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Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Publications 
            Clearinghouse Committee, 10635


Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Marketing orders and agreements; general regulations; miscellaneous 
          amendments, 10491-10493


Agricultural Research Service
NOTICES
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    EnviroLogix Inc., 10587


Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
See Agricultural Research Service
See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See Economic Research Service
See Forest Service


Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
RULES
Animal welfare:
    Dogs, humane treatment; maximum temperature requirements, 10493-
            10499


Army Department
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Base realignment and closure--
        Detroit Arsenal, Warren, MI; Detroit Army Tank Plant, 10597-
                10598


Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 10588


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10635-10636


Children and Families Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10636-10637
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 10637
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Child welfare demonstration projects, 10637-10638
Meetings:
    President's Committee on Mental Retardation, 10638


Coast Guard
RULES
Resiliently seated valves; acceptance policy, 10547-10548


Commerce Department
See Foreign-Trade Zones Board
See International Trade Administration
See National Institute of Standards and Technology
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Commission of Fine Arts
NOTICES
Meetings, 10595


Commodity Futures Trading Commission
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Global Markets Advisory Committee, 10595-10596
Contract market proposals:
    Dual trading prohibition; exemption petitions--
        Chicago Board of Trade, 10597
        Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange, Inc., 10596-10597


Defense Department
See Army Department


Economic Research Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10587-10588


Education Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Postsecondary education--
        Federal work-study programs, 10736-10737


Energy Department
See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Technical data regulations; revisions to rights, 10499-10515


Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
PROPOSED RULES
Consumer products; energy conservation program:
    Clothes washers; energy efficiency standards; workshop, 10571-10572


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Administrative amendments, 10548-10549
Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural 
          commodities:
    Food packaging impregnated with insect repellent; jurisdiction 
            transferred to FDA, 10718-10721
    Hydramethylnon, 10537-10543
    Myclobutanil, 10543-10545
    Pendimethalin, 10545-10547
PROPOSED RULES
Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural 
          commodities:
    Food packaging impregnated with insect repellant; jurisdiction 
            transferred to FDA, 10722-10723

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Superfund program:
    National oil and hazardous sustances contingency plan--
        National priorities list update, 10582-10583
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10606-10607
Clean Water Act:
    Water quality planning management; Delaware continuing planing 
            process; availability, 10607-10608
Meetings:
    Common sense initiative--
        Printing and metal finishing sectors, 10608
    Drinking water issues--
        Safe Drinking Water Act; environmental justice in minority and 
                low-income populations; stakeholders, 10608-10609
Pesticide, food, and feed additive petitions:
    DowElanco et al., 10609-10614
    Zeneca Ag Products, 10614-10619
Toxic and hazardous substances control:
    Premanufacture exemption approvals, 10619-10620
    Premanufacture notices receipts, 10620


Executive Office of the President
See Presidential Documents


Farm Credit Administration
RULES
Farm credit system:
    Loan policies and operations--
        Interest rates and charges, 10515
        Loan sales into secondary markets; relief from minimum stock 
                purchase and borrower rights requirements, 10515


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    British Aerospace, 10527-10528
    Cessna, 10519-10523
    SIAI Marchetti, 10523-10527
PROPOSED RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Airbus, 10572-10573, 10576-10579
    British Aerospace, 10579-10582
    Raytheon, 10573-10576


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Citizens Utilities Co. et al., 10599-10602
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Millennium Pipeline Co., L.P., et al., 10602-10605
Hydroelectric applications, 10605
Meetings:
    Public Outreach, 10605-10606
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Northern States Power Co. et al., 10598
    PacifiCorp, 10598
    Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., 10598-10599


Federal Housing Finance Board
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 10620


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 10621
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 10621
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 10621-10623


Federal Trade Commission
NOTICES
Premerger notification waiting periods; early terminations, 10623-10625
Prohibited trade practices:
    Lawyers Title Corp., 10625-10626
    Roche Holding Ltd., 10626-10628
    Stone Container Corp., 10628-10631


Fine Arts Commission
See Commission of Fine Arts


Fish and Wildlife Service
RULES
Migratory bird permits:
    Double-crested cormorant; depredation order establishment, 10550-
            10561


Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Medical devices:
    Device tracking; new orders to manufacturers, 10638-10640
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Medical device tracking, 10640-10641


Foreign-Trade Zones Board
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Ohio
        Findlay, OH; Community Development Foundation, Tall Timbers 
                Industrial Center, 10588-10589
    South Carolina
        Spartanburg, SC; expansion, 10589


Forest Service
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Siskiyou National Forest, OR, 10588


General Services Administration
NOTICES
Federal property management:
    Public buildings and space--
        Antennas of Federal agencies and public service organizations; 
                placement fees, 10631-10635


Health and Human Services Department
See Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Children and Families Administration
See Food and Drug Administration
See Health Care Financing Administration
See National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Family planning services, 10726-10728

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Health Care Financing Administration
RULES
Medicare and Medicaid:
    Home health agencies; surety bond requirements, 10730-10731
PROPOSED RULES
Medicare and Medicaid:
    Home health agencies; surety bond requirements, 10732-10733
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Practicing Physicians Advisory Council, 10641-10642


