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Agriculture Department
See  Forest Service
See  Rural Housing Service


Army Department
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Pennsylvania Army National Guard; Stryker Brigade CombatTeam 
            transformation, 69675


Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
RULES
Medicare
    Prescription drug discount card, 69839-69927
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
    Practicing Physicians Advisory Council, 69707-69708
Medicare:
    Prescription drug discount card, 69927-69928
Senior Executive Service:
    Performance Review Board; membership, 69708


Coast Guard
RULES
Drawbridge operations:
    Louisiana, 69607-69609
Ports and waterways safety:
    Lockwood Folly Inlet, NC; safety zone, 69609-69611
NOTICES
Drug testing; minimum random drug-testing rate (2004 CY), 69710-69711


Commerce Department
See  Economic Analysis Bureau
See  International Trade Administration
See  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
NOTICES
Cotton, wool, and man-made textiles:
    Slovak Republic, 69669-69670
    Turkey, 69670-69671
    Ukraine, 69671-69672
    Uruguay, 69672-69673
    Vietnam, 69673-69674


Commodity Futures Trading Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Federal claims collection:
    Debt Collection Improvement Act; administrative wage garnishment 
            provisions implementation, 69634-69637


Corporation for National and Community Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69674


Defense Department
See  Army Department
See  Navy Department
RULES
Acquisition regulations:
    Payment requirements; electronic submission and processing, 69628-
            69631
    Payment withholding, 69631-69632


Drug Enforcement Administration
NOTICES
Schedules of controlled substances; production quotas:
    Schedules I and II--
        Proposed 2004 aggregate, 69720-69723


Economic Analysis Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69658-69659


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69724-69725
Alien temporary employment labor certification process:
    Agricultural nonimmigrant workers (H-2A); online application 
            system; formal briefings, 69725-69726


Employment Standards Administration
RULES
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969; implementation:
    Black Lung Benefits Act--
        Individual claims by former coal miners and dependence 
                processing and adjudication; regulations clarification 
                and simplification, 69929-69935


Energy Department
See  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          States; air quality planning purposes; designation of areas:
    Nevada, 69611-69618
PROPOSED RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various 
          State; designation of areas:
    Nevada, 69640-69641
    New Jersey, 69637-69640
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69677-69684
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Tribal Open Dump Cleanup Project, 69684
Superfund program:
    Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket; Federal 
            facilities; list update, 69685-69699


Executive Office of the President
See  Presidential Documents

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Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Eurocopter France, 69596-69597
Class E airspace, 69597-69599
PROPOSED RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, 69633-69634
NOTICES
Airport noise compatibility program:
    Noise exposure maps--
        Louisville International Airport, 69760-69761
Exemption petitions; summary and disposition, 69761-69765


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Common carrier services:
    Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service--
        Non-rural carrier high-cost universal service support mechanism 
                modification, 69622-69627
Digital television stations; table of assignments:
    Alaska, 69627
    Texas, 69627-69628
PROPOSED RULES
Common carrier services:
    Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service--
        Non-rural carrier high-cost universal service support mechanism 
                modification, 69641-69647
Digital television stations; table of assignments:
    Washington, 69648
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 69699-69700


Federal Election Commission
RULES
Allocations of candidate and committee activities:
    Travel expenditures allocation; transmittal to Congress, 69583-
            69596


Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Disaster and emergency areas:
    California, 69711
    Puerto Rico, 69711-69712
    West Virginia, 69712-69713


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
RULES
Electric utilities (Federal Power Act):
    Generator interconnection agreements and procedures; 
            standardization, 69599-69600
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
    NEO California Power LLC, et al., 69676
    Quest Energy, L.L.C., et al., 69676-69677


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69700-69703


Federal Trade Commission
NOTICES
Premerger notification waiting periods; early terminations, 69703-69707


Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Imported Food Under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism 
            Preparedness and Response Act of 2002; compliance policy 
            guide, 69708-69709


Forest Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Resource Advisory Committees--
        Ketchikan, 69649


General Services Administration
RULES
Federal travel:
    Privately owned vehicle mileage reimbursement, 69618-69619
NOTICES
Designation of Beneficiary (State Dept. Optional Form 137); 
          cancellation, 69707


Health and Human Services Department
See  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See  Food and Drug Administration
See  Health Resources and Services Administration
RULES
Grants:
    National Institutes of Health center grants, 69619-69622


Health Resources and Services Administration
NOTICES
Health professional shortage areas; primary care, dental, and mental 
          health areas; priorities criteria determination, 69709-69710


