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Agency for International Development
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Miscellaneous amendments, 39089-39096


Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Onions (sweet) grown in Washington and Oregon, 39050-39052


Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
See Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
See Food and Consumer Service
See Forest Service
See Rural Housing Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 39116


Army Department
RULES
Absentee deserter apprehension program and military personnel surrender 
          to civilian law enforcement agencies, 39072-39080


Blind or Severely Disabled, Committee for Purchase From People Who Are
See Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely 
          Disabled


Children and Families Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 39136


Commerce Department
See Economic Development Administration
See Foreign-Trade Zones Board
See International Trade Administration
See National Institute of Standards and Technology
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 39118-39119


Customs Service
RULES
Centralized examination stations:
    Felony indictment; operations suspension or permanent revocation, 
            39070-39071


Defense Department
See Army Department
RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Agency procurement protests, 39219-39220
    Computer network and micro-purchase procedures, 39189-39199
    Contingent fee representation, 39188-39189
    Contractor gratuities to government personnel, 39199-39200
    Contractor responsibility determinations; use of commercial sources 
            of supplier information, 39201
    Cost-effective value engineering procedures and processes, 39220-
            39221
    Disaster Relief Act activities, 39200-39201
    FAR Circular 90-40; introduction, 39186-39188
    Indian-owned economic enterprises; subcontracting costs recovery, 
            39210-39211
    Multiyear contracting, 39203-39207
    Patent use without authorization; General Agreement on Tariffs and 
            Trade (GATT), 39211-39212
    Performance and payment bonds, 39212-39217
    Personal services compensation costs, 39217-39219
    Small business set-asides; simplified acquisition threshold, 39207-
            39210
    Small entity compliance guide, 39224-39226
    Task and delivery order contracts, 39201-39203
    Termination inventory schedules, 39221-39224
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 39121-39122
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    President's Security Policy Advisory Board, 39123
Meetings:
    Defense Environmental Response task force, 39123
    Wage Committee, 39123
Senior Executive Service:
    Performance Review Board; membership, 39123-39124


Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Schedules of controlled substances; production quotas:
    Schedules I and II--
        1996 aggregate, 39153-39154


Economic Development Administration
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Economic development assistance programs
        National technical assistance research and evaluation, 39242-
                39244


Education Department
PROPOSED RULES
Elementary and secondary education:
    Indian fellowship and professional development programs, 39246-
            39251


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 39155-39156
Federal-State unemployment compensation program:
    Unemployment insurance benefit accuracy measurement annual report; 
            availability, 39159-39160
    Unemployment insurance program letters--
        Federal unemployment insurance law interpretation, 39156-39159

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Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general 
          wage determination decisions, 39160-39162


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Meetings:
    DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, 39124
    Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board--
        Rocky Flats, 39124


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Superfund program:
    National oil and hazardous substances contingency plan--
        National priorities list update, 39080-39081
PROPOSED RULES
Superfund program:
    National oil and hazardous substances contingency plan--
        National priorities list update, 39104-39107
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 39133-39134
        Weekly receipts, 39133


Executive Office of the President
See Management and Budget Office
See Trade Representative, Office of United States


Farm Credit Administration
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 39134


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Common carrier services:
    Interstate pay-per-call and other information services, 39084-39088
PROPOSED RULES
Common carrier services:
    Interstate information services, 39107-39110


Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
RULES
Administrative regulations:
    Crop insurance coverage for production of agricultural commodity on 
            highly erodible land or converted wetland (sodbuster and 
            swampbuster provisions), 39048-39050


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
RULES
Natural Gas Policy Act, etc.:
    Interstate natural gas pipelines; business practices standards, 
            39053-39070
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Michigan Power Co. et al., 39127-39129
    Sonat Power Marketing, Inc., et al., 39129-39130
    Wisconsin Power & Light Co. et al., 39130-39133
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    East Tennessee Natural Gas Co., 39125
    Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P., 39125
    Koch Gateway Pipeline Co., 39125
    National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., 39125-39126
    Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, 39126
    Northern Natural Gas Co., 39126
    Northwest Pipeline Corp., 39126-39127
    South Georgia Natural Gas Co., 39127
    Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., 39127
    Transwestern Pipeline Co., 39127


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Casualty and nonperformance certificates:
    Seabourn Cruise Line Ltd. et al., 39134


Federal Reserve System
RULES
International banking operations (Regulation K):
    Foreign banks, shell branches managed or controlled by such banks' 
            U.S. offices, 39052-39053
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 39134
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 39135
    Permissible nonbanking activities, 39135
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 39136


Federal Trade Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Trade regulation rules:
    Lubricating oil, previously used; deceptive advertising and 
            labeling, 39101-39104


Financial Management Service
See Fiscal Service


Fiscal Service
RULES
Federal agency disbursements management, 39254-39259
PROPOSED RULES
Treasury certificates of indebtedness, notes, and bonds; State and 
          local government series, 39228-39240


Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 39151-39152


Food and Consumer Service
RULES
Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 39047-39048


Foreign-Trade Zones Board
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Washington
        Texaco, Inc.; oil refinery complex, 39119


