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Agriculture Department
See Farm Service Agency
See Food Safety and Inspection Service
See Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service
See Rural Housing Service
See Rural Utilities Service
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    California Spotted Owl Advisory Committee, 59400


Army Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Science Board, 59423


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
Laboratory evaluation of whole body isometric strength capability 
          during simulated scaffold end frame lifting; NIOSH meeting, 
          59444


Coast Guard
PROPOSED RULES
Drawbridge operations:
    Louisiana, 59396-59397
    Oregon, 59394-59396
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee, 59482-
            59483


Commerce Department
See Foreign-Trade Zones Board
See International Trade Administration
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 59400-59401


Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
NOTICES
Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:
    Brazil, 59420-59421


Commodity Futures Trading Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Contract markets:
    Contract market designation applications review and approval and 
            exchange rules relating to contract terms and conditions, 
            59386-59393
NOTICES
Contract market proposals:
    Chicago Mercantile Exchange--
        91-day Mexican treasury bill, 59421
    Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange--
        Basic Formula Price milk, 59421-59422


Defense Department
See Army Department
See Navy Department
RULES
Civilian health and medical program of uniformed services (CHAMPUS):
    Blood lead levels in infants, ambulance services, prescribed 
            contraceptives, etc., 59337-59339
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 59422-59423


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Adjustment assistance:
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 59461
    Kingstree Knits, 59461
    Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S., Inc., et al., 59461
    NordicTrack, 59461-59462
    Oakloom Clothes, Inc., 59462
    Smith Corona Corp., 59462
    Snyder Oil Corp., 59462-59463
    Strick Corp., 59463
    Westmoreland Plastics, 59463
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 59463-59464
NAFTA transitional adjustment assistance:
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. et al., 59464
    Intercontinental Branded Apparel, 59464


Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general 
          wage determination decisions, 59464-59465


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board--
        Hanford Site, 59425-59426
        Los Alamos National Laboratory, 59425


Environmental Protection Agency
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 59436-59437
        Weekly receipts, 59435-59436
Meetings:
    Environmental Policy and Technology National Advisory Council, 
            59437
    Science Advisory Board, 59437
Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:
    Spinosad, 59437-59440
    Thiazopyr, 59440-59443
Toxic and hazardous substances control:
    Premanufacture notices receipts, 59744-59759

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Executive Office of the President
See Presidential Documents


Farm Service Agency
RULES
Single family housing; reengineering and reinvention of direct section 
          502 and 504 programs, 59762-59802


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Aerospace Technologies of Australia, 59323-59326
    Boeing, 59317-59321
    de Havilland, 59315-59317
    Dornier, 59321-59322
    Fokker, 59322-59323
    HOAC Austria, 59326-59328
Class D airspace, 59328-59329
Class E airspace; correction, 59329
Jet routes, 59329
PROPOSED RULES
Class E airspace, 59383-59386


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Common carrier services:
    Interstate, interexchange telecommunications service providers; 
            tariff filing requirements for non-dominant interexchange 
            carriers for domestic services, 59340-59368
PROPOSED RULES
Practice and procedure:
    Regulatory fees (1996 FY); assessment and collection, 59397-59399
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Quality Broadcasting, Inc., 59443


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 59443


Federal Emergency Management Agency
RULES
Flood insurance; communities eligible for sale:
    North Dakota et al., 59339-59340
NOTICES
Disaster and emergency areas:
    New Hampshire, 59443
    North Carolina, 59443-59444


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Wisconsin Electric Power Co. et al., 59429-59433
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Butler County Conservation Board, 59433
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 59433-59435
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    ANR Pipeline Co., 59426-59427
    Lykes-Duke/Louis Dreyfus, Ltd., 59427
    NGTS Energy Services, 59427
    Northrop Grumman Corp. et al., 59427-59428
    ONEOK Power Marketing Co., 59428
    Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 59428
    Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., 59428-59429
    Tosco Power Inc., 59429


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 59483-59485


Federal Housing Finance Board
RULES
Financing Corporation:
    Operations; Federal regulatory reform, 59311-59315


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Agreements filed, etc., 59444


Federal Railroad Administration
RULES
Railroad accident reporting, 59368-59371
NOTICES
Railroad accident/incident reporting; custom software availability, 
          59485


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 59444


Federal Transit Administration
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Dade County, FL; 27th Avenue project, 59485-59487


Food and Drug Administration
RULES
Food additives:
    Polymers--
        Ethylene/pentene-1 copolymers, 59330-59331
PROPOSED RULES
Food for human consumption:
    Potentially hazardous foods; transportation and storage 
            requirements, 59372-59382
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 59444-59445
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 59445-59446
Food additive petitions:
    Bio-Cide International, Inc.; withdrawn, 59446-59447
Meetings:
    Advisory committees, panels, etc., 59447-59451


Food Safety and Inspection Service
PROPOSED RULES
Meat and poultry inspection:
    Pathogen reduction; hazard analysis and critical control point 
            (HACCP) systems
        Potentially hazardous foods; transportation and storage 
                requirements, 59372-59382


Foreign-Trade Zones Board
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Michigan
        ESCO Co., L.P.; colorformer chemicals manufacturing facility, 
                59401


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

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Health Care Financing Administration
RULES
Medicare:
    Physician fee schedule (1997 CY); payment policies and relative 
            value unit adjustments, 59490-59716
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 59451-59452
Medicare:
    Physician fee schedule (1997 CY) and physician volume performance 
            standard rates of increase (1997 FY), 59717-59724


Housing and Urban Development Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 59455-59456


Indian Affairs Bureau
RULES
Fish and wildlife:
    Indian fishing; Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation; CFR part removed, 
            59331-59332
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Pueblo of San Ildefonso trust land, NM; El Rancho electric 
            substation construction, 59456-59457


