This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 65, No. 88

Friday, May 5, 2000

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

9 CFR Part 590

[Docket No. 99–012E]

RIN 0583–AC71

Fee Increase for Egg Products

Inspection—Year 2000; Extension of

comment period.

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection

Service, USDA.

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of

comment period.

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and

Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending

the comment period for the proposed

rule, ‘‘Fee Increase for Egg Products

Inspection—Year 2000’’ for an

additional 30 days. This action is in

response to a request to allow additional

time for comment in order to compile

more complete data regarding the

impact of the proposed fee.

DATES: Comments must be received by

June 1, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit one original and

two copies of written comments to FSIS

Docket Clerk, Docket No. 99–012P, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Food Safety

and Inspection Service, Room 102,

Cotton Annex, 300 12th Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20250–3700. All

comments submitted in response to the

proposal will be available for public

inspection in the Docket Clerk’s Office

between 8:30 and 4:30 p.m., Monday

through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information concerning policy issues,

contact Daniel Engeljohn, Ph.D.,

Director, Regulations Development and

Analysis Division, Office of Policy,

Program Development, and Evaluation,

FSIS, U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Room 112, Cotton Annex, 300 12th

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20250,

(202) 720–5627, fax number (202) 690–

0486.

For information concerning fee

development, contact Michael B.

Zimmerer, Director, Financial

Management Division, Office of

Management, FSIS, U.S. Department of

Agriculture, Room 2130-S, 1400

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20250, (202) 720–3552,

fax number (202) 720–3552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

FSIS is responsible for the inspection

of egg products to protect the health and

welfare of consumers by assuring that

egg products are wholesome, not

adulterated, and properly labeled and

packaged.

While the cost of mandatory

inspection is borne by FSIS, plants pay

for inspection services performed on

holidays or on an overtime basis. There

has not been a change in overtime and

holiday fees for egg products inspection

services since the transfer of program

functions from AMS to FSIS in May

1995. AMS established and

implemented the current fees in

November 1994. These fees reflect only

the costs of inspection at that time and

are insufficient to recover FSIS’s current

costs for the delivery of overtime and

holiday inspection service.

On March 3, 2000, FSIS published a

proposed rule (65 FR 11486) to increase

the fees it charges egg products plants

for providing overtime and holiday

inspection services. FSIS is also

proposing to amend 9 CFR 590.130 by

deleting the reference to regulations

governing the collection of fees

associated with the voluntary grading of

eggs. Interested parties were given 60

days to submit comments on the

proposal.

Now in response to a request to

extend the comment period for the

proposed rule, FSIS has decided to

extend the comment period an

additional 30 days. The request

included preliminary impact data to

support the statement that additional

time was needed to complete the data

collection effort.

Additional Public Notification

Public involvement in all segments of

rulemaking and policy development is

important. Consequently, in an effort to

better ensure that minorities, women,

and persons with disabilities are aware

of this notice, FSIS will announce and

provide copies of this Federal Register

publication in its constituent update.

The Agency provides a weekly FSIS

Constituent Update via fax to over 300

organizations and individuals. In

addition, the update is available on line

through the FSIS web page located at

http://www.fsis.usda.gov. The update is

used to provide information regarding

FSIS policies, procedures, regulations,

Federal Register notices, FSIS public

meetings, recalls, and any other types of

information that could affect or would

be of interest to our constituents/

stakeholders. The constituent fax list

consists of industry, trade, and farm

groups, consumer interest groups, allied

health professionals, scientific

professionals, and other individuals that

have requested to be included. Through

these various channels, FSIS is able to

provide information to a much broader,

more diverse audience than would be

otherwise possible.

For more information or to be added

to the constituent fax list, fax your

request to the Congressional and Public

Affairs Office, at (202) 720–5704.

Done in Washington, DC on: May 2, 2000.

Thomas J. Billy,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 00–11298 Filed 5–4–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

10 CFR Part 32

[Docket No. PRM–32–05]

Metabolic Solutions: Denial of Petition

for Rulemaking; Correction

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Denial of petition for

rulemaking; correction.

SUMMARY: This document corrects the

denial of a petition for rulemaking filed

by Metabolic Solutions published in the

Federal Register on April 24, 2000 (65

FR 21673). The ADDRESSES section of

the notice contains language that

requests public comment that was

inadvertently included in the notice.

This action is necessary to indicate that

the NRC is not soliciting public

comments because the denial is the final

NRC action on the petition for

rulemaking.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David L. Meyer, Chief, Rules and

Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 88 / Friday, May 5, 2000 / Proposed Rules 26149

Directives Branch, Division of

Administrative Services, Office of

Administration, telephone (301) 415–

7162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On page

21673, in the first column, the

ADDRESSES section is removed because

the NRC is not soliciting public

comments and the denial is the final

NRC action on this petition for

rulemaking.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day

of May 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

David L. Meyer,

Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division

of Administrative Services, Office of

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–11244 Filed 5–4–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 39

[Docket No. 2000–CE–09–AD]

RIN 2120–AA64

Airworthiness Directives; Raytheon

Aircraft Company Beech Models 45

(YT–34), A45 (T–34A, B–45), and D45

(T–34B) Airplanes

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking

(NPRM).

