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Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Onions (Vidalia) grown in--
    Georgia, 51269-51271 


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


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
Meetings:
    Safety and Occupational Health Study Section; NIOSH meeting, 51357 


Coast Guard
RULES
Drawbridge operations:
    Louisiana, 51300-51302 
NOTICES
Meetings:
    National Boating Safety Advisory Council, 51395-51396 


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


Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
NOTICES
Procurement list; additions and deletions, 51335-51337  


Customs Service
RULES
Articles conditionally free, subject to a reduced rate, etc.:
    Andean Trade Preference Act; duty preference provisions; 
            implementation, 51291-51296 
Merchandise remaining at place of arrival or unlading beyond lay order 
          period; general order; penalties for failure to notify 
          Customs, 51283-51291 
Trademarks, trade names, and copyrights:
    Anticounterfeiting Consumer Protection Act; disposition of 
            merchandise bearing counterfeit American trademarks; civil 
            penalties, 51296-51297 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 51400 


Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    High Standard Products, 51374 
    Pharmacia & Upjohn Co., 51374 


Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Minimum wages for Federal and federally-assisted construction; general 
          wage determination decisions, 51375-51376 


Energy Department
See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    National Ignition Facility; construction at Lawrence Livermore 
            National Laboratory, CA; stockpile stewardship and 
            management, 51341 
Floodplain and wetlands protection; environmental review 
          determinations; availability, etc.:
    Shiprock, NM; Uranium Mill Tailings Site, 51342-51343 
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Southeast regional biomass energy program management project, 51343 



Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
PROPOSED RULES
Consumer products; energy conservation program:
    Water heater energy efficiency standards; preliminary analysis; 
            workshop, 51304-51305 


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural 
          commodities:
    Glutamic acid
        Technical amendment and correction, 51302-51303 
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States:
    California, 51325-51329 
NOTICES
Confidential business information and data transfer,  51348-51349 
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Agency statements--
        Comment availability, 51349 
        Weekly receipts, 51349-51350 
Meetings:
    Common Sense Initiative Council
        Printing sector, 51350-51351 
Pesticide registration, cancellation, etc.:
    BASF Corp. et al., 51351-51352 
Pesticides; experimental use permits, etc.:
    JP BioRegulators, Inc., et al., 51352 
Superfund; response and remedial actions, proposed settlements, etc.:
    South Andover Site, MN, 51352-51353 


Executive Office of the President
See Presidential Documents

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Export Administration Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 51337 
Meetings:
    Materials Technical Advisory Committee, 51337-51338 


Farm Service Agency
PROPOSED RULES
Program regulations:
    Guaranteed farm loan programs; regulatory streamlining; and 
            preferred lender program; implementation, 51457-51488 


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Airbus, 51275-51281   
    Short Brothers plc, 51281-51282 
Class E airspace; correction, 51282-51283 
PROPOSED RULES
Class D airspace; withdrawn, 51306 
NOTICES
Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:
    Gunnison County Airport, CO, 51396-51397 


Federal Communications Commission
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request,  51353-51354 
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Network Reliability and Interoperability Council; meeting, 51354 


Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request,  51333-51334 


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 51354-51355 


Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Disaster and emergency areas:
    New York,  , 51355-51356 


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Practice and procedure:
    Off-the-record communications, 51312-51322 
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act:
    Full avoided costs, sales of power to qualifying facilities, and 
            interconnection facilities; administrative determination; 
            termination order, 51310-51312 
NOTICES
Hydroelectric applications, 51345 
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 51345-51348 
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Alliance Pipeline L.P., 51343-51344 
    El Paso Natural Gas Co., 51344  
    National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., 51344-51345 


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Investigations, hearings, petitions, etc.:
    Ocean common carrier practices in Transpacific trades, 51356-51357 


Federal Procurement Policy Office
NOTICES
Motion picture and videotape productions, contracting (Policy Letter 
          79-4); rescission, 51378-51379 


Federal Railroad Administration
PROPOSED RULES
Steam locomotive inspection and maintenance standards, 51403-51456 


