[Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions]
[Introduction to the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations]
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Part II



Regulatory Information Service Center



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Introduction to the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 
Deregulatory Actions


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REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE CENTER



Introduction to the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 
Deregulatory Actions



AGENCY: Regulatory Information Service Center.

ACTION: Introduction to the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 
Deregulatory Actions.

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SUMMARY: The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires that agencies publish 
semiannual regulatory agendas describing regulatory actions they are 
developing (5 U.S.C. 602). Executive Order 12866 ``Regulatory Planning 
and Review'' (58 FR 51735; October 4, 1993) and Office of Management 
and Budget memoranda implementing section 4 of that Order establish 
minimum standards for agencies' agendas, including specific types of 
information for each entry. In addition, the Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1988 require the development and 
semiannual publication of a report on procurement regulations (41 
U.S.C. 421(g)).

    The Unified Agenda helps agencies fulfill all of these 
requirements. All Federal regulatory agencies have chosen to publish 
their regulatory agendas as part of this publication.

    Section 4 of Executive Order 12866 also directs that, as part of 
their submissions to the October edition of the Unified Agenda, 
agencies prepare a regulatory plan of the most important significant 
regulatory actions that the agency reasonably expects to issue in 
proposed or final form during the upcoming fiscal year. The agency 
plans appear only as part of the October publication. They are not 
included in the April publication.

    The following separate parts in this issue of the Federal Register 
are the agency agendas, which together comprise the April 1997 edition 
of the semiannual Unified Agenda. We welcome your comments on this 
joint publication and your suggestions for improving future ones.

ADDRESSES: Regulatory Information Service Center (MI), General Services 
Administration, 18th and F Streets NW., Suite 3033, Washington, DC 
20405.



Electronic Availability

    The full text of this and the three previous editions of the 
Unified Agenda can be searched on the World Wide Web at:

http://reginfo.gov/ua

You may also search the Unified Agenda on the Government Printing 
Office's GPO Access, which is accessible through:

http://www.access.gpo.gov

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about specific 
regulatory actions, please refer to the Agency Contact listed for each 
entry.

    To provide comment on or to obtain further information about this 
publication, contact: Mark G. Schoenberg, Executive Director, 
Regulatory Information Service Center (MI), General Services 
Administration, 18th and F Streets NW., Suite 3033, Washington, DC 
20405, (202) 482-7350. You may also send comments to us by e-mail at:

[email protected]



SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                            TABLE OF CONTENTS                           
                                                                        
                                                                   Page 
                                                                        
                                                                        
                   Introduction to the Unified Agenda                   
                                                                        
About the Unified Agenda........................................   21406
How to Use the Unified Agenda...................................   21407
  Unified Agenda Data Elements..................................   21408
Data Limitations................................................   21409
List of Abbreviations...........................................   21409
Information About Additional Copies.............................   21410
                                                                        
                             AGENCY AGENDAS                             
                                                                        
                           Cabinet Departments                          
                                                                        
Department of Agriculture.......................................   21412
Department of Commerce..........................................   21520
Department of Defense...........................................   21588
Department of Education.........................................   21624
Department of Energy............................................   21638
Department of Health and Human Services.........................   21662
Department of Housing and Urban Development.....................   21760
Department of the Interior......................................   21790
Department of Justice...........................................   21876
Department of Labor.............................................   21934
Department of State.............................................   21982
Department of Transportation....................................   21990
Department of the Treasury......................................   22162
Department of Veterans Affairs..................................   22256
                                                                        
                        Other Executive Agencies                        
                                                                        
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.......................   22282
Agency for International Development............................   22284
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board......   22288
Commission on Civil Rights......................................   22292
Corporation for National and Community Service..................   22294
Environmental Protection Agency.................................   22296
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.........................   22426
Federal Emergency Management Agency.............................   22430
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service......................   22436
General Services Administration.................................   22438
National Aeronautics and Space Administration...................   22456
National Archives and Records Administration....................   22464
National Foundation on the Arts and                                     
    the Humanities                                                      
  Institute of Museum and Library Services......................   22470
  National Endowment for the Arts...............................   22472
  National Endowment for the Humanities.........................   22474
National Science Foundation.....................................   22478
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight..................   22482
Office of Government Ethics.....................................   22486
Office of Management and Budget.................................   22494
Office of Personnel Management..................................   22500
Panama Canal Commission.........................................   22522
Peace Corps.....................................................   22526
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation............................   22530
Railroad Retirement Board.......................................   22536
Selective Service System........................................   22544
Small Business Administration...................................   22546
Social Security Administration..................................   22554
United States Information Agency................................   22578
                                                                        
