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Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Mushroom promotion, research, and consumer information order; 
          referendum procedures, 66973-66977


Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
See Farm Service Agency
See Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
See Rural Business-Cooperative Service
See Rural Housing Service
See Rural Utilities Service


Army Department
NOTICES
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 67055-67067


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Safety and Occupational Health Study Section; NIOSH meetings, 67076


Civil Rights Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 67042


Coast Guard
RULES
Regattas and marine parades:
    First Coast Guard District fireworks displays, 66995-66996
PROPOSED RULES
Uniform State Waterways Marking System and U.S. Aids to Navigation 
          System; merger, 67031-67034
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee, 67106-
            67107


Commerce Department
See Economic Development Administration
See Foreign-Trade Zones Board
See International Trade Administration
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67042


Commodity Futures Trading Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 67053-67054


Defense Department
See Army Department
RULES
Civilian health and medical program of uniformed services (CHAMPUS):
    TRICARE program--
        Retiree dental program, 66992-66995
        Selected Reserve dental program, 66989-66992
PROPOSED RULES
Civilian health and medical program of uniformed services (CHAMPUS):
    Eligibility requirements, 67018-67031
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 67054-67055


Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Springel, Ronald D., M.D., 67092-67095


Economic Development Administration
NOTICES
Trade adjustment assistance eligibility determination petitions:
    May Corp. et al., 67042-67043


Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67067
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Women's Educational Equity Act program; correction, 67256


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Atomic energy agreements; subsequent arrangements, 67067-67068
Electricity export and import authorizations, permits, etc.:
    Duke Energy Trading & Marketing, L.L.C., 67068
    Enron Power Marketing, Inc., 67068-67069


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air programs:
    Ambient air quality surveillance--
        Lead ambient air quality monitoring; shift of focus from mobile 
                sources to stationary point sources; withdrawn, 67009-
                67010
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    California, 66998-67000, 67002-67004
    Colorado, 67006-67009
    Illinois, 67000-67002
    New York, 67004-67006
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    California, 67034-67035
    Colorado, 67035
    Illinois, 67034
Toxic substances:
    Testing requirements--
        1,1,2-trichloroethane, 67036-67038
        Ethylene dichloride, 67038-67041
Water programs:
    Underground injection control program; Class V injection wells; 
            stakeholders meeting, 67035-67036

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NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67070-67071
Meetings:
    Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board, 67071
Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:
    Methamidophos, 67071-67072


Farm Service Agency
RULES
Program regulations:
    Rural rental housing assistance, 67216-67224


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Aerospatiale, 66980-66982
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67107
Meetings:
    RTCA, Inc., 67107


Federal Communications Commission
NOTICES
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc., 67072-
          67073


Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
RULES
Crop insurance regulations:
    Hybrid seed corn
        Correction, 67117


Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Offsite radiological emergency preparedness program; services fees:
    Fee assessment and collection; hourly rate (1998 FY), 67073


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Central Maine Power Co., 67070
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Cinergy Services, Inc., 67069
    Louisville Gas & Electric Co., 67069
    Warren Transportation, Inc., 67070


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Intelligent Transportation Systems program:
    Intelligent Vehicle Initiative; establishment; information request, 
            67107-67113


Federal Housing Finance Board
RULES
Affordable housing program operation:
    Questions and answers; staff interpretation, 66977-66980


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Freight forwarder licenses:
    Pacat International-Pacific Atlantic International et al., 67073


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 67073
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 67073-67074


Federal Trade Commission
NOTICES
Fair Credit Reporting Act:
    Disclosure charges, 67074
Prohibited trade practices:
    CUC International, Inc. et al., 67074-67076


Federal Transit Administration
NOTICES
Intelligent Transportation Systems program:
    Intelligent Vehicle Initiative; establishment; information request, 
            67107-67113


Fish and Wildlife Service
PROPOSED RULES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Preble's meadow jumping mouse, 67041
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 67089-67090


