067 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23850, 63342 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 1415, 1416, 2270, 
 4690, 7026, 7833, 9209, 9210, 10826, 15152, 16273, 16274, 25928, 
 37498, 37499, 40866, 43095, 43096, 45463, 51731, 55677, 57927, 64177, 
 64401, 67079, 68071 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 423, 3739, 
 4690, 4691, 5046, 15151, 15152, 15530, 16655, 19965, 24839, 25929, 
 29144, 29145, 30104, 33550, 35820, 40469, 50516, 51311, 54466, 54825, 
 56977, 58599, 60128, 67363 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Actuarial Advisory Committee, 11068, 56253 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 1206, 5838, 7049, 10406, 11437, 20867, 
 31192, 36399, 37540, 42290, 47988, 58431, 65250 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 36772, 42666, 57927 
 
             Systems of records, 45463, 60129 
 
         Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: 
 
             Employer contribution rates, 64547 
 
             Monthly compensation base and other determinations (CY 
 1997), 58911 
 
         Supplemental annuity program; determination of quarterly rate 
 of excise tax, 9737, 28911, 46871, 65422 
 
 
 
 
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 Reclamation Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acreage limitation: 
 
             Reclamation reform administration and settlement contract 
 requirements, 66754 
 
         Water conservation rules and regulations: 
 
             Reclamation reform administration and settlement contract 
 requirements, 66754 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Acreage limitation: 
 
             Large trusts with landholdings; compliance, 66827 
 
         Newlands Reclamation Project, NV; operating criteria and 
 procedures adjustments, 64832 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 9485, 31950, 68052 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 35249, 35250, 
 57700 
 
         Central Valley Project Improvement Act: 
 
             Water conservation plans; evaluation criteria; decision, 
 6385, 26931, 50329 
 
         Colorado River Reservoirs; coordinated long-range operating 
 criteria; review, 43073 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Yakima River Basin Water Conservation Advisory Group; 
 meetings, 16934, 50330 
 
                 Schedule, 50330 
 
         Contract negotiations: 
 
             Tabulation of water service and repayment; quarterly 
 status, 4281, 19087, 41424, 55651 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Acreage limitation and water conservation rules and 
 regulations; 17 Western states, 4677 
 
             American River Bridge Crossing Project, CA, 53385 
 
             American River, CA; water resources investigation; 
 workshops and hearings, 8972 
 
             Animas-La Plata Project, CO and NM, 19636, 34445 
 
             Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge mitigation project, ND, 
 et al., 
 
             Boise Project, ID; Cascade Reservoir travel management 
 plan, 171 
 
             Central Valley, CA; American River Water Resources 
 investigation, 4677 
 
             Interim South Delta Program, CA, 42913, 52955, 66059 
 
             Lower Colorado River, CO; biological assessment of 
 operations, maintenance, and sensitive species, 16511 
 
             Maricopa County, AZ; Ak-Chin Indian community, 53756 
 
             Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project; AZ, 56704 
 
             San Jose, CA; South Bay water recycling project, 25687 
 
             Southern Nevada Water Authority treatment and transmission 
 facility, 51128 
 
             Stanislaus and Calaveras Rivers, CA; water use program, 
 41426 
 
             Tongue River Basin Project, MT, 13212 
 
             Yakima River Basin, WA; water enhancement project, 19957, 
 16111 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             CALFED Bay-Delta Program, CA, 10379 
 
             Elephant Butte and Caballo Reservoirs, NM, 37923 
 
                 Rio Grande floodway, etc., 65234 
 
             Loup Basin Reclamation District, NE; long-term water 
 service contract renewal, 25239 
 
             Narrows Project, UT, 4790 
 
             Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, NE and KS; long-term 
 water service contract renewal, 7803, 10378, 37767 
 
             San Diego County Water Authority, CA, et al., 6261 
 
         Leasing of public lands: 
 
             California, 59240 
 
             Nevada, 44077 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Bay-Delta Advisory Council, 2262, 8642, 15515, 21487, 
 34445, 44344, 52808, 55014, 56969, 60303 
 
             Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Advisory Council, 
 54677 
 
             Colorado River Reservoirs; coordinated long-range 
 operating criteria; review, 56246 
 
                 Public meetings, 56246 
 
             Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Task Force, 40657 
 
             Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Conservation 
 Advisory Group, 75, 37924, 54214 
 
         Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially 
 exclusive: 
 
             River Solutions, Inc., 60118 
 
         Programmatic agreements: 
 
             Animas-La Plata Project, CO and NM, 41178 
 
         Water resources planning; discount rate change, 60725 
 
 
 
 
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 Refugee Resettlement Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Community and family strengthening discretionary social 
 service program (FY 1996), 27908 
 
             Ethnic community organizations program; cancelled, 6018 
 
             Preferred communities program, 6018, 
 
             Refugee resettlement program -- 
 
                 Preferred communities, unanticipated arrivals, 
 orientation, technical assistance, and mental health services, 32833 
 
                 Refugees in local areas of high need, 20260, 36739 
 
                 Refugee social services funds; State allocations, 
 20268, 38458 
 
             Unanticipated arrivals program; bidders' conference call, 
 6018 
 
 
 
 
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 Regulatory Information Service Center 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Unified agenda of Federal regulatory and deregulatory actions, 
 22702, 62005 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Research and Special Programs Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program: 
 
             Control of drug use and alcohol misuse in natural gas, 
 liquefied natural gas, and hazardous liquid pipeline operations, 60206 
 
         Drug and alcohol testing: 
 
             Alcohol misuse prevention program; guidelines and 
 interpretations, 5722, 10477 
 
             Reporting drug and alcohol testing results by computer 
 disk option, 65364 
 
         Federal regulatory review and customer service: 
 
             Hazardous materials table; reformat, 18926 
 
         Hazardous materials: 
 
             Cylinders, DOT specification and exemption, for compressed 
 gases transportation; maintenance and requalification, 26750, 51238 
 
             Cylinder specification requirements restructuring; Federal 
 regulatory reform, 25940 
 
             Editorial corrections and clarifications, 51334 
 
             Exemption, approval, registration, and reporting 
 procedures; miscellaneous provisions, 21084, 51235, 51241 
 
                 Correction, 27948 
 
             Hazardous materials transportation -- 
 
                 Bulk packagings containing oil; oil spill prevention 
 and response plans, 30533 
 
                 Open head fiber drum packaging; extension of authority 
 for shipping, 7958 
 
                 Oxygen generators as cargo in passenger aircraft; 
 temporary prohibition, 26418 
 
                 Rail requirements, 28666, 50252 
 
                 Rail requirements; RESIDUE placard discontinuance, 
 38642 
 
                 Regulations harmonization with dangerous goods; 
 international commerce by vessel and aircraft, 65958 
 
                 Ticketing for certain transportation violations; pilot 
 program, 7178 
 
             Oxygen generators as cargo in passenger aircraft; 
 prohibition, 68952 
 
             Performance-oriented packaging standard and final 
 transitional provisions, 50616 
 
                 Correction, 51495 
 
             Radioactive materials transportation; International Atomic 
 Energy Agency regulations compatibility, 20747 
 
             Rulemaking procedures -- 
 
                 Direct final rule process for use with 
 noncontroversial rules, 30175 
 
             Tank cars; crashworthiness protection requirements, 33250 
 
         Hazardous materials safety program: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 27166 
 
                 Air Line Pilot Association et al.; reconsideration 
 petitions denied, 51236 
 
         Hazardous materials transportation: 
 
             Air carrier's company materials (COMAT); aircraft 
 transportation, 65479 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Liquified petroleum gas in cargo tanks; safety 
 guidance, 65480 
 
             Transportation in commerce by aircraft, motor vehicle, 
 rail car and vessel -- 
 
                 Proper identification, packaging, authorization, 
 handling, loading, and transportation; advisory guidance, 30444 
 
         Onmibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991: 
 
             Substance abuse professional; definition amendment, 37222 
 
         Pipeline safety: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 18512, 27789 
 
                 Correction, 38403, 45905 
 
             Gas pipeline safety standards; Federal regulatory reform, 
 28770 
 
                 Correction, 30824, 35139, 41019 
 
             Hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide -- 
 
                 Pipelines; hydrostatic pressure testing, 43026 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Petroleum product definition interpretation and low- 
 stress pipelines, 24244 
 
             Natural gas transportation, etc. -- 
 
                 Service lines; excess flow valve performance 
 standards, 31449 
 
             Rulemaking procedures, replication; Federal regulatory 
 reform, 50908 
 
                 Correction, 36825 
 
             Voluntary specifications and standards, etc.; periodic 
 updates; Federal regulatory reform, 26121 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Hazardous materials: 
 
             Cylinder specification requirements restructuring; Federal 
 regulatory review, 8328 
 
             Hazardous materials transportation -- 
 
                 Loading, unloading, and storage; regulatory 
 applicability; public meetings, 39522, 49723, 53483 
 
                 Open head fiber drum packaging; extension of authority 
 for shipping, 688 
 
                 Oxidizers as cargo in passenger aircraft; temporary 
 prohibition, 68955 
 
                 Regulations harmonization with dangerous goods 
 international standards, 55364 
 
             Intrastate shippers and carriers; regulations compliance, 
 11484, 24904, 26253 
 
                 Docket relocation and availability for review during 
 Dockets Unit temporary closure, 38702 
 
             Performance-oriented packaging standards; final 
 transitional provisions, 33216 
 
         Hazardous materials safety program: 
 
             Federal regulatory review, 6478 
 
         Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991: 
 
             Substance abuse professional; definition amendment, 9969 
 
         Pipeline safety: 
 
             Excess flow valves for gas distribution systems 
 performance standards; customer notification, 33476 
 
             Hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide -- 
 
                 Hydrostatic pressure pipeline testing, 9415 
 
             Hazardous liquid transportation -- 
 
                 Areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage; 
 workshop, 342, 13144, 27323 
 
             Natural gas transportation, etc. -- 
 
                 Hydrogen sulfide transportation; withdrawn, 9132 
 
             Onshore oil pipeline response plans; public hearing, 
 
             Personnel performing operating or maintenance activities 
 on hazardous liquid, carbon dioxide, and gas pipelines; training; 
 withdrawn, 34413 
 
             Pipeline Personnel Qualification Negotiated Rulemaking 
 Committee -- 
 
                 Intent to establish, 34410 
 
             Voluntary specifications and standards, etc.; periodic 
 updates; Federal regulatory review, 8231 
 
         Rulemaking petitions: 
 
             Barbecue Industry Association -- 
 
                 Propane cylinders filling, 43515, 60674 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3761, 7153, 8706, 
 13918, 16528, 24854, 41820, 51315 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 7153, 17951, 
 27126, 33794, 39510 
 
         Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program: 
 
             Control of drug use and alcohol misuse in natural gas, 
 liquefied natural gas, and hazardous liquid pipeline operations, 5834, 
 10617 
 
             Pipeline personnel drug testing program data and random 
 positive drug testing rate, 5834 
 
         Emergency response plans: 
 
             National Response Team's integrated contingency plan 
 guidance; availability, 28642 
 
         Hazardous materials: 
 
             Applications; exemptions, renewals, etc., 1985, 1986, 
 5597, 5599, 7041, 11677, 11678, 14200, 16819, 16820, 25736, 25738, 
 30934, 41201, 41202, 54253, 59276, 59277, 68329, 68331 
 
             Exemption applications delayed; list, 21221, 41821, 54487 
 
             Radioactive material industry; radiation protection 
 programs guidance, 17349 
 
         Hazardous materials transportation: 
 
             Preemption determinations, 1432, 11463, 11677, 38513 
 
             Registration requirement and fee assessment program, 9518 
 
         International standards on safe transport of radioactive 
 material; 1996 edition availability, 49523 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Hazardous materials safety program; regulatory review and 
 improved customer service, 24529, 38797 
 
             International standards on transport of dangerous goods, 
 27128, 32025, 56605, 59135, 59930 
 
             Mechanical damage and cracking in pipelines; detection, 
 53484, 68813 
 
             Pipeline Safety Advisory Committees, 17750, 55356 
 
             Pipeline safety program; regulatory review and improved 
 customer service, 30936 
 
             Pipeline safety user fee assessment methodology; public 
 meeting, 55069 
 
             Risk management and pipeline industry; public conference, 
 13226 
 
             Toward a Metric America; national metrication process open 
 public dialogue, 55069 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Dockets Unit; temporary closure, 38798 
 
         Pipeline Risk Management Demonstration Program: 
 
             Framework; public meetings, 58605 
 
             Performance measures guidance, 68092 
 
         Pipeline safety: 
 
             Risk assessment prioritization (RAP) program first 
 generation completion; public meeting, 1435 
 
             User fees, 9005, 58739 
 
         Pipeline safety; waiver petitions: 
 
             CNG Transmission Co., 35860 
 
             CNG Transmission Corp., 50900 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 55184 
 
         Reports availability, etc.: 
 
             Surface transportation research and development plan, 
 67870 
 
 
 
 
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 Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Rural housing -- 
 
                 Rental housing loans; Section 515 preapplication 
 processing, 1153 
 
 
 
 
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 Rural Business-Cooperative Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Federal assistance and grant coordination programs and 
 projects evaluation (OMB A-95), 6309 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 32645 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Rural Housing Service and Rural Business-Cooperative 
 Service; agency name changes, 2899 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Business and industrial loan program, 67624 
 
                 Audit requirements, 18493 
 
             Construction and other developments seismic safety 
 requirements compliance requirements; planning and performance, 65153 
 
             Housing loans and/or grants; lobbyist disclosure 
 provivions; Federal regulatory reform, 39850 
 
             Intermediary relending program loan limit increase, 6761 
 
             Liquidated guaranteed loans; future recovery of losses, 
 43147 
 
             Loan assessment, market placement, and seasoned direct 
 loan borrowers graduation to loan guarantee program, 35916 
 
             Nonprofit National Corporations Loan and Grant Program; 
 Federal regulatory reform, 55877 
 
             Program-related instructions, construction and repair, and 
 housing; duplicate regulations removed, 56114 
 
             Real estate title clearance and loan closing procedures, 
 11709 
 
             Rural technology and cooperative development grants, 3779 
 
         Program regulations, etc.: 
 
             Obsolete CFR regulations removed, 21361 
 
         Single-family housing; direct section 502 and 504 programs; 
 reengineering and reinvention, 59762 
 
             Correction, 63928, 65266 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Federal claims collection; administrative offset, 45907 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Business and industrial loan program, 3853 
 
             Housing -- 
 
                 Rental housing loans; Section 515, 4814 
 
             Personal property -- 
 
                 Post bankruptcy loan servicing notices, 37405 
 
         Water and waste loans and grants; regulations consolidation, 
 48075 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 24269, 41569, 41767, 
 47868, 51400, 64856, 65010 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Board, 29340 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Rural business enterprise program, 29340, 33489 
 
             Rural technology and cooperative development program (FY 
 1996), 11378 
 
         Loan guarantee authority; maximum portion available for 1996- 
 1997 FY, 67530 
 
 
 
 
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 Rural Housing and Community Development Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Agency name change from Consolidated Farm Service Agency 
 -- 
 
                 Departmental reorganization regulations alignment, 
 1109 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Obsolete CFR regulations removed, 21361 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Housing -- 
 
                 Rental housing loans; Section 515, 4814 
 
             Rural housing -- 
 
                 Rental housing loans; Section 515 preapplication 
 processing, 1153 
 
 
 
 
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 Rural Housing Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Federal assistance and grant coordination programs and 
 projects evaluation (OMB A-95), 6309 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 32645 
 
         Housing: 
 
             Congregate housing services program 
 
                 Streamlining and Federal regulatory reform, 42942 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Rural Housing Service and Rural Business-Cooperative 
 Service; agency name changes, 2899 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Business and industrial loan program, 67624 
 
             Business and industrial loan program; audit requirements, 
 18493 
 
             Construction and other developments seismic safety 
 requirements compliance requirements; planning and performance, 65153 
 
             Housing loans and/or grants; lobbyist disclosure 
 provisions; Federal regulatory reform, 39850 
 
             Intermediary relending program loan limit increase, 6761 
 
             Liquidated guaranteed loans; future recovery of losses, 
 43147 
 
             Loan assessment, market placement, and seasoned direct 
 loan borrowers graduation to loan guarantee program, 35916 
 
             Nonprofit National Corporations Loan and Grant Program; 
 Federal regulatory reform, 55877 
 
             Program-related instructions, construction and repair, and 
 housing; duplicate regulations removed, 56114 
 
             Real estate title clearance and loan closing procedures, 
 11709 
 
             Rural technology and cooperative development grants, 3779 
 
         Single family housing; direct section 502 and 504 programs; 
 reengineering and reinvention, 59762 
 
             Correction, 63928, 65266 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Federal claims collection; administrative offset, 45907 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Business and industrial loan program, 3853 
 
             Personal property -- 
 
                 Post bankruptcy loan servicing notices, 37405 
 
             Single family housing portfolio management; section 502 
 and 504 programs; Federal regulatory review, 15395 
 
         Water and waste loans and grants; regulations consolidation, 
 48075 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 15215, 18371, 18544, 
 22017, 26154, 26155, 27046, 34415, 35708, 36549, 37440, 39117, 47479, 
 48880, 48881, 51400, 55785, 60677, 65010 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Housing in underserved areas -- 
 
                 Nonprofit and underserved/targeted reserve increase; 
 co-venture eligibility, 19254 
 
             Rural housing funds (FY 1997), 68209 
 
             Rural Rental Housing Guaranteed Loan demonstration 
 program, 34416 
 
         Rural housing: 
 
             Section 515 loan funds recipients list (FY 1995), 1896 
 
 
 
 
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 Rural Telephone Bank 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Loan policies: 
 
             Interest rates, 8236, 58030 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 2001, 19607, 41993, 64321 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Rural Utilities Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Consultants funded by borrowers; use, 48605 
 
         Electric loans: 
 
             Borrower audit policy and certified public accountant peer 
 review requirements, 104 
 
             Electric borrowers; merger and consolidation policies, 
 66867 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Federal assistance and grant coordination programs and 
 projects evaluation (OMB A-95), 6309 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 32645 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Rural Housing Service and Rural Business-Cooperative 
 Service; agency name changes, 2899 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Business and industrial loan program, 67624 
 
             Business and industrial loan program; audit requirements, 
 18493 
 
             Construction and other developments seismic safety 
 requirements compliance requirements; planning and performance, 65153 
 
             Housing loans and/or grants; lobbyist disclosure 
 provisions; Federal regulatory reform, 39850 
 
             Intermediary relending program loan limit increase, 6761 
 
             Liquidated guaranteed loans; future recovery of losses, 
 43147 
 
             Loan assessment, market placement, and seasoned direct 
 loan borrowers graduation to loan guarantee program, 35916 
 
             Nonprofit National Corporations Loan and Grant Program; 
 Federal regulatory reform, 
 
             Program-related instructions, construction and repair, and 
 housing; duplicate regulations removed, 56114 
 
             Real estate title clearance and loan closing procedures, 
 11709 
 
             Rural technology and cooperative development grants, 3779 
 
         Program regulations, etc.: 
 
             Obsolete CFR regulations removed, 21361 
 
         Rural development: 
 
             Distance learning and telemedicine grant program, 33622 
 
                 Correction, 37813, 37961, 42462 
 
         Single family housing; direct section 502 and 504 programs; 
 reengineering and reinvention, 59762 
 
             Correction, 63928, 65266 
 
         Telecommunications standards and specifications: 
 
             Materials, equipment, and construction -- 
 
                 Aerial service wires specifications, 26073 
 
         Telephone loans: 
 
             Telecommunications borrowers; accounting requirements, 
 39844, 55877 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Consultants funded by borrowers; use, 21 
 
         Electric loans: 
 