Interior Department
See Indian Affairs Bureau
See Land Management Bureau
See National Park Service
See Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Color television receivers from--
        Korea, 59402-59407
    Ferrosilicon from--
        Brazil, 59407-59415
    Oil country tubular goods other than drill pipe from--
        Korea, 59415-59416
    Tapered roller bearings and parts, finished and unfinished, from--
        Romania, 59416-59417
Export trade certificates of review, 59418-59419
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); binational panel reviews:
    Gray portland cement clinker from--
        Mexico, 59419
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    College of New Jersey et al., 59417
    Northwestern University Medical School, 59417
    University of--
        North Carolina, 59417-59418


Justice Department
RULES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Executive Office for Immigration Review; Immigration Appeals Board, 
            59305
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 59458-59459
Pollution control; consent judgments:
    American Locker Group, Inc., et al., 59459
    CITGO Asphalt Refining Co., 59459-59460
    Peirce, 59460


Labor Department
See Employment and Training Administration
See Employment Standards Administration
See Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 59460-59461


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:
    Wyoming, 59457-59458
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Upper Snake River Districts, 59458


National Credit Union Administration
RULES
Credit unions:
    Organization and operations--
        Permission granted to Federal credit unions to restructure 
                their fields of membership; interpretive ruling and 
                policy statement, 59305-59311


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:
    Michelin North America, Inc., 59487


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Soluble tat peptide analogs for inhibition of HIV transcription and 
            viral replication; scientific and commercial development, 
            59452-59453
Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 59453-59455
Recombinant DNA molecules research:
    Actions under guidelines
        Proposed, 59726-59742


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Permits:
    Endangered and threatened species, 59419-59420


National Park Service
PROPOSED RULES
Special regulations:
    Big Cypress National Preserve, FL; recreational frogging, 59393-
            59394


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 59468-59469


Navy Department
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Naval spent nuclear fuel management; container system, 59423-59425

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Union Electric Co., 59469
Petitions; Director's decisions:
    Florida Power & Light Co., 59469-59472


Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
NOTICES
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 59472-59473


Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
NOTICES
Employee benefit plans; prohibited transaction exemptions:
    Chase Manhattan Bank et al., 59465-59468


Postal Service
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 59473


Presidential Documents
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
Turkmenistan; findings with respect to Trade Agreement (Presidential 
          Determination 97-5 of November 20, 1996), 59303


President's Council on Sustainable Development
NOTICES
Meetings, 59473-59474


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


Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service
RULES
Single family housing; reengineering and reinvention of direct section 
          502 and 504 programs, 59754-59794


Rural Housing Service
RULES
Single family housing; reengineering and reinvention of direct section 
          502 and 504 programs, 59754-59794


Rural Utilities Service
RULES
Single family housing; reengineering and reinvention of direct section 
          502 and 504 programs, 59754-59794


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 59476
Securities:
    Suspension of trading--
        Omnigene Diagnostics, Inc., 59476
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    American Stock Exchange, Inc., 59476-59478
    National Securities Clearing Corp., 59478-59479
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Fremont Mutual Funds, Inc., et al., 59474-59476


Small Business Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Small business size standards:
    Nonmanufacturer rule; waivers--
        8mm tri-deck airborne recorder (ruggedized), 59382-59383
        Routers and switches, 59382
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Penny Lane Partners, L.P., 59479-59480


State Department
NOTICES
Climate change action plan:
    U.S. initiative on joint implementation; evaluation and assessment, 
            59480-59481
Meetings:
    Defense Trade Advisory Group, 59481-59482
Shrimp trawl fishing; sea turtle protection guidelines; certifications, 
          59482


Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Colorado, 59332-59337


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 Federal Railroad Administration
See Federal Transit Administration
See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Women Veterans Advisory Committee, 59487-59488
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing 
          Administration, 59490-59724


Part III
Deparment of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 
          59726-59742


Part IV
Environmental Protection Agency, 59744-59759


Part V
Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Rural Utilities 
          Service, Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service, 
          Farm Service Agency, 59754-59794
  
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                           3 CFR
Administrative Orders:
Presidential Determinations:
No. 97-5 of November 20, 1996........................59303

                           7 CFR
1806.................................................59762
1910.................................................59762
1922.................................................59762
1944.................................................59762
1951.................................................59762
1955.................................................59762
1956.................................................59762
1965.................................................59762
3550.................................................59762

                           8 CFR
3....................................................59305

                           9 CFR
Proposed Rules:
325..................................................59372
381..................................................59372

                          12 CFR
701..................................................59305
950..................................................59311

                          13 CFR
Proposed Rules:
121 (2 documents)....................................59382

                          14 CFR
39 (8 documents)....................................59315,
           59317, 59319, 59321, 59322, 59323, 59325, 59326
71 (3 documents)....................................59328,
                                                     59329
Proposed Rules:
71 (3 documents)....................................59383,
                                              59384, 59385

                          17 CFR
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................59386
5....................................................59386

                          21 CFR
177..................................................59330
Proposed Rules:
110..................................................59372

                          25 CFR
250..................................................59331

                          28 CFR
0....................................................59305

                          30 CFR
906..................................................59332

                          32 CFR
199..................................................59337

                          33 CFR
Proposed Rules:
117 (2 documents)....................................59394

                          36 CFR
Proposed Rules
7....................................................59393

                          42 CFR
410..................................................59490
415..................................................59490

                          44 CFR
64...................................................59339

                          47 CFR
42...................................................59340
61...................................................59340
64...................................................59340
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................59397

                          49 CFR
225..................................................59368