[The Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations]
[Subject Index to Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda Entries]
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   SUBJECT INDEX TO REGULATORY PLAN AND UNIFIED AGENDA ENTRIES


                                                               Seq. No.


                                   A

Accidents:
  See Safety
Accountants:
  Debarment and suspension...................................2840, 4556
Accounting:
  See also Uniform System of Accounts
  Audit followups..................................................3981
  Audit requirements for business and industrial loan programs......556
  Audit requirements for IMS grant programs........................3950
  Audit requirements for institutions of higher education..........3990
  Audit requirements for nonprofit institutions....................3990
  Audits of DOD contractors.........................................981
  Audits of RUS borrowers...........................................576
  Audits of subcontract proposals..................................4356
  Bureau of Economic Analysis benchmark survey......................613
  Cash receipts and disbursements method...........................3149
  Change in method.................................................3052
  Child welfare program calculations...............................1454
  Corporate acquisitions...........................................2918
  Cost accounting standards......................2053, 3985, 3992, 4345
  Cost allowability criteria.....945, 947, 4320, 4321, 4363, 4365, 4366
  Cost principles.................................618, 3986, 3994, 4319
  Customs Service fees and interest................................2853
  DOD contracts.......898, 950, 954, 955, 956, 964, 973, 974, 975, 978, 
                                          979, 981, 983, 987, 995, 1020
  DOE life cycle costing methodology...............................1124
  DOE research and development costs...............................1180
  Drug Enforcement Administration..................................1926
  Educational institutions...................................3988, 3996
  EPA cost recovery methodology....................................3796
  FAR contingent fees allowability.................................4323
  FCC regulation...................................................4504
  FERC electronic filing of Form No. 1.............................4591
  FMS claims...........................................2791, 2792, 2793
  Foreign exchange operations......................................2789
  Funds transfers to State governments.............................2785
  GPO Billing Accout Code Information..............................4416
  HOME formula.....................................................1488
  Interest assessment on FEHBP audit findings......................4074
  Internal control systems.........................................3995
  Investment company expenses paid through brokerage commission 
                                                                   4871
  Labor accounting systems..........................................988
  MarAd rate determinations........................................2749
  Mark-to-market method......................................3028, 3055
  Medicare program...................................................42
  NASA contracts...............3896, 3898, 3901, 3902, 3903, 3907, 3917
  NASA grants......................................................3920
  OMB Circular A-73 rescission.....................................3997
  OTS financial accounting standards...............................3220
  PBCG calculation and payment of benefits..........................143
  Profit-and-loss method...........................................3053
  REA telephone borrowers...........................................581
  Risk-based capital regulation....................................3208
  Sales of partnerships............................................2933
  SBA standards....................................................4230
  SEC disclosure requirements......................................4862
  SSA cycling of benefit payments...................................149
  SSI computation of benefits..........................4238, 4267, 4269
  State and local governments......................................3994
  Thresholds for contracts..................139, 3246, 3281, 3838, 4361
  Thresholds for grants.......1062, 1067, 1182, 1202, 2206, 3365, 3829, 
                                                             3951, 4227
  USDA audits of State, local and Indian tribal governments.........547
Acquisition regulations:
  See Government procurement
Acreage allotments:
  CAB adjustments..............................................210, 234
  Cotton............................................................183
  Reconstitution....................................................238
Additives:
  See Color additives
      Food additives
      Fuel additives
Adjustment assistance:
  See Trade adjustment assistance
Administrative practice and procedure:
  See also Claims
           Environmental impact statements
           Equal access to justice
           Freedom of information
           Privacy
  Administrative Dispute Resolution Act............................4588
  Alternative dispute resolution...................................1593
  Antitrust Civil Process Act......................................2051
  Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act...........................2054
  ASCS 90-day rule..................................................244
  BATF conference and practice rules...............................2815
  BLM application procedures.......................................1869
  Bureau of Prisons................................................1906
  Bureau of Prisons remedy program.................................1887
  Clinical investigator disqualification...........................1247
  Code of Conduct..................................................4265
  Communications...................................................4491
  Customs information disclosure or production.....................2869
  DOT rulemaking procedure.........................................2213
  EEOC coordination of issuances...................................3807
  Environmental Protection Agency..................................3780
  EPA suspension and debarment procedures..........................3792
  Equal Access to Justice Act................................1210, 2254
  FDIC minimum standards...........................................4898
  Federal banking agencies.........................................3216
  FHA violations.....................................................53
  FTC regulatory review............................................4683
  FWS seizure and forfeiture procedures............................1599
  General Education Provisions Act.................................1064
  Hearing and appeal procedures:
    Administration of Native Americans.............................1446
    Agriculture Department.....................................198, 372
    Army Corps of Engineers........................................1028
    Bureau of Indian Affairs.................................1590, 1591
    Bureau of Land Management......................................1865
    Coast Guard....................................................2351
    Cuban Democracy Act............................................2763
    Drug Enforcement Administration................................1933
    Energy Board of Contract Appeals...............................1139
    Environmental Protection Agency....................3456, 3590, 3794
    FCIC procedures.................................................346
    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation..........................4550
    Federal Reserve System...................................4652, 4661
    Finance Board..................................................4597
    Food Stamp Program..............................................464
    Government contractors...................................4350, 4369
    GSA Board of Contract Appeals..................................3871
    Health and Human Services Department...........................1332
    Hearing under CERCLA and emergency planning....................3795
    Housing Department.............................................1468
    Immigration and Naturalization Service...................1950, 1951
    Immigration proceedings...1935, 1937, 1941, 1942, 1957, 1995, 2029, 
                                                                   2038
    Labor Department.................................68, 70, 2101, 2102
    Medicare claims appeal...................................1308, 1309
    Minerals Management Service....................................1814
    National Credit Union Administration...........................4719
    National Indian Gaming Commission........................4723, 4724
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.................782
    Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.................3967
    Office of Government Ethics....................................3969
    Office of Personnel Management.................................4101
    Office of Thrift Supervision...................................3197
    Peace Corps....................................................4120
    PTO disciplinary proceedings....................................879
    Railroad Retirement Board.................................145, 4157
    Small Business Administration......................4170, 4177, 4201
    Social Security Administration...............4257, 4282, 4308, 4309
    State Plan Amendment...........................................1333
    Transportation proceedings.....................................2514
    Treasury Department......................................2840, 3221
    Veterans Administration..........3299, 3301, 3342, 3343, 3344, 3345
  HUD complaint investigations and compliance reviews..............1482
  HUD employee testing and production of information...............1470
  Immigration and Naturalization Service...........................1939
  INS employment authorization applications........................2044
  Internal Revenue Service.......................3001, 3087, 3184, 3191
  Intra-agency communications......................................4567
  Justice Department tax administration duties.....................2980
  Labor organizations..............................................2127
  National Credit Union Administration.............................4712
  NHTSA procedural regulations for rulemaking......................2593
  NOAA civil procedure regulations..................................794
  NRC fee schedules.................................................163
  Office of Personnel Management.................4033, 4077, 4079, 4095
  PBGC regulation renumbering......................................4136
  Peace Corps volunteer discrimination complaints..................4121
  PHS Mammography Quality Standards Act..............................28
  Registration of drug producers...................................1225
  RTC minimum standards............................................4901
  Securities and Exchange Commission...............................4897
  Small Business Administration.....................................146
  State Department.................................................2188
  Subpoena issuance and service..............................1972, 3289
  Transportation documentation.....................................3841
Adoption and foster care:
  Foster care benefits.............................................1456
  Government employee leave for adoption of a child...........142, 4100
  On-site eligibility reviews......................................1437
  State performance requirements...................................1429
Adult education:
  Adult Education Act..............................................1103
  Homeless programs................................................1104
  Indian programs..................................................1780
Advertising:
  Air carriers, prices.............................................2252
  Airline tour prices..............................................2250
  Binoculars.......................................................4674
  DOT training service contractors.................................2217
  Extension ladders................................................4679
  Home insulation..................................................4666
  Investment companies.......................................4831, 4866
  Medical devices..................................................1273
  Sleeping bags....................................................4675
  Small business size standards....................................4205
  Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4672
  Tablecloths and related products.................................4678
  Television.................................................4518, 4521
Affirmative action plans:
  See Equal employment opportunity
Aged:
  See also Medicaid
           Medicare
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  AOA rules revisions..............................................1460
  Food assistance programs.....................................422, 442
  Geriatric drug use...............................................1250
  Housing........................................1477, 1514, 1527, 1541
  Mortgage insurance demonstration program.........................1502
  Nondiscrimination:
    Air travel.....................................................2220
    DOL programs...................................................2153
    DOT financial assistance programs..............................2247
    Employment...........................................134, 135, 3806
    Housing........................................................1547
    NEA-assisted activities........................................3953
  Senior Community Service Employment Program......................2114
  Supplemental food program.........................................405
  Transportation...................................................2690
Agricultural commodities:
  See also specific commodities
           Acreage allotments
           Commodity futures
           Crop insurance
           Fruits
           Grains
           Marketing quotas
           Oilseeds
           Price support programs
           Surplus agricultural commodities
           Vegetables
  Barley............................................................393
  CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program...............................501
  Corn..............................................................392
  Cotton...................................176, 213, 237, 256, 265, 371
  Crop grouping regulations........................................3401
  Direct credit programs............................................492
  Exports............................................281, 508, 510, 511
  Feed grains..............................213, 237, 239, 248, 256, 347
  Foreign donation..................................................509
  Grants............................................................392
  Inspection....................................275, 281, 390, 392, 393
  Measure-All Pilot Program.........................................220
  Overseas market development..................................502, 504
  Purchase and shipment.............................................491
  Rice...............................................213, 237, 256, 384
  Seeds...................................................261, 275, 357
  Shipping regulations............................503, 2748, 2751, 2754
  Sugarcane....................................................214, 377
  Wheat....................................213, 237, 239, 247, 256, 257
  Wool and mohair..............................................209, 255
Agricultural research:
  Administrative provisions...............................295, 297, 299
  Animal biologics..................................................287
  Animal embryos and semen..........................................286
  Biologics definition..............................................276
  Rangeland research................................................296
  Small Business Innovation Research Program........................298
Agriculture:
  See also Agricultural commodities
           Agricultural research
           Food assistance programs
           Foods
           Forests and forest products
           Irrigation
           Migrant labor
           Pesticides and pests
           Range management
           Rural areas
  Alien farm workers.........................................1969, 1975
  ASCS controlled substance violation provisions....................245
  ASCS debt settlement.........................................180, 258
  ASCS program ineligibility........................................208
  ASCS 90-day rule..................................................244
  Business and industrial loan program..............................559
  CCC debt settlement...............................................258
  Certified Lender Program..........................................193
  CFSA state and county committees..................................199
  Conservation and Environmental Program............................206
  Conservation Reserve Program..................207, 215, 262, 263, 264
  Dairy-State make allowance........................................205
  Debarment and suspension.....................................550, 551
  Disaster assistance..........................197, 227, 235, 269, 4212
  Environmental Program.............................................314
  Extension Service property regulation.............................301
  Farm Facility Loan Program........................................212
  Farm ownership loans...............................221, 224, 228, 229
  Farmer Program....................................................313
  Flooding in the Midwest...........................................207
  Hazardous materials transportation regulation....................2509
  Income taxes.....................................................2907
  Indian farmlands.................................................1774
  Labor certification for temporary workers........................2107
  OCC loan loss amortization.......................................2843
  Officials........................................................3081
  Pilot Voluntary Production Limitation Program.....................239
  Plant Variety Protection Act......................................172
  Reconstitution of bases, allotments, and quotas...................238
  Seasonal farmworkers.............................................2105
  Socially disadvantaged outreach program......................228, 229
  Soil and Water Loans Program......................................224
  State mediation programs..........................................231
  Taxpayer Identification Number...................................3079
  Technical assistance and training..................552, 555, 562, 591
  Wetlands regulations....................................187, 188, 608
  Worker protection standards........2074, 3375, 3383, 3387, 3388, 3398
Aid to Families with Dependent Children:
  See also Public assistance programs
  Child care programs..............................................1444
  Waiver request process...........................................1431
AIDS:
  Blood transfusions look-back requirements........................1238
  Hospital or blood bank notification..............................1349
  NIH AIDS Research Loan Program...................................1284
  Research training grants.........................................1292
Air carriers:
  See also Air rates and fares
           Charter flights
  Advanced Simulation Plan.........................................2433
  Airline deregulation benefit provisions..........................2103
  Airport fees.....................................................2444
  Anti-drug and alcohol misuse prevention programs.................2452
  Aviation exemption procedures....................................2223
  Baggage liability limit..........................................2235
  Baggage liability notices........................................2249
  Cargo limit......................................................2730
  Cargo tax collection.............................................3133
  Certification and operation requirements.........................2491
  Certification requirements.......................................2404
  Code-sharing arrangement disclosure..............................2237
  Commuter airlines:
    Certification requirements.......................................91
    Operations requirements..........................................91
    Seat restraint systems.........................................2412
  Competitiveness......................................2230, 2248, 2761
  Direct flight, definition........................................2221
  Disputes with airport proprietors................................2437
  Electronic filing of rules.......................................2243
  Flight diversions within metropolitan areas......................2222
  Foreign air transportation.......................................2060
  Holiday give back slots..........................................2484
  INS fines................................1962, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  Interstate authority.............................................2248
  Minimum altitudes for autopilot use..............................2432
  Nondiscrimination:
    Age............................................................2220
    Individuals with disabilities................2215, 2228, 2229, 2257
  On-time flight reports...........................................2760
  Passengers:
    Airline counter notices........................................2224
    Change-of-gauge services notification..........................2240
    Facility charges...............................................2382
    Ground travel expense when diverted............................2222
    Manifest information...........................................2211
    Notification of aircraft disinsection..........................2239
    Oxygen use.....................................................2216
    Passenger Origin-Destination Survey............................2759
  Personnel criminal history check.................................2476
  Preinspection and transit privilege agreements with INS..........2040
  Price advertising................................................2252
  Repair station requirements................................2356, 2384
  Seats, crashworthiness standards.................................2409
  Security measures................................................2438
  Smoking ban......................................................2227
  Stage 2 airplanes in Hawaii......................................2453
  Tour prices......................................................2250
Air fares:
  See Air rates and fares
Air pollution:
  Lead.............................................................3679
Air pollution control..............................................4673
  See also Motor vehicle pollution
  Accidental release................................................132
  Acid rain........3590, 3591, 3592, 3593, 3667, 3709, 3729, 3735, 3741
  Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing...........................3636
  Aerosol can production...........................................3724
  Aerosol spray paints.............................................3646
  Aerospace industry...............................................3749
  Agricultural chemicals...........................................3719
  Air quality modeling.......................................3614, 3740
  Air quality standards..................................112, 113, 3679
  Aircraft and aircraft engines....................................3594
  Aircraft fuel venting and exhaust emissions......................2480
  Aluminum industry..........................................3627, 3628
  Ambient air quality monitoring...................................3737
  Ammonia test method..............................................3585
  Appeals regulations..............................................3590
  Awards...........................................................3670
  Baker's yeast manufacturing industry.............................3640
  Boat manufacturing industry......................................3722
  Burning liquid hydrocarbons......................................1807
  Canadian motor vehicles..........................................3704
  Caprolactam......................................................3642
  Capture efficiency guidelines..............................3675, 3744
  Carbon monoxide..................................................3594
  Chemicals................................3610, 3631, 3718, 3760, 3761
  Chromium emissions...............................................3612
  Citizen suit regulation..........................................3728
  Clean Air Act.....109, 132, 3581, 3583, 3593, 3618, 3657, 3658, 3659, 
             3668, 3670, 3683, 3697, 3698, 3699, 3736, 3741, 3759, 3797
  Coal-fired boilers...................................3655, 3729, 3739
  Commercial sterilization rule....................................3612
  Consumer products..........................................3646, 3647
  Copper smelters..................................................3625
  Cyanide chemical manufacturing...................................3696
  De minimis levels................................................3689
  Diesel refineries................................................3591
  Dioxin emission measurement......................................3584
  Dry cleaners.....................................................3725
  Electric utility steam generating facilities...............3615, 3654
  Emission control diagnostic systems..............................3713
  Emissions monitoring program...................3601, 3608, 3609, 3797
  Emissions reporting..............................................3578
  Emissions trades..................................................130
  Evaporative emission test procedure..............................3712
  Federal plan conformity determinations...........................3603
  Ferroalloy industry..............................................3588
  Field citations..................................................3698
  Fuel and fuel additives..........................................3572
  Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry screening method............3734
  Gasoline detergent additives.....................................3669
  Gasoline oxygen cap..............................................3606
  General provisions amendments....................................3641
  Generic test procedures..........................................3601
  Grant regulations................................................3682
  Hazardous air pollutants....116, 118, 119, 128, 129, 131, 3413, 3612, 
        3619, 3626, 3627, 3628, 3629, 3630, 3631, 3632, 3633, 3634, 
        3636, 3637, 3680, 3681, 3697, 3710, 3714, 3716, 3717, 3718, 
        3719, 3721, 3722, 3723, 3724, 3725, 3734, 3743, 3752, 3774
  Hazardous air pollutants source categories.......................3701
  Hazardous waste combustion facilities.............................109
  Indian reservations..............................................3597
  Indian tribes treatment..........................................3683
  Inspection/maintenance programs......................3577, 3600, 3755
  Instrument testing...............................................3730
  Iron and steel foundries.........................................3623
  Iron and steel mills.............................................3715
  Lead smelters....................................................3633
  Lesser-quality emission rates....................................3710
  Locomotive emissions.............................................3666
  Marine propulsion engines........................................3708
  Measurement regulation.....................................3584, 3675
  Medical waste incinerators..................................128, 3747
  Mineral wool production industry standards.......................3618
  Monitoring........................................................126
  Municipal landfills..............................................3685
  Municipal waste combustors........................................129
  Navajo nation lands..............................................3589
  New source performance standards.........3616, 3726, 3745, 3746, 3747
  New source review.....................................111, 3573, 3733
  New stationary sources...........................................3609
  Nitrogen dioxide.................................................3613
  Nitrogen oxides....................3594, 3655, 3729, 3738, 3739, 3753
  Non-metallic minerals processing.................................3616
  Nuclear facilities other than power plants.......................3672
  Nuclear power plants.............................................3731
  Nylon 6 production...............................................3720
  On-board diagnostics, fuel system malfunctions...................3703
  Opacity measurement of emissions.................................3676
  Open path analyzers..............................................3737
  Operating permits...........................................114, 3668
  Ozone........112, 115, 130, 3571, 3607, 3646, 3647, 3656, 3657, 3658, 
                         3659, 3662, 3664, 3732, 3742, 3753, 3760, 3761
  Paint stripper users.............................................3721
  Particulate matter standards......................................113
  PCB manufacturing................................................3431
  Perchloroethylene................................................3599
  Petroleum refineries.................................3587, 3619, 3748
  Pharmaceuticals industry.........................................3630
  Phosphate fertilizer production..................................3624
  Phosphogypsum stacks.............................................3635
  Phosphoric acid manufacturing....................................3621
  Plastic composites manufacturing.................................3716
  Polycarbonates...................................................3637
  Polyether polyol production......................................3717
  Polymers and resins..................................3620, 3692, 3695
  Polyurethane foam production.....................................3632
  Portland cement manufacturing....................................3629
  Printing/publishing facilities...................................3691
  Publically owned treatment works study...........................3639
  Pulp and paper mills..............................................116
  Radionuclides..............................................3714, 4739
  Radon......................................................3635, 3743
  Recycling and recovery standards...........................3661, 3762
  Refrigerant recycling............................................3660
  Regional haze protection.........................................3643
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................3611
  Secondary lead smelters..........................................3750
  Sewage sludge incinerators.......................................3498
  Shipbuilding and ship repair operations..........................3693
  Solid waste incinerators.........................................3726
  Stack gas testing methods..................................3585, 3734
  Stainless and non-stainless steel manufacturing..................3638
  Starch production facilities.....................................3745
  State implementation plans.....111, 115, 130, 3571, 3580, 3581, 3583, 
                                                       3589, 3700, 3742
  Steam generating units...........................................3738
  Steel pickling processes.........................................3622
  Stratospheric ozone protection.............................3661, 3762
  Sulfite pulping industry.........................................3752
  Sulfur oxides...............................................127, 3592
  Synthetic organic chemicals manufacturing........................3674
  Technical corrections to EPA methods.............................3586
  Test procedures............................................3712, 3727
  Test rules.......................................................3412
  Tetrahydrobenzaldehyde manufacturing.............................3634
  Tire manufacturing...............................................3723
  Transportation plans, programs, and projects...............3700, 3754
  Volatile organic compounds...130, 3644, 3645, 3674, 3675, 3680, 3681, 
                                                 3744, 3746, 3757, 3758
  Waste incinerators performance standards...................3699, 3736
  Wood furniture manufacturing emissions...........................3690
  Wood treatment industry..........................................3751
  Wool fiberglass manufacturing industry...........................3626
Air rates and fares:
  Exemption from property tariff filing requirements...............2236
  Rebating international fares.....................................2251
Air safety:
  See Aviation safety
Air tariffs:
  See Air rates and fares
Air traffic control:
  Notification of deviation from clearance or instruction..........2435
  Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System.....................2435
Air transportation:
  See also Air carriers
           Air rates and fares
           Air traffic control
           Aircraft
           Airmen
           Airports
           Airspace
           Aviation safety
           Charter flights
           Navigation (air)
  Aviation economic rules..........................................2264
  Aviation insurance...............................................2374
  FAA final rulemaking procedure...................................2440
  International policy.............................................2262
  Taxes............................................................3133
Aircraft:
  Agricultural quarantine and inspection on arrival.................283
  Airborne hunting.................................................1764
  Airworthiness directives and standards....90, 2354, 2387, 2393, 2394, 
        2395, 2400, 2402, 2411, 2419, 2420, 2422, 2441, 2443, 2445, 
        2446, 2447, 2470, 2472, 2487
  Allowable carbon dioxide concentrations..........................2415
  Altitude separation..............................................2363
  Bird ingestion standards.........................................2389
  Bird strike requirements.........................................2466
  Burner test requirements.........................................2426
  Child restraints.....................................2439, 2450, 2606
  Civil aircraft use of Air Force airfields........................1041
  Cockpit jumpseat.................................................2477
  Commuter category accelerated stalls.............................2425
  Commuter slots...................................................2462
  Corrosion control program........................................2367
  Crewmember certification.........................................2482
  Deicing and anti-icing program...................................2423
  DOD acquisition regulation........................................960
  Emergency exits..................................................2428
  Emission standards and test procedures...........................3594
  Energy management regulations....................................1159
  FAA registration fees............................................2361
  Fees.............................................................2481
  Flight data recorders............................................2386
  Fuel cells.......................................................1000
  Fuel pressure indicator certification............................2436
  Gate requirements for high-lift device controls..................2468
  Government employee use..........................................3842
  HAP emissions....................................................3749
  Helicopters:
    Rotor failure..................................................2403
    Type design changes............................................2370
  Improved seats retrofit..........................................2409
  Insecticide spraying requirements notification...................2239
  Maintenance:
    Aging aircraft...........................................2384, 2418
    Authorized persons.............................................2451
    Certification of mechanics and repairmen.......................2460
    Repair assessments.............................................2467
  Non-DOD aircraft use of Navy aviation facilities.................1033
  On-board diagnostics requirements................................3703
  Pilot and flight instructor certification........................2365
  Protection from electromagnetic fields...........................2473
  Registration.....................................................2355
  Rotorcraft:
    Airworthiness standards..................................2401, 2443
    Maximum gross weight limitation................................2375
    Occupant protection............................................2427
    Rating and certification.......................................2411
  Snowplanes.......................................................1750
  Surplus military.................................................2417
  Titles and security documents....................................2355
  Transponders...............................................2366, 2434
  Transport category:
    Airworthiness directives and standards...................2388, 2443
    Braked roll conditions.........................................2469
    Emergency evacuation demonstration procedures..................2373
    Emergency exits and slides.....................................2406
    Engine cowling retention devices...............................2413
    Gust load design requirements..................................2461
    Low speed stall................................................2357
    Repair assessments.............................................2467
    Structural loads requirements..................................2383
  Turbine-powered and turboprop:
    Bird ingestion standards.......................................2389
    Fuel venting and exhaust emissions.............................2480
    Water and hail ingestion standards.............................2385
  Type certification procedures....................................2381
  Use of NASA airfield facilities..................................3925
  Voyageurs National Park operations...............................1746
  Water landing survival equipment.................................2407
Aircraft pilots:
  See Airmen
Airlines:
  See Air carriers
Airmen:
  Advanced qualifications program..................................2485
  Advanced Simulation Plan.........................................2433
  Approach chart availability......................................2390
  Certification and operating requirements.........................2491
  Certification fees...............................................2482
  Civil penalty assessment procedures..............................2424
  Cockpit crew pairing requirements................................2475
  Controlled rest on the flight deck...............................2376
  Drug abuse.......................................................2410
  Drug and alcohol testing.........................................2380
  FAA certification fees...........................................2361
  Flight attendants:
    English language proficiency...................................2455
    Training and competency........................................2405
  Flight crew performance..........................................2408
  Flight operational quality assurance program participation.......2456
  Ground deicing/anti-icing procedures.............................2429
  Medical standards and certification..............................2397
  Notification to ATC of deviation from clearance or instruction 
                                                                   2435
  Rest and duty requirements.......................................2379
  Simulator instructors........................................89, 2458
  Training and certification.......................89, 2365, 2429, 2458
Airplanes:
  See Aircraft
Airports:
  Complaint procedures.............................................2437
  Delays, elimination of flight....................................2471
  Disadvantaged business enterprise concession plan................2232
  Fees.............................................................2444
  INS preinspection stations.......................................2040
  Jet aircraft in John F. Kennedy International Airport commuter 
      slots........................................................2462
  Jet aircraft in LaGuardia Airport commuter slots.................2462
  Land use compatibility planning..................................2364
  Non-Federal facilities...........................................2479
  Peak period landing fees.........................................2210
  Port of entry lists for aliens...................................2871
  Portsmouth Village Airstrip closure..............................1761
  Removals from port of entry lists................................2005
  Runways..........................................................2478
  Security...................................................2359, 2438
  Security personnel criminal history check........................2476
  State block grant pilot program..................................2483
  Takeoffs on wet or contaminated runways..........................2399
  Transponder requirement suspension...............................2434
Airspace:
  Charlotte TCA....................................................2486
  Cincinnati TCA...................................................2369
  Flights between the United States and the Federal Republic of 
      Yugoslavia...................................................2490
  Flights between the United States and the Republic of Iraq.......2494
  Flights between the United States and the Republic of Libya......2493
  Flights within the territory and airspace of Afghanistan.........2492
  Grand Canyon National Park overflights...........................2488
  Houston, TX......................................................2391
  Los Angeles, CA..................................................2431
  Nashville TCA....................................................2368
  National Park System overflights.................................2464
  Objects affecting navigable airspace.............................2353
  Orlando, FL......................................................2371
  Phoenix, AZ......................................................2378
  Raleigh/Durham CBA...............................................2372
  Regulations, routine issue of....................................2396
  Salt Lake City, UT.........................................2377, 2392
  Tampa, FL........................................................2459
Airways:
  See Airspace
Airworthiness directives and standards:
  See Aircraft
Alaska Natives:
  See Indians
Alcohol abuse:
  Air carrier employees............................................2452
  Alcohol-free workplace...........................................1136
  Drunk-driving-prevention programs................................2591
  Merchant mariners................................................2273
  NASA employees.............................................3888, 3893
  National Alcohol Research Centers................................1294
  National Minimum Drinking Age Act................................2580
  Patient record confidentiality...................................1207
  SSA representative payee reforms..................................148
  Substance abuse block grants.....................................1206
  Substance abuse programs, DOE sites........................1167, 1173
  Transportation industry......2258, 2263, 2284, 2380, 2521, 2542, 2697
  Veterans.........................................................3304
Alcohol and alcoholic beverages:
  See also Beer
           Gasohol
           Liquors
           Wine
  Trade practice revisions.........................................2817
Aliens:
  See also Citizenship and naturalization
           Immigration
           Migrant labor
           Refugees
  Adjustment of status.................................1946, 1990, 2004
  Approved petitions and appeal rights.............................1951
  Battered and abused spouses and children.........................2014
  Deportation proceedings..........................................1970
    Application for suspension...............................1942, 2029
    Denial of employment authorization.............................2036
    Entrepreneurs..................................................1936
    Executing a final exclusion order..............................1957
    Motions and appeals in immigration proceedings.................1935
    Stipulated requests for deportation or exclusion orders........1937
    Telephonic or video teleconferenced hearings...................1937
    Withholding of deportation.....................................1995
  Employment........64, 1955, 1966, 1971, 1989, 1995, 2008, 2031, 2036, 
                                                             2092, 2109
  Estate taxes.....................................................2973
  Family unity.....................................................1956
  Family unity benefits applicant processing.......................1979
  Farm labor.......................................................1969
  Farm workers.....................................................1975
  Felons:
    Deportation hearings...........................................2038
    Reentry after deportation or removal...........................1978
    Release conditions.............................................1983
    State assistance for imprisonment costs........................2067
    Waiver authority limitations...................................1977
  Fingerprinting by outside agencies...............................2001
  Form I-94 Arrival/Departure record.........................1960, 1963
  Immediate relative definition....................................2009
  Income taxes...............................................2909, 3063
  INS forms........................................................1994
  Labor certification process........................................71
  Legalization applications........................................2028
  Medicaid eligibility.............................................1334
  Medical graduates................................................4317
  Nonimmigrant classes:
    Admission into the U.S.........................................1971
    Classification.................................................1969
    Diplomats and government representatives.......................1955
    Disclosure of information......................................2023
    Exchange visitors..................................1106, 1949, 4315
    Law enforcement initiatives....................................2006
    Medical graduates..............................................2008
    Registration and fingerprinting requirements...................1985
    Streamlining legislation implementation..................2190, 2196
    Treaty aliens..................................................1982
    Unauthorized employment........................................1996
    Visa Waiver Pilot Program......................................2194
    Visas for Olympic families.....................................2197
    Visitors for business..........................................2027
    Waiver of documentation requirements...........................2002
  Permanent residence documentation..........................1958, 4239
  Permanent resident status........................................1981
  Physical and mental examinations.................................1947
  Ports of entry changes.....................................2005, 2046
  Privilege of communication.......................................1991
  Religious workers................................................2039
  Southern border crossing cards...................................1948
  SSA regulations.............................................150, 4245
  SSI sponsorship period...........................................4272
  Stowaways........................................................1964
  Student employment.........................................1987, 2088
  Temporary protected status.......................................1976
  Temporary workers........................1969, 1984, 1996, 2000, 2087
  Termination of temporary resident status...................1975, 2032
  Transit without visa.....................1944, 2025, 2026, 2046, 2199
  Travel documents.................................................1952
  UN Headquarters District requirements............................1965
  Widows and widowers..............................................2009
Alimony:
  See also Child support
  Garnishment order processing.....................................4111
Amateur radio service:
  See Radio
American Indians:
  See Indians
Ammunition:
  See Arms and munitions
Animal biologics:
  In vitro immunogenicity tests.....................................287
Animal diseases:
  Bovine tuberculosis...............................................274
  Importation.............................................273, 278, 284
  Salmonella enteritidis in chickens................................285
Animal drugs:
  See also Animal biologics
  Approval process.................................................1237
  Extra-label use..................................................1223
Animal welfare:
  In vitro tests in place of animal tests...........................287
  Marine mammals....................................................282
  Transport regulations............................................1639
Animals:
  See also specific animals
           Animal diseases
           Animal drugs
           Animal welfare
           Livestock
           Wildlife
  Damage control in national forests................................545
  Imports............................................277, 286, 288, 289
Annuities:
  See Pensions
Antidumping:
  Duties.............................................................13
  Identifying merchandise subject to orders........................2887
  Protective order violations.......................................620
Antiquities:
  See Historic preservation
Antitrust:
  Antitrust Civil Process Act......................................2051
  Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act...........................2054
  Depository institution management interlocks...............4633, 4643
  Management Official Interlocks...................................2822
Appeal procedures:
  See Administrative practice and procedure
Appliances:
  See Household appliances
Apprenticeship programs:
  See Manpower training programs
Archaeology:
  See Historic preservation
Architectural barriers:
  See Individuals with disabilities
Archives and records:
  See also Classified information
           Freedom of information
           Health records
           Privacy
           Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
  Air Force records correction applications........................1037
  Audiovisual records management...................................3929
  Coast Guard Board................................................2218
  Customs information disclosure or production.....................2869
  Disposition of records...........................................3934
  Electronic mail systems..........................................3945
  Facilities.................................................3928, 3943
  Federal records centers....................................3930, 3937
  Grant procedures.................................................3940
  MMS release of proprietary information...........................1814
  Navy and Marine Corps records....................................1034
  Nixon administration.............................................3941
  Privacy..........................................................4900
  Reproduction fees..........................................3937, 3947
  Researcher registration..........................................3938
  Suitland Research Room...........................................3943
  Transfer of records........................................3939, 3946
  USIA materials...................................................3931
  Vital records programs...........................................3944
Armed forces:
  See also Armed forces reserves
           Federal buildings and facilities
           Military personnel
           Selective Service System
  Air Force:
    Civil aircraft use of airfields................................1041
    Personnel review boards........................................1037
    Public affairs program.........................................1036
  Army:
    Acquisition regulation..........................................966
    Emergency employment...........................................1022
    Fort Lewis regulation..........................................1024
    Surrender of military personnel to civilian authorities........1023
  Army Corps of Engineers:
    Administrative appeals process.................................1028
    Endangered species regulations.................................1029
    Nationwide permit program......................................1027
    Permit regulations.......................................1025, 1026
    Permit violations..............................................1030
    Wetland Delineator Certification Program.......................1031
  CHAMPUS...1042, 1043, 1044, 1045, 1046, 1047, 1048, 1049, 1050, 1051, 
                                                       1052, 1053, 1054
  Coast Guard:
    Advance notice of arrivals and departures......................2288
    Aleutian Trade Act implementation..............................2304
    Black Warrior River navigation area............................2337
    Bulk hazardous materials regulations.....................2347, 2348
    Correction of military records.................................2218
    Drug, chemical, and alcohol testing............................2284
    Escort requirements for vessels in U.S. waters.................2279
    Examination methods modernization..............................2307
    Facilities transferring oil and hazardous material.............2323
    Facility response plans for hazardous substances.................86
    Hazardous conditions notification..............................2324
    Industry standards adoption....................................2285
    Inflatable flotation devices for recreational boaters..........2280
    International navigation rules.................................2310
    Lake Huron to Lake Erie navigation.............................2345
    Lightering zones establishment.................................2339
    Lighting provisions amendments.................................2302
    Marine casualty reporting......................................2326
    Marine safety regulations......................................2344
    Merchant marine documents......................................2281
    Mississippi River navigation area..............................2338
    Navigation safety equipment for towing vessels.................2283
    Noxious liquid substances regulations..........................2349
    Numbering of undocumented barges...............................2287
    Organizational changes.........................................2352
    Passenger vessel damage stability requirements.................2303
    Pollution prevention regulations...............................2340
    Radar-observer endorsements....................................2306
    Recreational inflatable personal flotational device standards
                                                                   2308
    Recreational vessel fees.......................................2311
    Regatta and parade permits.....................................2269
    Regulated navigation areas.....................................2325
    Regulations removal............................................2286
    Rulemaking procedures....................................2342, 2351
    St. Marys River speed limits...................................2343
    Tank vessel hull regulations.....................................88
    Tank vessel response plans for hazardous substances..............87
    U.S. ATON systems........................................2267, 2268
    Uniform State Waterways Marking System.........................2267
    Vessel design, inspection, and classification requirements.....2309
    Vessel documentation regulations.........................2341, 2346
    Vessel rebuild determinations..................................2305
    Vessel traffic services regulations............................2350
    Western Rivers Marking System..................................2267
    Wrangell Narrows, AK navigation................................2282
  DOD Civil-Military Programs..................................895, 896
  Health care services..............................................898
  Marine Corps:
    Board for correction of records................................1034
  Military recruiting on campus.....................................914
  Navy:
    Board for correction of records................................1034
    Incidental taking of marine mammals.............................664
    Non-DOD aircraft use of Navy aviation facilities...............1033
    Privacy Program................................................1035
  Recruiting on campus.........................................899, 939
  Selective service regulation.....................................4166
  Surplus aircraft.................................................2417
  Total Quality Management..........................................905
Armed forces reserves:
  Burial benefits..................................................3284
  Education benefits...........3252, 3314, 3322, 3327, 3333, 3335, 3336
  Executive Reserve Program........................................3818
Arms and munitions:
  Brady Bill regulations...........................................2818
  DOD contractor safety.............................................913
  DOD physical security standards...................................923
  DOD weapon system warranties......................................975
  Dual-use items......................................14, 626, 650, 651
  Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative.........................634
  Excise taxes.....................................................2813
  Export controls......14, 624, 631, 633, 635, 639, 640, 641, 646, 650, 
                                                               651, 657
  Handguns.....................................................97, 2818
  Hazardous wastes.................................................3535
  Importation......................................................2819
  International....................................................2198
  Semiautomatic assault weapons......................................97
  Shotshell length restrictions....................................1720
Art:
  Indemnities under the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act...........3948
  NEH debarment and suspension action..............................3962
  NEH grants administration........................................3961
Asbestos:
  Comprehensive revisions..........................................3688
  Model accreditation plan.........................................3445
Asylum:
  See Immigration
Atomic energy:
  See Nuclear energy
Attorneys:
  See Lawyers
Auditing:
  See Accounting
Authority delegations:
  Agriculture Secretary............................................3081
  Banks............................................................2773
  Bureau of Indian Affairs.........................................1791
  Coast Guard................................................2311, 2351
  Customs Service......................................2857, 2870, 2875
  DOD contracting.............................................967, 1013
  DOD procurement...................................................933
  DOL Office of the Solicitor......................................2075
  Education Secretary..................................1062, 1063, 1083
  EEOC Director of Program Operations..............................3811
  EPA Administrator................................................3583
  EPA revisions..............................................3440, 3800
  Government contracting.....................................4330, 4415
  GSA programs......................................................139
  HUD budget authority allocation..................................1493
  HUD Secretary................................50, 54, 1471, 1523, 1524
  Justice Department...............................................2055
  Labor Department.................................................2086
  Labor Secretary..................................................2125
  Maritime Administrator...........................................2755
  NASA approval authorities........................................3905
  NASA foreign contracts awards....................................3924
  NASA space article transit and certification.....................3914
  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...................2662
  Office of Personnel Management...................................4040
  Railroad Retirement Board........................................4160
  Rural Utilities Service...........................................583
  Social Security Administration.......................4244, 4263, 4293
  Transportation Secretary.........................................2758
  Veterans Administration..................3237, 3265, 3283, 3287, 3289
Automatic data processing:
  See Computer technology
Automobiles:
  See Motor vehicles
Aviation safety:
  Accelerated stalls in commuter category airplanes................2425
  Aging aircraft...................................................2418
  Air tour sightseeing operations..................................2489
  Aircraft improved seats retrofit.................................2409
  Airplane operator security.......................................2358
  Airspace system, exemption of regulations........................2446
  Airworthiness directives and standards....90, 2387, 2388, 2394, 2419, 
                                           2420, 2422, 2441, 2443, 2487
  Alcohol misuse prevention program................................2452
  Allowable carbon dioxide concentrations in aircraft..............2415
  Altitude separation of aircraft..................................2363
  Anti-drug programs...............................................2452
  Autopilot use....................................................2432
  Bird ingestion standards.........................................2389
  Bird strike requirements.........................................2466
  Braked roll conditions...........................................2469
  Civil penalty assessment procedures........................2424, 2463
  Commuter airlines..................................................91
  Composite propellers fatigue tests...............................2470
  Corrosion control program........................................2367
  Crash-resistant fuel systems.....................................2354
  Crashworthy fuel tanks and lines.................................2448
  Deicing and anti-icing program...................................2423
  DOD contractors...................................................960
  Emergency evacuation demonstration procedures....................2373
  Emergency exits and slides.......................................2406
  Engine fuel and induction systems................................2447
  Fatigue evaluation and testing.............................2414, 2474
  Flight crew performance..........................................2408
  Flight data recorders............................................2386
  Flight operational quality assurance program information.........2456
  Flight rules...............................................2393, 2395
  Fuel tank vent protection........................................2445
  Gate requirements for high-lift device controls..................2468
  Gust load design requirements....................................2461
  Hazards to air navigation........................................2353
  Helicopter rotor failure.........................................2403
  Low-fuel-quantity alerting system................................2402
  Maintenance personnel certification..............................2460
  Mountain flying..................................................2465
  Oxygen use by air carrier passengers.............................2216
  Pilot rest and duty requirements.................................2379
  Pilot rest requirements..........................................2376
  Protective breathing equipment...................................2416
  Regulation exemption process.....................................2360
  Repair assessments...............................................2467
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................2384, 3876
  Rotorcraft occupant protection...................................2427
  Rotorcraft weight limitation.....................................2375
  Seat restraint systems...........................................2412
  Subsonic airplanes...............................................2400
  Transponder requirement..........................................2366
  Turboprop and turbine-powered aircraft...........................2385
  Type certification procedures....................................2381
  Visual descent points............................................2362
  Water landing survival equipment.................................2407
  Wet and contaminated runways.....................................2399
Awards:
  See Decorations, medals, awards


