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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
NOTICES
Hazardous substances releases and facilities:
    Public health assessments and effects--
        Quarterly listing, 11896-11897


Agriculture Department
See Natural Resources Conservation Service


Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
RULES
Alcohol; viticultural area designations:
    Davis Mountains, TX, 11826-11829


Army Department
See Engineers Corps
PROPOSED RULES
Decorations, medals, awards:
    Heraldic items; manufacture, sale, wear, commercial use and quality 
            control, 11858-11862
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 11873
    Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Scientific Advisory Board, 
            11873


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11897-11900
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Occupational safety and health--
        Healthy work organizations program, 11900-11903


Commerce Department
See Export Administration Bureau
See International Trade Administration
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals
NOTICES
Hearings, 11872


Customs Service
RULES
General enforcement provisions; removal of regulations, 11825-11826
NOTICES
Customhouse broker license cancellation, suspension, etc.:
    Dawson, Mark Rendell, et al., 11952


Defense Department
See Army Department
See Engineers Corps
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Veterans employment emphasis, 11850-11852
Personnel:
    Defense contracting; defense related employment reporting 
            procedures; CFR part removed, 11831
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11872-11873


Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Oakes, Cecil E., Jr., M.D., 11907-11910


Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11878-11879


Energy Department
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, 11879


Engineers Corps
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Bluestone Dam Safety Assurance Project; Hinton, WV; meetings, 11874
    Lackawanna County, PA, City of Scranton; Plot and Green Ridge Local 
            Flood Protection Projects, 11874-11875
    San Diego County, CA; San Diego Harbor navigation improvement 
            study, 11875-11876
    Worcester County, MD; Ocean City, MD and Vicinity Water Resources 
            Feasibility Study, 11876-11877
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Alligator Lake Chain & Lake Gentry habitat enhancement project; 
            Osceola County, FL., 11877-11878


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air pollution control; new motor vehicles and engines:
    Vehicle mass for 3-wheeled motorcycles; certification and test 
            procedures, 11847-11850
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Illinois, 11842-11847
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    Alaska, 11839-11840
    California, 11831-11833
    Illinois, 11836-11839
    Texas, 11833-11836
    Virginia, 11840-11842
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Illinois, 11865
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    Alaska, 11864
    California, 11862-11863
    Illinois, 11864

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    Texas, 11863-11864
    Virginia, 11864-11865
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Science Advisory Board, 11894-11895


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


Export Administration Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11867-11868


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Construcciones Aeronauticas, S.A., 11820-11821
    Dassault, 11819-11820
    EXTRA Flugzeugbau GmbH, 11821-11823
    Industrie Aeronautiche e Meccaniche (I.A.M.) Model Piaggio P-180 
            airplanes, 11823-11824
PROPOSED RULES
Class E airspace, 11853-11854


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Western Systems Power Pool et al., 11889-11894
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., 11879
    Calvin, Merleyn A., 11880
    Caprock Pipeline Co., 11880
    Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd., 11880-11881
    Egan Hub Partners, L.P., 11881
    Ensign Oil & Gas, Inc., 11881-11882
    Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc., 11882-11883
    Hubbardston Hydro Co., 11883
    Idaho Power Co., 11883
    Koch Gateway Pipeline Co., 11883-11884
    Louisville Gas & Electric Co., 11884
    Mississippi River Transmission Corp., 11884
    National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., 11884-11885
    Northern Natural Gas Co., 11885
    Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc., 11885-11886
    Overthrust Pipeline Co., 11886
    Pacific Gas & Electric Co. et al., 11886-11887
    Questar Pipeline Co., 11887
    San Diego Gas & Electric Co., 11887-11888
    Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., 11888
    Viking Gas Transmission Co., 11888
    Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc., 11888
    Wisconsin Electric Power Co., 11889
    Wyoming Interstate Co., Ltd., 11889


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11948-11949


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Agreements filed, etc., 11895
Freight forwarder licenses:
    JFJ Freight Forwarders Inc. et al., 11895


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 11895-11896
    Permissible nonbanking activities, 11896


Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species permit applications, 11906-11907


Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11910-11911


Health and Human Services Department
See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Indian Health Service


