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Agriculture Department
See Rural Utilities Service


Arts and Humanities, National Foundation
See National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities


Coast Guard
RULES
Drawbridge operations:
    California, 53281-53282 
NOTICES
Meetings:
    National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee, 53483-53484 
    Response plan equipment caps; scheduled increases in mechanical 
            recovery and potential changes to dispersant planning 
            requirements; workshops, 53484 


Commerce Department
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
See Patent and Trademark Office


Customs Service
NOTICES
Uryguay Round Agreements Act (URAA):
    Foreign entities violating textile transshipment rules; list, 
            53493-53496 


Defense Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53354  
Arms sales notification; transmittal letter, etc., 53354-53395         
Meetings:
    National Security Education Board, Group of Advisors, 53396 
    Science Board task forces, 53396   
    Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, 53396-53397 


Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53463-53464 


Education Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53397 


Energy Department
See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
See Energy Information Administration
See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
See Southeastern Power Administration
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Plutonium-238 production for use in advanced radioisotope power 
            systems for future space missions, 53398-53400 


Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 53400-53401 


Energy Information Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 53401-53403 


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air pollution; standards of performance for new stationary sources:
    Coal preparation plants; standards applicability to coal unloading 
            operations, 53288-53290 
Air programs:
    Stratospheric ozone protection--
        Montreal Protocol, U.S. obligations; production and consumption 
                controls, 53290-53291 
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Connecticut, 53282-53288 
Pesticides; tolerances in food, animal feeds, and raw agricultural 
          commodities:
    Alder bark, 53291-53294 
    Pyridaben, 53294-53301 
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Connecticut, 53350 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 53415-53416 
Toxic and hazardous substances control:
    Lead-based paint activities in target housing and child-occupied 
            facilities; State and Indian Tribe authorization 
            applications--
        Ohio, 53416-53417 
    Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemical substances; 
            category development, 53417-53423 


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


Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Secure base amount and allocated insurance reserve accounts; policy 
          statement, 53423-53429 


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airmen certification:
    Pilots, flight instructors, and ground instructors outside U.S.; 
            licensing and training, 53531-53537 
Airworthiness standards:
    Aircraft turbine engines; rain and hail ingestion standards 
            harmonization
        Correction, 53278-53279 

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Colored Federal airways, 53279 
Restricted areas, 53279-53280 
PROPOSED RULES
Class E airspace, 53319-53325      
VOR Federal airways, 53325-53326 
NOTICES
Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:
    Transport category airplanes--
        Airframe ice protection systems certification guidance, 53484-
                53485 
Airport rates and charges; policy statement, 53485-53486 
Meetings:
    Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee, 53486 
Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:
    St. Paul International Airport, MN, 53486-53487 


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Radio services, special:
    Maritime services--
        New Orleans vessel traffic services, 53312-53313 
PROPOSED RULES
Radio services, special:
    Fixed microwave services--
        Multiple address systems; 932/941 MHz band allocations; 
                applications dismissal, 53350-53351 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 53429-53430 
Common carrier services:
    Wireless telecommunications services--
        156-162 MHz public coast station spectrum auction; reserve 
                prices or minimum opening bids and other procedural 
                issues, 53430-53440 


Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53440 
Disaster and emergency areas:
    Louisiana, 53440 
    New York, 53440-53441 
    Puerto Rico, 53441-53442   
    Texas, 53442   
    Virgin Islands, 53442-53443 
Meetings:
    Emergency Management Institute Board of Visitors, 53443 


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    Metropolitan Edison Co. et al., 53407-53409 
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., 53403 
    Kern River Gas Transmission Co., 53403-53404 
    Minnesota Power, Inc., 53404 
    National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., 53404, 53405 
    Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., 53405 
    Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., 53405-53406 
    Western Gas Interstate Co., 53406 


Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Transportation Equity Act for 21st Century; discretionary 
            programs--
        Value pricing pilot program; State or local governments or 
                other public authorities participation, 53487-53491 


Federal Maritime Commission
RULES
Freedom of Information Act; implementation, 53308-53311 
NOTICES
Agreements filed, etc., 53443-53444 


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 53444 


Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Human drugs:
    New drug applications--
        Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., et al.; approval withdrawn, 53444 

Meetings:
    Medical Devices Advisory Committee, 53445  


Health and Human Services Department
See Food and Drug Administration
See Health Care Financing Administration
See National Institutes of Health
See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Health Care Financing Administration
RULES
Medicare:
    Skilled nursing facilities; prospective payment system and 
            consolidated billing
        Correction, 53301-53308 
NOTICES
Medicare:
    Hospice wage index, 53446-53456 


Interior Department
See Land Management Bureau
See Reclamation Bureau


Justice Department
See Drug Enforcement Administration
See Justice Programs Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53462-53463 


Justice Programs Office
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Proposed collection; comment request, 53464-53465  


