Contents Federal Register
Vol. 63, No. 192
Monday, October 5, 1998

Agriculture Department

See Rural Utilities Service

Arts and Humanities, National Foundation

See National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Coast Guard

RULES

Drawbridge operations:

    California, 53281-53282 [FR Doc. 98-26577]
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NOTICES

Meetings:

    National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee, 53483-53484 [FR Doc. 98-26576]
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    Response plan equipment caps; scheduled increases in mechanical recovery and potential changes to dispersant planning requirements; workshops, 53484 [FR Doc. 98-26575]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Commerce Department

See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

See Patent and Trademark Office

Customs Service

NOTICES

Uryguay Round Agreements Act (URAA):

    Foreign entities violating textile transshipment rules; list, 53493-53496 [FR Doc. 98-26415]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Defense Department

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53354 [FR Doc. 98-26506]
    53354 [FR Doc. 98-26507]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
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Arms sales notification; transmittal letter, etc., 53354-53359 [FR Doc. 98-26513]
53360-53364 [FR Doc. 98-26514]
53364-53369 [FR Doc. 98-26515]
53370-53373 [FR Doc. 98-26516]
53374-53378 [FR Doc. 98-26517]
53379-53382 [FR Doc. 98-26518]
53383-53386 [FR Doc. 98-26519]
53387-53390 [FR Doc. 98-26520]
53391-53395 [FR Doc. 98-26521]
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Meetings:

    National Security Education Board, Group of Advisors, 53396 [FR Doc. 98-26512]
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    Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, 53396-53397 [FR Doc. 98-26508]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Drug Enforcement Administration

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53463-53464 [FR Doc. 98-26545]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Education Department

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53397 [FR Doc. 98-26541]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Energy Department

See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office

See Energy Information Administration

See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

See Southeastern Power Administration

NOTICES

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

    Plutonium-238 production for use in advanced radioisotope power systems for future space missions, 53398-53400 [FR Doc. 98-26594]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Proposed collection; comment request, 53400-53401 [FR Doc. 98-26592]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Energy Information Administration

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Proposed collection; comment request, 53401-53403 [FR Doc. 98-26593]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Environmental Protection Agency

RULES

Air pollution; standards of performance for new stationary sources:

    Coal preparation plants; standards applicability to coal unloading operations, 53288-53290 [FR Doc. 98-26632]
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Air programs:

    Stratospheric ozone protection--
      Montreal Protocol, U.S. obligations; production and consumption controls, 53290-53291 [FR Doc. 98-26456]
      [TEXT]   [PDF]

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

    Connecticut, 53282-53288 [FR Doc. 98-26453]
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Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural commodities:

    Alder bark, 53291-53294 [FR Doc. 98-26618]
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    Pyridaben, 53294-53301 [FR Doc. 98-26617]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

PROPOSED RULES

Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Proposed collection; comment request, 53415-53416 [FR Doc. 98-26633]
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Toxic and hazardous substances control:

    Lead-based paint activities in target housing and child-occupied facilities; State and Indian Tribe authorization applications--
    Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemical substances; category development, 53417-53423 [FR Doc. 98-26630]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Executive Office of the President

See Presidential Documents

See Trade Representative, Office of United States

Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation

NOTICES

Secure base amount and allocated insurance reserve accounts; policy statement, 53423-53429 [FR Doc. 98-26620]
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Federal Aviation Administration

RULES

Airmen certification:

    Pilots, flight instructors, and ground instructors outside U.S.; licensing and training, 53531-53537 [FR Doc. 98-26602]
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Airworthiness standards:

    Aircraft turbine engines; rain and hail ingestion standards harmonization
      Correction, 53278-53279 [FR Doc. 98-26603]
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Colored Federal airways, 53279 [FR Doc. 98-26599]
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Restricted areas, 53279-53280 [FR Doc. 98-26600]
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PROPOSED RULES

Class E airspace, 53319-53320 [FR Doc. 98-26606]
53320-53321 [FR Doc. 98-26607]
53321-53322 [FR Doc. 98-26608]
53322-53323 [FR Doc. 98-26609]
53323-53324 [FR Doc. 98-26610]
53324-53325 [FR Doc. 98-26611]
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VOR Federal airways, 53325-53326 [FR Doc. 98-26601]
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NOTICES

Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:

    Transport category airplanes--
      Airframe ice protection systems certification guidance, 53484-53485 [FR Doc. 98-26612]
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Airport rates and charges; policy statement, 53485-53486 [FR Doc. 98-26605]
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Meetings:

    Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee, 53486 [FR Doc. 98-26604]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:

    St. Paul International Airport, MN, 53486-53487 [FR Doc. 98-26613]
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Federal Communications Commission

RULES

Radio services, special:

    Maritime services--
      New Orleans vessel traffic services, 53312-53313 [FR Doc. 98-26524]
      [TEXT]   [PDF]

PROPOSED RULES

Radio services, special:

    Fixed microwave services--
      Multiple address systems; 932/941 MHz band allocations; applications dismissal, 53350-53351 [FR Doc. 98-26568]
      [TEXT]   [PDF]

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Proposed collection; comment request, 53429-53430 [FR Doc. 98-26567]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Common carrier services:

    Wireless telecommunications services--
      156-162 MHz public coast station spectrum auction; reserve prices or minimum opening bids and other procedural issues, 53430-53440 [FR Doc. 98-26407]
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Federal Emergency Management Agency

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53440 [FR Doc. 98-26582]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Disaster and emergency areas:

    New York, 53440-53441 [FR Doc. 98-26585]
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    Virgin Islands, 53442-53443 [FR Doc. 98-26588]
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Meetings:

    Emergency Management Institute Board of Visitors, 53443 [FR Doc. 98-26581]
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:

    Metropolitan Edison Co. et al., 53407-53409 [FR Doc. 98-26532]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

    Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., 53403 [FR Doc. 98-26533]
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    Kern River Gas Transmission Co., 53403-53404 [FR Doc. 98-26535]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
    Minnesota Power, Inc., 53404 [FR Doc. 98-26538]
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    National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., 53404 [FR Doc. 98-26539]
    53405 [FR Doc. 98-26540]
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    Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., 53405 [FR Doc. 98-26536]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
    Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., 53405-53406 [FR Doc. 98-26534]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
    Western Gas Interstate Co., 53406 [FR Doc. 98-26537]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Federal Highway Administration

NOTICES

Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:

    Transportation Equity Act for 21st Century; discretionary programs--
      Value pricing pilot program; State or local governments or other public authorities participation, 53487-53491 [FR Doc. 98-26531]
      [TEXT]   [PDF]

Federal Maritime Commission

RULES

Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 53308-53311 [FR Doc. 98-26569]
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NOTICES

Agreements filed, etc., 53443-53444 [FR Doc. 98-26526]
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Federal Reserve System

NOTICES

Meetings; Sunshine Act, 53444 [FR Doc. 98-26700]
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Food and Drug Administration

NOTICES

Human drugs:

    New drug applications--
      Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., et al.; approval withdrawn, 53444 [FR Doc. 98-26522]
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Meetings:

    Medical Devices Advisory Committee, 53445 [FR Doc. 98-26571]
    53445 [FR Doc. 98-26572]
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Health and Human Services Department

See Food and Drug Administration

See Health Care Financing Administration

See National Institutes of Health

See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Health Care Financing Administration

RULES

Medicare:

    Skilled nursing facilities; prospective payment system and consolidated billing
      Correction, 53301-53308 [FR Doc. 98-26596]
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NOTICES

Medicare:

    Hospice wage index, 53446-53456 [FR Doc. 98-26501]
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Interior Department

See Land Management Bureau

See Reclamation Bureau

Justice Department

See Drug Enforcement Administration

See Justice Programs Office

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53462-53463 [FR Doc. 98-26546]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Justice Programs Office

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Proposed collection; comment request, 53464 [FR Doc. 98-26547]
    53464-53465 [FR Doc. 98-26548]
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Labor Department

See Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Land Management Bureau

NOTICES

Environmental statements; notice of intent:

    Vermillion management framework plan, UT, 53460 [FR Doc. 98-26555]
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Fire management and suppression activities:

    Wyoming, 53460-53461 [FR Doc. 98-26527]
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National Wild and Scenic River System:

    Gulkana River, AK; limits of acceptable change, 53461-53462 [FR Doc. 98-26554]
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

NOTICES

Meetings:

    President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, 53465 [FR Doc. 98-26552]
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National Institutes of Health

NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53456-53457 [FR Doc. 98-26692]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RULES

Fishery conservation and management:

    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
      Shortraker/rougheye rockfish, 53318 [FR Doc. 98-26615]
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    West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries--
      Pacific coast groundfish fishery; trip limit changes, 53313-53317 [FR Doc. 98-26640]
      [TEXT]   [PDF]
      West Coast salmon, 53317-53318 [FR Doc. 98-26628]
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NOTICES

Meetings:

    Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 53352 [FR Doc. 98-26752]
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    Pacific Fishery Management Council, 53352 [FR Doc. 98-26626]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Permits:

    Marine mammals, 53352-53353 [FR Doc. 98-26625]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Recreational fishing; angling ethics code, 53353-53354 [FR Doc. 98-26627]
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NOTICES

Environmental statements; availability, etc.:

    Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc., 53473-53478 [FR Doc. 98-26559]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Meetings:

    Nuclear Waste Advisory Committee, 53478 [FR Doc. 98-26557]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:

    Consolidated Edison Co., 53465-53466 [FR Doc. 98-26565]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
    Entergy Operations, Inc., 53466-53467 [FR Doc. 98-26558]
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    GPU Nuclear, Inc., et al., 53467-53468 [FR Doc. 98-26561]
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    Pathfinder Mines Corp., 53468 [FR Doc. 98-26564]
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    Union Electric Co., 53468-53471 [FR Doc. 98-26562]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
    Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp., 53471-53473 [FR Doc. 98-26563]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

RULES

State plans; development, enforcement, etc.:

    Arizona
      Concrete and asphalt batch plants connected to mines; Federal enforcement level change, 53280-53281 [FR Doc. 98-26525]
      [TEXT]   [PDF]

Office of United States Trade Representative

See Trade Representative, Office of United States

Patent and Trademark Office

PROPOSED RULES

Patent cases:

    Patent business goals; implementation, 53497-53530 [FR Doc. 98-26429]
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Personnel Management Office

RULES

Performance ratings finality; retroactive, assumed, and carry-over ratings of record prohibited, 53275-53276 [FR Doc. 98-26623]
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NOTICES

Agency information collection activities:

    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53478 [FR Doc. 98-26624]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Meetings:

    National Partnership Council, 53478 [FR Doc. 98-26635]
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Presidential Documents

PROCLAMATIONS

Special observances:

    Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National (Proc. 7130), 53539-53542 [FR Doc. 98-26835]
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    Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National (Proc. 7129), 53271-53272 [FR Doc. 98-26798]
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EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Computer software piracy (EO 13103), 53273-53274 [FR Doc. 98-26799]
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Public Health Service

See Food and Drug Administration

See National Institutes of Health

See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Reclamation Bureau

NOTICES

Meetings:

    Bay-Delta Advisory Council, 53462 [FR Doc. 98-26556]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Rural Utilities Service

RULES

Electric loans:

    Long-range financial forecasts, 53276-53278 [FR Doc. 98-26484]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Securities and Exchange Commission

NOTICES

Meetings; Sunshine Act, 53478-53479 [FR Doc. 98-26800]
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Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:

    National Securities Clearing Corp., 53479-53481 [FR Doc. 98-26530]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Small Business Administration

NOTICES

Meetings; district and regional advisory councils:

Southeastern Power Administration

NOTICES

Power rates:

    Georgia-Alabama-South Carolina System of Projects, 53409-53415 [FR Doc. 98-26463]
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

NOTICES

Federal agency urine drug testing; certified laboratories meeting miminum standards, list, 53457-53459 [FR Doc. 98-26724]
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Meetings:

    SAMHSA special emphasis panels, 53460 [FR Doc. 98-26523]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Trade Representative, Office of United States

NOTICES

Meetings:

    North American Free Trade Agreement Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee, 53482-53483 [FR Doc. 98-26774]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Transportation Department

See Coast Guard

See Federal Aviation Administration

See Federal Highway Administration

NOTICES

Airport rates and charges; policy statement, 53485-53486 [FR Doc. 98-26605]
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Aviation proceedings:

    Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 53483 [FR Doc. 98-26579]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]
    Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign air carrier permits; weekly applications, 53483 [FR Doc. 98-26580]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Treasury Department

See Customs Service

PROPOSED RULES

Government Securities Act; implementation:

    Brokers and dealers reporting requirement; Year 2000 compliance, 53326-53349 [FR Doc. 98-26544]
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NOTICES

Boycotts, international:

    Countries requiring cooperation; list, 53491 [FR Doc. 98-26573]
    [TEXT]   [PDF]

Home-to-work transportation controls (Treasury Directive 74-06), 53491-53493 [FR Doc. 98-26574]
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Separate Parts In This Issue

Part II

Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, 53497-53530 [FR Doc. 98-26429]
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Part III

Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 53531-53537 [FR Doc. 98-26602]
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Part IV

The President, 53539-53542 [FR Doc. 98-26835]
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Reader Aids

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