                                   B

Baggage:
  See Freight
Balloons:
  See Aircraft
Bananas:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................349
Bank deposit insurance:
  Assessments..............................4559, 4564, 4569, 4570, 4572
  Capital maintenance............................4553, 4565, 4568, 4571
  Credit unions....................................................4701
  Deposit liabilities..............................................4557
  Economically depressed regions designation.......................4558
  Eligibility......................................................4540
  Flood insurance purchase requirements............................4566
  Foreign banks....................................................4552
  Loans in areas having special flood hazards......................4545
  National depositor preference....................................4563
  Nonmember banks..................................................4682
  Program fraud civil remedies.....................................4543
  Risk-based capital standards...................4541, 4551, 4553, 4562
  Treasury stock investments.......................................4549
  Uniform rules of practice and procedure....................4550, 4567
Bankruptcy:
  FmHA regulations..................................................268
  Qualifications for trustees......................................2057
  RCRA financial responsibility....................................3562
Banks, banking:
  See also Bank deposit insurance
           Credit
           Electronic funds transfers
           Federal home loan banks
           Federal Reserve System
           Foreign banking
           National banks
           Savings associations
  Anti-money laundering programs...................................2771
  Automated Clearing House Method..................................2794
  Bank holding companies...............................4627, 4628, 4808
  Bank Secrecy Act......2770, 2772, 2773, 2774, 2775, 2776, 2777, 2778, 
                                           2779, 2780, 2781, 2782, 4637
  Capital distributions regulations................................3212
  Change in Bank Control Act.......................................2836
  Checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury................................2787
  Community Development Financial Institution Fund...................96
  Community Reinvestment Act.....................2828, 2842, 3219, 4660
  Control..........................................................4639
  Credit of accounts of government employees and beneficiaries.....2795
  Criminal referral report...................................2835, 3206
  Cross-border transportation of negotiable instruments............2778
  Currency transaction reporting.......................2775, 2776, 2779
  Debarment and suspension.........................................2768
  Disclosure of information........................................4554
  Farm credit:
    Agricultural secondary market regulations......................4449
    Annual meeting.................................................4460
    Borrower rights................................................4446
    Capital regulations revisions............................4445, 4448
    Disclosure to shareholders.....................................4451
    Election of directors..........................................4457
    Employee standards of conduct............................4462, 4464
    FCSIC nondiscrimination enforcement............................4465
    FCSIC referral of criminal violations..........................4466
    Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation risk-based capital 
        regulation.................................................4458
    Foreign markets................................................4454
    Funding relationship with other institutions...................4455
    Guidelines for financing agreements............................4443
    Leasing regulation.............................................4459
    Loan documentation.............................................3209
    Loan underwriting standards....................................4452
    Loans....................................................4444, 4447
    Non-dollar debt................................................4442
    Regulatory review and deletion.................................4450
    Statement of regulatory burden.................................4463
    Technical assistance and financially related services..........4461
    Uninsured voluntary and involuntary accounts...................4453
  Federal branches and agencies of foreign banks...................2832
  FFB loans.........................................................603
  Foreign subsidiary exemptions....................................4833
  Golden parachute payments........................................4547
  Government contracts.............................................4403
  Government securities sales practices............................2829
  Indemnification requirements.....................................4547
  Interest.........................................................2944
  Interstate deposit production offices............................2827
  Investment securities............................................2821
  Letter of credit..................................................515
  Minimum capital ratios...........................................2831
  Non-bank financial institutions..................................2774
  OCC interpretive rulings.........................................2837
  Receivorship rules...............................................4546
  Recourse arrangements and direct credit substitutes..............4629
  Regulation K.....................................................4642
  Regulation U.....................................................4634
  Release of nonpublic information.................................3218
  Restrictions on sale of assets...................................4542
  Risk-based capital requirements................3966, 4629, 4638, 4657
  Risk-based capital standards...............................3211, 4651
  RTC claims procedures............................................4806
  RTC contractor suspensions and exclusions........................4804
  Safety and soundness standards.................2821, 4555, 4561, 4653
  Small and medium-sized business loans............................3209
  Small business loan obligations..................................3207
  Special mention assets...........................................3210
  Standards of conduct.............................................4560
  Supervision of operations........................................2830
  Suspicious activity reporting..............................4544, 4637
  Suspicious transaction reporting...........................2777, 2780
  Transmittal orders.........................................2781, 2782
  Travel rules.....................................................4645
Barges:
  See Cargo vessels
Barley:
  Inspection standards..............................................393
Barrels:
  See Packaging and containers
Beans:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................342
Beef:
  See Livestock
      Meat and meat products
Beer:
  Brewery regulations..............................................2804
  Exports..........................................................2799
  Home brew warehouses.............................................2816
  Labeling.........................................................2812
  Malt beverage labeling...........................................2800
  Registration requirements for producers..........................2805
Biologics:
  See also Animal biologics
           Blood
  Adverse experience reporting.....................................1263
  Defining..........................................................276
  Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1254
  Labeling...........................................................35
  Name of selling agent on distributor.............................1230
  Product license applications.....................................1275
  Standards exceptions.............................................1261
  Streamlining procedures............................................31
  Vaccine information..................................1209, 1260, 1375
  Vaccine injury compensation......................................1276
Birds:
  See Wildlife
Birth control:
  See Family planning
Blind:
  See also Medicaid
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program......................................4408
Blood:
  Bloodborne pathogens...............................................80
  Errors and accidents reporting...................................1215
  Hospital standards for HIV infectious blood......................1349
  Look-back requirements for HIV risk..............................1238
  Safety standards.................................................1215
Boats and boating safety:
  See Marine safety
      Navigation (water)
Bonding:
  See Surety bonds
Bonds:
  Arbitrage restrictions...........................................2990
  Qualified..................................................2992, 3100
  Refunding of bonds issued to finance housing.....................1513
  Stripped.........................................................2923
  Zero coupon......................................................1384
Borders:
  See International boundaries
Boycotts:
  Foreign boycott provisions........................................625
Bridges:
  Alteration of obstructive........................................2334
  Drawbridge operation.............................................2322
  Railroad safety regulations......................................2674
Broadcasting:
  See Radio
      Television
Brokers:
  Conflict-of-interest issues......................................4881
  Credit extensions................................................4646
  Dealer's fees....................................................4881
  Large trader records.............................................4891
  Net capital requirements.........................................4884
  Quotations on securities.........................................4892
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................2764, 4888
  Risk assessment for holding company systems.......................154
  SRO membership and persons subject to statutory 
      disqualification.............................................4895
  Theoretical pricing to determine haircuts on options.............4887
  Wrap fee programs................................................4860
Buildings:
  See also Federal buildings and facilities
  Access for children with disabilities............................1907
  Access for individuals with disabilities...62, 1908, 1909, 3356, 3360
  Asbestos.........................................................3445
  Building code changes following disasters........................3825
  Earthquake hazards reduction......................................305
  Indoor air quality...............................................2182
Buses:
  See also Motor carriers
           Motor vehicles
  Accessibility of over-the-road buses.............................2256
  Emergency exits..................................................2642
  School:
    Body joint strength............................................2587
    Flammability of interior materials.............................2585
  Sleeper berths on motor coaches..................................2536
  Stopping distance................................................2638
  Testing guidelines...............................................2691
  Window emergency exits...........................................2644
Business and industry:
  See also specific industries
           Accounting
           Advertising
           Antitrust
           Bankruptcy
           Competitiveness
           Confidential business information
           Holding companies
           Indians-business and finance
           Labeling
           Labor
           Minority businesses
           Packaging and containers
           Relocation assistance
           Small businesses
           Taxes
           Trade adjustment assistance
           Trade practices
           Trademarks
  Acrylate/methacrylate use rule...................................3429
  Acrylic/modacrylic fiber manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3636
  Adjustment and collection agencies size standards................4173
  Aircraft:
    Pollution standards............................................3749
    Structural loads requirements..................................2383
  Aluminum industry:
    Air pollution control....................................3627, 3628
  Baker's yeast manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3640
  Boat manufacturing industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3722
  Cement manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3629
  Certificates of competency.......................................4203
  Chemicals:
    Accidental release prevention...................................132
    Air pollution control........................3631, 3674, 3718, 3719
    Control of PMNs................................................3428
    Hazardous wastes listing.....................3528, 3529, 3543, 3547
    Manufacture......................3402, 3414, 3427, 3436, 3437, 3610
    Pollution standards......................................3431, 3692
  Chromium electroplating..........................................3612
  Commercial sterilization.........................................3612
  Contract Cooling-Off Rule........................................4680
  DOC acquisition regulations.......................................612
  DOT disadvantaged business enterprise program....................2231
  Dry cleaning.....................................................4673
    Air pollution control..........................................3725
    Effluent guidelines............................................3482
    Perchlorethylene...............................................3599
  Effluent guidelines..............................................3484
  EPA operating permits.............................................114
  Equipment standards..............................................4490
  Fastener industry:
    Quality assurance...............................................660
  Ferroalloy industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3588
  FmHA loan program.................................................559
  Foreign purchases.................................................989
  Franchising and business opportunity ventures....................4669
  Housing..........................................................1546
  Industrial disposal wells........................................3519
  Industrial laundries:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3482
  Industrial technology partnerships................................894
  Leather tanning and finishing:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3452
  Mergers..............................................4703, 4715, 4836
  Metal products and machinery:
    Effluent guidelines.......................................123, 3485
  Mineral processing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3616
    Lead smelters..................................................3750
  Mortgage lending industry:
    FHA violations.................................................1548
  Motor vehicle manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3713
    Airbag cutoff switches.........................................2654
    Emissions standards........................................117, 119
    Fuel economy.............................................2559, 2600
    Sales volume limit provisions..................................3598
  National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits..........3464
  Nylon 6 production:
    Air pollution control..........................................3720
  Pharmaceuticals:
    Air pollution control..........................................3630
    Pollution standards............................................3470
  Polyether polyol production:
    Air pollution control..........................................3717
  Polyurethane foam production:
    Air pollution control..........................................3632
  Preventing suffocation/explosions in confined spaces.............2185
  Printing/publishing:
    Pollution standards............................................3691
  Property insurance industry:
    FHA violations.................................................1549
  Pulp, paper and paperboard..................................116, 3481
  Real estate:
    FHA violations...................................................53
  Starch manufacturing industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3745
  Steel manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3638
  Sulfite pulping industry:
    Air pollution control..........................................3752
  Tetrahydrobenzaldehyde manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3634
  Tires:
    Manufacture....................................................3723
  Transportation equipment cleaning:
    Effluent guidelines............................................3483
  Wool fiberglass manufacturing:
    Air pollution control..........................................3626


                                   C

Cable television:
  Broadcast signals................................................4473
  Cost of service..................................................4468
  Cross-ownership rules......................................4471, 4474
  Customer service standards.......................................4469
  Home wiring rights...............................................4472
  Rates......................................................4467, 4470
  Small systems....................................................4470
  TV and VCR compatibility.........................................4493
Campaign funds:
  Expense deductions...............................................3142
Cancer:
  See also specific hazardous substances
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3776
  Mammography Quality Standards Act..................................28
  Veterans' claims.................................................3324
Cargo:
  See Freight
Cargo vessels:
  See also Maritime carriers
  Advice of vessel approval.........................................503
  Barges:
    Numbering of undocumented barges...............................2287
  Bulk hazardous materials...................................2347, 2348
  Cargo preference...............................2748, 2751, 2752, 2754
  Handling of explosive and other dangerous cargoes................2277
  Notice of arrivals and departures................................2288
  Overfill and tank monitoring devices.............................2271
  Rate determinations..............................................2749
  Tank vessels:
    Escorts........................................................2318
    Foreign........................................................2274
    Hulls............................................................88
    Lightering zones establishment.................................2339
    Liquefied gas safety standards.................................2328
    Oil pollution prevention.................................2318, 2333
    Qualifications of personnel....................................2289
    Response plans.......................................87, 2298, 2299
Cemeteries:
  VA burial benefits.............................3284, 3285, 3286, 3308
Cereals (commodity):
  See Grains
Charter buses:
  See Buses
      Motor carriers
      Motor vehicles
Charter flights:
  Charter operators................................................2230
  Passengers stranded by...........................................2219
Checks:
  See Banks, banking
Chemicals:
  See also specific chemicals
           Drugs
           Hazardous substances
           Pesticides and pests
  Acrylamide.......................................................3433
  Acrylate/methacrylate............................................3429
  Air Pollution control......................................3610, 3674
  Arsenic in drinking water........................................3514
  Assessment information rule......................................3436
  Chemical inventory reporting.....................................3766
  DEA exemption from registration..................................1934
  Domestic Chemical Diversion Act......................1922, 1923, 1932
  Drinking Water Priority List.....................................3518
  Drinking water regulations.......................................3517
  Export/import..................................1918, 1928, 1929, 3072
  Formaldehyde.....................................................3442
  Health and safety reporting rule.................................3437
  New use rules for PMNs...........................................3428
  Ozone depleting:
    Fire extinguishers containing HCFCs............................3607
    Global warming potentials for..................................3656
    Phaseout rule..................................................3760
    Refrigerant recycling........................3657, 3658, 3659, 3761
    Sales restrictions.............................................3662
    Substitutes....................................................3664
  Polychlorinated biphenyls........................................3431
  Polymers and resins..............................................3692
  Quick freeze spray products......................................4676
  Test rules.........................3409, 3411, 3412, 3417, 3426, 3446
  Toxic substances.....................................3405, 3414, 3447
  Toxic substances in new chemicals................................3427
  Toxicity profiles................................................3410
  Toxics Release Inventory.........................................3419
  Use inventory rule...............................................3402
Child abuse:
  See Child welfare
Child care:
  See Day care
Child labor:
  Hazardous occupations..............................................66
  Schooling, health, and well-being..................................66
  Sports attendants................................................2097
Child support:
  Garnishment order processing.....................................4111
  Medicaid referrals...............................................1400
  Overdue support information......................................1436
  SBA financial assistance compliance rule.........................4233
Child welfare:
  See also Adoption and foster care
           Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child labor
           Child support
           Day care
  ACF reporting requirements.......................................1447
  Child Abuse Accountability Act...................................4085
  Child Abuse and Neglect State Grant Program......................1440
  Direct payments to Indian tribes and tribal organizations........1454
  Family preservation and support services.........................1445
  Head Start Services for Indian tribal children.............1432, 1449
  Indian child protection programs.................................1773
  Programs of the BIA..............................................1783
  Receipt and investigation of child abuse reports.................2052
  Refugee resettlement program.....................................1453
  Removal of obsolete regulations..................................1458
  SSA benefits...............................................4275, 4277
  State performance requirements...................................1429
  State plan requirements..........................................1445
  Statewide information systems....................................1452
  Title IV-A child care programs...................................1444
  U.S. Repatriate Program..........................................1455
Children:
  See Infants and children
Chronic fatigue syndrome:
  Veterans' disability rating......................................3321
Citizens band radio service:
  See Radio
Citizenship and naturalization:
  See also Aliens
           Immigration
  Adjustment of status and removal of eligibility restrictions.....2004
  Administrative naturalization....................................1939
  Children born to U.S. citizens abroad............................1968
  INS forms........................................................1994
  Issuance of documents............................................1953
  Marriages entered during deportation proceedings.................1980
  Natives of the Philippines.......................................2045
  Naturalization pilot project.....................................2043
  Persons authorized to adjudicate nationality claims..............2188
  Persons over 65..................................................2013
  Regaining lost citizenship.......................................2012
  Religious records................................................4241
  Resumption of nationality........................................2189
  Revocation of naturalization.....................................1992
  Standardized testing.............................................1954
  Streamlining legislation implementation............................63
  Testing waivers..................................................2013
  U.S. citizens returned from foreign countries....................1455
Citrus fruits:
  See also specific fruits
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................365
Civil defense:
  See also Disaster assistance
  Emergency employment of Army.....................................1022
Civil rights:
  See also Equal educational opportunity
           Equal employment opportunity
           Fair housing
  CCR ethical conduct standards....................................3362
  Commission on Civil Rights regulations update....................3361
  Developmental disabilities assistance............................1438
  Education........................................................3958
  Individuals with mental illness..................................1204
  Language minority groups.........................................1917
  Nondiscrimination...................569, 2153, 2220, 2247, 3858, 4121
    Activities assisted by the NEA...........................3953, 3955
    Activities assisted by the NEH...........................3955, 3957
    Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.......................4465
    Federally assisted programs........................1911, 1913, 1914
    Individuals with disabilities.....62, 1907, 1908, 1909, 2215, 2228, 
                                           2229, 2257, 3820, 3859, 4117
    SBA streamlining legislation implementation....................4190
  Older individuals................................................1460
  Peace Corps Volunteer Discrimination Complaint Procedure.........4121
Civil service system:
  See Government employees
Claims:
  Collection by the NEA............................................3952
  Collection by the OPM............................................4039
  Collection by the Peace Corps....................................4118
  False Claims Amendments Act of 1986..............................2055
  FCIC procedures...................................................370
  Federal Claims Collection Standards..............................2062
  Federal Tort Claims Act....................................1282, 2075
  FMS payments.........................................2791, 2792, 2793
  Food Stamp Program recipients..................................3, 463
  Medicare suppliers...............................................1331
  Military Personnel and Civilian Employees' Claim Act.............2075
  National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.....................1276
  Natural resource damage assessment.................58, 59, 1581, 1582
  Negotiated Rates Act.............................................4697
  Office of Personnel Management...................................4038
  Public land rights-of-way........................................1576
  RTC procedures...................................................4806
  Small Business Administration....................................4194
  Substitution unused merchandise drawback.........................2882
  Third-party......................................................2209
  Veterans.....................3245, 3265, 3268, 3309, 3324, 3326, 3345
Classified information:
  DOD Information Security Program..................................903
  DOE Atomic Energy Act regulation.................................1135
  DOE Privacy Act regulations......................................1157
  Military acquisitions.............................................906
  NARA records declassification....................................3936
  NRC compliance with NISPOM.......................................4779
  Prison national security considerations..........................1902
Clean Air Act:
  See Air pollution control
Clean Water Act:
  See Water pollution control
Clothing:
  Customs regulations..............................................2874
  Leather belts....................................................4668
Coal:
  Abandoned refuse sites...........................................1824
  Affected area....................................................1826
  Coalbed methane development......................................1839
  Definition.......................................................1825
  Moisture.........................................................1818
  Rate guidelines for small shippers...............................4688
  Transportation and washing allowances............................1799
Coal mines:
  See Mine safety and health
      Mines
      Surface mining
      Underground mining
Coastal zone:
  See also Continental shelf
           Flood plains
  Administrative appeals process...................................1028
  Biological test methods for pollutants...........................3453
  Disaster assistance..............................................3814
  Fees for appeals..................................................827
  Management...................................................774, 871
  Oil spill prevention.............................................1806
  Permit regulations...............................................1026
  Shore protection.................................................2314
  Waste deposit prevention.........................................3479
  Wetlands:
    Conservation program.................................187, 188, 1631
Coffee:
  Common Crop Insurance........................................350, 351
Coins:
  See Currency
Collective bargaining:
  See Labor management relations
Colleges and universities:
  See also Medical and dental schools
           Student aid
  Auditing requirements............................................3990
  DOD contracts....................................................1006
  DOD funding.............................................899, 914, 939
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions............................................908, 1007
  DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................904
  DOE awards.......................................................1179
  DOE grants.......................................................1153
  DOT grants.......................................................2233
  Drug-free schools and campuses...................................1074
  Foreign language and area studies or foreign language and 
      international studies programs...............................1079
  Foreign language and area studies programs.................1080, 1081
  Grants administration.................................617, 2064, 3790
  Grants to Indian colleges........................................1785
  Multicultural Scholars Program....................................294
  Student Right-to-Know Act..........................................20
  Student Support Services Program.................................1078
  Temporary assignments of government employees....................4048
  USDA grants and agreements........................................548
Color additives:
  Certification program fees.......................................1240
  Meat and poultry products........................................1236
Commercial fisheries:
  See Fisheries
Commodities:
  See Agricultural commodities
Commodity futures:
  Bulk transfers or liquidations...................................4418
  Consolidated orders..............................................4421
  Disclosure requirements for advisors, pool operators.............4424
  Ethics training for registrants............................4422, 4423
  Exemption for foreign government securities......................4880
  Risk assessment for holding company systems.......................154
  Section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act.......................4425
  Voting prohibitions...............................................153
Common carriers:
  See also Air carriers
           Communications common carriers
           Maritime carriers
           Motor carriers
           Railroads
  Coloading practices by NVOCCs....................................4617
  Reconsideration of rate of returns...............................4479
Communicable diseases:
  Bloodborne pathogens...............................................80
  Correctional management..........................................1889
  Food-borne illnesses.............................................1266
  Labeling of latex items..........................................1218
  Medicaid coverage of tuberculosis-related services...............1316
  PCC health, sanitation, and communicable disease surveillance 
                                                                   4115
Communications:
  See also Communications common carriers
           Motion pictures
           Telecommunications
  Assessment and collection of regulatory fees...............4523, 4524
  Attribution of broadcast interests...............................4522
  Broadcast station operator requirements..........................4516
  Comparative renewal..............................................4514
  Competitive bidding for IVDS.....................................4537
  Competitive bidding for narrowband PCS...........................4536
  Competitive bidding for 800 MHz SMR..............................4535
  Digital audio broadcasting.......................................4489
  Digital equipment deregulation...................................4497
  Emergency Broadcast System.......................................4486
  Equal employment opportunity.....................................4512
  Equipment authorization process..................................4491
  Excise tax.......................................................3130
  Foreign carriers in the U.S. marketplace.........................4505
  Forfeitures for violations.......................................4487
  Frequency coordination system....................................4526
  Intelligent networks.............................................4478
  International accounting rates regulation........................4504
  Licensing........................................................4495
  Maritime.........................................................4527
  Mobile services..................................................4531
  Narrowband (900 MHz) PCS.........................................4500
  North American Numbering Plan administration.....................4480
  PCC radio communications guidelines..............................4114
  Personal communications technology and services............4499, 4525
  Pioneer's preference rules.......................................4495
  Private Land Mobile Services.....................................4529
  Reallocation of 28 GHz band......................................4528
  Redesignation of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..............................4511
  Rights-of-way....................................................1861
  Satellite:
    Digital audio radio service....................................4510
    Digital LMSS in L-Band spectrum................................4488
    Domestic and international services............................4508
    Earth stations.................................................4509
    MSS spectrum allocation..................................4498, 4507
    Sharing of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..................................4511
    Spacing and applications.......................................4501
    Tracking and data relay........................................3883
    Voice and data mobile satellite service........................4503
  Spectrum transfer.................................................873
  Terrestrial microwave radio services.............................4534
  Transfer of control of non-stock entities........................4515
  TV:
    Advanced systems...............................................4513
    Advertising practices....................................4518, 4521
    Cable Act......................................................4468
    Cable television cross-ownership.........................4471, 4474
    Cable television rates.........................................4467
    Children's programming.........................................4517
    Filing of network affiliation contracts........................4520
    Station ownership..............................................4519
  Wide area SMR licensing..........................................4530
  Wind Profiler Radar Systems......................................4494
Communications common carriers:
  International common carriers....................................4506
Communist countries:
  Export controls..............................................629, 639
Community antenna television systems:
  See Cable television
Community colleges:
  See Colleges and universities
Community development:
  Affordable housing...............................................1530
  Agency for International Development.............................3355
  Bank performance in low- and moderate-income communities.........4660
  Base closure community assistance..............52, 901, 916, 917, 918
  Combining other government assistance with CPD assistance........1529
  Community Development Financial Institution Fund...................96
  Community Investment Program................................159, 4598
  Community Reinvestment Act.....................2828, 2842, 3197, 3219
  Environmental regulations.........................................323
  Financial assistance.............................................4606
  Fisheries.........................................................698
  National bank investments........................................2825
  Regulation review..................................................12
  Reporting requirements...........................................1486
  Residential Antidisplacement and Relocation Plan.................1484
  SBA 8(a) programs................................................4170
  Work study program...............................................1552
Community development block grants:
  Act changes......................................................1531
  CDBG sanctions...................................................1533
  Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages........................1560
  Program income inclusion in CDBG calculations....................1532
  State programs...................................................1538
Community facilities:
  See also Health facilities
  FmHA loans..............................................315, 560, 606
Compensation:
  See Indemnity payments
      Unemployment compensation
      Wages
      Workers' compensation
Competitiveness:
  Agricultural commodities competitive markets......................508
  Air carrier domestic market data.................................2761
  Air carriers...............................................2230, 2248
  Antitrust regulations............................................2822
  Cable television companies.......................................4472
  Communications Act...................................4535, 4536, 4537
  Communications carriers....................................4505, 4506
  Communications licensing.........................................4495
  Federal Property Management Regulation amendments................3872
  Food products...............................................435, 1266
  Foreign banks....................................................4552
  Games of chance..................................................4671
  Government contracts.......................................1016, 1038
  Government procurement......940, 941, 952, 961, 965, 998, 1000, 1008, 
                                                             4384, 4408
  Government research...............................................831
  GSA regulations.............................................136, 3862
  Indian art and craftsmanship protection..........................1577
  ITC exclusion order enforcement..................................2865
  Maritime carriers....................................2748, 2752, 2754
  Medical plans..............................................1193, 1353
  Medical research objectivity.....................................1295
  Motor vehicle fuel economy standards.............................2559
  National Park Service visitor services...........................1759
  North American Free Trade Agreement............2195, 2861, 2888, 4352
  Ocean transportation..............................................502
  Oil and gas leasing..............................................1797
  Public utilities.................................................4573
  Satellite communications.........................................4508
  Small businesses.................................................4373
  Solid minerals agreements........................................1781
  Sugar imports.....................................................493
  Telecommunications marketplace.................4471, 4474, 4475, 4496
  Television marketplace.....................................4467, 4513
  Timber sales......................................................535
  Trade adjustment assistance................................2110, 2111
  VA contracts.....................................................3246
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act:
  See Manpower training programs
Computer technology:
  Automated surety interface.......................................2881
  Computer-generated facsimiles of forms...........................4210
  Copyright in software............................................3895
  Criminal justice information systems.............................2068
  Digital equipment deregulation...................................4497
  Electronic contracting...........................................1021
  Electronic data interchange in contracting...........3867, 3869, 4381
  Electronic filing of air carrier rules...........................2243
  Electronic filing of ICC information.............................4699
  Electronic filing of OST dockets.................................2245
  Electronic filing of tariffs.....................................4621
  Electronic filing of tariffs and service contracts...............4624
  Electronic mail systems..........................................3945
  Electronic records......................................93, 141, 3939
  Electronic signatures on tax documents...........................3102
  Electronic SSA benefit application...............................4296
  Electronic submission of export license applications..............643
  Electronic transmission of student aid data........................18
  Export controls....................................637, 647, 656, 659
  FACNET requirements..............................................4391
  FIP contracts.....................................................139
  Innovation research rights in data...............................4349
  Magnetic computer tape maintenance...............................3932
  Prescriptions for controlled substances..........................1927
  Procurement of automated data processing equipment................971
  Procurement of automatic data processing equipment...............3871
  Procurement of supercomputers.....................................961
  Real-time information networks...................................4586
  RESPA amendments.................................................1515
  Software classification..........................................1265
Conduct standards:
  See Conflict of interests
Confidential business information:
  CFTC regulations.................................................4425
  Disclosure and use of proprietary information....................3836
  EPA regulations............................................3784, 3793
  FDA regulations..................................................1258
  Fishery statistics................................................858
  PTO regulations...................................................880
Conflict of interests:
  See also Political activities (Government employees)
  Broker-dealers...................................................4881
  CFTC disclosure requirements.....................................4424
  CFTC voting prohibition...........................................153
  DEAR organizational conflict of interests........................1163
  DIAR regulation..................................................1578
  Ethical conduct...920, 982, 1107, 3362, 3805, 3959, 3978, 4051, 4199, 
                                                             4464, 4548
  Ethics programs............................................3963, 3974
  Ethics training............................................4422, 4423
  Exemptions.......................................................3972
  Financial disclosure.......................................3976, 3977
  Investment companies.............................................4859
  Judges...........................................................4265
  NARA policy on outside employment................................3942
  Objectivity in PHS-funded research...............................1295
  OGE Equal Access to Justice Act rule.............................3980
  OGE Privacy Act rules............................................3969
  Physician referrals........................................1317, 1419
  Post-government employment.......................................3975
  Procurement contracts.......................................992, 4388
  Regional Fishery Management Councils..............................780
  Salary supplementation...........................................3979
  Standards of conduct....610, 921, 1070, 1573, 1943, 3964, 3970, 4116, 
                                                       4119, 4462, 4560
  Tax deferral.....................................................3973
Congressional elections:
  See Elections
Conservation:
  See Energy conservation
      Natural resources
Construction industry:
  Confined spaces for construction.................................2183
  Safety standards.............................................76, 2187
Consular services:
  See Foreign Service
Consumer protection:
  See also Labeling
           Trade practices
           Truth in lending
  Acetone packaging................................................4440
  Air transportation...............................................2230
  Baby walkers.....................................................4431
  Back yard play sets standard.....................................4427
  Bicycle helmets...................................................156
  Binoculars.......................................................4674
  Cable home wiring rights.........................................4472
  Child-resistant packaging............................4435, 4439, 4441
  Children's sleepwear.............................................4433
  Contract Cooling-Off Rule........................................4680
  Dietary supplements containing iron..............................4441
  Drain cleaners...................................................4428
  Electronic funds transfers.......................................4655
  Fiberglass curtains..............................................4677
  Five-gallon plastic buckets......................................4437
  Flammability standard for upholstered furniture...................155
  Games of chance..................................................4671
  Infant formula quality control...................................1214
  Lead-based paint.......................................49, 1473, 3406
  Meat and meat products............................................477
  Medical devices..................................................1242
  Methylene chloride...............................................4436
  Multiple tube mine and shell fireworks...........................4434
  Notices to passengers............................................2224
  Paint strippers..................................................4436
  Portable electric heaters........................................4438
  Premerger notification...........................................4670
  Protective batting helmets.......................................4426
  RESPA amendments...........................................1500, 1515
  Securities information publication...............................4817
  Spray paint......................................................4436
  Telemarketing....................................................4686
  Truth-in-Savings.................................................4648
  Used cars........................................................4665
Contagious diseases:
  See Communicable diseases
Containers:
  See Packaging and containers
Continental shelf:
  Leasing:
    Authorized bidding system revisions............................1797
    Employee training..............................................1795
    Surety bonds...................................................1796
    Updating documents incorporated by reference...................1801
  Offshore structures:
    Oil spill prevention and response........................1806, 3524
    Supply vessel standards........................................2290
Continuing education:
  See Adult education
Contracts:
  See Government contracts
Controlled substances:
  See Drug abuse
      Drug traffic control
Cooperative agreements:
  See Grant programs
Copper:
  Drinking water regulations.......................................3505
Copyright:
  Assignment in software...........................................3895
Corn:
  Common Crop Insurance........................................375, 379
  Inspection standards..............................................392
  Options Pilot Program.............................................246
Corporations:
  See Business and industry
Cotton..............................................................234
  Bale packaging materials..........................................265
  CAB adjustments...................................................210
  Classification services...........................................176
  Common Crop Insurance........................................363, 371
  Program implementation..................................213, 237, 242
  Reentry into the United States....................................497
  Technical corrections to regulations.........................234, 256
  Upland Cotton Program.............................................183
Cottonseeds:
  Purchase program deletions........................................271
Counterfeiting:
  Color illustration of U.S. currency..............................2765
Countervailing duties:
  Administrative procedures..........................................13
  Identifying merchandise subject to orders........................2887
  Protective order violations.......................................620
Courts:
  Immigration Court designation....................................1940
  Reporting requirements of court clerks...........................3076
Crafts:
  See Indians-arts and crafts
Credit:
  See also Banks, banking
           Credit unions
           Mortgages
           Truth in lending
  Agency for International Development debt collection.............3354
  Brokers and dealers..............................................4646
  Capital treatment of recourse arrangements and direct credit 
      substitutes..................................................4541
  Conduit financing arrangements...................................3187
  Debt collection............145, 180, 382, 898, 1283, 3952, 4039, 4195
  Debt collection by administrative offset.........................4153
  Debt collection by salary offset.................................1092
  Debt collection by tax refund offset........................444, 4153
  Debt collection of OASDI overpayment.............................4281
  Debt discharge...................................................3094
  Debt instruments.....................................3098, 3101, 3122
  Debt settlement..............................................258, 322
  DOD acquisition regulations.......................................977
  Equal credit opportunity.........................................4635
  FTC credit practices rule........................................4684
  National banks.....................2823, 2824, 2826, 2833, 2841, 2843
  Rating organizations.............................................4882
  Regulation U.....................................................4634
  Savings associations.................................3204, 3215, 3222
  Small businesses.............3207, 4183, 4184, 4195, 4209, 4210, 4229
Credit unions:
  Appraisals.................................................4707, 4713
  Corporate........................................................4709
  Employee health benefits.........................................4716
  Federal credit union fees........................................4711
  Flood insurance..................................................4718
  Golden parachute payments........................................4714
  Indemnification..................................................4714
  Insurance requirements...........................................4702
  Investment and deposit activities................................4705
  Lines of credit..................................................4708
  Loans..........................................4704, 4706, 4708, 4717
  Mergers of FICUs...........................................4703, 4715
  Organization and operations......................................4710
  Service contracts................................................4700
  Supervisory determinations.......................................4719
  Uniform rules of practice and procedure..........................4712
Crime:
  See also Counterfeiting
           Drug abuse
           Fraud
  Aliens:
    Deportation....................................................1970
    Felonies...........................................1977, 1978, 1983
  Confidentiality of DOJ information...............................2069
  Correctional system grant programs...............................2065
  Crimes against women grant programs..............................2072
  Criminal fine collection.........................................2047
  Criminal justice block grants....................................2070
  Criminal justice information systems.............................2068
  Criminal record review...........................................2300
  Criminal referrals.........................................3206, 4456
  Domestic violence..........................................1439, 2063
  FCSIC referral of criminal violations............................4466
  Financial institution reporting requirements...2771, 2777, 2835, 4544
  Forest System lands...............................................542
  Forged checks....................................................2791
  Motor vehicle theft................2050, 2551, 2564, 2579, 2607, 2658
  NASA-sponsored child care centers................................3889
  Operators of Centralized Examination Stations....................2857
  Registration systems for convicted persons.......................2059
  Rent adjustments for security and expense coverage...............1554
  Safe and drug-free schools.......................................1077
  Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances............................2024
  Tenant protection................................................1509
  Victims of Crime Act compensation programs.......................2066
  Violent crime and drug emergency areas...........................2048
  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act......................97
Critical habitat:
  See Endangered and threatened species
Crop insurance:
  Administrative regulations..........346, 360, 362, 369, 370, 381, 382
  Application for...................................................340
  Catastrophic risk protection........349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355
  Catastrophic risk protection requirement.....................230, 359
  Conservation program appeals procedures...........................198
  Cotton.......................................................363, 371
  Coverage in terms of dollars per acre.............................383
  CRP eligibility requirements.................................263, 264
  Disaster assistance program.......................................361
  Dry beans.........................................................342
  Dry peas..........................................................380
  Feed production...................................................347
  Florida Citrus Endorsement........................................365
  Forage production.................................................347
  General regulations..........................................356, 367
  Grains............................................................363
  Group Risk Plan...................................................344
  High risk land....................................................339
  Hybrid corn seed..................................................357
  Hybrid sorghum seed..........................................357, 364
  Ineligibility.....................................................341
  Insurance by written agreement....................................345
  Late and prevented planting provisions............................378
  Nonstandard classification system.................................343
  Oilseeds.....................................................373, 385
  Onions............................................................334
  Peanuts......................................................216, 333
  Popcorn...........................................................379
  Popcorn corn......................................................375
  Potatoes..........................................................335
  Reinsurance.......................................................372
  Reinsurance agreements............................................358
  Rice.........................................................368, 384
  Small grains......................................................371
  Sugarbeets........................................................336
  Sugarcane.........................................................377
  Sunflowers...................................................364, 366
  Texas citrus tree crops...........................................376
  Tobacco.................................................217, 332, 374
  Tomatoes.....................................................337, 338
  Waiver for 1992 and 1993 crops....................................266
Crops:
  See Agricultural commodities
Crude oil:
  See Petroleum
Crystalline fructose:
  Marketing allotment program.......................................214
  Marketing quotas..................................................259
Cultural exchange programs:
  Exchange Visitor Program.........................................4315
  Residence waiver.................................................1106
Currency:
  See also Foreign currencies
  Color illustration of U.S. currency..............................2765
  Reporting exemptions.................................2775, 2776, 2779
Customs duties and inspection:
  See also Antidumping
           Countervailing duties
           Imports
  Accreditation of commercial testing laboratories.................2849
  Administrative exemptions........................................2891
  Andean trade preference..........................................2848
  Baggage examination..............................................2868
  Centralized Examination Stations.................................2857
  Certificates of eligibility for textiles and apparel.............2866
  Commercial gaugers approval......................................2849
  Containers designated as instruments of international traffic 
                                                                   2855
  Country of origin determinations...........................2859, 2874
  Country of origin marking............................2856, 2873, 2883
  Cultural property regulations..............................2853, 2877
  Customs Service organizational structure.........................2895
  Denial to land invocation for nonpayment of INS fines............2018
  Detention of merchandise.........................................2852
  Disclosure or production of Customs information..................2869
  Duty-free entry of space articles................................3914
  Duty-free treatment for imports from U.S. possessions.......622, 2844
  Enforcement of ITC exclusion orders..............................2865
  Establishment of Customs services................................2885
  Fee and interest.................................................2853
  Fees assessed for defaulted payments.............................2863
  Filing of export certificates....................................2889
  Harbor maintenance fees....................................2879, 2880
  Non-entrant status of Cambodia and Vietnam.......................2878
  North American Free Trade Agreement............2854, 2861, 2890, 2891
  Ports of entry...................................................2871
  Preliminary vessel entry and permits.............................2862
  Publication of filer codes.......................................2845
  Reconciliation regulation........................................2858
  Recordkeeping requirements.................................2854, 2872
  Reusable shipping devices arriving from Canada or Mexico.........2867
  Search warrants..................................................2875
  Seizure authority................................................2870
  Steel, voluntary restraint agreements............................2884
  Substitution unused merchandise drawback.........................2882
  Tariffs:
    Filing.........................................................4624
    Indexes........................................................4693
    Liquidation of entries.........................................2850
    North American Free Trade Agreement......................2866, 2888
  Tax return information disclosure................................3095
  Unauthorized sound recordings and music videos...................2851
  Vehicle examination..............................................2868
  Warehouse withdrawals............................................2894


