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Agriculture Department
See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See Forest Service


Air Force Department
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Robins AFB, GA; permanent weapons storage area siting, etc., 49440-
            49441
    Sky Harbor International Airport, AZ; master plan update 
            improvements, 49441


Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 49525-49528


Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
NOTICES
International sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting activities, 
          49432-49433


Antitrust Division
NOTICES
National cooperative research notifications:
    Ohio Aerospace Institute Computer Assisted Minimally Invasive 
            Surgery Project, 49484


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
Medicaid:
    Welfare reform and combined welfare reform/Medicaid demonstration 
            projects--
        August, 49464-49470


Coast Guard
RULES
Load lines:
    Great Lakes certificate interval extension, 49418


Commerce Department
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, 49434-49436


Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
NOTICES
Special access and special regime programs; participation requirements:
    Caribbean Basin countries, 49439-49440


Customs Service
NOTICES
Generalized System of Preferences:
    Duty-free claims; renewable preferential trade program; delayed 
            processing, 49528-49529


Defense Department
See Air Force Department
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    External restructuring costs associated with business combinations; 
            reimbursement
        Correction, 49531
    Foreign acquisition--
        Military sales costing basis; correction, 49531
    Small disadvantaged business concerns
        Correction, 49531


Education Department
PROPOSED RULES
Postsecondary education:
    Student assistance general provisions--
        Higher Education Act of 1965 title IV programs; compliance 
                audits and financial responsibility standards, 49552-
                49574
NOTICES
Elementary and secondary education:
    Waiver requests submission; deadlines establishment, 49441-49442


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Adjustment assistance:
    Bidermann Industries Corp., 49485
    Manson Wear, Inc., et al., 49485-49486
    Nazareth/Century Mills, 49486
    Zenith Data Systems et al., 49486-49487
NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:
    Cole Haan, 49487


Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general 
          wage determination decisions, 49487-49488


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
See Hearings and Appeals Office, Energy Department


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    North Carolina, 49413-49418
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    North Carolina, 49426-49427
Pesticide programs:
    Risk/benefit information; reporting requirements, 49427

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NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 49455-49456
        Weekly receipts, 49455
Grant and cooperative agreement awards:
    Community/university partnership program; University of Washington 
            et al., 49456-49457
Meetings:
    Common sense initiative--
        Printing sector, 49457-49458
    Science Advisory Board, 49458-49459


Executive Office of the President
See Presidential Documents


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Boeing, 49409-49411
Class E airspace, 49411-49413
PROPOSED RULES
Class E airspace, 49425-49426
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee, 49519-49520
Meetings:
    Air Traffic Procedures Advisory Committee, 49520
    RTCA, Inc., 49520-49521
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Reno, NV, 49521


Federal Communications Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 49459-49460


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
PROPOSED RULES
Fair housing:
    Equal Housing Lender and Opportunity posters; placement and 
            display, 49420-49425
NOTICES
Interest rate futures, forward, and standby contracts; policy statement 
          rescission, 49460-49461


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Duke/Louis Dreyfus L.L.C. et al., 49443-49446
Hydroelectric applications, 49446-49447
Natural gas certificate filings:
    Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. et al., 49447-49449
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    CNG Transmission Corp., 49442
    Colorado Interstate Gas Co.; correction, 49531
    El Paso Natural Gas Co., 49442
    Enron Power Marketing, Inc., 49442-49443
    Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P., 49443
    Pacific Gas Transmission Corp., 49443
    Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., 49443


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Bernalillo County, NM, 49521
    Santa Fe County, NM, 49521-49522


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Freight forwarder licenses:
    G.S.I. Cargo Systems, Inc., et al., 49461


Federal Procurement Policy Office
NOTICES
Acquisition regulations:
    Cost Accounting Standards Board--
        Post-retirement benefit plans other than pension plans 
                sponsored by Government contractors; costs treatment, 
                49534-49550


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 49461-49462
    Permissible nonbanking activities, 49462
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 49462


Fish and Wildlife Service
RULES
Migratory bird hunting:
    Seasons, limits, and shooting hours; establishment, etc.
        Youth waterfowl hunting day, 49638-49643
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Recovery plans--
        Bluemask (=jewel) darter, 49478
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 49476-49478


Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    New drug applications or supplements, 49470-49472
GRAS or prior-sanctioned ingredients:
    Beta-cyclodextrin, 49472
Meetings:
    Advisory committees, panels, etc., 49472


Forest Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Boise National Forest, ID, 49433-49434


General Services Administration
NOTICES
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 49462-49464


Health and Human Services Department
See Children and Families Administration
See Food and Drug Administration
See National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    National center for primary care; correction, 49531


Hearings and Appeals Office, Energy Department
NOTICES
Decisions and orders, 49449-49455

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Housing and Urban Development Department
RULES
Low income housing:
    Housing assistance payments (Section 8)--
        Fair market rent schedules for rental certificate, loan 
                management and property disposition, moderate 
                rehabilitation and rental voucher programs (1997 FY), 
                49576-49635
NOTICES
Grant and cooperative agreement awards:
    Public and Indian housing--
        Public housing authorities and public housing police 
                departments; technical assistance, 49474-49475
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 49475
    Supportive housing programs--
        Elderly; application due date extension due to Hurricane Fran, 
                49475-49476
        Persons with disabilities; application due date extension due 
                to Hurricane Fran, 49475


