3884 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 11 / Wednesday, January 17, 2001 / Rules and Regulations

and Order, MM Docket No. 00–179,

adopted January 10, 2001, and released

January 11, 2001. The full text of this

Commission decision is available for

inspection and copying during normal

business hours in the FCC Reference

Center 445 12th Street, SW,

Washington, DC. The complete text of

this decision may also be purchased

from the Commission’s copy contractor,

International Transcription Services,

Inc., (202) 857–3800, 1231 20th Street,

NW, Washington, DC 20036.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73

Television, Digital television

broadcasting.

Part 73 of Title 47 of the Code of

Federal Regulations is amended as

follows:

PART 73—[AMENDED]

1. The authority citation for Part 73

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336.

§ 73.622 [Amended]

2. Section 73.622(b), the Table of

Digital Television Allotments under

Arkansas, is amended by removing DTV

channel *46 and adding DTV channel

*13 at Arkadelphia.

Federal Communications Commission.

Barbara A. Kreisman,

Chief, Video Services Division, Mass Media

Bureau.

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47 CFR Parts 73 and 74

[MM Docket No. 95–31, FCC 00–120]

Reexamination of Comparative

Standards for Noncommercial

Educational Applicants

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of

effective date.

SUMMARY: The Commission adopted

new rules for selecting among mutually

exclusive applicants for noncommercial

educational broadcast stations. Certain

rules contained new and modified

information collection requirements and

were published in the Federal Register

on June 8, 2000. This document

announces the effective date of these

published rules.

DATES: Effective August 1, 2000 with

respect to the amendments to §§ 73.202,

73.3527, and 77.3572 published at 65

FR 36375 (June 8, 2000).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Irene Bleiweiss, Mass Media Bureau,

Audio Services Division, (202) 418–

2700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August

1, 2000, the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) approved the information

collection requirements contained in

Sections 73.202; 73.3527; and 73.3572

pursuant to OMB Control Nos. 3060–

0948. Accordingly, the information

collection requirements contained in

these rules became effective on August

1, 2000.

Federal Communications Commission.

William F. Caton,

Deputy Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

49 CFR Part 40

[Docket OST–99–6578]

RIN 2105–AAC49

Procedures for Transportation

Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing

Programs; Correction

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

SUMMARY: In its final drug and alcohol

testing rule published on December 19,

2000, the Department made an editorial

error in the numbering of a section in

the complete new version regulation.

This document corrects this error by

inserting the proper numbering. In

addition, the Department inadvertently

omitted one item from its amendments

to the existing regulation. This

document adds this item, which

concerns the responsibilities of the

medical review officer in reviewing

chain of custody documentation.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The correction to the

amendments to the current 49 CFR Part

40 (i.e., the addition of § 40.227) is

effective January 18, 2001. The

correction to the revised 49 CFR Part 40

(i.e., corrected designation of § 40.33(f))

is effective August 1, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert C. Ashby, Deputy Assistant

General Counsel for Regulation and

Enforcement, Department of

Transportation, 400 7th Street, SW.,

Room 10424, Washington, DC 20590, at

(202) 366–9306 (voice), (202) 366–9313

(fax), (202) 755–7687 (TDD), or

bob.ashby@ost.dot.gov (e-mail).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the

December 19, 2000, Federal Register (65

FR 79462), the Department published a

comprehensive revision to its drug and

alcohol procedures testing regulation

(49 CFR Part 40). This complete revision

becomes effective August 1, 2001. In

this revision, the Department made an

error in numbering § 40.33(f). Following

the introductory text of paragraph (f),

the Department numbered three

paragraphs (i), (ii), and (iii),

respectively. They should have been

numbered (1), (2), and (3). We are

correcting this error.

In the same Federal Register

document, we also published

amendments to the existing 49 CFR Part

40, effective January 18, 2001. We

inadvertently omitted from these

amendments one provision we intended

to make effective on this date. This

provision concerns the responsibility of

the medical review officer (MRO) to

review the chain of custody

documentation for a drug test. In

§ 40.123(b)(1) and § 40.129(a)(2) of the

complete revision of Part 40, the

Department specifies that MROs are not

required to review the laboratory

internal chain of custody

documentation as part of this process,

and that no one is authorized to cancel

a test because the MRO does not review

the internal laboratory chain of custody

documentation.

These provisions of the complete

revision of Part 40 are fully consistent

with the Department’s intent in, and

interpretation of, the existing regulation.

However, we learned last year that some

parties have been confused about this

point, and one state court decision—

mistakenly, in our view—determined

that MROs were required to review

internal laboratory chain of custody

documentation. We added the cited

provisions to the complete revision of

Part 40 to emphasize that MRO review

of this documentation is not needed.

We intended to add the substance of

these provisions to the amendments to

the existing Part 40 that become

effective January 18, 2001, lest there be

any misunderstanding of this point in

the interim before August 1, 2001.

However, through editorial oversight,

we failed to do so. We are correcting

this omission by adding a new § 40.227

to Subpart E of the existing Part 40.

The Department finds that there is

good cause to issue this correction

without a prior notice and opportunity

for comment. The underlying regulatory

provisions were part of a rulemaking

that was promulgated through the