                                   D

Dairy products:
  See also specific dairy products
  Cheese alternate products.........................................415
  Inspection and grading.......................................168, 179
  State make allowance..............................................205
  Yogurt............................................................420
Dangerous cargo:
  See Hazardous materials transportation
Data processing:
  See Computer technology
Day care:
  Food program............................................402, 424, 454
  Government procurement...........................................4340
  NASA-sponsored child care centers................................3889
  Title IV-A programs..............................................1444
  VA facilities....................................................3303
Deaf:
  See Individuals with disabilities
Debarment and suspension:
  Accountants......................................................2840
  Agency for International Development.............................3353
  CNCS regulation..................................................3364
  DOE procurement contracts........................................1161
  EPA changes......................................................3799
  Labor Department.................................................2156
  National Endowment for the Humanities............................3962
  NEA regulation...................................................3956
  Nonprocurement debarment and suspension................550, 551, 2073
  Peace Corps......................................................4122
  Reciprocity with procurement...............................1203, 3965
  Small Business Administration....................................4228
  Social Security Administration...................................4290
  State Department programs........................................2207
  Subcontractors...................................................4395
  Transportation Department..................................2214, 2244
  Treasury Department..............................................2768
  USIA regulation..................................................4316
Debts:
  See Credit
Declassification:
  See Classified information
Decorations, medals, awards:
  Seamen's service awards..........................................2757
Deepwater ports:
  See Harbors
Defense:
  See National defense
Defense acquisition regulations:
  See Government procurement
Defense contracts:
  See Government contracts
      Government procurement
Dental health:
  Amalgam ingredient labeling......................................1264
  Veterans' disability rating......................................3240
Dental schools:
  See Medical and dental schools
Deportation:
  See Aliens
Deposit insurance:
  See Bank deposit insurance
Desegregation in education:
  See Equal educational opportunity
Diabetes:
  Qualification of diabetic truck drivers..........................2527
Disability benefits:
  See also Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
           Railroad retirement
           Workers' compensation
  Developmental disabilities assistance............................1438
  Reduction of SS benefits and.....................................4295
Disabled:
  See Disability benefits
      Individuals with disabilities
      Medicaid
      Medicare
      Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
      Public assistance programs
      Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Disaster assistance:
  See also Civil defense
           Emergency medical services
  Agency for International Development.............................3355
  Emergency livestock assistance regulations........................211
  Farmers...197, 227, 235, 264, 269, 345, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 
             355, 356, 359, 361, 362, 366, 367, 372, 373, 374, 375, 385
  Floods...........................................................3824
  FmHA business and industry loan program...........................559
  Food stamps and food distribution............................399, 408
  National Flood Insurance Program...........................3822, 3823
  Public assistance eligibility....................................3814
  Replacement of SSI excluded resources............................4254
  Restoration of damaged facilities................................3825
  SBA regulation.............................................4193, 4212
  Small businesses.................................................4225
  Temporary housing assistance.....................................3816
  Tree Assistance Program...........................................260
  Unemployment assistance..........................................2106
Discrimination:
  See Civil rights
Discrimination against aged:
  See Aged
Discrimination against handicapped:
  See Individuals with disabilities
Discrimination in education:
  See Equal educational opportunity
Discrimination in employment:
  See Equal employment opportunity
Discrimination in housing:
  See Fair housing
Diseases:
  See specific diseases
      Animal diseases
      Communicable diseases
      Plant diseases and pests
Distilled spirits:
  See Liquors
Doctors:
  See Health professions
Domestic animals:
  See Livestock
Draft:
  See Selective Service System
Drawbridges:
  See Bridges
Drinking water:
  See Water supply
Drought assistance:
  See Disaster assistance
Drug abuse:
  See also Alcohol abuse
  ASCS controlled substance violation provisions....................245
  Drug offender's driver's license suspension......................2662
  Drug-free schools..........................................1074, 1077
  Drug-free workforce...............................................928
  Drug-free workplace............................1136, 1483, 2214, 4290
  Federal discretionary grants for drug court programs.............2071
  Felony offense restrictions......................................1920
  Narcotic addict treatment........................................1267
  NIH Center grants................................................1293
  Patient record confidentiality...................................1207
  Prisoners........................................................1904
  Railroad operations..............................................2668
  SSA represent active payee reforms................................148
  Substance abuse block grants.....................................1206
  Substance abuse programs, DOE sites..............................1173
  Veterans.........................................................3304
  Violent crime and drug emergency areas...........................2048
Drug testing:
  Merchant mariners................................................2273
  NASA employees.............................................3888, 3893
  NRC rule.........................................................4775
  Procedures.......................................................1137
  Transportation personnel....2242, 2253, 2258, 2263, 2284, 2380, 2452, 
                                                 2521, 2542, 2696, 2728
Drug traffic control:
  Controlled substances:
    Disposer definition and registration...........................1919
    Exemption of affiliated practitioners..........................1931
    Habit-forming drugs............................................1226
    Prescription drugs.............................................1921
    Prescriptions..................................................1927
    Psychotropic substances........................................1930
    Registration of manufacturers and importers....................1933
  Diversion control fee account....................................1926
  Domestic Chemical Diversion Act......................1922, 1923, 1932
  Exemption from registration for certain chemical handlers........1934
  FAA regulations..................................................2410
  Precursor and essential chemicals....................1918, 1928, 1929
  Pseudoephedrine thresholds.......................................1924
  Streamlining legislation implementation..........................1925
Drugs:
  See also specific drugs
           Animal drugs
           Biologics
           Over-the-counter drugs
           Prescription drugs
  Adverse experience reporting requirements........................1263
  Bioavailability and bioequivalence requirements..................1227
  Current Good Manufacturing Practice..............................1222
  Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1254
  Habit-forming drugs..............................................1226
  Investigational new drugs........................................1268
  Iron containing..................................................1257
  Medicaid drug rebate program.....................................1304
  Narcotic addict treatment........................................1267
  New drugs list...................................................1228
  Registration of producers........................................1225


                                   E

Earthquakes:
  See Disaster assistance
Ecology:
  See Environmental protection
Economic statistics:
  Bureau of Economic Analysis benchmark survey......................613
  Bureau of Economic Analysis reporting requirements................615
  Financial services transactions survey............................614
Economics:
  See Economic statistics
      Price controls
Education:
  See also Adult education
           Colleges and universities
           Education of disadvantaged
           Education of individuals with disabilities
           Educational facilities
           Educational research
           Educational study programs
           Elementary and secondary education
           Equal educational opportunity
           Indians-education
           School breakfast and lunch programs
           Schools
           Student aid
           Students
           Teachers
           Vocational education
  Audit requirements...............................................3996
  Audits...........................................................3988
  Bilingual Education Graduate Fellowship Program..................1069
  Children's television programming................................4517
  ED acquisition regulation........................................1061
  ED advisory committee management regulations.....................1105
  ED Conduct standards.......................................1070, 1107
  ED employment discrimination complaint procedure.................1912
  ED general administrative regulations........................17, 1056
  ED salary offset for Federal employees...........................1092
  Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act........................1060
  Foreign medical graduates........................................1996
  General Education Provisions Act.................................1064
  Grant thresholds...........................................1062, 1067
  Higher Education Challenge Grants Program.........................292
  Independent living centers.......................................1100
  Indirect cost rates..............................................3988
  Merchant mariners................................................2758
  NASA grant regulations...........................................3920
  National Security Education Program...............................909
  National Service Trust...........................................3363
  NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program.....................1285
  NIH scholarships.................................................1286
  Nondiscrimination..........................................3302, 4313
  Prison education tests rule......................................1899
  Prison postsecondary education programs..........................1875
  Prisoner literacy requirements...................................1886
  Student assistance:
    Food stamp program..............................................453
    General provisions.............................18, 1083, 1086, 1088
  USDA program......................................................299
  Veterans:
    Active duty......................3235, 3239, 3260, 3296, 3327, 3333
    Course approval requirements.......................3238, 3266, 3335
    Dependents...............................................3260, 3318
    Educational Assistance Test Program............................3323
    Flight training....................................3238, 3266, 3335
    Job training...................................................3261
    Matriculation time limits......................................3329
    Montgomery G.I. Bill.....................................3274, 3278
    Payment suspension and discontinuation.........................3232
    Post-Vietnam era...................................3233, 3276, 3296
    Regulations revision...........................................3275
    Reservists....3234, 3249, 3252, 3258, 3274, 3314, 3316, 3322, 3327, 
                                                 3330, 3333, 3335, 3336
Education of disadvantaged:
  Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 reauthorization 
                                                                   1076
  Head Start Program:
    Facilities construction and renovation.........................1433
    Fellowships program............................................1435
    Indian tribal children...................................1432, 1449
    Quality standards................................................47
    Safe transportation of children................................1441
    Standards for purchase of facilities...........................1442
Education of individuals with disabilities:
  BIA special education funding....................................1794
  DOD special education services....................................900
  OSERS Client Assistance Program..................................1101
  Rehabilitation services........21, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1098, 1099, 1100
  State grants program for technology-related assistance...........1097
Educational facilities:
  Auditing requirements............................................3990
  Cost accounting principles.......................................3986
  FmHA programs.....................................................196
  Grants administration................................1055, 1181, 3352
  NASA contracts.............................................3901, 3903
Educational research:
  OERI conduct standards...........................................1070
Educational study programs:
  Foreign language and area studies or foreign language and 
      international studies programs...............................1079
  Foreign language and area studies programs.......................1081
Eggs and egg products:
  Refrigeration and labeling........................................169
  Salmonella enteritidis............................................285
  Salmonella Laboratory Recognition Program.........................171
  Voluntary inspection and grading..................................173
Elderly:
  See Aged
Election finance:
  See Campaign funds
Elections:
  See also Campaign funds
           Political activities (Government employees)
           Voting rights
  Labor organizations..............................................2127
Electric power:
  See also Electric utilities
  Alternative power pooling institutions...........................4583
  Export authorization.............................................1149
  Hydroelectric project charges and fees...........................4590
  Hydropower facility licensing.....................................749
  Hydropower project decommissioning at relicensing................4592
  Hydropower project licenses......................................4594
  Renewable energy production incentive............................1133
  Rural electification..............................................607
  Rural electrification....564, 565, 567, 568, 569, 571, 572, 573, 574, 
        575, 580, 585, 587, 588, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, 601, 602, 
        603, 604, 605
  Utility pole hardware.............................................598
Electric utilities:
  Cost reports.....................................................4576
  FERC Form No. 1 changes..........................................4577
  Indian utilities hardships.......................................1791
  National Forest System............................................531
  Pricing policy for transmission services.........................4593
  Purchases and sales..............................................4574
  Small business size standards....................................4222
  Standards and specifications......................................566
  Steam generating facilities......................................3654
Electronic data processing:
  See Computer technology
Electronic funds transfers:
  Consumer rights..................................................4636
  Federal tax payments.................................2784, 2797, 3085
  Federal wage, salary, and retirement payments....................2788
  Fedwire..........................................................4649
  FRS identification requirement...................................4655
  Government employee payment......................................2795
  Mortgage insurance premium payment...............................1520
  NASA advance payment.............................................3902
  National practitioner data bank..................................1283
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................2781, 2782
  Royalties, rentals, bonuses, and other monies....................1812
Electronic products:
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................1271
Elementary and secondary education:
  Desegregation programs...........................................1075
  Drug-free schools and campuses...................................1074
  Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 general 
      provisions...................................................1073
  Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 reauthorization 
                                                                   1076
  Impact aid programs..............................................1071
  Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program...............................1077
Emergency medical services:
  Emergency research.................................................32
  Medicare requirements......................................1297, 1389
  Mining operations................................................2137
Emergency mobilization:
  See Civil defense
Employee benefit plans:
  See also Pensions
  Airline deregulation.............................................2103
  Aliens, withholding taxes........................................3063
  Cafeteria plans..................................................3135
  Collective bargaining agreement definition.......................2117
  Employee stock ownership plans...................................4319
  Family and medical leave.........................................3135
  FDIC regulation..................................................4549
  Federal service contracts........................................2080
  Taxation...................................................3025, 3147
Employee management relations:
  See Labor management relations
Employee Retirement Income Security Act:
  See Pensions
Employment:
  See also Equal employment opportunity
           Government employees
  Aliens......64, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1995, 1996, 2008, 2031, 2036, 2088, 
                                                             2092, 2109
  Citizenship requirement exemptions...............................1938
  DOL follow-on contracting rule...................................2093
  Domestic services................................................2090
  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................2084
  Lower income persons.............................................1546
  Removal of restrictions on employing certain individuals.........1920
  Senior Community Service Employment Program......................2114
  Veterans..........................................................984
Employment taxes:
  Limited liability companies......................................2905
  Real estate agents...............................................3129
  Timing of notice and consent.....................................2996
  Unemployment repayment...........................................3084
Endangered and threatened species:
  See also Marine mammals
  Alameda whipsnake................................................1650
  Alaska breeding population of Steller's eiders...................1644
  Arabian wolf.....................................................1723
  Arizona plants...................................................1689
  Arkansas River shiner............................................1663
  Armored snail....................................................1670
  Atlantic salmon..................................................1601
  Barton Springs salamander........................................1646
  Behren's silverspot butterfly....................................1650
  Black legless lizard.............................................1688
  Black-footed ferrets.............................................1604
  Bog turtles......................................................1686
  Brother's Island tuatara.........................................1625
  Cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl.....................................1676
  California butterflies...........................................1675
  California insects...............................................1726
  California plants.....1617, 1655, 1666, 1677, 1681, 1683, 1684, 1688, 
                                     1690, 1705, 1707, 1708, 1709, 1710
  California red-legged frog.......................................1652
  Callippe silverspot butterfly....................................1650
  Captive breeding...........................................1613, 1629
  Colorado squawfish...............................................1628
  Consultation process.............................................1704
  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild 
      Flora and Fauna..................................1594, 1614, 1624
  Cordia bellonis..................................................1714
  Corps of Engineers regulations...................................1029
  Critical habitat........752, 756, 757, 758, 761, 765, 821, 823, 1626, 
        1627, 1635, 1636, 1637, 1640, 1665, 1670, 1676, 1678, 1699, 
        1704, 1711, 1732
  Delissea undulata................................................1660
  Eagles...............................................1621, 1702, 1724
  Eggert's sunflower...............................................1669
  Exemption for low-impact activities..............................1700
  Exemption for small landowners...................................1700
  Flat-tailed horned lizard........................................1640
  Florida panther..................................................1658
  Freshwater mussels.........................................1664, 1665
  Ginseng..........................................................1594
  Golden paintbrush................................................1656
  Guajon or rock frog..............................................1612
  Hawaiian plants..........................1610, 1616, 1701, 1712, 1715
  Holmgren's milkvetch.............................................1680
  Importation and exportation......................................1727
  Incidental taking of migratory birds.............................1648
  Intercross progeny policy and definitions........................1658
  Jaguar...........................................................1662
  Johnson's seagrass................................................821
  Least chub.......................................................1679
  List, reclassify, or delist.......1603, 1611, 1612, 1619, 1622, 1627, 
        1630, 1632, 1633, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1637, 1638, 1641, 1642, 
        1645, 1649, 1655, 1656, 1657, 1660, 1662, 1698, 1713, 1714, 
        1717, 1718, 1723, 1724, 1726
  Loch Lomond coyote thistle.......................................1642
  Lost River suckers...............................................1678
  Maguire daisy....................................................1668
  Marbled murrelet.................................................1651
  Mexican plants...................................................1617
  Mexican spotted owl..............................................1732
  Mexican wolves...................................................1687
  Nile crocodiles..................................................1649
  NOAA incidental take regulations..................................759
  Nogal or West Indian walnut tree.................................1713
  Northern spotted owl.............................................1696
  Pallid manzanita.................................................1706
  Parish's alkali grass............................................1645
  Pecos pupfish....................................................1643
  Pesticide labeling program.......................................3393
  Puerto Rican trees...............................................1638
  Red wolves.......................................................1721
  Sacramento splittail.............................................1647
  Saltwater crocodiles.............................................1649
  San Diego fairy shrimp...........................................1674
  San Francisco plants.......................................1683, 1690
  San Xavier talussnail............................................1641
  Sea turtles..........755, 765, 766, 804, 805, 818, 826, 860, 861, 863
  Shem's milkvetch.................................................1680
  Shortnose suckers................................................1678
  Snake River chinook salmon..................................822, 1682
  South American birds.............................................1716
  Spring Creek bladderpod..........................................1653
  Stones River bladderpod..........................................1653
  Texas aquatic invertebrates......................................1603
  Texas plants.....................................................1611
  Tropical birds...................................................1672
  Tropical butterflies.............................................1671
  Vernal pool plants of the Central Valley of California...........1636
  Virgin River fishes........................................1698, 1699
  Virgin spinedace.................................................1657
  Western snowy plover.............................................1626
  Whooping cranes..................................................1711
  Winter-run chinook salmon.........................................750
Energy:
  See also Coal
           Electric power
           Energy conservation
           Fuel economy
           Natural gas
           Nuclear energy
           Petroleum
           Pipelines
  Alternative fuel providers.......................................1120
  Alternative fuel use.............................................1108
  Alternative fuels..........................................1126, 4685
  Board of Contract Appeals........................................1139
  Bonneville Power Administration..................................1148
  Conduct of DOE employees.........................................1190
  Contract Reform Initiative.................................1186, 1187
  Cost reimbursement contracts.....................................1184
  DEAR amendments..........25, 1160, 1161, 1168, 1169, 1174, 1178, 1179
  DEAR amendments to substance abuse programs......................1173
  DEAR organizational conflict of interests........................1163
  DEAR regulatory reduction............................1162, 1164, 1183
  DOD fuel allocation procedures....................................912
  DOE grants for educational purposes..............................1153
  DOE Privacy Act regulations................................1145, 1157
  DOE regulations removal..........................................1191
  DOE small business subcontracting................................1175
  FERC electronic filing of Form No. 1.............................4591
  FERC fuel cost adjustment clause.................................4582
  FERC recovery of stranded costs..................................4580
  FERC reporting requirements......................................4581
  Financial assistance rules..................................871, 1171
  Fluorescent lamps exemption from Hazardous Waste Management......3561
  Fuel excise taxes................................................2976
  Grant thresholds.................................................1182
  Grants administration............................................1181
  Management and operating contracts...............................1185
  Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Licensing Program.................773
  Renewable energy production incentive............................1133
  Research and development...................................1170, 1180
  Research grants..................................................1142
  Technology transfer..............................................1166
  Uranium mill sites...............................................1152
  Wastes from fossil fuel combustion...............................3560
  Weatherization Assistance Program funds distribution.............1123
Energy conservation:
  See also Fuel economy
  Appliance efficiency standards......22, 1111, 1118, 1128, 1129, 1130, 
                                                             1131, 1134
  Clothes dryers...................................................1127
  Clothes washers............................................1121, 1127
  Dishwashers......................................................1127
  Electric motor vehicles..........................................1116
  Energy planning and management program...........................1156
  Federal buildings....................................1112, 1113, 1124
  Fluorescent and incandescent lamps.........................1122, 4667
  Fluorescent and incandescent reflector lamps.....................1119
  Plumbing products................................................1114
  Procurement of energy-efficient products and services.....1132, 3848, 
                                                                   4326
  Residential energy-efficiency rating guidelines..................1115
  Rural electrification regulations............................574, 602
  State Energy Program.............................................1125
  Test procedures..........................1110, 1114, 1117, 1118, 1119
Engineers:
  Government procurement...........................................4355
  USCG engineers...................................................2329
Environmental impact statements:
  Categorical exclusions...........................................3827
  Department of Transportation regulations.............2269, 2505, 2673
Environmental protection:
  See also Air pollution control
           Environmental impact statements
           Natural resources
           Noise control
           Pesticides and pests
           Reclamation
           Waste treatment and disposal
           Water pollution control
  Biotechnology risk assessment....................................3430
  BLM fire rehabilitation projects.................................1865
  Chemicals......................................3402, 3411, 3412, 3446
  Class deviations incorporation into EPAAR........................3782
  Coastal waste deposit prevention.................................3479
  Ecological risk assessment.......................................3777
  EPA civil penalties assessments..................................3780
  EPA cost recovery methodology....................................3796
  EPA information resources management directives..................3791
  EPA invoicing requirements.......................................3781
  EPA source selection procedures..................................3786
  EPA suspension and debarment procedures..........................3792
  Federal facilities...............................................3983
  Federal Facility Compliance Act..................................3794
  FEMA environmental considerations................................3821
  FmHA Environmental Program........................................314
  Government contracts.......................................1013, 3798
  Government procurement..........................972, 4326, 4327, 4328
  Grants administration......................................3779, 3790
  Housing................................................48, 1463, 1474
  Monitoring..................................................126, 3586
  National Environmental Policy Act................296, 529, 3954, 4722
  National Forest System..................................517, 528, 530
  NOAA Climate and Global Change Program............................830
  Pesticides.......................................................3371
  Radon............................................................4760
  Restoration of DOD facilities.....................................897
  Rural economic development........................................323
  Sterilants.......................................................3376
  Transit projects.................................................2689
  Uniform facility data consolidation...............................102
Epilepsy:
  Qualification of epileptic drivers...............................2544
Equal access to justice:
  Department of Health and Human Services..........................1210
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration....................3922
  Office of Government Ethics......................................3980
Equal credit opportunity:
  See Credit
Equal educational opportunity:
  Desegregation programs...........................................1075
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions............................................908, 1007
  DOE awards.......................................................1179
  Education Act Amendments of 1972.................................3958
  Federally assisted education programs................1076, 1911, 4313
Equal employment opportunity:
  Aged...................................................134, 135, 3806
  Broadcast industry...............................................4512
  Complaint processing.............................................3809
  Discrimination complaint procedures..................1912, 3806, 3808
  DOI regulations............................................1587, 1588
  Government contractors.............................................65
  Government employees.................................3808, 3809, 3810
  Indians..........................................................1784
  Individuals with disabilities.........................133, 2089, 3809
  Interagency coordination of issuances............................3807
  National origin and citizenship anti-discrimination provisions 
                                                                   1915
  On-the-job training..............................................2515
  Procedural regulations...........................................3811
Eskimos:
  See Indians
Estate taxes:
  Annuity exclusion repeal.........................................3125
  Charitable transfers.............................................3126
  Farms............................................................3124
  Generation skipping..............................................3066
  Marital deduction, alien spouse..................................3175
  Nonresident aliens...............................................2973
  Qualified domestic trusts........................................3176
  Reformable interest..............................................3126
  Taxation of Property distributed in kind.........................3136
Estates:
  BIA regulations............................................1590, 1591
Estuaries:
  See Coastal zone
Ethical conduct:
  See Conflict of interests
Ex parte communications:
  See Administrative practice and procedure
Exchange visitor program:
  See Cultural exchange programs
Excise taxes:
  Arms and munitions...............................................2813
  Chemical substances..............................................2978
  Communications...................................................3130
  Deferred compensation plans......................................4363
  Deposits of excise taxes...................................3086, 3183
  Diesel fuel....................................2976, 2977, 3070, 3179
  Fuels............................................................3071
  Luxury items...............................................2975, 3069
  Private foundations..............................................3073
  Vehicles.........................................................2995
Explosives:
  See also Hazardous materials transportation
           Hazardous substances
  DOD contractor safety.............................................913
  DOD physical security standards...................................923
  Handling at waterfront facilities................................2277
  Mines............................................................2144
Exports:
  Administration regulations.........................................14
  Agricultural commodities...........................281, 491, 508, 510
  Alligators.......................................................1728
  American ginseng.................................................1659
  APHIS user fees..............................................283, 288
  Argentina.........................................................655
  Australia Group..............................................631, 657
  Biological weapons components................................640, 651
  Bobcats..........................................................1598
  CCC Export Credit Guarantee Program...............................501
  Chemical weapons components.......................................651
  Chemical Weapons Convention implementation........................624
  Chemical weapons precursors..................................631, 657
  Chemicals................................1918, 1928, 1929, 3072, 3417
  Commerce Control List.....631, 632, 633, 644, 646, 650, 651, 657, 659
  Computer technology................................637, 647, 656, 659
  Cotton............................................................497
  Cryptographic products exemption.................................2204
  Cuba..............................................................629
  Distilled spirits, wine, and beer................................2799
  Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative.........................634
  European Union....................................................644
  Exporter definition...............................................652
  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....................................654
  Fish.............................................................1606
  Food assistance...................................................499
  Foreign boycott provisions........................................625
  Foreign policy controls...........................................632
  General License GCG revisions.....................................649
  General License GLX revisions and clarifications.............638, 647
  Group S and Z countries...........................................659
  Haiti.............................................................655
  Hazardous and other wastes.......................................3555
  Hazardous waste..................................................3548
  Investigational new drugs........................................1268
  Iran....................................................627, 648, 659
  Latin America.....................................................635
  Libya.............................................................645
  License applications..............................................643
  Lynx.............................................................1598
  Meat and meat products.....................................2876, 2889
  Medical devices..................................................1269
  Missile technology................................................640
  National Union for the Total Independence of Angola...............654
  Natural gas......................................................1154
  New Zealand.......................................................655
  North Korea.......................................................639
  Nuclear weapons.........................................635, 639, 646
  Peanuts...........................................................253
  Pesticides.......................................................3396
  Poland............................................................655
  Reentry into the United States....................................497
  Reexports...............................................638, 645, 648
  Reporting requirements............................................494
  River otters.....................................................1598
  Satellites........................................................633
  Savings clause....................................................636
  Semiconductors....................................................647
  Small businesses.................................................4183
  Sugar........................................................493, 498
  Syria.............................................................659
  Terrorist-supporting countries....................................658
  Timber from western states........................................642
  Tobacco.....................................................506, 2806
  Unprocessed timber................................................534
  USDA bonus programs...............................................511
  Weapons proliferation controls...........................14, 641, 650
  Wildlife.........................................................1606
Extension and continuing education:
  See Adult education


                                   F

Fabrics:
  See Textiles
Fair housing:
  Assisted housing residency preferences...........................1492
  Complaint processing.............................................1544
  Compliance requirements...........................................316
  Discriminatory conduct.................................53, 1548, 1549
  Fair Housing Council...............................................54
  Fair Housing Initiatives Program.................................1545
  Family definition change.........................................1480
  Housing for older persons........................................1547
  Nondiscrimination requirements.......................1461, 1482, 4614
  Occupancy Standards..............................................1481
Family planning:
  Abortion-related services compliance standards...................1296
FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation):
  See Government procurement
Farmers:
  See Agriculture
Federal acquisition regulations:
  See Government procurement
Federal aid programs:
  See Grant programs
      Indemnity payments
      Loan programs
      Price support programs
      Technical assistance
Federal buildings and facilities:
  Access for individuals with disabilities.........62, 1908, 1909, 3358
  Base closure community assistance..............52, 901, 916, 917, 918
  Disposal of surplus real property................................2755
  DOD technical assistance for environmental restoration............897
  Earthquake hazards reduction......................................305
  Energy performance standards...............................1112, 1113
  Energy savings performance contracting...........................1132
  Environmental pollution control..................................3983
  Fort Lewis regulation............................................1024
  Government contracting............................................944
  Hazardous materials at military installations.....................942
  Local and small business preference..............................1009
  Maintenance service contracts....................................2093
  NASA airfield facilities.........................................3925
  Qualifications of employees working on building service 
      contracts....................................................3831
  RCRA compliance..................................................3794
  Services at installations closed.................................1003
  Smoking regulations..............................................3856
  USDA administrative provisions....................................295
  Use on a no-charge basis.........................................4386
  Water conservation...............................................1124
Federal employees:
  See Government employees
Federal home loan banks:
  Affordable housing program......................157, 4599, 4610, 4612
  Bank request for information.....................................4613
  Claims...........................................................4607
  Community Investment Program................................159, 4598
  Community support activities...............................4600, 4611
  Dividends........................................................4603
  Employee selection and compensation..............................4602
  Information control numbers......................................4605
  Membership applications...........................................158
  Nonmember mortgagees.............................................4606
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................4613
  Reserve requirement..............................................4608
Federal property management regulations:
  See Government property management
Federal Reserve System:
  Administrative hearings..........................................4652
  Automated clearinghouse services.................................4650
  Bank holding companies......4630, 4637, 4638, 4639, 4647, 4654, 4656, 
                                                             4657, 4658
  Consumer leasing.................................................4644
  Depositaries and financial/fiscal agents of the Government.......2786
  Depository institution management interlocks...............4633, 4643
  Equal credit opportunity.........................................4635
  FedSelect checks rules...........................................2796
  Fedwire operations...............................................4649
  International banking..............4631, 4632, 4637, 4641, 4642, 4661
  State banks.....4626, 4627, 4628, 4630, 4637, 4638, 4639, 4655, 4656, 
                                                                   4657
  Truth in lending.................................................4659
  Truth-in-savings.................................................4648
Federal-State relations:
  See Intergovernmental relations
Feed grains:
  CAB adjustments...................................................210
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................347
  Farmer-Owned Reserve Program......................................248
  Livestock feed assistance.........................................211
  Options Pilot Program.............................................246
  Pilot Voluntary Production Limitation Program.....................239
  Price support.....................................................233
  Program implementation..................................213, 237, 240
  Substances prohibited for use in feed............................1274
  Technical corrections to regulations.........................234, 256
Fellowships:
  See Scholarships and fellowships
Fibromyalgia:
  Veterans' disability rating......................................3262
Films:
  See Motion pictures
Finance:
  See Banks, banking
      Credit
      Currency
      Indians-business and finance
      Investments
      Loan programs
      Mortgages
      Trusts and trustees
Fines and penalties:
  See Penalties
Fire prevention:
  Aircraft:
    Crash-resistant fuel systems...................................2354
    Fuel tank vent protection......................................2445
    Fuel tanks and lines...........................................2448
  Fire extinguishers containing HCFCs..............................3607
  Nuclear power plants.............................................4778
  Occupational safety regulation.....................................83
  Portable electric heaters........................................4438
  Underground coal mines.........................................74, 75
  Vessels..........................................................2327
Firearms:
  See Arms and munitions
Fish:
  See also Fisheries
           Seafood
  Endangered and threatened.....750, 819, 1601, 1630, 1657, 1663, 1664, 
             1665, 1674, 1678, 1679, 1682, 1698, 1699, 1700, 1717, 1718
  Importation and exportation......................................1606
  Transport regulations............................................1639
Fisheries:
  Alaska...............672, 674, 684, 687, 714, 731, 834, 841, 851, 852
  American lobster.........................662, 710, 781, 789, 807, 840
  Appeals procedure.................................................782
  Atlantic billfish.................................................676
  Atlantic bluefish.................................................715
  Atlantic Coast...............................................662, 784
  Atlantic Coast red drum...........................................691
  Atlantic herring..................................................832
  Atlantic highly migratory species.................................738
  Atlantic mackerel.................................................670
  Atlantic Ocean...........................688, 713, 783, 804, 805, 806
  Atlantic sea scallop.....................744, 745, 781, 848, 853, 854
  Atlantic sharks.........................................722, 723, 839
  Atlantic surf clams................................671, 737, 767, 807
  Atlantic swordfish...........................................736, 846
  Atlantic tuna...........................................675, 739, 835
  Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands...669, 699, 700, 701, 703, 708, 716, 717, 
                                                     779, 838, 843, 845
  Black sea bass....................................................705
  Bottomfish........................................................711
  Butterfish........................................................670
  Cape Hatteras area...........................................704, 705
  Community development plan amendments.............................698
  Corals and coral reefs.............................668, 693, 721, 786
  Critical habitat....................752, 756, 757, 758, 761, 765, 823
  Crustaceans..................................................742, 849
  Data collection restrictions......................................858
  Dealer reporting systems..........................................688
  Dolphin encirclement prohibition..................................801
  Dolphin mortality limit......................................754, 798
  Dolphin removal quotas............................................817
  Domestic fisheries................................................748
  Fishermen's Guarantee Program.....................................791
  Fishways under the Federal Power Act..............................749
  Golden crab.......................................................725
  Groundfish.....672, 677, 682, 683, 684, 687, 697, 699, 700, 703, 706, 
        707, 708, 714, 716, 717, 718, 719, 724, 740, 779, 834, 837, 
        841, 843, 845
  Gulf of Alaska.................697, 700, 701, 703, 717, 718, 779, 843
  Gulf of Mexico......661, 673, 678, 681, 694, 695, 712, 720, 727, 746, 
                                                783, 786, 833, 855, 863
  Halibut......................................................696, 838
  Harbor porpoise bycatch reduction.................................857
  Hawaiian Islands..............................711, 742, 770, 789, 849
  Incidental take regulations...753, 754, 755, 759, 800, 801, 802, 820, 
                                                          835, 860, 862
  International.....................................................735
  King crabs..............................................708, 716, 843
  King mackerel...........................................661, 727, 783
  Mahogany clams....................................................671
  Marine mammal deterrence..........................................802
  Marine mammal programs.............................751, 762, 763, 824
  National Undersea Research Program................................831
  North Pacific.....................................................747
  Northeast multispecies........................719, 781, 844, 856, 857
  Northeastern United States........................................734
  Ocean quahogs......................................671, 737, 767, 807
  Pacific Coast.......677, 682, 683, 689, 706, 707, 724, 732, 740, 790, 
                                                               837, 847
  Pacific cod.......................................................701
  Pacific halibut.........................................677, 785, 788
  Pacific Ocean perch...............................................718
  Pacific whiting...................................................743
  Pelagic......................................................678, 690
  Personal/vessel use limits........................................702
  Pollock.................................................701, 841, 845
  Processed fishery products........................................859
  Product standards.................................................808
  Puerto Rico........................................668, 692, 693, 733
  Queen conch.......................................................666
  Quota clarifications regulation...................................836
  Recreational commercial...........................................847
  Red snapper.......................................................681
  Reef fish...............................................681, 692, 694
  Regional Fishery Management Council disclosures...................780
  Regulation consolidation.......730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 738, 744
  Regulation withdrawal.............................................729
  Rockfish.....................................................689, 718
  Royal red shrimp..................................................746
  Sablefish.....................................677, 699, 740, 788, 837
  Safe boarding ladder regulations..................................709
  Salmon.............................................669, 761, 790, 847
  Scallops.....................................................674, 851
  Scientific research................................665, 747, 803, 852
  Scup..............................................................704
  Sea turtle and conservation areas.................................766
  Sharks............................................................839
  Shrimp...............679, 712, 720, 728, 764, 804, 805, 826, 861, 863
  Snapper-grouper..............................................680, 842
  South Atlantic.......661, 678, 679, 680, 721, 725, 727, 728, 833, 842
  Southeastern United States........................................733
  Spanish mackerel.............................................727, 783
  Spiny lobster.....................................................833
  Squid.............................................................670
  Stone crabs.......................................................855
  Striped bass......................................................713
  Summer flounder....................................726, 787, 818, 850
  Swordfish.........................................................667
  Tanner crabs.................................................716, 843
  Tilefish..........................................................806
  Traps definition..................................................695
  Tuna..........................................675, 753, 754, 801, 835
  U.S. Virgin Islands................................668, 692, 693, 733
  Weakfish..........................................................784
  Western Pacific region........................690, 732, 742, 789, 849
Fishing:
  Coastal Zone Management Act.......................................827
  Crayfish and conch at Fort Jefferson, NM.........................1737
  Data collection program...........................................778
  Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.............................15
  Glacier Bay National Park..................................1756, 1762
  Shenandoah National Park.........................................1749
  Snake River chinook salmon........................................822
  Subsistence management regulations.........................1607, 1731
  Wildlife refuges...............................1602, 1608, 1673, 1730
Fishing vessels:
  Aleutian Trade Act implementation................................2304
  Capital construction fund procedures.............................3132
  Certificates of legal origin......................................812
  Crew size.........................................................745
  Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons......................2331
  Fishing Vessel Obligation Guarantee Program.......................793
  Freezer vessels...................................................685
  Individual Fishing Quota Program..................................788
  Limited entry gear................................................682
  Limited entry permits.............................................706
  Longline vessels.............................................690, 741
  Observer policy.........................................741, 753, 852
  Open access gear..................................................682
  Personal/vessel use limits........................................702
  Safety equipment and operating procedures........................2295
  Safety improvement funding........................................792
  Shrimp vessel registration........................................764
  Standard definitions..............................................686
  Trawl mesh size...................................................672
  Trawlers.......................696, 712, 728, 845, 853, 854, 861, 863
  Tuna vessels......................................................795
  Turtle excluder devices.................................805, 826, 861
Flammable materials:
  Children's sleepwear.............................................4433
  Combustible and flammable liquids..................................83
  Pesticide foggers................................................3381
  Upholstered furniture.............................................155
Flaxseeds:
  See Oilseeds
Flood control:
  Grants to States.................................................3817
  Impoundment regulations..........................................2150
Flood insurance:
  Assistance to private sector property insurers...................3822
  Credit union loans...............................................4718
  FDIC purchase requirements.......................................4566
  FEMA audit program revision......................................3812
  Flood plain certificate..........................................1496
  Group Flood Insurance Policy...............................3823, 3824
  Hazard areas.....................................................3826
  Insurance rates..................................................3813
  Loan policies and operations...............................4447, 4545
  National bank loan regulation....................................2826
  On loans secured by real estate in flood hazard areas............4717
  OTS regulation...................................................3199
  Protection and reforms...........................................1537
  Small businesses.................................................4207
  Standard hazard determination form...............................3828
  State bank purchase requirements.................................4626
  Veterans.........................................................3297
  Zone AR designation..............................................3815
Flood plains:
  Administrative appeals process...................................1028
  Categorical exclusions...........................................3827
  Conservation program..............................................182
  Loans in areas having special flood hazards......................3222
  Management.......................................................3815
  Permit regulations...............................................1026
  Wetlands:
    Conservation program............................182, 187, 188, 1631
    Development rule...............................................4219
    Wetland Reserve Program.........................................608
Floods:
  See Disaster assistance
Follow Through Program:
  See Education of disadvantaged
Food additives:
  See also Color additives
  Cured pork products...............................................480
  Food contact articles............................................1272
  Glycerine.........................................................476
  Meat and poultry products........................................1236
  Potassium hydroxide...............................................489
  Regulatory reinvention...........................................1211
  Sodium citrate buffered with citric acid..........................482
  Sulfiting agents.................................................1259
Food assistance programs:
  See also Food stamps
           School breakfast and lunch programs
  Agency for International Development.............................3355
  Child and adult care.....................402, 410, 422, 424, 442, 456
  Commodity Supplemental Food Program...............................405
  Educational and training assistance exclusions....................436
  Emergency disaster assistance.....................................399
  Farm Bill implementation..........................................404
  Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.................................458
  Food delivery systems...............................................2
  Food distribution disaster provisions.............................408
  Freedom of information............................................445
  Indian reservations.....................................426, 431, 462
  National School Lunch Program......................425, 449, 456, 460
  Older individuals................................................1460
  Overseas..........................................................499
  Paperwork reduction...............................................403
  Prohibition of institutionalized adults...........................454
  Purchase of food products produced in the U.S.....................435
  Quality control...................................................414
  State Processing Program..........................................440
  Summer Food Service Program.......................................417
  Vegetable protein products........................................421
  Women, infants, and children.....2, 400, 401, 441, 448, 450, 458, 459
Food grades and standards:
  See also Meat inspection
           Poultry and poultry products
           Seafood
  Common or usual name regulations...................................27
  Dairy products....................................................179
  Eggs and egg products.............................................171
  Fees..............................................................179
  Fishery products..................................................859
  Regulatory review.................................................466
  Standards of identity, quality, and fill of container..............27
Food ingredients:
  See Food additives
Food inspection:
  See Food grades and standards
Food labeling:
  Dietary supplements........................................1249, 1257
  Eggs..............................................................169
  Health claims.....................................................478
  Meat and poultry......................9, 468, 471, 478, 483, 484, 486
  Medical foods....................................................1262
  Review of regulations............................................1246
  Sausage casings...................................................475
  Sulfiting agents.................................................1259
Food packaging:
  Food contact articles............................................1272
Food stamps:
  ADP equipment and services acquisition............................438
  Authorization of retail firms.....................................423
  Benefit delivery requirement......................................455
  Claims collection methods.........................................463
  Claims establishment and collection.................................3
  Computer matching.................................................407
  Disqualification penalties........................................464
  Emergency disaster assistance................................399, 408
  Failure to comply with Federal, State, or local work program......443
  Income and eligibility verification systems.......................451
  Income eligibility standards......................................427
  Information use and disclosure....................................437
  Maximum allotments...........................................446, 447
  Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act......................5, 432
  Monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting.....................409
  Quality control..............................................406, 432
  Regulatory review.................................................452
  Reporting provisions...............................409, 427, 438, 439
  Resource provisions...............................................457
  Retail food stores.............................................4, 437
  Retailer application processing...................................416
  Retailer delinquent debt collection...............................444
  Retailer information privacy......................................397
  Simplification of rules...........................................429
  State agencies reimbursement......................................430
  Student eligibility...............................................453
  Utility allowances................................................428
  Utility reimbursements............................................434
  Wholesale food concerns...................................4, 423, 437
Foods:
  See also specific foods
           Dairy products
           Fish
           Food additives
           Food assistance programs
           Food grades and standards
           Food labeling
           Food packaging
           Frozen foods
           Fruits
           Meat and meat products
           Nutrition
           Poultry and poultry products
           Seafood
           Sugar
           Vegetables
  HACCP programs................................................6, 1266
  Infant formula quality control...................................1214
  Organic...........................................................167
  Pesticide residues.............................3367, 3368, 3391, 3392
  Regulatory reinvention...........................................1211
  Transportation in vehicles used for nonfood products.............2732
Foreign aid:
  Agency for International Development debarment and suspension 
      rule.........................................................3353
  Agency for International Development food programs...............3355
  Agency for International Development source, origin, and 
      nationality rules............................................3351
  Collection of debts by tax refund offset.........................3354
Foreign air carriers:
  See Air carriers
Foreign banking:
  Approval for banks in U.S........................................4640
  Bureau of Economic Analysis survey................................614
  Evaluation criteria..............................................4641
  FCA regulation...................................................4454
  Federal branches and agencies....................................2832
  FRS appeals process..............................................4661
  Income taxation..................................................3061
  Risk-based capital standards.....................................4551
  Shell branch management..........................................4631
  State branches.............................................4552, 4632
Foreign currencies:
  Acquisition regulations....................................2789, 4362
  Receivorship rules...............................................4546
Foreign exchange:
  See Currency
      Foreign currencies
Foreign investments in U.S.:
  Bureau of Economic Analysis survey................................614
  Income taxation............................................2956, 3091
Foreign officials:
  Employment.......................................................1955
  FDA regulations..................................................1258
Foreign persons:
  See Aliens
Foreign relations:
  See also specific countries
           Citizenship and naturalization
           Cultural exchange programs
           Foreign aid
           Foreign Service
           Foreign trade
           Immigration
           International boundaries
           Passports and visas
           Treaties
  Airspace regulations...........................2490, 2492, 2493, 2494
  Arms traffic regulations...................................2198, 2819
  BXA policy controls.....................................632, 649, 650
  COMSAT review category of USML...................................2203
  ED regulation revisions..........................................1081
  Exclusion or expulsion of foreign nationals......................1991
  Export to terrorist-supporting countries..........................658
  Fishery regulations...............................................751
  Gifts and decorations............................................3875
  International wills registry.....................................2201
  Streamlining legislation implementation..........................2205
  USML revisions...................................................2202
Foreign Service:
  Notorial and related services....................................2208
Foreign trade:
  See also Competitiveness
           Customs duties and inspection
           Exports
           Imports
           Maritime carriers
           Trade adjustment assistance
           Trade agreements
  Antidumping duties.................................................13
  Automobile parts.................................................2617
  Boycott provisions................................................625
  Bureau of Economic Analysis benchmark survey......................613
  Countervailing duties..............................................13
  Earnings and profits.............................................3051
  Endangered species...............................................1649
  European Community...............................................4409
  European Economic Community......................................4343
  Federal employee foreign rights in inventions.....................892
  Federal pilotage requirements for foreign trade vessels..........2335
  Federal Republic of Germany......................................4417
  Futures trading..................................................4880
  International air transportation policy..............2060, 2243, 2262
  Licensing of foreign patents acquired by the Government...........893
  Liquidation or reorganization of corporations....................2946
  Luxembourg corporations..........................................3159
  Motor vehicles...................................................3651
  NASA delegation of authority for foreign contracts...............3924
  Petroleum refineries.............................................2886
  Restrictions......................................................989
  Textile labeling.................................................4673
  U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement.................................1973
Forests and forest products:
  See also National forests
  Assistance to timber-dependent communities........................582
  Environmental analysis policy and procedure revisions.............529
  Export and substitution restrictions..............................534
  Indian allotments.................................................532
  Letter of credit..................................................515
  Management planning................................................10
  Market-Related Term Additions.....................................544
  Mineral fractions, sale...........................................512
  Stewardship Incentive Program.....................................536
  Timber sales:
    Cancellation....................................................517
    Competitive bids................................................535
    Contracts.............................................519, 527, 528
    Contracts and permits..........................................1872
    Export controls.................................................642
    Indian tribal forest enterprise operations...............1789, 1790
    Rates..........................................................1834
    Red Lake Indian Reservation....................................1789
    Surety bond form revision.......................................516
    Surplus species.................................................518
Forfeitures:
  See Seizures and forfeitures
Foster care:
  See Adoption and foster care
Fraud:
  By veteran's fiduciaries.........................................3310
  Civil and criminal forfeitures...................................2056
  Civil remedies.....................4202, 4244, 4263, 4314, 4413, 4543
  Clinical investigator disqualification...........................1247
  Contract Laboratory Program investigation........................3775
  Debarment of health care providers...............................4078
  Electronic funds transfers.......................................4655
  Fraudulent commercial driver's licenses..........................2528
  Odometer fraud...................................................2550
  Public housing...................................................1569
  Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act........4686
Freedom of information:
  See also Confidential business information
  Agriculture Department............................................445
  Chemical inventory reporting.....................................3766
  Department of Energy.............................................1140
  Department of Justice............................................2061
  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation............................4554
  Internal Revenue Service.........................................3001
  Mineral resources................................................1860
  NARA organizational and procedural changes.......................3935
  Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight...................3967
  Office of Personnel Management...................................4000
  Public information...............................................4763
  Railroad Retirement Board fees...................................4164
  Regulations revision.............................................1346
  Small Business Administration....................................4188
  Social Security Administration...................................4288
  Toxics Release Inventory reporting..........................103, 3404
Freight:
  See also Hazardous materials transportation
  Air carrier baggage liability limit..............................2235
  Food commodities for AID programs................................3355
  Invoiceless billing..............................................4687
  Liquefied hazardous gas transfer at marine terminals.............2332
  Shipments carried into U.S. by express consignment operators 
      and carriers.................................................2891
Frozen foods:
  Country of origin marking........................................2883
  Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act coverage..................170
Fruits:
  See also specific fruits
           Citrus fruits
  Common Crop Insurance........................................352, 353
  Crop insurance....................................................376
  Grain-fruit products..............................................418
  Import restrictions...............................................272
  Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act coverage..................170
Fuel:
  See Energy
Fuel additives:
  Deposit control additives........................................3707
  Detergent........................................................3669
  Waiver application criteria......................................3572
Fuel economy:
  Equivalent measurements for gaseous fuels........................2600
  Improvements.....................................................3707
  Light trucks.....................................................2559
  Private/municipal alternative fuels fleet program................1108
  Reporting requirements...........................................2581
Furs:
  Labeling.........................................................4663


