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Agricultural Marketing Service
PROPOSED RULES
Onions (sweet) grown in Washington and Oregon, 5933-5935
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Tobacco Inspection Services National Advisory Committee, 5959


Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
See Forest Service
See Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
RULES
Interstate transportation of animals and animal products (quarantine):
    Brucellosis in cattle and bison--
        State and area classifications, 5907


Antitrust Division
NOTICES
National cooperative research notifications:
    Portland Cement Association, 6012


Army Department
NOTICES
Military traffic management:
    Carrier qualification program; broker qualification standards, 
            5962-5963


Assassination Records Review Board
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 5959


Census Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 5960-5961


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
HIV-infected persons, prevention of onset of opportunistic infections; 
          draft guidelines availability, 5990
Meetings:
    Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites Citizens 
            Advisory Committee, 5990-5991


Civil Rights Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; State advisory committees:
    Georgia, 5959
    Louisiana, 5959-5960
    Mississippi, 5960
    North Carolina, 5960


Commerce Department
See Census Bureau
See International Trade Administration


Consumer Product Safety Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 5961-5962


Defense Department
See Army Department
See Defense Intelligence Agency
See Navy Department


Defense Intelligence Agency
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Scientific Advisory Board, 5963


Drug Enforcement Administration
RULES
Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act of 1996:
    List I chemicals--
        Definitions, record retention, and temporary exemption from 
                chemical registration for distributors of combination 
                ephedrine products, 5914-5917
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 6012
Schedules of controlled substances; production quotas:
    Schedule II--
        1997 aggregate; correction, 6012-6013


Education Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    National Assessment Governing Board, 5963


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
See Southeastern Power Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Environmental Management Site Specific Advisory Board--
        Los Alamos National Laboratory, 5964
    High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, 5964


Environmental Protection Agency
PROPOSED RULES
Superfund program:
    National oil and hazardous substances contingency plan--
        National priorities list update, 5949-5953
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 5979-5981
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Investigator-initiated grant program, 5981-5982
    Multiscale ecological assessment in the Middle Atlantic region, 
            5982
Meetings:
    Urban Wet Weather Flows Advisory Committee, 5982-5983
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 5983

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Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc.:
    Michigan Disposal Service, 5983


Executive Office of the President
See Trade Representative, Office of United States


Federal Aviation Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Class E airspace, 5937-5940
NOTICES
Meetings:
    RTCA, Inc., 6037
Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:
    Birmingham International Airport, AL, 6037-6038


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Common carrier services:
    Satellite communications; space and earth station application and 
            licensing procedures, 5924-5932
PROPOSED RULES
Telecommunications Act of 1996; implementation:
    Common carrier services--
        Forward-looking economic cost proxy models; staff analysis, 
                5957-5958


Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
RULES
Crop insurance regulations:
    Cranberries, 5903-5907


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Unrecorded agreements or arrangements of a depository institution prior 
          to receivership, protection of FDIC against; policy 
          statement, 5984-5988


Federal Emergency Management Agency
PROPOSED RULES
Disaster assistance:
    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act--
        Criminal and Civil penalties, 5957


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
RULES
Natural gas companies (Natural Gas Act):
    Pipeline Regulation Office; project cost and annual limits, 5913-
            5914
PROPOSED RULES
Natural gas companies (Natural Gas Act):
    Authorization to construct, operate, or modify facilities used for 
            exportation or importation of natural gas, 5940-5948
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    American Recovery Co., Inc. et al., 5966-5970
    El Paso Electric Co. et al., 5970-5973
Hydroelectric applications, 5973-5975
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 5975-5977
Natural gas certificate filings:
    USG Pipeline Co. et al., 5977-5978
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., 5964-5965
    Carnegie Interstate Pipeline, 5965
    Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc., 5965
    Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., 5965
    Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., 5965-5966
    Trunkline Gas Co., 5966


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Allegheny County et al., PA, 6038-6039


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Complaints filed:
    McKenna Trucking Co., Inc. et al., 5988-5989


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 5989
    Permissible nonbanking activities, 5989-5990


Financial Management Service
See Fiscal Service


Fiscal Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 6040


Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 6002-6003


Forest Service
PROPOSED RULES
National Forest System timber; disposal and sale:
    Timber sale contracts; cancellation
        Extension of comment period, 5949
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Southwest Oregon Provincial Interagency Executive Committee 
            Advisory Committee, 5959


General Services Administration
RULES
Federal travel:
    Per diem localities; maximum lodging and meal allowances
        Correction, 6041


Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Packers and Stockyard Act:
    Poultry grower contracts, scales, weighing, 5935-5937


Health and Human Services Department
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Health Resources and Services Administration
See National Institutes of Health
See Public Health Service
See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Health Resources and Services Administration
NOTICES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Infant Mortality Advisory Committee, 5991
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 5991-5992

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Housing and Urban Development Department
RULES
Indemnification of HUD employees, 6096-6097
NOTICES
Regulatory waiver requests; quarterly listing, 6082-6088