Homeland Security Department
See  Coast Guard
See  Federal Emergency Management Agency
See  Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau


Housing and Urban Development Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69714-69715
Grant and cooperative agreement awards:
    Mainstream Program, 69715-69717


Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69713-69714


Interior Department
See  Land Management Bureau
See  Reclamation Bureau


Internal Revenue Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69768-69772
Meetings:
    Taxpayer Advocacy Panels, 69772


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Countervailing duties:
    Honey from--
        Argentina, 69660-69668

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Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    National Renewable Energy et al, 69659
    Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research et al, 69659-69660


International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Administrative protective orders; breaches, sanctions, etc.:
    Aitken, Bruce, 69718-69719
Import investigations:
    Display controllers with upscaling functionality and products 
            containing same, 69719-69720


Justice Department
See  Drug Enforcement Administration


Labor Department
See  Employment and Training Administration
See  Employment Standards Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69723-69724


Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Coal leases, exploration licenses, etc.:
    Colorado, 69717
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
    Monroe County, MS.; oil and gas exploration and development, 69717-
            69718


National Credit Union Administration
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 69726


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Motor vehicle safety standards:
    Nonconforming vehicles--
        Importation eligibility; determinations, 69765-69768
Motor vehicle safety standards; exemption petitions, etc.:
    Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc., 69768


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 69669


Navy Department
NOTICES
Inventions, Government-owned; availability for licensing, 69675-69676
Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
    CorActive High Tech, Inc., 69676


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
    Florida Power & Light Co., 69728-69729
    University of Minnesota, 69729-69730
Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:
    Post-fire safe shutdown; criteria for determining feasibility of 
            manual actions, 69730
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Entergy Operations, Inc., et al., 69726-69728


Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
RULES
Single-employer plans:
    Allocation of assets--
        Interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits, 69606-
                69607
NOTICES
Multiemployer plans:
    Interest rates and assumptions, 69730-69731


Presidential Documents
PROCLAMATIONS
Special observances:
    Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week (Proc. 
            7744), 69937-69939


Reclamation Bureau
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group, 69718


Research and Special Programs Administration
RULES
Pipeline safety:
    Hazardous liquid transportation--
        Gas transmission pipelines; integrity management in high 
                consequence areas, 69777-69837


Rural Housing Service
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Rural Cooperative Home-Based Health Care Demonstration program, 
            69649-69658


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Joint Industry Plan:
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., et al., 69731-
            69732
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
    National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 69732-69738
    National Stock Exchange, 69738-69739
    New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 69739-69748
    Pacific Exchange, Inc., 69748-69753
    Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 69753-69758


Small Business Administration
NOTICES
Disaster loan areas:
    California, 69758-69759


Social Security Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69759-69760


State Department
RULES
Longshore work by U.S. nationals; foreign prohibitions, 69600-69605


Textile Agreements Implementation Committee
See  Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements


Transportation Department
See  Federal Aviation Administration

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See  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
See  Research and Special Programs Administration


Treasury Department
See  Internal Revenue Service


Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 69772-69775

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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Transportation Department, Research and Special Programs 
          Administration, 69777-69837


Part III
Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
          Services, 69839-69928


Part IV
Labor Department, Employment Standards Administration, 69929-69935


Part V
Executive Office of the President, Presidential Documents, 69937-69939

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                           3 CFR
Proclamations:
7744.................................................69939

                          11 CFR
100..................................................69583
106..................................................69583
114..................................................69583
9004.................................................69583
9034.................................................69583

                          14 CFR
39...................................................69596
71 (3 documents).......................69597, 69598, 69599
Proposed Rules:
39...................................................69633

                          17 CFR
Proposed Rules:
143..................................................69634

                          18 CFR
35...................................................69599

                          20 CFR
718..................................................69930
725..................................................69930

                          22 CFR
89...................................................69600

                          29 CFR
4022.................................................69606
4044.................................................69606

                          33 CFR
117..................................................69607
165..................................................69609

                          40 CFR
52...................................................69611
81...................................................69611
Proposed Rules:
52 (2 documents)..............................69637, 69640
81...................................................69640

                          41 CFR
301-10...............................................69618

                          42 CFR
52a..................................................69619
403..................................................69840
408..................................................69840

                          47 CFR
54...................................................69622
73 (2 documents).....................................69627
Proposed Rules:
54...................................................69641
73...................................................69648

                          48 CFR
232 (2 documents).............................69628, 69631
252 (2 documents).............................69628, 69631

                          49 CFR
192..................................................69778