             Electric borrowers; merger and consolidation policies, 
 41025 
 
             Electric standards and specifications for materials and 
 construction -- 
 
                 Bulletins; numbering and reformatting, 57788 
 
         Federal claims collection; administrative offset, 45907 
 
         Program regulations: 
 
             Business and industrial loan program, 3853 
 
             Housing -- 
 
                 Rental housing loans; Section 515, 4814 
 
             Personal property -- 
 
                 Post bankruptcy loan servicing notices, 37405 
 
             Rural housing -- 
 
                 Rental housing loans; Section 515 preapplication 
 processing, 1153 
 
         Rural development: 
 
             Distance learning and telemedicine grant program, 16684 
 
         Telecommunications standards and specifications: 
 
             Materials, equipment, and construction -- 
 
                 Postloan engineering services contract, 4754 
 
                 Telecommunications plant acceptance tests and 
 measurements, 44195 
 
         Water and waste loans and grants; regulations consolidation, 
 48075 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 5737, 8236, 10723, 
 19906, 36024, 51400, 65010 
 
         Cost-of-money loans, telecommunications (FY 1997); interest 
 rates, 50468 
 
         Electric distribution borrowers exempt from certain 
 operational controls; list, 29070 
 
         Electric loans: 
 
             Quarterly municipal interest rates, 10724, 31089, 49299, 
 66252 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Alabama Electric Cooperative, 43522 
 
             Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc., 66994 
 
             Barry Electric Cooperative, 2483 
 
             Iliamna-Newhalen-Nondalton Electric Cooperative, Inc.; 
 Tazimina River project, 56662 
 
             Kodiak Electric Association, Inc., 13151 
 
             LaGrange County, IN, Sewer District, 4760, 27333 
 
             Marshalls Energy Co., Inc., 67304 
 
             South Mississippi Electric Power Association, 345 
 
             Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., 
 38433 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Alabama Electric Cooperative, 25844 
 
             Albany, KY; Cagle water expansion project, 60678 
 
             Dairyland Power Cooperative et al., 25844 
 
             Intertie Participants Group, 52908 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Distance learning and telemedicine program, 33639, 34927, 
 37881 
 
                 Applicants list, 48459 
 
         Water and wastewater loan program: 
 
             Refinancing policies, eligible borrowers list, and loan 
 portfolio participation, 46434 
  
 
FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX, January--December, 1996
 
 
 
 
 
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 Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 
 
     RULES 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 54733 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Great Lakes pilotage regulations -- 
 
                 CFR title transfer and consolidation, 32655 
 
                 Responsibility transferred from Coast Guard, 5720 
 
         Seaway regulations and rules: 
 
             Clarification and simplification, 19548 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Seaway regulations and rules: 
 
             Great Lakes Pilotage rates adjustments, 50258, 58496 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Advisory Board, 10061, 28638, 39511, 58096 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 57943 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Science and Technology Policy Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             President's Committee of Advisors on Science and 
 Technology, 12114, 46805, 68745 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Secret Service 
 
     RULES 
 
         Counterfeit Deterrence Act: 
 
             Color illustrations of U.S. currency, 27280 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 43399 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Boards; membership, 31608 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Securities and Exchange Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         Accounting bulletins, staff: 
 
             Nonmonetary assets transfers by promoters or shareholders, 
 40721 
 
             Treasury stock acquisitions following business combination 
 as pooling-of-interests, 12020 
 
         Annual report form (Form ADV-S); suspension of use, 68503 
 
         Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System 
 (EDGAR): 
 
             Filer Manual -- 
 
                 Update and incorporation by reference, 52283 
 
         Electronic media; use in delivery purposes, 24644, 24652 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 57773 
 
                 Correction, 59930 
 
         Investment companies: 
 
             Custody of assets with futures commission merchants and 
 commodity clearing organizations, 66207 
 
             Money market funds; risk-limiting conditions imposed, 
 etc.; compliance date suspended, 42786 
 
             Open-end management investment companies -- 
 
                 Deferred sales loads imposition; exemption, 49011 
 
                 Registered; fund shares distribution payments, 49010 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Commission Secretary, 5939 
 
             Enforcement Division Director, 20721 
 
             General Counsel, 56891 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Administrative proceedings; evidentiary hearings before 
 administrative law judges, etc.; correction, 13689, 15338 
 
         Securities: 
 
             Brazil et al., ``proposed countries''; exemption for 
 purposes of trading futures contracts, 10271 
 
             California state securities law; exemption from 
 registration requirements for limited offerings up to $5 million, 
 21356 
 
             Cash tender and exchange (odd-lot offers) by issuers, 
 68587 
 
             Customer limit orders; improvement of handling and 
 execution compliance date, 48290, 63709 
 
             Disclosure Simplification Task Force recommendations, 
 30397 
 
             Employee benefit plan exemptive rules; phase-in period 
 extension, 30396 
 
             Equity securities, unregistered sales; disclosure 
 requirements streamlining and quarterly reporting requirements, 54506 
 
             Executive and director compensation disclosure; 
 streamlining and consolidation, 54509 
 
             Filing processing program changes for Forms SB-1, SB-2, 
 and Regulations A and S-T; appropriate filing location and form 
 revisions, 67200 
 
             Form BD amendments, 37357 
 
                 Compliance date suspension, 47412 
 
             Ownership reports and trading by officers, directors, and 
 principal securities holders (insider trading), 30376 
 
             Quotations publication; market liquidity, transparency and 
 efficiency initiatives, 48290 
 
             Small issuers total assets threshold increase; relief from 
 reporting requirements, 21354 
 
             Transactions exempt from transaction fees, 68590 
 
         Securities and investment companies: 
 
             Money market funds; risk-limiting conditions imposed, 
 etc., 13956 
 
         Securities, etc.: 
 
             Independent Offices Appropriations Act Fees; elimination, 
 49957 
 
                 Correction, 52996 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System 
 (EDGAR): 
 
             Submission of filings and other documents; amendments, 
 65440 
 
         Investment advisers: 
 
             Advisers between Commission and states; reallocation of 
 responsibilities, 68480 
 
         Investment companies: 
 
             Acquisition of securities during existence of underwriting 
 syndicate, 13630 
 
             Money market funds; advertising, etc., 66621 
 
             Multiple class and series investment companies, 49022 
 
             Registered open-end management investment companies -- 
 
                 Shares distribution, 1313 
 
             Unit investment trusts; calculation of yields, 1312 
 
         National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996: 
 
             Private investment companies exception for ``qualified'' 
 purchasers, 68100 
 
         Securities: 
 
             Accounting policies for derivative financial and 
 derivative commodity instruments; financial statement footnote 
 disclosures requirements, 578, 16674 
 
             Beneficial ownership in publicly-held companies reporting 
 requirements, 36521 
 
             Broker-dealer registration and reporting -- 
 
                 Form BDW, uniform request for withdrawal from broker- 
 dealer registration; amendments, 37701 
 
             Broker-dealers books and records requirement, 55593 
 
             Cash tender and exchange (odd-lot) by issuers, 18306 
 
             Customer orders; improvement of handling and execution -- 
 
                 Comment period extended, 1545 
 
             Disclosure Simplification Task Force recommendations, 
 9848, 30405 
 
             Lost securityholders; transfer agent requirements, etc., 
 44249, 59046 
 
             Money market funds; advertising, etc., 66621 
 
             Offshore activities, press access -- 
 
                 Conferences, meetings with company representatives and 
 press related materials, 54518 
 
             Quote rule; continuous two-sided quotations from over-the- 
 counter market makers and exchange specialists, 48333 
 
             Safe harbor provisions; derivative financial, other 
 financial, and derivative commodity instruments information 
 disclosure, 16672 
 
             Securities Exchange Act of 1934; section 10A reporting 
 requirements, 45730 
 
             Securities Investor Protection Corporation rules -- 
 
                 Contracts closeout and completion for purchase or sale 
 of securities made by debtors in liquidation, 56485 
 
             Securities offerings trading practices rules, 17108 
 
             Short-form registration expansion to include companies 
 with non-voting common equity, 47706 
 
         Securities, etc.: 
 
             Independent Offices Appropriations Act fees; elimination, 
 25601 
 
                 Correction, 43400 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 24066, 63548 
 
         Semiannual regulatory agenda 
 
             Correction, 65191 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 739, 1790, 3060, 
 10407, 13540, 13893, 14586, 15530, 16146, 16813, 19646, 24341, 28627, 
 28628, 31192, 33784, 36587, 37943, 38483, 40258, 40867, 43096, 50354, 
 52476, 54825, 56977, 56978, 58087, 58716, 64548, 65251, 68317 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 7284, 11437, 
 13541, 13893, 14586, 15840, 25248, 25721, 27109, 28252, 28911, 30264, 
 31193, 32861, 36587, 37776, 37777, 40675, 41665, 43795, 44094, 47533, 
 47534, 48177, 48514, 48515, 49363, 49502, 51133, 52978, 53468, 56979, 
 56980, 60129, 65607, 68072, 68073 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes Advisory 
 Committee, 8092 
 
             Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee, 8989 
 
         Consolidated Tape Association and Quotation Plans; amendments, 
 2321, 24842 
 
         Consolidated Tape Association plan; amendments, 31570 
 
         Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System 
 (EDGAR): 
 
             Alternative system architectures, 740, 4691 
 
             Corporation Finance Division; phase-in list changes and 
 corrections, 2270 
 
             Phase-in completion, 13544 
 
         Investment advisers; registration cancellations; list, 15533 
 
         Joint industry plan: 
 
             National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., et al., 
 358, 10408, 12122, 50058, 52980 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes Advisory 
 Committee, 4500, 26940, 28629 
 
             Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee, 35281 
 
             Intangible assets symposium, 8313, 11070 
 
             Securities laws uniformity annual conference; request for 
 comments on proposed agenda, 15847 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 1669, 3766, 4521, 7854, 10605, 11233, 
 13544, 14165, 15317, 15537, 16274, 18455, 25511, 25932, 26550, 26940, 
 30104, 33786, 36772, 36944, 37513, 38233, 38793, 39492, 40867, 43102, 
 43797, 44097, 46009, 46884, 48518, 49184, 50357, 50524, 50889, 52479, 
 53773, 53984, 54472, 55833, 56981, 58091, 58600, 59476, 60314, 64933, 
 66064 
 
         Options price reporting authority, 741, 5827, 14844, 49801, 
 49802 
 
         Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 16149 
 
         Reports; availability, etc.: 
 
             Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes Advisory 
 Committee; Securities Act concepts and their effects on capital 
 formation, 40044, 49184 
 
         Securities: 
 
             Senior citizens and qualified retirement plans; protection 
 against fraud; request for comments, 13906 
 
             Suspension of trading -- 
 
                 Alliance Industries, Inc., 60734 
 
                 Comparator Systems Corp., 24843, 43400 
 
                 Enstar Group, Inc., 14844 
 
                 Global Timber Corp., 43281 
 
                 Home Link Corp., 30104 
 
                 Interactive Multimedia Publishers, Inc., 64773 
 
                 JDMC Global Corp., 49184 
 
                 Novatek International, Inc., 54246 
 
                 OmniGene Diagnostics, Inc., 59476 
 
                 Systems of Excellence, Inc., 52982 
 
         Securities Investor Protection Corporation; membership: 
 
             WestLB Securities Americas Inc., 40052 
 
         Self-regulatory organizations: 
 
             Clearing agency registration applications -- 
 
                 Cedel Bank; exemption, 31201 
 
                 Government Securities Clearing Corp., 64183 
 
                 International Securities Clearing Corp., 64184 
 
                 MBS Clearing Corp., 35281 
 
                 Participants Trust Co., 10409, 14357 
 
                 ProTrade, 7285 
 
             Options disclosure documents -- 
 
                 Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corp., 43281 
 
         Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes: 
 
             American Stock Exchange, Inc., 196, 575, 1796, 1799, 1953, 
 1954, 2556, 2849, 4695, 5590, 6050, 6665, 6872, 7031, 8313, 8315, 
 8319, 10606, 11448, 11451, 13545, 13547, 14165, 14358, 15317, 15537, 
 16150, 17931, 18765, 19102, 19650, 20871, 21215, 22084, 24520, 24976, 
 28915, 29774, 29776, 30268, 31570, 33153, 33558, 33786, 36094, 36773, 
 37782, 38485, 38487, 38488, 39167, 39169, 39170, 41669, 41814, 42075, 
 42667, 44097, 50524, 50525, 51476, 52480, 52982, 53246, 54827, 55176, 
 56981, 57503, 58270, 59122, 59261, 59476, 60135, 63884, 65623, 68805, 
 69124 
 
             American Stock Exchange, Inc., et al., 1791, 14168, 14172, 
 38234, 51474, 56983, 58924 
 
             Boston Stock Exchange Clearing Corp., 42669 
 
             Boston Stock Exchange Clearing Corp. et al., 53773 
 
             Boston Stock Exchange, Inc., 672, 1801, 3512, 14359, 
 15318, 18634, 31573, 36944, 40268, 42297, 42670, 43797 
 
             Boston Stock Exchange, Inc., et al., 39172 
 
             Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 199, 566, 1802, 
 2324, 3741, 4502, 4691, 6275, 6400, 7285, 7839, 8698, 8699, 10043, 
 11452, 11453, 11911, 13548, 13550, 13907, 14845, 15338, 15539, 15542, 
 15543, 15853, 16514, 16660, 17741, 17743, 19106, 24843, 24979, 24982, 
 24983, 25251, 28629, 28916, 29154, 32470, 32868, 33155, 33561, 33562, 
 33787, 33788, 34911, 35282, 35821, 36592, 37513, 38792, 39175, 39685, 
 39947, 40686, 40689, 40868, 41194, 41196, 41434, 41671, 42455, 43281, 
 46497, 46884, 47992, 48179, 48180, 48182, 48722, 49508, 49515, 50059, 
 50358, 50362, 51478, 53472, 53774, 54691, 54693, 55058, 55833, 56586, 
 56587, 56724, 56726, 63886, 64405, 65098, 65422, 67365, 69126 
 
             Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., et al., 6666, 14177 
 
             Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., 1803, 1958, 2850, 2851, 
 3739, 3967, 6403, 7032, 7840, 9213, 9215, 15544, 16274, 17932, 19107, 
 24988, 26940, 28918, 29156, 32870, 32872, 34462, 38490, 38491, 40270, 
 40690, 42079, 43393, 43566, 44370, 48184, 48724, 49803, 59124, 59263, 
 59918, 66065, 69127 
 
             Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., et al., 1195 
 
             Cincinnati Stock Exchange, 54472 
 
             Cincinnati Stock Exchange, Inc., 359, 575, 5050, 7569, 
 8989, 11655, 15322, 45467, 48185, 67086 
 
             Delta Clearing Corp., 20298, 25722, 26942, 36095, 40471, 
 48186, 56072, 57504 
 
             Delta Government Options Corp., 3743, 8991, 15330 
 
             Depository Trust Co., 429, 1199, 1417, 2852, 4692, 4807, 
 5050, 5433, 6404, 6669-6671, 7287, 7288, 8992, 25253, 29158, 30931, 
 31989, 36593, 37783, 37948, 40692, 43283, 46498, 46885, 48187, 52985, 
 54473, 56588, 57505, 57933, 58600, 64774-64776 
 
             Government Securities Clearing Corp., 742, 4500, 10045, 
 10614, 26550, 33564, 34912, 39492, 40275, 42925, 43103, 48189, 48190, 
 48191, 49367, 54475, 55059, 55341, 56591, 64778, 64779, 67371 
 
             International Securities Clearing Corp., 430, 4508, 8995, 
 13908, 17338, 36096, 41436 
 
             MBS Clearing Corp., 24989, 30268, 37307, 41437, 42298, 
 48193, 52483, 56592, 64780, 65424 
 
             MBS Clearing Corp. et al., 36945, 46887 
 
             Midwest Clearing Corp., 2552, 11913, 17339 
 
             Midwest Clearing Corp. et al., 7033, 11456, 43105, 55678 
 
             Midwest Securities Trust Co., 2554, 38493 
 
             Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, 203, 1955, 6276, 
 7034, 10828, 17745, 24990, 31207, 34463, 36594, 44098, 47224, 49368, 
 51495, 52819, 56072, 58431, 64781, 64782, 68078, 68322 
 
             National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 204, 
 206, 433, 1419, 1655, 1805, 2854, 3743, 3955, 4504, 6052, 6674, 7127, 
 8996, 8997, 9739, 10048, 11070, 11655, 11913, 13553, 13909, 13911, 
 14182, 14185, 15338, 15855, 16662, 16944, 17339, 18452, 20299, 20301, 
 21216, 21517, 24845, 26239, 29777, 30269, 30272, 31574, 31604, 33156, 
 34915, 35284, 35822, 36098, 36595, 36947, 37515, 37518, 37521, 37950, 
 39686, 40054, 40693, 40869, 41438, 41816, 43107, 44100, 48725, 52072, 
 53984, 54830, 55342, 56594, 56986, 57934, 58271, 59265, 59267, 64185, 
 64549, 64550, 65625, 66339, 67372, 68081, 68806 
 
             National Securities Clearing Corp., 1807, 3746, 3967, 
 7290, 8997, 10050, 10051, 10831, 13912, 17341, 21217, 24343, 24993, 
 30265, 30274, 33159, 33565, 42457, 42927, 43800, 47534, 49806, 52073, 
 54695, 55060, 55178, 56595, 57506, 59478, 63887, 64783 
 
             National Securities Clearing Corp. et al., 1418, 35289 
 
             New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 361, 432, 436, 744, 1420, 
 1808, 1959, 2856, 5592, 6279, 8998, 10053, 10410, 10832, 13557, 14183, 
 14360, 15546-15548, 16277, 19651, 20302, 24846, 25257, 26943, 27123, 
 29438, 31208, 36596, 37523, 37784, 38494, 38497, 39176, 40056, 40699, 
 40870, 40871, 41673, 43109, 43284, 43400, 43574, 44116, 46008, 49185, 
 49371, 51133, 52996, 53246, 53473, 54476, 54477, 56987, 58728, 58919, 
 60735, 65099, 67087, 68082, 69129, 69130 
 
             Options Clearing Corp., 5593, 5594, 6053, 7293, 11457, 
 12124, 13558, 22084, 24995, 29160, 32471, 32873, 36599, 38498, 38500, 
 46499, 46500, 46888, 46889, 47535, 48193, 48195, 49373, 53475, 53477, 
 55062, 56596, 56729, 64406, 64407, 64934, 68807 
 
             Options Clearing Corp. et al., 30650, 51731 
 
             Pacific Clearing Corp., 7570, 7571 
 
             Pacific Stock Exchange, Inc., 5052, 6405, 8092, 8321, 
 9515, 10054, 11072, 11929, 12126, 16152, 16515, 18636, 19328, 20304, 
 24521, 24523, 29582, 32875, 33566, 33568, 34917, 34918, 36099, 36100, 
 37785, 38503, 41675, 42458, 43285, 43801, 44376, 45468, 46891, 47536, 
 48195, 50366, 50527, 50889, 51734, 52483, 52820, 53247, 53253, 53492, 
 54479, 54481, 55345, 56079, 56597, 56990, 57507, 57508, 57936, 57937, 
 58272, 58434, 67088 
 
             Participants Trust Co., 208, 744, 1809, 4507, 20304, 
 26552, 36601, 36949, 41677, 41816, 49807, 54483, 56598, 68087 
 
             Philadelphia Depository Trust Co., 745, 3060, 3956, 7841, 
 9000, 10416, 11073, 12127, 15338, 25258, 26243, 27377, 27378, 35292, 
 43110, 43287, 43288, 47227, 55679, 56079, 56730, 56990, 57938, 58924, 
 59269 
 