                                   G

Gambling:
  Bank Secrecy Act.................................................2772
  Income taxation..................................................3068
  Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.....................................4721
  NIGC hearings and appeals..................................4723, 4724
Garnishment of wages:
  See Wages
Gas exploration:
  See Oil and gas exploration
Gas reserves:
  See Oil and gas reserves
Gas utilities:
  See Natural gas
Gases:
  See also Natural gas
  Coalbed methane development......................................1839
Gasohol:
  Alcohol fuels credit..............................................561
  Diesel fuel tax..................................................3179
  Motor vehicle use..........................................1120, 1126
Gasoline:
  See also Fuel economy
           Gasohol
  Detergent additives..............................................3669
  Diesel refineries................................................3591
  Diesel-powered equipment in mines..................................74
  Lead phaseout....................................................3574
  Reformulated.....................................................3606
Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) food ingredients:
  See Food additives
Gift taxes:
  Marital deduction, alien spouse..................................3175
Gifts to Government:
  See Government property
Government buildings:
  See Federal buildings and facilities
Government contracts:
  See also Government procurement
  Accounting procedures.......................974, 975, 995, 1020, 4319
  Affirmative action...........................................65, 2089
  Agency for International Development.............................3351
  Authority delegations............................933, 967, 4330, 4415
  Bid openings or closing dates....................................4348
  Certificates of competency.......................................4203
  Clauses and solicitation provisions...............................611
  Competitiveness......................................1016, 1038, 3982
  Construction.............................................65, 69, 2524
  Contracting Officer Warrant Program removal......................3866
  Contractors:
    Audits..........................................................981
    DOD ground and flight risk regulation...........................960
    DOD newspapers and civilian enterprise publications.............922
    DOD placement assistance program................................910
    DOD safety regulation...........................................913
    DOT quality assurance procedures...............................2545
    DOT training service regulations...............................2217
    Employee Reprisal Complaint and Investigation Files............1146
    EPA Response Action Contractor Indemnification.................3773
    Federal information acquisition................................1177
    HUD program participation requirements.........................1570
    Insurance/pension reviews.......................................991
    Liability......................................................3887
    Local residents.................................................944
    Mergers and acquisitions.......................................3991
    MMAS changes....................................................973
    Offsets in Foreign Military Sales contracts.....................955
    Performance...............................................980, 1039
    Permanent replacement of lawfully striking employees...........2129
    Personal services compensation..................................930
    Preaward surveys................................................953
    Reduction in defense programs..................................1004
    Reports of commercial transactions with terrorist countries 
                                                                   1005
    Surety bond issuance...........................................1013
    Suspension and exclusion.......................................4804
    Termination for convenience....................................4350
    Waivers........................................................2081
  Cost accounting standards........................................4345
  Cost allowability criteria...................................945, 947
  Cost monitoring...................................................954
  Cost principles..............................................978, 979
  Cost reimbursement contracts.....................................1184
  DEAR amendments..........25, 1160, 1168, 1169, 1174, 1179, 1180, 1187
  DEAR amendments to substance abuse programs......................1173
  DEAR regulatory reduction..................................1162, 1164
  Debarment and suspension.......................1068, 1161, 2207, 4351
  Defense Acquisition Pilot Program.................................907
  Definitization modifications.....................................1020
  Deliberate misconduct actions....................................4742
  Demilitarization requirements.....................................931
  Dispute resolution...............................................4341
  DOD Commercial Activities Program procedures......................915
  DOD Manufacturing Science and Technology Program..................938
  DOD stevedoring services.........................................1012
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions..................................................908
  DOE nuclear weapons facilities worker training...................1150
  Drug-free workplace...............................................928
  Electronic contracting.....................................1021, 4381
  Electronic data interchange in contracting.......................3869
  Environmental protection.........................................3798
  EPA Mentor-Protege Program.......................................3783
  EPA regulations on use of options................................3801
  EPA source selection procedures..................................3786
  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................2084
  Field pricing reports.............................................950
  Finance rules.....................................................977
  Fixed price.......................................................929
  Flexible contract administration services.........................985
  Foreign entities.................................................4380
  Greatest value source............................................1001
  GSA regulations..................................................3862
  Highway projects...........................................2512, 2524
  Indians.................................................61, 959, 1820
  Individual compensation...........................................946
  Internal controls systems.........................................988
  Internal Government responsibilities.............................4347
  Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program......................................4354
  Labor standards..............................................69, 2080
  Lobbying restrictions...........................978, 2226, 3885, 4365
  Local telecommunications service...........................3833, 3854
  Management and operating contractor purchasing systems...........1185
  Maritime carriers................................................2748
  MILCON-funded CPFF contracts......................................970
  Minority businesses and institutions.............................1007
  Multiple Award Schedule Program..................................3857
  NAFTA implementation........................................956, 4352
  NASA delegation of authority for foreign contracts...............3924
  NASA policies....................................................3881
  Nondiscrimination............................................65, 2089
  Nonprofit agencies for the blind or severely disabled.............943
  Nuclear safety management................................23, 24, 1155
  Penalty payments.................................................3787
  Performance work statements......................................3987
  Precontractual contract administration............................969
  Price adjustments to shipbuilding contracts......................1032
  Progress payments............................................932, 995
  Prompt pay overseas..............................................4380
  Protection of and access to classified information...............4779
  Publicizing contract actions.....................................4416
  Qualification requirements...................................951, 975
  Records retention................................................4366
  Research and development......937, 1006, 1017, 1180, 1188, 4349, 4358
  Rights to inventions..............................................891
  Service contracting............................2080, 2093, 2099, 4415
  Service of protest...............................................4342
  Small business innovation research rights in data................4349
  Small business size regulations............................4206, 4231
  Small business subcontracting....................................4208
  Small businesses.................................................4200
  Small disadvantaged businesses..............................957, 1019
  Subcontracting...........943, 977, 1001, 1015, 4346, 4361, 4372, 4804
  Substance abuse..................................................1167
  Trade Agreements Act.........................................956, 963
  Truth in Negotiations Act.........................................983
  Undefinitized contracts...........................................990
  VA administrative changes..................................3246, 3281
  Vietnam veterans..................................................984
Government employees:
  See also Conflict of interests
           Foreign Service
           Military personnel
           Political activities (Government employees)
  Absence and leave:
    Annual leave.......................................4022, 4098, 4099
    Family and medical leave........................................142
    Leave administration...........................................4086
    Sick leave.....................................................4100
  Application filing...............................................2044
  Availability of official information.............................4000
  Career and career conditional employment.............4044, 4045, 4082
  Career and conditional employment................................4001
  Child care at VA facilities......................................3303
  Compulsory process...............................................1586
  Cost-of-living allowances................4024, 4025, 4026, 4096, 4097
  Credit of accounts...............................................2795
  Crime control at NASA-sponsored child care centers...............3889
  Criminal court judges............................................3076
  Criminal investigators...........................................4056
  DEA exemption of agents and employees............................1931
  Debarment........................................................1483
  Debarment and suspension.........................................4110
  Debt collection..................................................4039
  Defense personnel...........................................910, 4046
  DOD Commercial Activities Program procedures......................915
  Eligibility for benefits under term appointments.................4083
  Employee organization relationships with OPM.....................4005
  Employment discrimination............................3808, 3809, 3810
  Entertainment, gift, and recreation costs........................4402
  EOIR exemptions..................................................1938
  Executive, management, and supervisory development...............4007
  Experts and consultants..........................................4081
  FECA benefits..............................................3331, 3334
  Financial disclosure requirements................................3976
  Foreign rights in inventions......................................892
  Garnishment of salaries....................................4085, 4111
  General Schedule position classification system..................4076
  Health benefits:
    Acquisition regulation...................................4038, 4073
    Debarment of health care providers.............................4078
    Disabled children..............................................4109
    Disputed claims................................................4107
    FEHBP changes....................4036, 4069, 4070, 4071, 4074, 4108
    Hospital insurance benefits....................................1367
    Preexemption of taxes....................................4077, 4079
  Interagency placement............................................4047
  Intermittent employees...........................................4003
  Investigations...................................................4029
  Life insurance:
    Code merger and consolidation..................................4066
    FEGLI changes................................4035, 4067, 4068, 4106
  NARA policy on outside employment................................3942
  NARA recordkeeping requirements...................................141
  NASA drug and alcohol testing programs.....................3888, 3893
  Occupational radiation protection................................1144
  OPM administrative grievance system..............................4101
  Part-time employees..............................................4003
  Pay administration...........4012, 4023, 4053, 4056, 4058, 4086, 4092
  Pay rates..................................................4013, 4081
  Performance appraisal............................................4002
  Performance Management and Recognition System..............4075, 4084
  Personnel records................................................4040
  Presidential Management Intern Program...........................4010
  Promotion and internal placement...........................4006, 4049
  Recruitment bonuses..............................................4095
  Reduction in force...............................................4050
  Reinstatement eligibility........................................4044
  Relocation bonuses...............................................4095
  Relocation income tax allowance..................................3845
  Restoration to duty..............................................4008
  Retention allowances.............................................4095
  Retirement:
    Alternative form of annuity....................................4063
    Court orders awarding survivor annuities.................4033, 4104
    Credit for military service....................................4031
    D.C. Financial Control Board employees.........................4062
    Debt collection................................................4064
    Determinations of marital status for survivor annuities.......4032, 
                                                                   4102
    Disability annuitant...........................................4103
    FERS automatic coverage........................................4105
    FERS basic annuity.............................................4065
    FERS coverage elections........................................4034
    Garnishment....................................................4085
    Health care professionals......................................4030
  Salary offset for claims collection..............................4118
  Salary offset for ED debt collection.............................1092
  Salary supplementation...........................................3979
  Seasonal employees...............................................4003
  Security standards...............................................4060
  Selective Service registration...................................4043
  Senior Executive Service:
    Annual leave accumulation......................................4099
    Last move home benefit.........................................3843
    Performance appraisal..........................................4002
  Separate maintenance allowances..................................4027
  Severance pay..............................................4021, 4057
  Solicitation of employees for charitable contributions...........4072
  Standards of conduct.......549, 610, 920, 921, 982, 1070, 1107, 1190, 
        1465, 1573, 1943, 3306, 3362, 3805, 3959, 3964, 3970, 3971, 
        3974, 4051, 4116, 4119, 4176, 4199, 4462, 4464, 4805, 4898, 
        4899, 4901
  Student loan repayments..........................................4009
  Substance abuse............................................1136, 1137
  Suitability standards............................................4028
  Summer employment................................................4004
  Temporary employees............................4042, 4048, 4080, 4083
  Testimony........................................................1586
  Time-in-grade restrictions.......................................4041
  Training...................................................4007, 4011
  Travel regulations.................3840, 3842, 3843, 3844, 3845, 3846
  Voluntary separation incentive repayment waivers.................4055
  Wage area redefinition......4015, 4016, 4017, 4018, 4019, 4052, 4054, 
                                                       4087, 4088, 4093
  Wage schedule changes for New York...............................4090
  Wage schedule changes for printing positions...............4020, 4094
  Wage survey responsibility.....................4014, 4037, 4089, 4091
Government procurement:
  See also Government contracts
  Acquisition regulations......609, 2246, 3915, 4283, 4344, 4376, 4391, 
                                                                   4414
  Agriculture acquisition changes...................................609
  Aircraft fuel cells..............................................1000
  Alaska Native corporations........................................999
  Architect-engineer services......................................4355
  Australian manufactured defense equipment.........................952
  Authority delegations........................................139, 933
  Automated data processing equipment...............................971
  Automated information systems....................................4342
  Bills of lading..................................................3282
  Buy American Act.............................................940, 952
  Buy Indian Act......................................................0
  Child care services..............................................4340
  Combination locks.................................................903
  Commercial items acquisition..............924, 4390, 4407, 4410, 4794
  Construction.................................................962, 987
  Contingent fees..................................................4323
  Contractors:
    Business meal costs............................................4321
    Commercially available government furnished material...........4385
    Conflict of interests...............................992, 4388, 4548
    Copyright in software..........................................3895
    Debarment and suspension........................................997
    Disclosure and use of proprietary information..................3836
    Disposal of government property................................4382
    Electronic data interchange interface..........................3867
    Entertainment, gift, and recreation costs......................4402
    Express small package transportation...........................3873
    FAR certifications.............................................4322
    Industrial funding fees........................................3868
    Insurance/pension reviews.......................................991
    Liquidated damages payments....................................4333
    NASA advance payments..........................................3901
    NASA contractor cost reporting.................................3897
    NASA cost principle on independent research and development 
                                                                   3896
    NASA indemnification policy and approval.......................3927
    NASA printing and duplicating restrictions.....................3892
    NASA termination liability.....................................3904
    Overhead certification.........................................4399
    Payments for purchases from government supply sources..........1011
    Personal services compensation..................................930
    Purchasing systems reviews................................958, 4361
    Quality considerations...............................949, 968, 4371
    Records of prospective building service employees..............3831
    Reports of commercial transactions with terrorist countries 
                                                                   1005
    Teaming of sole source contractors..............................965
    Unfair trade practices.........................................4344
    Whistleblower protection.......................................4389
  Contracts:
    Accounting controls.............................................988
    Cost type or incentive contract................................4397
    DOD health care contracts.......................................934
    Electronic data interchange in contracting.....................3869
    Electronic funds transfer.......................................925
    Financial institutions.........................................4403
    Fixed price....................................................4383
    GSA Board of Contract Appeals rules of procedure...............3871
    GSBCA rules....................................................4369
    Implementation.................................................4408
    NASA Contract Adjustment Board.................................3910
    NASA contracts.......3891, 3898, 3903, 3907, 3908, 3909, 3917, 3922
    NASA ombudsmans program........................................3879
    NFS contracts.........................................517, 527, 528
    Payments.......................................................4318
    Prompt Payment Act compliance..................................4353
    Service contracting and contract clauses.......................3280
    Termination....................................................4375
  Convict labor use................................................4368
  Cooperative purchasing............................................137
  Cost accounting standards........................................4345
  Costs:
    Accounting for allowable costs.........4320, 4321, 4363, 4365, 4366
    Cost principles................................................4394
    Employee compensation costs....................................4364
    Interdivisional transfers......................................4376
    Overhead should-cost reviews..............................926, 4359
    Penalties......................................................4393
    Pension costs............................................4331, 4357
    Travel...................................................4325, 4367
  Debarment and suspension.....619, 1176, 1203, 3863, 3921, 3923, 4110, 
                                                                   4228
  Defective pricing reductions.....................................4378
  Defense Acquisition Pilot Program.................................907
  Defense Production Act amendments................................4374
  Deliberate misconduct actions....................................4742
  Demilitarization requirements.....................................931
  Department of Labor..............................................2154
  Disputes...................................................4398, 4412
  DOC regulations...................................................612
  DOD ethic regulations.............................................982
  DOD installations closed.........................................1003
  DOD Part 35 clause regulations...................................1002
  DOD regulations.............................................988, 4399
  DOD specifications and standards..................................936
  DOI regulations................................1578, 1579, 1583, 1584
  Domestic service restrictions.....................................948
  Education Department.............................................1061
  Electronic component screening...................................4371
  Electronic funds transfers.......................................4318
  Emergency repairs................................................3279
  Energy savings performance contracting...........................1132
  Energy-efficient office equipment and supplies...................3848
  Energy-efficient products and services...........................4326
  Environmental Protection Agency..................................3791
  Environmentally preferable products.......972, 3407, 4326, 4327, 4328
  European Command Supplement.......................................935
  European Community...............................................4409
  European Economic Community......................................4343
  Extension Service regulation......................................301
  FIRMR provisions amendment...139, 3833, 3834, 3835, 3851, 3852, 3853, 
                                                                   3854
  FIRMR provisions update..........................................3849
  Foreign currency use.......................................2789, 4362
  Foreign goods restrictions...................................941, 989
  Foreign patents acquired by the Government........................893
  Foreign procurements..................................940, 1578, 1579
  Fraud remedies...................................................4413
  Fuel..............................................................912
  Greatest value source............................................1001
  GSA regulations...........................136, 3838, 3841, 3864, 3865
  Hazardous substances..............................................942
  Health care services..............................................898
  HUD regulations..................................................1551
  Indian tribal corporations........................................999
  Insurance/liability to third parties........................927, 4358
  Integrated materiel manangement...................................966
  Integrity........................................................3785
  Internal Government responsibilities.............................4347
  Lifeboat survival system..........................................998
  Limiting carrier payments to one address.........................3874
  Lobbying restrictions......................................4334, 4365
  Local businesses.................................................1009
  Micro-purchase procedures...................................964, 4324
  Military acquisitions.............................................906
  Military assistance program address codes.........................986
  Multiyear contracting................................4330, 4339, 4401
  NAFTA implementation.............................................1010
  NASA acquisition regulations......3899, 3900, 3912, 3918, 3919, 3921, 
                                                             3923, 3926
  NASA approval authorities........................................3905
  NASA award fee coverage..........................................3906
  NASA's midrange procurement procedures...........................3882
  National Park Service visitor services...........................1759
  Office copying machines....................................3860, 4327
  Office of Personnel Management.............................4038, 4073
  OFPP Act procurement requirements................................4332
  Panama Canal Commission..........................................4113
  Paper and paper products.........................................3553
  Performance and payment bonds....................................4337
  Performance-based payment........................................4405
  Price competition................................................4384
  Pricing....................................................4392, 4400
  Production surveillance...........................................993
  Protests...................................................4398, 4412
  Quality assurance nonconformance.................................4360
  Quality considerations...........................................4335
  Quick closeout procedures........................................4329
  Reconditioned material...........................................4387
  Records examination..............................................4396
  Records retention................................................4366
  Recycled products..........................................3539, 3569
  Removal of Federal supply schedule ordering instructions.........3872
  Research and development procedures..............................1018
  Returnable cylinders.............................................1014
  Screening FIP resources..........................................3850
  Screening threshold...............................................994
  Sealed bidding...................................................4336
  Security procedures..............................................1172
  Small business subcontracting..............................1175, 4370
  Small businesses.........911, 976, 1009, 3870, 3908, 4211, 4373, 4406
  Special tooling..................................................4383
  Special tooling and test equipment................................974
  State Department grantees........................................2206
  Streamlining legislation implementation...137, 138, 2244, 3839, 3869, 
        4073, 4324, 4325, 4388, 4389, 4390, 4391, 4392, 4393, 4394, 
        4395, 4396, 4397, 4398, 4399, 4400, 4401, 4403, 4404, 4405, 
        4406, 4407, 4408, 4411, 4412
  Subcontract proposal audits......................................4356
  Subcontracting...1001, 3993, 3999, 4338, 4361, 4372, 4395, 4404, 4410
  Supercomputers....................................................961
  Tank and automotive forging items.................................948
  Task and delivery order contracts................................4411
  Technical data....................................................996
  Thresholds..................................................139, 3838
  Total Quality Management..........................................905
  Trade sanctions-Germany..........................................4417
  U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement.................................4377
  VAAR acquisition regulations...............................3282, 3283
  Vessel reflagging or repair work.................................1008
  Voluntary refunds................................................4379
Government property:
  See also Federal buildings and facilities
           Government property management
  DOI property management regulation...............................1585
  Foreign gifts and decorations....................................3875
  NASA acquisition regulation......................................3912
  Office copying machines..........................................3860
  Real property:
    Acquisition of leasehold interests.......................3864, 3865
    Homeless housing................................................916
    Lead-based paint...............................................3877
    Transfer and disposal..........................................1040
Government property management:
  Assignment and utilization of space...............................140
  Disposal of government property..................................4382
  Disposal of surplus real property..........................2755, 3878
  Extension Service regulation......................................301
  Removal of Federal supply schedule ordering instructions.........3872
  Reporting excess personal property...............................3861
  Solicitation and acceptance of donated property and services.....3366
Government publications:
  Audit followup...................................................3981
  Educational institution auditing.................................3988
  Internal control systems.........................................3995
  Nonprofit organizations..........................................3984
  Policies.........................................................3989
  Resource management..............................................3989
Government securities:
  See also Bonds
  Customer protection..............................................4883
  Foreign government securities....................................4880
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................2762, 2767
  Sales practices..................................................2829
  Treasury stock...................................................4549
Grains:
  See also specific grains
           Feed grains
  Alcohol fuels credit..............................................561
  Beltsville laboratory test services fee...........................394
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................363
  Farm Facility Loan Program........................................212
  Grain-fruit products..............................................418
  Inspection standards...............................386, 392, 393, 395
  Safety standard for grain handling facilities....................2167
  Weighing and inspection fees.................................387, 390
Grant programs:
  Audits...........................................................3950
  Block grants:
    Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages......................1560
    Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program..........1430, 1450, 1451
    Obsolete rule elimination......................................1459
  Child Abuse and Neglect State Grant Program......................1440
  CNCS grants and cooperative agreements...........................3365
  Correctional system..............................................2065
  Crimes against women.............................................2072
  Debarment and suspension.........................................2207
  Domestic violence................................................1439
  Drug court programs..............................................2071
  Drug-free workplace........................................1068, 2073
  Energy research............................................1142, 1182
  EPA air grants...................................................3682
  IMS grants management rule.......................................3951
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration....................3913
  National Institutes of Health..............................1292, 1293
  OMB Circular A-73 rescission.....................................3997
  Research grants..................................................1194
  Rights to inventions..............................................891
  Small purchase threshold.........................................3829
  State cemetery grants............................................3286
  1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants Program.................293
Grant programs-agriculture:
  Administrative provisions and requirements....295, 297, 299, 300, 548
  Community facility grants.........................................582
  Housing preservation grants.......................................312
  Rangeland Research Grants Program.................................296
  Research grants program...........................................297
  Rural economic development........................................558
  Technical assistance and training.............196, 552, 555, 562, 591
  Waiver of restriction on eligibility..............................180
  Water and waste disposal programs.................................577
Grant programs-business:
  Small businesses.................................................4227
Grant programs-communications:
  Telecommunications infrastructure.................................872
Grant programs-economic development:
  Regulation review..................................................12
  Rural areas..................................................554, 564
Grant programs-education:
  Administrative regulations.......................17, 1055, 1056, 1067
  DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................904
  DOE grants.......................................................1153
  ED Direct Grant Program....................................1062, 1063
  FmHA programs.....................................................196
  Head Start Program funding.......................................1433
  Higher Education Challenge Grants Program.........................292
  Income taxes.....................................................3155
  Indian colleges..................................................1785
  Indian grant policies and procedures.............................1768
  Individuals with disabilities....................................1097
  Interest liability...............................................1066
  Multicultural Scholars Program....................................294
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration....................3920
  National Security Education Program...............................909
  Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program...............................1077
  State and local governments................................1097, 1102
Grant programs-environmental protection:
  Flood mitigation assistance programs.............................3817
  Solid waste management grants.....................................590
Grant programs-foreign relations:
  Small purchase thresholds........................................2206
Grant programs-health:
  AOA rules revisions..............................................1460
  Family Medicine departments......................................1281
  Health education/risk reduction..................................1209
  Health professions teaching facilities...........................1279
  Health services research............................................0
  Health training..................................................1278
  HHS small purchase thresholds....................................1202
  National Alcohol Research Centers................................1294
  NIH and NLM training grants......................................1292
  Substance abuse block grants.................................26, 1206
  Uniform administrative requirements..............................1194
Grant programs-housing and community development:
  Community development block grants.............1531, 1532, 1533, 1538
  Enterprise Zone Home Ownership Opportunity Grant Program.........1490
  Homeless veterans................................................3305
  Housing preservation grants.......................................312
  Lump sum grants..................................................1485
  Reporting requirements...........................................1486
  Special needs assistance.........................................1478
  Temporary housing assistance grants..............................3823
Grant programs-Indians:
  Education grant policies and procedures..........................1768
  Environmental protection.........................................3779
  Health programs....................................................37
  Uniform administrative requirements..............................3779
Grant programs-law:
  Confidentiality of information...................................2069
  Criminal justice block grants....................................2070
  Criminal justice information systems.............................2068
  Victims of Crime Act compensation programs.......................2066
  Violence Against Women Act.......................................2063
Grant programs-national defense:
  DOD funds provided to institutions of higher education.......899, 939
  DOD grants and cooperative agreements to State and local 
      governments...................................................919
Grant programs-natural resources:
  National Undersea Research Program................................831
Grant programs-science and technology:
  Manufacturing Science and Technology Program......................938
  NASA cooperative agreements to State and local governments.......3880
  NCI construction grants..........................................1291
Grant programs-transportation:
  Airport Improvement Program......................................2483
  Debarment and suspension requirements for drug-free workplace 
      grants.......................................................2214
  Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program..........................2538
  Uniform administrative requirements........................2225, 2233
  Value engineering programs.......................................2518
Grants administration:
  Assistance to State and local governments........................3819
  Cost principles, State and local governments.....................3994
  Department of Education..........................................1055
  Institute of Museum Services.....................................3949
  Lobbying certification...........................................3940
  Lobbying restrictions......................................2226, 3885
  Social Security Administration.................4289, 4290, 4291, 4292
  Uniform administrative requirements......617, 1181, 1194, 2064, 2155, 
                               2233, 2261, 3352, 3790, 3884, 3961, 4291
Grazing lands:
  Indian land......................................................1769
  National Forest System.......................................530, 532
Guaranteed loans:
  See Loan programs
Guns:
  See Arms and munitions


                                   H

Handicapped:
  See Individuals with disabilities
Harbors:
  Atlanta, GA......................................................1606
  Customs preliminary vessel entry and permits.....................2862
  Disposal and utilization of surplus real property................2755
  Federal port controllers.........................................2753
  Great Lakes ports................................................2754
  Handling and transfer of oil or hazardous liquids................2289
  Handling liquefied hazardous gas transfer........................2332
  Handling of explosive and other dangerous cargoes................2277
  Licensing of pilots..............................................2330
  Limit of liability for deepwater ports...........................2259
  Maintenance fees.................................................2879
  Pilotage areas...................................................2330
  Regulations removal..............................................2756
Hatch Act:
  See Political activities (Government employees)
Hawaiian Natives:
  Grants for services provided to older individuals................1460
  Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act...........1758
Hazardous materials transportation:
  See also Pipeline safety
  Coast Guard regulations..........86, 87, 2288, 2323, 2347, 2348, 2349
  Cylinder qualification requirements..............................2708
  Editorial corrections............................................2729
  Farmers and retail farm suppliers................................2509
  Hazardous Waste Manifest rule....................................3534
  Hydrogen sulfide.................................................2720
  Intergovernmental relations......................................2713
  List of hazardous substances.....................................2747
  Miscellaneous amendments.........................................2705
  Motor carrier safety permits.....................................2735
  Motor carrier safety ratings.....................................2502
  Motor carriers.............................95, 1748, 2511, 2514, 2533
  Open-head fiber drum packaging...................................2746
  Placard requirements.............................................2722
  Poisonous materials labeling.....................................2706
  Preemption determination.........................................2534
  Radioactive materials......................................2741, 4782
  Railroad regulations.......................................2685, 2712
  Registration and fee assessment program..........................2745
  Regulations elimination..........................................2714
  Response plans...................................................2726
  Revision of exemption, approval, registration, and reporting 
      procedures...................................................2709
  Shipping papers retention........................................2710
  Tank car tanks...................................................2742
  Tank cars........................................................2724
  Tankerman requirements and qualifications........................2289
  Ticketing program................................................2715
  Transfrontier movements..........................................3548
Hazardous substances:
  See also Explosives
           Flammable materials
           Hazardous materials transportation
           Hazardous waste
           Poison prevention
           Radioactive materials
  Accidental release................................................132
  Acetone packaging................................................4440
  Air pollutants...82, 113, 116, 119, 129, 131, 3413, 3585, 3587, 3588, 
        3612, 3618, 3619, 3620, 3621, 3622, 3623, 3624, 3625, 3626, 
        3627, 3628, 3629, 3630, 3632, 3633, 3634, 3636, 3637, 3639, 
        3640, 3642, 3672, 3680, 3681, 3695, 3696, 3697, 3710, 3715, 
        3716, 3717, 3718, 3719, 3720, 3721, 3722, 3723, 3724, 3725, 
        3726, 3731, 3734, 3751, 3752, 3753, 3774, 4673
  Aluminum cylinders safety problems...............................2699
  Asbestos.............................................3416, 3423, 3445
  Basic research and training program..............................1290
  Caprolactam......................................................3642
  Carbon monoxide..................................................3594
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3776
  Chemical test rules..................................3413, 3417, 3426
  Chemicals..................................................3405, 3410
  Chromium...................................................2161, 3612
  Damage to natural resources........................58, 59, 1581, 1582
  Disinfection byproducts....................................3511, 3518
  Drinking Water Priority List.....................................3518
  Drinking water regulations.......................................3509
  Environmentally preferable products guidelines...................3407
  Exposure limits for air contaminants...............................82
  Extremely Hazardous Substances List..............................3769
  Federally permitted releases.....................................3770
  Formaldehyde.....................................................3442
  Government property disposal.....................................4382
  High-pressure seamless cylinders.................................2698
  Housing...........................................................330
  Hydrogen sulfide.................................................1804
  Intrastate transportation..........................................95
  Lead................49, 121, 3406, 3418, 3421, 3422, 3440, 3505, 3633
  Liquefied gas and flammable liquids..............................2332
  Method 24 amendment........................................3596, 3678
  Methylene chloride...............................................4436
  Microbial contaminants...........................................3511
  Microbial products (biotechnology)...............................3430
  MSHA protection standards........................................2141
  Neurotoxicity risk assessment....................................3778
  Nitrogen dioxide.................................................3613
  Nitrogen oxides...........................118, 3594, 3655, 3729, 3753
  Occupational safety and health programs............................79
  Oxygen use by air carrier passengers.............................2216
  Ozone precursors..................................................130
  Penalties under CERCLA and emergency planning....................3795
  Pesticides......3367, 3368, 3382, 3384, 3385, 3392, 3394, 3397, 3399, 
                                                             3400, 3415
    Aircraft disinsection notification.............................2239
    Cross-contamination reporting..................................3379
    Exportation....................................................3396
    Field testing..................................................3369
    Inventory with cancelled registration..........................3385
    Labeling program.........................................3373, 3393
    Notification procedure.........................................3377
    Produced by transgenic plants..................................3380
    Production and distribution records............................3374
    Regulatory review...............................................104
    Self-certification..............................................120
    Water pollution control........................................3474
    Worker protection standards........................3375, 3387, 3388
  Pipeline safety operations.......................................2728
  Pipeline safety standards.....94, 2703, 2711, 2718, 2719, 2727, 2736, 
                                                             2737, 2738
  Polychlorinated biphenyls.......................122, 3432, 3434, 3443
  Radionuclides............................3500, 3512, 3714, 3768, 4739
  Radon..........................................3635, 3743, 3763, 3772
  Regulatory review.................................................104
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.........................3438
  Reproductive toxicity risk assessment............................3788
  Saccharin........................................................3771
  Storage and disposal at military installations....................942
  Sulfur oxides.....................................................127
  Sulfuric acid drain cleaners.....................................4428
  Surface coatings...........................................3596, 3678
  Toxics Release Inventory..............................103, 3404, 3419
  Underground storage tanks........................................3564
  Water pollution control..............................3451, 3488, 3489
Hazardous waste:
  Carbamates.......................................................3764
  Cement kiln dust.................................................3532
  Cleanups..........................................................110
  Delisting petitions..............................................3568
  Dioxin/furan contaminated sludge.................................3444
  Disposal facilities:
    Combustion facilities.....................................109, 3549
    Permit modifications...........................................3558
  Effluent limitation guidelines...................................3472
  Format and Content Guide.........................................3602
  Geologic repositories............................................4762
  Groundwater contamination........................................3519
  Identification and listing.............................108, 110, 3525
  Import/export....................................................3555
  Infectious substances............................................2744
  Land disposal:
    Liquids in landfills...........................................3565
    Post-closure requirements......................................3542
    Restrictions...................................124, 125, 3540, 3557
  Lead.......................................................3420, 3424
  Manifest regulation..............................................3534
  Medical waste...............................................128, 2744
  Military munitions...............................................3535
  Mineral processing wastes.........................................124
  Organobromines...................................................3543
  Pesticides.......................................................3389
  Petroleum refining process.......................................3530
  Polychlorinated biphenyls...................................122, 3443
  Radioactive waste........................3499, 4773, 4785, 4790, 4792
    Disposal of spent nuclear fuel...........................1151, 3501
    Waste management rules.........................................3711
    Yucca Mountain, NV.............................................3604
  Recycled used oil................................................3525
  Recycling...................................................107, 3566
  Response Action Contractor Indemnification.......................3773
  Saccharin........................................................3771
  Solid waste.................................................107, 3546
  Solvents.........................................................3528
  Spent solvents...................................................3525
  State programs...................................................3563
  Taxation of environmental settlement funds.......................3090
  Technical standards for corrective action for cleanup.............101
  Testing methods............................................3556, 3567
  Toxic waste site.................................................3410
  Toxicity characteristic metals....................................124
  Toxicity characteristic rule.....................................3559
  Training programs accreditation..................................2179
  Treatment and disposal:
    Fluorescent lamps..............................................3561
  Triarylmethane dye and pigments..................................3547
  Uncontrolled sites on the NPL....................................3765
  Wood preserving wastes............................................124
Head Start Program:
  See Education of disadvantaged
Health:
  See also specific diseases
           Alcohol abuse
           Dental health
           Drug abuse
           Drugs
           Family planning
           Health care
           Health facilities
           Health insurance
           Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)
           Health professions
           Health records
           Health statistics
           Individuals with disabilities
           Medical and dental schools
           Medical devices
           Medical research
           Mental health programs
           Nutrition
           Occupational safety and health
           Public health
           Radiation protection
           Safety
  ACF elimination of block grant rules.............................1459
  Health certification for translocation/release of animals........1722
  HHS thresholds for grants........................................1202
  NIH traineeships.................................................1287
Health care:
  See also Emergency medical services
           Medicaid
           Medicare
  CLIA fee schedules...............................................1405
  CLIA tests.......................................................1427
  Clinical laboratories regulation...................................43
  Community supported living arrangements services.................1423
  DOD personal service contracts....................................934
  Electronic transfer of data......................................1046
  Eye and ear speciality hospitals.................................1426
  Home and community-based services................................1200
  Home health agencies...................................38, 1200, 1328
  Human tissue intended for transplantation........................1256
  Organ procurement and transplantation............................1351
  Patient radiation exposures......................................4772
  Patient rights.............................................3226, 4752
  Plan protection..................................................1196
  Plastic surgery for inmates......................................1876
  Prepayment plans.................................................1306
  Rural services...................................................1307
  Small business size standards....................................4174
  Veterans.........................................98, 3267, 3290, 3319
Health facilities:
  See also Hospitals
           Nursing homes
  CHAMPUS programs.................................................1043
  Family Medicine departments......................................1281
  Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992........1282
  Fire safety standards............................................1395
  Health Center services.....................................1305, 1360
  Incineration of medical waste.....................................128
  Intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded...........1395
  Long-term care...................................................1396
  Mammography Quality Standards Act..................................28
  Nursing facilities...............................................1302
  Objectivity in PHS-funded research...............................1295
  Physician referrals for health services..........................1317
  Physician referrals to labs......................................1419
  Renal dialysis facilities........................................1310
  Uniformed Services facilities.....................................898
  VA payment of claims.............................................3309
Health insurance:
  See also Medicare
  CHAMPUS amendments...............................................1050
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants..................................1052
  CHAMPUS definition of experimental...............................1053
  CHAMPUS payment for ambulatory care..............................1049
  CHAMPUS programs...........................................1042, 1043
  Credit union employees...........................................4716
  Disputed claims..................................................4107
  Exemption from State regulation..................................2117
  Government employees........4036, 4038, 4069, 4070, 4071, 4073, 4074, 
                                                 4077, 4079, 4108, 4109
  Individuals with disabilities.....................................133
  Longshore and harbor workers.....................................2098
  Retroactive enrollment...........................................1365
Health insurance for aged:
  See Medicare
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs):
  Amendments of 1988...............................................1354
  FEHBP applications...............................................4071
  Health care prepayment plans.....................................1306
  Medicaid requirements............................................1397
  Medicare penalties and sanctions.................................1353
  Organizational structure and services............................1348
  Physician incentive plans prohibition............................1193
  Physician incentive plans regulations............................1363
  Safe Labor Protection............................................1196
  Third party liability............................................1326
Health professions:
  CHAMPUS provider certification requirements......................1051
  CLIA test requirements...........................................1427
  Education:
    Nursing and allied health science programs.....................1356
  Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992........1282
  Health Education Assistance Loan Program.........................1280
  Health Professionals Education Assistance Program................3249
  National practitioner data bank..................................1283
  Nurse practitioners..................................1302, 1416, 1418
  Nurse-midwives...................................................1374
  Nurses:
    Anesthetists...................................................1356
    Certification and recertification..............................1416
    Nonimmigrant aliens............................................2000
  Physician assistants.......................................1298, 1391
  Physician ownership and referral arrangements....................1199
  Physicians:
    FEHBP payments for services....................................4069
    Health services referrals......................................1317
    Hearing evaluation performance.................................1221
    Incentive plans..........................................1193, 1363
    Laboratory referrals...........................................1419
    Medicare payment policies........................................45
    Medicare reimbursement.............................1364, 1379, 1385
    VA medical opinions rules......................................3247
    VA physicians' statements rule.................................3339
  Psychologists..............................................1358, 1393
  Retirement provisions............................................4030
  Teaching facilities..............................................1279
  Training grants............................................1278, 1292
Health records:
  Confidentiality of substance abuse patient records...............1207
  Confidentiality of VA records....................................3248
  Disclosure of confidential PRO information for research..........1311
  Electronic records and signatures................................1253
  Medical certificates for aircraft pilots.........................2397
Health statistics:
  Regulations change...............................................1209
Hearing and appeal procedures:
  See Administrative practice and procedure
Heart diseases:
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants..................................1052
  Medicare coverage of lung transplants............................1428
Helicopters:
  See Aircraft
Heliports:
  See Airports
Herbicides:
  See Pesticides and pests
Higher education:
  See Colleges and universities
Highway safety:
  Diabetic interstate truck drivers................................2527
  Epileptic drivers................................................2544
  Highway-rail grade crossings.....................................2682
  Locomotive conspicuity...........................................2671
  Motor carrier regulations.....92, 2506, 2507, 2508, 2510, 2514, 2522, 
                                                             2540, 2548
  Powered industrial truck operator training.......................2181
  State programs.............................................2616, 2647
  Traffic surveillance and control.................................2523
Highways and roads:
  See also Bridges
           Highway safety
           Motor carriers
           Motor vehicle safety
           Motor vehicles
  Accident reporting requirements..................................2547
  Alaskan transportation and utility systems.......................1873
  Beautification costs.............................................2496
  Certification acceptance policy..................................2525
  Closure of streets to secure the White House.....................2769
  Construction on Indian lands.....................................1782
  Environmental impact and related procedures......................2505
  Environmental impact procedures............................2558, 2689
  Equal employment opportunity.....................................2515
  Federal aid project authorization................................2520
  Federal aid projects...........................2512, 2513, 2524, 2541
  Geometric design of highways and streets.........................2519
  Gettysburg National Military Park................................1766
  Management and monitoring systems................................2693
  Management systems...............................................2516
  Quality assurance procedures for construction....................2545
  Reimbursement for utility relocations............................2543
  Right-of-way regulations.............................1654, 1802, 2495
  Snowmobile and snowplane routes..................................1750
  Traffic surveillance and control...........................2526, 2539
  Tramroads and logging roads......................................1838
  Transborder traffic controls and fees............................2003
  Value engineering programs.......................................2518
Historic preservation:
  Archaeological resources on Indian lands.........................1792
  DOI historic properties standards................................1763
  Marine sanctuary site evaluation..................................769
  National parks...................................................1754
  Regulatory revisions.............................................3350
Historical records:
  See Archives and records
Hogs:
  Potassium hydroxide as a hog scald agent..........................489
Holding companies:
  Bank holding companies......4630, 4638, 4647, 4654, 4656, 4657, 4658, 
                                                                   4808
  CFTC risk assessment..............................................154
  Exempt wholesale generators......................................4861
  Exemption for certain acquisitions.........................4848, 4865
  Exemption for subsidiary companies.........................4849, 4864
  Foreign utility companies........................................4861
  SEC pricing regulation...........................................4875
Holidays:
  IRS regulation...................................................2983
Home improvement:
  Loans............................................................1501
Homeless:
  Adult education programs.........................................1104
  Federally qualified health centers...............................1305
  Food programs.....................................................459
  Housing............................................52, 901, 916, 1478
  Rural housing.....................................................303
  Single room occupancy program....................................1536
  Veterans.........................................................3305
Homesteads:
  Disposal of reserved minerals....................................1871
Hospice care:
  Medicare conditions of participation.............................1335
  Medicare payments................................................1322
Hospitals:
  See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
  Blood transfusions...............................................1349
  CHAMPUS payment for ambulatory care..............................1049
  Clinical diagnostic laboratory services..........................1341
  DOT grants.......................................................2233
  Electronic cost reporting format.................................1415
  Emergency medical care...........................................1389
  Eye and ear speciality hospitals.................................1426
  Grants administration.....................617, 1181, 2064, 3352, 3790
  Medicaid payment.....................................1321, 1337, 1383
  Medicare conditions of participation...............................44
  Medicare insurance premium.......................................1380
  Medicare payment.............................................42, 1377
  Medicare payment to swing bed hospitals..........................1314
  Medicare payment to swing-bed hospitals..........................1409
  Mortgages........................................................1498
  Organ procurement and transplantation rules..................36, 1351
  Outpatient services..............................................1344
  Physician incentive plans prohibition............................1193
  Preadmission services............................................1366
  Psychiatric......................................................1303
  USDA grants and agreements........................................548
Hours of work:
  See Wages
Household appliances:
  Energy efficiency.......22, 1111, 1114, 1121, 1127, 1128, 1129, 1130, 
                                                             1131, 1134
Household goods:
  See Moving of household goods
Housing:
  See also Fair housing
           Home improvement
           Homeless
           Housing standards
           Low and moderate income housing
           Manufactured homes
           Mortgage insurance
           Mortgages
           Public housing
           Relocation assistance
  Aged.......................................................1514, 1527
  Block grant activities and projects..............................1560
  Budget authority for housing assistance..........................1493
  Community Housing Resource Board Program.........................1550
  Disaster Housing Program.........................................3816
  Eliminating of obsolete regulations..............................1491
  Emergency shelter................................................3823
  Employee standards of conduct....................................1465
  Employment opportunities.........................................1546
  Energy-efficiency rating guidelines..............................1115
  Enterprise Zone Home Ownership Opportunity Grant Program.........1490
  Environmental quality............................................1463
  Environmental review procedures..............................48, 1474
  Excess income from project.......................................1526
  Fair market rent for Section 8 HAPP..............................1494
  Family definition................................................1480
  FHFB reporting requirements......................................4615
  General program requirements.....................................1467
  Grants and cooperative agreements with State and local 
      governments............................................1485, 1490
  Hazardous substances..............................................330
  HOME formula.....................................................1488
  HOME Investment in Affordable Housing Program....................1487
  HOME Investment Partnerships Program...............................51
  HOME rule amendments.............................................1489
  HOPE program amendments..........................................1534
  HOPE program match requirements..................................1539
  Housing preservation grants.......................................312
  HUD acquisition regulations......................................1551
  Income limits....................................................1479
  Indians.....................................194, 222, 318, 1556, 1563
  Individuals with disabilities..............................1514, 1528
  Lead-based paint abatement waste.................................3424
  Lead-based paint disclosure..........................1473, 3420, 3422
  Lead-based paint hazard elimination................................49
  Multifamily:
    Loans..........................................................1517
    Security servicing..............................................321
    Streamlining regulations.......................................1507
  Officials........................................50, 1471, 1523, 1524
  OFHEO information regulation.....................................3967
  Reinvention of regulations process...............................1466
  Rent regulations...........................................1479, 1541
  Residency standards and obligations........................1495, 1522
  Residential Antidisplacement and Relocation Plan.................1484
  Rulemaking policies and procedures...............................1462
  Rural:
    Deferred mortgage program.......................................317
    Farm labor housing..............................................302
    Homeless and migrant farmworkers................................303
    Lease write-offs................................................324
    Loan policies.............1, 190, 306, 307, 308, 321, 326, 328, 329
    Loans and grants...........................................311, 323
    Multiple-family housing.........................................325
    Recapture of subsidy............................................309
    Site development................................................327
    Voucher program.................................................331
  Single-family..............................................1497, 1534
  Site and neighborhood standards..................................1541
  State agency amendments..........................................4606
  Supportive housing programs..........................1478, 1527, 1528
  Tax-exempt bond refundings.......................................1513
  Termination of tenancy for criminal activity.....................1509
  Turnkey III progam...............................................1561
  Voucher regulation...............................................1571
Housing assistance payments:
  See Housing
      Rent subsidies
Housing standards:
  Occupancy........................................................1481
Human research subjects:
  In vitro fertilization...........................................1288
  Informed consent...................................................32
  Protection of human subjects.....................................1883
  Student rights...................................................1058
  Veterans.........................................................3292
Humane treatment of animals:
  See Animal welfare
Hunting:
  Airborne hunting in Alaska.......................................1764
  Captive-bred waterfowl...........................................1719
  Migratory birds....................1597, 1685, 1720, 1729, 1734, 1736
  National parks...................................................1765
  Subsistence management regulations.........................1607, 1731
  Wildlife refuges.........................1609, 1673, 1703, 1730, 1733
Hydroelectric power:
  See Electric power


