16626 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 62 / Friday, March 31, 1995 / Notices

1Currently, the par delivery area is the Central

Territory (consists of the states of Illinois and

Kentucky). The contract’s locational price

differentials for the other five delivery territories

are: Northeast Territory (composed of the states of

Indiana and Ohio)—$3.00 per ton premium; Mid

South Territory (consists of the states of Tennessee,

Arkansas and specified northern parts of

Mississippi and Alabama)—$5.00 per ton premium;

Missouri Territory (composed of the state of

Missouri)—$1.00 per ton discount; Eastern Iowa

Territory (consists approximately of the

southeastern part of the state of Iowa)—$5.00 per

ton discount; and Northern Territory (contains that

part of the state of Iowa not included in the Eastern

Iowa Territory)—$6.00 per ton discount.

2Under the contract’s rules, all crop years end on

August 31. All adjustments to territorial

differentials based on a particular crop year become

effective with respect to all contract months

expiring in the next calendar year.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

commodities and services to the

Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the commodities and

services proposed for addition to the

Procurement List.

Accordingly, the following

commodities and services are hereby

added to the Procurement List:

Commodities

Line, Tent, Manila

8340–00–252–2299

8340–00–252–2285

8340–00–252–2286

8340–00–252–2269

Services

Grounds Maintenance, Woodford U.S.

Army Reserve Center, 1635 Armor

Road, Akron, Ohio

Grounds Maintenance, Scouten U.S.

Army Reserve Center, 271 Hedges

Street, Mansfield, Ohio

Grounds Maintenance, Pennington

Memorial U.S. Army Reserve Center,

2164 Harding Higway East, Marion,

Ohio

Janitorial/Custodial, Federal Building &

U.S. Courthouse, Alabama & 17th

Streets, Jasper, Alabama

Janitorial/Custodial, Federal Building &

U.S. Courthouse, 1118 24th Avenue,

North, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Janitorial/Custodial, National Weather

Service Office, 520 N. Elevar Street,

Oxnard, California

Janitorial/Custodial, Basewide, Dover

Air Force Base, Delaware

Janitorial/Custodial, Buildings 844, 850,

862, 863, 867, 868 & 869, Fort

Campbell, Kentucky

Janitorial/Custodial, Federal Building

and U.S. Post Office, 10 E. Babcock

Street, Bozeman, Montana

Janitorial/Custodial, Schaffner U.S.

Army Reserve Center, 1011 Gorge

Boulevard, Akron, Ohio

Janitorial/Custodial, Woodford U.S.

Army Reserve Center, 1635 Armor

Road, Akron, Ohio,

Janitorial/Custodial, AMSA #3 U.S.

Army Reserve Center, 6830 Erie

Avenue, Canal Fulton, Ohio

Janitorial/Custodial, Hastings U.S. Army

Reserve Center, 3120 Parkway Drive

NW, Canton, Ohio

Janitorial/Custodial, Jacob Parrott U.S.

Army Reserve Center, 1025 S. Main

Street, Kenton, Ohio

Janitorial/Custodial, Scouten U.S. Army

Reserve Center, 271 Hedges Street,

Mansfield, Ohio

Janitorial/Custodial, Pennington

Memorial U.S. Army Reserve Center,

2164 Harding Highway East, Marion,

Ohio

Operation of Postal Service Center,

Building 20204 and 926, Kirtland Air

Force Base, New Mexico

Patient Escort Service, Veterans

Administration Hospital, Houston,

Texas

Recycling Service, Patrick Air Force

Base, Florida

Recycling Service, Basewide, Kelly Air

Force Base, Texas.

This action does not affect current

contracts awarded prior to the effective

date of this addition or options

exercised under those contracts.

G. John Heyer,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 95–7981 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6820–33–P

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Chicago Board of Trade: Proposed

Amendment Pertaining to the

Automatic Adjustment Procedure for

Locational Price Differentials

Applicable to Deliveries on the

Soybean Meal Futures Contract

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of proposed contract

market rule changes.