             Philadelphia Depository Trust Co. et al., 3958, 35291 
 
             Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 209, 211, 568, 575, 
 1200, 1961, 1964, 2557, 2559, 2561, 2562, 2858, 3747, 4694, 4697, 
 4699, 6054, 6280, 7295, 7297, 9001, 10417, 11074, 11668, 13559, 13913, 
 13915, 14187, 14188, 15549, 15856, 16156, 18454, 22084, 24525, 29782, 
 30932, 32877, 32878, 32880, 32881, 33160, 33162, 33790, 35294, 36102, 
 36410, 38505, 40058, 40276, 40873, 42080, 42298, 42671, 43289, 44379, 
 47537, 47775, 47993, 48198, 48200, 49515, 50060, 50367, 51319, 51479, 
 53254, 55062, 56599, 56991, 57940, 59125, 59919, 63888, 63889, 65254, 
 66721 
 
             Stock Clearing Corp. of Philadelphia, 676, 3513, 7846, 
 27379, 47229, 68324 
 
             Stock Clearing Corp. of Philadelphia et al., 2551, 42929 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Boards; membership, 54697 
 
         Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: 
 
             Abatix Environmental Corp., 32862 
 
             ABN AMRO Bank N.V. et al., 14347, 31979 
 
             Acacia National Life Insurance Co. et al., 39675 
 
             Access Capital Strategies Community Investment Fund, Inc., 
 et al., 13541 
 
             Accessor Funds, Inc., et al., 42452 
 
             Advisors' Inner Circle Fund, 43097 
 
             Aetna Life Insurance & Annuity Co. et al., 27110 
 
             Aetna Series Fund, Inc. et al., 37945 
 
             Affinity Fund Group, Inc., 3515 
 
             AIM Equity Funds, Inc., et al., 6269 
 
             Air-Cure Technologies, Inc., 13894 
 
             Alliance Convertible Fund, 54466 
 
             Alliance Counterpoint Fund, 54467 
 
             Alliance Global Fund, 54468 
 
             Alliance Growth Fund, Inc., 44368 
 
             Alliance Multi-Market Income Trust, Inc., 54468 
 
             Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America et al., 49178 
 
             Allied Capital Lending Corp. et al., 43272 
 
             Allstate Life Insurance Co. of New York et al., 40676 
 
             Alpine Group, Inc., 57497 
 
             Alternative Investment Fund et al., 58261 
 
             American AAdvantage Funds et al., 28912, 59252 
 
             American Centurion Life Assurance Co. et al., 39677 
 
             American Corporate Trust, 35273 
 
             American Skandia Life Assurance Corp. et al., 5046, 42290 
 
             AMREP Corp., 63874 
 
             Annuity Management Series, 66338 
 
             ARCH Fund, Inc., et al., 47988 
 
             Arizona Limited Maturity Municipals Portfolio, 46492 
 
             Asia Tigers Fund, Inc., et al., 16658 
 
             AUSA Life Insurance Co., Inc., et al., 41665 
 
             AZX, Inc., 29145, 43574 
 
             Baird Blue Chip Fund, Inc., 42453 
 
             Baird Capital Development Fund, 56577 
 
             Baker, Fentress & Co., et al., 17737 
 
             Banco Santander, S.A., 6272 
 
             Bando McGlocklin Capital Corp. et al., 58716 
 
             Bando McGlocklin Small Business Lending Corp., 65422 
 
             Bankers Trust Australia Ltd., 27375 
 
             Banque Paribas (Deutschland) OHG et al., 3063 
 
             BEA Investment Funds, Inc., 35273 
 
             Benchmark Funds & Northern Trust Co., 10038 
 
             Benham Manager Funds et al., 52816 
 
             Benman California Tax-Free Trust, et al., 42923 
 
             Berger Institutional Products Trust et al., 14349 
 
             Bessemer Securities LLC et al., 65608 
 
             Bitwise Designs, Inc., 29148 
 
             BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., 59256 
 
             Blue Chip Value Fund, Inc., 24967 
 
             Boston Mutual Life, 63875 
 
             Brinson Funds et al., 6398, 19965 
 
             Brinson Relationship Funds et al., 1420, 48515 
 
             BT Insurance Funds Trust et al., 39484 
 
             BT Investment Portfolios et al., 45464 
 
             Calvert Social Investment Fund, et al., 60312 
 
             CAM Designs, Inc., 66064 
 
             Canadian Dollar Performance Portfolio L.P., 20293 
 
             Capital Market Fund, Inc., 28253 
 
             Cardinal Corporate Income Trust Series, 01, 20294 
 
             Centennial Technologies, Inc., 68073 
 
             CenterPoint Properties Corp., 32862 
 
             Central and South West Corp., et al., 37777, 58718 
 
             Champion Healthcare Corp., 42671 
 
             Chase Corp., 36940 
 
             Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., 1810 
 
             Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., et al., 25248, 29148, 32862 
 
             Chicago Milwaukee Corp., 43276 
 
             Chubb Series Trust, et al., 64178 
 
             CIGNA Funds Group et al., 64768 
 
             CII Financial, Inc., 18632 
 
             Cityfed Financial Corp., 3750 
 
             Classic Trust, 55678 
 
             Colonial Data Technologies Corp., 6400 
 
             Columbia Gas System, Inc., 8311 
 
             Common Trust Fund R of the Commercial Bank Combined 
 Capital Trust, 49365 
 
             Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 32864 
 
             Commonwealth Energy System, 25250 
 
             Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A., 14840 
 
             Companion Life Insurance Co. et al., 16813 
 
             Compass Capital Group, 64771 
 
             Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. et al., 24840, 
 46871 
 
             Connecticut Mutual Investment Accounts, Inc., et al., 
 13894 
 
             Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. et al., 11906 
 
             Continental Assurance Co. et al., 40035 
 
             Corporacion Financiera Nacional Y Suramericana S.A., 20867 
 
             CountryBasket Index Fund, Inc., et al., 5415 
 
             CR Blue Chip Timing Fund, Inc., 54827 
 
             Credit Suisse, 1812 
 
             Daily Money Fund et al., 40679, 50516 
 
             Dean Witter Managed Assets Trust, 6870 
 
             Delaware Group Foreign Investors Government Fund, L.P., 
 16663 
 
             Delaware Group Foreign Investors High-Yield Fund, L.P., 
 16664 
 
             Del Global Technologies Corp., 30264 
 
             Destiny Plans IIA, 58912 
 
             Deutsche Bank AG, 56069 
 
             Deutsche Mark Performance Portfolio L.P., 20295 
 
             DFA Investment Dimensions Group, Inc., et al., 425 
 
             Dial Corp., 54245, 54256 
 
             Disc Graphics, Inc., 30264 
 
             Diversified Investors Strategic Variable Funds et al., 
 50355 
 
             Dreyfus/Laurel Investment Series, 28914 
 
             Dreyfus Asset Allocation Fund, Inc., et al., 16017 
 
             Dreyfus International Recovery Fund, Inc., 65613 
 
             Dreyfus Massachusetts Municipal Money Market Fund et al., 
 13896 
 
             Driehaus International Large Cap Fund, L.P., et al., 41813 
 
             E. Acquisition Corp., 58266 
 
             EAI Select Managers Equity Fund et al., 16664 
 
             Eaton Vance Cash Management Fund, 8082 
 
             Eaton Vance Equity-Income Trust, 8083, 11083 
 
             Eaton Vance Investment Fund, Inc., 8083 
 
             Eaton Vance Investors Trust, 8084 
 
             Eaton Vance Liquid Asset Trust, 8085 
 
             Eaton Vance Securities Trust, 8086 
 
             Eaton Vance Tax Free Reserves, 8086 
 
             Eaton Vance Total Return Trust, 8087 
 
             Elfun Trust, et al., 59257 
 
             Emerging Americas Fund, Inc., 33955 
 
             Emerging Markets Growth Fund, Inc., et al., 17927, 24968 
 
             ENSCO International Inc., 569 
 
             Enterprise Group of Funds, Inc., et al., 58913 
 
             EQ Financial Consultants, Inc. et al., 37779 
 
             Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa et al., 17330, 49365 
 
             EVEREN Unit Investment Trusts, Series 44, et al., 15841 
 
             Evergreen Trust et al., 16656 
 
             Evergreen Variable Trust et al., 5419 
 
             EV Marathon Gold & Natural Resources Fund, 8088 
 
             Federated Investors et al., 58088 
 
             First American Investment Funds, Inc., et al., 4295, 46874 
 
             First American Strategy Funds, Inc., et al., 46493 
 
             First Colonial Ventures, Ltd., 1965 
 
             FIRST FUNDS et al., 31981 
 
             First Trust Special Situations Trust, 39490 
 
             First Trust Special Situations Trust et al., 55328 
 
             First Variable Life Insurance Co. et al., 57928 
 
             Flex-Partners et al., 10602 
 
             FMR Corp. et al., 37097 
 
             Focus Investment Trust (Series 1), 44369 
 
             Foreign Fund, Inc., et al., 5425 
 
             Fortis Benefits Insurance Co. et al., 31193 
 
             Fountain Powerboat Industries, Inc., 49181 
 
             Franklin Templeton Fund Manager et al., 26235 
 
             Freedom Mutual Fund et al., 57930 
 
             Fremont Mutual Funds, Inc., et al., 59474 
 
             Frontier Communications Services, Inc., 9210 
 
             Funds IV Trust et al., 1424 
 
             Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., 49503 
 
             Gainsco, Inc., 58599 
 
             Gannet Welsh & Kotler Funds et al., 56578 
 
             GE Funds et al., 46876 
 
             GE Investment Management Inc. et al., 43278 
 
             George K. Baum Employee Equity Fund, L.P., 31984 
 
             Glickenhaus & Co. et al., 17929 
 
             Global Income Plus Fund, Inc., 15843 
 
             GMO Trust et al., 29152 
 
             GNA Variable Investment Account et al., 13898 
 
             Golden American Life Insurance Co., 37500 
 
             Great American Reserve Insurance Co. et al., 39679 
 
             Great Pond Investors, L.P., et al., 41189 
 
             Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. et al., 362, 37502 
 
             Greenman Bros. Inc., 4701 
 
             Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., 9211 
 
             Hanover Funds, Inc., 65613 
 
             Hanover Investment Funds, Inc., 65251 
 
             Harcourt-Symes, Ltd., 50520 
 
             Harris & Harris Group, Inc., 6870 
 
             Harris Trust & Savings Bank et al., 68317 
 
             Hercules Funds Inc., 52979 
 
             Heritage Media Corp., 41434, 43574 
 
             HLM Global Equity L.P. et al., 56580 
 
             Home Network Unit Investment Trust, 55176 
 
             Horizon Mental Health Management, Inc., 24342 
 
             IDEX Fund et al., 3065 
 
             IDS Life Insurance Co. et al., 5587 
 
             IDS Life Insurance Co. of New York et al., 39682 
 
             ILI Endeavor Variable Annuity Account, 57497 
 
             INCSTAR Corp., 29154 
 
             Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 6664 
 
             Indigo Group, Ltd., et al., 20869 
 
             Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, 
 68073 
 
             ING Bank N.V. et al., 58915 
 
             Institutional Series Trust, 36587 
 
             International Tourist Entertainment Corp., 569 
 
             ITT Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance Co. et al., 30647, 
 40258 
 
             J.P. Morgan Index Funding Co., LLC, 5429 
 
             Jefferson Funds Trust, 46879 
 
             John Hancock Capital Growth Fund, 8986 
 
             John Hancock Cash Management Fund, 3752 
 
             John Hancock Declaration Trust et al., 48991 
 
             John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. et al., 24970 
 
             John Hancock Tax-Exempt Income Fund, 55330 
 
             Keyport Life Insurance Co. et al., 40040 
 
             Kirby Corp., 63875 
 
             Lanstar Semiconductor, Inc., 21218 
 
             Laser Industries Ltd., 36940 
 
             Lazard Funds, Inc., et al., 40682, 43574 
 
             LB Series Fund, Inc., et al., 40260 
 
             Lexington Growth & Income Fund, Inc., et al., 4297 
 
             Lexington Short-Intermediate Government Securities, Inc., 
 et al., 8987 
 
             LifeUSA Funds, Inc., et al., 48996 
 
             Lincoln National International Fund, Inc., et al., 47990 
 
             Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. et al., 46880, 47217 
 
             Lincoln National Variable Annuity Fund B, 36588 
 
             Lipper Funds, Inc., et al., 4496, 64771 
 
             Lord Abbett Global Fund, Inc., et al., 27112 
 
             MacNeal-Schwendler Corp., 34462 
 
             Managed Currency Portfolio L.P., 20295 
 
             Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. of America et al., 11438, 
 20296 
 
             Marcum Natural Gas Services, Inc., 428 
 
             MAS Funds, 15844 
 
             McDonald & Co. Securities, Inc., et al., 8987, 10846 
 
             Medallion Financial Corp., 63880 
 
             Medallion Financial Corp. et al., 19097 
 
             Medicore, Inc., 31197 
 
             MedQuist Inc., 39491 
 
             Merrill Lynch Balanced Fund for Investment & Retirement, 
 Inc., 49505 
 
             Merrill Lynch Variable Series Funds, Inc. et al., 58725 
 
             Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. et al., 49182 
 
             Mexico Equity & Income Fund, Inc., 19100 
 
             MFS Special Value Trust, 38232 
 
             M Fund, Inc., et al., 750 
 
             Midland National Life Insurance Co. et al., 65093 
 
             Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co. et al., 11440, 37504 
 
             Minorco S.A., 24517 
 
             Mitchell Hutchins/Kidder, Peabody Equity Income Fund, 
 Inc., 65615 
 
             Mitchell Hutchins/Kidder, Peabody Government Income Fund, 
 Inc., 65615 
 
             Mobile Mini, Inc., 9738 
 
             Morgan Grenfell Investment Trust, 19646 
 
             Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., 50521 
 
             Morgan Stanley Universal Funds, Inc., et al., 46000 
 
             MuniVest California Fund Inc., 3516 
 
             MuniVest Florida Fund II, 3517 
 
             MuniVest New Jersey Fund II Inc., 3516 
 
             Mutual Fund Group et al., 365 
 
             NASL Financial Services, Inc. et al., 65616 
 
             NASL Series Trust et al., 63881 
 
             National Bond Fund, 5430 
 
             National Equity Trust, 26237 
 
             National Federal Securities Trust, 5431 
 
             National Financial Services Corp. et al., 31564 
 
             National Integrity Life Insurance Co. et al., 12115 
 
             National Securities Tax Exempt Bonds, Inc., 5432 
 
             National Total Return Fund, 5432 
 
             Nations Fund Portfolios, Inc., et al., 9511 
 
             Nations Fund Trust et al., 33784, 42072 
 
             NDE Environmental Corp., 428 
 
             New South Africa Fund Inc., 37780 
 
             New York Localities Legal Obligations Cash ACCESS Trust, 
 25929 
 
             Nomura Dividend Income Fund, 10041 
 
             North Carolina Limited Maturity Municipals Portfolio, 
 46496 
 
             Northeast Utilities et al., 53468 
 
             Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., 10042 
 
             Norwest Advantage Funds et al., 15846 
 
             Norwest Bank Minnesota, N.A., et al., 36941 
 
             Norwest Funds et al., 29580 
 
             Nuveen California Municipal Income Fund, Inc., 32866 
 
             Nuveen New York Municipal Income Fund, Inc., 32867 
 
             OCC Distributors et al., 64931 
 
             Oppenheimer Global Environment Fund, 35820 
 
             Osmanli Bankasi A.S. et al., 57498 
 
             Pacifica Funds Trust et al., 9211 
 
             Pacific Horizons Funds, Inc. et al., 37946 
 
             PaineWebber/Kidder, Peabody California Tax Exempt Money 
 Fund, 68321 
 
             PaineWebber/Kidder, Peabody Government Money Fund, Inc., 
 68320 
 
             PaineWebber America Fund et al., 52477 
 
             PaineWebber Atlas Fund, 39684 
 
             Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., 36944 
 
             Photonic Fund, Inc., 54469 
 
             Pierre Funding Corp., 21214 
 
             Pilot Funds et al., 40683, 50887 
 
             PIMCO Advisors Funds et al., 68803 
 
             Pittway Corp., 57499 
 
             PLM Equipment Growth Fund, 11443 
 
             PLM Equipment Growth Fund II, 11443 
 
             PLM Equipment Growth Fund III, 11443 
 
             PNC Bank, N.A., et al., 3753 
 
             Pound Sterling Performance Portfolio L.P., 19648 
 
             Principal Aggressive Growth Fund et al., 14354 
 
             Principal Mutual Life Insurance Co. et al., 13223 
 
             Princor Balanced Fund, Inc., et al., 12117 
 
             Protective Life Insurance Co. et al., 1965 
 
             Providence Energy Corp., 68075 
 
             ProvidentMutual Growth Fund, Inc., 67079 
 
             ProvidentMutual Investment Shares, Inc., 67080 
 
             ProvidentMutual Moneyfund, Inc., 67081 
 
             ProvidentMutual Tax-Free Bond Fund, 67082 
 
             ProvidentMutual Total Return Trust, 67083 
 
             ProvidentMutual U.S. Government For Income, Inc., 67083 
 
             ProvidentMutual Value Shares, Inc., 67084 
 
             ProvidentMutual World Fund, Inc., 67085 
 
             Pruco Life Individual Variable Annuity Account, 45467 
 
             Prudential Adjustable Rate Securities Fund, Inc., 12119 
 
             Prudential Institutional Fund et al., 42293 
 
             Prudential Strategist Fund, Inc., 18633 
 
             Prudential U.S. Government Fund, 40043 
 
             Public utility holding company filings, 423, 1422, 1660, 
 1968, 2549, 3755, 4701, 6046, 7027, 8089, 9213, 10407, 10604, 11910, 
 13901, 16147, 17333, 18451, 19967, 21508, 25930, 27940, 29150, 30266, 
 31568, 33551, 35274, 36589, 39165, 40470, 41667, 42454, 43795, 45999, 
 47219, 48177, 49506, 52071, 54687, 55331, 56581, 57932, 59259, 59261, 
 63876, 64402, 65619, 67363, 67862 
 
             Putnam Research Analysts Fund, 51473 
 
             Qualified Unit Investment Liquid Trust Series Equity 
 Opportunity Trust et al., 7834 
 