Forest Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Clearwater National Forest, ID, 39116-39117


General Accounting Office
RULES
Bid protest process; timeliness requirement, 39039-39047

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General Services Administration
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Contract Appeals Board--
        Transportation rate cases; procedure rules, 39096-39098
        Travel and relocation expenses cases; procedure rules, 39098-
                39099
    FAC 90-39 implementation and miscellaneous changes, 39088-39089
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Agency procurement protests, 39219-39220
    Computer network and micro-purchase procedures, 39189-39199
    Contingent fee representation, 39188-39189
    Contractor gratuities to government personnel, 39199-39200
    Contractor responsibility determinations; use of commercial sources 
            of supplier information, 39201
    Cost-effective value engineering procedures and processes, 39220-
            39221
    Disaster Relief Act activities, 39200-39201
    FAR Circular 90-40; introduction, 39186-39188
    Indian-owned economic enterprises; subcontracting costs recovery, 
            39210-39211
    Multiyear contracting, 39203-39207
    Patent use without authorization; General Agreement on Tariffs and 
            Trade (GATT), 39211-39212
    Performance and payment bonds, 39212-39217
    Personal services compensation costs, 39217-39219
    Small business set-asides; simplified acquisition threshold, 39207-
            39210
    Small entity compliance guide, 39224-39226
    Task and delivery order contracts, 39201-39203
    Termination inventory schedules, 39221-39224
Federal Information Resources Management Regulation:
    Federal information processing (FIP) equipment; interagency 
            screening and transfer of excess and exchange/sale 
            equipment, 39081-39083


Health and Human Services Department
See Children and Families Administration
See Health Resources and Services Administration
See National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 39146-
            39151


Health Resources and Services Administration
NOTICES
National vaccine injury compensation program:
    Petitions received, 39136-39140


Housing and Urban Development Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 39151
    Housing assistance payments (Section 8)--
        Family self-sufficiency program coordinators in assisted 
                housing projects (FY 1996), 39262-39266


Interior Department
See Fish and Wildlife Service
See Land Management Bureau
See National Park Service
RULES
Assistance programs; administrative and audit requirements and cost 
          principles:
    Buy American requirements, 39083-39084


Internal Revenue Service
RULES
Income taxes:
    Common trust funds diversification at time of combination or 
            division
        Correction, 39072
    Investment companies; transfers of assets
        Correction, 39072
    Profit split method; combined taxable income computation
        Correction, 39071-39072
PROPOSED RULES
Income taxes:
    Qualified small business stock; 50 percent exclusion for gain
        Correction, 39104
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 39181-39183
Elderly tax counseling program; application packages; availability, 
          39183


International Development Cooperation Agency
See Agency for International Development


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Forged stainless steel flanges from--
        India, 39119-39120


Justice Department
See Drug Enforcement Administration


Labor Department
See Employment and Training Administration
See Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 39154-39155
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans Advisory Council, 39155


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:
    Montana, 39152
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Lower Snake River, Upper Snake River, and Upper Columbia Salmon 
                Clearwater Districts, 39152


Management and Budget Office
NOTICES
Accounting for revenue and other financing sources and concepts for 
          reconciling budgetary and financial accounting; document 
          availability, 39164-39165


National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Agency procurement protests, 39219-39220

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    Computer network and micro-purchase procedures, 39189-39199
    Contingent fee representation, 39188-39189
    Contractor gratuities to government personnel, 39199-39200
    Contractor responsibility determinations; use of commercial sources 
            of supplier information, 39201
    Cost-effective value engineering procedures and processes, 39220-
            39221
    Disaster Relief Act activities, 39200-39201
    FAR Circular 90-40; introduction, 39186-39188
    Indian-owned economic enterprises; subcontracting costs recovery, 
            39210-39211
    Multiyear contracting, 39203-39207
    Patent use without authorization; General Agreement on Tariffs and 
            Trade (GATT), 39211-39212
    Performance and payment bonds, 39212-39217
    Personal services compensation costs, 39217-39219
    Small business set-asides; simplified acquisition threshold, 39207-
            39210
    Small entity compliance guide, 39224-39226
    Task and delivery order contracts, 39201-39203
    Termination inventory schedules, 39221-39224


National Archives and Records Administration
NOTICES
Agency records schedules; availability, 39162


National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOTICES
Meetings:
    International Laboratory Accreditation Conference, 39120


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 39141
Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 39141-39144
Meetings:
    National Cancer Institute, 39145
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences, 39145-39146
    National Institute of Mental Health, 39145
    Research Grants Division special emphasis panels, 39146


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Atlantic shark, 39099
    Gulf of Alaska groundfish, 39100
NOTICES
Permits:
    Marine mammals, 39120-39121


National Park Service
NOTICES
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:
    Milwaukee Public Museum, WI; Parrot Clan mask, 39153


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Biological Sciences Special Emphasis Panel, 39162-39163
    Cross Disciplinary Activities Special Emphasis Panel, 39163
    Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation Special Emphasis 
            Panel, 39163-39164
    Engineering Advisory Committee, 39164
    Geosciences Advisory Committee, 39164
    Geosciences Special Emphasis Panel, 39164