Food and Drug Administration
RULES
Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:
    Carcinogenicity testing of compounds used in food-producing 
            animals, 66982-66983
    New drug applications--
        Amprolium plus ethopabate with bacitracin zinc and roxarsone, 
                66986-66987
        Imidocarb dipropionate, 66983-66984
        Robenidine and bacitracin zinc, 66986
        Salinomycin, bacitracin zinc, and roxarsone, 66984-66985
        Semduramicin and roxarsone, 66985
PROPOSED RULES
Medical devices:
    Used medical devices and persons who refurbish, recondition, 
            rebuild, service or remarket such devices; compliance 
            policy guides review and revision, 67011-67013
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 67076-67078
Biological product licenses:
    Anderson Plasma Center, 67078-67081
Grant and cooperative agreement awards:
    AOAC International, 67081-67083
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 67083-67085


Foreign-Trade Zones Board
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Alabama
        JVC America, Inc.; videotape and videocassette manufacturing 
                plant, 67043
    California, 67043-67044
    Kentucky, 67044
    Ohio
        Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.; horizontal turning/grinding 
                machinery manufacturing plant, 67044

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General Services Administration
NOTICES
Acquisition regulations:
    Standard forms revision, 67076


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


Health Care Financing Administration
RULES
Medicare and Medicaid:
    Long term care facilities; resident assessment, 67174-67213
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67085


Health Resources and Services Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 67085-67086
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67086
Meetings:
    Migrant Health National Advisory Council, 67086-67087


Interior Department
See Fish and Wildlife Service
See Minerals Management Service
See National Park Service
See Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office


Internal Revenue Service
RULES
Estate and gift taxes:
    Qualified personal residence trust; sale of residence, 66987-66989
PROPOSED RULES
Excise taxes:
    Petroleum tax on natural gasoline; withdrawn, 67013


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping and countervailing duties:
    Administrative review requests, 67044-67045


Justice Department
See Drug Enforcement Administration


Labor Department
See Labor Statistics Bureau
See Mine Safety and Health Administration
See Occupational Safety and Health Administration
See Workers' Compensation Programs Office


Labor Statistics Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 67095-67096


Minerals Management Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Minerals Management Advisory Board, 67090-67091


Mine Safety and Health Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Coal and metal and nonmetal mine safety and health:
    Occupational noise exposure
        Report availability, 67013-67014


National Archives and Records Administration
NOTICES
Electronic records work group; materials for review and comment; 
          availability, 67098


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Intelligent Transportation Systems program:
    Intelligent Vehicle Initiative; establishment; information request, 
            67107-67113


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 67087
Meetings:
    National Center for Research Resources, 67087-67088
    Scientific Review Center special emphasis panels, 67088
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    Nascent Pharmaceuticals, L.L.C., 67088-67089


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic fisheries--
        Snowy grouper, 67010
PROPOSED RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands groundfish; correction, 67041
NOTICES
Marine mammals:
    Incidental taking; authorization letters, etc.--
        California Transportation Department; seismic retrofit 
                construction of Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; Pacific 
                harbor seals and California sea lions, 67045-67051
Meetings:
    National Marine Fisheries Service; coordination of activities with 
            Fish and Wildlife Service to support Atlantic coastal 
            fisheries management plans, 67051
Permits:
    Foreign fishing, 67051-67052
    Marine mammals, 67052-67053


National Park Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, 67091
    Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National 
            Seashore Advisory Commission, 67091-67092
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System:
    Big and Little Darby Creeks, OH, 67092

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
RULES
Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:
    Nuclear power plants--
        IEEE national consensus standard; safety systems; power, 
                instrumentation, and control portions; incorporation by 
                reference; withdrawn, 66977
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 67098-67099
Generic letters:
    Steam generator tube inspection techniques, 67099
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 67099-67100
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Fixed gauge licenses; program-specific guidance, 67100
    Self-shielded irradiator licenses; program-specific guidance, 
            67100-67101


Occupational Safety and Health Administration
NOTICES
State plans; standards approval, etc.:
    Washington, 67096-67098