             Qualivest Funds et al., 16147, 33151 
 
             Quantitative Group of Funds et al., 46004 
 
             Quest for Value Global Funds, Inc., 40263 
 
             Reich & Tang Distributors L.P. et al., 49507 
 
             Reliv' International, Inc., 55057 
 
             Renaissance Assets Trust, 754 
 
             Renaissance Capital Growth & Income Fund III, Inc., 65621 
 
             Rockwell International Corp., 5433, 17741 
 
             Royce Capital Trust et al., 35275 
 
             SAFECO Life Insurance Co. et al., 24974 
 
             Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation, 25510 
 
             Schwab Advantage Trust, 19649 
 
             Schwab Annuity Portfolios, 46669 
 
             Schwab Capital Trust et al., 4498 
 
             Scudder Global Fund, Inc., et al., 40263 
 
             Security First Life Insurance Co. et al., 53469 
 
             SEI Institutional Managed Trust et al., 15530 
 
             Select Capital Growth Fund, Inc., 2860 
 
             Select Managed Fund, Inc., 2861 
 
             Seligman Henderson Emerging Companies Interval Fund, Inc., 
 44369 
 
             Semiconductor Packaging Materials Co., Inc., 18185 
 
             Shawmut Funds, 59121 
 
             Sherman, Dean Fund, Inc., 35280 
 
             Sherry Lane Growth Fund, Inc. et al., 37102 
 
             Sierra Asset Management Trust et al., 29435 
 
             Simula, Inc., 9738 
 
             Sirrom Capital Corp., 31197, 65252 
 
             Sirrom Capital Corp. et al., 38483 
 
             Southeast Interactive Technology Fund I, LLC, et al., 
 42295 
 
             Southwestern Life Insurance Co. et al., 11068 
 
             Special Opportunities Trust, Health Care Securities, 
 Series I, 43280 
 
             Stagecoach Funds, Inc., et al., 27114 
 
             Star Multi Care Services, Inc., 25250, 25251 
 
             Stepan Co., 16663 
 
             Strong Advantage Fund, Inc., et al., 57500 
 
             Struthers Industries, Inc., 32867 
 
             SunAmerica Series Trust et al., 58266 
 
             SuperTrust Trust for Capital Market Fund, Inc., 28254 
 
             T. Acquisition Corp., 58269 
 
             T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc. et al., 36400 
 
             Target Portfolio Trust et al., 43098 
 
             Target Unit Investment Trust, 12120 
 
             Tasty Baking Co., 55057 
 
             TCW/DW Global Convertible Trust, 6871 
 
             TCW/DW North American Intermediate Income Trust, 6273 
 
             TCW Convertible Limited Partnership, et al., 58917 
 
             TCW Mid-Cap Growth Stocks L.P. et al., 12121 
 
             Technitrol, Inc., 64183 
 
             Technology Funding Partners III, L.P., et al., 50065 
 
             Templeton Global Utilities, Inc., 31200 
 
             THC Partners, 27116 
 
             The One Group et al., 44094 
 
             The One Group Investment Trust, 755 
 
             Titan Corp., 17741 
 
             Tomorrow Funds Retirement Trust et al., 8693 
 
             Total Growth Trust, 3517 
 
             Transamerica Investors, Inc., et al., 43100 
 
             Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. et al., 48998 
 
             Transworld Telecommunications, Inc., 13225 
 
             Travelers Insurance Co. et al., 18761, 47221 
 
             Travelers Life & Annuity Co. et al., 18763 
 
             Trend Capital Management, Inc., 33555 
 
             Twentieth Century Blended Portfolios, Inc., et al., 10826 
 
             U.S. Trust Corp. et al., 13903 
 
             UAM Funds, Inc., et al., 6047, 16816 
 
             UniMark Group, Inc., 25251 
 
             United of Omaha Separate Account B, 3960 
 
             United Vision Group, Inc., 58270 
 
             Urohealth Systems, Inc., 67365 
 
             UST Master Variable Series, Inc., 48179 
 
             Valley Forge Life Insurance Co. et al., 18185 
 
             Van Eck Funds et al., 40266 
 
             Van Eck Trust, 33557 
 
             Vanguard Money Market Reserves, Inc., et al., 11444, 54470 
 
             Van Kampen American Capital Bond Fund, Inc., et al., 3518 
 
             Van Kampen American Capital Comstock Fund et al., 21515, 
 27118 
 
             Van Kampen American Capital Equity Opportunity Trust et 
 al., 39166, 46006, 55333, 68076 
 
             Van Kampen American Capital Global Managed Assets Fund et 
 al., 3067 
 
             Van Kampen American Capital, Inc., et al., 7836 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt California Municipal Opportunity Trust, 
 760 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt California Quality Municipal Trust II, 
 1969 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt Growth Fund, 1970 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt Michigan Quality Municipal Trust, 760 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt New York Municipal Opportunity Trust, 
 761 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt New York Quality Municipal Trust II, 
 1970 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt Pennsylvania Municipal Opportunity 
 Trust, 761 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt Senior Income Opportunity Trust, 1971 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt Texas Municipal Opportunity Trust, 762 
 
             Van Kampen Merritt Trust for Insured Municipals II, 762 
 
             Variable Investment Trust et al., 55336 
 
             Vermont Teddy Bear Co., Inc., 46008 
 
             Victory Portfolios et al., 65095 
 
             Virginia Limited Maturity Municipals Portfolio, 46496 
 
             Voice Control Systems, Inc., 9738 
 
             Voyageur Arizona Municipal Income Fund II, Inc., 57502 
 
             Voyageur Colorado Municipal Income Fund II, Inc., 57503 
 
             Voyageur Florida Insured Municipal Income Fund II, 53472 
 
             Voyageur Missouri Municipal Income Fund, Inc., 67585 
 
             Voyageur Texas Municipal Income Fund, 67586 
 
             Walnut Properties L.P. et al., 3069 
 
             Wanger Advisors Trust et al., 60130 
 
             Warburg, Pincus Managed Bond Trust, 24342 
 
             Washington National Insurance Co. et al., 27120 
 
             Weldotron Corp., 54827 
 
             Wood Island Growth Fund, Inc., 6274 
 
             Woodward Funds et al., 17336 
 
             Worldwide Short-Term Trust, 570 
 
             Wyly, Samuel Evans, et al., 36590 
 
             Yen Performance Portfolio L.P., 19649 
 
             Zurich Life Insurance Co. of America et al., 9513 
 
 
 
 
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 Selective Service System 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23856, 63348 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 6281 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 13917, 18455, 
 31991 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 48202 
 
 
 
 
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 Sentencing Commission, United States 
 
     See United States Sentencing Commission 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Small Business Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Administrative claims under Federal Tort Claims Act and 
 representation and idemnification of SBA employees: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 2401 
 
         Conflict of interests, 2398 
 
         Disaster loan programs: 
 
             Streamlining and clarification, 3304 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Business loan programs, 3226 
 
                 Correction, 7985, 11471 
 
             Government contracting review, 3310 
 
                 Correction, 7986, 39304 
 
             Procedure rules governing cases before Office of Hearings 
 and Appeals, 2682 
 
             Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations, 2691 
 
             Small business investment companies, 3177 
 
                 Correction, 7985, 41496 
 
             Small business size standards, 3280 
 
                 Correction, 6412, 7306, 7986, 43119 
 
             Standards for conducting business with SBA, 2679 
 
             Surety bond guarantee program, 3266 
 
                 Correction, 7985 
 
         Freedom of Information Act: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 2671 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 2671 
 
         Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, etc.: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform, 2394 
 
         Small business size standards: 
 
             Nonmanufacturer rule; waivers -- 
 
                 Metal bars and rods, 42376 
 
                 Purified terephthalic acid, ground and unground, 54538 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Business loan policy: 
 
             Unguaranteed portions of loan, sale, 60649 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23858, 63350 
 
         Small business size standards: 
 
             Nonmanufacturer rule; waivers -- 
 
                 Airborne integrated data components, 65492 
 
                 Purified terephthalic acid, ground and unground, 20191 
 
                 Routers and switches, 59382 
 
                 Tabulating paper (computer forms, manifold or 
 continuous), 20191 
 
                 Tri-deck airborne recorder, 8mm (ruggedized), 59382 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 11461, 11462, 16516, 
 17747, 20309, 25259-25261, 25723, 36412, 49186, 53987, 55180, 59920 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 10420, 10421, 
 14847, 27942 
 
         Disaster home loan servicing and collection functions; cost 
 efficient method, 6281 
 
         Disaster loan areas: 
 
             Alabama, 15153 
 
             Alaska, 32882 
 
             Arizona et al., 51134 
 
             Arkansas, 24345 
 
             California, 6675 
 
             Florida, 3960, 36950, 38793, 50067, 56730, 64187, 67863 
 
             Florida et al., 58274, 59270 
 
             Georgia, 2326 
 
             Guam, 64187 
 
             Hawaii, 64935 
 
             Idaho, 9216, 10055, 11931 
 
             Illinois, 24346, 25261, 26244, 26944, 28923, 33570, 40875, 
 43802, 52485 
 
             Indiana, 19653, 34919, 38506, 40875, 40876 
 
             Kentucky, 21219, 29783, 38506, 40876 
 
             Kentucky et al., 43290 
 
             Maine et al., 58436 
 
             Maryland, 11932, 52485 
 
             Maryland et al., 6675 
 
             Massachusetts et al., 6676, 58275, 58436, 60136 
 
             Michigan, 46892 
 
             Minnesota et al., 40059 
 
             Mississippi et al., 9217 
 
             New Hampshire, 58275, 59270, 60136 
 
             New Jersey, 6676, 36950, 67863 
 
             New Mexico et al., 26244 
 
             New York, 6676, 47541, 67779, 67864 
 
             North Carolina, 19653, 40059, 40876, 42673, 43802, 50067, 
 53775, 53988, 55834, 57509, 66723 
 
             Ohio, 6677 
 
             Ohio et al., 28632 
 
             Oregon, 1426, 9217, 11932, 67864 
 
             Pennsylvania, 11932, 15153, 19653, 36104, 36951, 40876, 
 52485, 53776 
 
             Pennsylvania et al., 6677, 8094, 52485 
 
             Puerto Rico, 50068, 52486, 53988, 59271 
 
             Rhode Island, 3960 
 
             Tennessee, 4509, 15153, 48726 
 
             Tennessee et al., 42673, 47541 
 
             Texas, 31605, 54484 
 
             Virginia, 6876, 16666, 50068, 52486, 53988, 56731, 57509, 
 58435, 58921 
 
             Virgin Islands, 1426, 38506 
 
             Washington, 2326, 9217, 11932, 15153, 16666 
 
             West Virginia, 11932, 29783, 33570, 36104, 42673, 43802, 
 50068 
 
             West Virginia et al., 6678, 40877 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             Small business development centers, 37951 
 
         Interest rates; quarterly determinations, 2566, 17936, 39496, 
 53256 
 
         Intergovernmental review of agency programs and activities, 
 52074 
 
         License surrenders: 
 
             Bartlesville Investment Corp., 33570 
 
             Bethela Capital Corp., 25932 
 
             Calista Business Investment Corp., 49002 
 
             Central Texas Small Business Investment Corp., 13563 
 
             D.C. Bancorp Venture Capital Co., 2566 
 
             Enterprise Venture Capital Corp. of Pennsylvania, 11075 
 
             ESLO Capital Corp., 56731 
 
             FBS SBIC, L.P., 6406 
 
             First City Capital Corp., 31605 
 
             Fluid Capital Corp., 33570 
 
             Fluid Financial Corp., 33570 
 
             Inverness Capital Corp., 33571 
 
             Investment Capital Inc., 33571 
 
             Los Angeles Capital Corp., 38507 
 
             North Riverside Capital Corp., 8095 
 
             Northwest Venture Partners et al., 6406 
 
             Oklahoma Capital Corp., 55834 
 
             Qneneska Capital Corp., 50069 
 
             Richmond Square Capital Corp., 3519 
 
             San Joaquin Capital Corp., 37104 
 
             SBI Capital Corp., 64187 
 
             Threshold Ventures, Inc., 49002 
 
             Venture Capital Corp. of New Mexico, 33571 
 
             Watchung Capital Corp., 33571 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Houston District Advisory Council, 24345 
 
             National Advisory Council, 47999 
 
             National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board, 
 4704, 28255, 43291 
 
             Portland District Advisory Council, 21219 
 
         Meetings; district and regional advisory councils: 
 
             Connecticut, 2326, 26944, 31209 
 
             Georgia, 36104 
 
             Hawaii, 11932, 41678 
 
             Maine, 8701, 47999 
 
             Massachusetts, 11933, 43290 
 
             Minnesota, 2326, 18637, 52826 
 
             New York, 11933 
 
             Rhode Island, 52826 
 
             Utah, 13917 
 
             West Virginia, 37952, 41678 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Deputy Administrator et al., 4808 
 
         Procurement opportunities through electronic commerce and 
 electronic data interchange: 
 
             Value-added services, 24849 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 58921 
 
         Surety bond guarantee program; fees, 7848 
 
         Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: 
 
             ABN Capital (USA) Inc., 5434 
 
             Blue Rock Capital, L.P., 24344 
 
             Canaan S.B.I.C., L.P., 57508 
 
             Commerce Capital, L.P., 5828, 57509 
 
             CoreStates Enterprise Capital, Inc., 24344 
 
             Eastern Virginia Small Business Investment Corp., 27124 
 
             Enterprise Fund, L.P., 2564, 46674 
 
             First Capital Group of Texas II, L.P., 4704, 24345 
 
             FNF Ventures, Inc., 46674 
 
             Gateway Partners, L.P., 37104 
 
             Javelin Capital Fund, L.P., 36950 
 
             Kline Hawkes California SBIC, 3519 
 
             Mellon Ventures, L.P., 2565, 15330 
 
             MMG Ventures, L.P., 64186 
 
             Penny Lane Partners, L.P., 59479 
 
             Prospect Street NYC Discovery Fund, L.P., 48726 
 
             Regent Capital Partners, L.P., 4299, 41678 
 
             Retail & Restaurant Growth Capital, L.P., 57509 
 
             Societe Generale Capital Corp., 5829, 24345 
 
             Stratford Equity Partners, L.P., 64186 
 
             Sundance Venture Partners II, L.P., 2565 
 
             Toronto Dominion Capital (U.S.A.), Inc., 4299, 46674 
 
             Walden Capital Partners, L.P., 43802 
 
             Wasserstein Perella SBIC, L.P., 64187 
 
             Wells Fargo Small Business Investment Co., Inc., 2564, 
 15331 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Social Security Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Chapter establishment, 50737 
 
         Authority citation revisions, 5939 
 
         Black lung benefits: 
 
             Overpayment appeal and waiver rights, 56126 
 
         Civil monetary penalties; assessments and recommended 
 exclusions, 18078 
 
             Hearings and appeals procedures, 65467 
 
         Social security benefits: 
 
             Disability and blindness determinations -- 
 
                 Growth impairment listings; expiration date extension, 
 64615 
 
                 Musculoskeletal system listings; expiration date 
 extension, 28046 
 
             Earnings and benefit estimates statements, 18075 
 
             Federal old age, survivors and disability insurance -- 
 
                 Elementary or secondary school students, full-time; 
 inclusion of students enrolled in home schooling or independent study 
 programs, 38361 
 
                 Living in the same household and lump-sum death 
 payment rules; revision, 41329 
 
                 Social Security Independence and Program Improvements 
 Act, et al.; coverage provisions, 38363 
 
             Signature requirements for State agency medical and 
 psychological consultants in disability determinations, 11133 
 
         Supplemental security income: 
 
             Aged, blind, and disabled -- 
 
                 Dedicated accounts and installment payments for past- 
 due benefits, 67203 
 
                 Income exclusions, 49962 
 
                 Lawful admission for permanent residence in the U.S.; 
 documentation requirements, 56133 
 
                 Natural disasters; lost, damaged or destroyed excluded 
 resources repair or replacement funds; time period, 5943 
 
                 Temporarily institutionalized persons; continuation of 
 full benefits, standard, 10274 
 
                 Victims' compensation payments and relocation 
 assistance exclusions, 1711 
 
                 Vocational rehabilitation services payments, 31022 
 
             Signature requirements for State agency medical and 
 psychological consultants in disability determinations, 11133 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Civil monetary penalties, assessments and recommended 
 exclusions 
 
             Hearings and appeals procedures, 39921 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23874, 63358 
 
         Social security benefits: 
 
             Cycling payments; additional days throughout month on 
 which benefits will be paid, 2654, 4389 
 
         Supplemental security income: 
 
             Aged, blind, and disabled -- 
 
                 Supplementary payments on behalf of States; 
 administrative fees and interest, 18529 
 
                 U.S. residency, definition; birth, baptismal records 
 as acceptable evidence, etc., 17609 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 7128, 8095, 10838, 
 14189, 15331, 17342, 19653, 20872, 24996, 27380, 30275, 35295, 40472, 
 41817, 45470, 46502, 53478, 59126, 65628, 67865 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 2566, 3961, 
 6282, 8095, 18637, 37787, 39178, 42930, 49517, 51481, 56601, 64784 
 
         Foreign insurance or pension systems: 
 
             Croatia, 10615 
 
         Magnetic media filing requirements change; W-2 wage reports, 
 13563 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Representative Payment Advisory Committee, 1661, 5052, 
 11075, 15858, 26944, 38235 
 
             Social Security Advisory Council, 15858 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Chief Actuary Office et al., 35844 
 
             Inspector General; subpoenas issuance, 28255 
 
             Inspector General Office; internal organizational 
 realignments, 36602 
 
             Office of Information Management, etc., 15553 
 
             Office of Program Benefits Policy, 56253 
 
             Office of the Regional Commissioner, 56254 
 
             Publications and Logistics Management Office, 5053 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 7298, 18766, 25723, 38793, 
 58091 
 
             Systems of records, 25724, 30653, 33791, 46675 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 2567 
 
         Social security acquiescence rulings: 
 
             DeSonier vs. Sullivan; State intestate succession law 
 application in determining entitlement to child's benefits, 27942 
 
             Rescissions -- 
 
                 Rosenberg v. Richardson et al., 5434 
 
                 Validity of last marriage, 11462 
 
         Social security benefits: 
 
             Cost-of-living increase, SSI monthly benefit amounts 
 increase, average of total wages, contribution and benefit base, etc., 
 55346, 60154 
 
         Social security claims: 
 
             Disability evaluation; redesigned method development; 
 research plan, 47542 
 
         Social security rulings: 
 
             Administrative findings of fact by State agency medical 
 and psychological consultants, etc., 34466 
 
             Allegations of pain and other symptoms; consideration in 
 determining whether medically determinable impairment is severe, 34468 
 
             Disability claims symptoms evaluation; individual's 
 statements credibility assessment, 34483 
 
             Electronic service delivery, 68808 
 
             Federal circuit court and district court decisions 
 application, 34470 
 
             Medical source opinions on issues reserved to 
 Commissioner, 34471 
 
             Rescissions -- 
 
                 Living in the same household; definition, 41439 
 
             Residual functional capacity assessment in initial claims, 
 34474 
 
             Residual functional capacity for less than full range of 
 sedentary work, implications; determining capacity to do other work, 
 34478 
 
             Symptoms, medically determinable physical and mental 
 impairments, and exertional and nonexertional limitations, 34488 
 
             Treating source medical opinions; controlling weight, 
 34490 
 
         Social security supplementary agreement between U.S. and 
 Germany; payment provision for ethnic German Jews; entry into force, 
 33570 
 
         Supplemental security income: 
 
             Disability claim process; testing modifications to 
 prehearing procedures and decisions by adjudication officers; 
 locations of tests, 3757 
 
             Disability determination procedures; testing 
 modifications; test sites for single decisionmaker model, 19969 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Southeastern Power Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Power rates: 
 
             Kerr-Philpott Projects, 4433, 51103 
 
             Stonewall Jackson Project, 43760 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Southwestern Power Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Integrated System power rates and opportunities, 34432, 51102 
 
             Extension, 34432, 51102 
 
             Rate design development, 53732 
 
         Power rates: 
 
             Robert D. Willis project, 35209, 51104 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Special Counsel Office 
 
     See Office of the Special Counsel 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Special Trustee for American Indians Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act: 
 
             Restricted tribal funds withdrawal and management, 67931 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 State Department 
 
     RULES 
 
         Claims and stolen property: 
 
             Fishermen's Protective Act Guaranty Fund procedures; 
 Federal regulatory reform, 49966 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Foreign official status notification, 32327 
 
             Removal of alien enemies brought to U.S.; World War II 
 reparations; and disposal of surplus property in foreign areas; CFR 
 parts removed, 6506 
 
             Shipping and seamen; CFR parts removed, 29940 
 
         Foreign missions protection guidelines; CFR part removed, 
 10447 
 
         International agreements: 
 
             Coordination and reporting; determination not to publish 
 certain agreements, 7070 
 
         International Traffic in Arms regulations, 19841, 36625 
 
             Afghanistan; defense articles and services importation and 
 exportation, etc.; prohibition, 33313 
 
             Amendments and nomenclature changes, 48830 
 
             Commercial aircraft engines and communications satellites 
 hot-section technologies -- 
 
                 Transfer to Commerce Department's CCL, 56894 
 
             Cryptographic products for personal use; exemption, 6111 
 
             Encryption items removal from U.S. Munitions List, 
 transfer to Commerce Control List, 68633 
 
             Georgia et al., 41499 
 
             Ukraine; defense articles and services importation and 
 exportation, 41737 
 
         Legal and related services: 
 
