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Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Milk marketing orders:
    Black Hills, SD, 47038-47039
PROPOSED RULES
Fluid milk promotion order, 47093-47095
Milk marketing orders:
    Eastern Colorado, 47092-47093


Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Highly erodible land and wetland conservation, 47019-47038
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47110-47111


Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
PROPOSED RULES
Alcohol, tobacco, and other excise taxes:
    Firearms; categories of persons prohibited from receiving firearms; 
            definitions, 47095-47099


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


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Addressing immunization information systems barriers, 47131


Civil Rights Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; State advisory committees:
    Indiana, 47113


Coast Guard
RULES
Merchant marine officers and seamen:
    Examination methods modernization, 47060-47064
Ports and waterways safety:
    Hempstead Harbor, NY, 47054-47055


Commerce Department
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 47111-47113


Comptroller of the Currency
RULES
Risk-based capital:
    Market risk, 47358-47378


Defense Department
See Defense Information Systems Agency
PROPOSED RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Certification requirements for contractors and offerors not 
            specifically imposed by statute; removal, 47101-47105
    Procurement integrity, 47100-47101
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Procurement integrity, 47390-47396
    Special simplified procedures application to commercial items, 
            47384-47390


Defense Information Systems Agency
NOTICES
Senior Executive Service:
    Performance Review Board; membership, 47114


Education Department
PROPOSED RULES
Postsecondary education:
    Federal family education loan program, 47398-47401


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Adjustment assistance:
    AVX Corp., 47179
    Carborumdun Co., 47179
    Distribution & Auto Service, Inc., 47179-47180
    Hickory Hills Industries, Inc., 47180
    J&W Garment Factory, 47180
    J.E. Morgan Knitting, Inc., 47180-47181
    Kentucky Apparel LLP, 47181
    Klear-Knit, Inc., 47181
    Klear-Knit of Statesville, Inc., et al., 47181
    Rivera Manufacturing et al., 47181-47182
    Savannah Manufacturing Corp. et al., 47182
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 47182-47189
NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 47190


Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general 
          wage determination decisions, 47190-47192


Energy Department
See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Environmental restoration and waste management program; applied 
            research and development; correction, 47114-47115


Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
NOTICES
Consumer product test procedures; waiver petitions:
    General Electric Appliances, 47115-47117

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Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Conduct of surveys, major systems acquisitions, etc., 47064-47065
    Source selection process, 47065-47068
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Wyoming; correction, 47058-47060
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    Tennessee, 47055-47057
    Tennessee; withdrawn, 47057-47058
    Washington; withdrawn, 47055
Superfund program:
    National oil and hazardous substances contingency plan--
        National priorities list update, 47060
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Wyoming; correction, 47100
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    Tennessee, 47099-47100
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 47125-47126
        Weekly receipts, 47124-47125
Meetings:
    FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel, 47126-47127


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Bell, 47041-47049
    Pilatus Britten-Norman Ltd., 47049-47051
    Textron Lycoming; correction, 47051
Class E airspace, 47051-47053
NOTICES
Meetings:
    RTCA, Inc., 47231-47232
Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:
    Gillette-Campbell County Airport, WY, 47232
    Long Island MacArthur Airport, NY, 47232-47233


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Telecommunications Act of 1996; implementation:
    Common carrier services--
        Local competition provisions, 47284-47332


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
RULES
Risk-based capital:
    Market risk, 47358-47378
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 47127


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Carolina Power & Light Co. et al., 47120-47122
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Madison Paper Industries, 47122
Natural gas certificate filings:
    Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America et al., 47122-47124
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Co.; correction, 47420
    Colorado Interstate Gas Co., 47117
    Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., 47117
    Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co., 47117-47118
    Koch Gateway Pipeline Co., 47118
    Northern Natural Gas Co., 47118-47119
    Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 47119
    Pacific Gas Transmission Co., 47119
    S.D. Warren Co., 47119
    Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., 47120


