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Agency for International Development
NOTICES
Meetings:
    International Food and Agricultural Development Board, 903
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Cooperating Sponsor Results Reports (2003 FY) and Resource Requests 
            (2005 FY); Title II guidelines, 903


Agriculture Department
See  Forest Service


Air Force Department
RULES
Privacy Act; implementation, 953-973


Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
RULES
Medicare:
    Physician fee schedule (2204 CY); payment reform for drugs and 
            biologicals, 1083-1267
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 922-923


Coast Guard
PROPOSED RULES
Pollution:
    Ballast water treatment systems; experimental shipboard 
            installations approval; withdrawn, 1077-1081
NOTICES
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Shipboard Technology Evaluation Program; experimental ballast water 
            treatment systems; installation and testing, 1081-1082


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


Comptroller of the Currency
PROPOSED RULES
Corporate activities:
    National banks; change in asset composition, 892-895
NOTICES
Central Data Repository System:
    Consolidated reports of condition and income; new submission 
            method; voluntary testing and mandatory enrollment, 950-951


Defense Department
See  Air Force Department
RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Architect-engineer contractors selection; new consolidated form; 
            effective date delay, 1049-1051
    Introduction; technical amendments and corrections, 1049-1050
    Small Entity Compliance Guide, 1056-1058
    U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements; 
            implementation, 1050-1057


Education Department
NOTICES
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
    Vocational and adult education--
        Smaller Learning Communities Program, 1065-1075


Employment and Training Administration
NOTICES
Adjustment assistance:
    Alcatel Internetworking, 939
    American Bag Corp., 939
    Authentic Fitness Corp., 940
    Citation Corp., 940
    Cone Mills Corp., 940
    Kulicke and Soffa Industries, 940-941
    Mac Brad Wholesale Flowers, Inc., 941
    ME International, Inc., 941
    Motorola, Inc., 941
    Multilayer Technology (MULTEK), Inc., 941-942
    Phillips Plastics Corp., 942
    Radioshack Corp., 942
    Rayovac Corp., 942-943
    Siemens Energy & Automation, 943
    Silicon Graphics, Inc., 943
    Steelcase, Inc., 943-944
    Tibbetts Industries, Inc., 944
    TMH, 944
    United States Postal Service, Remote Encoding Center, Cohoes, NY, 
            944
    Zexel Valeo Compressor USA, 944


Environmental Protection Agency
NOTICES
Pesticides; emergency exemptions, etc.:
    Propoxycarbazone-sodium, 915-917
Pesticides; experimental use permits, etc.:
    Monsanto Co., 917-918
    Mycogen Seeds/Dow Agrosciences LLC, 918-919
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Mixtures of disinfection by-products in drinking water; feasibility 
            of performing cumulative risk assessments, 919-920
    Pesticide mixtures; relative potency factors development; 
            biostatistical analyses of joint dose-response, 920
    Reproductive toxicity in birds exposed to dioxin-like compounds for 
            use in ecological risk assessment; analysis of laboratory 
            and field studies, 920-921


Executive Office of the President
See  Management and Budget Office


Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Airbus, 867-869
    BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd., 869-871
    Boeing, 859-864
    Eurocopter Deutschland, 871-873
    Kidde Aerospace, 864-867
PROPOSED RULES
Airworthiness directives:
    Boeing, 897-900

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    Gulfstream Aerospace LP, 895-897
    McDonnell Douglas, 900-902


Federal Communications Commission
RULES
Radio stations; table of assignments:
    Oklahoma and Texas, 874-875


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NOTICES
Central Data Repository System:
    Consolidated reports of condition and income; new submission 
            method; voluntary testing and mandatory enrollment, 950-951


Federal Maritime Commission
NOTICES
Agreements filed, etc., 921


Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Banks and bank holding companies:
    Change in bank control, 922
    Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 921
Central Data Repository System:
    Consolidated reports of condition and income; new submission 
            method; voluntary testing and mandatory enrollment, 950-951


Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species:
    Findings on petitions, etc.--
        Greater sage-grouse, 933-936


Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 923-924
Memorandums of understanding:
    Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Department; FDA 
            allowed to commission CBP officers, 924-929
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
    Drug substance; chemistry, manufacturing, and controls information, 
            929-930
    Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response 
            Act of 2002; implementation--
        Food facilities registration and prior notice of imported food 
                shipments; correction, 930


Forest Service
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Resource Advisory Committees--
        Southwest Idaho, 903


General Services Administration
RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Architect-engineer contractors selection; new consolidated form; 
            effective date delay, 1049-1051
    Introduction; technical amendments and corrections, 1049-1050
    Small Entity Compliance Guide, 1056-1058
    U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements; 
            implementation, 1050-1057


