Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 39 / Thursday, February 27, 1997 / Notices 8925

the statement. (Reviewers may wish to

refer to the Council on Environmental

Quality Regulations for implementing

the procedural provisions of the

National Environmental Policy Act at 40

CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points.)

Dated: February 19, 1997.

Gregory A. Kuyumjian,

Acting Forest Supervisor.

[FR Doc. 97–4839 Filed 2–26–97; 8:45 am]

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Natural Resources Conservation

Service

Proposed Changes in the NRCS

National Handbook of Conservation

Practices for Review and Comment

AGENCY: Natural Resources

Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S.

Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of availability of

proposed changes in the NRCS National

Handbook of Conservation Practices for

review and comment.

SUMMARY: It is the intention of NRCS to

issue a series of new or revised

conservation practice standards in its

National Handbook of Conservation

Practices. These standards include

Contour Buffer Strips (332), Filter Strips

(393A), Tree/Shrub Pruning (660A),

Riparian Forest Buffer (391A), and

Manure Transfer (634). NRCS State

Conservationist’ s who choose to adopt

these practices for use within their state

will incorporate them into Section IV of

their Field Office Technical Guide

(FOTG). Some of these practices may be

used in conservation systems that treat

highly erodible land or on land

determined to be wetland.

DATES: Comments will be received on or

before April 28, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Submit individual inquiries in writing

to Gary Nordstrom, Director, Ecological

Sciences Division (ECS), Natural

Resources Conservation Service (NRCS),

P.O. Box 2890, Room 6154–S,

Washington, DC 20013–2890.

Single copies of these standards are

available from NRCS–ECS in

Washington, DC. Copies are also

available electronically from the NRCS

server at Fort Worth, Texas. The name

of the server is ftp.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov.

Practice standards appear as files in

/pub/nhcp/pending. Practice code

numbers are used as file names in this

subdirectory. These standards are

available as MS Word 6.0 files. They

should be downloaded from the FTP

server as binary files.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

343 of the Federal Agriculture

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

requires the NRCS to make available for

public review and comment proposed

revisions to conservation practice

standards used to carry out the highly

erodible land and wetland provisions of

the law. For the next 60 days the NRCS

will receive comments relative to the

proposed changes. Following that

period a determination will be made by

the NRCS regarding disposition of those

comments and a final determination of

change will be made.

Gary R. Nordstrom,

Director, Ecological Sciences Division,

Natural Resources Conservation Service.

[FR Doc. 97–4945 Filed 2–26–97; 8:45 am]

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Arizona Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the

Arizona Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 10:00 a.m.

and adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on Friday,

March 14, 1997, at the U.S. District

Court Building, 7th Floor Hearing

Room, 230 North First Avenue, Phoenix,

Arizona 85025. The purpose of the

meeting is to hold a factfinding forum

on employment.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Committee Chairperson Manuel Pena,

602–254–3407, or Philip Montez,

Director of the Western Regional Office,

213–894–3437 (TDD 213–894–3435).

Hearing-impaired persons who will

attend the meeting and require the

services of a sign language interpreter

should contact the Regional Office at

least five (5) working days before the

scheduled date of the meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, February 14,

1997.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 97–4799 Filed 2–26–97; 8:45 am]

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Texas Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the Texas

Advisory Committee to the Commission

will convene at 9:00 a.m. and adjourn at

6:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 5, 1997, at

the Townes Hall Auditorium, the

University of Texas School of Law, 727

E. 26th Street, Room 2–114, Austin,

Texas 78705. The purpose of the

meeting is to hold a public consultation

on affirmative action and admissions

practices and policies in Texas

institutions of higher education, post

Hopwood v. Texas.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Committee Chairperson Adolph

Canales, 214–653–6779 or Philip

Montez, Director of the Western

Regional Office, 213–894–3437 (TDD

213–894–3435). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, February 14,

1997.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 97–4800 Filed 2–26–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–820]

Certain Compact Ductile Iron

Waterworks Fittings and Glands From

the People’s Republic of China;

Termination of Antidumping Duty New

Shipper Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of termination of

antidumping duty new shipper

administrative review.

SUMMARY: On April 26, 1996, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) published in the Federal

Register (61 FR 18568) the notice of

initiation of the administrative review of

the antidumping duty order on Certain

Compact Ductile Iron Waterworks

Fittings and Glands (CDIW) from the

People’s Republic of China (PRC). We

are terminating this review based on

776(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 as