Interior Department
See Fish and Wildlife Service
See Land Management Bureau
See Reclamation Bureau
See Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Export trade certificates of review, 5961


Justice Department
See Antitrust Division
See Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 6011-6012


Labor Department
See Labor-Management Standards Office


Labor-Management Standards Office
RULES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Labor management programs and standards, and conduct standards for 
            Federal sector labor organizations; miscellaneous 
            amendments, 6090-6094


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Classification of public lands:
    Nevada, 6003-6004
Management framework plans, etc.:
    Idaho, 6004
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Central California, 6004-6005
Survey plat filings:
    Idaho, 6005


Maritime Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Joint Planning Advisory Group, 6039


National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOTICES
Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 6013
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    DuPont Advanced Composites, 6013
    Estee Lauder Co., 6013


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Meetings:
    National Cancer Institute, 5992-5993
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 5993-5994
    National Institute of Mental Health, 5994
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 5994


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Materials Research Special Emphasis Panel, 6013-6014


Navy Department
NOTICES
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 5963


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
RULES
Radioactive material packaging and transportation:
    Fissile material shipments and exemptions, 5907-5913
NOTICES
Reports; availability, etc.:
    Operator licensing program; nuclear power reactors, 6017-6018
    Regulatory Analysis Techical Evalluation Handbook; availability, 
            6018
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Chemetron Corp., Inc., 6014-6016
    Commonwealth Edison Co., 6016-6017


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


Public Health Service
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Health Resources and Services Administration
See National Institutes of Health
See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Fellowships, internships, training:
    National Institutes of Health clinical research loan repayment 
            program for Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, 
            5953-5956


Reclamation Bureau
NOTICES
Contract negotiations:
    Tabulation of water service and repayment; quarterly status, 6005-
            6011


Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
RULES
Seaway regulations and rules:
    Great Lakes Pilotage rates adjustments, 5917-5924


Securities and Exchange Commission
RULES
Securities:
    Disclosure of accounting policies for derivative financial 
            instruments, etc., 6044-6079
NOTICES
Foreign issuers submitting information required by exemption relating 
          to certain foreign securities; list, 6018-6035
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.; correction, 6041-
            6042


Southeastern Power Administration
NOTICES
Georgia-Alabama-South Carolina System of Projects; power marketing 
          policy, 5978-5979

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and 
            their Families, 5994-5997
    Knowledge development and application cooperative agreements, 5997-
            6002


Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Oklahoma; correction, 6041


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad, Inc., 6039
    Indiana & Ohio Railway Co., 6039
    Owensville Terminal Co., Inc., 6039-6040


Trade Representative, Office of United States
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Industry Sector Advisory Committees--
        Retailing and wholesaling, 6035
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):
    Broom corn brooms from Mexico; dispute settlement proceedings 
            concerning safety measures, 6035-6036


Transportation Department
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
See Maritime Administration
See Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
See Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Aviation proceedings:
    Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 6036-6037
Meetings:
    White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 6037


Treasury Department
See Fiscal Service
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Securities and Exchange Commission, 6044-6079


Part III
Housing and Urban Development Department, 6082-6088


Part IV
Department of Labor; Labor-Management Standards Office, 6090-6094


Part V
Housing and Urban Development Department, 6096-6097
  
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                           7 CFR
401...................................................5903
457...................................................5903
Proposed Rules:
956...................................................5933

                           9 CFR
78....................................................5907
Proposed Rules:
201...................................................5935

                          10 CFR
71....................................................5907

                          14 CFR
Proposed Rules:
71 (3 documents).....................................5937,
                                                5938, 5939

                          17 CFR
210...................................................6044
228...................................................6044
229...................................................6044
239...................................................6044
240...................................................6044
249...................................................6044

                          18 CFR
157...................................................5913
Proposed Rules:
153...................................................5940

                          21 CFR
1309..................................................5914
1310..................................................5914
1313..................................................5914

                          24 CFR
18....................................................6096

                          29 CFR
215...................................................6090
220...................................................6090
401...................................................6090
402...................................................6090
403...................................................6090
404...................................................6090
405...................................................6090
406...................................................6090
408...................................................6090
409...................................................6090
417...................................................6090
451...................................................6090
452...................................................6090
453...................................................6090
457...................................................6090
458...................................................6090
459...................................................6090

                          30 CFR
936...................................................6041

                          33 CFR
404...................................................5917
407...................................................5917

                          36 CFR
Proposed Rules:
223...................................................5949

                          40 CFR
Proposed Rules:
300 (2 documents)....................................5949,
                                                      5950

                          41 CFR
Ch. 301...............................................6041

                          42 CFR
Proposed Rules:
68a...................................................5953

                          44 CFR
Proposed Rules:
206...................................................5957

                          47 CFR
25....................................................5924
Proposed Rules:
36....................................................5957
51....................................................5957
61....................................................5957
69....................................................5957