Health and Human Services Department
See  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See  Food and Drug Administration
See  National Institutes of Health
See  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Homeland Security Department
See  Coast Guard


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


International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
    Fresh garlic from--
        China, 903-905
    Stainless steel bar from--
        United Kingdom, 905-907
Countervailing duties:
    Hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from--
        India, 907-915


International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
    Automated mechanical transmission systems for medium-duty and 
            heavy-duty trucks and components, 936-937
    Automobile tail light lenses and products incorporating same, 937-
            938


Justice Department
NOTICES
Pollution control; consent judgments:
    Saunders Supply Co. et al., 938
    Stepan Co., 938
    Winitsky Associates, 938-939


Labor Department
See  Employment and Training Administration


Management and Budget Office
NOTICES
Hospital, medical, surgical, and dental care and treatment furnished by 
          United States; charges to tortiously liable third parties, 
          1061-1062
Medical care for services provided by Veterans Affairs Department; 
          cost-based and interagency billing rates, 1061-1064


National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RULES
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR):
    Architect-engineer contractors selection; new consolidated form; 
            effective date delay, 1049-1051
    Introduction; technical amendments and corrections, 1049-1050
    Small Entity Compliance Guide, 1056-1058
    U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements; 
            implementation, 1050-1057


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 950

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National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Advisory Committee to Director, 930-931
    National Cancer Institute, 931
    National Human Genome Research Institute, 931
    National Institute on Drug Abuse, 931-932


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
    Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
        Salmon, 875-878
NOTICES
Meetings:
    Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 915


Nuclear Regulatory Commission
RULES
Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; independent 
          storage; licensing requirements:
    Approved spent fuel storage casks; list, 849-858
PROPOSED RULES
Production and utilization facilities; domestic licensing:
    Light-water cooled nuclear power plants; construction and 
            inspection of components and testing pumps and valves; 
            industry codes and standards, 879-892
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., 944-947
    PSEG Nuclear, LLC, 947-948


Office of Management and Budget
See  Management and Budget Office


Overseas Private Investment Corporation
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 948


Securities and Exchange Commission
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
    Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., Inc., 949
    Newtek Business Services, Inc., 949
    Summit Securities, Inc., 949-950


State Department
RULES
International Traffic in Arms regulations:
    U.S. Munitions List; amendments, 873-874


Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and 
          approvals, 932-933


Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
PROPOSED RULES
Surface and underground mining activities:
    Excess spoil fills, construction requirements; stream buffer zones, 
            clarification, 1035-1048


Transportation Department
See  Federal Aviation Administration
See  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
RULES
Computer reservations systems, carrier-owned, 975-1033


Treasury Department
See  Comptroller of the Currency


Veterans Affairs Department
RULES
Medical benefits:
    Medical care for services provided by Veterans Affairs Department; 
            charges used for recovery from tortiously liable third 
            parties, 1059-1061
NOTICES
Medical benefits:
    Medical care for services provided by Veterans Affairs Department; 
            cost-based and interagency billing rates, 1061-1064

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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Defense Department, Air Force Department, 953-973


Part III
Transportation Department, 975-1033


Part IV
Interior Department, Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office, 
          1035-1048


Part V
Defense Department; General Services Administration; National 
          Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1049-1058


Part VI
Executive Office of the President, Management and Budget Office, 1061-
          1062


Part VI
Executive Office of the President, Management and Budget Office; 
          Veterans Affairs Department, 1061-1064


Part VI
Veterans Affairs Department, 1059-1061


Part VII
Education Department, 1065-1075


Part VIII
Homeland Security Department, Coast Guard, 1077-1082


Part IX
Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 
          1083-1267

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                          10 CFR
72.....................................................849
Proposed Rules:
50.....................................................879

                          12 CFR
Proposed Rules:
5......................................................892

                          14 CFR
39 (6 documents)..............859, 861, 864, 867, 869, 871
255....................................................976
Proposed Rules:
39 (3 documents).............................895, 897, 900

                          22 CFR
121....................................................873

                          30 CFR
Proposed Rules:
780...................................................1036
816...................................................1036
817...................................................1036

                          32 CFR
806b...................................................954

                          33 CFR
Proposed Rules:
151...................................................1078

                          38 CFR
17....................................................1060

                          42 CFR
405...................................................1084
414...................................................1084

                          47 CFR
73.....................................................874

                          48 CFR
Ch. 1 (2 documents).............................1050, 1057
1.....................................................1050
5.....................................................1051
12....................................................1051
13....................................................1051
14....................................................1051
17....................................................1051
19....................................................1051
22....................................................1051
25....................................................1051
36....................................................1050
52....................................................1051
53....................................................1050

                          50 CFR
679....................................................875