                                   I

Immigration:
  See also Aliens
           Citizenship and naturalization
  Appeals practice and procedure...................................1935
  Appeals to denials for immigration benefits......................1950
  Approved petitions and appeal rights.............................1951
  Asylum procedures..........................................1964, 1995
  Board of Immigration Appeals expansion...........................1941
  Carrier fines............................1962, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  Citizenship documents............................................1953
  Direct mail program..............................................1999
  EOIR exemptions..................................................1938
  Fees assessed for defaulted payments.............................1959
  Immigration and Nationality Technical Amendments Act of 1994 
      provisions...................................................2015
  Immigration Court designation....................................1940
  INA revisions....................................................2193
  INS forms......................................1960, 1963, 1994, 2007
  INS reorganization...............................................1998
  Interview requirement............................................1986
  Legalization applications........................................2028
  Mailing addresses for applications...............................2037
  Master Exhibits availability.....................................2021
  Officer authority..........................................2020, 2022
  Official business definition changes.............................1965
  Overtime liability for inspection services.......................1988
  Petitions for employment based immigrants........................1993
  Ports of entry.......................................2005, 2046, 2871
  Preinspection rules........................................2011, 2040
  Reentry after deportation or removal.............................1978
  Regulation changes regarding Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, 
      Germany, and Vietnam.........................................2010
  Requests for additional evidence.................................1997
  Revocation of approval of petitions..............................2035
  Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances............................2024
  Southern border crossing cards...................................1948
  Soviet Scientists Immigration Act................................1989
  Streamlining legislation implementation....................2190, 2191
  Subpoena service authority.......................................1972
  Transit agreement suspension.....................................2025
  User fees..................................................2033, 2034
  Waiver authority limitations for felons..........................1977
Immunization:
  Vaccine information........................................1260, 1375
Imports:
  See also Antidumping
           Countervailing duties
           Customs duties and inspection
           Trade adjustment assistance
  Acrylate/methacrylate............................................3429
  Animal embryos and semen..........................................286
  Animals and poultry.....................................273, 278, 284
  Animals for slaughter.............................................477
  APHIS user fees....................................277, 283, 288, 289
  Arms, ammunition, and implements of war..........................2819
  Bahamas..........................................................2893
  Birds............................................................1727
  Canadian motor vehicles..........................................3704
  Certificates procedures...........................................653
  Chemicals..........................1918, 1928, 1929, 3414, 3436, 3437
  Control of PMN chemicals.........................................3428
  Dairy product quotas..............................................500
  Duty-free treatment for imports from U.S. possessions............2844
  End-use certificates..............................................181
  Fastener quality..................................................660
  Fish........................................................819, 1606
  Fruits and vegetables.............................................272
  Handguns.........................................................2818
  Hazardous and other wastes.......................................3555
  Hazardous waste..................................................3548
  Information disclosure to intellectual property rights owners 
                                                                   2860
  Marine mammal products......................................825, 1693
  Marine mammals...................................................1667
  Meat and poultry products....................................488, 495
  National security impact of.......................................630
  Natural gas......................................................1154
  Nonindigenous organisms...........................................291
  Parallel imports and other trademarked goods.....................2846
  Seeds.............................................................275
  Steel............................................................2884
  Sugar........................................................493, 496
  Temporary importation bonds......................................2892
  Textiles...................................................2847, 2864
  Tobacco...........................................................175
  Unmanufactured wood...............................................290
  Watches and watch movements.......................................622
  Wildlife...................................................1600, 1606
Income taxes:
  Accelerated death benefits.......................................3002
  Accounting:
    Cash receipts and disbursements method.........................3149
    Change in method.........................................3052, 3053
    Hybrid instruments.............................................2923
    Mark-to-market method..........................................3055
    Partnerships...................................................2933
  Affiliated groups..........................................2952, 3044
  Aliens, withholding taxes........................................3063
  Alternative minimum tax..........................................3123
  American Samoa residency determination...........................2951
  Annuities......................................2919, 3089, 3098, 3127
  Arbitrage regulations............................................2990
  Available unit rule..............................................2898
  Banks, interest exclusion........................................2944
  Below-market loans...............................................3000
  Bond premium income..............................................2899
  Bonds:
    Accrued market discount........................................2964
    Private activity...............................................3003
    Qualified..........................................2992, 3003, 3100
    Stripped.......................................................2923
    Tax-exempt.....................................................2990
  Branch profits tax.........................................3039, 3158
  Branch remittances...............................................3054
  Capitalization.................................2907, 2908, 2909, 2910
  Caribbean Basin countries........................................3048
  Charitable contributions.............................3007, 3008, 3034
  Church, integrated auxiliary.....................................3074
  Clean fuel/electric vehicles deductions..........................3143
  Closing costs....................................................3115
  Club membership fees deduction...................................3194
  Common trust funds...............................................2929
  Conduit financing arrangements...................................3187
  Consolidated groups........................................3097, 3173
  Conversion transactions..........................................3058
  Cooperative housing distributions................................3144
  Corporate acquisitions:
    Carryovers of methods of accounting............................2918
    Reorganization.................................................3166
  Corporate assets.................................................3013
  Corporate income tax.......................................2946, 3123
    Domestic stock or security transfers.....................2917, 3018
    Foreign subsidiary.............................................3174
    Stock transactions.............................................3146
  Corporate inversion transactions.................................2913
  Corporate reorganization, attribution............................3015
  Corporations.....................................................3114
  Cost recovery system.............................................2904
  Cost sharing regulations...................................3029, 3108
  Creative property................................................2908
  Credit, paid.....................................................3119
  Debt discharge...................................................3094
  Debt instruments.........................3056, 3098, 3101, 3121, 3122
  Deemed paid credit...............................................3165
  Deemed paid taxes................................................2956
  Deferred compensation and salary reduction.......................2974
  Definitions, Subpart F...........................................3164
  Demolition of structures.........................................2912
  Deposit of taxes.................................................3085
  Disabled access credit...........................................3106
  DISC regulations.................................................3167
  Disclaimer of joint property.....................................2987
  Disclosure of return information.................................2980
  Disclosure of return information to Customs Service..............3095
  Economic performance requirements................................3148
  Electronic filing of Form W-4....................................3067
  Electronic signatures on documents...............................3102
  Employee benefits:
    Cafeteria plans................................................3135
    Funded welfare benefit plans...................................2922
    Loans treated as distributions.................................2900
    Valuation of plan distribution...........................3025, 3147
  Employer identification numbers..................................3081
  Environmental settlement funds...................................3188
  Escrow funds.....................................................2926
  Executive compensation deduction.................................3004
  Exempt organization lobbying expenses............................3141
  Exemptions.......................................................3072
  Filing requirements:
    Extension of time..................................2988, 2989, 3182
    Methods of signature...........................................3196
    Termination of business........................................3077
  Fishing vessel capital construction fund procedures..............3132
  Foreclosed property..............................................3149
  Foreign company income...........................................3120
  Foreign corporations........2916, 2946, 2956, 2957, 2962, 3016, 3037, 
                                                             3042, 3050
    Dividend withholding...........................................3159
    Earnings and profits...........................................3051
    Stapled entities...............................................3145
    Stock transfers..........................................2961, 3017
  Foreign deferred compensation plans..............................3022
  Foreign governments..............................................3040
  Foreign grantor trusts...........................................3151
  Foreign insurance................................................2937
  Foreign insurance companies..........................2953, 3153, 3154
  Foreign investment companies.....................................3061
  Foreign Investment in Real Property Act..........................3041
  Foreign investments........................................3059, 3060
  Foreign partnerships.......................................2939, 3180
  Foreign tax credit.................2970, 3043, 3044, 3045, 3160, 3161
  Foreign taxes....................................................2957
  Fringe benefit income allocation.................................2915
  Fringe benefits..................................................3134
  Functional currency..............................................3050
  General utilities repeal.........................................3011
  Golden parachute payments........................................3009
  Grantor trusts...................................................2896
  Gross income...............................................2901, 2950
  Group health plans, continuation coverage........................2903
  Guam residency determination.....................................2951
  Hedging transactions by members of consolidated groups...........3097
  Highly compensated employee......................................3024
  Illegal activity cash, treatment.................................3189
  Indian tribal governments........................................3068
  Installment obligations..........................................2924
  Insurance companies..............................................3112
  Insurance income.................................................3049
  Insurance underwriters...........................................2994
  Intangible amortization....................................2991, 3137
  Intercompany transactions........................................3173
  Intercompany transfer pricing....................................2928
  Interest charges.................................................3168
  Interest deductions........................................2964, 3005
  Interest expense...........................................3036, 3038
  Interest-free adjustments........................................3082
  International organizations......................................3040
  International tax................................................3019
  Inventory item definitions.......................................2927
  Investment in excess passive assets..............................2955
  Lease write-offs..................................................324
  Leasing, tax exempt..............................................3110
  LIFO definitions.................................................2927
  Liquidations.....................................................3171
  Lobbying expenses....................................3141, 3142, 3193
  Long-term contracts..............................................2925
  Losses:
    Separate limitation............................................2949
    Stocks.........................................................2942
  Mortgage credit certificates.....................................3105
  Northern Mariana Islands residency determination.................2951
  OBRA 1993 regulations......................................2952, 3093
  Partnerships:
    Classification.................................................3092
    Depreciation recapture.........................................2960
    Distribution of marketable securities..........................2931
    Foreign investment.............................................2947
    Liabilities....................................................3152
    Sales of interests.............................................2933
    Section 1503(d) applications...................................2972
    Section 737 distributions......................................3032
    Tax matters partner......................................2982, 3083
    Withholding....................................................3064
  Payments by check or money order.................................3190
  Payments, deferred...............................................3118
  Penalties............................................3087, 3184, 3195
  Pensions:
    Early distribution.............................................3107
    Minimum funding................................................3113
    Rollover distribution..........................................3021
  Personal injury damages exclusion................................2902
  Personal property sales..........................................2941
  Petroleum and chemicals..........................................3071
  Political activity expenses......................................3142
  Pre-contribution gain or loss....................................3031
  Prizes, awards, and grants.................................3156, 3157
  Procedure and administration...............................3001, 3006
  Property jurisdiction rules......................................2938
  Property transfers, outbound.....................................2969
  Publically traded exception......................................2945
  Real estate mortgage investment conduits...................2934, 3192
  Real property businesses.........................................3026
  Real property, excess expenses...................................3185
  Reclamation costs................................................3115
  Redemption premiums..............................................3010
  Refund offsets.............................444, 463, 3354, 4140, 4153
  Relocation income tax allowance............................3139, 3845
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements......2896, 2948, 2979, 2981, 
                                                 3007, 3076, 3094, 3131
  Research and experimental expenditures...........................3035
  Research credit..................................................2897
  Residence interest...............................................3109
  Resident status............................................2950, 3075
  Retirement plans...............................2920, 2998, 2999, 3023
  S corporations...........................2963, 2966, 2993, 3091, 3170
  Scholarships and fellowships.....................................3155
  Section 1.471-5..................................................3117
  Section 1041 regulations.........................................2958
  Section 1059A regulations........................................2959
  Section 1224 regulations.........................................3169
  Section 1258 regulations.........................................3058
  Section 1361(a)(1)...............................................3091
  Section 1445 regulations.........................................2968
  Section 170(f)(8) regulations....................................3008
  Section 179A deduction...........................................2906
  Section 197 regulations..........................................2991
  Section 30 credit................................................2906
  Section 338(h)(10)...............................................3112
  Section 461 regulations..........................................3148
  Section 469(c)(7) regulations....................................3026
  Section 6048 regulations.........................................3181
  Section 6109 regulations.........................................3080
  Section 6114 regulations.........................................2981
  Section 704(c)(1)(B) regulations.................................3031
  Section 736 regulations..........................................2932
  Section 7514.....................................................3096
  Section 936 regulations..........................................2952
  Securities.........................2931, 2940, 3015, 3020, 3028, 3117
  Securities transfer..............................................3140
  Shareholder election, QEF........................................2965
  Shareholders...............................................2913, 3091
  Shareholders, use of deficits....................................3163
  Shipping amendments, Subpart F...................................2954
  Simplified computations..........................................3047
  Spousal consent forms............................................2921
  Start-up expenditures............................................3138
  State income taxes deduction.....................................2935
  Stock purchase treated as asset purchase.........................3014
  Stocks.............................2914, 2958, 2971, 3010, 3146, 3172
  Straddles:
    Miscellaneous issues...........................................3103
  Supplemental tax exemptions......................................3127
  Target asset transfers...........................................3012
  Tax credit:
    Puerto Rico....................................................3046
  Tax shelters.....................................................3195
  Tax treaties...............................................2943, 3062
  Taxable mortgage pools...........................................3186
  Taxpayer Identification Number...................................3079
  Technical corrections............................................2986
  Transportation income............................................2936
  Travel expense receipt threshold.................................2911
  Trustees...................................................3090, 3099
  Trusts and estates.......................2930, 3065, 3126, 3136, 3150
  Utilities repeal.................................................3111
  Virgin Islands...................................................3162
  Virgin Islands residency determination.....................2950, 2951
  Voice signatures.................................................3078
  Withholding............2967, 2968, 2997, 3068, 3104, 3128, 3177, 3178
Indemnity payments:
  Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act.................................3948
  Income taxation..................................................3073
Indians:
  See also Indians-arts and crafts
           Indians-business and finance
           Indians-education
           Indians-lands
           Indians-law
           Indians-tribal government
  ANA appeals procedure............................................1446
  Child welfare programs...................1444, 1446, 1454, 1773, 1783
  Community development block grants...............................1560
  Eagle permits....................................................1621
  Electric power utilities.........................................1791
  Family violence prevention programs..............................1773
  Fishing management.................................724, 790, 822, 847
  Food assistance programs................................426, 431, 462
  Food Stamp Program...........................................439, 455
  Head Start Services for children...........................1432, 1449
  Health services..................................................1305
  Housing.........................194, 222, 318, 1468, 1553, 1556, 1559
  Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.....................................4721
  Job training programs............................................2105
  Preference in employment.........................................1784
  Public housing...................................................1570
  Trust funds......................................................1770
Indians-arts and crafts:
  Handicrafts and clothing made from sea otters....................1691
  Importation of marine mammal products.............................825
  Products of Indian art and craftsmanship.........................1577
Indians-business and finance:
  Buy Indian Act......................................................0
  DOD acquisition regulations..................................959, 999
  Forest product sales.......................................1789, 1790
  National Park Service visitor services...........................1759
  Oil and gas resources............................................1781
Indians-education:
  Adult education programs.........................................1780
  DOE awards.......................................................1179
  Family and child education programs..............................1772
  Grant policies and procedures....................................1768
  Grants to colleges...............................................1785
  Indian fellowship programs.......................................1072
  Individuals with disabilities..............................1099, 1794
  School improvement program.......................................1775
  Self-determination.................................................61
Indians-lands:
  Acquisitions................................................194, 1776
  Air pollution control implementation.......................3589, 3597
  American Indian agricultural rangeland management................1774
  Forest management................................................1786
  Gaming and non-gaming............................................1787
  Grazing permits............................................1769, 1771
  Indian Land Acquisition loans.....................................222
  Indian Trust Land interests.................................318, 1448
  Mining leases........................................1793, 1805, 1813
  Mining regulations...............................................1820
  Municipal solid waste landfills..................................3538
  National Forest System lands......................................532
  Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act...........1758
  Oil and gas leasing........................................1793, 1815
  Preservation of antiquities......................................1792
  Road construction on.............................................1782
Indians-law:
  Hearings and appeals...............1589, 1590, 1591, 1592, 4723, 4724
  Indian Tribal Justice Act........................................1777
  NIGC enforcement regulations.....................................4725
Indians-tribal government:
  Air quality planning and management..............................3683
  Child welfare payments to........................................1454
  Cost principles...................................................618
  Gambling establishments..........................................2772
  Grants for services provided to older individuals................1460
  Historic preservation programs...................................1754
  Income taxation..................................................3068
  Indian Tribal Justice Act........................................1777
  Self-determination.............................................37, 61
  Self-governance program procedures.................................60
  Treatment as States..............................................3536
  USDA audits.......................................................547
Individuals with disabilities:
  See also Blind
           Disability benefits
           Education of individuals with disabilities
           Medicaid
           Medicare
           Public assistance programs
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
           Vocational rehabilitation
  Accessibility guidelines for air carriers........................2215
  Accessibility guidelines for buildings and facilities.......62, 1907, 
                                           1908, 1909, 3356, 3358, 3360
  Accessibility guidelines for children's environments.............3357
  CHAMPUS Program..................................................1045
  Contractor and subcontractor affirmative action obligations.....2079, 
                                                                   2089
  Employment discrimination complaints.............................3809
  FEHP coverage for children over age 22...........................4109
  Health insurance..................................................133
  Housing........................................1477, 1514, 1528, 1541
  Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program......................................4408
  Luxury tax exemption.............................................2975
  Motor vehicle wheelchair lifts...................................2592
  Nondiscrimination....................................3820, 3859, 4117
    Air travel.........................................2228, 2229, 2257
    Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.......................4465
  Passenger vessel access....................................2255, 3359
  Procurement from.................................................4231
  Schedule for rating disabilities.....................3229, 3230, 3257
  Transportation...........................1775, 2234, 2238, 2256, 2690
  Widow's benefits.................................................4266
Industrial safety:
  See Occupational safety and health
Industry:
  See Business and industry
Infants and children:
  See also Adoption and foster care
           Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child welfare
           Youth
  Accidental ingestion of iron...............................1257, 4441
  Aircraft child restraints............................2439, 2450, 2606
  Baby walker safety requirements..................................4431
  Back yard play sets standard.....................................4427
  Bicycle helmet safety standard....................................156
  Child booster seats..............................................2659
  Child Nutrition Programs................................413, 461, 465
  Children's television programming................................4517
  Citizenship acquisition..........................................1968
  DOD special education services....................................900
  Face guard protection standards..................................4426
  FEHP coverage for disabled children over age 22..................4109
  Food assistance programs.........2, 410, 421, 422, 425, 441, 442, 456
  Food stamp program........................................5, 432, 453
  Household chemicals, child-resistant packaging...................4435
  Housing..........................................................1547
  Immunization.....................................................1375
  Individuals with disabilities..............................1909, 3357
  Infant formula quality control...................................1214
  Lead poisoning....................................49, 121, 1050, 3406
  Medicaid program...........................................1355, 1375
  Medication, child-resistant packaging......................4435, 4439
  Missing children mail program....................................3347
  Nutrition education participant contacts..........................401
  Oregon Caves National Monument admission.........................1760
  Plastic buckets, safety requirements.............................4437
  Sale and distribution of tobacco products..........................29
  Sleepwear flammability standards.................................4433
  Social security inheritance rights...............................4307
  SSA disability determinations..............................4280, 4306
  Sulfate in drinking water........................................3516
  Summer Food Service Program.......................................417
  Supplemental food program...............................400, 405, 448
  Vaccine injuries.................................................1276
  Welfare services.................................................1429
Information:
  See Archives and records
      Classified information
      Confidential business information
      Freedom of information
      Government publications
      Privacy
      Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Inland waters:
  See Waterways
Insecticides:
  See Pesticides and pests
Insulin:
  Certification policy.............................................1252
  Certification program fees.......................................1240
Insurance:
  See also Bank deposit insurance
           Crop insurance
           Flood insurance
           Health insurance
           Insurance companies
           Life insurance
           Mortgage insurance
           Surety bonds
           Unemployment compensation
  Aviation insurance...............................................2374
  Commercial space transportation..................................2209
  Exchange visitors................................................4315
  Income taxation..................................................3073
  Insurance/liability to third parties........................927, 4358
  Motor vehicle insurer reporting requirements.....................2579
  Nondiscrimination................................................1549
  Passenger vessel operators........................................160
  Real estate title.................................................313
  Savings associations in the insurance business...................3202
  Securities acquired during the existence of underwriting 
      syndicates...................................................4842
  Title I property insurance.......................................1501
  Underwriters.....................................................2994
Insurance companies:
  Annuity benefits distribution....................................4141
  Foreign branches.................................................2937
  Foreign subsidiary exemptions....................................4833
  Taxation.........................................................3112
Insured loans:
  See Loan programs
Intelligence:
  See Classified information
Intergovernmental relations:
  See also Grant programs
  Administration of grants and cooperative agreements..............2225
  Air carrier regulation...........................................2248
  Air pollution control implementation....111, 114, 115, 117, 130, 132, 
             3571, 3581, 3583, 3589, 3606, 3679, 3697, 3700, 3742, 3747
  Alternative fueled vehicles mandate..............................1120
  Alternative fuels incentives program.............................1126
  California on-board diagnostics requirements.....................3703
  Child welfare programs...............................1431, 1447, 1452
  Clean air plan conformity determinations.........................3603
  Education programs...................................1066, 1071, 1073
  Employee benefit plan exemption from State regulation............2117
  EPA effluent guidelines and standards............................3491
  EPA Hazardous Waste Manifest rule................................3534
  EPA permit regulations................................105, 3456, 3457
  EPA water monitoring requirements................................3520
  EPA water quality standards............................100, 106, 3488
  EPA water regulations streamlining...............................3458
  EPA well operation regulation....................................3510
  EPA-California water quality standards...........................3451
  EPA-Florida water quality standards..............................3496
  EPA-Pennsylvania water quality standards.........................3490
  Ex parte communications..........................................4567
  FDA regulations..................................................1258
  Federal Assistance Funds transfers to State governments..........2785
  Federal payments to State veterans homes.........................3223
  Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Program..................2108
  Federally administered State supplementary payments..............4237
  FEHBP preexemption of taxes................................4077, 4079
  Fisheries reporting areas.........................................687
  Fisheries taking regulations......................................713
  Food assistance programs...................2, 413, 414, 422, 440, 442
  Food stamps.....................................3, 438, 443, 451, 463
  GSA acquisition regulations.......................................137
  Hazardous materials transportation...............................2713
  HCFA State Plan Amendment reconsideration process................1333
  Highway management.........................................2496, 2516
  Highway projects...................2512, 2513, 2520, 2524, 2525, 2541
  Highway safety programs..........................................2616
  Interstate banking and branching.................................2827
  Local rail freight assistance....................................2675
  Medicaid eligibility.............................................1338
  National Park System exchanges...................................1856
  Nuclear accident protection......................................3502
  Oil spill response...............................................2319
  Regional haze protection regulations.............................3643
  Small business loans.............................................4223
  Small businesses.................................................4210
  State and local historic preservation programs...................1754
  State Cooperative Extension entities receipt of Federal 
      property......................................................301
  State Energy Program.............................................1125
  State habitat conservation strategies............................1700
  State irrigation districts regulation............................1851
  State issuance of NPDES permits..................................3469
  State laboratory programs........................................1387
  State programs for pesticide applicator certification............3400
  State programs limiting pesticide sales..........................3399
  State responsibility for fixed guideway system safety............2692
  State testing for air pollutants.................................3585
  Temporary assignments of government employees....................4048
  USDA audits of State and local governments........................547
  USDA State mediation programs.....................................231
  Wildlife refuge exchanges........................................1856
Interlocking directorates:
  See Antitrust
Intermodal transportation:
  Customs treatment of reusable shipping containers................2867
  Environmental impact and related procedures......................2505
  FHWA reimbursement for utility relocations.......................2543
International agreements:
  See Treaties
International boundaries:
  Border services user fee.........................................2030
  Dedicated commuter lane fees.....................................2003
International expositions:
  See Antitrust
International trade:
  See Foreign trade
Inventions and patents:
  Foreign rights in inventions......................................892
  Licensing of foreign patents acquired by the Government...........893
  Nonprofit organizations...........................................891
  Patent applications...........................877, 880, 883, 884, 890
  Patent Cooperation Treaty.........................................887
  Patent fees..................................................878, 889
  Patent interference practice......................................886
  Prior art effect..................................................885
  PTO mailing procedures............................................874
  PTO practitioner disciplinary proceedings.........................879
  PTO rule simplification and elimination...........................876
  Small business innovation research rights in data................4349
  Small businesses..................................................891
  Third-party participation.........................................881
  Waivers..........................................................1188
Investigations:
  Civil investigative demands......................................2055
  Government personnel.............................................4029
  Railroad accidents...............................................2687
Investment advisers:
  See Securities
Investment companies:
  Advertising by unit investment trusts............................4831
  Advertising prospectus...........................................4866
  Affiliated persons...............................................4868
  Applications.....................................................4857
  Bank holding companies as investment advisers to.................4647
  Bonding of officers and employees................................4839
  Codes of ethics..................................................4859
  Custody of assets with futures commission merchants..............4858
  Deregistration form..............................................4844
  Disclosure requirements............4814, 4832, 4837, 4851, 4854, 4872
  Distribution plans...............................................4840
  Eligible foreign custodian.......................................4856
  Exemption of acquisitions during the existence of underwriting 
      syndicates...................................................4842
  Exemption of certain transactions................................4838
  Expenses paid through brokerage commission.......................4871
  Form N-SAR.......................................................4843
  Investment Company Act:
    Amendments...............................................4835, 4869
    Exempted transactions..........................................4855
  Mergers..........................................................4836
  Portfolio transaction records....................................4873
  Proxy rules......................................................4829
  Registration form..........................................4828, 4843
  Research and development companies exemption.....................4867
  Small businesses.........................4181, 4198, 4216, 4230, 4819
  Small entity definition..........................................4830
  Solicitation of investor interest................................4817
  Taxation.........................................................3061
Investments:
  See also Brokers
           Commodity futures
           Foreign investments in U.S.
           Investment companies
           Securities
           United States investments abroad
  Advertising rules................................................4827
  Credit unions....................................................4705
  Disclosure requirements..........................................4870
  DOL investment advice regulation.................................2120
  Housekeeping amendments..........................................4870
  Money market funds...................................4852, 4853, 4854
  Registration.....................................................4827
  Registration forms...............................................4826
  Taxation...................................................2913, 2955
Irrigation:
  Project operation and maintenance................................1788
  Reclamation irrigation water.....................................1832


                                   J

Job Training Partnership Act:
  See Manpower training programs


                                   K

Kidney diseases:
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants..................................1052
  Dialysis services....................................1310, 1370, 1422
  Medicare eligibility...................................39, 1297, 1421
Kites:
  See Aircraft


                                   L

Labeling:
  See also Food labeling
           Packaging and containers
  Alternative fueled vehicles......................................4685
  Alternative fuels................................................4685
  Amalgam ingredients..............................................1264
  Automobile parts.................................................2617
  Beer.............................................................2812
  Charcoal.........................................................4429
  Child booster seats..............................................2659
  Dietary supplements..............................................1232
  Distilled spirits..........................................2803, 2812
  Dolphin-safe tuna.................................................799
  Drugs......................................35, 1223, 1230, 1250, 1270
  Extension ladders................................................4679
  Five-gallon buckets..............................................4437
  Furs.............................................................4663
  HCFCs............................................................3663
  Hearing aids.....................................................1221
  Home insulation..................................................4666
  Latex condoms and gloves.........................................1218
  Latex-containing devices.........................................1219
  Lead in ceramic food ware........................................1239
  Leather belts....................................................4668
  Made in America labels...........................................4344
  Malt beverages.............................................2798, 2800
  Medical devices..................................................1273
  Over-the-counter drugs...........................................1234
  Pesticides.....................................3373, 3381, 3393, 3394
  Poisonous materials..............................................2706
  Quick freeze spray products......................................4676
  Recycled oil containers..........................................4681
  Sleeping bags....................................................4675
  Tablecloths and related products.................................4678
  Textiles.............................................4662, 4664, 4673
  Vehicle identification number....................................2645
  Wine...........................................2801, 2802, 2810, 2812
  Wool products....................................................4662
Labor:
  See also Child labor
           Employee benefit plans
           Employment
           Equal employment opportunity
           Labor management relations
           Migrant labor
           Occupational safety and health
           Retirement
           Unemployment compensation
           Wages
  Administrative law judges role modifications.....................4729
  Certification for temporary agricultural employment..............2107
  Contractor personal service compensation..........................930
  Convict labor use................................................4368
  Davis-Bacon helper regulations.................................61, 69
  Debarment and suspension.........................................2156
  DOL user fees....................................................2086
  Grants administration............................................2155
  Permanent replacement of lawfully striking employees.............2129
  Single location bargaining units.................................4728
  Trade adjustment assistance................................2110, 2111
Labor management relations:
  See also Labor unions
  Collective bargaining agreement definition.......................2117
  Reporting by labor relations consultants and others..............2126
Labor unions:
  Election of officers.............................................2127
  Misconduct rules regarding hearings..............................4726
  Proposed rulemaking and oral argument notices....................4730
  Remedial provisions..............................................4731
  Representation case procedures.............................4727, 4728
Laboratories:
  Accreditation...............................................487, 2849
  CLIA exemptions..................................................1387
  CLIA fee schedules...............................................1405
  Clinical laboratories regulation.....................40, 41, 43, 1341
  Contract Laboratory Program investigation........................3775
  Drug testing of transportation personnel.........................2242
  Salmonella Laboratory Recognition Program.........................171
  Testing of mining equipment......................................2145
Land:
  See Grazing lands
      Indians-lands
      Public lands
      Rights-of-way
Law:
  See also Administrative practice and procedure
           Courts
           Indians-law
           Lawyers
  International wills registry.....................................2201
  Judges, Code of Conduct..........................................4265
  Liability under CERCLA for site clean-up.........................3789
  Third party suits:
    Underground storage of hazardous materials.....................3564
Law enforcement:
  See also Drug traffic control
  Aliens:
    Deportation....................................................1970
  Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act................2053
  Criminal fine collection.........................................2047
  Fish and Wildlife Service........................................1599
  Food Stamp Act....................................................437
  Interagency cooperation..........................................3081
  Military support to civilian law enforcement.....................1022
  National Indian Gaming Commission................................4725
  Public lands.....................................................1840
  Receipt and investigation of child abuse reports.................2052
  Registration systems for convicted persons.......................2059
  Seat belt exemption for law enforcement vehicles.................2612
  Surrender of military personnel to civilian authorities..........1023
  Use of aliens in critical initiatives............................2006
Lawyers:
  See also Legal services
  Debarment........................................................1483
  Misconduct rules.................................................4726
  Practice before the National Indian Gaming Commission............4723
Lead poisoning:
  Ceramic food ware................................................1239
  CHAMPUS coverage of screenings...................................1050
  Hazard abatement..................................................121
  Paint.........49, 121, 3406, 3418, 3420, 3421, 3422, 3424, 3440, 3877
  Reducing lead consumption and use................................3441
Legal services:
  Individuals with mental illness..................................1204
Lie detector tests:
  Application of Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988.........2101
Life insurance:
  Accelerated death benefits.......................................3002
  Disposition of credit life insurance income......................2841
  Government employees.....................4035, 4066, 4067, 4068, 4106
  National Service Life Insurance..................................3332
  Variable annuity separate accounts...............................4846
  Variable life insurance contracts..........................4845, 4847
  Veterans.................................3269, 3270, 3272, 3273, 3340
Linseeds:
  See Oilseeds
Liquors:
  Exports..........................................................2799
  Labeling...................................................2803, 2812
  Registration requirements for producers..........................2805
  Standards of identity............................................2798
  Taxes............................................................2808
Livestock:
  See also specific animals
           Grazing lands
           Meat and meat products
           Meat inspection
           Poultry and poultry products
  Care and handling at stockyards...................................389
  Livestock feed assistance.........................................211
  Regulations revisions...................................388, 391, 396
  Substances prohibited for use in feed............................1274
Loan programs:
  Lobbying restrictions............................................2226
  Treasury taxes and loans...................................2784, 2797
  Veterans:
    Electronic payment of funding fee..............................3298
Loan programs-agriculture:
  Account service and loan making...................................191
  Account servicing.................................................200
  Application processing timeframe..................................225
  Audit policies....................................................576
  Buy American requirement..........................................597
  Catastrophic risk protection requirement..........................230
  Certified Lender Program..........................................193
  Civil rights of borrowers.........................................569
  Community facility loans..........................................582
  Community programs................................................304
  Consolidation of loans............................................267
  Debt settlement...................................................180
  Depreciation rates and procedures.................................587
  Disaster assistance.....................................197, 227, 269
  Emergency loan policies...........................................266
  Farm Credit Administration:
    Agriculture secondary market regulations.......................4449
    Borrower rights................................................4446
    Capital regulations revisions............................4445, 4448
    Disclosure to shareholders.....................................4451
    Election of directors..........................................4457
    Eligibility....................................................4444
    Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation risk-based capital 
        regulation.................................................4458
    Financing agreement guidelines.................................4443
    Flood insurance regulations....................................4447
    Foreign markets................................................4454
    Funding relationship with other institutions...................4455
    Leasing regulations............................................4459
    Loan underwriting standards....................................4452
    Non-dollar debt................................................4442
    Regulatory review and deletions................................4450
    Statement of regulatory burden.................................4463
    Uninsured voluntary and involuntary accounts...................4453
  Farm Facility Loan Program........................................212
  Farm loan mortgages and notes.....................................236
  Farm ownership loans....................................221, 228, 229
  Farmer Program...............................................189, 313
  Farmers Home Administration:
    Debt settlement.................................................322
    Decision to liquidate...........................................226
    Interest regulations............................................195
    Intermediary Relending Program..................................557
    Loan servicing regulations......................................268
  Loan assessment and market placement..............................223
  Loan changes......................................................311
  Loan extensions...................................................233
  Loan liquidation..................................................589
  Margin stabilization and revenue and expense deferrals............586
  Monitoring liquid accounts........................................192
  National average loan rates for peanuts...........................254
  Offsets of Federal payments to borrowers..........................319
  Peanut loan program...............................................216
  Rural business loans...............................................11
  Rural economic development..............................323, 558, 564
  Rural electrification....565, 567, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 578, 580, 
                            588, 599, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 607
  Rural housing.....1, 306, 307, 308, 309, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 331
  Rural telephone system.............................570, 571, 581, 584
  Rural water and waste disposal....................................304
  RUS consultants...................................................592
  Section 515 nonprofit set-asides..................................320
  Security property.................................................589
  Soil and Water Loans Program......................................224
  State mediation programs..........................................231
  Tobacco loan program..............................................217
  Water and waste disposal programs.................................577
  Wheat Loan Rate and Acreage Reduction Program.....................257
  Wool and Mohair Recourse Loan Program.............................209
Loan programs-business:
  Business and disaster loans................................4193, 4212
  Business and industry loan program................................556
  Business loan and development company programs..............147, 4182
  FmHA business and industrial loans................................563
  Interest rate buydown in disaster areas...........................559
  Microloans.......................................................4232
  SBA child support obligation compliance rule.....................4233
  State and local development companies................4185, 4213, 4218
  Wetland or flood plain development rule..........................4219
Loan programs-education:
  Federal Direct Student Loan Program..............................1083
  Federal Family Education Loan Program......................1084, 1090
  Health Education Assistance Loan Program.........................1280
  Repayment by government agency...................................4009
  William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program............19, 1086, 1091
Loan programs-energy:
  Coastal Energy Impact Program.....................................871
Loan programs-health:
  NIH AIDS Research Loan Program...................................1284
  NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program.....................1285
Loan programs-housing and community development:
  Bank request for information.....................................4613
  Community Investment Program......................................159
  Community Reinvestment Act.................................2842, 3219
  Farmers Home Administration:
    Community facility loans...................................315, 606
    Multiple-family housing loans...................................321
    Recreation facility loans.......................................560
    Rural housing voucher program...................................331
  Individual site approval requirements.............................327
  Loan policy changes...............................................190
  Rehabilitation mortgage insurance for condominiums...............1505
  Title I property insurance.......................................1501
Loan programs-Indians:
  Housing loan guarantees..........................................1563
  Indian Land Acquisition loans.....................................222
Loan programs-veterans:
  Acceptance of partial payments...................................3294
  Automatic authority program......................................3237
  Home loan program amendments.....................................3315
  Interest rate determinations.....................................3349
  Property improvements definition.................................3295
  Title evidence requirements......................................3293
Lobbying:
  Cost prohibition.................................................1168
  Expense deductions...................................3141, 3142, 3193
  Nonprofit organizations..........................................3984
  Restrictions..................978, 2226, 3885, 3940, 4292, 4314, 4365
Longshore and harbor workers:
  Alien crewmen in U.S. ports................................2092, 2109
  Compensation program requirements................................2098
  DOD stevedoring services.........................................1012
  Foreign prohibitions.............................................2192
  Safety and health regulations....................................2170
Low and moderate income housing:
  See also Public housing
           Rent subsidies
  Affordable housing program......................157, 4599, 4610, 4612
  AHP and CSR amendments...........................................4609
  Definition revisions.............................................4609
  Pets.............................................................1477
  Rural housing mortgages...........................................317
Lumber:
  See Forests and forest products
Lung diseases:
  See also Tuberculosis
  CHAMPUS coverage of transplants..................................1052
  Medicare coverage of lung transplants............................1428


