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. 123

Monday, June 26, 2000

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION

12 CFR Parts 614, 615, and 618

RIN 3052–AB96

Loan Policies and Operations; Funding

and Fiscal Affairs, Loan Policies and

Operations, and Funding Operations;

General Provisions; OFI Lending

AGENCY: Farm Credit Administration

(FCA).

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed

rulemaking (ANPRM); reopening of

comment period.

SUMMARY: We are reopening the

comment period on our ANPRM that

asks you to comment on the appropriate

capital risk weighting of Farm Credit

System (System) bank loans to other

financing institutions (OFIs), the public

availability of the identities of OFIs,

cross-district funding of OFIs, and ways

to improve System banks’ funding of

OFIs. We are reopening the comment

period on the ANPRM until July 19,

2000, so that interested parties have

additional time to provide comments.

DATES: Please send your comments to us

on or before July 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send us your comments by

electronic mail to ‘‘reg-comm@fca.gov’’

or through the Pending Regulations

section of our Web site at

‘‘www.fca.gov.’’ You may also send

written comments to Patricia W.

DiMuzio, Director, Regulation and

Policy Division, Office of Policy and

Analysis, Farm Credit Administration,

1501 Farm Credit Drive, McLean,

Virginia 22102–5090, or by facsimile

transmission to (703) 734–5784. You

may review copies of all comments we

receive in the Office of Policy and

Analysis, Farm Credit Administration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis K. Carpenter, Senior Policy

Analyst, Office of Policy and

Analysis, Farm Credit Administration,

McLean, VA 22102–5090, (703) 883–

4498, TDD (703) 883–4444,

or

Rebecca S. Orlich, Senior Attorney,

Office of General Counsel, Farm

Credit Administration, McLean, VA

22102–5090, (703) 883–4020, TDD

(703) 883–4444.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April

20, 2000, we published an ANPRM in

the Federal Register to seek comment

on whether we should revise FCA’s

regulations to improve and better

promote OFI access to System funding.

The comment period expired on June

19, 2000. See 65 FR 21151, April 20,

2000. In response to a request, we are

reopening the comment period until

July 19, 2000, so that commenters will

have more time to respond.

Dated: June 20, 2000.

Vivian L. Portis,

Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board.

[FR Doc. 00–16053 Filed 6–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6705–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service

26 CFR Part 1

[REG–109101–98]

RIN 1545–AW27

Special Rules Regarding Optional

Forms of Benefits Under Qualified

Retirement Plans; Hearing

Cancellation

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS),

Treasury.

ACTION: Cancellation of notice of public

hearing on proposed rulemaking.

SUMMARY: This document provides

notice of cancellation of a public

hearing on proposed regulations under

section 411(d), permitting qualified

defined contribution plans to be

amended to eliminate some alternative

forms in which an account balance can

be paid under certain circumstances,

and would permit certain transfers

between defined contribution plans that

are not permitted under regulations now

in effect.

DATES: The public hearing originally

scheduled for Tuesday, June 27, 2000, at

10 a.m., is cancelled.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

LaNita Van Dyke of the Regulations

Unit, Assistant Chief Counsel

(Corporate), (202) 622–7190 (not a tollfree number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice

of proposed rulemaking and notice of

public hearing that appeared in the

Federal Register on Wednesday, March

29, 2000, (65 FR 16546), announced that

a public hearing was scheduled for

Tuesday, June 27, 2000, at 10 a.m., in

Room 6718, Internal Revenue Building,

1111 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC. The subject of the

public hearing is proposed regulations

under section 411(d) of the Internal

Revenue Code. The public comment

period for these proposed regulations

expires on Tuesday, June 27, 2000. The

outlines of topics to be addressed at the

hearing were due on Tuesday, June 6,

2000.

The notice of proposed rulemaking

and notice of public hearing, instructed

those interested in testifying at the

public hearing to submit a request to

speak and an outline of the topics to be

addressed. As of Friday, June 16, 2000,

no one has requested to speak.

Therefore, the public hearing scheduled

for Tuesday, June 27, 2000, is cancelled.

Cynthia Grigsby,

Chief, Regulations Unit, Assistant Chief

Counsel (Corporate).

[FR Doc. 00–15867 Filed 6–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4830–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement

30 CFR Part 917

[KY–226–FOR]

Kentucky Regulatory Program

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM),

Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; public comment

period.

SUMMARY: OSM is announcing a

proposed action to preempt and

supersede portions of Kentucky Revised

Statute (KRS) 350.060(16). The 1998

Kentucky General Assembly enacted

this provision, which pertains to the

renewal of expired permits, into law by

passing House Bill 593.

It proposed that if a permit has

expired or a permit renewal application