                             Joint Authority                            
                                                                        
Department of Defense/General Services Administration/National          
 Aeronautics and Space Administration (Federal Acquisition              
 Regulation)....................................................   22582
                                                                        
                     Independent Regulatory Agencies                    
                                                                        
Commodity Futures Trading Commission............................   22600
Consumer Product Safety Commission..............................   22606
Farm Credit Administration......................................   22614
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation........................   22622
Federal Communications Commission...............................   22626
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...........................   22648
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission............................   22658
Federal Housing Finance Board...................................   22662
Federal Maritime Commission.....................................   22668
Federal Reserve System..........................................   22674
Federal Trade Commission........................................   22692
National Credit Union Administration............................   22704
National Indian Gaming Commission...............................   22710
National Labor Relations Board..................................   22716
Nuclear Regulatory Commission...................................   22720
Securities and Exchange Commission..............................   22738
Surface Transportation Board....................................   22766
                                                                        
                    INDEXES TO UNIFIED AGENDA ENTRIES                   
                                                                        
Small Entities Index............................................   22773
Government Levels Index.........................................   22787
Subject Index...................................................   22811
                                                                        




INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIFIED AGENDA OF FEDERAL REGULATORY AND 
DEREGULATORY ACTIONS



About the Unified Agenda

    The Regulatory Information Service Center (the Center) compiles the 
Unified

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Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions for the Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB). The Center provides information about Federal regulatory 
activity to the President and his Executive Office, the Congress, 
agency managers, and the public.

    The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is responsible for 
overseeing the Federal Government's regulatory, paperwork, and 
information resource management activities, including implementation of 
E.O. 12866.

    The Unified Agenda, which has been published twice each year since 
1983, provides uniform reporting of data on regulatory activities under 
development throughout the Federal Government. This edition of the 
Unified Agenda includes 60 regulatory agendas from the Federal 
departments, agencies, and commissions that publish agendas. Agencies 
of the United States Congress are not included. Some agencies that have 
published regulatory agendas in the past have nothing to report for 
this edition.

    Except for completed actions, the regulatory activities included 
are, in general, those that will have a regulatory action within the 
next 12 months. In addition, agencies may include a Long-Term Actions 
section describing activities that will have a regulatory action within 
a longer timeframe. Some of the entries in this section may contain 
abbreviated information. The agendas do not include regulations that 
were excluded under E.O. 12866, such as those concerning military or 
foreign affairs functions or regulations related to agency 
organization, management, or personnel matters.

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires that agencies publish 
regulatory agendas identifying those rules that may have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities (5 U.S.C. 
602). Agencies meet that requirement by including the information in 
their submissions for this publication. Agencies may also indicate 
those regulations that they are reviewing as part of their periodic 
review of existing rules under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 
610).

    Executive Order 12875 entitled ``Enhancing the Intergovernmental 
Partnership'' (October 26, 1993; 58 FR 58093) directs agencies to 
reduce the imposition of unfunded mandates upon State, local, and 
tribal governments. The Order directs agencies that are proposing to 
impose nonstatutory unfunded mandates to consult with affected 
governmental officials and document their concerns, report those 
concerns to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and 
explain the agency's position supporting the continuing need to issue 
the regulation in light of those concerns. As part of this effort, 
agencies include in their submissions for this publication information 
on whether their regulatory actions may have an effect on the various 
levels of government.

    In addition, title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
(P.L. 104-4) requires agencies to prepare written assessments of the 
costs and benefits of significant regulatory actions ``that may result 
in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal governments, in the 
aggregrate, or by the private sector, of $100,000,000 or more...in any 
1 year....'' The requirement does not apply to independent regulatory 
agencies, nor does it apply to certain subject areas excluded by 
section 4 of the Act. This edition of the Unified Agenda contains a 
data element that allows agencies to identify those regulatory actions 
they believe are subject to title II of the Act.

    The Unified Agenda also helps fulfill the statutory requirement 
that the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) publish a 
Procurement Regulatory Activity Report as required by the Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1988 (41 U.S.C. 421(g)). 
In their submissions for this publication, agencies indicate which 
regulatory actions are procurement-related, as well as whether or not 
there is a statutory requirement or a paperwork burden associated with 
the procurement-related actions. Information that agencies publish in 
the Unified Agenda is used by OFPP to produce its report.