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    GPU Nuclear Corp., 39164


Office of Management and Budget
See Management and Budget Office


Office of United States Trade Representative
See Trade Representative, Office of United States


Public Health Service
See Health Resources and Services Administration
See National Institutes of Health


Rural Housing Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 39117-39118


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    American Stock Exchange, Inc., 39167-39172
    Boston Stock Exchange, Inc., et al., 39172-39174
    Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 39175-39176
    New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 39176-39178
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Public utility holding company filings, 39165-39166
    Van Kampen American Capital Equity Opportunity Trust (Series 28), 
            39166-39167


Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 39178-39179


Surface Transportation Board
PROPOSED RULES
Practice and procedure:
    Rail rate reasonableness, exemption and revocation proceedings; 
            expedited procedures, 39110-39114
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Soo Line Railroad Co., 39180, 39180
    Wisconsin Central Ltd. et al., 39180-39181


Trade Representative, Office of United States
NOTICES
Meetings:
    United States--Pacific Trade and Investment Policy Commission, 
            39179
Tariff-rate quota amount determinations:
    Refined and raw sugar, 39179-39180


Transportation Department
See Surface Transportation Board


Treasury Department
See Customs Service
See Fiscal Service
See Internal Revenue Service

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NOTICES
Boycotts, international:
    Countries requiring cooperation; list, 39181


United States Information Agency
NOTICES
Art objects; importation for exhibition:
    Degas: Beyond Impressionism, 39183


United States--Pacific Trade and Investment Policy Commission
NOTICES
Meetings, 39179
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National 
          Aeronautics and Space Administration, 39186-39226


Part III
Department of Treasury, Fiscal Service, 39228-39240


Part IV
Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, 39242-
          39244


Part V
Department of Education, 39246-39251


Part VI
Department of Treasury, Fiscal Service, 39254-39259


Part VII
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 39262-39266
  
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                           4 CFR
21...................................................39039

                           7 CFR
295..................................................39047
401..................................................39048
956..................................................39050

                          12 CFR
211..................................................39052

                          16 CFR
Proposed Rules:
406..................................................39101

                          18 CFR
161..................................................39053
250..................................................39053
284..................................................39053

                          19 CFR
118..................................................39070

                          26 CFR
1 (3 documents).....................................39071,
                                                     39072
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................39104

                          31 CFR
208..................................................39254
Proposed Rules:
344..................................................39228

                          32 CFR
630..................................................39072

                          34 CFR
Proposed Rules:
263..................................................39246

                          40 CFR
300 (2 documents)...................................39080,
                                                     39081
Proposed Rules:
300..................................................39104

                          41 CFR
201-23...............................................39081
201-24...............................................39081

                          43 CFR
2....................................................39083

                          47 CFR
64...................................................39084
Proposed Rules:
64...................................................39107

                          48 CFR
Ch. 1 (2 documents).................................39186,
                                                     39224
1 (2 documents).....................................39188,
                                                     39189
2....................................................39189
3 (3 documents).....................................39188,
                                              38189, 39199
4 (2 documents).....................................39188,
                                                     39189
5....................................................39189
6....................................................39200
8....................................................39189
9....................................................39201
11...................................................39189
12...................................................39189
13 (2 documents)....................................39188,
                                                     39189
15...................................................39189
16 (2 documents)....................................39189,
                                                     38201
17...................................................39203
19 (2 documents)....................................39189,
                                                     39207
22 (2 documents)....................................39189,
                                                     39203
23...................................................39189
25...................................................39189
26 (2 documents)....................................39200,
                                                     39210
27...................................................39211
28 (2 documents)....................................39189,
                                                     39212
29...................................................39189
31 (2 documents)....................................39188,
                                                     39217
32...................................................39189
33...................................................39219
36...................................................39189
41...................................................39189
42...................................................39189
43...................................................39189
44...................................................39189
45...................................................39189
46...................................................39189
47...................................................39189
48...................................................39220
49...................................................39221
52 (8 documents)....................................39188,
           39189, 39199, 39203, 39207, 39210, 39212, 39221
53 (3 documents)....................................39188,
                                              39189, 39212
506..................................................39088
547..................................................39088
552..................................................39088
701..................................................39089
702..................................................39089
706..................................................39089
709..................................................39089
710..................................................39089
711..................................................39089
713..................................................39089
715..................................................39089
716..................................................39089
717..................................................39089
719..................................................39089
722..................................................39089
724..................................................39089
725..................................................39089
726..................................................39089
732..................................................39089
733..................................................39089
736..................................................39089
737..................................................39089
752..................................................39089
Appendix A...........................................39089
6103.................................................39096
6104.................................................39098

                          49 CFR
Proposed Rules:
1011.................................................39110
1104.................................................39110
1111.................................................39110
1112.................................................39110
1113.................................................39110
1114.................................................39110
1115.................................................39110
1121.................................................39110

                          50 CFR
678..................................................39099
679..................................................39100