SUMMARY: The Chicago Board of Trade

(‘‘CBOT’’) has submitted a proposed

amendment to its Regulation 1241.01

regarding the minimum weekly average

number of shipping certificates during a

crop year that must be outstanding to

activate the automatic adjustment

procedure for the locational price

differentials of the soybean meal futures

contract. In accordance with Section

5a(a)(12) of the Commodity Exchange

Act and acting pursuant to the authority

delegated by Commission Regulation

140.96, the Acting Director of the

Division of Economic Analysis

(‘‘Division’’) of the Commodity Futures

Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’)

has determined, on behalf of the

Commission, that the proposed

amendment is of major economic

significance. On behalf of the

Commission, the Division is requesting

public comment on the proposal.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before May 1, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons should

submit their views and comments to

Jean A. Webb, Secretary, Commodity

Futures Trading Commission, 2033 K

Street NW., Washington, D.C. 20581.

Reference should be made to the

proposed amendment to CBOT soybean

meal futures contract’s locational price

differentials.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Frederick V. Linse, Division of

Economic Analysis, Commodity Futures

Trading Commission, 2033 K Street

NW., Washington, D.C. 20581,

telephone (202) 254–7303.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

existing terms of the soybean meal

futures contract provide for delivery of

shipping certificates which call for

delivery of soybean meal at specified

CBOT-approved (regular) plants located

in six different geographical delivery

areas (delivery territories). The contract

currently sets forth specific fixed

locational price differentials applicable

to futures deliveries in each non-par

delivery territory.1

The contract’s existing terms also

provide for annual adjustments to the

above-noted locational price

differentials based on a specified

formula. Under the formula, the

cumulative weekly average of

outstanding soybean meal shipping

certificates in a given territory relative

to the total crushing capacity of all

regular plants in that delivery territory

for a given crop year is compared to the

corresponding relationship for the five

remaining delivery territories combined

for the same crop year.2 For any non-par

delivery territory, a derived ratio less

than or equal to .5 (greater than or equal

to 2.0) will result in an increase

(decrease) in the price differential for

that territory by 50 cents per ton for the

next calendar year. For the par delivery

territory (see footnote 1), a ratio less

than or equal to .5 (equal to or greater

than 2.0) will result in a 50-cent-per-ton

increase (decrease) in the price

differential for all other delivery

territories for the next calendar year.

Under the contract’s current terms, the

above-described automatic adjustments

may be made only if the weekly average
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3The CBOT notes that a weekly average of 298

and 222 shipping certificates were outstanding

during the 1992/93 and 1993/94 crop years,

respectively.

number of outstanding shipping

certificates for all territories combined

for the crop year is 300 or more. No

changes in the locational price

differentials currently may be made if

this average is less than 300.

The proposed amendment would

reduce to 150 from 300 the minimum

weekly average number of outstanding

shipping certificates during a crop year

that must be observed in order to

activate the contract’s automatic

adjustment procedure for locational

price differentials for the next

succeeding calendar year.

The CBOT indicates that the purpose

of the proposed amendment is to allow

the contract’s locational price

differentials to reflect cash market

locational price relationships. The

CBOT indicates, in this respect, that

reducing the minimum weekly average

number of outstanding shipping

certificates needed to permit changes in

the contract’s price differentials will

allow such differentials to adjust more

quickly toward changing cash market

price differences between the contract’s

delivery territories. The CBOT notes

that, while the current automatic

adjustment feature has been in effect for

three years, adjustments to the

contract’s locational price differentials

were made only in 1993, the first

calendar year in which such changes

were possible under the automatic

adjustment procedure. The CBOT

further indicated that, since that time,

no changes have been made to the price

differentials, because the weekly

average number of shipping certificates

outstanding during the immediately

preceding crop years for each of these

years was less than 300 shipping

certificates.3 According to the CBOT, if

the standard were 150 outstanding

certificates, as proposed, the abovenoted adjustment formula would have

resulted in changes in the locational

price differentials for several delivery

territories during 1994 and 1995.