Federal Reserve System
RULES
Risk-based capital:
    Market risk, 47358-47378
PROPOSED RULES
Bank holding companies and change in bank control (Regulation Y):
    Miscellaneous amendments, 47242-47282
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 47127-47128
    Corporations operating as subsidiaries, 47128
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 47128
    Permissible nonbanking activities, 47128-47129
Federal Open Market Committee:
    Domestic policy directives, 47129-47130
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 47130


Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 47130-47131


Fish and Wildlife Service
PROPOSED RULES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Suisun thistle, etc. (two San Francisco Bay California tidal marsh 
            plants), 47105-47106
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 47171


General Accounting Office
PROPOSED RULES
Americans with Disabilities Act; implementation:
    Personnel relations and services
        Correction, 47420


General Services Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Procurement integrity, 47390-47396
    Special simplified procedures application to commercial items, 
            47384-47390


Health and Human Services Department
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Health Care Financing Administration
See National Institutes of Health


Health Care Financing Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 47131
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47131-47132

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Housing and Urban Development Department
RULES
Community facilities:
    Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996; implementation--
        Loan guarantee recovery fund, 47404-47408
Low income housing:
    Section 8 housing; tenancy termination for criminal activity, 
            47380-47382
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 47133-47171


Immigration and Naturalization Service
RULES
Immigration:
    Aliens--
        Lawfully present in United States; term definition, 47039-47041


Interior Department
See Fish and Wildlife Service
See Land Management Bureau
See Minerals Management Service
See National Park Service


Internal Revenue Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 47234-47235
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Regional and District Counsels et al., 47235-47236


International Development Cooperation Agency
See Overseas Private Investment Corporation


Justice Department
See Immigration and Naturalization Service


Labor Department
See Employment and Training Administration
See Employment Standards Administration
See Mine Safety and Health Administration
See Occupational Safety and Health Administration
See Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47178-47179


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Butte District, 47172
        Northwest Colorado, 47171-47172
Motor vehicle use restrictions:
    Montana, 47172
Survey plat filings:
    Wyoming, 47172-47173


Minerals Management Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 47173-47174
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47174


Mine Safety and Health Administration
NOTICES
Safety standard petitions:
    Old Ben Coal Co. et al., 47192-47195


National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    FAR supplement rewrite; Federal regulatory reform, 47068-47082
    Government property reporting by contractors, 47082-47086
PROPOSED RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Procurement integrity, 47390-47396
    Special simplified procedures application to commercial items, 
            47384-47390


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
RULES
Motor vehicle safety standards:
    Fuel system integrity--
        Compressed natural gas fuel containers, 47086-47089


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Atherosclerosis and LCAT deficiency treatment; therapeutic 
            modalities development to raise plasma concentrations of 
            LCAT, 47132
Meetings:
    National Library of Medicine, 47132


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Gulf of Alaska groundfish, 47090-47091
    West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries--
        Rockfish, 47089-47090
PROPOSED RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands groundfish, 47108-47109
    Summer flounder, scup, and Black Sea bass, 47106-47108
NOTICES
Permits:
    Endangered and threatened species, 47113-47114


National Park Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI, 47174-47176
Meetings:
    Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, 47176-47177
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:
    Buffalo Bill Historical Center, WY; Medicine Pipe Thunder Bundle, 
            47177


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Commonwealth Edison Co., 47214-47215


Occupational Safety and Health Administration
NOTICES
State plans; standards approval, etc.:
    Vermont, 47195


Overseas Private Investment Corporation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 47177-47178

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Peace Corps
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 47215-47216
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47216


Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
NOTICES
Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:
    Chase Manhattan Bank et al., 47195-47205
    Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States et al., 47205-
            47214


Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
NOTICES
Meetings, 47216-47217


Public Health Service
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See National Institutes of Health