             International child abduction -- 
 
                 Office of Children's Issues designated as U.S. Central 
 Authority for Hague Abduction Convention, 7069 
 
         Longshore work by U.S. nationals; foreign prohibitions, 29941 
 
         Nationality and passports: 
 
             Passports and U.S. nationality claims in foreign 
 countries; persons authorized to issue and adjudicate, 43310 
 
             Passports for minors; custodial dispute and non-dispute 
 situations, 6505 
 
         Nationality procedures: 
 
             Nationality retention or loss; obsolete sections deleted, 
 29651 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Assistant Authentication Officers; authentication 
 certificates issuance, 39584 
 
             Notarizing servicing overseas 
 
                 Correction, 14375 
 
         Passports: 
 
             Information release; obsolete language removed, 29940 
 
         Press building passes, 3800 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 68148 
 
         Tort claims and certain property damage claims, administrative 
 settlement; CFR part removed, 2915 
 
         Visas; immigrant documentation: 
 
             Diversity immigrant visa program; requirements to prevent 
 fraudulent practices, 1523 
 
                 Correction, 6111 
 
             Federal regulatory reform -- 
 
                 Aliens arrested and deported, international child 
 abduction, temporary workers and trainees, etc., 1832 
 
                 Labor certification, unqualified physicians, 
 misrepresentation, failure of applicant to comply with INA, etc., 1834 
 
             Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
 Act of 1996; implementation -- 
 
                 Visa ineligibility grounds, 59182 
 
             Issuance to aliens failing to comply with Immigration and 
 Nationality Act, 9325 
 
                 Correction, 11305 
 
         Visas; nonimmigrant documentation: 
 
             Federal regulatory reform -- 
 
                 Aliens arrested and deported, international child 
 abduction, temporary workers and trainees, etc., 1832 
 
                 Labor certification, unqualified physicians, 
 misrepresentation, failure of applicant to comply with INA, etc., 1834 
 
             Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
 Act of 1996; implementation -- 
 
                 Visa ineligibility grounds, 59182 
 
             Jurisdictional consular office for nonimmigrant 
 processing; designation by geographical area, 56438 
 
             Summer 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA; visa applications; 
 removal, 1521, 53058 
 
             Visa waiver pilot program -- 
 
                 Argentina, 35628 
 
                 Australia, 39318 
 
             Witnesses and informants, 1837 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation: 
 
             National security information; classification, 
 safeguarding, and declassification, 39927 
 
         Longshore work by U.S. nationals; foreign prohibitions 
 
             Comment period extended, 2973 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Implementation, 53158 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation: 
 
             National security information; classification, 
 safeguarding, and declassification, 39927 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23290, 62790 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Accountability Review Board: 
 
             Attack on headquarters of Office of Program Manager, Saudi 
 Arabian National Guard in Riyadh in which five Americans were killed, 
 8322 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 2567, 7129, 11076, 
 24996, 24997, 26945, 46892 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 43394, 51483 
 
         Antarctic fishing; conservation measures adoption by 
 Commission for Conservation of Antartic Marine Living Resources, 66723 
 
         Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes 
 and Disposal: 
 
             Basel-covered wastes trading with non-party absent 
 agreement, 8323 
 
         Climate change action plan: 
 
             U.S. initiative on joint implementation; evaluation and 
 assessment, 59480 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Defense Trade Advisory Group, 12128 
 
             International Telecommunication Advisory Committee, 7039 
 
             Private International Law Advisory Committee, 67090 
 
             Religious Freedom Abroad Advisory Committee, 67090 
 
         Cryptographic products, temporary export; reporting and 
 recordkeeping requirements, 6282 
 
         Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act; 
 implementation guidelines, 30655 
 
         Diversity immigrant visa program; registration, 2862 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Eagle Paso, TX; new international bridge, 20873 
 
             El Paso County, TX; Rio Grande Pipeline Co. pipeline, 
 49002 
 
             Express Pipeline Partnership pipeline from Montana to 
 Alberta, Canada, 49003 
 
             Portal Pipe Line Company; pipeline to Canadian border, 
 24997 
 
         Foreign Assistance Act; determinations, 10056 
 
         Gifts to Federal employees from foreign governments; listing, 
 24536 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             American Council of Teachers of Russian et al., 43567 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Eastern Europe and independent states of former Soviet 
 Union; research and training, 52075 
 
         International airports; ineffective security measures: 
 
             Hellenikon International Airport, Athens, Greece, 15554 
 
         International Atomic Energy Agency-U.S. Safeguards Agreement; 
 interagency procedures for implementation, 7130 
 
         International conferences: 
 
             U.S. delegations; private-sector representatives, 63892 
 
         International Joint Commission on Canada-U.S. Air Quality 
 Agreement: 
 
             Air Quality Committee 1996 progress report; transboundary 
 air pollution reduction; inquiry, 58728 
 
         International Traffic in Arms regulations; statutory 
 debarment, 29784 
 
         Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996; clarification, 66067 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Defense Trade Advisory Group, 59481 
 
             Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former 
 Soviet Union Advisory Committee, 4705 
 
             Fine Arts Committee, 9218, 47231 
 
             Historical Diplomatic Documentation Advisory Committee, 
 9002, 24998, 48518, 60736 
 
             International Communications and Information Policy 
 Advisory Committee, 11671, 43111, 58729 
 
             International Economic Policy Advisory Committee, 49808, 
 58729, 65256, 68089 
 
             International Law Advisory Committee, 24850, 66340 
 
             International Telecommunications Advisory Committee, 4705, 
 4809, 9218, 9740, 10616, 16018, 18767, 19654, 36104, 45470, 51739, 
 55181, 58921, 67091, 67865 
 
             Overseas Schools Advisory Council, 1254, 22077, 67091 
 
             Overseas Security Advisory Council, 7571, 27382, 56256, 
 66340 
 
             Private International Law Advisory Committee, 7571, 7572, 
 22078, 43395, 47999 
 
             Shipping Coordinating Committee, 1426, 1427, 3519, 5596, 
 6407, 6678, 7039, 16516, 18456, 19329, 21521, 24346, 24850, 36774, 
 43112, 45470, 47231, 52486, 52487, 55181, 55680, 56602, 57509, 66341, 
 66735, 69131 
 
             U.S. foreign policy economic sanctions programs; briefing, 
 29444, 58729 
 
         Missile technology proliferation; sanctions: 
 
             Iranian entities, 29785 
 
             Korean entities, 29785 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Assistant Secretary for Administration et al., 46893 
 
             Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs, 
 58436 
 
             Security Assistance, Science and Technology Under 
 Secretary, et al.; Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, etc., 25727 
 
         Passport travel restrictions, U.S.: 
 
             Iraq, 10839 
 
             Lebanon, 8096, 43395 
 
             Libya, 56993 
 
         Pipeline facilities on U.S. borders; permit applications: 
 
             Express Pipeline Partnership, 37787 
 
             Rio Grande Pipeline Co., 26945 
 
         Presidential permits: 
 
             Eagle Pass, TX; new international bridge, 20874 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 53259 
 
         Property claims: 
 
             Nicaragua, 5054 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 46893, 48202 
 
         Shrimp trawl fishing; turtle protection guidelines; 
 certifications, 17342, 24998, 43395, 59482 
 
         U.N. Indigenous Rights draft declaration elaboration: 
 
             American tribal leaders/U.S. government officials 
 consultations, 36774 
 
         U.S. Framework Convention on Climate Change: 
 
             Second U.S. Climate Action Report; preparation, 66341 
 
         Visas; immigrant documentation: 
 
             Diversity immigrant (DV-98) visa program; registration, 
 58730 
 
 
 
 
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 State Justice Institute 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts; guidelines, 
 45640, 53782 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 5606, 29583, 36605, 58436 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Statistical Reporting Service 
 
     See National Agricultural Statistics Service 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 2838, 4279, 10005, 
 18753, 34438, 51713, 54668 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16805, 17905, 
 24320, 29415, 31945, 31946, 36891, 42640, 54669 
 
         Caring for Every Child's Mental Health: Communities Together 
 Campaign; cosponsorship opportunity, 8633 
 
         Federal agency urine drug testing; certified laboratories 
 meeting minimum standards, list, 3723, 8635, 15074, 19629, 28225, 
 35232, 40242, 46816, 52455, 56702, 64140 
 
         Grant and cooperative agreement awards: 
 
             Minority fellowship program -- 
 
                 American Nurse Association et al., 37280 
 
             National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse 
 Directors, 48718 
 
             National Association of State Mental Health Program 
 Directors, 25499 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Center for 
 Substance Abuse Treatment -- 
 
                 Receipt date cancellation, 58699 
 
             Community mental health services block grants -- 
 
                 Formula and methods for allocations determination, 
 30625 
 
             Knowledge development and application cooperative 
 agreements, 15810, 16927 
 
             Knowledge dissemination conference program -- 
 
                 Receipt date cancellation, 6018, 37075 
 
             Mental health systems change evaluation technical 
 assistance center (FY 1997), 31541, 58080 
 
             Substance abuse prevention and treatment block grants -- 
 
                 Formula and methods for allocations determination, 
 30625 
 
             Substance abuse treatment conference program, 6018 
 
                 Receipt date cancellation, 37075 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Drug Testing Advisory Board, 7118, 22068, 55166 
 
             Mental Health Services Center National Advisory Council, 
 9189, 15266, 39465 
 
             Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
 special emphasis panel, 4675, 9190, 43067, 54812, 57878, 60111, 67843 
 
             Substance Abuse Prevention Center National Advisory 
 Council, 22068, 26919, 43376 
 
             Substance Abuse Treatment Center National Advisory 
 Council, 3724, 37753, 44315 
 
         Meetings; advisory committees: 
 
             January, 1598 
 
             May, 18155, 21475 
 
             June, 26192, 28226, 29108 
 
             July, 30916, 39465 
 
             August, 37487, 42912 
 
             September, 41171, 47762 
 
             October, 51714 
 
             January (1997), 69107 
 
         Meetings; special emphasis panels: 
 
             August, 44071 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 55991 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Indian lands program: 
 
             Abandoned mine land reclamation plan -- 
 
                 Hopi Tribe, 17833 
 
                 Navajo Nation, Hopi and Crow Tribes, 6507 
 
         Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan 
 submissions: 
 
             Alabama, 37382 
 
             Alaska, 48835 
 
             Colorado, 6509, 26792, 32328, 59332 
 
             Illinois, 26801, 33799, 37383 
 
             Indiana, 15378, 15891, 26443, 55743 
 
             Kentucky, 66220 
 
             Maryland, 12027 
 
             Missouri, 26445, 26454, 31610, 38374 
 
             New Mexico, 26825, 38376 
 
             North Dakota, 52691 
 
             Ohio, 7411, 8074, 46548, 55748 
 
             Oklahoma, 26461, 38381, 67213 
 
             Oregon 
 
                 Coal exploration requirements; CFR correction, 40155. 
 
             Texas, 15380, 30805, 67216 
 
             Utah, 46550 
 
             Virginia, 26836, 42788, 46552 
 
             West Virginia, 6511, 38382 
 
             Wyoming, 6537, 40735, 43966 
 
         Program development, administration, and enforcement grants: 
 
             Administrative procedures; CFR correction, 40155 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Abandoned mine land reclamation: 
 
             Reclamation fund list; fee collection and coal production 
 reporting -- 
 
                 Coal excess moisture allowance, 64220 
 
         Federal lands program: 
 
             State-Federal cooperative agreements approval; Federal 
 regulatory review, 15005 
 
         Federal regulatory review: 
 
             Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan 
 submissions, 20768, 26477 
 
         Indian lands program: 
 
             Abandoned mine land reclamation plan -- 
 
                 Hopi Tribe, 53884 
 
                 Navajo Nation, AZ and NM, 51070 
 
         Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan 
 submissions: 
 
             Arkansas, 19881 
 
             Colorado, 8534, 47722, 58800 
 
             Illinois, 14039, 39612, 51631 
 
             Indiana, 1546, 1549, 1551, 15435 
 
             Iowa, 67967 
 
             Kentucky, 46577, 55247 
 
             Maryland, 44258 
 
             Missouri, 2459, 14517 
 
             Montana, 15910 
 
             New Mexico, 3625, 13117 
 
             North Dakota, 18100, 25425 
 
             Ohio, 16731, 29504, 32382, 43696, 54373, 54375 
 
             Oklahoma, 8536, 15435, 25426, 40369, 40474, 49284 
 
             Pennsylvania, 7446, 10918 
 
             Texas, 3628, 38420, 44260, 56648 
 
             Utah, 11350 
 
             Virginia, 10919, 19885, 29506, 31071, 38422, 48110 
 
             West Virginia, 17859, 37023 
 
             Wyoming, 20773 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Abandoned mine reclamation program; guidelines, 68777 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 10786, 11429, 14579, 
 15830, 16113, 19957, 31147, 32460, 55314, 68052 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 3730, 5408, 
 6022, 8642, 11061, 28232, 32461, 34446, 38472, 49792 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Fence Lake Mine, NM and AZ, 17319 
 
             Fern Lake Watershed, TN, 2531, 41651, 49793 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Bull Mountains Mines, MT; cancelled, 8074 
 
         Valid existing rights determinations: 
 
             Buckingham Coal Co., Inc.; Wayne National Forest, OH, 
 37078 
 
 
 
 
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 Surface Transportation Board 
 
     RULES 
 
         Contracts and exemptions: 
 
             Rail general exemption authority -- 
 
                 Ferrous recyclables, 47446 
 
                 Hydraulic cement, 66230 
 
             Railroad contracts; nonagricultural transportation 
 contracts exemption removed, 29036 
 
         Discontinuance of bus transportation in one State; CFR part 
 removed, 17579 
 
         Environmental laws implementation procedures: 
 
             Abandonment and discontinuance of rail lines and rail 
 transportation; environmental laws, 67876 
 
         Exemptions: 
 
             Boxcar traffic, 26846 
 
         Motor carrier transportation: 
 
             Regulations transfer and redesignation from STB to Federal 
 Highway Administration, 54706 
 
         Pipeline carriage rates and service terms: 
 
             Disclosure and notice of rates and other service terms, 
 35139 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Class III rail carriers; class exemption for acquisition 
 or operation of rail lines, 32355 
 
                 Correction, 36965 
 
             Licensing and related services to public; user fees, 
 42190, 48639, 66229 
 
             Rail licensing procedures -- 
 
                 Rail Passenger Service Act; avoidable losses 
 determination; CFR part removed, 16066 
 
         Rail carriage rates and service terms: 
 
             Disclosure, publication, and notice of change of rates and 
 other service terms, 35141 
 
         Rail carriers: 
 
             Connecting track and rail construction; class exemptions, 
 29973 
 
             Exempt issuance of securities and assumption of 
 obligations; CFR part removed, 7428 
 
             Reasonably expected costs and joint rates subject to 
 surcharge or cancellation; CFR parts removed, 7427 
 
         Rail licensing procedures: 
 
             Abandonment and discontinuance of rail lines and rail 
 transportation; envirionmental laws, 67876 
 
             Train or ferry discontinuance or change of operation; CFR 
 part removed, 7427 
 
         Rate procedures: 
 
             Rail rate reasonableness, exemption and revocation 
 proceedings; expedited procedures, 52710, 58490 
 
                 Correction, 53996 
 
                 Effective date delayed, 57339 
 
         Recyclables; CFR parts removed, 7426 
 
         Tariffs and schedules: 
 
             Anchorage, AK; Alaska intermodal motor/water traffic 
 service; rate increases notification, 30181 
 
             Filing requirements for government shipments at reduced 
 rates; CFR part removed, 24722 
 
             Owner-operator food transportation; CFR parts removed, 
 21387 
 
             Payment of discounts by motor carriers of property to 
 nonpayer of freight charges; rescission, 19859 
 
             Publication, posting and filing; CFR part removed, 7428 
 
             Railroad agricultural products contracts, 68668 
 
         Transfer of regulations from Interstate Commerce Commission, 
 1842 
 
         Uniform system of records of property changes for railroad 
 companies; CFR part removed, etc., 9112 
 
         Water carriers: 
 
             Harbors, and water carrier operations exemption; CFR parts 
 removed, 54104 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Accounts, records, and reports: 
 
             Abandonment applications; revenue and cost data for years 
 prior to base year period; elimination -- 
 
                 Discontinuance of proceeding, 11375 
 
         Exemptions: 
 
             Boxcar traffic, 13146 
 
         ICC Termination Act of 1995: 
 
             Rail common carriage changes of rates and other service 
 terms; disclosure and publication, 9413 
 
         Interlocking rail officers and directors; authorization, 22014 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Class III rail carriers; class exemption for acquisition 
 or operation of rail lines, 11802 
 
             Licensing and related services; user fees, 15208 
 
                 Correction, 20877 
 
             Pipeline common carriage rates and service terms; 
 disclosure and advance notice of increase, 10526 
 
             Rail exemption revocation proceedings; withdrawn, 11804 
 
             Rail rate reasonableness, exemption and revocation 
 proceedings; expedited procedures, 39110 
 
         Rail carriers: 
 
             Carrier rates and service terms: 
 
                 Disclosure, publication, and notice of change of rates 
 and other service terms, 21153 
 
         Rail licensing procedures: 
 
             Abandonment and discontinuance of rail lines and rail 
 transportation, 11174 
 
         Railroad contracts: 
 
             Specified rail services provision under specified rates 
 and conditions, 13147, 17682 
 
         Rate procedures: 
 
             Correction, 14735 
 
             Rail rate reasonableness and exemption/revocation 
 proceedings; expedited procedures, 11799, 19236 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 24094, 63580 
 
         Tariffs and schedules: 
 
             Household goods carriers tariff requirements, 56656 
 
             Motor tariff regulations; review; proceeding terminated, 
 19902 
 
             Noncontiguous domestic trade -- 
 
                 Freight forwarders tariff filing requirements; rate 
 reasonableness exemption, 59075 
 
                 Property transportation by or with water carrier, 
 67291 
 
             Pipeline common carriage; change of rates and other 
 service terms; disclosure and notice, 24474 
 
             Railroad agricultural products contracts, 54144 
 
             Tariff indexes; revisions, 9419 
 
         Uniform system of record of property changes for railroad 
 companies; withdrawn, 9138 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment unnecessary, 
 55070 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council; 
 membership, 2866 
 
         Declaratory order petitions: 
 
             National Association of Freight Transportation 
 Consultants, Inc., 60140 
 
         Demurrage collection consideration; antitrust immunity 
 withdrawal, 14200 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Central Railroad Co. of Indiana et al., 13567 
 
             Norfolk & Western Railway, Inc., et al., 16821 
 
             Ogeechee Railway Co. et al., 2570 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Kansas City Southern Railway Co., 1814 
 
         ICC Termination Act of 1995; implementation: 
 
             Noncontiguous domestic trade tariffs, 5835, 52494 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 17954, 26554, 32897, 49191 
 
         Motor carriers: 
 
             Control exemptions -- 
 
                 Antelope Valley Bus, Inc., 51489 
 
                 Coach USA, Inc., 51742 
 
                 Greyhound Lines, Inc., 53991 
 
             Fuel cost-related surcharge implementation; petitions to 
 allow short-term notices -- 
 
                 American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al., 18462, 
 27946 
 
             Revenue pooling arrangement -- 
 
                 Capitol Bus Co. et al., 3522 
 
             Service pooling agreements -- 
 
                 Adirondack Transit Lines, Inc., 42677 
 
         Negotiated Rates Act of 1993; motor contract requirements; 
 policy statement vacated, 19974 
 
         Rail carriers: 
 