    Public Law 104-121 established a procedure for congressional review 
of rules (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), which defers, unless exempted, the 
effective date of a ``major'' rule for at least 60 days from the 
publication of the final rule in the Federal Register. The Act 
specifies that a rule is ``major'' if it has resulted or is likely to 
result in an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or 
meets other criteria specified in that Act. If the issuing agency 
believes that a rule may be major, it indicates that fact under the 
``Priority'' heading of the entry. The Act provides that the 
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs will 
make the final determination as to whether a rule is major.

    The Unified Agenda is produced through a computer system designed 
and maintained by the Center with the advice and assistance of the 
Government Printing Office. The system was designed to save agencies 
time and money by automating the preparation and printing of their 
materials in a uniform format and the production of the tables of 
contents and indexes for the publication. To further facilitate 
production of this publication, many agencies currently use computer 
terminals at their offices to enter information into the Center's 
computer system.

    All Agenda entries contain uniform data elements, which are 
described below. Agencies may also include any additional information 
they consider important.

    Congress generally authorizes a single Federal agency to implement, 
through regulation, a specific policy objective. Sometimes, however, a 
statute may require that several agencies issue regulations to 
accomplish the objective. In such cases, the agencies, working with a 
central coordinator, jointly publish the documents issued in the course 
of the rulemaking proceeding. These proceedings are referred to as 
Governmentwide common rules.

    In this edition of the Unified Agenda, one Governmentwide common 
rule is reported by the agencies participating in its development. It 
is:

 New Restrictions on Lobbying

Agencies participating in the development of common rules report them 
in their individual sections of the Unified Agenda.



How To Use the Unified Agenda

    Each agency agenda appears as a separate part in this edition of 
the Federal Register. The parts of the Unified Agenda are organized 
alphabetically in four groups: Cabinet departments; other executive 
agencies; the Federal Acquisition Regulation, a joint authority; and 
independent regulatory agencies. Departments may in turn be divided 
into subagencies.

    Each agency introduces its part of the Agenda with a preamble 
providing information specific to that part. Each agency presents its 
entries under one of five headings according to the rulemaking stage of 
the entry. The stages are:

    1. Prerule Stage--actions agencies will undertake to determine 
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how to initiate rulemaking. Such actions occur prior to a Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and may include Advance Notices of Proposed 
Rulemaking (ANPRMs) and reviews of existing regulations.

    2. Proposed Rule Stage--actions for which agencies plan to publish 
a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as the next step in their rulemaking 
process or for which the closing date of the NPRM Comment Period is the 
next step.

    3. Final Rule Stage--actions for which agencies plan to publish a 
final rule or an interim final rule or to take other final action as 
the next step in their rulemaking process.

    4. Long-Term Actions--items under development but for which the 
agency does not expect to have a regulatory action within the 12 months 
after publication of this edition of the Unified Agenda.

    5. Completed Actions--actions or reviews the agency has completed 
or withdrawn since publishing its last agenda. This section also 
includes items the agency began and completed between issues of the 
Agenda.

    An agency may use subheadings to identify regulations that it has 
grouped according to particular topics. When these subheadings are 
used, they appear above the title of the first regulation in each 
group.

    A bullet () preceding an entry indicates that the entry 
appears in the publication for the first time.

    All entries are numbered sequentially from the beginning to the end 
of the Unified Agenda. The Sequence Number (Seq. No.) preceding the 
title of each entry identifies the location of the entry in this 
edition of the Unified Agenda. The same number is used in the indexes 
to enable readers to find entries on specific subjects.

    For each agency that requests it, the Center provides a computer-
produced table of contents that appears after the agency preamble. The 
agency tables of contents help readers locate quickly those entries 
that may be of most interest to them. Sequence numbers also appear in 
agency tables of contents.

    The Unified Agenda contains three indexes. The first two indexes 
list the regulatory actions that agencies believe may have effects on 
small entities or levels of government. The third is a Subject Index 
based on the Federal Register Thesaurus of Indexing Terms to help 
readers locate entries from various agencies that may affect a 
particular area of interest. This index also contains cross-references 
to assist the reader's search.



Unified Agenda Data Elements

    Entries in the Unified Agenda should contain, at a minimum, the 
following information:

 Title of the Regulation. The notation ``Section 610 Review'' 
    following the title indicates that the agency is reviewing the rule 
    as part of its periodic review of existing rules under the 
    Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 610).
 Priority--agencies have been asked to place each entry into 
    one of the following five categories of significance.