Immigration and Naturalization Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 49482-49485


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


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Solid urea from--
        German Democratic Republic, 49436
Countervailing duties:
    Circular welded carbon steel pipe and tube from--
        Thailand, 49436-49437


Justice Department
See Antitrust Division
See Immigration and Naturalization Service
NOTICES
Pollution control; consent judgments:
    Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc., et al., 49481-49482


Labor Department
See Employment and Training Administration
See Employment Standards Administration
See Labor Statistics Bureau


Labor Statistics Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 49488-49490


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Alaska Native claims selection:
    Bering Straits Native Corp., 49478-49479
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp. Lone Tree Mine Expansion Project, NV, 
            49479
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Northeastern Great Basin, 49479
Public land orders:
    Arizona; correction, 49531
Realty actions; sales, leases, etc.:
    Nevada, 49479-49480
Survey plat filings:
    Idaho, 49480
Withdrawal and reservation of lands:
    Montana, 49480-49481


Legal Services Corporation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 49490-49491


Management and Budget Office
See Federal Procurement Policy Office


Morris K. Udall Scholarship & Excellence in National Environmental 
          Policy Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 49491


National Archives and Records Administration
NOTICES
Agency records schedules; availability, 49491-49493


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Motor vehicle safety standards:
    Child restraint systems--
        Universal anchorage systems; public workshop; correction, 
                49427-49428
NOTICES
Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:
    Michelin North America, Inc., 49522-49523


National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards--
        Board of Overseers, 49438
        Panel of Judges, 49437-49438


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 49472-49473
Meetings:
    National Cancer Institute, 49473
    Research Grants Division special emphasis panels, 49473-49474


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Pacific cod reallocation, 49418-49419
PROPOSED RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Northeastern United States fisheries
        Atlantic sea scallop, 49428-49430
    Northeast multispecies, Atlantic sea scallop, and American lobster, 
            49430-49431
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 49438

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    Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, 49438-
            49439
Permits:
    Marine mammals, 49439


National Park Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Whitman Mission National Historic Site, WA, 49481
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects:
    University of Alaska Museum, AK; inventory from Gambell, AK; 
            correction, 49531


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 49493


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Public Service Electric & Gas Co. et al., 49501-49502
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Consumers Power Co., 49493-49496
    GRD Steel Corp., 49496-49497
    Northeast Utilities Service Co., 49498-49499
    Sadovsky, Roy, D.V.M., 49499-49501


Presidential Documents
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances:
    Hispanic Heritage Month, National (Proc. 6919), 49647-49648
    POW/MIA Recognition Day, National (Proc. 6918), 49407


Public Health Service
See Food and Drug Administration
See National Institutes of Health


Research and Special Programs Administration
NOTICES
International standards on safe transport of radioactive material; 1996 
          edition availability, 49523


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 49502-49503
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 49508-49515
    Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 49515-49517
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., 49503-49505
    Merrill Lynch Balanced Fund for Investment and Retirement, Inc., 
            49505-49506
    Public utility holding company filings, 49506-49507
    Reich & Tang Distributors L.P. et al., 49507-49508


Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 49517-49518


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. et al., 49524
    Dubois County Railroad Corp., 49524
    Dubois County Railroad Corp. et al., 49524


Textile Agreements Implementation Committee
See Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements


Transportation Department
See Coast Guard
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
See Research and Special Programs Administration
See Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 49518
Aviation proceedings:
    Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 49519
    Hearings, etc.--
        Alaska international airports; expanded cargo transfer 
                flexibility, 49519


Treasury Department
See Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
See Customs Service


United States Information Agency
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Public Diplomacy, U.S. Advisory Commission, 49529-49530
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Office of Management and Budget, Federal Procurement Policy Office, 
          49534-49550


Part III
Department of Education, 49552-49574


Part IV
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 49576-49635


Part V
Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 49638-49643


Part VI
The President, 49647-49648

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                           3 CFR
Proclamations:
6918.................................................49407
6919.................................................49647

                          12 CFR
Proposed Rules:
338..................................................49420

                          14 CFR
39...................................................49409
71 (3 documents)....................................49411,
                                                     49412
Proposed Rules:
71...................................................49425

                          24 CFR
888..................................................49576

                          34 CFR
Proposed Rules:
668..................................................49552

                          40 CFR
52 (2 documents)....................................49413,
                                                     49414
Proposed Rules:
52 (2 documents).....................................49426
153..................................................49427
159..................................................49427

                          46 CFR
42...................................................49418

                          48 CFR
225..................................................49531
231..................................................49531
253..................................................49531

                          49 CFR
Proposed Rules:
571..................................................49427

                          50 CFR
20...................................................49638
679..................................................49418
Proposed Rules:
648 (2 documents)...................................49428,
                                                     49430
649..................................................49430