| COMMENT FILE          NUMBER: | **01--008** | 6/15/01 07:02 PM |
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| **Request of the New          York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) for** |
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| **Approval of Four          Domestic Crude Oil Futures Contracts** |
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| FR CITE: | 66 FR 20970 (April 26,          2001) |
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| CLOSES: | 5/29/01 |
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| **FILE          CONTENTS** |
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| **(FR = Federal          Register; NC = Non Comment or Background Material; CL = Comment          Letter)** |
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| Documents which do not          have PDF links are availabe on request to [email protected] by using          the electronic |
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| request form. Electronic          distribution of the documents is possible, depending on the          requester's ability to receive |
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| them. Paper copies of          documents are available within the Washington, D.C., area through the          Commission's |
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| Public Reading Room and          outside the area through use of the electronic request form. Fees of          15 cents per page |
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| apply to paper          copies. |
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| **REQUEST FORM** | **If you are unfamiliar with PDF files, click here for          help** |
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| DOCUMENT: | **FR** | **1** |
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|  | **Notice of availability          of terms and conditions of commodity futures contracts** |
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| DATE: |  | 4/26/01 | FR PAGE: |  | 20970 | PAGES: | 1 | PDF SIZE: | 34 KB | PDF LINK: | /files/foia/ |
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| DOCUMENT: | **NC** | **2** |
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|  | **Letter of          Approval** |
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| DATE: |  | 6/13/01 | FR PAGE: |  | N/A | PAGES: | 1 | PDF SIZE: | 28 KB | PDF LINK: | foicf0108 |
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| DOCUMENT: | **NC** | **1** |
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|  | **Notice of availability          of terms and conditions of proposed commodity futures** |
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|  | **contracts** |
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| DATE: | FR PAGE: |  | N/A | PAGES: | 66 | PDF SIZE: | 1968 KB | PDF LINK: | foicf0108 |
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