SUMMARY: This document proposes to

supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD)

99–12–02, which currently requires

flight and operating limitations on

Raytheon Aircraft Corporation

(Raytheon) Beech Models 45 (YT–34),

A45 (T–34A, B–45), and D45 (T–34B)

airplanes. AD 99–12–02 resulted from a

report of an in-flight separation of the

right wing on a Raytheon Beech Model

A45 (T–34A) airplane. The AD was

issued as an interim action until the

development of FAA-approved

inspection procedures. Raytheon has

developed such procedures. The

proposed AD would: Require repetitive

inspections of the wing spar assembly

for cracks, with replacement of any

wing spar assembly found cracked

(unless the spar assembly has a crack

indication in the filler strip where the

direction of the crack is toward the

outside of the filler strip); require

reporting the results of the initial

inspection; and change the flight and

operating limitations that AD 99–12–02

currently requires.

The actions specified by the proposed

AD are intended to detect and correct

cracks in the wing spar assemblies and

assure the operational safety of the

above-referenced airplanes.

DATES: The Federal Aviation

Adminstration (FAA) must receive any

comments on the proposed rule on or

before July 7, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments in

triplicate to FAA, Central Region, Office

of the Regional Counsel, Attention:

Rules Docket No. 2000–CE–09–AD, 901

Locust, Room 506, Kansas City,

Missouri 64106.

You may get the service information

referenced in the proposed AD from

Raytheon Aircraft Company, P.O. Box

85, Wichita, Kansas 67201–0085;

telephone: (800) 429–5372 or (316) 676–

3140. You may examine this

information at the Rules Docket at the

address above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

Nguyen, Aerospace Engineer, FAA,

Wichita Aircraft Certification Office,

1801 Airport Road, Mid-Continent

Airport, Wichita, Kansas 67209;

telephone: (316) 946–4125; facsimile:

(316) 946–4407.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

The FAA invites comments on this

proposed rule. You may submit

whatever written data, views, or

arguments you choose. You need to

include the rule’s docket number and

submit your comments in triplicate to

the address specified under the caption

ADDRESSES. The FAA will consider all

comments received on or before the

closing date. We may amend the

proposed rule in light of comments

received. Factual information that

supports your ideas and suggestions is

extremely helpful in evaluating the

effectiveness of the proposed AD action

and determining whether we need to

take additional rulemaking action.

We believe that the proposed

regulation may have a significant

economic impact on a substantial

number of small entities. Due to the

urgent nature of the safety issues

addressed, FAA has been unable to

complete a preliminary regulatory

flexibility analysis prior to issuance of

the NPRM. We anticipate including the

final regulatory flexibility analysis and

determination with the final rule, if

adopted. To assist in this analysis, we

are particularly interested in receiving

information on the impact of the

proposed rule on small businesses and

suggested alternative methods of

compliance that will reduce or

eliminate such impacts. All

communications received on or before

the closing date for comments, specified

above, will be considered before taking

action on the proposed rule. The

proposals contained in this notice may

be changed in light of the comments

received.

The FAA is re-examining the writing

style we currently use in regulatory

documents, in response to the

Presidential memorandum of June 1,

1998. That memorandum requires

federal agencies to communicate more

clearly with the public. We are

interested in your comments on whether

the style of this document is clearer, and

any other suggestions you might have to

improve the clarity of FAA

communications that affect you. You

can get more information about the

Presidential memorandum and the plain

language initiative at http://

www.plainlanguage.gov.

The FAA specifically invites

comments on the overall regulatory,

economic, environmental, and energy

aspects of the proposed rule that might

suggest a need to modify the rule. You

may examine all comments we receive

before and after the closing date of the

rule in the Rules Docket. We will file a

report in the Rules Docket that

summarizes each FAA contact with the

public that concerns the substantive

parts of the proposed AD.

If you want us to acknowledge the

receipt of your comments, you must

include a self-addressed, stamped

postcard. On the postcard, write

‘‘Comments to Docket No. 2000–CE–09-

AD.’’ We will date stamp and mail the

postcard back to you.

Discussion

Has FAA taken any action to this

point? In-flight separation of the right

wing on a Raytheon Beech Model A45

(T34A) airplane caused us to issue AD

99–12–02, Amendment 39–11193 (64

FR 31689, June 14, 1999). This AD

requires:

—Incorporating flight and operating

limitations that restrict the airplanes

to normal category operation and

prohibit them from acrobatic and

utility category operations;

—Limiting the flight load factor to 0 to

2.5 G; and

—Limiting the maximum airspeed to

175 miles per hour (mph) (152 knots).

AD 99–12–02 was issued as an

interim action until the development of

FAA-approved inspection procedures.

What has happened since AD 99–12–

02 to initiate this action? Raytheon has

developed procedures to inspect the

wing spar assemblies on Raytheon

Beech Models 45 (YT–34), A45 (T–34A,

B–45), and D45 (T–34B) airplanes. We

have reviewed and approved the

technical aspects of these procedures.