Financial Management Service
See Fiscal Service


Fiscal Service
RULES
Federal agency disbursements:
    Federal payments; conversion of checks to electronic funds transfer 
            in two phases, 51489-51505 


Fish and Wildlife Service
PROPOSED RULES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Parish's alkali grass
        Withdrawn, 51329-51332 


Food and Drug Administration
RULES
Administrative rulings and decisions:
    Examination and investigation sample requirements; amendment, 
            51297-51299 
Animal drugs, feeds, and related products:
    New drug applications--
        Etodolac tablets, 51300 
Color additives:
    Canthaxanthin
        Correction, 51299 
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
    Drug Evaluation and Research Center, Director et al.; CFR 
            correction, 51299 
PROPOSED RULES
Administrative rulings and decisions:
    Examination and investigation sample requirements; amendment, 
            51322-51324 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 51357-51359 
Color additive petitions:
    EM Industries, Inc., 51359 
Human drugs:
    New drug applications--
        Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research et al.; approval withdrawn, 
                51359-51360 
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, 51360 


Foreign-Trade Zones Board
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Virginia, 51338 

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Forest Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Olympic Provincial Interagency Executive Committee Advisory 
            Committee, 51334 


Geological Survey
NOTICES
Federal Geographic Data Committee:
    Digital cartographic data sets; revised prices, 51366-51367 


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


Housing and Urban Development Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Facilities to assist homeless--
        Excess and surplus Federal property, 51366 


Immigration and Naturalization Service
RULES
Immigration:
    User fee requirements; technical changes for submission, 51271-
            51272 


Indian Affairs Bureau
NOTICES
Irrigation projects; operation and maintenance charges:
    Chemehuevi Indian Reservation, CA, 51367 


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


International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
    Semiconductor memory devices and products containing same, 51372-
            51373 


Justice Department
See Drug Enforcement Administration
See Immigration and Naturalization Service
See Justice Programs Office
RULES
Freedom of Information Act; implementation
    Government Printing Office's World Wide Web site; CFR correction, 
            51300 
Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts; implementation
    Correction, 51401 
NOTICES
Pollution control; consent judgments:
    AlliedSignal Inc. et al., 51373-51374 
    Hall, William J., 51374 


Justice Programs Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 51374-51375 


Labor Department
See Employment Standards Administration
See Mine Safety and Health Administration


Land Management Bureau
RULES
Land resource management:
    Disposition; occupancy and use--
        Alaska occupancy and use; homestead settlement subpart removed; 
                CFR correction, 51303 
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Resource advisory councils--
        Upper Columbia-Salmon Clearwater Districts, 51367 
Public land orders:
    Idaho, 51368 


Management and Budget Office
See Federal Procurement Policy Office


Mine Safety and Health Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 51376-51378  


National Institute of Standards and Technology
PROPOSED RULES
Advanced technology program; revisions, 51307-51310 


National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 51361 
Meetings:
    National Cancer Institute, 51361-51363       
    National Institute of Dental Research, 51363-51364  
    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,  51364-51365  
    National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 
            51365 
    Scientific Review Center,  51365-51366 
Senior Executive Service:
    Performance Review Board; membership, 51366 


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Multispecies community development quota program; correction, 
                51303 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 51338-51339 
Meetings:
    Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 51339 
    New England Fishery Management Council, 51339-51340 
Permits:
    Endangered and threatened species, 51340-51341 


National Park Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 51368 
Concession contract negotiations:
    Yosemite National Park, CA; gasoline service station, 51368-51369 
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Natchez Trace Parkway, MS; Southern Terminus, 51369 

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    Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, CA, 51369-
            51370 
Filming and photography in units of National Park Service; procedures 
          and guidance, 51370-51371 
Meetings:
    Aniakchak National Monument Subsistence Resource Commission, 51371 
    Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Citizens Advisory 
            Commission, 51372 
    Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission, 51372 


National Science Foundation
NOTICES
Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978; permit applications, etc., 51379 


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Entergy Operations, Inc., 51380-51381 
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Northeast Nuclear Energy Co., 51379-51380 