             Central Power & Light Co. v. Southern Pacific 
 Transportation Co. -- 
 
                 Captive shippers; legal and policy issues, 46018 
 
                 Procedural schedule and oral argument notice, 50078 
 
             Cost of capital; railroad industry's annual rate 
 proceeding, 28638, 65428 
 
             Cost recovery procedures -- 
 
                 Adjustment factor, 9224, 13227, 32898, 50372, 68092 
 
             Railroad revenue adequacy determinations; class I 
 railroads, 37793 
 
             Service pooling agreements -- 
 
                 Degussa Corp. et al., 42676 
 
             State intrastate rail rate authority -- 
 
                 Alabama et al., 14849 
 
             Waybill data; release for use, 13567, 48203, 49375, 49810, 
 51136, 53992, 59278 
 
         Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.: 
 
             A&G Railroad, L.L.C., et al., 33579 
 
             Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road Co., Inc., et al., 58437 
 
             Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad Co., 2572 
 
             Angelina & Neches River Railroad Co., 26554 
 
             Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad Co., 9006 
 
             Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., 56734 
 
             Atlantic & Western Railway, L.P., 47546 
 
             Berlin Mills Railway, Inc., 42084 
 
             BHP Copper, Inc., 29794 
 
             BHP Nevada Railroad Co., 29794 
 
             Bootheel Regional Rail Corp. et al., 25739 
 
             Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Inc., 24854 
 
             Burlington Junction Railway, 19330 
 
             Burlington Northern Railroad Co., 3963, 20550 
 
             Burlington Northern Railroad Co. et al., 43812, 48521, 
 48730 
 
             Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. et al., 37313, 49524 
 
             CAGY Industries, Inc., 38514 
 
             Camp Lejeune Railroad Co., 3523 
 
             Canadian American Railroad Co., 53779 
 
             Canadian Pacific Ltd. et al., 52994 
 
             Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority et al., 
 16282 
 
             Cascade & Columbia River Railroad Co., 48521 
 
             Cen-Tex Rail Link, Ltd., 
 
             Central New England Railroad, Inc., 8709 
 
             Central Railroad Co. of Indiana, 17952 
 
             Chester Valley Railway, Inc., 15160 
 
             Chicago Rail Link, L.L.C., et al., 47233 
 
             Chicago SouthShore & South Bend Railroad Co., 52838 
 
             Cimarron Valley Railroad, L.C., 8324 
 
             Clark County, WA, 67593 
 
             Claussen, H. Peter, et al., 14200, 26248 
 
             Colorado Mountain Express, Inc., et al., 60747 
 
             Columbia & Northern Railway Co., 16027 
 
             Columbia Basin Railroad Co., Inc., 65630 
 
             Columbus & Ohio River Rail Road Co., 53486 
 
             Connecticut Central Railroad Co., Inc., 54258 
 
             Connecticut Southern Railroad, Inc., 50902 
 
             Consolidated Rail Corp., 30108, 32474 
 
             Consolidated Rail Corp. et al., 6059 
 
             Coopersville & Marne Railway Co., 25511 
 
             Corman, Richard J., 2571, 32025 
 
             CSX Corp. et al., 40475, 58611, 58613 
 
             CSX Transportation, Inc., 4513, 21223, 26249, 28924, 
 47233, 49005 
 
             CWRR, Inc., 42936 
 
             Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp., 9519, 11939 
 
             Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad, Inc., 13567 
 
             Dakota Rail, Inc., 55357 
 
             Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad, 58096 
 
             Delaware Valley Railway Co., Inc., 58739 
 
             Dubois County Railroad Corp., 49524 
 
             Dubois County Railroad Corp. et al., 49524 
 
             Durbano, David L., 8325, 13567 
 
             Durden, K. Earl, 33580 
 
             East Texas Central Railroad, Inc., 50903 
 
             Economic Development Rail Corp. et al., 13227 
 
             Economic Development Rail II Corp., 16528 
 
             Elk River Railroad, Inc., 42679 
 
             Ellis & Eastern Co., 9742 
 
             Evansville Terminal Co., Inc., 37314 
 
             Falls Road Railroad Co., Inc., 56735 
 
             Fay Penn Industrial Development Corp. et al., 52085 
 
             Fillmore Western Railway Co., 65428 
 
             Flats Industrial Railroad Co., 53486 
 
             Fort Worth & Western Railroad Co., 42084 
 
             Fort Worth & Western Railroad Co., Inc., 28924, 46901 
 
             Fox Valley & Western Ltd., 51316, 52495 
 
             Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., 8104, 13568, 32025, 58739 
 
             Grand Trunk Western Railroad Inc., 1254, 65102 
 
             Great Western Lines, LLC, 27382 
 
             Great Western Railway of Colorado, LLC, 27383 
 
             Hastings Industrial Link Railroad, 65103 
 
             Head, Douglas M., et al., 29165 
 
             Hoosier Southern Railroad, 48203 
 
             Housatonic Railroad Co., Inc., et al., 68333 
 
             Huron and Eastern Railway Co., Inc., 9520 
 
             Illinois & Midland Railroad, Inc., 8105 
 
             Illinois Central Corp. et al., 8105 
 
             Illinois Central Railroad Co. et al, 68814 
 
             Indiana & Ohio Rail Passenger Corp., 19112, 32026 
 
             Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co., 64409 
 
             Iron Road Railways Inc. et al., 49006 
 
             Jaxport Railway, 3762 
 
             K&E Railway Co., 30109 
 
             Kansas City Southern Railway Co., 15562, 56085, 56999 
 
             Kansas Eastern Railroad, Inc., 63925 
 
             Kansas Southwestern Railway Co., L.L.C., 46019 
 
             Lackland Western Railroad Co., 49375 
 
             Laidlaw Transit, Inc., et al., 48001 
 
             Lexington & Ohio Railroad Co., Inc., 26250 
 
             Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad Corp., 9742, 25739 
 
             Longhorn Railway Co., 17952 
 
             Louisiana & Delta Railroad, Inc., 51743 
 
             Luxapalila Valley Railroad, Inc., 28638 
 
             Minnesota Commercial Railway Co., 9006 
 
             Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., 29447, 47781 
 
             Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. et al., 54847 
 
             Modesto & Empire Traction Co. et al., 48002 
 
             Morris Leasing Co., Ltd., et al., 58278 
 
             Naugatuck Railroad Co., Inc., 2329 
 
             Nebraska Central Railroad Co., 21532 
 
             Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railnet, Inc., 67870 
 
             Nebraska Northeastern Railway Co., 39511 
 
             Neptune Partners, Ltd., 27383 
 
             New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, 56085 
 
             Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad Co., 63925 
 
             Nolan, John C., 15161 
 
             Norfolk & Western Railway Co., 28925, 29165, 42460 
 
             Norfolk & Western Railway Co. et al., 1996 
 
             Norfolk Southern Corp. et al., 60317 
 
             Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 40880 
 
             Norfolk Southern Railway Co. et al., 25740, 37109, 51316 
 
             North Charleston Terminal Co., 28639 
 
             North Coast Railroad Authority, 11469, 37792, 50902 
 
             Northeast Texas Rural Rail Transportation District, 2570 
 
             Northern Central Railway, Inc., et al., 36417 
 
             Northern Vermont Railroad Co. Inc., 38798 
 
             Northwestern Pacific Railroad Authority, 25011 
 
             Northwestern Stage Lines, Inc., et al., 53486 
 
             Notre Capital Ventures II, LLC, et al., 13568 
 
             Ormet Railroad Corp., 25012, 53992 
 
             Owensville Terminal Co., Inc., 20550, 25012 
 
             Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad, Inc., 50903 
 
             Peterson, Russell A., 3762 
 
             Pickens Railway Co., 19330, 40280 
 
             Pioneer Railcorp, 13228, 16028 
 
             Pioneer Railcorp., et al., 64191 
 
             Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad, Inc., 20551, 24854 
 
             Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad, Inc., 68333 
 
             Providence & Worcester Railroad Co., 53261 
 
             R.J. Corman Railroad Co./Allentown Lines, Inc., 37540 
 
             R.J. Corman Railroad Co./Pennsylvania Lines Inc., 2571, 
 32026 
 
             R.J. Corman Railroad Co./Western Ohio Line, 33580, 40704 
 
             RailAmerica, Inc., 37314, 48522, 55357 
 
             Rail Link, Inc., 9520, 14372 
 
             RailTex, Inc., 32027, 50904, 52495, 68334 
 
             Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Co., 46019 
 
             Robey, Richard D., 46018, 46020 
 
             Rochelle Railroad Co., 16029 
 
             Sacramento-Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint 
 Powers Authority, 49191 
 
             Saginaw Valley Railway Co., Inc., 39511 
 
             San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co., 21223 
 
             SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority et al., 63925 
 
             SEDAoint Rail Authority et al., 46020 
 
             Shawnee Terminal Railway Co., Inc., 53487 
 
             Sheffield Station Junction Railway, 31222 
 
             Soo Line Railroad Co., 5439, 39180, 39180 
 
             Southern Pacific Transportation Co., 52839, 58096 
 
             South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, Inc., 63926 
 
             St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., 38799 
 
             Talleyrand Terminal Railroad Co., Inc., 9521 
 
             TNW Corp., 39512 
 
             Tongue River Railroad Co., 17350 
 
             Track Tech, Inc., 67106 
 
             Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway Co., L.L.C., 2329 
 
             Union Pacific Corp. et al., 16529 
 
             Union Pacific Railroad Co., 27383, 38799, 47781, 52840, 
 52995, 58097, 67593 
 
             Union Pacific Railroad Co., et al., 68092 
 
             Utah Railway Co., 48522 
 
             Varlen Corp., 37960 
 
             Verde, David Monte, et al., 56735 
 
             Wabash & Western Railway Co., 67871 
 
             Warren & Trumball Railroad Co., 50078 
 
             Warren & Trumbull Railroad Co., 27128, 42084 
 
             Webb, Richard B., et al., 50903 
 
             Willamette Valley Railway Co., 43399 
 
             Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., 17751, 56086 
 
             Wisconsin Central Ltd., 52495, 60320 
 
             Wisconsin Central Ltd. et al., 3963, 39180 
 
         Railroad services abandonment: 
 
             Ashley, Drew & Northern Railway Co., 18191 
 
             Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Co., 31606, 31607 
 
             Bay Line Railroad, L.L.C., 24349 
 
             Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co., 67106 
 
             Burlington Northern Railroad Co., 7850, 16029, 16030, 
 17350, 17953, 24349, 34925 
 
             Central Kansas Railway, Limited Liability Co., 9743, 10428 
 
             Central of Georgia Railway Co., 16031 
 
             Central Railroad Co. of Indiana, 9743 
 
             Central Railroad Co. of Indianapolis, 24350 
 
             Consolidated Rail Corp., 6410, 9521, 17751, 18772, 29165, 
 31607, 31608, 33795, 38243, 38799, 38800, 49006, 49007, 64567, 67107, 
 67375, 68334 
 
             Council Bluffs Railway, 26554 
 
             CSX Transportation, Inc., 1427, 11679, 12133, 16529, 
 16667, 25013, 25740, 29166, 32027, 32474, 33958, 37315, 37793, 65429 
 
             Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp., 51316, 66073 
 
             Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Co., Inc., 4706 
 
             Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co. et al., 41828 
 
             Fox Valley & Western Ltd., 16666 
 
             Georgia & Florida Railroad Co., Inc., 13569 
 
             Georgia Great Southern Division, South Carolina Central 
 Railroad Co., Inc., 42679 
 
             Georgia Southern et al., 1995 
 
             Illinois Central Railroad Co., 1996 
 
             J.P. Rail Inc. et al., 14850 
 
             Jacksonville Port Authority, 17953 
 
             K&E Railway Co., 69132 
 
             Lamoille Valley Railroad Co., 49191 
 
             Michigan Shore Railroad, Inc., 52839 
 
             Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., 2330, 31222, 33958, 41824, 
 41825, 46506, 69132 
 
             Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. et al., 2572, 41823 
 
             MNVA Railroad, Inc., 4513 
 
             New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad Co., 40477, 40705 
 
             Norfolk & Western Railway Co., 15336, 57726, 59921 
 
             Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 30667, 47781 
 
             Ogeechee Railway Co. et al., 1994 
 
             Paducah & Louisville Railway, Inc., 15337 
 
             PL&W, Inc., 40705 
 
             San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co., 4707 
 
             Sequatchie Valley Railroad Co. et al., 42936 
 
             Soo Line Railroad Co., 13570, 20326, 48523 
 
             South Carolina Central Railroad, 38800 
 
             Southeastern International Corp., 32474 
 
             Southeast Kansas Railroad Co., 53487 
 
             Southern Pacific Transportation Co., 41826, 41827 
 
             Texas Northeastern Division, Mid-Michigan Railroad, Inc., 
 et al., 66748 
 
             Tulare Valley Railroad Co., 43117 
 
             Union Pacific Railroad Co., 3081, 3523, 11680, 14200, 
 39512, 41829-41832, 47547, 65264 
 
             Western Kentucky Railway, L.L.C., 33581 
 
             Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co., 64568 
 
             Wyoming & Colorado Railroad Co., Inc., 48730, 28925 
  
 
FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX, January--December, 1996
 
 
 
 
 
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 Technology Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 42008 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Federal Key Management Infrastructure Federal Information 
 Processing Standard Development Technical Advisory Committee, 58862 
 
             Metric Policy Interagency Council and Commerce Department; 
 metric town meeting, 16759 
 
             National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation 
 Committee, 17689, 57398 
 
         Modular construction products acquisition; metric-usage 
 requirements; Federal agency implementation policy statement, 24761 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 49301 
 
 
 
 
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 Tennessee Valley Authority 
 
     RULES 
 
         Conflict of interests, 20117 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 55097 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 2111 
 
         Property management: 
 
             Prohibition of Cigarette Sales to Minors in Federal 
 Buildings and Lands Act; implementation, 6110 
 
                 Correction, 54849 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 58018 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23896, 63380 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 9740, 33571 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Chickamauga Dam, TN; navigation lock project, 25727 
 
             Energy Vision 2020 integrated resource plan, 7572 
 
         Environmental statements; notice of intent: 
 
             Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant, AL; conversion to fossil- 
 fueled power plant, 18767 
 
             Lignite Power Generation Facility, MS, 53988 
 
             LSP Energy L.P.; option purchase agreement for supply of 
 electric energy, 42299 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 6411, 17747, 22078, 25729, 30656, 
 36105, 42930, 48726, 53776, 58731 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 58092 
 
 
 
 
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 Textile Agreements Implementation Committee 
 
     See Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements 
 
 
 
 
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 Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board 
 
     RULES 
 
         Resolution Funding Corporation: 
 
             Book-entry securities, 66874 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 24104 
 
 
 
 
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 Thrift Supervision Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Community Reinvestment Act regulations, 21362 
 
         Corporate governance and policy statements: 
 
             Federal regulatory review, 64007 
 
         Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act; 
 implementation: 
 
             Lending and investment authority expansion, qualified 
 thrift lender (QTL) test amendment, etc., 60179 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 56118 
 
         Federal Deposit Insurance Act: 
 
             Safety and soundness standards, 43948 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Lending and investment, 50951 
 
         Management official interlocks, 40293 
 
         National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994; implementation: 
 
             Loans in special flood hazard areas, 45684 
 
         Operations: 
 
             Conflicts of interest, corporate opportunity, and hazard 
 insurance, 60173 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Uniform and local rules, 20350 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 386 
 
         Savings associations: 
 
             Lending limits; loans to one borrower; correction, 575 
 
             Subsidiaries and equity investments; Federal regulatory 
 reform, 66561 
 
             Technical amendments, 65177 
 
         Savings associations and service associations: 
 
             Suspicious activity uniform reporting form, etc., 6100 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Conflicts of interest, corporate opportunity, and hazard 
 insurance, 30190 
 
         Corporate governance and policy statements: 
 
             Federal regulatory review, 32713 
 
         Federal regulatory review: 
 
             Lending and investment, 1162 
 
         Mutual savings and loan holding companies: 
 
             Mutual holding company structure; establishment, 58144 
 
         Risk-based capital: 
 
             Collateralized transactions, 42565 
 
         Savings associations: 
 
             Subsidiaries and equity investments; Federal regulatory 
 review, 29976 
 
         Uniform Financial Institutions Rating System; conforming 
 amendments, 38114 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3524, 16669, 19114, 
 29584, 35861, 39691-39693, 42085, 53262, 53994, 56999, 64409, 64410 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 2573, 19114, 
 19114, 39683, 39694, 46507, 47236, 48527, 56897, 57000, 60748, 64410, 
 64411, 64793, 68337 
 
         Decisions and findings; review, appeal, and reconsideration 
 guidelines, 36960 
 
         Delayed availability of funds; interagency policy statement; 
 withdrawn, 43573 
 
         Thrift financial report: 
 
             Condition reports, public disclosure, 68817 
 
         Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: 
 
             Advance Financial Savings Bank, f.s.b., 58279 
 
             Algiers Homestead Association, 25741 
 
             American Savings, F.S.B., 6686 
 
             Amsterdam Federal Savings & Loan Association, 39513 
 
             Buffalo Federal Savings & Loan Association, 4518 
 
             Catskill Savings Bank, 5835 
 
             Chester Savings Bank, FSB, 41207 
 
             Citizens Federal Savings & Loan Association of Delphos, 
 53263 
 
             Citizens Loan & Savings Co., 2574 
 
             Citizens Savings Bank, F.S.B., 13229 
 
             City National Savings Bank, F.S.B., 16668 
 
             Commonwealth, M.H.C., 5836 
 
             Community Bank of Excelsior Springs, A Savings Bank, 39513 
 
             Community Federal, M.H.C., 2573 
 
             Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh, 25741 
 
             Empire Federal Savings & Loan Association of Livingston, 
 58280 
 
             Fairfield Savings Bank, F.S.B., 56606 
 
             Fidelity Federal, M.H.C., 2574 
 
             First Federal Bank of Arkansas, FA, 13229 
 
             First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Allen Parish, 
 42679 
 
             First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Bloomington, 
 17957 
 
             First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Cullman, 56606 
 
             First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Herrin, 14208 
 
             First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Ironton, 17957 
 
             First Federal Savings Bank of America, 59279, 67376 
 
             First Federal Savings Bank of Dover, 4518 
 
             First Lancaster F.S.B., 17957 
 
             Foundation Savings Bank, 37110 
 
             Fulton Savings Bank, FSB, 46507 
 
             Great American Federal Savings & Loan Association, 5836 
 
             Home City Federal Savings Bank of Springfield, 64794 
 
             Home Federal Savings & Loan Association of Elgin, 41207 
 
             Home Federal Savings & Loan Association of Fayetteville, 
 2573 
 
             Investors Federal Bank & Savings Association, 59279 
 
             Jacksonville Federal M.H.C., 6686 
 
             Kenwood Federal M.H.C., 24531 
 
             Lawrenceville Federal Savings & Loan Association, 4518 
 
             Lexington Building & Loan Association, F.A., 14208 
 
             Madison First Federal Savings & Loan Association, 39514 
 
             Market Building & Savings Co., 53263 
 
             Midwest Savings Bank, 42680 
 
             North Central Bancshares, M.H.C., 5836 
 
             Ocean F.S.B., 25741 
 
             Park Federal Savings Bank, 37110 
 
             Patapsco Federal Savings & Loan Association, 2573 
 
             Peoples Federal Savings & Loan Association of Massillon, 
 19333 
 
             Pomona First Federal Savings & Loan Association, 5836 
 
             Preferred Savings Bank, 55071 
 
             Prestige Bank, a Federal Savings Bank, 19333 
 
             Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B., 16668 
 
             South Bergen Savings Bank, 4518 
 
             Union Federal Bank, a Federal Savings Bank, 42680 
 
             Washington F.S.B., 2574 
 
             Wayne Savings Bank, F.S.B., 19333 
 
             Yonkers Savings & Loan Association, FA, 6687 
 
 
 
 
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 Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Agency 
 
     See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 
 
 
 