                                   M

Magazines:
  See Newspapers and magazines
Management official interlocks:
  See Antitrust
Manpower training programs:
  See also Vocational education
  Aged..............................................................135
  Government employees.......................................4007, 4011
  Migrant and seasonal farmworkers.................................2113
  Minerals Management Service......................................1795
  Nondiscrimination................................................2153
  OJT for highway construction.....................................2515
Manufactured homes:
  Construction and safety..........................................1499
  Flood insurance requirement......................................3826
  Loans............................................................1501
  Transportation of................................................2507
Marine engineering:
  See Vessels
Marine mammals:
  See also Endangered and threatened species
  Animal welfare standards..........................................282
  Bottlenose dolphins...............................................817
  Captive holding and transport.....................................762
  Dolphin mortality limit...........................................798
  Dolphin removal quotas............................................817
  Dolphins................................................754, 799, 801
  Foreign nationals' marine mammal programs.........................751
  Incidental taking...664, 753, 754, 759, 760, 797, 800, 801, 802, 820, 
                                                   835, 862, 1694, 1697
  Lethal take for human protection.................................1692
  Marine mammal products created by Alaskan natives.................825
  Marine Mammal Protection Act.......798, 1600, 1667, 1691, 1693, 1694, 
                                                                   1695
  Northern right whales.............................................824
  Photography permits...............................................763
  Polar bears................................................1600, 1697
  Porpoises....................................................752, 857
  Public display permits......................................796, 1595
  Research authorization............................................803
  Research permits............................................796, 1615
  Sea otters.......................................................1691
  Whales............................................................770
Marine pollution:
  See Water pollution control
Marine resources:
  See also Fisheries
  Channel Islands Sanctuary.........................................865
  Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary............................864
  Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.............................15
  Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary.............................870
  Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary..........................770
  Marine sanctuary program..........................................769
  Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.......................771, 772
  National Marine Sanctuary Program.................................867
  NOAA inspection service rates and fees............................816
  Norfolk Canyon National Marine Sanctuary..........................869
  Northern Puget Sound National Marine Sanctuary....................868
  Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Licensing Program.................773
  Point Reyes-Farallon Island Sanctuary.............................866
  Research program..................................................829
  Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.............................828
Marine safety:
  See also Vessels
  Casualty reporting...............................................2274
  Coast Guard regulations........................2285, 2309, 2324, 2344
  Fishing vessel capital construction funds.........................792
  Fishing vessels...................................................709
  Lake Huron to Lake Erie speed limits.............................2345
  Lifeboats and rescue boats........................................998
  Liferafts........................................................2294
  Lifesaving equipment regulations.................................2291
  Liquefied gas carriers safety standards..........................2328
  Personal flotation devices.................................2280, 2308
  Safety/security zone regulations.................................2312
  Small passenger vessels..........................................2293
  St. Marys River speed limits.....................................2343
  Towing vessels...................................................2283
Maritime carriers:
  See also Cargo vessels
           Passenger vessels
           Seamen
           Vessels
  Automated tariff filing and information system...................4621
  Communications...................................................4527
  Criminal record review...........................................2300
  Financial responsibility for water pollution.....................2297
  Great Lakes pilotage rates.......................................2241
  Merchant mariners..........................................2273, 2750
  Non-vessel-operating common carriers.......................4617, 4625
  Rate determinations..............................................2749
  Rate of return methodology.......................................4623
  Regulations removal..............................................2756
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.............4619, 4623, 4624
  Service contracts................................................4620
  Terminal tariff provisions.......................................4622
Marketing quotas:
  Crystalline fructose.........................................214, 259
  Peanuts...........................................................186
  Reconstitution....................................................238
  Sugar........................................................214, 259
  Tobacco.........202, 203, 204, 218, 219, 232, 249, 250, 251, 252, 270
Mass transportation:
  Alcohol misuse in transit operations.............................2697
  Bus testing guidelines...........................................2691
  Drug use in transit operations...................................2696
  Fixed guideway system safety.....................................2692
  Protective arrangements for transit employees....................2128
Measurement standards:
  See also Metric system
  Federal Grain Inspection Service..................................386
  Gaseous fuels....................................................2600
Meat and meat products:
  See also Meat inspection
           Stockyards
  Cured pork products...............................................480
  Export certification.......................................2876, 2889
  Glycerine used as a humectant.....................................476
  Import limitation.................................................495
  Labeling.............................................9, 471, 478, 483
  Sodium citrate buffered with citric acid to extend shelf life 
                                                                    482
  Substances approved for use in the preparation of................1236
Meat inspection:
  Facilities and equipment approval...................................7
  Food additives....................................................467
  Foreign country import certification..............................477
  GRAS substances...................................................467
  HACCP programs......................................................6
  Imports...........................................................488
  Laboratory accreditation fees.....................................487
  Performance standards...............................................8
  Potassium hydroxide as a hog scald agent..........................489
  Sausage casing labeling...........................................475
  Standards of identity and composition.............................468
  Termination of designation of the State of West Virginia..........490
  Voluntary grading and certification services......................177
Medals:
  See Decorations, medals, awards
Medicaid:
  See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
           Public assistance programs
  Advance directives...............................................1420
  Case management services.........................................1359
  Clinical laboratories regulation...................................43
  Community supported living arrangements services.................1423
  Copayments for inpatient hospital services.......................1321
  Disproportionate share hospitals payment...................1337, 1383
  Drug rebate program........................................1201, 1304
  Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment 
      services.....................................................1355
  Eligibility....................................1334, 1338, 1340, 1410
  Federally qualified health centers...............................1305
  Health Center services...........................................1360
  Health Insuring Organizations..............................1363, 1397
  Health maintenance organizations...........................1363, 1397
  Inpatient hospital services......................................1321
  Low-income pregnant women........................................1362
  Medicaid Management Information System...........................1369
  Nurse practitioners..............................................1418
  Nurse-midwife services...........................................1374
  Nursing home benefits............................................1347
  Organ procurement and transplantation rules..................36, 1351
  Outstation intake locations......................................1362
  Pediatric Immunization Program...................................1375
  Personal care services...........................................1325
  Physician incentive plans........................................1363
  Provider agreement and supplier participation....................1342
  Psychiatric hospital sanctions...................................1303
  Referral to child support enforcement agencies...................1400
  Skilled nursing facilities.......................................1396
  Spenddown........................................................1340
  Third party liability......................................1326, 1417
  Transfer of assets.........................................1410, 1413
  Tuberculosis-related services....................................1316
  Vaccine administration fees......................................1375
Medical and dental schools:
  Construction grants..............................................1279
  Medicare payment for physicians' services........................1424
  NIH scholarships.................................................1286
Medical assistance program:
  See Medicaid
Medical care:
  See Health care
Medical devices:
  Computer software programs.......................................1265
  Export requirements..............................................1269
  Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1254
  Hearing aids.....................................................1221
  Hemodialyzers....................................................1422
  Intermittent positive pressure machine...........................1371
  Intraocular lenses.........................................1248, 1329
  Latex warning....................................................1219
  Medicare coverage............................................46, 1407
  Premarket approval applications............................1217, 1220
  Premarket notification exemptions..................................33
  Protective restraints............................................1245
  Respirators......................................................1208
  Restricted devices designation...................................1273
  Standards........................................................4490
  Tracking.........................................................1242
Medical facilities:
  See Health facilities
Medical personnel:
  See Health professions
Medical records:
  See Health records
Medical research:
  Adverse experience reporting requirements........................1263
  Clinical investigator disqualification...........................1247
  Confidentiality of VA records....................................3248
  Disclosure of confidential PRO information for research..........1311
  Financial disclosure by clinical investigators...................1254
  Grants..............................................................0
  NCI construction grants..........................................1291
  Neurotoxicity risk assessment....................................3778
  NIH Center grants................................................1293
  NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program.....................1285
  Objectivity in PHS-funded research...............................1295
Medicare:
  See also Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
  Accrual basis of accounting......................................1411
  Additional supplier standards....................................1331
  Advance directives...............................................1420
  Ambulance services...............................................1297
  Anti-kickback safe harbor provisions.............................1195
  Appeals of payment determinations................................1372
  Appeals representatives..........................................1309
  Cataract surgery.................................................1313
  Catastrophic Coverage Act........................................1301
  CHAMPUS benefits.................................................1047
  Claims.....................................................1308, 1406
  Claims processing................................................1368
  Clinical laboratories regulation...................................43
  Community mental health centers..................................1361
  Competitive medical plans:
    Contract termination...........................................1353
    Physician incentive plans......................................1363
  Computer errors, recovery of overpayments........................1300
  Contract performance evaluation..................................1402
  Cost reimbursement determination.................................1398
  Cost reports.....................................................1425
  Dialysis services................................39, 1310, 1370, 1422
  Disabled active individuals................................1380, 1392
  Electronic cost reporting........................................1328
  Electrostimulation of salivary glands for xerostomia.............1404
  End-stage renal disease....................................1370, 1421
  Extended care services...........................................1382
  Health care prepayment plans.....................................1306
  Health maintenance organizations:
    Contract termination...........................................1353
    Organizational structure and services..........................1348
    Physician incentive plans......................................1363
  Health professions:
    Nurse-midwives.................................................1327
    Physician assistants...........................................1298
  Home health agencies:
    Cost limits....................................................1373
    Definition.....................................................1407
    Participation requirements.......................................38
    Survey and sanctions...........................................1394
  Home oxygen therapy..............................................1336
  Hospice care.....................................................1335
  Hospice care payments............................................1322
  Hospital conditions of participation...............................44
  Hospital emergency care..........................................1389
  Hospital insurance program.......................................1380
  Hospital outpatient services.....................................1344
  Income protection for community spouse...........................1301
  Inpatient hospital payments................................1377, 1382
  Interest expense and suspension of payments......................1343
  Interest from zero coupon bonds..................................1384
  Lung transplants.................................................1428
  Medical devices....................................................46
  Medical equipment..........................................1371, 1414
  Medical services coverage decisions..............................1390
  Medigap policies.....................................1198, 1299, 1406
  Mentally retarded persons........................................1395
  Nocturnal penile tumescence testing..............................1403
  Nurse practitioner services......................................1302
  Nurse-midwife services...........................................1327
  Occupational therapy.............................................1391
  Organ procurement and transplantation rules............36, 1351, 1408
  Orthotic devices.................................................1414
  Ownership changes................................................1312
  Penalties and sanctions..........................................1198
  Penalties, sanctions, and overpayments...........................1312
  Physical therapy services........................................1315
  Physician assistant services.....................................1391
  Physician fee schedule.......................................45, 1379
  Physician incentive plans........................................1363
  Physician payment for services in teaching settings..............1424
  Physician referrals for health services..........................1317
  Physician referrals to labs......................................1419
  Physician reimbursement..........................................1364
  Physicians.......................................................1391
  Prospective Payment System...................................42, 1367
  Prosthetic devices...............................................1414
  Provider agreement and supplier participation....................1342
  Provider reimbursement disbursement and appeals..................1399
  Psychiatric hospital sanctions...................................1303
  Psychologist services......................................1358, 1393
  Reasonable compensation equivalent limits........................1385
  Resident assessment screening....................................1352
  Respiratory therapy services.....................................1315
  Rural health clinics.................................1307, 1361, 1393
  Screening Pap smears.............................................1357
  Secondary payer............................................1392, 1401
  Skilled nursing facilities.........1320, 1330, 1352, 1396, 1407, 1412
  Social workers...................................................1358
  Special enrollment periods.......................................1388
  Supplementary Medical Insurance..................................1381
  Swing bed hospitals..............................................1314
  Telephone request for payment determinations review..............1372
  Uninsured aged...................................................1380
  Vision care................................................1329, 1391
Mental health programs:
  CHAMPUS mental health services standards.........................1054
  Medicaid and Medicare sanctions for psychiatric hospitals........1303
  Protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness......1204
Merchant marine:
  See Maritime carriers
      Seamen
Metals:
  See also specific metals
  Aluminum alloy content specifications............................2554
  Ambient lead levels..............................................3679
  Effluent guidelines for metal products and machinery.............3485
  Emission standards for ferroalloy industry.......................3588
  EPA trace metal analysis.........................................3488
  High temperature metal recovery residues.........................3540
Metric system:
  Conversion.................................................2519, 2526
Migrant labor:
  Aliens...............................................1969, 1975, 2095
  Housing......................................................302, 303
  Job service complaint system.....................................2112
  Job training programs......................................2105, 2113
  Joint employment relationships.....................................68
  Labor standards..................................................2087
Migratory birds:
  See Wildlife
Military arms sales:
  See Arms and munitions
Military installations:
  See Federal buildings and facilities
Military personnel:
  See also Armed forces
           Armed forces reserves
  Former spouse payments from retired pay...........................902
  Income taxation..................................................3139
  Restoration to duty..............................................4008
  Retirement regulations...........................................4031
  Shipments of military household goods and personal effects.......2752
  Solicitation of personnel for charitable contributions...........4072
  SSI benefits for family members..................................4273
Milk:
  Child and adult care food program.................................410
  Import quotas.....................................................500
  State make allowance..............................................205
Mine safety and health:
  Air quality standards............................................2141
  Belt entry.......................................................2135
  Coal Mine Workers' Compensation regulations........................70
  Confined-space hazards...........................................2147
  Decertification of individuals...................................2149
  Explosive standards..............................................2144
  First aid at metal and nonmetal mines............................2137
  Hazard communication.............................................2140
  Metal/nonmetal impoundments......................................2150
  Methane safety standards.........................................2151
  Noise control standard.............................................73
  Respirable coal dust.......................................2130, 2143
  Respirator approval..............................................2152
  Single-shift sampling notice.....................................2143
  Surface haulage equipment........................................2131
  Testing of equipment by independent laboratories.................2145
  Underground coal mines:
    Carbon monoxide monitoring.....................................2148
    Diesel particulate.............................................2134
    Diesel-powered equipment.........................................74
    Flame-resistant conveyor belts.................................2146
    High-voltage longwall equipment..................................75
    Roof-bolting machines..........................................2132
    Safety standard revisions......................................2136
    Ventilation....................................................2138
Mineral resources:
  See also Coal
           Metals
           Oil and gas reserves
           Public lands-mineral resources
  Fractions sale....................................................512
  Management of solid minerals other than coal.....................1847
  Mining leases on Indian lands..............................1793, 1805
  National forests..................................................523
  Public information...............................................1860
  Tax treatment, S corporations....................................2963
Mineral royalties:
  Credit adjustments...............................................1805
  Offsets, recoupments, and refunds................................1808
  Rate reductions..................................................1863
  Valuation of gas production................................1800, 1813
Miners:
  See Mine safety and health
Mines:
  See also Mine safety and health
           Reclamation
           Surface mining
           Underground mining
  Abandoned........................................................1824
  Affected area....................................................1826
  Backfilling and grading..........................................1827
  Mining claims....................................................1867
  Public lands rule..........................................1823, 1857
  Regulation streamlining..........................................1866
  Water pollution control..........................................3460
Minimum wages:
  Exemption of white-collar workers..................................67
  Industries in American Samoa.....................................2100
  Records to be kept by employers..................................2096
  Service contracts................................................2099
Minority businesses:
  DOD awards.......................................................1007
  SBA minority enterprise development program......................4192
  SBA 8(a) programs:
    Appeals of denials.............................................4170
Minority groups:
  See Civil rights
      Minority businesses
Mobile homes:
  See Manufactured homes
Mobile offshore drilling units:
  See Vessels
Money:
  See Currency
Mortgage insurance:
  Coinsurance......................................................1510
  Elderly homeowners...............................................1502
  Electronic payment of premiums...................................1520
  Forbearance procedures...........................................1504
  Multifamily..........................................1510, 1517, 1521
  Rehabilitation mortgage insurance for condominiums...............1505
  Rental projects..................................................1526
  Single-family............................1497, 1519, 1520, 1523, 1524
Mortgages:
  See also Mortgage insurance
  Auction..........................................................1525
  Broker disclosure requirements...................................1500
  Creditor disclosure requirements.................................4659
  Farm loan mortgages and notes.....................................236
  Foreclosure..........................................1471, 1516, 3149
  Home mortgage disclosure.........................................4659
  Hospitals........................................................1498
  Indian housing...................................................1563
  Interest reduction payment.......................................1526
  Issuer net worth.................................................1540
  Minimum capital levels...........................................3968
  Mortgage credit certificates.....................................3105
  Mortgage servicing rights........................................4571
  Multifamily housing..............................................1511
  Nondiscrimination................................................1548
  OTS regulation review............................................3203
  Oversight authority................................................50
  Project Reserve Fund releases....................................1506
  Real estate mortgage investment conduits.............2934, 3033, 3192
  Refinancing......................................................1508
  Reimbursement to mortgagees......................................1518
  RESPA amendments...........................................1500, 1515
  Risk-based capital regulation..............................3208, 3966
  Rural housing.....................................................317
  Single-family lenders............................................1512
  Streamlining requirements........................................1503
  Taxable mortgage pools...........................................3186
  Unsubsidized.....................................................1506
Motion pictures:
  National Archives................................................3931
Motor carriers:
  See also Buses
  Alcohol testing............................................2521, 2542
  Brake systems..................................2567, 2610, 2635, 2636
  Commercial vehicles:
    Antilock brake systems.........................................2508
    Badlands National Park regulations.............................1748
    Brake adjusters and adjustment indicators......................2546
    Duty status records............................................2511
    Marking requirements...........................................2510
  Driver licensing.....................................2500, 2521, 2528
  Driver qualification requirements........2501, 2503, 2504, 2531, 2535
  Driver training..................................................2517
  Drivers with diabetes............................................2527
  Drug testing...............................................2521, 2542
  Excise taxes.....................................................2995
  Federal safety regulations:
    Administrative actions.........................................2514
    General amendments.............................................2506
    Recordkeeping requirements.................................92, 2522
    Safety ratings.................................................2502
    Technical amendments...........................................2540
  Hazardous materials transportation...............95, 2509, 2514, 2533
  Intermodal cargo containers......................................2532
  Invoiceless billing..............................................4687
  Manufactured home tires....................................1499, 2507
  Marking of vehicles..............................................2529
  Medical examinations.............................................2501
  Mexican operating authority......................................4689
  Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program..........................2538
  Negotiated Rates Act.............................................4697
  North American Free Trade Agreement..............................4689
  Periodic inspections.............................................2499
  Powered industrial truck operator training.......................2181
  Rear underride protection........................................2584
  Safety permits...................................................2735
  Stopping distance................................................2638
  Transport of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.........................2732
  Truck camper loading.............................................2573
  Truck length and width...........................................2498
  Truck size and weight......................................2530, 2548
Motor vehicle pollution:
  Alternative fuels..........................................1120, 1126
  Emissions control...........................................118, 3707
  Emissions from refinishing coatings..............................3644
  Emissions standards.................119, 3648, 3652, 3705, 3708, 3759
  Emissions testing.....................................131, 3651, 3730
  Gasoline:
    Detergent additives............................................3669
    Reformulated...................................................3606
  Inspection/maintenance programs......................3576, 3671, 3756
  Low emission vehicles program.....................................117
  Nitrogen oxides.............................................118, 3753
  On-board diagnostics service information.........................3673
  Particulate matter standards......................................118
  Transportation plans, programs, and projects.....................3700
Motor vehicle safety:
  See also Highway safety
  Accelerator controls.............................................2553
  Aluminum alloy content specifications............................2554
  Brake systems:
    Air brakes.........................................2546, 2567, 2610
    Air-over-hydraulic brakes......................................2650
    Antilock brakes........................2508, 2625, 2635, 2636, 2639
    Antilock warning signals.......................................2637
    Brake harmonization............................................2661
    Hoses and fluids...............................................2583
    Linings........................................................2590
    Passenger cars.................................................2625
    Pneumatic timing and balance...................................2652
    Referee material brake fluid...................................2643
    Stopping distance..............................................2638
  Burnish procedures requirement...................................2651
  Bus window emergency exits.......................................2644
  Child restraint systems..........................................2598
  Compressed natural gas use.......................................2656
  Controls and displays standard...................................2555
  Crashworthiness ratings..........................................2618
  Driving records..................................................2273
  Drug offender's driver's license suspension......................2662
  Drunk-driving-prevention programs................................2591
  Electric vehicles................................................2631
  Fire performance requirements....................................2560
  Fuel containers..................................................2629
  Fuel system integrity................................2588, 2630, 2646
  Glazing materials:
    Film transmittance.............................................2620
    Glass-plastic..................................................2640
  Head restraints compliance testing...............................2566
  Key lock requirements test procedures............................2649
  Lamps and reflective devices:
    Center high-mounted stop lamps...........................2549, 2655
    Fractional balance headlamp aim................................2653
    Geometric visibility requirements for lamps....................2569
    Headlamp concealment devices...................................2578
    Large trailers.................................................2537
    Lighting simplification........................................2619
    Materials used in tests........................................2601
    Motorcycles....................................................2571
    Performance and test requirement modification..................2596
    Replaceable bulb headlamps.........................2597, 2609, 2611
    Sealed beam headlamps..........................................2577
    Truck tractors.................................................2608
    Visual headlamp aimability requirements........................2568
  Mining industry..................................................2131
  Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program..........................2538
  National Minimum Drinking Age Act................................2580
  NHTSA procedural regulations for rulemaking......................2593
  Occupant crash protection:
    Air bags...........................................2582, 2622, 2654
    Backdoor latch improvements....................................2603
    Energy-absorbing sun-visors....................................2576
    Head/neck protection...........................................2586
    Injury criteria..........................................2586, 2641
    Riding in cargo bed of pickup trucks...........................2657
    Side impact protection...................................2575, 2633
  Power-operated windows compliance testing........................2574
  Radiator safety cap..............................................2595
  Reflecting surfaces requirements.................................2615
  Rigid plastics in windows........................................2602
  Rollover protection..............................................2589
  Roof crush compliance testing....................................2562
  School buses:
    Body joint strength............................................2587
    Flammability of interior materials.............................2585
  Seat belts:
    Anchorage requirements.........................................2552
    Colorfastness requirements.....................................2613
    Exemption for law enforcement vehicles.........................2612
    Occupant crash protection......................................2622
    Owner's manual requirements....................................2552
    Rear seats.....................................................2627
    Seat adjustment position.......................................2623
    Voluntarily-installed shoulder belts...........................2634
  Seating systems:
    Child booster seats......................................2606, 2659
    Performance....................................................2621
  Side door strength...............................................2594
  Sleeper berths on motor coaches..................................2536
  Test dummies:
    Child dummies..................................................2598
    Hybrid III.....................................................2605
  Tires:
    Manufactured home tires........................................2507
    Non-pneumatic spare tires......................................2572
    Quality grading standards................................2599, 2660
    Retreads.......................................................2628
  Trailer conspicuity..............................................2537
  Transmission requirements test procedures........................2649
  Transporting Head Start participants.............................1441
  Truck camper loading.............................................2573
  Truck rear underride protection..................................2584
  Warning device standard..........................................2570
  Wheel nut, wheel disc, and hub cap designs.......................2614
  Wheelchair lifts.................................................2592
  Windshield defrosting and defogging systems......................2556
  Windshield wiping and washing systems............................2557
Motor vehicles:
  See also Buses
           Fuel economy
           Motor carriers
           Motor vehicle safety
  Air conditioning system....................................3657, 3732
  Alternative fueled vehicles................................1108, 4685
  Automobile parts content labeling................................2617
  Automotive aftermarket...........................................3673
  Canadian manufactured............................................3704
  Cargo tank motor vehicles........................................2724
  Certification requirements of multistage vehicles................2624
  Clean fuel/electric vehicles tax benefits........................3143
  Compressed natural gas use.......................................2563
  Customs examinations.............................................2868
  Cylinder material requirements...................................2632
  Driver training..................................................2503
  Dual energy................................................2561, 2604
  Electric...................................................1116, 2561
  Energy management regulations....................................1159
  FTC used car rule................................................4665
  Insurer reporting requirements...................................2648
  Leasing..........................................................3842
  Motorcycle headlamp performance..................................2571
  Odometer fraud...................................................2550
  Pickup trucks....................................................2657
  Sales volume limit provisions....................................3598
  Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances............................2024
  Snowmobiles......................................................1750
  Stopping distance................................................2626
  Theft data...........................................2564, 2579, 2607
  Theft prevention.....................................2050, 2551, 2658
  Vehicle identification number..............................2565, 2645
Motorcycles:
  See Motor vehicles
Moving of household goods:
  Cargo preferences................................................2752
  Petition for exemption...........................................4625
Munitions:
  See Arms and munitions
Musculoskeletal disorders:
  Ergonomic protection standards.....................................78
Museums:
  Audit requirements for grant programs............................3950
Music:
  Unauthorized sound recordings and music videos...................2851


                                   N

Narcotics:
  See Drug traffic control
National banks:
  Assessment of fees...............................................2838
  Capital regulations..............................................2831
  Fiduciary powers.................................................2820
  Insider credit...................................................2823
  Reporting and recordkeeping......................................2839
  Safety and soundness standards....2824, 2825, 2826, 2833, 2834, 2841, 
                                                                   2843
  Securities.......................................................2839
  Uniform rules of practice and procedure..........................2840
National cemeteries:
  See Cemeteries
National defense:
  See also Armed forces
           Arms and munitions
           Civil defense
           Classified information
  DOD Civil-Military Programs..................................895, 896
  DOD joint ethics regulation.......................................920
  DOD standards of conduct.....................................921, 982
  Export controls...................................................649
  FPC standby service agreements...................................2753
National defense contracts:
  See Government contracts
      Government procurement
National forests:
  Admission fees....................................................539
  Animal damage management..........................................545
  Communication use fees............................................541
  Crime prevention..................................................542
  Damaged timber removal............................................524
  Fire prevention...................................................542
  Forest plan implementation........................................520
  Grazing Forest System lands.......................................530
  Hydroelectric uses................................................531
  Isolated cabin policy.............................................513
  Land uses and prohibitions........................................543
  Mexican wolves reintroduction....................................1687
  Outfitting and guiding fees and permits...........................546
  Outstanding mineral rights........................................523
  Private sale of Golden Eagle Passports............................525
  Ski area permit fees..............................................540
  Small business land use...........................................526
  Smith River National Recreation Area..............................538
  Solid waste disposal..............................................514
  Special use authorizations...................................522, 537
National guard:
  See Armed forces reserves
National parks:
  Aircraft overflights of..........................................2464
  Alaska:
    Denali National Park...........................................1752
    Glacier Bay National Park..........................1756, 1757, 1762
    Visitor services...............................................1759
  Appalachian National Scenic Trail:
    Hang gliding...................................................1753
  Badlands National Park:
    Commercial vehicles............................................1748
  Cape Lookout National Seashore:
    Airstrip closure...............................................1761
  Conveyance of freehold and leasehold interests...................1747
  Fines............................................................1741
  Fort Jefferson National Monument, NM:
    Boundary changes...............................................1737
    Fishing for crayfish and conch.................................1737
  Gettysburg National Military Park:
    One-way roads..................................................1766
  Glacier Bay National Park:
    Applicability rules............................................1745
  Grand Canyon National Park:
    Aircraft overflights of........................................2488
  Grand Teton National Park:
    Snowmobiles and snowplanes.....................................1750
  Great Smoky Mountains National Park:
    Red wolves.....................................................1721
  Historic preservation programs...................................1754
  Historic properties standards....................................1763
  Hunting and trapping regulations.................................1764
  John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway:
    Snowmobiles and snowplanes.....................................1750
  Motorboat prohibitions...........................................1762
  Natural landmarks program........................................1755
  Oil and gas development..........................................1738
  Oregon Caves National Monument:
    Admission of children to.......................................1760
  Organizational titles change.....................................1767
  Park police insignia.............................................1739
  Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore:
    Hunting regulations............................................1765
  Resource protection........................................1744, 1751
  Rights-of-way....................................................1740
  Road prohibitions................................................1762
  Rock climbing....................................................1742
  Shenandoah National Park:
    Backcountry and fishing regulations............................1749
  State exchanges..................................................1856
  Visitor use................................................1744, 1751
  Voyageurs National Park:
    Aircraft operations............................................1746
  Yellowstone National Park:
    Special revision...............................................1743
National Register of Historic Places:
  See Historic preservation
National security information:
  See Classified information
National Wildlife Refuge System:
  See Wildlife refuges
Nationality:
  See Citizenship and naturalization
Native Americans:
  See Hawaiian Natives
      Indians
Natural gas:
  See also Oil and gas exploration
           Oil and gas reserves
           Pipelines
  Distribution industry size standards.............................4215
  FERC administrative regulations revisions........................4585
  Filing and reporting requirements for transportation.............4584
  Imports and exports..............................................1154
  Motor vehicle fuel.....118, 1120, 1126, 2563, 2604, 2629, 2630, 2656, 
                                                                   3606
  Small business size standards....................................4222
Natural resources:
  See also Coastal zone
           Continental shelf
           Energy
           Environmental protection
           Fish
           Forests and forest products
           Marine resources
           Mineral resources
           National forests
           Public lands
           Reclamation
           Recreation and recreation areas
           Soil conservation
           Water resources
           Wildlife
  Damage assessments.......................16, 58, 59, 1580, 1581, 1582
  DOI acquisition regulations....................1578, 1579, 1583, 1584
  DOI property management regulation...............................1585
  FWS regional office addresses....................................1735
  Hydroelectric project charges and fees...........................4590
  National natural landmarks program...............................1755
Naturalization:
  See Citizenship and naturalization
Naval stores:
  See Forests and forest products
Navigable waters:
  See Waterways
Navigation (air):
  Airspace regulations........2363, 2371, 2372, 2377, 2378, 2391, 2392, 
                         2396, 2431, 2459, 2488, 2490, 2492, 2493, 2494
  Airspace system, exemption of regulations........................2446
  Charlotte TCA....................................................2486
  Cincinnati TCA...................................................2369
  High-frequency communication system..............................2430
  Instrument flight rules....................................2390, 2393
  Mountain flying..................................................2465
  Nashville TCA....................................................2368
  Niagara Falls, NY................................................2454
  Non-Federal facilities...........................................2479
  Objects affecting navigable airspace.............................2353
  Overwater routes.................................................2430
  Single long-range navigation system..............................2430
  Sole Means Radio Navigation System...............................2449
  Standard instrument approach procedures..........................2395
  Transponder requirement....................................2366, 2434
Navigation (water):
  Federal pilotage requirements for foreign trade vessels..........2335
  International navigation rules...................................2310
  Lake Huron to Lake Erie..........................................2345
  Lighting provisions..............................................2302
  Mississippi River navigation area................................2338
  Offshore pipeline hazards........................................2738
  Oliver Lock and Dam on the Black Warrior River...................2337
  Pacific Northwest................................................2333
  Prince William Sound.......................................2318, 2336
  Puget Sound................................................2318, 2333
  Regulated navigation areas.......................................2325
  Sound Automated Dependent Surveillance System....................2336
  Towing vessel safety equipment...................................2283
  Traffic services regulations.....................................2350
  Training:
    Use of automatic RADAR plotting aids...........................2292
  U.S. ATON systems..........................................2267, 2268
  Wrangell Narrows, AK.............................................2282
Newspapers and magazines:
  DOD newspapers and civilian enterprise publications...............922
Noise control:
  Airports.........................................................2364
  Mining industry....................................................73
  Overflights of national parks....................................2464
Nondiscrimination:
  See Civil rights
Nonprofit organizations:
  Cultural property regulations..............................2853, 2877
  DOT grants.......................................................2233
  Government contracts..................................943, 1186, 4357
  Grants administration.....................617, 1181, 2064, 3352, 3790
  Lobbying.........................................................3984
  NASA contracts.............................................3901, 3903
  Political activity injunction....................................3088
  Rights to inventions..............................................891
  USDA grants and agreements........................................548
Nuclear energy:
  See also Nuclear materials
           Nuclear power plants and reactors
  DOE information classification policy............................1135
  NRC fee schedules.................................................163
  NRC petition submissions.........................................4758
  Payments for special burdens and in lieu of taxes................1143
Nuclear materials:
  Emergency response worker training...............................1150
  Export controls..............................................635, 639
  Industrial device user report....................................4767
  Licensing..................................................4743, 4777
  Nuclear fuel.........................................1151, 4760, 4788
  Source material licensing........................................4769
  Spent fuel.................................................4790, 4801
Nuclear power plants and reactors:
  Advanced boiling water reactor design.............................165
  ASME codes and standards.........................................4735
  Codes and standards..............................................4766
  Criticality monitors.............................................4788
  Decommissioning:
    Funding requirements...........................................4754
    Operating license termination............................4736, 4756
    Radiological criteria...........................................164
  Design and site suitability.................................165, 4734
  Design certification for System 80+...............................166
  Emergency preparedness.....................................4757, 4787
  Fees for licensees...............................................4797
  Foreign activities assistance....................................1138
  Fracture toughness...............................................4746
  Hazardous air pollutants.........................................3731
  Leakage testing............................................4780, 4793
  License renewal......................................4747, 4795, 4799
  License transfer.................................................4756
  Licensing......................................4750, 4771, 4776, 4781
  Low-power operations.............................................4732
  Monitored retrievable storage....................................4787
  Nuclear occurrence...............................................4761
  Personnel:
    Access to reactor containments.................................4803
    Deliberate misconduct of NRC applicants........................4742
    Fitness-for-Duty Program.................................4738, 4775
    Security guards................................................4783
    Whistleblower provisions.......................................2091
  Physical security..........................................4759, 4774
  Possession only licenses.........................................4776
  Procurement of commercial grade items............................4794
  Product inspection and testing...................................4784
  Radiation dose criteria..........................................4745
  Radiation safety requirements........................4768, 4791, 4800
  Radionuclides emissions level regulation.........................4739
  Reporting requirements......................................162, 4733
  Safety regulations...............23, 24, 1144, 1155, 4770, 4778, 4789
  Security.........................................................4803
  Shutdown.........................................................4732
  Spent fuel storage...................................4740, 4787, 4790
  Steam generator tube integrity....................................161
  Technical specifications.........................................4796
  Three Mile Island................................................4761
  Waste disposal.......................................4765, 4773, 4792
Nuclear safety:
  See Radiation protection
Nursery stock:
  See also Plants
  Tree Assistance Program...........................................260
Nursing homes:
  See also Health facilities
  Electronic cost reporting........................................1328
  Medicare and Medicaid benefits.............................1320, 1347
  Routine service costs............................................1330
  Skilled nursing facility definition..............................1407
Nursing schools:
  See Medical and dental schools
Nutrition:
  See also Food assistance programs
           Foods
  Dietary supplement labeling..........................1232, 1249, 1257
  Education.........................................................405
  Food labeling...........................468, 471, 478, 483, 486, 1246
  Homelessness and migrancy.........................................459
  Medical food labeling............................................1262
  School meals............................................413, 461, 465
  Summer Food Service Program.......................................424