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, 47224-47227
    Philadelphia Depository Trust Co., 47227-47229
    Stock Clearing Corp. of Philadelphia, 47229-47231
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. et al., 47217-47219
    Public utility holding company filings, 47219-47221
    Travelers Insurance Co. et al., 47221-47224


State Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Fine Arts Committee, 47231
    Shipping Coordinating Committee, 47231


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Chicago Rail Link, L.L.C., et al., 47233
    CSX Transportation, Inc., 47233-47234


Thrift Supervision Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47236


Transportation Department
See Coast Guard
See Federal Aviation Administration
See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
See Surface Transportation Board


Treasury Department
See Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
See Comptroller of the Currency
See Internal Revenue Service
See Thrift Supervision Office


United States Institute of Peace
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 47236


Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 47236-47238
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 47238-47239
Meetings:
    Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs Advisory Committee, 
            47239
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Federal Reserve System, 47242-47282


Part III
Federal Communications Commission, 47284-47355


Part IV
Treasury Department, Comptroller of the Currency, Thrift Supervision 
          Office; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Federal 
          Reserve System, 47358-47378


Part V
Housing and Urban Development Department, 47380-47382


Part VI
Department of Defense; General Services Administration; National 
          Aeronautics and Space Administration, 47384-47396


Part VII
Education Department, 47398-47401


Part VIII
Housing and Urban Development Department, 47404-47408
  
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                           4 CFR
Proposed Rules:
7....................................................47240

                           7 CFR
12...................................................47019
1075.................................................47038
Proposed Rules:
1137.................................................47092
1160.................................................47093

                           8 CFR
103..................................................47039

                          12 CFR
3....................................................47358
208..................................................47358
225..................................................47358
325..................................................47358
Proposed Rules:
225..................................................47242

                          14 CFR
39 (5 documents)....................................47041,
                                47046, 47047, 47049, 47051
71 (3 documents)....................................47051,
                                              47052, 47053

                          24 CFR
247..................................................47380
573..................................................47404
880..................................................47380
884..................................................47380

                          27 CFR
Proposed Rules:
178..................................................47095

                          33 CFR
165..................................................47054

                          34 CFR
Proposed Rules:
682..................................................47398

                          40 CFR
52 (5 documents)....................................47055,
                                              47057, 57058
81...................................................47058
300..................................................47060
Proposed Rules:
52 (2 documents)....................................47099,
                                                     47100
81...................................................47100

                          46 CFR
10...................................................47060
12...................................................47060

                          47 CFR
51...................................................47284
52...................................................47284

                          48 CFR
1506.................................................47064
1515.................................................47065
1534.................................................47064
1536.................................................47064
1542.................................................47064
1545.................................................47064
1552 (2 documents)..................................47064,
                                                     47065
1807.................................................47068
1808.................................................47068
1809.................................................47068
1810.................................................47068
1811.................................................47068
1812.................................................47068
1814.................................................47068
1828.................................................47068
1835.................................................47068
1842.................................................47068
1845.................................................47082
1852 (2 documents)..................................47068,
                                                     47082
1853.................................................47082
1871.................................................47068
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................47384
3....................................................47384
4....................................................47384
5....................................................47384
9....................................................47384
11...................................................47384
12 (2 documents)....................................47384,
                                                     47390
13...................................................47384
14...................................................47384
15...................................................47384
19...................................................47384
33...................................................47384
37...................................................47384
43...................................................47384
52 (2 documents)....................................47384,
                                                     47390
53...................................................47384
203..................................................47100
212..................................................47101
215..................................................47100
219..................................................47101
225..................................................47101
226..................................................47101
227..................................................47101
233..................................................47101
252 (2 documents)...................................47100,
                                                     47101

                          49 CFR
571..................................................47086

                          50 CFR
660..................................................47089
679..................................................47089
Proposed Rules:
17...................................................47105
648..................................................47106
679..................................................47108