 
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 Trade and Development Agency 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 55834 
 
 
 
 
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 Trade Representative, Office of United States 
 
     RULES 
 
         Sugar and specialty sugar imports; tariff-rate quota 
 implementation, 26783 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Uruguay Round Agreement Act (URAA): 
 
             Tariff-rate quota amount determinations -- 
 
                 Leaf tobacco, 6333, 28522 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Accession: 
 
             Austria et al., 56082 
 
         Argentine: 
 
             Apparel, textiles, footwear; specific duties and non- 
 tariff barriers affecting; policies and practices, 53776 
 
         Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): 
 
             Intellectual property rights contact point list; 
 establishment and applications request, 42300 
 
         Australia: 
 
             Subsidies affecting leather; policies and practices, 55063 
 
         Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act; beneficiary countries 
 status; report to Congress, 30927, 51134 
 
         Colombia: 
 
             Banana exports to European Union; policies and practices, 
 1788 
 
         Costa Rica: 
 
             Banana exports to European Union; policies and practices, 
 1789 
 
         Determination under section 305 of the Trade Agreements Act 
 of, 979, 35082 
 
         European Community: 
 
             Banana regime, 18450 
 
         Foreign government discrimination against U.S. products and 
 services in procurement practices; information request, 5044 
 
         Foreign trade barriers; national trade estimate report, 56081 
 
         Generalized System of Preference: 
 
             Out-of-cycle country of eligibility review, 66342 
 
         Generalized System of Preferences: 
 
             Annual Review (1995) -- 
 
                 Petitions, public hearings, and list of articles, 
 52078 
 
                 Public hearings site, 55351 
 
             Cambodia; beneficiary developing country designated 
 criteria, 54484 
 
             Least developed beneficiary developing countries' articles 
 imported; list -- 
 
                 Public hearings, 64935 
 
             Pakistan; internationally recognized worker rights, 30646 
 
         Intellectual property rights protection, countries denying; 
 policies and practices: 
 
             China, 25000, 33147 
 
             Pakistan, 19971 
 
             Portugal, 19970, 55351 
 
             Priority foreign countries; identification, 1413, 19969 
 
         Japan: 
 
             Economic deregulation measures; market access for U.S. 
 products and services; comment request, 52826 
 
             Photographic film and paper access barriers; 
 determination, 30929 
 
         Korea: 
 
             Telecommunications trade; priority foreign country 
 identification, 40279 
 
         Meat from animals treated with certain hormones from European 
 Community; termination of increased duties, 37309, 39515 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade, 8081, 
 36605 
 
             Industry Functional Advisory Committee, 57510 
 
             Industry Policy and Sector/Functional Advisory Committee, 
 25720 
 
             Industry Sector Advisory Committees -- 
 
                 Aerospace equipment, 69131 
 
                 Building products and related materials, 58094 
 
                 Nonferrous ores and metals, 57510 
 
                 Retailing and wholesaling, 64944 
 
                 Small and minority business, 55064 
 
                 Standards, 59128 
 
             Investment and Services Policy Advisory Committee, 29444, 
 44382 
 
             Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, 15554, 
 27938, 50516, 52988 
 
             Trade Policy and Negotiations Advisory Committee, 1790, 
 44382 
 
             United States -- Pacific Trade and Investment Policy 
 Commission, 16277, 20310, 28258, 31993, 37525, 39179, 44117, 54831, 
 55680, 60137, 65634 
 
         Priority practices identification; comment request, 29444 
 
         Tariff-rate quota amount determinations: 
 
             Beef from New Zealand, 53242 
 
             Organic refined sugar as specialty sugar; globalization, 
 42935 
 
             Raw and refined sugar, 39179, 51135, 51751 
 
             Raw cane sugar, 8691, 15859, 34496 
 
         Telecommunications products trade agreements compliance 
 review; request for comments 
 
             Japan et al, 66068 
 
         Trade expansion priorities; report to Congress, 52827 
 
         Trade relations agreements: 
 
             Cambodia, 56256 
 
         Turkey: 
 
             U.S. films; box office revenues; discriminatory tax 
 imposition; Section 302 investigation, 30646, 32883 
 
         Unfair trade practices, petitions, etc.: 
 
             Brazil; auto sector trade and investment policies and 
 practices, 54485 
 
             Canada; discriminatory practices affecting imported 
 periodicals, 11067 
 
             Canada; U.S.-owned programming services; authorization, 
 5603 
 
             Germany; heavy electrical equipment discriminatory 
 procurement practices, 35082, 53242 
 
             Indonesia; motor vehicle sector promotion incentives; 
 investigation and comment request, 54246 
 
             Japan; sodium azide from Japan; third-country 
 investigation request, 33148 
 
         United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement: 
 
             Canadian softwood lumber exports, 28626 
 
         Vietnam, Socialist Republic of; bilateral trade agreement 
 negotiations; comment request, 59920 
 
         World Trade Organization: 
 
             Albania; accession, 24999 
 
             Armenia; accession, 24999 
 
             Basic telecommunications services negotiations; comment 
 request, 36606 
 
             Canadian measures affecting periodicals, 38238 
 
             Croatia; accession, 24999 
 
             India; pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals patent 
 protection, 35857 
 
             Meat from animals treated with certain hormones, European 
 ban on import; dispute settlement proceeding; comment request, 33149 
 
             Pakistan; pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals 
 patent protection; settlement proceeding, 38791 
 
             Saudi Arabia; accession, 24999 
 
             Singapore; accession, 11233 
 
             Ukraine; accession, 24999 
 
             Underwear, cotton and man-made fiber, from Costa Rica; 
 dispute settlement proceedings, 12129 
 
             Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) -- 
 
                 Japan; imported consumer photographic film and paper; 
 dispute settlement proceeding, 52835 
 
             Woven wool shirts and blouses from India; dispute 
 settlement proceedings, 24516 
 
 
 
 
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 Transportation Department 
 
     See Coast Guard 
 
     See Commercial Space Transportation Office 
 
     See Federal Aviation Administration 
 
     See Federal Highway Administration 
 
     See Federal Railroad Administration 
 
     See Federal Transit Administration 
 
     See Maritime Administration 
 
     See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 
 
     See Research and Special Programs Administration 
 
     See Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 
 
     See Surface Transportation Board 
 
     See Transportation Statistics Bureau 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Commercial training services, 391 
 
             Incorporation by reference; guidance adherence, 273 
 
             Streamlining and restructuring, 50248 
 
                 Correction, 53677, 54490 
 
         Air travel; nondiscrimination on basis of disability: 
 
             Lifts and boarding facilitation devices, etc., 56409 
 
         Americans with Disabilities Act; implementation: 
 
             Accessibility guidelines -- 
 
                 Detectable warnings at curb ramps, hazardous vehicular 
 areas, and reflecting pools, 39323 
 
                 Transportation for individuals with disabilities, 
 25409, 26467 
 
         Aviation economic regulations: 
 
             Technical amendments, 34724 
 
         Conflict of interests, 39901 
 
         Economic and procedural regulations: 
 
             Aircraft accident liability insurance; terminations, 
 suspensions, and reductions of service; Federal regulatory reform, 
 19164 
 
         Federal regulatory reform: 
 
             Audits of state and local governments (A-128); CFR part 
 removed, 21386 
 
             Civil Aeronautics Board, public meetings; release of 
 internal staff memoranda, 17565 
 
             Equal Access to Justice Act; implementation; CFR part 
 removed, 29284 
 
             General policy statements; redundant provisions removed, 
 29645 
 
             Interlocking relationships between air carrier and person 
 controlling another air carrier; policy statement removed, 29646 
 
             Medals of Honor; clarification, 17578 
 
             National security information; CFR part removed, 17564 
 
             Official seal uses; duplicative regulations removed, 17577 
 
         Great Lakes pilotage rate methodology, 21081 
 
         Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991: 
 
             Drug and alcohol testing requirements for foreign-based 
 drivers operating in U.S.; participation by Canadian and Mexican 
 laboratories, 37015 
 
             Substance abuse professional; definition amendment, 37222 
 
             Workplace drug and alcohol testing programs 
 
                 Specimen collection procedures, 37693 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 3331, 34745, 55582, 67476, 
 67952 
 
             Federal Highway Administration Administrator et al., 68162 
 
             Maritime Administrator, 64029 
 
             Staff assignments and review of action under assignments; 
 Federal regulatory reform, 19166 
 
             Urban Mass Transportation Administration; statutory name 
 change, 32354 
 
         Procedural regulations: 
 
             Electronic docket system transition; paper-based to 
 optical ``imaging'', 9282 
 
         Rulemaking proceedings; policy statement, 29018 
 
         Tariffs: 
 
             International airline passenger fares; electronic filing, 
 18070 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Air travel; nondiscrimination on basis of handicap: 
 
             Seating accommodations and collapsible electric wheelchair 
 stowage, 56481 
 
         Americans with Disabilities Act; implementation: 
 
             Accessibility guidelines -- 
 
                 Detectable warnings at curb ramps, hazardous vehicular 
 areas, and reflecting pools, 16232, 16234 
 
         Aviation economic regulations: 
 
             Large certificated air carriers; passenger origin- 
 destination survey reports, 32375 
 
         Commercial Motor Vehicles Drivers License and Drivers Physical 
 Qualifications Programs Negotiated Rulemaking Committee: 
 
             Intent to establish, 18713 
 
         Computer reservation systems; carrier-owned: 
 
             Contract terms imposition on participating carriers 
 limiting carriers' choice of participation, 42197 
 
             Fair display of airline services, 42208 
 
                 Correction, 43500 
 
         Economic regulations: 
 
             Airline oversales signs; Federal regulatory review, 27818 
 
             Passenger manifest information; flight segments to or from 
 United States, 47692 
 
         Federal regulatory review: 
 
             Classified information, 33886 
 
         Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 33075 
 
         Implementation of Equal Access to Justice Act in Agency 
 proceedings: 
 
             Federal regulatory review, 28831 
 
         Large air carriers; international data submissions; changes, 
 5963 
 
         Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991: 
 
             Drug and alcohol testing requirements for foreign-based 
 drivers operating in U.S.; participation by Canadian and Mexican 
 laboratories, 13809 
 
             Substance abuse professional; definition amendment, 9969 
 
         Passenger manifest information collection regulation for 
 international flights; meeting, 10706 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation 
 
             Federal regulatory review, 29522 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23298, 62798 
 
         Tariffs, etc.: 
 
             Ticketless air travel; passenger notices, 1309 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 5830, 6056, 8096, 
 25261, 25932, 37104, 41439, 42674, 50528, 58275, 59271, 67091 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 6678, 11671, 
 11680, 14363, 19654, 21521, 27125, 29785, 40060, 41440, 44383, 47777, 
 47778, 48000, 48518-48520, 49187, 49518, 50369, 50529, 51483, 52079, 
 52487, 53990, 55064-55066, 55681, 56257, 58436, 58601, 58614, 58732, 
 59128, 59271, 60736, 64187, 65256, 65424, 67092, 68325, 69131 
 
         Air carrier operations; resumption: 
 
             ValuJet Airlines, Inc., 46503 
 
         Airport rates and charges; policy statement, 31994 
 
         Aviation proceedings: 
 
             Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 213, 570, 1815, 3071, 
 3961, 5054, 6679, 7299, 8096, 9516, 10840, 11673, 16019, 16517, 17936, 
 18769, 19972, 22079, 25010, 26245, 28632, 29163, 32472, 33955, 36952, 
 37788, 38794, 40702, 41678, 42675, 43803, 48000, 49004, 49519, 51312, 
 52080, 53777, 54697, 55352, 56602, 57941, 58733, 60737, 64189, 64944, 
 66342, 67373 
 
             Certificates of public convenience and necessity and 
 foreign air carrier permits; weekly applications, 214, 571, 1814, 
 3071, 3961, 5055, 5596, 6679, 7299, 8097, 9516, 10840, 16019, 16517, 
 17937, 18769, 19972, 22079, 25010, 26245, 28632, 29163, 34497, 36953, 
 37105, 37788, 40702, 41679, 42675, 43803, 46010, 47778, 49004, 51312, 
 53777, 54697, 55352, 56082, 56603, 57942, 58733, 60314, 64188, 64944, 
 66343, 67373 
 
             Hearings, etc. -- 
 
                 Air 4000, Inc., 41198 
 
                 Alaska international airports; expanded cargo transfer 
 flexibility, 49519 
 
                 AlphaJet International, Inc., 6680 
 
                 Anchorage and Fairbanks international airports, AK; 
 expanded cargo transfer flexibility, 57722 
 
                 Baltia Air Lines, Inc., 2568 
 
                 Canadian and Mexican specialty air service operators, 
 3071 
 
                 Falcon Air Express, Inc., 7132 
 
                 Florida West International Airways, Inc., 30105 
 
                 Gemini Air Cargo, L.L.C., 50529 
 
                 Golden West Airlines, Inc., 53778 
 
                 Gulf & Caribbean Air, 64561 
 
                 Jet Aspen, Inc., 2327 
 
                 Maverick Airways Corp., 48727 
 
                 Merlin Express, Inc., 33956 
 
                 Mountain Air Express, Inc., 60737 
 
                 Panagro Airways, Inc., 30276 
 
                 Pan American Airways, Inc., 43803 
 
                 Premeir Airlines, 10840 
 
                 Pro Air, Inc., 43112 
 
                 Sky Trek International Airlines, Inc., 28255 
 
                 Sun Pacific International, Inc., 7040 
 
                 Sunworld International Airlines, Inc., 9003 
 
                 United Parcel Service Co., 37953 
 
                 Vision Air, Inc., 50370 
 
         Aviation proceedings; 
 
             Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 64189 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Board, 31209 
 
         Freight transportation accross all modes; policy, 14587 
 
         Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act; 
 reauthorization policy statement and principles, 30276 
 
         International cargo rate flexibility level: 
 
             Standard foreign fare level -- 
 
                 Index adjustment factors, 5596, 15154, 33163, 43397, 
 52988, 66735 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway system administration and 
 services management; U.S./Canadian Governmental Working Group, 43568 
 
             NAFTA Land Transportation Standards Subcommittee and 
 Transportation Consultative Group; annual plenary session, 19654 
 
             Partnership Council, 3962, 51484, 60315 
 
             Transportation Statistics Advisory Council, 9218, 59271 
 
             White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 
 44117, 46504, 59272, 60315 
 
         Motor carriage limitations of liability study; public 
 meetings, 6056 
 
         National emergency: 
 
             Cuba; anchorage and movement of vessels, foreign or 
 domestic, in U.S. territorial sea; emergency regulations, 9219 
 
         Noncontiguous domestic maritime trades, competition; comment 
 request, 6057 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Systems of records, 33164, 42301 
 
         Secretarial determinations: 
 
             Hellenikon International Airport, Athens, Greece; 
 notification of ineffective security measures, 13917, 25729 
 
             Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, Philippines; 
 notification of effective security measures, 9219 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Boards; membership, 36105 
 
         Transportation Marketplace Conference and Seminars; proposal 
 request, 214 
 
         Transportation Secretary's Community Partnership Awards; 
 nominations request, 6882 
 
         Truck size and weight study; analytical framework and outreach 
 plan, 18458 
 
 
 
 
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 Transportation Statistics Bureau 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Motor Carrier Financial and Operating Data Collection Program 
 Negotiated Rulemaking Committee: 
 
             Intent to establish, 64849 
 
 
 
 
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 Travel and Tourism Administration 
 
     RULES 
 
         Agency termination; CFR chapter removed, 30509 
 
 
 
 
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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 
 
     See Foreign Assets Control Office 
 
     See Internal Revenue Service 
 
     See Public Debt Bureau 
 
     See Secret Service 
 
     See Thrift Supervision Office 
 
     RULES 
 
         Bank Secrecy Act: 
 
             Suspicious transactions; reporting requirement, 4326 
 
                 Correction, 14248, 18250 
 
         Currency and foreign transactions; financial reporting and 
 recordkeeping requirements: 
 
             Bank Secrecy Act; implementation -- 
 
                 Casinos and other gaming establishments operated on 
 Indian lands, 7054 
 
                 Exemptions from currency transaction reporting, 18204 
 
                 Funds transfers and transmittals (wire transfers); 
 recordkeeping by financial institutions; correction, 14382, 18250 
 
         Government Securities Act of 1986: 
 
             Correction, 52498 
 
             Large position reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 
 48338 
 
                 Correction, 53996 
 
         Tobacco products; sale and distribution restriction, 25396 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Currency and foreign transactions; financial reporting and 
 recordkeeping requirements: 
 
             Bank Secrecy Act; implementation -- 
 
                 Gaming establishments; card clubs, 67260 
 
         Government Securities Act of 1986; large position rules 
 financial responsibility and reporting and recordkeeping requirements 
 amendments, 4944 
 
         Marketable book-entry Treasury bills, notes, and bonds; sale 
 and issue; uniform offering circular; amendments, 25164, 31072 
 
             Meeting, 38127 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation: 
 
             Internal Revenue Service, 50461 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23468, 62968 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 4516, 4517, 5061, 
 7851, 11234, 18192, 30281, 36779, 41832-41834, 50904, 54699, 55838, 
 59922, 66073-66075 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 1997, 5061, 
 5440, 7153, 7575, 9006, 9007, 11235, 14201, 16162-16164, 16284, 16285, 
 16530, 16531, 17954, 17955, 18772, 18774, 21224, 25013, 25014, 26251, 
 26252, 28256, 28257, 28925, 28926, 30282-30284, 32028, 33796, 33796, 
 36780, 36781, 36783, 37794, 37960, 38244, 38514, 38515, 38801, 38802, 
 40477, 40478, 41681, 41682, 43117, 43118, 43570-43572, 46021, 46022, 
 48523-48527, 51743-51745, 53488, 53489, 54700, 54701, 55358, 55360, 
 57727, 57728, 58613, 59923, 64787-64789, 64946, 65631-65634, 68335 
 
         Bank Secrecy Act application to Tribal casinos, compliance; 
 conference, 7057 
 
         Bonds, Treasury: 
 
             Redemption calls; 8 percent bonds, 16668 
 
         Boycotts, international: 
 
             Countries requiring cooperation; list, 4514, 15563, 39181, 
 52840, 65634 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Customs Service Commercial Operations Advisory Committee, 
 28927 
 
             U.S. Community Adjustment and Investment Program Advisory 
 Committee, 3964 
 
         Currency and foreign transactions; financial reporting and 
 recordkeeping requirements: 
 
             Entities exempt from currency transaction reporting; list, 
 18212 
 
         Government information locator service (GILS); establishment, 
 52495 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Community Adjustment and Investment Program Advisory 
 Committee, 18463, 31608 
 
             Customs Service Commercial Operations Advisory Committee, 
 76, 18775, 49192, 60142 
 
             Debt Management Advisory Committee, 572, 14850, 36784, 
 51745 
 
             National Center for State, Local, and International Law 
 Enforcement Training Advisory Committee, 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             American Indian Arts Institute; Assistant Secretary for 
 Management & CFO, Inspector General Office et al., 21533 
 
             Assistant Secretary (Financial Institutions), 14595 
 
             Assistant Secretary (Financial Markets), 10841 
 
             Assistant Secretary (Management) and CFO, 50905 
 
             Bureau heads et al.; affixing Seal of the Department of 
 Treasury, 14373 
 
             Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration), 54258 
 
             Deputy Assistant Secretary (Law Enforcement), 5441 
 
             Director, Equal Opportunity Program Office, 6293 
 
             Director, Tax Advisory Program for Central and Eastern 
 Europe and Former Soviet Union, et al., 31223 
 
             Engraving and Printing Bureau, Director, 48727 
 
             General Counsel; alternative dispute resolution, 48002 
 
             Personnel Security Program; Assistant Secretary for 
 Management & CFO, 21534 
 
             Treasury Seal, 68093 
 
             Under Secretary (Domestic Finance), 42085 
 
             Under Secretary (International Affairs), 59923 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 7041 
 