                                   O

Oats:
  Inspection standards..............................................395
Occupational safety and health:
  See also Mine safety and health
           Workers' compensation
  Agricultural pesticides..........................................3383
  Air quality..................................................82, 2182
  Cargo handling...................................................2170
  Child labor regulations............................................66
  Construction industry......................................2183, 2187
  Ergonomic standards................................................78
  Fall protection................................................76, 84
  Flammable and combustible liquids..................................83
  Formaldehyde exposure............................................3442
  Glycol ethers....................................................2175
  Grain handling facilities........................................2167
  Hazard abatement documentation...................................2178
  Hazardous energy sources (lockout/tagout)........................2180
  Hazardous substances.............................................3397
  Hazardous waste handling.........................................2179
  Hexavalent chromium exposure.....................................2161
  Hydrogen sulfide.................................................1804
  Methylene chloride exposure......................................2176
  Personal protective equipment....................................2173
  Preventing suffocation/explosions in confined spaces.............2185
  Radiation exposure...................................1144, 4492, 4791
  Regulation elimination and improvement.............................81
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...........................77
  Respiration protection.....................................1208, 2168
  Safety and health management program...............................79
  Scaffolds..................................................2169, 2171
  Shipyard standards.......................2163, 2171, 2172, 2173, 2184
  Steel erections....................................................76
  Toxic substances exposure limits.................................2186
  Transit workers..................................................2128
  Tuberculosis exposure..............................................80
  Walking and work surfaces..........................................84
  1,3-Butadiene....................................................2174
Occupational training:
  See Manpower training programs
      Vocational education
Ocean dumping:
  See Water pollution control
Ocean resources:
  See Marine resources
Offshore structures:
  See Continental shelf
Oil and gas exploration:
  Burning liquid hydrocarbons......................................1807
  Gas measurement and commingling..................................1811
  Geophysical exploration regulations..............................1855
  Incidental taking of marine mammals...............................797
  Leasing............................1795, 1800, 1813, 1815, 1837, 1852
  Leasing of Osage reservation lands...............................1793
  Outer continental shelf....................................1796, 1797
  Royalty rate reductions for oil well operators...................1863
  Well workovers, completion, and abandonments.....................1864
Oil and gas reserves:
  Mineral agreements for Indian-owned..............................1781
Oil pollution:
  Damage assessment..................................58, 59, 1581, 1582
  Damage assessment and restoration..................................16
  Discharge-removal equipment......................................2315
  Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund...................................2320
  Oil spill response......86, 1806, 2298, 2299, 2317, 2319, 2700, 2726, 
                                                                   3524
  Overfill devices.................................................2316
  Prevention...........................................1806, 2323, 3554
  Tank vessels.....................................88, 2318, 2333, 2339
Oils and fats:
  See Oilseeds
Oilseeds:
  See also Cottonseeds
  Common Crop Insurance...................................366, 373, 385
  Cottonseed Oil Assistance Program............................505, 507
  Export sales reporting requirements...............................494
  Inspection standards..............................................395
  Program implementation............................................261
  Sunflowerseed Oil Assistance Program.........................505, 507
Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance:
  Acceptable medical sources.......................................4274
  Authority to impose civil money penalties........................4244
  Disability determinations:
    Testing models.................................................4302
  Drug addiction or alcoholism.....................................4278
  Fees for representation of claimants.............................4234
  Government pension...............................................4297
  Hemic and lymphatic system disability criteria...................4268
  Incarcerated individuals and individuals confined in criminal 
      cases........................................................4242
  Malignant neoplastic diseases disability criteria................4268
  Mental disorders, evaluation criteria............................4264
  Musculoskeletal system, disability criteria.......................151
  Nomenclature update..............................................4300
  Overpayment debt collection......................................4281
  Reimbursement for VR services....................................4235
  Replacing social security number cards...........................4262
  Representative payee reforms.................................148, 152
  Review process.............................................4308, 4309
  Speech and language impairments..................................4274
  Substantial Gainful Activity.....................................4249
Onions:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................334
Organization and functions:
  Civilian Agency Acquisition Council..............................4347
  Coast Guard......................................................2352
  Consolidated Farm Service Agency..................................199
  Customs Service..................................................2895
  Defense Acquisition Regulations Council..........................4347
  Federal credit unions............................................4710
  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation............................4554
  Federal Housing Finance Board...............................158, 4602
  Fishermen's Guarantee Program.....................................791
  General Services Administration......................3835, 3838, 3870
  Immigration and Naturalization Service.....................1998, 2041
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration..............3894, 3910
  National Park Service............................................1767
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission....................................4802
  Office of Personnel Management.............................4089, 4091
  OMB Circular A-105 rescission....................................3998
  Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network......................36
  Public housing agencies............................................57
  Transportation Department........................................2264
Outer continental shelf:
  See Continental shelf
Over-the-counter drugs:
  Labeling.........................................................1234
  Safety...........................................................1213
  Tamper-resistant packaging.......................................1251
Overseas private investment:
  See United States investments abroad
Overtime pay:
  See Wages


                                   P

Packaging and containers:
  See also Food packaging
           Labeling
  Acetone packaging................................................4440
  Binoculars.......................................................4674
  Child-resistant......................................3395, 4435, 4441
  Country of origin marking............................2856, 2873, 2883
  Customs treatment of reusable shipping containers................2867
  Hazardous materials..............................................2726
  Incandescent lamps...............................................4667
  Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4672
  Tamper-resistant.................................................1251
Paint:
  See Lead poisoning
Paperwork requirements:
  See Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Parachutes:
  See Aircraft
Parks:
  See National parks
Passenger vessels:
  See also Maritime carriers
  Access for individuals with disabilities...................2255, 3359
  Arrival/departure records of aliens........................1960, 1963
  Cruise ships.....................................................2042
  Damage stability requirements....................................2303
  Financial responsibility requirements.............................160
  INS fines................................1962, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  Inspection of alien crew members.................................1961
  Security standards...............................................2272
  Small vessel inspection and certification........................2293
Passports and visas:
  Alien travel documents...........................................1952
  B visas..........................................................2200
  Immigrant visas:
    Requests for additional evidence...............................1997
    Revocation of approval.........................................2035
    Streamlining legislation implementation........................2191
  J visas..........................................................4317
  NAFTA professionals..............................................2195
  Nonimmigrant visas:
    Olympic families...............................................2197
    Part 41 regulations of INA.....................................2193
    Streamlining legislation implementation........................2196
  Persons authorized to adjudicate nationality claims..............2188
  Registration and fingerprinting of certain nonimmigrants.........1985
  Transit without visa.................................1944, 2026, 2199
  Visa Waiver Pilot Program..................................1945, 2194
Patents:
  See Inventions and patents
Pay:
  See Wages
Peanuts:
  Common Crop Insurance........................................216, 333
  Marketing quotas..................................................186
  National poundage quotas..........................................253
  Price support................................................185, 254
Peas:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................380
Peer Review Organizations (PROs):
  Medicare regulations changes.........................1311, 1345, 1402
  Sanctions process................................................1197
Penalties:
  See also Seizures and forfeitures
  Civil......794, 1192, 1200, 1201, 1332, 1344, 2102, 2123, 2125, 2424, 
                         2463, 2773, 3780, 4202, 4244, 4263, 4314, 4413
  Clean Water Act..................................................1030
  Criminal fine collection.........................................2047
  Drug offender's driver's license suspension......................2662
  Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988........................2101
  Food Stamp Program...........................................443, 464
  Hazardous materials regulations............................2685, 2715
  Internal Revenue Service.........................................3195
  National park fines..............................................1741
  Nuclear weapons contractors......................................1150
Pensions:
  See also Railroad retirement
           Social security
  Adequate consideration definition................................2121
  Annuity contracts distributed by terminating plans...............4141
  Civil penalties for breach of fiduciary duties...................2123
  Defined benefit pension plans....................................4134
  Disclosure requirements....................................2124, 4143
  Domestic relations orders........................................2122
  Employer liability................................................143
  GATT provisions affecting accrued benefits.................2920, 3023
  Investment education for plan participants.......................2120
  Multiemployer plans:
    Financial assistance...........................................4124
    Mergers and transfers..........................................4123
  PBGC offset of debts.............................................4140
  Premium payments...........................................4126, 4135
  Records exemption................................................4125
  Reduction in future accrual rates..........................2998, 2999
  Regulation and bulletin removal..................................2118
  Regulation renumbering...........................................4136
  Regulation review................................................4128
  Reporting and notification requirements..........72, 2125, 4131, 4132
  Reversion of costs...............................................4357
  Rollover distribution............................................3021
  Single-employer plans:
    Premium payments...............................................4131
    Reporting and notification requirements........................4137
    Terminations.......................................4127, 4133, 4138
  Standard terminations............................................4134
  State guaranty coverage..........................................4142
  Tax valuation....................................................3089
  Trusteed plans, payment of benefits..............................4139
  Valuation of plan benefits.......................................4130
Pesticides and pests:
  See also Plant diseases and pests
  Aircraft disinsection............................................2239
  Boll Weevil Eradication Program...................................208
  Certification of applicators.....................................3400
  Child-resistant packaging........................................3395
  Crop grouping regulations........................................3401
  Cross-contamination reporting....................................3379
  Data requirements................................................3371
  Disposal and storage guidelines..................................3394
  Effluent guidelines and standards................................3474
  Exportation......................................................3396
  Field testing....................................................3369
  Groundwater protection...............................3372, 3382, 3386
  Inventory with cancelled registration............................3385
  Labeling requirements:
    Endangered species protection..................................3393
    Flammability...................................................3381
    Permitted statements...........................................3373
  Low-risk pesticides..............................................3390
  Negotiated consent/procedural test rule..........................3415
  Production and distribution records..............................3374
  Recalled pesticides management...................................3566
  Regulatory review.................................................104
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements...................3377, 3384
  Residue in agricultural products.................................3391
  Sale of restricted use pesticides................................3399
  Self-certification................................................120
  Sterilants.......................................................3376
  Storage and disposal.............................................3389
  Tolerance program revisions......................................3368
  Transgenic plants................................................3380
  Worker protection standards........3375, 3383, 3387, 3388, 3397, 3398
Petroleum:
  See also Fuel additives
           Gasoline
           Oil and gas exploration
           Oil and gas reserves
           Oil pollution
           Pipelines
  Air pollution from petroleum solvent dry cleaners................3725
  Air pollution from production facilities.........................3619
  DOD contracting...................................................911
  Drilling operations..............................................1858
  Gas valuation....................................................1810
  Hydrogen sulfide.................................................1804
  Labeling of recycled oil containers..............................4681
  Management of non-Federal development............................1738
  Onshore oil pipelines............................................2700
  Refineries.................................................3587, 3748
  Refineries in foreign trade subzones.............................2886
  Refining process wastes..........................................3530
  Toxicity characteristic rule.....................................3559
Physically handicapped:
  See Individuals with disabilities
Physicians:
  See Health professions
Pilots:
  See Airmen
Pipeline safety:
  Aluminum cylinders...............................................2699
  Breakout tanks...................................................2733
  Corrosion determinations.........................................2719
  Damage prevention systems........................................2727
  Drug testing of pipeline safety operations personnel.............2728
  Emergency flow restricting devices.................................94
  Environmentally-sensitive and high-density population areas......2702
  Excess flow valves.........................................2707, 2723
  Gas gathering line definition....................................2731
  Gas gathering lines..............................................2737
  Gas standards....................................................2734
  Hazardous liquids gathering lines..........................2736, 2737
  Hydrogen sulfide.................................................2720
  Increased inspection requirements................................2703
  Inspection devices...............................................2721
  Maps and records of location.....................................2718
  Operator qualifications..........................................2717
  Periodic updates to regulations..................................2739
  Permanent underwater inspections.................................2738
  Shutdown valves..................................................1809
  User fees........................................................2711
  Yard lines.......................................................2743
Pipelines:
  See also Natural gas
           Pipeline safety
  Capacity release regulations.....................................4595
  Companies records program........................................4578
  Customs regulations..............................................2872
  Equal opportunity during construction and operation..............1587
  Offshore pipeline spill prevention and response..................1806
  Onshore oil pipelines............................................2700
  Reporting requirements...............................1587, 2725, 4587
  Rights-of-way....................................................1802
  Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities.........................2701
Plant diseases and pests:
  Imported wood.....................................................290
  Introduction of nonindigenous organisms...........................291
Plants:
  See also Plant diseases and pests
           Seeds
  Endangered and threatened....821, 1594, 1610, 1611, 1616, 1617, 1627, 
        1630, 1634, 1636, 1638, 1655, 1656, 1660, 1666, 1668, 1669, 
        1677, 1680, 1681, 1683, 1684, 1688, 1689, 1690, 1701, 1705, 
        1706, 1707, 1708, 1709, 1710, 1712, 1715, 1717, 1718
  Exports................................................281, 283, 1659
  Genetically engineered organisms..................................279
  Plant Variety Protection Act......................................172
Plastics materials and synthetics:
  Air pollution control regulations................................3716
  Motor vehicle windows............................................2602
  Vehicle lamp tests...............................................2601
Poison prevention:
  See also Lead poisoning
  Labeling regulations.......................................2706, 4676
Political activities (Government employees):
  Federal employees residing in designated localities..............4061
  Honoraria donated to charities...................................3971
Pollution:
  See Environmental protection
Polygraph tests:
  See Lie detector tests
Population control:
  See Family planning
Ports:
  See Harbors
Potatoes:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................335
  Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act coverage..................170
Poultry and poultry products:
  Communicable diseases.............................................280
  Continuous chilling of split turkey portions......................474
  Food additives....................................................467
  HACCP programs......................................................6
  Importation.............................................273, 284, 488
  Inspection.............................................7, 8, 488, 490
  Inspection and labeling...........................................487
  Labeling........................................9, 471, 478, 484, 486
  Salmonella enteritidis............................................285
  Sodium citrate buffered with citric acid to extend shelf life 
                                                                    482
  Standards of identity and composition.............................468
  State Processing Program..........................................440
  Substances approved for use in the preparation of................1236
  Transporting undenatured poultry feet.............................485
  Trisodium phosphate..........................................470, 479
Poverty:
  See Food assistance programs
      Public assistance programs
Power resources:
  See Energy
Practice and procedure:
  See Administrative practice and procedure
Prescription drugs:
  Certification policy.............................................1252
  Certification program fees.......................................1240
  Child-resistant packaging........................................4439
  Controlled substances......................................1921, 1927
  Drug rebate program..............................................1201
  Labeling...............................................35, 1250, 1270
  PDMA policy information, guidance, and clarifications............1241
  Product license applications.....................................1275
Presidential elections:
  See Elections
Presidential records:
  See Archives and records
Price controls:
  Federal Communications Commission..........................4467, 4485
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.......................4582, 4593
Price support programs:
  Peanuts......................................................185, 254
  Sugarbeets and sugarcane..........................................201
  Tobacco.............................184, 202, 203, 204, 249, 250, 251
  Wheat.............................................................233
Printing:
  DOD newspapers and civilian enterprise publications...............922
Prisoners:
  Administrative remedy program....................................1887
  Aliens...........................................................2067
  Central inmate monitoring........................................1898
  Classification and program review................................1905
  Drug abuse treatment.......................................1895, 1904
  Education tests..................................................1899
  Fine and cost processing.........................................1891
  Good conduct time................................................1877
  Inmate organizations.............................................1880
  Inmate Work and Performance Pay program..........................1890
  Legal activities.................................................1884
  Literacy program.................................................1893
  Mandatory functional literacy requirements.......................1886
  National security considerations.................................1902
  OASDI benefits...................................................4242
  Personal property of inmates.....................................1901
  Plastic surgery..................................................1876
  Psychiatric treatment and medication.............................1906
  Religious beliefs and practices..................................1885
  Research regulations.............................................1883
  Restraint systems in law enforcement vehicles....................2612
  Special mail procedures..........................................1903
  Telephone regulations and financial responsibility...............1896
  Unescorted transfers.............................................1900
  Use of convict labor.............................................4368
  Use of force.....................................................1897
  Voluntary surrenders.............................................1900
  Volunteer community service projects.............................1881
Prisons:
  Funding of elective abortions....................................1892
  HIV programs notification provisions.............................1888
  Incoming publications............................................1884
  Infectious disease management....................................1889
  Intensive confinement centers....................................1882
  Postsecondary education programs...........................1875, 1894
  Release of information...........................................1874
  Restricted special mail procedures...............................1879
  Special foods....................................................1878
Privacy:
  See also Confidential business information
  Air carrier domestic market data.................................2761
  Bureau of Prisons records........................................1874
  Child Abuse and Neglect State Grant Program......................1440
  Confidentiality of VA medical records............................3248
  Criminal justice information systems.............................2068
  Disclosure of NRC records........................................4749
  Family educational rights and privacy............................1059
  Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act........................1060
  Food Stamp Program......................................397, 407, 437
  Health records...................................................1207
  Justice Department research and statistical information..........2069
  Navy records and documents.......................................1035
  Privacy Act:
    Crop insurance..................................................340
    DOE records exemptions.............................1145, 1146, 1157
    DOJ implementation.............................................2061
    DOT exemptions.................................................2260
    Inspector General investigative files..........................3960
    NARA procedures................................................3935
    NCUA regulations...............................................4720
    OGE procedures.................................................3969
  Records....................................................4125, 4900
  Small Business Administration....................................4188
  Social Security Administration...................................4294
  Tax return information...........................................3095
Procurement:
  See Government procurement
Prosthetic devices:
  See Medical devices
Public assistance programs:
  See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child welfare
           Medicaid
           Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  Voter registration...............................................1443
Public buildings:
  See Federal buildings and facilities
Public health:
  See also Immunization
           Meat inspection
           Waste treatment and disposal
  Air pollution effects............................................3413
  Air quality standards............................................3613
  Animal drugs.....................................................1223
  Blood and blood products.........................................1215
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3776
  HIV programs notification provisions.............................1888
  Mammography Quality Standards Act..................................28
  PCC health, sanitation, and communicable disease surveillance 
                                                                   4115
  Pesticide tolerance program......................................3368
  Physical and mental examinations of aliens.......................1947
  Radiation protection.............................................3503
  Regulation revocation..............................................30
  Reproductive toxicity risk assessment............................3788
  Safeguarding food during transport...............................2732
  Salmonella enteritidis............................................285
  Water contamination effects................................3513, 3518
Public housing:
  See also Low and moderate income housing
           Rent subsidies
  Ceiling rents....................................................1556
  Comprehensive needs assessment...................................1469
  Designated housing regulations...................................1565
  Development regulations revisions..................................57
  Drug-related activity adjustments................................1554
  Housing authorities certification and disclosure requirements 
                                                                   1570
  Indians........................................1468, 1553, 1559, 1570
  Maintenance and operation........................................1558
  Management reform..................................................55
  Modernization....................................................1566
  Operating subsidy....................................1562, 1568, 1569
  Performance funding system.................................1562, 1568
  Public/private partnerships for mixed-finance development..........56
  Rent adjustments for security and expense coverage...............1554
  Vacancy rules....................................................1567
  Youth Sports Program.............................................1572
Public lands:
  See also Grazing lands
           Homesteads
           National forests
           National parks
           Public lands-mineral resources
           Public lands-rights-of-way
           Reclamation
  Acreage limitation rules.........................................1829
  Alaska.....................................................1607, 1873
  BLM application procedures.......................................1869
  Desert land entries..............................................1854
  Designated national area regulation..............................1842
  Endangered Species Act Consultation regulations..................1704
  Fire management............................................1843, 1865
  Law enforcement..................................................1840
  Leases...........................................................1859
  Low-level waste site land ownership requirements.................4792
  Mill site restrictions...........................................1867
  Mining claims..............................................1867, 1868
  Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act...........1758
  Natural history resource management..............................1844
  Nondiscrimination regulation.....................................1588
  Notification rules...............................................1823
  Orders...........................................................1846
  Permit and easements.............................................1859
  Policy and management......................................1836, 1859
  Protection and preservation of natural values....................1870
  Recreation management......................................1848, 1849
  Reintroduction of black-footed ferrets...........................1604
  Revenues management..............................................1828
  Right of entry...................................................1823
  State irrigation districts.......................................1851
  Subsistence management regulations.........................1607, 1731
  Surveys..........................................................1862
  Tramroads and logging roads......................................1838
  Trespass regulation..............................................1845
  Visitor services.................................................1841
  Visual resource management.......................................1850
  Wilderness area management.......................................1835
Public lands-mineral resources:
  Burning liquid hydrocarbons......................................1807
  Coal transportation and washing allowances.......................1799
  Coalbed methane development......................................1839
  Disposal of reserved minerals....................................1871
  Gas measurement and commingling..................................1811
  Leasing......................1796, 1797, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1805, 1815
  Management.......................................................1853
  Management of solid minerals other than coal.....................1847
  Mining in Bodie Bowl, CA.........................................1857
  MMS electronic funds transfer regulations........................1812
  Oil and gas drilling operations..................................1858
  Oil and gas geophysical exploration..............................1855
  Oil and gas leasing............................1795, 1800, 1837, 1852
  Oil and gas well workovers, completions, and abandonments........1864
  Oil well royalty rate reductions.................................1863
  Public information...............................................1860
  Release of third party proprietary information...................1814
  Transportation and processing allowances...................1798, 1813
Public lands-rights-of-way:
  Administrative process and standards.............................1576
  Filing fees......................................................1802
  National wildlife refuges........................................1654
  Rental for communication use.....................................1861
Public utilities:
  See Electric utilities
      Natural gas
      Utilities
      Water supply
Public works:
  See Community facilities
Publications:
  See Government publications
      Newspapers and magazines


                                   R

Radiation protection:
  See also Radioactive materials
  Administration of radiation and radioactive materials to 
      patients.....................................................4798
  Contractors and subcontractors...........................23, 24, 1155
  Dose criteria........................................4745, 4752, 4791
  Drinking water...................................................3502
  General public...................................................3503
  Industrial device user report....................................4767
  Occupational radiation protection................................1144
  Procurement of commercial grade items............................4794
  Radiography equipment............................................4800
  Radiography operations...........................................4751
  Radiological Emergency Response Plan.............................3677
  Reactor containment leakage testing..............................4793
  Reactor coolant pump seals.......................................4789
  Reactor siting criteria:
    Assessment requirements clarification..........................4771
    Seismic and geological criteria................................4750
    Source term and dose calculations..............................4770
  Release of contaminated lands and structures......................164
  Spent fuel storage...............................................4740
  Steam generator tube integrity....................................161
  Yucca Mountain, NV.........................................3504, 3604
Radio:
  See also Communications
  Competitive bidding for narrowband PCS...........................4536
  Competitive bidding for 800 MHz SMR..............................4535
  Digital audio radio service in the 2310-2360 MH band.............4510
  Domestic public fixed radio services.............................4538
  Equal access obligations of CMRS.................................4539
  Interconnection obligations of CMRS........................4533, 4539
  Millimeter wave technology.......................................4496
  Mobile services..................................................4532
  Narrowband (900 MHz) PCS.........................................4500
  Railroad standards and procedures................................2683
  Reallocation of 28 GHz band......................................4528
  Redesignation of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..............................4511
  Sole Means Radio Navigation System...............................2449
  Specialized Mobile Radio Systems.................................4530
  Spectrum transfer.................................................873
  Station ownership................................................4519
  Terrestrial microwave radio services.............................4534
Radioactive materials:
  See also Nuclear materials
           Radiation protection
  Electronic products..............................................1271
  Medical byproduct use......................................4764, 4772
  Radiation exposure...............................................4492
  Radon............................................................3763
  Transportation...................................................4782
  Waste disposal.............................................3499, 3500
  Waste storage..............................................4740, 4790
Radioactive waste:
  See Hazardous waste
Railroad employees:
  See also Railroad retirement
           Railroad unemployment insurance
  Alcohol/drug regulations.........................................2668
  Locomotive engineers.............................................2663
  Safety regulations.........................................2672, 2681
Railroad retirement:
  Annuity:
    Application for annuity or lump sum............................4162
    Deductions by reason of work...................................4152
    Divorced spouse computations...................................4159
    Employee computations..........................................4159
    Finality of decisions regarding...........................144, 4146
    Spouse computations............................................4159
  Annunity:
    Exemption from supplemental tax................................3127
  Availability of information to the public........................4164
  Debt collection methods..........................................4153
  Disability determination.............................4145, 4157, 4158
  Eligibility requirements.........................................4150
  Employee status..................................................4155
  Employer status..................................................4154
  Employers' reports...............................................4149
  Erroneous payments................................................145
  Information provision procedures.................................4161
  Sickness benefits eligibility..............................4160, 4163
  Trial work period, redefined.....................................4145
Railroad safety:
  Accident reporting...............................................2667
  Brakes...........................................................2678
  Bridge maintenance guidelines....................................2674
  Emergency preparedness...........................................2665
  Event recorders..................................................2687
  Fixed guideways systems..........................................2692
  Freight cars.....................................................2676
  Grade crossing and signal systems..........................2682, 2684
  Hazardous materials regulations............................2685, 2712
  High-speed corridors.............................................2677
  Hours of service recordkeeping.....................................93
  Locomotive conspicuity...........................................2671
  Locomotive crashworthiness and working conditions................2680
  Maintenance-of-way employee protection...........................2672
  Passenger equipment standards....................................2664
  Radio communications and train control...........................2683
  Regulation amendment or elimination..............................2686
  Track standards..................................................2670
  Utility employee protection......................................2681
  Whistle bans at grade crossings..................................2669
Railroad unemployment insurance:
  Employee status..................................................4155
  Employer status..................................................4154
  Employers' contributions...................................4144, 4165
  Repayment tax....................................................3084
  Representative payment...........................................4147
  Voluntary quit...................................................4156
Railroads:
  See also Railroad employees
           Railroad retirement
           Railroad safety
           Railroad unemployment insurance
  Alcohol/drug use control.........................................2668
  Assistance to States.............................................2675
  Consolidation procedures.........................................4692
  Environmental impact and related procedures................2505, 2673
  Exemption from regulation:
    Ferrous recyclables............................................4698
    Hydraulic cement transportation................................4696
    Non-ferrous recyclables........................................4695
    Paints, enamels, lacquers, shellacs, and other commodities 
        transportation.............................................4694
  Locomotive emissions.............................................3666
  Overtime liability for immigration inspections...................1988
  Rail connecting tracks...........................................4691
  Rate guidelines for small shippers...............................4688
  Rates and fares:
    Deregulation of demurrage......................................4690
    Recyclable commodities rates...................................4695
  Tank cars........................................................2724
  Tank-car tanks repair and detection of flaws.....................2740
  Transport of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.........................2732
  Waste disposal on AMTRAK.........................................2679
Range management:
  Indian rangelands................................................1774
  National Forest System lands......................................530
  Research grants...................................................296
Rates and fares:
  See Air rates and fares
      Communications common carriers
      Maritime carriers
      Motor carriers
      Natural gas
      Railroads
Real property acquisition:
  Estate tax valuation of farm property............................3124
  Farm real estate.............................................221, 313
  GSA regulation.............................................3864, 3865
  Highway construction.............................................2495
  Income tax.......................................................2938
  Individual Indians and tribes....................................1776
  National Park Service regulation.................................1747
  Relocation assistance............................................3844
Reclamation:
  See also Mines
           Surface mining
  Acreage limitation...............................................1829
  Acreage limitation administrative fees...........................1832
  Backfilling and grading..........................................1827
  Filing of plans of operations....................................1868
  Financing........................................................1868
  Income tax rules.................................................3115
  Permits..........................................................1821
  Public lands rule................................................1823
  Revegetation.....................................................1822
Record retention:
  See Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Records:
  See Archives and records
      Freedom of information
      Health records
      Privacy
      Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Recreation and recreation areas:
  See also Fishing
           Hunting
           National forests
           National parks
           Rivers
           Wilderness areas
  Access for individuals with disabilities.........................3360
  Management.................................................1848, 1849
  Rock climbing....................................................1742
Recreational fishing:
  See Fishing
Recycling:
  Ferrous recyclables..............................................4698
  Government purchase of recovered materials.................3539, 3569
  Hazardous waste.......................................107, 3548, 3566
  Non-ferrous recyclables..........................................4695
  Oil..............................................................4681
  Ozone-depleting chemicals........................................3761
  Paper......................................................3553, 4327
  Refrigerant....................................3657, 3658, 3659, 3732
  Scrap metal......................................................3432
Refugees:
  See also Aliens
  Admission procedures.............................................1956
  Family unity.....................................................1956
  Resettlement program.............................................1453
Relocation assistance:
  Government employees.................................3844, 3845, 4095
  Residential Antidisplacement and Relocation Plan.................1484
Renal diseases:
  See Kidney diseases
Rent subsidies:
  Adjustments for security and expense due to crime................1554
Repatriation:
  See Citizenship and naturalization
Reporting and recordkeeping:
  Environmental Protection Agency...................................102
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements:
  Administration for Children and Families...................1436, 1447
  Air carriers...................................2236, 2384, 2418, 2760
  Aircraft flight data recorder parameters.........................2386
  Airworthiness directives and life limited parts..................2472
  Alcohol and alcoholic beverages..................................2805
  Automative fuel economy reports..................................2581
  Bank Secrecy Act implementation..........2771, 2774, 2778, 2781, 2782
  Biologics production...............................................31
  Blood and blood products.........................................1215
  Bureau of Economic Analysis.......................................615
  Carbamates.......................................................3764
  CASB disclosure statement form...................................3992
  Chemical inventory reporting...............................3402, 3766
  Child abuse reporting............................................2052
  Coal transportation and washing allowances.......................1799
  Commodities.......................................................154
    CFTC disclosure requirements...................................4424
  Community planning and development programs......................1486
  Criminal court judges............................................3076
  Currency transactions................................2775, 2776, 2779
  Customs regulations........................................2854, 2872
  Debt discharge...................................................3094
  Defense contractors, controlled materials program.................623
  Domestic offshore carriers.......................................4616
  Drug Enforcement Administration...1918, 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 
                                                       1928, 1929, 1930
  Education Department.....................................18, 20, 1089
  Electronic mail systems..........................................3945
  Electronic products..............................................1271
  Electronic records...............................................1253
  Employee benefit plan administrators.......................2124, 2125
  Energy Department..........................................4584, 4585
  Environmental monitoring..........................................126
  Environmental pollution at Federal facilities....................3983
  Environmental Protection Agency.................105, 3510, 3611, 3782
  EPA emissions reporting requirements.............................3578
  EPA information collection rule..................................3511
  EPA regulations streamlining......................................106
  Export sales......................................................494
  FCA disclosure regulation........................................4451
  FDIC regulations.................................................4544
  Federal aircraft operations and accident investigation...........3876
  Federal Communications Commission................................4520
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.......................4575, 4581
  Federal home loan banks..........................................4613
  Federal Housing Finance Board....................................4615
  Federal Maritime Commission....................4619, 4620, 4623, 4624
  Financial institutions...........................................4645
  Firearms loss or theft.............................................97
  FIRMR provisions update..............................3849, 3852, 3853
  Fisheries....................................................687, 787
  Food Stamp Program............................409, 416, 427, 438, 439
  Gas pipelines....................................................2725
  Genetically engineered organisms..................................279
  Government contracts......................973, 1005, 1021, 3876, 4366
  Government securities brokers and dealers........................2767
  Government-owned property........................................3877
  Grantor trusts...................................................2896
  Great Lakes pilotage rates.......................................2241
  Groundfish fisheries..............................................779
  GSA building service contractors.................................3831
  Hazard abatement documentation...................................2178
  Hazardous material releases......................................3770
  Hazardous materials transportation...................2709, 2710, 2722
  Hazardous substances........................................104, 3438
  HIV programs notification provisions.............................1888
  Honoraria donated to charities...................................3971
  Human drug and licensed biological products......................1263
  Infant formula testing...........................................1214
  Interior Department........................................1587, 1588
  Internal Revenue Service.........................................2981
  Investment advisers..............................................4851
  Investment companies........4230, 4819, 4832, 4837, 4844, 4854, 4859, 
                                                             4872, 4873
  Labor Department...........................................2096, 2126
  Lease write-offs..................................................324
  Magnetic computer tape maintenance...............................3932
  Marine casualty reporting........................................2326
  Maritime operating companies.....................................2281
  Medical devices....................................................33
  Medicare program.................................................1328
  Mine operators...................................................1868
  Mortgage broker fees.............................................1500
  Motor carriers.........................................92, 2511, 2522
  Motor vehicle insurers.....................................2579, 2648
  NASA contractor cost reporting...................................3897
  NASA research grant handbook revisions...........................3911
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.........688, 711, 762
  Nuclear power plants..................................162, 4733, 4756
  Occupational injuries and illnesses................................77
  Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight...................3968
  Oil pipelines....................................................4587
  Ozone depleting substances phaseout..............................3760
  Paperwork reduction...............................................191
  Pension plans..............................72, 4131, 4132, 4137, 4143
  Personal property................................................3861
  Personnel records................................................4040
  Pesticides...........................104, 120, 3374, 3377, 3379, 3384
  Pipeline companies records program...............................4578
  Pollution prevention actions in Toxic Release Inventory..........3439
  Public utilities records program.................................4578
  Radionuclides....................................................3768
  Radon............................................................3772
  Railroad accident reporting......................................2667
  Railroad employees.................................................93
  Railroad Retirement Board............................4144, 4149, 4150
  Real estate mortgage investment conduits.........................3033
  Records examination..............................................4396
  Records, nonrecord materials, and personal papers.................141
  Rural electrification loans..................................588, 599
  Screening FIP resources..........................................3850
  Securities...........................................4812, 4821, 4886
    Abbreviated financial statements...............................4814
    Broker-dealers...........................................2764, 4888
    Executive and director compensation............................4815
    Forward-looking statements.....................................4807
    Holding period requirement.....................................4820
    Issuers of debt securities.....................................4809
    Large trader reporting system............................2762, 4891
    Legal proceedings..............................................4813
    Life insurance contracts.......................................4845
    Market and credit risk exposures...............................4896
    Mutual fund prospectuses.......................................4841
    National banks.................................................2839
    Regulation S amendments........................................4810
    Transfer agent services........................................4890
    Unregistered equity sales......................................4818
  Social Security Administration...................................4310
  Stage 2 airplanes in Hawaii......................................2453
  Sugar and crystalline fructose marketing allotment................214
  Surety companies.................................................2790
  Suspicious banking transactions............................2777, 2780
  Tobacco exports..................................................2806
  Toxic chemical test rules........................................3417
  Toxics Release Inventory reporting....................103, 3404, 3419
  Transportation Department........................................2547
  Underwater abandoned pipeline facilities.........................2701
  Uranium mill sites...............................................1152
  Vessel documentation.................................2288, 2341, 2346
  Vessel numbering system..........................................2287
  Veterans Administration......................................99, 3288
  Zero coupon bond interest........................................1384
Research:
  See also Agricultural research
           Educational research
           Human research subjects
           Medical research
  Awards to educational institutions...............................3986
  Biotechnology....................................................3430
  Department of Energy.......................................1170, 1180
  DOD contracts.........................................937, 1006, 1017
  DOD University Research Initiative Support Program................904
  Domestic and foreign fishing......................................665
  Energy technology transfer.......................................1166
  Expenditure allocation and apportionment.........................3035
  Incidental taking of marine mammals...............................820
  Marine mammals..............................................803, 1615
  Marine resources........................................747, 829, 852
  NARA registration requirement....................................3938
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration..............3896, 3911
  National Institutes of Health....................................1289
  National Undersea Research Program................................831
  NOAA Climate and Global Change Program............................830
  Procurement procedures...........................................1018
  Small business innovation research rights in data................4349
Reserve forces:
  See Armed forces reserves
Respiratory and pulmonary diseases:
  See Lung diseases
Retirement:
  See also Pensions
           Railroad retirement
           Social security
  Benefits.........................................................2788
  Government employees........4030, 4031, 4032, 4033, 4034, 4062, 4063, 
                                                 4085, 4102, 4104, 4105
  Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act.................902
Rice:
  CAB adjustments...................................................210
  Common Crop Insurance........................................368, 384
  Program implementation..................................213, 237, 241
  Technical corrections to regulations..............................256
Rights-of-way:
  See also Public lands-rights-of-way
  Acquisition of real property for.................................2495
  Regulation revision..............................................1740
Rivers:
  Colorado River water entitlements................................1830
  O'Malley River area access and use...............................1725
  Sacramento River water diversions.................................750
Roads:
  See Highways and roads
Rockets:
  See Aircraft
Rodenticides:
  See Pesticides and pests
Rotorcraft:
  See Aircraft
Royalties:
  See Copyright
      Mineral royalties
Rubber and rubber products:
  See Tires
Rural areas:
  Business and industrial loan programs....................11, 558, 563
  Business enterprise grants...................................555, 562
  Community facility loans................................315, 582, 606
  Economic development loans and grants........................323, 564
  Electric borrowers..................572, 573, 600, 603, 604, 605, 607
  Electric loans......567, 569, 571, 574, 575, 578, 580, 587, 588, 597, 
                                                          599, 601, 602
  Electrification...............................565, 568, 585, 596, 598
  Farm labor housing................................................302
  Health care services.............................................1307
  Housing for homeless and migrant farmworkers......................303
  Housing loans and grants...........................307, 308, 328, 329
  Housing loans and programs.................1, 306, 321, 325, 326, 331
  Lease write-offs..................................................324
  Loan and grant programs..................195, 226, 268, 322, 557, 589
  Loan programs................................................576, 592
  Pipeline safety standards........................................2737
  Primary care hospitals...........................................1409
  Recreation facility loans.........................................560
  Small farmer outreach training....................................196
  Technical assistance and planning grants..........................552
  Technical assistance grants and programs..........................196
  Technology development grants.....................................554
  Telephones..............................................571, 581, 584
  Television demonstration grants..............................555, 562
  Water and waste disposal loans and grants.........................304
  Water and waste disposal programs............................577, 583
Rye:
  Inspection standards..............................................395