Housing and Urban Development Department
RULES
Community facilities:
    Empowerment zones and enterprise communities designation, 10714-
            10715


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


Internal Revenue Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10675-10676


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Calcium aluminate flux from--
        France, 10589
    Cut-to-length carbon steel plate from--
        Belgium, 10589-10590
    Pasta from--
        Italy, 10590
    Stainless steel plate from--
        Sweden, 10590-10591


Justice Department
NOTICES
Pollution control; consent judgments:
    H. Brown Co., et al., 10653


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10649-10651
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Imperial Project gold mining operation, Imperial County, CA, 10651
Oil and gas leases:
    Wyoming, 10651
Public land orders:
    Wyoming, 10651-10652
Survey plat filings:
    New Mexico, 10652


National Credit Union Administration
RULES
Credit unions:
    Mergers of federally-insured credit unions and voluntary 
            termination or conversion of insured status--
        Disclosure forms, 10518-10519
    Mergers or conversions of federally-insured credit unions to non 
            credit union status--
        Disclosure statements, 10515-10517
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 10653-10654


National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Fire research program, 10591-10593
Inventions, Government-owned; availability, etc., 10593-10594


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 10642
Meetings:
    National Cancer Institute, 10643
    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 10643-10644
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 10646
    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 10647
    National Institute of Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, 
            10644
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 
            10644-10645
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 10644
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences, 10645-10646
    National Institute of Mental Health, 10647
    National Institute on Aging, 10646
    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 10648
    National Institute on Drug Abuse, 10645
    Scientific Review Center special emphasis panels, 10648-10649


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Pollock, 10569-10570
    Caribbean, Gulf, and South Atlantic fisheries--
        Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic coastal migratory pelagic 
                resources, 10561-10569
    Magnuson Act provisions
        Correction, 10677
PROPOSED RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Halibut, 10583-10586
NOTICES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Atka mackerel, 10594
Meetings:
    Administration, Modernization Transition Committee, 10594
    Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 10594-10595


National Park Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 10652-10653

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 10655
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Northeast Nuclear Energy Co., 10654
    Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 10654-10655


Personnel Management Office
NOTICES
Personnel management demonstration projects:
    Army Department--
        U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, 10680-10711


Presidential Documents
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances:
    Women's History Month (Proc. 7071), 10741-10742


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


Research and Special Programs Administration
NOTICES
Pipeline Risk Management Demonstration Project:
    Electronic teleconference, 10672-10673


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    International Securities Clearing Corp., 10669-10670
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Ark Funds et al., 10655-10657
    Conectiv, Inc., 10657-10667
    Old Mutual South Africa Equity Trust et al., 10668-10669


Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Disaster loan areas:
    California, 10670
    North Carolina, 10670
    Tennessee, 10670


Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Office of Telephone Services, 10670-10671


State Department
NOTICES
Arms Export Control Act:
    International Traffic in Arms regulations; statutory debarment; 
            eligibility reinstatement, 10671-10672


Transportation Department
See Coast Guard
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Research and Special Programs Administration
RULES
Air travel; nondiscrimination on basis of handicap:
    Seating accommodations and collapsible electric wheelchair stowage, 
            10528-10537


Treasury Department
See Internal Revenue Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 10673-10675


United States Information Agency
NOTICES
Art objects; importation for exhibition:
    Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasure of the Russian Imperial Court, 
            10676
    Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 to 1968, 10676
    Recognizing Van Eyck, 10676
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Office of Personnel Management, 10680-10711


Part III
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 10714-10715


Part IV
Environmental Protection Agency, 10718-10723


Part V
Department of Health and Human Services, 10726-10728


Part VI
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing 
          Administration, 10730-10733


Part VII
Department of Education, 10736-10737


Part VIII
The President, 10741-10742
  
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                           3 CFR
Proclamations:
7071.................................................10741

                           7 CFR
900..................................................10491
929..................................................10491
982..................................................10491
989..................................................10491

                           9 CFR
2....................................................10493
3....................................................10493

                          10 CFR
600..................................................10499
Proposed Rules:
430..................................................10571

                          12 CFR
614 (2 documents)....................................10515
708 (2 documents)....................................10515
                                                     10518

                          14 CFR
39 (3 documents)....................................10519,
                                              10523, 10527
382..................................................10528
Proposed Rules:
39 (4 documents)....................................10572,
                                       10573, 10576, 10579

                          24 CFR
597..................................................10714

                          40 CFR
180 (4 documents)...................................10537,
                                       10543, 10545, 10718
Proposed Rules:
180..................................................10722
300..................................................10582

                          42 CFR
441..................................................10730
489..................................................10730
Proposed Rules:
Ch. IV...............................................10732

                          46 CFR
56...................................................10547

                          48 CFR
915..................................................10499
927..................................................10499
952..................................................10499
970..................................................10499
1511.................................................10548
1515.................................................10548
1552.................................................10548

                          50 CFR
21...................................................10550
600..................................................10677
622..................................................10561
660..................................................10677
679..................................................10569
Proposed Rules:
679..................................................10583