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Agriculture Department
See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See Food Safety and Inspection Service
See Forest Service
See Rural Utilities Service


Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
RULES
Interstate transportation of animals and animal products (quarantine):
    Tuberculosis in cattle and bison--
        State and area classifications, 16617
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16626


Civil Rights Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; State advisory committees:
    New York, 16628


Corporation for National and Community Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16628


Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16628-16629
Special education and rehabilitative services:
    Blind vending facilities under Randolph-Sheppard Act--
        Arbitration proceedings; fee and expense schedule, 16700-16702


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Environmental Protection Agency
NOTICES
Pesticide programs:
    Pesticide products; sale, distribution, and use of existing stocks; 
            policy statement, 16632-16634
Reports; availability, etc.:
    Federal facilities cleanup principles and recommendations; 
            availability, 16632


Executive Office of the President
See Presidential Documents


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Hamilton Standard, 16618-16620
PROPOSED RULES
Airports:
    Passenger facility charges, 16678-16681
Class E airspace, 16621-16622
Jet routes, 16622-16623


Federal Bureau of Investigation
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16645-16646


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 16634


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Natural gas companies (Natural Gas Act):
    Uniform system of accounts, forms, statements, and reporting 
            requirements; revisions; rate schedule and tariff changes; 
            filing requirements, 16630
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., 16630
    Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., 16630
    Florida Gas Transmission Co., 16631
    Honeoye Storage Corp., 16631
    Northern Natural Gas Co., 16630-16631
    Viking Gas Transmission Co., 16631


Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16634-16637


Federal Railroad Administration
NOTICES
Exemption petitions, etc.:
    Texas North Western Railway Co. et al., 16667-16668


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16637-16638
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 16639
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 16638
    Permissible nonbanking activities, 16638-16639
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 16639


Food Safety and Inspection Service
RULES
Meat and poultry inspection:
    Cooked roast beef products; sorbitol use
        Withdrawn, 16617


Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16646-16647


Forest Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16627
Meetings:
    California Coast Province Advisory Committee, 16626-16627

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Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Regional Lands Directors, 16627-16628


General Services Administration
RULES
Federal travel:
    Per diem localities; maximum lodging and meal allowances
        Correction, 16620
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    San Francisco, CA; Federal Building, 16639-16640


Health and Human Services Department
See Health Resources and Services Administration


Health Resources and Services Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16640


Immigration and Naturalization Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16647


Interior Department
See Land Management Bureau
See National Park Service


Internal Revenue Service
PROPOSED RULES
Estate and gift taxes:
    Residence trust, personal or qualified personal; sale of residence, 
            16623-16625


Justice Department
See Federal Bureau of Investigation
See Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
See Immigration and Naturalization Service
See Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Office


Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16647-16648


Labor Department
See Labor Statistics Bureau


Labor Statistics Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16648-16649


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Meetings:
    California Desert District Advisory Council, 16640-16641
Reports; availability, etc.:
    Reinventing Government II (REGO II)--
        Oil and gas inspection and enforcement and environmental 
                compliance responsibilities; transfer proposal, 16641


National Park Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Niobrara National Scenic River, NE, 16642
Meetings:
    Acadia National Park Advisory Commission, 16645
    Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor 
            Commission, 16645
    National Park System Advisory Board, 16642-16643
National Register of Historic Places:
    Pending nominations, 16641-16642
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:
    Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, AZ; inventory, 16643-16644
    Buffalo Bill Historical Center, WY; Sun Dance medicine rattles and 
            paint sack, 16644-16645
    Kaibab National Forest, AZ; inventory, 16644
    Springfield Science Museum, MA; inventory, 16643


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Graduate Education Special Emphasis Panel, 16649


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 16654
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Duke Power Co. et al., 16649-16651
    Eastern Testing & Inspection, Inc., 16654
    Houston Lighting & Power Co. et al., 16651-16654


Personnel Management Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16655
Federal position classification structure; occupational series 
          reduction, 16654-16655


Postal Service
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 16655


Presidential Documents
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances:
    Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1996 (Proc. 6884), 16615-
            16616


Public Health Service
See Health Resources and Services Administration


Railroad Retirement Board
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 16655-16656


Rural Utilities Service
PROPOSED RULES
Rural development:
    Distance learning and telemedicine grant program, 16684-16697


Securities and Exchange Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Securities:
    Accounting policies for derivative financial and derivative 
            commodity instruments; financial statement footnote 
            disclosures requirements, 16674-16675

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    Derivative financial, other financial, and derivative commodity 
            instruments; safe harbor for disclosure of information 
            about inherent market risk, 16672-16674
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 16660-16663
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 16662
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Asia Tigers Fund, Inc., et al., 16658-16660
    Delaware Group Foreign Investors Government Fund, L.P., 16663-16664
    Delaware Group Foreign Investors High-Yield Fund, L.P., 16664
    EAI Select Managers Equity Fund et al., 16664-16666
    Evergreen Trust et al., 16656-16658
    Stepan Co., 16663


Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Disaster loan areas:
    Virginia, 16666
    Washington, 16666


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad services abandonment:
    CSX Transportation, Inc., 16667
    Fox Valley & Western Ltd., 16666-16667


Thrift Supervision Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 16669
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    City National Savings Bank, FSB, 16668
    Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B., 16668


Transportation Department
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Railroad Administration
See Surface Transportation Board


Treasury Department
See Internal Revenue Service
See Thrift Supervision Office
NOTICES
Bonds, Treasury:
    Redemption calls; 8 percent bonds, 16668


United States Information Agency
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Public Diplomacy, U.S. Advisory Commission, 16670
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Securities and Exchange Commission, 16672-16675


Part III
Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 16678-
          16681


Part IV
Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service, 16684-16697


Part V
Department of Education, 16700-16702
  
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                           3 CFR
Proclamations:
6884.................................................16615

                           7 CFR
Proposed Rules:
1703.................................................16684

                           9 CFR
77...................................................16617
318..................................................16617

                          14 CFR
39...................................................16618
Proposed Rules:
71 (2 documents)....................................16621,
                                                     16622
158..................................................16678

                          17 CFR
Proposed Rules:
210..................................................16674
228 (2 documents)...................................16672,
                                                     16674
229 (2 documents)...................................16672,
                                                     16674
239..................................................16674
240..................................................16674
249 (2 documents)...................................16672,
                                                     16674

                          26 CFR
Proposed Rules:
25...................................................16623

                          41 CFR
Ch. 301..............................................16620