                                   S

Safety:
  See also Aviation safety
           Consumer protection
           Fire prevention
           Hazardous substances
           Highway safety
           Marine safety
           Mine safety and health
           Motor vehicle safety
           Occupational safety and health
           Pipeline safety
           Poison prevention
           Radiation protection
           Railroad safety
  Air tour and sightseeing operations..............................2457
  Arms, ammunition, and explosives.............................913, 923
  Drugs:
    Over-the-counter.........................................1213, 1251
    Prescription...................................................1250
  Fastener quality..................................................660
  Medical devices..........................1217, 1219, 1220, 1242, 1273
  Space launch activities............................................85
Salaries:
  See Wages
Sanitation:
  See Public health
      Waste treatment and disposal
Satellites:
  See also Space transportation and exploration
  Communications:
    Digital audio radio service....................................4510
    Domestic and international services............................4508
    Earth stations...........................................4502, 4509
    MSS spectrum allocation..................................4498, 4507
    Sharing of 27.5-29.5 GHz band..................................4511
    Voice and data mobile satellite service........................4503
  Export controls...................................................633
Savings associations:
  Adjustable rate mortgage regulations.............................3203
  Community Reinvestment Act.......................................3197
  Corporate governance regulations.................................3200
  De novo applications for charter.................................3213
  Flood insurance regulation.......................................3199
  Insurance regulations............................................3202
  Lending regulations..............................................3204
  Liquidity regulation.............................................3214
  Loans in areas having special flood hazards......................3222
  Loans to one borrower............................................3215
  OTS regulations review...........................................3198
  Preemption provisions............................................3205
  Resolution Trust Corporation standards of conduct................4805
  Risk-based capital regulation....................................3208
  Risk-based capital regulations...................................3207
  Safety and soundness standards.............................2834, 3217
  Subsidiary regulations...........................................3201
  Uniform rules of practice and procedure....................3216, 3221
Savings bonds:
  See Bonds
Scholarships and fellowships:
  Bilingual Education Graduate Fellowship Program..................1069
  Foreign language and area studies programs.......................1080
  Head Start Program...............................................1435
  Indian fellowship programs.......................................1072
  J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board...................1081
  National Institutes of Health....................................1286
School breakfast and lunch programs:
  Amendments to promote Healthy Meals for Healthy Children in 
      Schools.......................................................413
  Cheese alternate products.........................................415
  Consolidation of..................................................419
  Formulated grain-fruit products...................................418
  Nutrition objectives.........................................461, 465
  Purchase of food products produced in the U.S.....................435
  Yogurt crediting..................................................420
School integration:
  See Equal educational opportunity
Schools:
  See also Colleges and universities
           Educational facilities
  Asbestos...................................................3416, 3423
  Asbestos model accreditation plan................................3445
  Improving America's Schools Act............................1059, 1065
  Indian School Equalization Program...............................1775
Science and technology:
  Accelerator controls.............................................2553
  Biological testing for pollutants................................3494
  DOD Manufacturing Science and Technology Program..................938
  DOD support of historically black colleges, universities, and 
      institutions..................................................908
  DOE grants.......................................................1153
  DOT monitoring of motor carriers...................................92
  Education..................................................1097, 1102
  Genetically engineered organisms..................................279
  Neurotoxicity risk assessment....................................3778
  NPDES innovative technology time extensions......................3495
  NSF nonprocurement debarment and suspension......................3965
  NSF standards of conduct.........................................3964
  Private sector industrial technology partnerships.................894
  Rights to inventions..............................................891
Scientific equipment:
  See also Medical devices
  Standards........................................................4490
Scientists:
  Soviet Scientists Immigration Act................................1989
Seafood:
  See also Fish
           Fisheries
  Catfish...........................................................814
  Fillet standards.............................................810, 815
  Fish products.....................................................808
  Import regulations................................................819
  Inspection....................................................34, 663
  Product standards.......................................809, 813, 814
  Shrimp............................................................809
  Standards for grades..............................................811
  Whole or dressed..................................................813
Seals:
  See Marine mammals
Seamen:
  Merchant Marine Academy appointments.............................2758
  Merchant marine documents........................................2281
  Service awards...................................................2757
Seaplanes:
  See Aircraft
Search warrants:
  Customs Service..................................................2875
Secondary education:
  See Elementary and secondary education
Securities:
  See also Bonds
           Government securities
  Annual report requirements of mutual and subsidiary service 
      companies....................................................4862
  Bank investment securities.......................................2821
  California exemption.............................................4816
  Cease and desist orders..........................................4897
  Corporate governance regulations.................................3200
  Credit...............................................4634, 4882, 4896
  Custody..........................................................4835
  Customer limit orders............................................4889
  Dealer's fees....................................................4881
  Deregistration form amendments...................................4844
  Disclosure requirements.....4807, 4810, 4811, 4813, 4814, 4815, 4818, 
             4821, 4832, 4837, 4841, 4851, 4854, 4862, 4872, 4886, 4896
  Distribution.....................................................4878
  Diversification determination....................................2914
  Employee stock option plans................................3140, 4319
  Executive and director compensation..............................4815
  Foreign....................................................4546, 4885
  Foreign issuer...................................................4823
  Haircuts on................................................4879, 4887
  Holding companies............4654, 4808, 4848, 4849, 4864, 4865, 4875
  Holding period requirements......................................4820
  Income taxation................................2931, 2958, 3028, 3146
  Insurance products...................................4845, 4846, 4847
  Integrated financial transactions................................2940
  International transactions.......................................3057
  International transactions terminology...........................4877
  Investment advisers......................4834, 4850, 4851, 4860, 4869
  Investment companies........4817, 4829, 4830, 4832, 4836, 4837, 4838, 
                               4839, 4840, 4842, 4844, 4854, 4859, 4872
  Issue and sale.............................................4809, 4874
  Large trader reporting system....................................4891
  Loss determination...............................................2942
  Market-maker trading regulation..................................4889
  Member stock transaction gains and losses..................2971, 3172
  Multijurisdictional tender offers................................4824
  Nationally recognized statistical rating organizations...........4882
  Net capital requirements.........................................4884
  Outbound transfers.........................................2917, 3018
  Prohibitions against trading.....................................4878
  Prospectus delivery........................................4825, 4853
  PUHCA exemption for transactions with foreign associates.........4863
  Quotations.......................................................4892
  Registration.........................................4816, 4822, 4845
  Registration form amendments.....................................4888
  Regulation S amendments..........................................4810
  Regulatory capital requirements..................................3220
  Reporting and recordkeeping requirements......2764, 2839, 4809, 4812, 
                                                 4818, 4819, 4820, 4890
  Research and development company investments.....................4867
  Sales loads......................................................4855
  SEC rules of practice............................................4897
  Settlement of transactions.......................................4825
  Short sales......................................................4885
  Sourcing in international short sales............................3057
  Stabilizing to facilitate offerings..............................4876
  Taxation.........................................................3117
  Transaction fees exemption.......................................4893
  Transfer agent services..........................................4890
  Transfer services................................................4649
  Transfer to foreign corporations.................................3017
  Unlisted trading privileges......................................4894
  Utilities............................................4589, 4864, 4865
  Valuation........................................................2786
  Wrap fee programs................................................4860
Security information:
  See Classified information
Security measures:
  See also Classified information
  Acquisition regulations..........................................1172
  Aviation...................................................2211, 2438
  Closure of streets to secure the White House.....................2769
  Cryptographic products export exemption..........................2204
  DOD contractors..................................................1005
  Effect of imports on national security............................630
  Nuclear power plants and reactors................................4774
  Passenger vessels and terminals..................................2272
  Private Remote Sensing Space Systems..............................775
  Terrorist activity:
    Airplanes......................................................2358
    Airports.................................................2359, 2476
Seeds:
  Common Crop Insurance...................................357, 373, 385
  Inspection and certification.................................178, 275
Segregation in education:
  See Equal educational opportunity
Seizures and forfeitures:
  Customs regulations..............................................2851
  FCC regulations..................................................4487
  Fraud cases......................................................2056
  ITC exclusion order enforcement..................................2865
Selective Service System.....................................4043, 4166
Senior citizens:
  See Aged
Serums:
  See Biologics
Sewage disposal:
  Incinerator emissions monitoring...........................3486, 3498
  Sludge use and disposal..............................3450, 3454, 3480
  Vessels....................................................3462, 3477
Sex discrimination:
  Federally assisted programs..........................1911, 3302, 3858
  NRC licensees and/or applicants..................................4786
Shipbuilding industry:
  Obligation guarantees............................................2750
  Safety and health regulations..............................2163, 2184
Shipping:
  See Air carriers
      Maritime carriers
      Motor carriers
      Railroads
Ships:
  See Vessels
Sirup:
  See Sugar
Small businesses:
  See also Minority businesses
  Administration regulations........................................146
  Agricultural enterprises.........................................4212
  Debarment and suspension.........................................4228
  Debt collection..................................................4195
  Development centers..............................................4220
  Disadvantaged business enterprise concession plan................2232
  DOD contracting.............................................911, 1009
  DOE awards.......................................................1179
  Elimination of Part 2209 of Title 48 of CFR......................4187
  Elimination of Parts 106, 109, 110, 111, 128, 129, 144 of 
      Chapter 1 of Title 13........................................4187
  Export Revolving Line of Credit program..........................4183
  FDIC regulation..................................................4568
  Flood insurance coverage.........................................4207
  Freedom of information and privacy...............................4188
  Government contracts......................957, 1019, 3908, 4200, 4346
  Government procurement....................976, 3870, 4211, 4373, 4406
  Government subcontracting..................................1175, 4370
  Grants and cooperative agreements................................4227
  Hearings and appeals.............................................4201
  Innovation research rights in data...............................4349
  Investment companies:
    Accounting and financial reporting standards.............4230, 4819
    Funding interest rates.........................................4216
    Non-leveraged licensees........................................4181
    Streamlining legislation implementation........................4198
  Loans:
    Accredited lenders program.....................................4223
    Business and disaster loans..............................4193, 4212
    Business loans......................................147, 4182, 4229
    Care and preservation of collateral............................4180
    Certified lenders program......................................4218
    Child support obligation compliance rule.......................4233
    Collection costs recovery......................................4204
    Development companies..........................................4182
    Disaster assistance............................................4225
    Documentation..................................................3209
    Microloans...............................................4184, 4232
    Risk-based capital standards...................................3207
    SBA guaranty...................................................4217
    State and local development companies........4185, 4210, 4213, 4218
    Wetland or flood plain development rule........................4219
  NASA Mentor-Protege Program......................................3916
  National forest land use..........................................526
  Nondiscrimination:
    Federally assisted programs....................................4167
    Financial assistance programs..................................4168
    Streamlining legislation implementation........................4190
  Prepayment of certain debentures.................................4209
  Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations.....................4202
  Rights to inventions..............................................891
  SBA standards of conduct...................................4176, 4199
  Size standards.............................................4171, 4222
    Adjustment and collection agencies.............................4173
    Advertising and services industries............................4205
    Computer services..............................................4221
    Conference planners............................................4186
    Development and review.........................................4178
    Equipment rental and leasing businesses........................4224
    Health care services industries................................4174
    Natural gas distribution.......................................4215
    Nonmanufacturers.........................................4206, 4211
    Ostensible subcontractor rule..................................4208
    Program simplification.........................................4226
    Small business set-asides......................................4231
    Streamlining legislation implementation........................4191
  Standards for conducting business with SBA.......................4189
  Streamlining legislation implementation........146, 4187, 4188, 4189, 
        4190, 4191, 4192, 4193, 4194, 4195, 4196, 4198, 4199, 4200, 
        4201, 4202
  Streamlining legislation implemntation............................147
  Surety bond guarantees...............................4172, 4179, 4196
  Tort claims......................................................4194
  USDA research program.............................................298
  User fees........................................................4214
  Veterans program.................................................4175
  Women-owned businesses...........................................4177
Smoking:
  Air carrier prohibition..........................................2227
  Federal buildings and facilities ban.............................3856
  Workplace air quality............................................2182
Social security:
  See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children
           Child welfare
           Medicaid
           Medicare
           Public assistance programs
           Unemployment compensation
  Account number collection and storage.............................348
  Acquisition regulations..........................................4283
  Alien applicants............................................150, 4245
  Authority citations revision.....................................4293
  Citizenship evidence.............................................4241
  Civil money penalty regulations..................................4263
  Contributions for support........................................4275
  Cycling payment of benefits.......................................149
  Debarment and suspension.........................................4290
  Disability determinations..................................4255, 4306
  Drug-free workplace requirements.................................4290
  Earnings records determinations..................................4277
  Earnings reports handling..................................4261, 4303
  Electronic benefit application...................................4296
  Employer identification number collection and storage.............348
  Evidence required to presume a person is dead....................4305
  Facility of payment provision....................................4259
  Freedom of information regulations...............................4288
  Government pension.........................................4261, 4297
  Grants administration..........................4289, 4290, 4291, 4292
  HHS regulation migration to SSA...4288, 4289, 4290, 4291, 4292, 4294, 
                                                                   4311
  Key Amendment....................................................1457
  Living in the same household rule................................4286
  Lump-sum death payment rule......................................4286
  Maximum family benefit.....................................4259, 4260
  Misuse of symbols, emblems, or names.............................4284
  Natural child inheritance rights.................................4307
  Privacy regulation...............................................4294
  Recovery of overpayments.........................................4257
  Reduction of disability benefits.................................4295
  Regulations corrections..........................................4271
  Replacing social security number cards...........................4262
  Representative payees......................................4236, 4245
  Review process...................................................4282
  Social Security Independence and Domestic Employment Reform Act
                                                                   4258
  Statement of earnings and benefit estimate.......................4253
  Student benefits.................................................4287
  Veterans' income reporting.........................................99
  Widow's benefits.................................................4266
  Windfall elimination provision...................................4261
Soil conservation:
  Conservation Reserve Program.......................215, 262, 263, 264
  Highly erodible land and wetland conservation................182, 187
Solid waste disposal:
  See Waste treatment and disposal
Sorghum:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................364
Soybeans:
  Options Pilot Program.............................................246
  Vegetable protein products........................................421
Space transportation and exploration:
  Acquisition regulations.....3899, 3900, 3905, 3906, 3915, 3918, 3919, 
                                                             3921, 3923
  Commercial launch activities.......................................85
  Contracts.......3881, 3882, 3887, 3891, 3895, 3896, 3897, 3898, 3901, 
        3903, 3904, 3907, 3908, 3909, 3912, 3917, 3922, 3924, 3926, 
        3927
  Cooperative agreements for profit-making organizations...........3913
  Cooperative agreements to State and local governments............3880
  Cross-waiver of liability........................................3890
  Drug and alcohol testing for contractor employees................3893
  Duty-free entry of space articles................................3914
  Electronic funds transfer........................................3902
  Grant regulations................................................3920
  Insurance for commercial launches................................2209
  Licenses...........................................................85
  NASA Contract Adjustment Board...................................3910
  NASA Mentor-Protege Program......................................3916
  NASA ombudsman program...........................................3879
  NASA organization and functions..................................3894
  Printing and duplicating by contractors..........................3892
  Research grant handbook....................................3886, 3911
  Tracking and data relay satellite system:
    Non-government users...........................................3883
  Use of NASA airfield facilities..................................3925
Sport fishing:
  See Fishing
Stamp taxes:
  See Excise taxes
State-Federal relations:
  See Intergovernmental relations
Statistics:
  See Economic statistics
      Health statistics
Sterilization:
  See Family planning
Stocks:
  See Securities
Stockyards:
  Care and handling of livestock....................................389
  Regulations revisions...................................388, 391, 396
Strip mining:
  See Surface mining
Student aid:
  See also Scholarships and fellowships
  Community Development Work Study Program.........................1552
  Direct Student Loan Program requirements.........................1083
  Federal Family Education Loan Program......................1084, 1090
  Financial assistance general provisions....18, 1083, 1086, 1088, 1089
  Governmentwide debarment and suspension..........................1068
  William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program............19, 1086, 1091
Students:
  Foreign medical graduates........................................4317
  Job Corps allowances and allotments..............................2115
  SSA eligibility rules............................................4287
  SSI eligibility while temporarily abroad.........................4279
  Student Right-to-Know Act..........................................20
  Student rights in research, experimental programs, and testing 
                                                                   1058
  Support services.................................................1078
Subsidies:
  See Grant programs
      Rent subsidies
Sugar:
  Import licensing programs....................................493, 496
  Market stabilization price........................................498
  Marketing allotment program.......................................214
  Marketing quotas..................................................259
Sugarbeets:
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................336
  Price support.....................................................201
Sugarcane:
  Common Crop Insurance........................................354, 377
  Price support.....................................................201
Sunflowers:
  Common Crop Insurance........................................364, 366
Superfund:
  Cost recovery regulation.........................................3796
  Radiation site cleanup...........................................3500
  Reportable quantity adjustments for carbamates...................3764
  Response Action Contractor Indemnification.......................3773
Supplemental Security Income (SSI):
  Acceptable medical sources.......................................4274
  Alien deemors....................................................4245
  Aliens.....................................................4239, 4272
  Augmented benefits...............................................4298
  Authority to impose civil money penalties........................4244
  Computation of benefits........................4238, 4267, 4269, 4276
  Disability determinations:
    Adult mental disorders.........................................4312
    Drug abuse or alcoholism.......................................4278
    Endocrine system and obesity...................................4270
    Growth impairments.............................................4306
    Testing models.................................................4302
  Exclusions from income and resources.......................4252, 4256
  Families of military personnel...................................4273
  Fees for Federal administration of State supplementary payments
                                                                   4237
  Fees for representation of claimants.............................4234
  Hurricane Andrew victims.........................................4254
  Income:
    Deeming of parental income when children are hospitalized......4280
    Exclusions from income.........................................4243
    Information available for benefits determination...............4269
  Institutionalized persons........................................4250
  Nomenclature update..............................................4300
  Nursing home reporting of SSI recipient admissions...............4310
  Plans to achieve self-support....................................4285
  Protection of filing dates.......................................4304
  Recovery of overpayments.........................................4301
  Regulations corrections..........................................4271
  Reimbursement for VR services....................................4235
  Representative payee reforms.................................148, 152
  Review process...................................................4308
  Separated couples................................................4299
  Speech and language impairments..................................4274
  Students temporarily abroad......................................4279
  Substantial Gainful Activity.....................................4249
Surety bonds:
  Automated surety interface.......................................2881
  DOD authority to issue...........................................1013
  Federal process agents of surety companies.......................2790
  Form revision.....................................................516
  Guarantees.......................................................4172
  Outer continental shelf leases...................................1796
  Security on penal bonds..........................................2783
  Small business access......................................4179, 4196
Surface mining:
  See also Mine safety and health
  Coal:
    Abandoned coal refuse sites....................................1824
    Backfilling and grading........................................1827
    Remining sites.................................................1822
    Rights.........................................................1816
    Subsidence resulting from underground mining...................1819
    Weight determination...........................................1817
  Indian lands.....................................................1820
  Permit rights....................................................1821
Surplus agricultural commodities:
  Feed grains.......................................................248
  Wheat.............................................................247
Swine:
  See Hogs
Synthetics:
  See Plastics materials and synthetics
Syrup:
  See Sugar


                                   T

Tank vessels:
  See Cargo vessels
Tariffs:
  See Customs duties and inspection
Taxes:
  See also Customs duties and inspection
           Employment taxes
           Estate taxes
           Excise taxes
           Gift taxes
           Income taxes
  Air transportation of cargo......................................3133
  Breweries........................................................2804
  Communications...................................................3130
  DOE policy on making payments in lieu of taxes...................1143
  Environmental..............................................2978, 3071
  Escrow funds.....................................................2926
  Foreign trade....................................................3030
  Nonprofit organizations:
    Political activity injunction..................................3088
  Passive activity losses and credits........................3027, 3116
  Procedure and administration:
    Accuracy-related penalty.................................3087, 3184
    John Doe summons disputes......................................2984
    Liability of third parties.....................................3191
    List of legal holidays.........................................2983
    Statement......................................................3001
    Statute of limitations.............................2984, 2985, 3191
  Seals of office..................................................3096
  Tax evasion as a debarment or suspension cause...................4351
  Treasury taxes and loans...................................2784, 2797
Teachers:
  DOD placement assistance program..................................910
Technical assistance:
  Community Development Financial Institution Fund...................96
  Environmental restoration of DOD facilities.......................897
Technical corrections to regulations................................234
Technical education:
  See Vocational education
Technology:
  See Science and technology
Telecommunications:
  See also Radio
           Satellites
           Telephone
           Television
  Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act................2053
  EPA information resources management directives..................3791
  Government contracting.....................................3833, 3854
  Government contracts.............................................1019
  Infrastructure grant program......................................872
  Spectrum transfer.................................................873
  USDA program......................................................299
Telephone:
  Billed party preference..........................................4482
  Cable television cross-ownership...........................4471, 4474
  Caller ID standards..............................................4477
  Dial Equipment Minutes Weighting Program.........................4483
  Expanded interconnection with local company facilities...........4475
  Fiber optic splices..........................................594, 595
  Materials and equipment...........................................579
  MTA and WATS market structure....................................4476
  N11 codes and other abbreviated dialing arrangements.............4481
  Portability of telephone numbers.................................4484
  Price caps for LECs..............................................4485
  REA Material, equipment, and construction standards...............593
  Rural.............................................................584
  Rural Telephone Bank.........................................570, 581
  Telemarketing rule...............................................4686
  Universal Service Fund...........................................4483
Television:
  See also Cable television
  Advanced systems.................................................4513
  Advertising......................................................4518
  Advertising practices............................................4521
  Children's programming...........................................4517
  Commercial practices of television networks and affiliates.......4518
  Digital audio broadcasting.......................................4489
  Filing of network affiliation contracts..........................4520
  Station ownership................................................4519
Textiles:
  Customs regulations............................2847, 2864, 2866, 2874
  Fiberglass curtains..............................................4677
  Labeling.............................................4662, 4664, 4673
  Tablecloths and related products.................................4678
  Wool products....................................................4662
Timber:
  See Forests and forest products
Tires:
  Non-pneumatic spare tires........................................2572
  Quality grading standards..................................2599, 2660
  Retreads.........................................................2628
Tobacco:
  Burley.......................................................174, 203
  Common Crop Insurance...................................217, 332, 374
  Exports.....................................................506, 2806
  Flue-cured........................................................204
  Inspection and grading............................................175
  Marketing assessments.............................................219
  Marketing quotas..........202, 203, 204, 232, 249, 250, 251, 252, 270
  Nested tobacco....................................................184
  Price support............................202, 203, 204, 249, 250, 251
  Sale and distribution to children and adolescents..................29
  Smokeless..........................................................29
  Smokeless tobacco health warnings................................4672
  State laws on tobacco purchase by minors...........................26
  Veterans claims based on use.....................................3244
  Warehouse regulations.............................................218
Tomatoes:
  Common Crop Insurance........................................337, 338
Tort claims:
  See Claims
Tourist trade:
  See Travel
Toxic substances:
  See Hazardous substances
      Poison prevention
Toxins:
  See Biologics
Trade adjustment assistance:
  TAA program amendments...........................................2110
  Workers transitional adjustment assistance.......................2111
Trade agreements:
  Aleutian Trade Act...............................................2304
  Endangered species...................................1594, 1614, 1624
  Market development................................................504
  North American Free Trade Agreement......956, 1010, 2111, 2195, 2854, 
                                           2861, 2866, 2888, 2890, 4352
  Textile trade agreements.........................................2847
  Trade Agreements Act.........................................956, 963
  U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement.................................4377
Trade practices:
  Alcohol and alcoholic beverages..................................2817
  Credit practices rule............................................4684
  Franchising and business opportunity ventures....................4669
Trade unions:
  See Labor unions
Trademarks:
  Fees.........................................................878, 889
  Filing and processing requirements................................875
  Housekeeping changes..............................................882
  Parallel imports and other trademarked goods.....................2846
  PTO mailing procedures.......................................874, 888
  PTO practitioner disciplinary proceedings.........................879
  PTO rule simplification and elimination...........................876
Training programs:
  See Manpower training programs
Transportation:
  See also Air transportation
           Bridges
           Common carriers
           Freight
           Highways and roads
           Intermodal transportation
           Mass transportation
           Noise control
           Pipelines
           Railroads
           Space transportation and exploration
           Vessels
  Air pollution control conformity......................115, 3742, 3753
  Air pollution control implementation.............................3700
  Buy America regulations..........................................2688
  Construction project funding.....................................2695
  Customs regulations..............................................2855
  Disadvantaged business enterprise program........................2231
  DOT acquisition regulations......................................2246
  DOT grants administration..................................2214, 2261
  DOT Privacy Act exemptions.......................................2260
  DOT rulemaking procedure.........................................2213
  DOT testing of transportation personnel..........................2263
  Drug testing of transportation personnel......2242, 2253, 2258, 2696, 
                                                                   2728
  Elderly and disabled.............................................2690
  Environmental review.............................................2689
  FTA management and monitoring systems............................2693
  Head Start participants..........................................1441
  ICC electronic filing regulations................................4699
  Individuals with disabilities............2234, 2238, 2256, 2690, 3359
  Interstate natural gas companies.................................4584
  Minerals industry transportation and processing allowances......1798, 
                                                                   1813
  Ocean.............................................................502
  OST electronic filing regulations................................2245
  Streamlining legislation implementation..........................2244
  Temporary matching fund waiver...................................2694
  Training service contracts.......................................2217
  Wildlife.........................................................1639
Travel:
  See also Passports and visas
           Travel and transportation expenses
  Advertised airline tour prices...................................2250
  Air tour and sightseeing operations........................2457, 2489
Travel and transportation expenses:
  Government employees.........3139, 3842, 3843, 3844, 3845, 3846, 4325
  Non-government employees.......................1180, 1189, 4321, 4367
  Receipt threshold................................................2911
  Reimbursements to INS............................................2042
Treaties:
  See also Trade agreements
  Chemical Weapons Convention.......................................624
  Exclusion or expulsion of foreign nationals......................1991
  Hazardous waste disposal regulations.............................3555
  International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.......2310
  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty..................................635
  Patent Cooperation Treaty.........................................887
  Water pollution control regulations..............................2340
Triticale:
  Inspection standards..............................................395
Trucks:
  See Motor carriers
      Motor vehicles
Trusts and trustees:
  Chapter 13 standing trustees.....................................2049
  Compensation and reimbursement of expenses.......................2058
  Income taxation......................................3090, 3150, 3176
  QDOT security requirements.......................................3065
  Qualifications for bankruptcy trustees...........................2057
  Taxation.............................................2896, 3099, 3136
  Unit investment trusts...........................................4831
Truth in lending:
  Mortgage transaction requirements................................4659
Tuberculosis:
  Correctional management....................................1316, 1889
  Occupational exposure..............................................80
  Respiratory protective devices...................................1208
Tung nuts:
  See Oilseeds
Turpentine:
  See Forests and forest products


                                   U

Underground mining:
  See also Mine safety and health
  Subsidence resulting from........................................1819
Unemployment:
  See Community development
      Manpower training programs
      Unemployment compensation
Unemployment compensation:
  See also Railroad unemployment insurance
  Disaster unemployment assistance.................................2106
  Performance system...............................................2108
  Revenue Quality Control Program..................................2116
Unions:
  See Labor unions
United States investments abroad:
  Benchmark survey..................................................615
  Foreign utilities..........................................4848, 4849
Universities:
  See Colleges and universities
Upward Bound Program:
  See Education of disadvantaged
Uranium:
  Mill sites.................................................1152, 4760
Urban renewals:
  Homesteading program.............................................1530
Utilities:
  See also Electric utilities
           Natural gas
           Water supply
  Alaskan transportation and utility systems.......................1873
  Environmental protection..........................................314
  Exemption for certain acquisitions.........................4848, 4865
  Exemption for subsidiary companies.........................4849, 4864
  FERC recovery of stranded costs..................................4580
  FHWA reimbursement for utility relocations.......................2543
  Filing of responses to FERC Form No. 580 interrogatories.........4581
  Filing requirements for FERC Form No. 6..........................4587
  Government contracting.....................................3833, 3854
  Purchases from and sales to......................................4589
  Rate filings.....................................................4589
  Real-time information networks...................................4586
  Records program..................................................4578
  Securities.......................................................4589
  Transmission access..............................................4573
  Unnecessary filing requirements, elimination.....................4579


                                   V

Vaccines:
  See Biologics
Vegetables:
  See also specific vegetables
  Common Crop Insurance.............................................355
  Import restrictions...............................................272
  Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act coverage..................170
  Vegetable protein products........................................421
Venereal diseases:
  Correctional management..........................................1889
  HIV programs notification provisions.............................1888
Vessels:
  See also Cargo vessels
           Fishing vessels
           Marine safety
           Maritime carriers
           Navigation (water)
           Passenger vessels
  Anchorage area regulations.......................................2313
  Certificates of origin...........................................2278
  Classification society rules.....................................2309
  Clean Vessel Act.................................................1596
  Coast Guard escort requirements..................................2279
  Customs entry and permit regulation..............................2862
  Customs entry regulation.........................................2878
  Discharge-removal equipment......................................2315
  Documentation of...........................................2341, 2346
  DOD reflagging or repair work....................................1008
  Emissions standards..............................................3708
  Energy management regulations....................................1159
  Financial reporting requirements.................................4616
  Fire protection..................................................2327
  Glacier Bay management plan......................................1757
  Government contracting...........................................2084
  Hudson River prohibitions........................................3477
  Marine engineering regulations...................................2329
  New York Vessel Traffic Service..................................2301
  Offshore supply..................................................2290
  Overtime liability for immigration inspections...................1988
  Panama Canal:
    Dangerous cargo................................................4112
  Pilots, licensing................................................2330
  Radar-observer endorsements......................................2306
  Rebuild determinations...........................................2305
  Recreational boater safety.......................................2280
  Recreational vessel fees.........................................2311
  Regatta and parade permits.......................................2269
  Regattas and marine parades................................2270, 2321
  Safety/security zone regulations.................................2312
  Sewage discharge.................................................3462
  Surface coating operations.......................................3693
  Traffic services regulations.....................................2350
  User fees........................................................2276
  Vessel identification system...............................2278, 2296
Veterans:
  Abandoned claims.................................................3245
  Acquisitions by the VA.............3246, 3279, 3280, 3281, 3282, 3283
  Adult day health care program....................................3225
  Alcohol abuse........................................3225, 3304, 3313
  Appeals regulations................3299, 3300, 3301, 3342, 3343, 3346
  Beneficiaries' income and assets.................................3310
  Benefits payable to spouse of incompetent veteran..........3308, 3309
  Benefits reductions and discontinuances..........................3331
  Board of Contract Appeals regulations......................3344, 3345
  Burial benefits................................3284, 3285, 3286, 3308
  Child care centers...............................................3303
  Claims based on exposure to ionizing radiation.............3324, 3326
  Claims based on tobacco use......................................3244
  Claims based without VA examinations.............................3268
  Community residential care program...............................3225
  Competency determinations........................................3263
  Confidentiality of medical records...............................3248
  Contractor and subcontractor obligations.........................2079
  Debt-reduction through work-study services.......................3231
  Denial of claims.................................................3265
  Disability rating:
    Cardiovascular system............................................98
    Chronic fatigue syndrome.......................................3321
    Dental disabilities............................................3240
    Digestive system...............................................3230
    Disability due to hospitalization, treatment, examination, or 
        vocational rehabilitation..................................3267
    Disability or death due to hospitalization or examination......3319
    Endocrine system...............................................3251
    Eye, ear, and other sense organs.........................3242, 3257
    Fibromyalgia...................................................3262
    Gynecological system...........................................3311
    Hemic and lymphatic system.....................................3312
    Individual unemployability.....................................3236
    Mental disorders...............................................3228
    Muscular system................................................3253
    Neurological conditions and convulsive disorders...............3229
    Orthopedic system..............................................3227
    Respiratory system.............................................3254
    Skin conditions................................................3256
    Systemic conditions......................................3240, 3255
    Total disability.........................................3259, 3328
  Documentation requirements.......................................3320
  Drug abuse...........................................3225, 3304, 3313
  Duty period......................................................3277
  Education:
    Active duty..................................3235, 3239, 3327, 3333
    Course approval requirements.......................3238, 3266, 3335
    Dependents assistance and benefits.............................3260
    Educational Assistance Test Program............................3323
    Flight training....................................3238, 3266, 3335
    Job training programs..........................................3261
    Matriculation time limits......................................3329
    Montgomery G.I. Bill......3235, 3239, 3252, 3260, 3278, 3296, 3314, 
                               3316, 3318, 3327, 3330, 3333, 3335, 3336
    Payment suspension and discontinuation.........................3232
    Post-Vietnam era...................................3233, 3276, 3296
    Regulations revision...........................................3275
    Reservists....3234, 3249, 3252, 3258, 3274, 3314, 3316, 3322, 3327, 
                                                 3330, 3333, 3335, 3336
  Eligibility reporting requirements...........................99, 3277
  Emergency medical care...........................................1389
  Employment and training.....................................984, 3288
  Erroneous payment regulation.....................................3348
  Evidence requirements..........................3241, 3243, 3320, 3342
  Examination requirements...................................3268, 3339
  FECA benefits....................................................3334
  Fiduciaries for beneficiaries........................3306, 3307, 3310
  Homelessness grants and programs.................................3305
  Incompetency determinations......................................3263
  Informed consent for patient care................................3226
  Insurance..........................1050, 3269, 3270, 3272, 3273, 3340
  Interest rate determinations.....................................3349
  Legal custodians.................................................3308
  Loan guaranty:
    Acceptance of partial payments.................................3294
    Automatic authority program....................................3237
    Conveyance of property to the VA...............................3293
    Electronic payment of funding fee..............................3298
    Emergency repairs..............................................3279
    Flood insurance................................................3297
    Home loans.....................................................3315
    Property improvements definition...............................3295
  Medical benefits for dependents and survivors....................3290
  Medical opinions rules...........................................3247
  Missing children mail program....................................3347
  National Service Life Insurance..................................3332
  Naturalization of natives of the Philippines.....................2045
  Outpatient medical services......................................3291
  Payment reductions and discontinuances...........................3334
  Personal funds and effects, disposition of.......................3224
  Physicians' statements...........................................3339
  Radiation exposure...................................3324, 3325, 3326
  Recruitment advertising..........................................3287
  Rehabilitation programs..........................................3259
  Reinstatement of benefits based on terminated marital 
      relationships................................................3341
  Research-related injuries........................................3292
  Retired reservist group life insurance...........................3340
  Revision of Regional Office decisions............................3317
  SBA programs.....................................................4175
  Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief..............................3271
  Special allowance payable under Public Law 97-377................3338
  State homes......................................................3223
  Subpoena authority delegation....................................3289
  Unclaimed property, disposition of...............................3224
  Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act implementation................3337
  Vocational rehabilitation program..........................3267, 3279
Viruses:
  See Biologics
Visas:
  See Passports and visas
Vocational education:
  See also Manpower training programs
  National discretionary program...................................1102
  Navigation.......................................................2292
  State programs...................................................1102
Vocational rehabilitation:
  Indians..........................................................1099
  Projects and industry............................................1095
  Regulation elimination.............................................21
  State programs.......................................1093, 1094, 1098
  Veterans...................................................3261, 3267
Volunteers:
  CNCS grants and cooperative agreeements..........................3365
  DOL regulation...................................................2084
  National Service Trust...........................................3363
  Peace Corps....................................4116, 4120, 4121, 4122
  Prison inmate community service projects.........................1881
  Solicitation and acceptance of donated property and services.....3366
Voting rights:
  Minority language guidelines.....................................1917
  Procedural changes for Section 5.................................1916
  Voter registration...............................................1443


                                   W

Wages:
  See also Employee benefit plans
           Minimum wages
  Bonuses for government employees.................................4095
  Cost-of-living allowances................4024, 4025, 4026, 4096, 4097
  Domestic services................................................2090
  Electronic funds transfers.......................................2788
  Employee compensation costs......................................4364
  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act amendments..................2084
  Federal construction contracts.....................................69
  Federal service contracts........................................2080
  Garnishment orders.........................................4085, 4111
  Longshore and harbor workers.....................................2098
  Overtime.........................................67, 2094, 2096, 3915
  Pay and leave administration......4012, 4013, 4023, 4053, 4056, 4086, 
                                                                   4092
  Remedial measures for unfair labor practices.....................4731
  Salary offset programs......................................463, 1092
  Seasonal industry provisions.....................................2094
  Separate maintenance allowances..................................4027
  Severance pay..............................................4021, 4057
  Training wages...................................................2094
  Wage area redefinition......4015, 4016, 4017, 4018, 4019, 4052, 4054, 
                                                       4087, 4088, 4093
  Wage schedule changes for New York...............................4090
  Wage schedule changes for printing positions...............4020, 4094
  Wage survey responsibility.....................4014, 4037, 4089, 4091
Warehouses:
  Auction tobacco warehouses........................................218
  Customs regulation...............................................2872
  Customs regulations..............................................2894
Waste treatment and disposal:
  See also Hazardous waste
           Recycling
           Sewage disposal
  Disposal facilities:
    Residual radioactivity after cleanup...........................3500
  Effluent guidelines........................................3460, 3484
  Effluent limitation guidelines...................................3472
  Financial test criteria....................................3552, 3562
  Fossil fuel combustion wastes....................................3560
  Land disposal:
    Financial responsibility.......................................3545
    Groundwater monitoring.........................................3541
    Liquids in landfills...........................................3565
    Restrictions...................................124, 125, 3540, 3557
  Liability for clean-up...........................................3789
  Medical waste incinerators.......................................3747
  Metal machinery and equipment wastewater..........................123
  Mineral processing wastes.........................................124
  Municipal waste combustors........................................129
  Nuclear waste disposal...............................3501, 4765, 4773
  Ocean dumping..............................................3467, 3468
  Passenger vehicle waste discharge................................2679
  Permit applications..................................3463, 3464, 3549
  Permit regulations streamlining..................................3457
  Radioactive waste....................................3499, 3604, 4785
  Recoverable metals criteria......................................3487
  Rural loans and grants............................................304
  Rural programs...............................................577, 583
  Secondary treatment requirements.................................3475
  Sewer grouting...................................................3433
  Shore Protection Act.............................................3479
  Solid waste disposal:
    Facility criteria..............................................3546
    Grant programs..................................................590
    Landfills and incinerators...............................3484, 3726
    MACT for facilities............................................3694
    Municipal landfills......................................3537, 3685
    National forests................................................514
    Physical/chemical evaluation methods...........................3544
    Technical standards for corrective action.......................101
  State programs...................................................3538
  Toxicity characteristic metals....................................124
  Underground storage tanks:
    Financial responsibility.......................................3570
    Toxicity characteristic rule...................................3559
  Vessels transporting waste.......................................2314
  Waste from DOE operations........................................1158
  Wood preserving wastes............................................124
Water carriers:
  See Maritime carriers
Water pollution control:
  See also Oil pollution
           Waste treatment and disposal
  Biological test methods....................................3453, 3494
  Clean Vessel Act.................................................1596
  Clean Water Act........100, 3453, 3461, 3466, 3475, 3476, 3478, 3487, 
                                           3488, 3489, 3490, 3494, 3495
  Cyanide criteria.................................................3489
  Effluent guidelines:
    Industrial wastewater.....................................123, 3482
    Landfills and incinerators.....................................3484
    Leather tanning and finishing..................................3452
    Metal products and machinery...................................3485
    Ore mining.....................................................3460
    Pesticides.....................................................3474
    Pharmaceuticals................................................3470
    Pulp, paper and paperboard................................116, 3481
    Regulations reformatting.......................................3491
    Transportation equipment cleaning..............................3483
  Information collection for disinfection byproducts...............3511
  Marine pollution:
    Discharge-removal equipment carriage and inspection............2315
    Financial responsibility of vessels............................2297
    MARPOL implementation..........................................2340
    Ocean dumping............................................3467, 3468
    Oil and gas facility effluents.................................3471
    Oil or hazardous substances.......16, 2298, 2299, 2317, 2319, 2323, 
                                                                   2333
    Secondary treatment requirements...............................3475
    Tank monitoring devices........................................2271
    Tank vessels.................................................87, 88
  Nationwide permit program........................................1027
  NPDES innovative technology time extensions......................3495
  NPDES permits..............................................3458, 3469
  Oil and grease test procedures...................................3461
  Permit applications..............................................3464
  Permit regulations streamlining.......................105, 3456, 3457
  Permit violations................................................1030
  Pretreatment regulations.........................................3492
  Publicly owned treatment works pretreatment program..............3459
  Radionuclides....................................................3512
  Recoverable metals criteria......................................3487
  Sewage sludge incinerator emissions..............................3486
  Sludge management programs.......................................3529
  Sludge use and disposal....................................3450, 3480
  Stormwater runoff....................................3465, 3493, 3497
  Test procedures for the analysis of pollutants...................3476
  Total maximum daily loads.........................................100
  Trace metals criteria............................................3488
  Waste disposal permit applications...............................3463
  Water and waste disposal programs............................577, 583
  Water Quality Incentives Project..................................206
  Water quality standards..........15, 100, 106, 3448, 3451, 3490, 3496
Water resources:
  See also Water supply
  Colorado River Basin.............................................1830
  Federal buildings................................................1124
  Use of Reclamation project water.................................1833
Water supply:
  See also Irrigation
  Bottled water....................................................1244
  Carcinogen risk assessment.......................................3776
  Central Valley Project of California.............................1831
  Drinking water:
    Aldicarb and atrazine..........................................3517
    Analyzing regulated drinking water contaminants................3509
    Arsenic........................................................3514
    Contaminant levels.............................................3507
    Contaminants.......................................3502, 3512, 3515
    Copper.........................................................3505
    Disinfectants..................................................3513
    Drinking Water Priority List...................................3518
    Injection wells....................................3510, 3519, 3522
    Intake zones.............................................3462, 3477
    Lead...........................................................3505
    Monitoring requirements........................................3520
    Primacy withdrawal regulation..................................3521
    Regulations reformatting..................................106, 3506
    Sulfate........................................................3516
  Ecological risk assessment.......................................3777
  Groundwater monitoring.....................................3537, 3568
  Groundwater protection...............................3372, 3382, 3386
  Reproductive toxicity risk assessment............................3788
  Utilities.........................................................314
  Water Quality Incentives Project..................................206
Water transportation:
  See Harbors
      Marine safety
      Maritime carriers
      Navigation (water)
      Vessels
      Waterways
Waterfowl:
  See Wildlife
Waterfront facilities:
  See Harbors
Waterways:
  See also Bridges
           Harbors
           Rivers
  PCC employee regulations.........................................4057
  PCC health, sanitation, and communicable disease surveillance 
                                                                   4115
  PCC radio communications guidelines..............................4114
Weapons:
  See Arms and munitions
Weather:
  National Weather Service modernization............................777
  Wind Profiler Radar Systems......................................4494
Weights and measures:
  See Measurement standards
Welfare programs:
  See Public assistance programs
Wetlands:
  See Coastal zone
      Flood plains
Whales:
  See Marine mammals
Wheat:
  CAB adjustments...................................................210
  End-use certificates..............................................181
  Farmer-Owned Reserve Program......................................247
  Options Pilot Program.............................................246
  Pilot Voluntary Production Limitation Program.....................239
  Price support.....................................................233
  Program implementation.......................................213, 237
  Technical corrections to regulations.........................234, 256
Whistleblowing:
  Contractor employees.............................................4389
  Nuclear whistleblower protection.................................2091
Wilderness areas:
  Rock climbing fixed anchors.......................................521
Wildlife:
  See also Marine mammals
           Wildlife refuges
  Aviation bird encounter regulations........................2389, 2466
  Bird diseases.....................................................280
  Captive bred.........................................1613, 1629, 1719
  Eagles...............................................1621, 1702, 1724
  Endangered and threatened......805, 826, 863, 1603, 1604, 1612, 1613, 
        1625, 1626, 1630, 1634, 1672, 1686, 1687, 1688, 1696, 1698, 
        1699, 1700, 1711, 1716, 1718, 1724, 1732
  FWS regional office addresses....................................1735
  Health certification for translocation/release of animals........1722
  Importation and exportation........288, 1598, 1600, 1606, 1618, 1667, 
                                                       1693, 1727, 1728
  Management and protection................1691, 1692, 1694, 1695, 1697
  Marine sanctuary program......770, 771, 828, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 
                                                               869, 870
  Migratory birds:
    Bismuth-tin shot use...........................................1736
    Harvest Information Program changes............................1734
    Hunting and permits............................................1597
    Hunting regulations revisions..................................1685
    Hunting seasons and limits.....................................1729
    Incidental take provisions.....................................1648
    List revision............................................1620, 1734
  Permit procedures................................................1661
  Subsistence management regulations...............................1731
  Transport regulations............................................1639
  Wild Bird Conservation Act.......................................1727
Wildlife refuges:
  Alaska.....................................................1605, 1623
  Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, NC.....................1721
  Cape May National Wildlife Refuge, NJ............................1733
  Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge, OK...........................1602
  Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge, NH...........................1609
  Hunting and fishing..........1602, 1608, 1609, 1673, 1703, 1730, 1733
  Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, AK..............................1725
  Ohio River National Wildlife Refuge, WV..........................1608
  Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, OH..............................1703
  Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, NC.......................1721
  Public entry and use.......................................1605, 1835
  Rights-of-way management.........................................1654
  Rocky Mountains refuges..........................................1711
  State exchange...................................................1856
  Visitor services.................................................1623
Wine:
  Exports..........................................................2799
  Labeling.............................................2801, 2802, 2812
  Labeling and advertising...................................2809, 2810
  Registration requirements for producers..........................2805
  Treating material and processes..................................2811
  Viticultural areas...............................................2807
Women:
  See also Minority businesses
           Sex discrimination
  Conferring citizenship to foreign-born children..................1968
  In vitro fertilization...........................................1288
  Nutrition education participant contacts..........................401
  Supplemental food program...............................400, 405, 448
  Violence Against Women Act.......................................2063
  Women-owned businesses:
    Government subcontracting......................................4370
    Hearing and appeal procedures..................................4177
Wood:
  See Forests and forest products
Wool and mohair:
  Program amendments................................................255
  Program implementation............................................243
Workers' compensation:
  Coal miners........................................................70
  Reduction of SS benefits and.....................................4295


                                   Y

Youth:
  See also Infants and children
  AmeriCorps participants..........................................3363
  National Minimum Drinking Age Act................................2580
  Public housing sports program....................................1572
  Sale and distribution of tobacco products..........................29
  Substance abuse block grants.......................................2.