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selection of private sector participants

in the delegation will be conducted

according to the Statement of Policy

Governing Department of Commerce

Overseas Trade Missions announced by

Secretary Daley on March 3, 1997 and

reflected herein.

Time Frame for Application

Applications may be submitted after

December 15th to Cheryl Bruner,

Director of the Office of Business

Liaison or Eric Schwerrin, Room 5062,

U.S. Department of Commerce,

Washington, DC 20230. Phone (202)

482–1360, Fax (202) 482–4054. All

applications must be received by

December 29, 1997. Applications

received after December 29th will be

considered on a space available basis.

Dated: December 11, 1997.

Susanne L. Lotarski,

Director, Office of Eastern Europe, Russia and

the Newly Independent States.

[FR Doc. 97–32869 Filed 12–15–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and

Technology

Announcement of Meeting of National

Conference on Weights and Measures

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Interim Meeting of the National

Conference on Weights and Measures

will be held January 11 through 15,

1998, at the St. Anthony Hotel, San

Antonio, TX. The meeting is open to the

public. The National Conference on

Weights and Measures is an

organization of weights and measures

enforcement officials of the States,

counties, and cities of the United States,

and private sector representatives. The

interim meeting of the conference, as

well as the annual meeting to be held

next July (a notice will be published in

the Federal Register prior to such

meeting), brings together enforcement

officials, other government officials, and

representatives of business, industry,

trade associations, and consumer

organizations to discuss subjects that

relate to the field of weights and

measures technology and

administration.

Pursuant to (15 U.S.C. 272B), the

National Institute of Standards and

Technology acts as a sponsor of the

National Conference on Weights and

Measures in order to promote

uniformity among the States in the

complex of laws, regulations, methods,

and testing equipment that comprises

regulatory control by the States of

commercial weighing and measuring.

DATES: The meeting will be held January

11–15, 1998.

LOCATION OF MEETING: St Anthony Hotel,

San Antonio, TX.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Gilbert Ugiansky, Executive

Secretary, National Conference on

Weights and Measures, P.O. Box 4025,

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885.

Telephone: (301) 975–4004, or E-mail:

owm@nist.gov.

Dated: December 5, 1997.

Elaine Bunten-Mines,

Director, Program Office.

[FR Doc. 97–32699 Filed 12–15–97; 8:45 am]

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COMMITTEE FOR THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE

AGREEMENTS

Adjustment of Import Limits for Certain

Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textile

Products Produced or Manufactured in

India

December 10, 1997.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs adjusting

limits.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 12, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Janet Heinzen, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212. For information on the

quota status of these limits, refer to the

Quota Status Reports posted on the

bulletin boards of each Customs port or

call (202) 927–5850. For information on

embargoes and quota re-openings, call

(202) 482–3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural

Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854);

Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as

amended.

The current limits for certain

categories are being adjusted, variously,

for shift and carryforward.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 61 FR 66263,

published on December 17, 1996). Also

see 61 FR 68143, published on

December 27, 1996.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

December 10, 1997.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: This directive

amends, but does not cancel, the directive

issued to you on December 20, 1996, by the

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements. That directive

concerns imports of certain cotton, manmade fiber, silk blend and other vegetable

fiber textiles and textile products, produced

or manufactured in India and exported

during the twelve-month period which began

on January 1, 1997 and extends through

December 31, 1997.

Effective on December 12, 1997, you are

directed to adjust the limits for the following

categories, as provided for under the Uruguay

Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing:

Category Adjusted twelve-month

level 1

334/634 .................... 153,057 dozen.

342/642 .................... 1,189,071 dozen.

369–S2 .................... 549,831 kilograms.

1The limits have not been adjusted to account for any imports exported after December

31, 1996. 2 Category 369–S: only HTS number

6307.10.2005.

The Committee for the Implementation of

Textile Agreements has determined that

these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5

U.S.C. 553(a)(1).

Sincerely,

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.162A]

Emergency Immigrant Education

Program; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)

1998

Purpose of Program: This program

provides grants to State educational

agencies (SEAs) to assist local

educational agencies (LEAs) that

experience unexpectedly large increases

in their student population due to

immigration. These grants are to be used

to provide high-quality instruction to

immigrant children and youth and to

help those children and youth make the