             Systems of records, 9008, 11939 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Legal Division Performance Review Board; membership, 25270 
 
             Performance Review Board; membership, 39513 
 
 
 
 
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 Truman, Harry S., Scholarship Foundation 
 
     See Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation 
  
 
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 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 14762, 35728, 54629, 67324 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 United States Enrichment Corporation 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 574, 5443, 9744, 21538, 28929, 40707, 
 42088, 48527, 52086, 58099 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Information Agency 
 
     RULES 
 
         Exchange visitor program: 
 
             Au pair programs; oversight and administration, 8215 
 
             Program extension procedures for designated sponsors; 
 extension requests, etc., 15372, 29285 
 
                 Clarification, 37002 
 
                 Partial stay, 20437 
 
             Short-term scholars; participation period extended, 39585 
 
             Summer travel/work programs, 13760 
 
         Privacy Act; implementation, 51004 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Exchange visitor program: 
 
             Two-year return home requirement; waiver requests by 
 interested U.S. Government agencies, 46745 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23898, 63382 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 7580, 7581, 15866, 
 53263, 64193 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 1999, 2000, 
 19115, 29167, 65103 
 
         Art objects; importation for exhibition: 
 
             Adolph Menzel (1815-1905): Between Romanticism and 
 Impressionism, 40079 
 
             Africa: The Art of a Continent, 20555 
 
             Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living 
 Tradition of Yup'ik Masks, 8107 
 
             Alexander the Great, 46023 
 
             Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 49376 
 
             Corot, 45473 
 
             Degas: Beyond Impressionism, 39183 
 
             Enamels of Limoges, 2867 
 
             Eugene Cuvelier, Photographer in the Circle of Corot, 
 45473 
 
             Faberge and Finland: Exquisite Objects, 57729 
 
             From Court Jews to the Rothschilds; Art, Patronage and 
 Power (1600-1800), 36964 
 
             Georges de La Tour and His World, 45473 
 
             Giambattista Tiepolo, 67596 
 
             In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Plein-Air Painting, 
 19116 
 
             Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller, 10618 
 
             Jasper Johns: A Retrospective, 46023 
 
             Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian Imperial 
 Court, 56606 
 
             Legacy of Peter the Great: St. Petersburg: A Cultural 
 Celebration, 60753 
 
             Life of a Patron: Zhou Lianggong and the Painters of 
 Seventeenth Century China, 52086 
 
             Marc Chagall (1907-1917), 8108 
 
             Masterpieces from the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome, 25511 
 
             Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor 
 Castle, 48527 
 
             Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico, 20875 
 
             Picasso and Potraiture: Representation and Transformation, 
 8108 
 
             Queen Nefertiti and the Royal Women: Images of Beauty from 
 Ancient Egypt, 48003 
 
             Rings: Five Passions in World Art, 24855 
 
             Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the 
 Ancient World, 3964, 8108 
 
             Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, 56742 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Bosnia; media and parliamentary in-country and U.S. 
 training programs, 19655, 24855 
 
             College and university affiliations program, 51746 
 
             Edmund S. Muskie fellowship program, 18465, 56266 
 
             Freedom Support Act graduate fellowship program, 56266 
 
             Hubert H. Humphrey fellowship program, 30109 
 
             International educational and cultural activities -- 
 
                 Albania; media management training programs, 68094 
 
                 Discretionary program, 33582 
 
                 Freedom Support Act undergraduate program, 54259 
 
             International visitors; multi-regional groups project 
 development, 53264 
 
             Newly independent states (NIS) secondary school 
 initiatives -- 
 
                 Inbound academic year placement, 16164 
 
                 Secondary school linkage program (Armenia et al.), 
 60322 
 
                 Washington, DC civics education program, 49376 
 
             Newly independent states -- 
 
                 Humanities and social sciences curriculum consultants 
 exchange program, 16969 
 
                 Regional humanities and social sciences scholar 
 exchange program, 19658 
 
             North African, Middle Eastern and South Asian foreign 
 language training, area studies and research; U.S. graduate students 
 and postdoctoral scholars, 16971 
 
             Russian civic education; curriculum development and 
 teacher training, 2574 
 
             Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan; training programs, 53270, 
 54261, 55188 
 
             Summer institute for study of U.S. -- 
 
                 History of the U.S.; Religion in America, 54263 
 
                 International politics; Russian university educators, 
 2576 
 
                 Political science; Russian social scientists, 2330 
 
                 Political system, economy and society, 54261 
 
             U.S. based training program for overseas educational 
 advisers, 65429 
 
             Ukraine and Moldova; hands-on training in American 
 business and legal and public sector environments, 13920 
 
         Lisbon Expo '98; U.S. Pavilion design, fabrication, and 
 operation, 18775 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Cuba Broadcasting Advisory Board, 18649, 52840 
 
             Cultural Property Advisory Committee, 6687, 51140 
 
             Public Diplomacy, U.S. Advisory Commission, 2579, 3525, 
 6294, 16670, 30938, 49529, 66345 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Institute of Peace 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Peaceful resolution of international conflict; senior 
 fellowships, 31224, 42461 
 
             Solicited grants -- 
 
                 Post-settlement peacebuilding, etc., 46508 
 
         Meetings; Sunshine Act, 1438, 10845, 19975, 47236, 58740 
 
 
 
 
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 United States Sentencing Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Practice and procedure internal rules promulgation; comment 
 request, 39493, 51738, 52825 
 
         Sentencing guidelines and policy statements for Federal 
 courts, 79, 7037, 10835, 20306, 34465, 56741 
 
 
 
 
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 United States -- Pacific Trade and Investment Policy Commission 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Meetings, 16277, 20310, 28258, 31993, 37525, 39179, 44117, 
 54831, 55680, 60137, 65634 
 
 
 
 
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 Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission 
 
     RULES 
 
         National Environmental Policy Act; implementation, 16719 
 
         Operating procedures: 
 
             Organizational structure and functions, 13450 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         National Environmental Policy Act; implementation, 2219 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Provo River restoration project, 30111 
 
             Utah Lake Wetland Preserve, 27385 
 
                 Establishment, 4811 
 
         Five-year plan; Central Utah project, etc., construction 
 impacts; guidance, 11681 
 
             Annual update; recommendations request, 50905 
  
 
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 Veterans Affairs Department 
 
     RULES 
 
         Acquisition regulations: 
 
             Assistant Secretary for Management et al., 1526 
 
             Duplicative provisions elimination, etc., 20491 
 
             Loan guaranty -- 
 
                 Management brokers blanket advance authority increase 
 and property holders' emergency repair threshold increase, 20493 
 
             Nomenclature changes, etc., 11585 
 
             Service contracting of nonpersonal healthcare services, 
 etc.; deviations, 52709 
 
         Adjudication; pensions, compensation, dependency, etc.: 
 
             Active duty periods for eligibility determination; 
 correction, 11731 
 
             Brownsville Incident; lump-sum payment provision removed, 
 11309 
 
             Disability or death resulting from hospitalization, 
 treatment, examination, or vocational rehabilitation; compensation, 
 25787 
 
             Diseases associated with exposure to herbicide agents -- 
 
                 Prostate cancer and acute and subacute peripheral 
 neuropathy; presumtive service connection, 57586 
 
             Examinations; use when medical evidence not adequate for 
 rating purposes, 13424 
 
             Legal services, General Counsel; miscellaneous amendments, 
 68665 
 
             Marriage dissolution, birth of child, death of family 
 member; evidence requirements, 56626 
 
             National Service Life Insurance (NSLI); obsolete 
 provisions removed, 29289 
 
             Obsolete provisions removal, etc., 67949 
 
             Servicemen's group life insurance and veteran's group life 
 insurance -- 
 
                 Regulatory clarification, 20134 
 
             Technical amendments, etc., 20726 
 
             Vicious habits; references removed, 20438 
 
             Willful misconduct; removal of Latin phrases and other 
 unnecesary or redundant material, 56626 
 
         Board of Veterans Appeals: 
 
             Appeals regulations and rules of practice -- 
 
                 Notification procedures, 43008 
 
                 Single member and panel decisions, reconsiderations, 
 etc., 20447 
 
                 Unnecessary provisions elimination, 29027, 68666 
 
         Conflict of interests, 11308 
 
         Disabilities rating schedule: 
 
             Endocrine system, 20440 
 
             Fibromyalgia, 20438 
 
             Infectious diseases, immune disorders and nutritional 
 deficiencies (systemic conditions), 39873 
 
             Mental disorders, 52695 
 
             Respiratory system, 46720 
 
         Federal claims collection: 
 
             Civil monetary penalties; inflation adjustment, 56449 
 
         Freedom of Information Act: 
 
             Information law; technical amendments, 29023 
 
         Inventions developed by employees, 29657 
 
         Investigation provisions removal, 29023 
 
         Life Insurance, United States Government (USGLI) rules of 
 practice: 
 
             Obsolete provisions removal, 29024 
 
         Loan guaranty: 
 
             Discount points financed in connection with interest rate 
 reduction refinancing loans; limitation, 7414 
 
             Veterans Home Loan Program -- 
 
                 Miscellaneous amendments, 28057 
 
         Medical benefits: 
 
             Adult day health care, community residential care, and 
 veterans with alcohol and drug dependence disorders contract programs 
 -- 
 
                 National Fire Protection Association life safety code; 
 incorporations by reference; update, 63719 
 
             Alcohol and drug dependence disorders; contract program; 
 eligibility criteria, 
 
             Health professional scholarship program; repayment formula 
 correction, 24236 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 21964 
 
         Medical regulations: 
 
             Autopsies; death from crime at VA facility, 29293 
 
         National cemeteries: 
 
             Burial eligibility, etc., 27281 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             General Counsel et al.; discrimination complaint final 
 decision, 26107 
 
             Miscellaneous amendments, 20438 
 
             Property facilities directors; police officers 
 appointment, etc., 56448 
 
             Recruitment advertising; competitive and excepted service 
 positions, 20133 
 
             Regional Counsel Offices; jurisdictions and addresses, 
 7215 
 
             Regional Counsels; tort claims and debt collection, 27783 
 
             Under Secretary of Health et al.; subpoena authority and 
 means of service description, 68665 
 
         Part-time career employment program, 38570 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Rulemaking notice-and-comment provisions, 11309 
 
                 Correction, 14596 
 
                 Reestablishment, 33850 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Information law; technical amendments, 29023 
 
         Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief; obsolete provisions 
 deletion, 29025 
 
         VA publications; gender-neutral language conformance, 27282 
 
         Veterans mortgage life insurance, 29027 
 
         Vocational rehabilitation and education: 
 
             Educational assistance; technical amendments, 20727 
 
             Veterans education -- 
 
                 Educational assistance test program; rates payable 
 increase, 28753 
 
                 Eligibility requirements, rates of payment, training 
 time measurement, course approval, etc., 6780 
 
                 Federal regulatory reform, 26107, 29449 
 
                 Graduate students in undergraduate courses; enrollment 
 measurement, 28755 
 
                 Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty; rates payable 
 increase, 15190, 24237 
 
                 Post-Vietnam era veterans' educational assistance 
 program; flight training, etc., 1525, 7217, 29028, 36629 
 
                 Reservists education and Montgomery GI Bill-Selected 
 Reserve; educational assistance awards commencing dates, 11310, 29297, 
 29481 
 
                 Veterans' and survivors' and dependents education 
 assistance programs; clarification, etc., 29294 
 
                 Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act and post-Vietnam 
 era veterans' educational assistance program; implementation, 1525 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Adjudication; pensions, compensation, dependency, etc.: 
 
             Diseases associated with exposure to herbicide agents -- 
 
                 Prostate cancer and acute and subacute peripheral 
 neuropathy; presumptive service connection, 41368 
 
             Ionizing radiation exposure claims (prostate cancer and 
 any other cancer), 50264 
 
             Marriage dissolution, birth of child, death of family 
 member; evidence requirements, 24910 
 
         Human subjects protection: 
 
             Research-related injuries treatment; compensation, 47469 
 
         Medical benefits: 
 
             Alcohol and drug dependence disorders contract care; 
 eligibility criteria, 25428 
 
             Civilian Health and Medical Program of VA (CHAMPVA) -- 
 
                 Medical care for survivors and dependents of veterans, 
 56486 
 
             Homeless providers grant and per diem program, 37024 
 
             Informed consent for patient care, 41108 
 
         Practice and procedure: 
 
             Disinterments in national cemeteries -- 
 
                 Immediate family member definition; revision, 31479 
 
             Rulemaking notice-and-comment provisions; elimination, 
 33878 
 
         Semi-annual agenda, 23572, 63074 
 
         Vocational rehabilitation and education: 
 
             Veterans education -- 
 
                 Graduate students in undergraduate courses; enrollment 
 measurement, 5357 
 
         Work-study services performance; debt reduction, 40589 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Advisory committees; annual reports; availability, 9224 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 3087, 6893, 7581, 
 9224, 10061-10063, 10619, 13570, 13571, 16167, 16168, 17351, 17352, 
 18776-18778, 27385-27388, 34500-34502, 37110, 38245, 42088, 47236, 
 47238, 55185-55187, 56267-56270, 60324, 65431, 65432, 68817-68819, 
 69133, 69134 
 
             Submission for OMB review; comment request, 7154, 11681, 
 13571, 13572, 27946, 34503-34505, 35862, 35863, 37111, 37112, 39694, 
 42088, 47238, 59136-59138, 60146-60148, 60325, 60754, 60755, 65432- 
 65434, 68820 
 
         Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: 
 
             Education Advisory Committee, 49817 
 
             Future of VA Long-Term Care Advisory Committee, 58740 
 
             Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee, 48527 
 
             Innovations in Nursing Advisory Committee, 49378 
 
             Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs Advisory 
 Committee, 46903 
 
             Residency Realignment Review Committee, 11469 
 
             Structural Safety of Facilities Advisory Committee, 25512 
 
             Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation, 53272 
 
         Cost-of-living adjustments: 
 
             Compensation and dependency and idemnity compensation 
 (DIC) programs, 5836 
 
         Disciplinary Appeals Board Panel; roster of employees; 
 availability, 12134 
 
         Diseases not associated with exposure to herbicide agents, 
 41442 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Homeless providers grant and per diem program, 10619 
 
         Legal interpretations; General Counsel-precedent opinions: 
 
             Veterans' benefits under VA administered laws; summary, 
 10063, 38245, 66748 
 
         Loan guaranty: 
 
             Percentage to determine net value, 7046 
 
         Medical care reimbursement rates (FY 1996), 4812 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Cemeteries and Memorials Advisory Committee, 20875, 49379 
 
             Education Advisory Committee, 27129, 48528 
 
             Former Prisoners of War Advisory Committee, 18778, 58740 
 
             Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee, 26952 
 
             Human Radiation Interagency Working Group, 7302 
 
             Medical Research Service Cooperative Studies Evaluation 
 Committee, 14209, 49379 
 
             Medical Research Service Merit Review Committee, 10620, 
 24855, 47548 
 
             Minority Veterans Advisory Committee, 5837, 8325, 30669, 
 38246, 56742 
 
             Persian Gulf Expert Scientific Committee, 20555, 46904 
 
             Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs Advisory 
 Committee, 7302, 47239, 67107 
 
             Rehabilitation Advisory Committee, 33174, 56742 
 
             Rehabilitation Research and Development Services 
 Scientific Merit Review Board, 1665, 8325, 65264 
 
             Research Realignment Advisory Committee, 7302, 17353 
 
             Residency Realignment Review Committee, 7582, 13572 
 
             Scientific Review Board for Health Services Research and 
 Development Service, 25512, 67108 
 
             Special Medical Advisory Group, 17353, 42937 
 
             Structural Safety Advisory Committee, 60755 
 
             Veterans' Claims Adjudication Commission, 4519, 17353, 
 36109 
 
             Vietnam and Other War Veterans Readjustment Advisory 
 Committee, 14374, 36109 
 
             Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee, 5441, 48528 
 
             Wage Committee, 1666, 8326, 30938, 50373, 65104 
 
             Women Veterans Advisory Committee, 59487 
 
         Poverty threshold (1995); weighted average, 67376 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching programs, 40079, 57000 
 
             Systems of records, 3525, 14853, 60148 
 
         Real property; enhanced-use leases: 
 
             Big Spring, TX Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1666 
 
             Indianapolis, IN; Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs 
 Medical Center, 9531 
 
             Reno, NV Veterans Affairs Medical Center; child 
 development center, 30111 
 
         Senior Executive Service: 
 
             Performance Review Boards; membership, 51317, 53490 
 
 
 
 
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 Veterans Employment and Training, Office of Assistant Secretary 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Agency information collection activities: 
 
             Proposed collection; comment request, 68303 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Homeless veterans employment and training program, 10807, 
 17734 
 
             Job Training Partnership Act -- 
 
                 Employment and training programs, 16574 
 
         Meetings: 
 
             Veterans' Employment and Training Advisory Committee, 
 21504 
 
 
 
 
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 Vice President of the United States 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Regulatory Plan statement, 62003 
 
 
 
 
 ***** 
 
 
 Victims of Crime Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Child and adult victims of sexual assault and abuse 
 services; training and technical assistance project (FY 1996), 7277 
 
             Victim service agencies; training and technical 
 assistance, 68296 
  
 
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 Wage and Hour Division 
 
     RULES 
 
         Alien crewmembers used for longshore activities in U.S. ports; 
 attestations by employers, 46988 
 
         Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994; contract labor 
 laws, 40714 
 
         Migrant and seasonal agricultural worker protection: 
 
             Workers' compensation information disclosure and 
 transportation liability insurance requirements, 24858 
 
         Organization, functions, and authority delegations: 
 
             Administrative Review Board; establishment and review 
 procedures, 19982 
 
         Wage rates predetermination procedures; and construction and 
 nonconstruction contracts; labor standards provisions: 
 
             Davis-Bacon semi-skilled helper regulations suspension 
 continuation, 68641 
 
         Worker protection provisions related to employers using aliens 
 or nonimmigrant workers; Federal regulatory reform, 51013 
 
     PROPOSED RULES 
 
         Migrant and seasonal agricultural worker protection: 
 
             Employ, independent contractor and joint employment, 
 definitions; Federal regulatory review, 14035 
 
             Workers' compensation information disclosure and 
 transportation liability insurance requirements, 10911 
 
         Wage rates predetermination procedures; and construction and 
 nonconstruction contracts; labor standards provisions: 
 
             Davis-Bacon semi-skilled helper regulations suspension 
 continuation, 40366 
 
 
 
 
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 Western Area Power Administration 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Environmental statements; availability, etc.: 
 
             Navajo Transmission Project, 52445 
 
             Salt Lake City Area, UT; integrated projects electric 
 power marketing program, 56534 
 
             Sierra Nevada Region 2004 power marketing program, 26174 
 
         Grand Canyon Act replacement resources methods report; 
 availability, 34433 
 
         National Defense Authorization Act: 
 
             Central Valley Project, CA; 17.0 megawatts for FY 1994; 
 availability, 2503 
 
         Post-2000 resource pool allocation procedures; Pick-Sloan 
 Missouri Basin program, Eastern Division; proposed power allocation 
 procedures, etc., 2817, 9449, 28574, 41142, 45957, 52788, 64080 
 
         Power rate adjustments: 
 
             Boulder Canyon Project, AZ and NV, 25664, 51106 
 
             Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project, 655, 
 4650 
 
         Purchase concept; power purchase from non-hydropower renewable 
 resource producers on project-by-project basis, 16480, 19274, 24789, 
 43051, 45959 
 
         Transition rate adjustments: 
 
             Colorado River Storage Project, 52448 
 
 
 
 
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 Workers' Compensation Programs Office 
 
     NOTICES 
 
         Privacy Act: 
 
             Computer matching program, 37090