Labor Department
See Occupational Safety and Health Administration


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Vermillion management framework plan, UT, 53460 
Fire management and suppression activities:
    Wyoming, 53460-53461 
National Wild and Scenic River System:
    Gulkana River, AK; limits of acceptable change, 53461-53462 


National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
NOTICES
Meetings:
    President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, 53465 

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National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53456-53457 


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Shortraker/rougheye rockfish, 53318 
    West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries--
        Pacific coast groundfish fishery; trip limit changes, 53313-
                53317 
        West Coast salmon, 53317-53318 
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 53352 
    Pacific Fishery Management Council, 53352 
Permits:
    Marine mammals, 53352-53353 
Recreational fishing; angling ethics code, 53353-53354 


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc., 53473-53478 
Meetings:
    Nuclear Waste Advisory Committee, 53478 
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Consolidated Edison Co., 53465-53466 
    Entergy Operations, Inc., 53466-53467 
    GPU Nuclear, Inc., et al., 53467-53468 
    Pathfinder Mines Corp., 53468 
    Union Electric Co., 53468-53471 
    Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp., 53471-53473 


Occupational Safety and Health Administration
RULES
State plans; development, enforcement, etc.:
    Arizona
        Concrete and asphalt batch plants connected to mines; Federal 
                enforcement level change, 53280-53281 


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


Patent and Trademark Office
PROPOSED RULES
Patent cases:
    Patent business goals; implementation, 53497-53530 


Personnel Management Office
RULES
Performance ratings finality; retroactive, assumed, and carry-over 
          ratings of record prohibited, 53275-53276 
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities:
    Submission for OMB review; comment request, 53478 
Meetings:
    National Partnership Council, 53478 


Presidential Documents
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances:
    Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National (Proc. 7130), 53539-53542 
    Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National (Proc. 7129), 53271-
            53272 
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Computer software piracy (EO 13103), 53273-53274 


Public Health Service
See Food and Drug Administration
See National Institutes of Health
See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Reclamation Bureau
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Bay-Delta Advisory Council, 53462 


Rural Utilities Service
RULES
Electric loans:
    Long-range financial forecasts, 53276-53278 


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 53478-53479 
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    National Securities Clearing Corp., 53479-53481 


Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Meetings; district and regional advisory councils:
    Connecticut, 53481 
    Minnesota, 53481 
    Wisconsin, 53482 


Southeastern Power Administration
NOTICES
Power rates:
    Georgia-Alabama-South Carolina System of Projects, 53409-53415 


Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
NOTICES
Federal agency urine drug testing; certified laboratories meeting 
          miminum standards, list, 53457-53459 
Meetings:
    SAMHSA special emphasis panels, 53460 


Trade Representative, Office of United States
NOTICES
Meetings:
    North American Free Trade Agreement Sanitary and Phytosanitary 
            Committee, 53482-53483 


Transportation Department
See Coast Guard
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Federal Highway Administration
NOTICES
Airport rates and charges; policy statement, 53485-53486 
Aviation proceedings:
    Agreements filed; weekly receipts, 53483 
    Certificates of public convenience and necessity and foreign air 
            carrier permits; weekly applications, 53483 


Treasury Department
See Customs Service
PROPOSED RULES
Government Securities Act; implementation:
    Brokers and dealers reporting requirement; Year 2000 compliance, 
            53326-53349 

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NOTICES
Boycotts, international:
    Countries requiring cooperation; list, 53491 
Home-to-work transportation controls (Treasury Directive 74-06), 53491-
          53493 
  
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, 53497-53530 


Part III
Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 53531-
          53537 


Part IV
The President, 53539-53542 
  
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                           3 CFR
Proclamations:
7129.................................................53271
7130.................................................53541
Executive Orders:
13011 (See EO 13103).................................53273
13103................................................53273

                           5 CFR
430..................................................53275
534..................................................53275

                           7 CFR
1710.................................................53276

                          14 CFR
23...................................................53278
25...................................................53278
33...................................................53278
61...................................................53532
67...................................................53532
71...................................................53279
73...................................................53279
141..................................................53532
142..................................................53532
Proposed Rules:
71 (7 documents)....................................53319,
                  53320, 53321, 53322, 53323, 53324, 53325

                          17 CFR
Proposed Rules:
405..................................................53326

                          29 CFR
1952.................................................53280

                          33 CFR
117..................................................53281

                          37 CFR
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................53498

                          40 CFR
52...................................................53282
60...................................................53288
81...................................................53282
82...................................................53290
180 (2 documents)...................................53291,
                                                     53294
Proposed Rules:
52...................................................53350
81...................................................53350

                          42 CFR
409..................................................53301
410..................................................53301
411..................................................53301
413..................................................53301
424..................................................53301
483..................................................53301
489..................................................53301

                          46 CFR
503..................................................53308

                          47 CFR
80...................................................53312
Proposed Rules:
1....................................................53350
22...................................................53350
101..................................................53350

                          50 CFR
600..................................................53313
660 (2 documents)...................................53313,
                                                     53317
679..................................................53318