Housing and Urban Development Department
RULES
Low income housing:
    Housing assistance payments (Section 8)--
        Fair market rent schedules for rental certificate, loan 
                management, property disposition, moderate 
                rehabilitation, and rental voucher programs, 11956-
                11980
NOTICES
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal 
            Opportunity et al., 11904-11906


Indian Health Service
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Health professions preparatory, pregraduate and Indian health 
            professions scholarship program, 11903-11904


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


Internal Revenue Service
PROPOSED RULES
Income taxes:
    Partnership interests; adjustments following sales
        Correction, 11954
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11952
Art Advisory Panel; closed meetings; report availability, 11952
Meetings:
    Art Advisory Panel, 11953


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping and countervailing duties:
    Administrative review requests, 11868-11869
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    University of--
        California et al., 11869-11870

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International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
    Telephonic digital added main line systems and components, 11907


Justice Department
See Drug Enforcement Administration
See Foreign Claims Settlement Commission


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Utah, 11907


National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications Advisory Committee, 
            11911


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Northeastern United States fisheries--
        Atlantic sea scallop, 11852
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 11870-11872


Natural Resources Conservation Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Agricultural Air Quality Task Force, 11867


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 11911-11912
Meetings:
    Nuclear Waste Advisory Committee, 11912-11913
Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; 
          biweekly notices, 11913-11931
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc. et al., 11912


Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, 11931


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


Presidential Documents
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances:
    Older Workers Employment Week, National (Proc. 7072), 11983-11984


Public Health Service
See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Indian Health Service


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 11936
Privacy Act:
    Systems of records, 11936-11939
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Chicago Board Options Exchange et al., 11939-11941
    Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., 11941-11942
    Cincinnati Stock Exchange, Inc., 11942-11943
    Pacific Exchange, Inc., 11943-11946
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    AMP Limited et al., 11931-11933
    Public utility holding company filings, 11933-11934
    Vestaur Securities, Inc. et al., 11934-11936


Social Security Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Organization and procedures:
    Telephone conversations; listening-in to or recording, 11856-11858
Social security benefits:
    Federal old age, survivors and disability insurance--
        Endocrine system and obesity impairments; revised medical 
                criteria for determining disability, 11854-11856


Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Louisiana, 11829-11830


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad operation, acquisition, construction, etc.:
    Kansas Southwestern Railway Co. L.L.C., 11949-11950
    South Central Florida Express, Inc., 11950
Railroad services abandonment:
    Pacific Harbor Line, Inc., 11950


Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Agency
See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


Trade Representative, Office of United States
NOTICES
Harmonized Tariff Schedule:
    North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)--
        Technical corrections, 11946


Transportation Department
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
See Surface Transportation Board
RULES
Air travel; nondiscrimination on basis of handicap:
    Seating accommodations and collapsible electric wheelchair stowage
        Correction, 11954
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 11946-11948


Treasury Department
See Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
See Customs Service
See Internal Revenue Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 11951

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United States Information Agency
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 11953


Veterans Affairs Department
PROPOSED RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Sealed bidding and competitive proposals, 11865-11866
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 11956-11980


Part III
The President, 11983-11984
  
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                           3 CFR
Proclamations:
7072.................................................11983

                          14 CFR
39 (4 documents)....................................11819,
                                       11820, 11821, 11823
382..................................................11954
Proposed Rules:
71...................................................11853

                          19 CFR
19...................................................11825
101..................................................11825
146..................................................11825
161..................................................11825

                          20 CFR
Proposed Rules:
404..................................................11854
422..................................................11856

                          24 CFR
888..................................................11956

                          26 CFR
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................11054

                          27 CFR
9....................................................11826

                          30 CFR
918..................................................11829

                          32 CFR
40a..................................................11831
Proposed Rules:
507..................................................11858

                          40 CFR
52 (6 documents)....................................11831,
                         11833, 11836, 11839, 11840, 11842
81...................................................11842
86...................................................11847
Proposed Rules:
52 (6 documents)....................................11862,
                                       11863, 11864, 11865
81...................................................11865

                          48 CFR
209..................................................11850
212..................................................11850
213..................................................11850
217..................................................11850
222..................................................11850
252..................................................11850
Proposed Rules:
806..................................................11865

                          50 CFR
648..................................................11852