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CONTENTS
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Agricultural Marketing Service
RULES
Olives grown in--
California, 5905-5907
PROPOSED RULES
Cotton research and promotion order:
Cotton Board rules and regulations, 5936
Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Service
See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
See Farm Service Agency
See Forest Service
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5946
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NOTICES
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
Advisory Committee to Director, 5989
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee, 5989-5990
Meetings:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health--
Safety and Occupational Health Study Section, 5990
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5990-5991
Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5994-5996
Commerce Department
See Industry and Security Bureau
See International Trade Administration
See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5948-5949
Defense Department
See Navy Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5966-5967
Meetings:
Science Board task forces, 5967-5968
Environmental Protection Agency
RULES
Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various
States:
Michigan, 5932-5933
PROPOSED RULES
Air programs:
Ambient air quality standards, national--
Fine particulate matter and ozone; interstate transport control
measures; public hearings, 5944-5945
NOTICES
Integrated risk information system:
Health effects of chronic exposure to chemical substances--
2004 program announcement and information request, 5971-5976
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
North American Cooperation in the Conservation of Biodiversity
Strategic Plan, 5976-5979
Watersheds; integrating ecological risk assessment and economic
analysis; conceptual approach and case studies, 5979-5980
Toxic and hazardous substances control:
New chemicals--
Receipt and status information, 5980-5985
Water pollution control:
Total maximum daily loads--
Louisiana, 5985-5986
Farm Credit Administration
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 5986
Farm Service Agency
PROPOSED RULES
Special programs:
Direct Farm Loan Programs; regulatory streamlining, 6055-6121
Federal Aviation Administration
RULES
Airworthiness directives:
Aerospatiale, 5914-5918
Airbus, 5907-5911, 5922-5924, 5926-5928
BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd., 5913-5914
Boeing, 5911-5913, 5920-5922, 5924-5926
Learjet, 5918-5920
PROPOSED RULES
Airworthiness directives:
Boeing, 5939-5940
Gulfstream, 5936-5939
Federal Communications Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Radio frequency devices:
Interference temperature operation, 5945
NOTICES
Rulemaking proceedings; petitions filed, granted, denied, etc., 5986
Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICES
Disaster and emergency areas:
Maine, 5996-5997
Micronesia, 5997
Ohio, 5997-5998
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings, 5968-5971
Federal Housing Finance Board
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 5986-5987
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 6006
Federal Reserve System
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5987-5988
Banks and bank holding companies:
Change in bank control, 5988
Formations, acquisitions, and mergers, 5988-5989
Permissible nonbanking activities, 5989
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 5989
Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICES
Endangered and threatened species and/or marine mammal permit
applications, 5999
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
North American Wetlands Conservation Council, 5999-6000
Food and Drug Administration
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5991-5993
Forest Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5947-5948
Meetings:
Deschutes Provincial Advisory Committee, 5948
Resource Advisory Committees--
Siskiyou County, 5948
Health and Human Services Department
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
See Food and Drug Administration
See Indian Health Service
See National Institutes of Health
Homeland Security Department
See Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau
See Federal Emergency Management Agency
See Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5998
Indian Health Service
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 5993
Industry and Security Bureau
RULES
Export administration regulations:
Commerce Control List--
QRS11 micromachined angular rate sensors; licensing
jurisdiction, 5928-5930
Interior Department
See Fish and Wildlife Service
See Land Management Bureau
See Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
NOTICES
Meetings:
Guam War Claims Review Commission, 5998
Internal Revenue Service
RULES
Income taxes:
Business electronic filing; guidance, 5931-5932
PROPOSED RULES
Income taxes:
Business electronic filing; guidance, 5940-5942
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 6015-6017
International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping:
Antifriction bearings and parts thereof from--
Various countries, 5949-5960
Stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from--
Taiwan, 5960-5964
Countervailing duties:
Carbon and alloy steel wire rod from--
Brazil, 5964-5966
International Trade Commission
NOTICES
Import investigations:
Commercial availability of apparel inputs (2004); preferential
treatment to apparel from Sub-Saharan African, Caribbean
Basin, and Andean countries, 6003-6004
Polyethylene retail carrier bags from--
Various countries, 6004-6005
Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) from--
China, 6005-6006
Land Management Bureau
NOTICES
Disclaimer of interest applications:
Utah, 6000-6001
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
Royal Gorge, CO; South Park Land tenure adjustment plan, 6001-6002
Meetings:
Resource Advisory Councils--
New Mexico, 6002-6003
Survey plat filings:
Illinois, 6003
Mine Safety and Health Federal Review Commission
See Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
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National Institutes of Health
NOTICES
Environmental statements; notice of intent:
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories facility,
Boston, MA, 5993-5994
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RULES
Fishery conservation and management:
Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone--
Pollock, 5934
NOTICES
Marine mammals:
Taking and importation--
Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean; yellowfin tuna, 5966
Navy Department
NOTICES
Meetings:
Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel; correction, 5968
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NOTICES
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
Dow Chemical Co., 6006-6007
Personnel Management Office
PROPOSED RULES
Allowances and differentials:
Cost-of-living allowances (nonforeign areas)--
Methodology changes, 6019-6022
Health benefits, Federal employees:
New enrollments or enrollment changes; standardized effective
dates, 5935-5936
NOTICES
Allowances and differentials:
Cost-of-living allowances (nonforeign areas)--
Methodology changes, 6022-6053
Securities and Exchange Commission
PROPOSED RULES
Securities:
Options markets; competitive developments, 6123-6138
NOTICES
Meetings; Sunshine Act, 6007-6008
Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes:
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 6008-6009
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., 6009
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc., 6010-6013
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office
PROPOSED RULES
Permanent program and abandoned mine land reclamation plan submissions:
Texas, 5942-5944
Surface Transportation Board
NOTICES
Railroad services abandonment:
CSX Transportation, Inc., 6014-6015
Tennessee Valley Authority
NOTICES
Environmental statements; availability, etc.:
Paradise-Wilson 500-kV transmission system, KY and TN, 6013-6014
Transportation Department
See Federal Aviation Administration
See Surface Transportation Board
Treasury Department
See Internal Revenue Service
Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICES
Agency information collection activities; proposals, submissions, and
approvals, 6017
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Separate Parts In This Issue
Part II
Personnel Management Office, 6019-6053
Part III
Agriculture Department, Farm Service Agency, 6055-6121
Part IV
Securities and Exchange Commission, 6123-6138
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5 CFR
Proposed Rules:
591...................................................6020
890...................................................5935
7 CFR
932...................................................5905
Proposed Rules:
761...................................................6056
762...................................................6056
763...................................................6056
764...................................................6056
765...................................................6056
766...................................................6056
767...................................................6056
768...................................................6056
769...................................................6056
1205..................................................5936
14 CFR
39 (10 documents)......5907, 5909, 5911, 5913, 5914, 5918,
5920, 5922, 5924, 5926
Proposed Rules:
39 (2 documents)................................5936, 5939
15 CFR
734...................................................5928
740...................................................5928
774...................................................5928
17 CFR
Proposed Rules:
240...................................................6124
26 CFR
1.....................................................5931
Proposed Rules:
1.....................................................5940
30 CFR
Proposed Rules:
943...................................................5942
40 CFR
52....................................................5932
Proposed Rules:
51....................................................5944
72....................................................5944
75....................................................5944
96....................................................5944
47 CFR
Proposed Rules:
15....................................................5945
50 CFR
679...................................................5934