Postal Service
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 51381 


Presidential Documents
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS
Angola, National Union for the Total Independence of (UNITA); 
          continuation of emergency with U.S. (Notice of September 23, 
          1998), 51507-51509 


Public Debt Bureau
See Fiscal Service


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


Rural Business-Cooperative Service
PROPOSED RULES
Program regulations:
    Guaranteed farm loan programs; regulatory streamlining; and 
            preferred lender program; implementation, 51457-51488 


Rural Housing Service
PROPOSED RULES
Program regulations:
    Guaranteed farm loan programs; regulatory streamlining; and 
            preferred lender program; implementation, 51457-51488 


Rural Utilities Service
PROPOSED RULES
Program regulations:
    Guaranteed farm loan programs; regulatory streamlining; and 
            preferred lender program; implementation, 51457-51488 
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    American Electric Cooperative, Inc., 51334-51335 


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 51393 
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 51393-51394 
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Gradison-McDonald Cash Reserve Trust et al., 51381-51383 
    Public utility holding company filings, 51383-51388 
    White Elk Funds et al., 51388-51393 


State Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Historical Diplomatic Documentation Advisory Committee, 51394 
    International harmonization of chemical classification and labeling 
            systems; government activities, 51394-51395 


Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
PROPOSED RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
    Pennsylvania, 51324-51325 


Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Motor carriers:
    Finance applications--
        Coach USA, Inc., et al., 51397-51398 
Rail carriers:
    Association of American Railroads and American Short Line and 
            Regional Railroad Association; interim approval of 
            agreement, 51398-51399 


Thrift Supervision Office
RULES
Savings associations and savings and loan holding companies:
    Prior notice of appointment or employment of directors and senior 
            executive officers; requirements, 51272-51275 
PROPOSED RULES
Consumer credit classified as loss, slow consumer credit, and slow 
          loans; definitions removed, 51305-51306 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 51400 


Transportation Department
See Coast Guard
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Railroad Administration
See Surface Transportation Board


Treasury Department
See Customs Service
See Fiscal Service
See Thrift Supervision Office
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, 51403-
          51456 


Part III
Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency; Rural Housing Service; 
          Rural Business-Cooperative Service; Rural Utilities Service, 
          51457-51488 

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Part IV
Department of Treasury, Fiscal Service, 51489-51505 


Part V
The President, 51507-51509 
  
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                           3 CFR
Executive Orders:
12865 (See Notice of September 23, 1998).............51509
13069 (See Notice of September 23, 1998).............51509
13098 (See Notice of September 23, 1998).............51509
Administrative Orders:
Notice of September 23, 1998.........................51509

                           7 CFR
955..................................................51269
Proposed Rules:
1980.................................................51462

                           8 CFR
286..................................................51271

                          10 CFR
Proposed Rules:
430..................................................51304

                          12 CFR
563..................................................51272
563f.................................................51272
574..................................................51272
Proposed Rules:
561..................................................51305

                          14 CFR
39 (4 documents)....................................51275,
                                       51277, 51279, 51281
71...................................................51282
Proposed Rules:
71...................................................51306

                          15 CFR
Proposed Rules:
295..................................................51307

                          18 CFR
Proposed Rules:
292..................................................51310
385..................................................51312

                          19 CFR
4....................................................51283
10...................................................51291
18...................................................51283
122..................................................51283
123..................................................51283
127..................................................51283
133..................................................51296
148..................................................51283
178 (2 documents)...................................51283,
                                                     51291
192..................................................51283

                          21 CFR
2....................................................51297
5....................................................51299
73...................................................51299
520..................................................51300
Proposed Rules:
2....................................................51322

                          28 CFR
16...................................................51300

                          30 CFR
Proposed Rules:
938..................................................51324

                          31 CFR
208..................................................51494

                          33 CFR
117..................................................51300

                          40 CFR
180..................................................51302
Proposed Rules:
52...................................................51325

                          43 CFR
2560.................................................51303

                          49 CFR
Proposed Rules:
230..................................................51404

                          50 CFR
679..................................................51303
Proposed Rules:
17...................................................51329