The CBOT proposes to make the

amendment effective for adjustments in

the locational price differentials for the

January 1997 and subsequent contract

delivery months.

Copies of the proposed amendment

will be available for inspection at the

Office of the Secretariat, Commodity

Futures Trading Commission, 2033 K

Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20581.

Copies of the amended terms and

conditions can be obtained through the

Office of the Secretariat by mail at the

above address or by telephone at (202)

254–6314.

The materials submitted by the CBOT

in support of the proposed amendment

may be available upon request pursuant

to the Freedom of Information Act (5

U.S.C. 552) and the Commission’s

regulations thereunder (17 CFR Part 145

(1987)). Requests for copies of such

materials should be made to the FOI,

Privacy and Sunshine Act Compliance

Staff of the Office of the Secretariat at

the Commission’s headquarters in

accordance with CFR 145.7 and 145.8.

Any person interested in submitting

written data, views or arguments on the

proposed amendment should send such

comments to Jean A. Webb, Secretary,

Commodity Futures Trading

Commission, 2033 K Street NW.,

Washington, D.C. 20581 by the specified

date.

Issued in Washington, D.C. on March 27,

1995.

Blake Imel,

Acting Director.

[FR Doc. 95–7971 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Record of Decision for the Theater

Missile Defense Extended Test Range

Final Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Ballistic Missile Defense

Organization (BMDO).

ACTION: Record of Decision text is as

follows:

INTRODUCTION: This document records

[BMDO Director’s] decision for the

Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to

conduct tests at two of four alternative

test ranges. The potential for

environmental impacts at these ranges

was analyzed and documented in the

Theater Missile Defense Extended Test

Range Final Environmental Impact

Statement (FEIS), and the public was

notified of its availability on January 13,

1995. The following ranges were

considered for extended range testing:

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR),

New Mexico, Eglin Air Force Base

(AFB) Florida, Western Range,

California, and Kwajalein Missile Range

(KMR), U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll

(USAKA), Republic of the Marshall

Islands.

In September 1993, [BMDO] issued

[BMDO’s] Record of Decision (ROD) for

the TMD Final Programmatic

Environmental Impact Statement which

analyzed potential environmental

impacts over the life-cycle of the TMD

Program. That document addressed

potential environmental consequences

of the proposed research, development,

testing and production, basing, and

eventual decommissioning activities. It

serves as the foundation for the TMD

Extended Test Range FEIS. [BMDO

Director] have also carefully considered

the requirements of Executive Order

12898, Federal Actions to Address

Environmental Justice in Minority

Populations and Low Income

Populations (Feb. 11, 1994), that this

action not have a disproportionate

impact on minority or low-income

populations.

Need

The proposed extended range testing

arises from compelling national security

needs recognized by both the Congress

and the Administration. Effective

Theater Missile Defense (TMD) is

necessary to protect forward deployed

and expeditionary elements of the

Armed Forces of the United States and

U.S. friends and allies overseas.

Extended range testing is critical to the

development of an effective theater

missile defense.

Purpose

Extended range tests for TMD must

realistically test missile defense systems

under circumstances similar to a theater

of operations. This includes

construction of target launch facilities;

development and testing of sensors,

Battle Management Command, Control,

and Communications components, and

defensive missiles; and intercepts of

missiles over land and water areas.

System operational needs require

conducting target and other missile

system flight tests and intercepts at

altitudes and over distances, greater

than can be accommodated by current

ranges. These tests validate system

design and operational effectiveness of

ground-based interceptors to protect our

forces and allies overseas from theater

ballistic missiles.

Decision

[BMDO Director’s] decision is to

proceed with the extended range testing

at the WSMR and the KRM. At WSMR,

[BMDO Director] select the option to

launch target missiles from Fort Wingate

Depot Activity (FWDA) using Booster

Drop Zone C, with intercepts over

WSMR. It is part of [BMDO Director’s]

decision to take action to reserve a

portion of FWDA for the proposed TMD

activities. On February 28, 1994, the

BMDO notified the Secretary of the

Army of its potential need for sufficient

property at FWDA to conduct missile

launch activities, including provision