Personnel Management Office
RULES
Pay administration:
    Fair Labor Standards Act--
        Standardization and compliance, 67238-67253
Prevailing rate systems, 66973


Postal Service
RULES
Organization and administration:
    Handicapped persons; access to postal services, programs, 
            facilities, and employment; discrimination complaint filing 
            and processing, 66996-66997
Practice and procedure:
    Second-class mail privileges; denial, suspension, or revocation, 
            66997-66998


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


Research and Special Programs Administration
NOTICES
Hazardous materials:
    Applications; exemptions, renewals, etc., 67114-67115


Rural Business-Cooperative Service
RULES
Program regulations:
    Rural rental housing assistance, 67216-67224


Rural Housing Service
RULES
Program regulations:
    Rural rental housing assistance, 67216-67224
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Multi-family and single family housing, 67225-67233
    Section 515 rural rental housing program, 67234-67236


Rural Utilities Service
RULES
Program regulations:
    Rural rental housing assistance, 67216-67224


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 67101-67103
    Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., 67103-67104
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 67104-67106


Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
PROPOSED RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Illinois, 67014-67016
    Virginia, 67016-67018


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad services abandonment:
    CSX Transportation, Inc., 67115-67116


Thrift Supervision Office
RULES
Federal regulatory reform:
    Capital, charter and bylaw, conversion, etc., regulations; 
            technical amendments
        Correction, 67117


Transportation Department
See Coast Guard
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
See Federal Transit Administration
See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
See Research and Special Programs Administration
See Surface Transportation Board


Treasury Department
See Internal Revenue Service
See Thrift Supervision Office


Workers' Compensation Programs Office
PROPOSED RULES
Federal Employees Compensation Act:
    Disability and death of noncitizen Federal employees outside U.S.; 
            compensation, 67120-67172
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Department of Labor, Worker's Compensation Programs Office, 67120-67172


Part III
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Office, 
          67174-67213


Part IV
Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, 67216-67236


Part V
Office of Personnel Management, 67238-67253

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Part VI
Department of Education, 67256
  
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532..................................................66973
551..................................................67238

                           7 CFR
457..................................................67117
1209.................................................66973
1944.................................................67216

                          10 CFR
50...................................................66977

                          12 CFR
506..................................................67117
544..................................................67117
545..................................................67117
552..................................................67117
559..................................................67117
560..................................................67117
561..................................................67117
563..................................................67117
565..................................................67117
567..................................................67117
575..................................................67117
960..................................................66977

                          14 CFR
39...................................................66980

                          20 CFR
Proposed Rules:
10...................................................67120
25...................................................67120

                          21 CFR
500..................................................66982
522..................................................66983
558 (4 documents)...................................66984,
                                              66985, 66986
Proposed Rules:
801..................................................67011
803..................................................67011
804..................................................67011
806..................................................67011
807..................................................67011
810..................................................67011
820..................................................67011
821..................................................67011
1002.................................................67011
1020.................................................67011

                          26 CFR
25...................................................66987
602..................................................66987
Proposed Rules:
52...................................................67013

                          30 CFR
Proposed Rules:
56...................................................67013
57...................................................67013
62...................................................67013
70...................................................67013
71...................................................67013
913..................................................67014
946..................................................67016

                          32 CFR
199 (2 documents)...................................66989,
                                                     66992
Proposed Rules:
199..................................................67018

                          33 CFR
100..................................................66995
Proposed Rules:
62...................................................67031
66...................................................67031

                          39 CFR
255..................................................66996
954..................................................66997

                          40 CFR
52 (5 documents)....................................66998,
                                67000, 67002, 67004, 67006
58...................................................67009
Proposed Rules:
52 (3 documents)....................................67034,
                                                     67035
144..................................................67035
146..................................................67035
799 (2 documents)...................................67036,
                                                     67038

                          42 CFR
483..................................................67174

                          50 CFR
622..................................................67010
Proposed Rules:
17...................................................67041
679..................................................67041