  Economically Significant

  As defined in Executive Order 12866, a rulemaking action that will 
    have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or 
    will adversely affect in a material way the economy, a sector of 
    the economy, productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, 
    public health or safety, or State, local, or tribal governments or 
    communities. The definition of an ``economically significant'' rule 
    is similar but not identical to the definition of a ``major'' rule 
    under 5 U.S.C. 801 (P.L. 104-121). (See below.)

  Other Significant

  A rulemaking that is not economically significant but is considered 
    significant by the agency. This category includes rules that the 
    agency anticipates will be reviewed under E.O. 12866 or rules that 
    are a priority of the agency head. These rules may or may not be 
    included in The Regulatory Plan.

  Substantive, Nonsignificant

  A rulemaking that has substantive impacts but is neither Significant, 
    nor Routine and Frequent, nor Informational/Administrative/Other.

  Routine and Frequent

  A rulemaking that is a specific case of a multiple recurring 
    application of a regulatory program in the Code of Federal 
    Regulations and that does not alter the body of the regulation.

  Informational/Administrative/Other

  A rulemaking that is primarily informational or pertains to agency 
    matters not central to accomplishing the agency's regulatory 
    mandate but that the agency places in the Agenda to inform the 
    public of the activity.
  If an agency believes that a rule may be ``major'' under 5 U.S.C. 801 
    (P.L. 104-121) because it has resulted or is likely to result in an 
    annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more, or meets 
    other criteria specified in that Act, this is also indicated under 
    the ``Priority'' heading. (The Act provides that the Administrator 
    of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs will make the 
    final determination as to whether a rule is major.)
 Unfunded Mandates--indicates whether the rule is covered by 
    section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-
    4). The Act requires that, before issuing an NPRM likely to result 
    in a mandate that may result in expenditures by State, local, and 
    tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector of 
    more than $100 million in 1 year, agencies, other than independent 
    regulatory agencies, shall prepare a written statement containing 
    an assessment of the anticipated costs and benefits of the Federal 
    mandate. If the agency believes the entry is not subject to the 
    Act, this data element will not be printed.
 Reinvention--an indication of whether the action is part of 
    the Administration's Reinventing Government effort and, if so, 
    whether the result will be elimination of existing text in the Code 
    of Federal Regulations (CFR) or revision of text in the CFR to 
    reduce burden or duplication or to streamline requirements. If the 
    action is not specifically part of this effort, the data element 
    will not be printed.
 Legal Authority--the section(s) of the United States Code 
    (U.S.C.) or Public Law (P.L.) or the Executive order (E.O.) that 
    authorize(s) the regulatory action. Agencies may provide popular 
    name references to laws in addition to these citations.
 CFR Citation--the section(s) of the Code of Federal 
    Regulations that will be affected by the action.
 Legal Deadline--an indication of whether the rule is subject 
    to a statutory or judicial deadline, the date of that deadline, and 
    whether the deadline pertains to an NPRM, a Final Action, or some 
    other action.
 Abstract--a brief description of the problem the regulation 
    will address; the need for a Federal solution; to the extent 
    available, the alternatives that the agency is considering to 
    address the problem; and the potential costs and benefits of the 
    action.
 Timetable--the dates and citations (if available) for all past 
    steps and at least a projected date for the next step for the 
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    appears in this section as 00/00/00, the date of the action is 
    currently undetermined. Similarly, a date printed in the form 10/
    00/98 means the agency can predict the month and year the action 
    will take place but not the day it will occur. ``Undetermined'' 
    indicates the agency does not know what action it will take next. 
    Dates after 1999 are printed in the same form as other dates, using 
    the last two digits of the year.
 Small Entities Affected--indicates whether the rule is 
    expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial 
    number of ``small entities'' as defined by the Regulatory 
    Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and, if so, whether the 
    small entities are businesses, governmental jurisdictions, or 
    organizations.
 Government Levels Affected--indicates whether the rule is 
    expected to affect levels of government and, if so, whether the 
    governments are State, local, tribal, or Federal.
 Agency Contact--the name, title, address, and phone number of 
    a person in the agency who is knowledgeable about the regulation. 
    If available, the agency may also provide the fax number, e-mail 
    address, and TDD for the agency contact.
 Procurement--a statement identifying procurement-related 
    actions and indicating whether there is a statutory requirement for 
    the action and whether there is a paperwork burden associated with 
    the action. The Procurement heading appears only if the entry is a 
    procurement-related action.

    Some agencies have provided other optional information at their 
discretion; this information may include:

 Compliance Cost to the Public--the estimated gross compliance 
    cost to the public of the action.
 Affected Sectors--the industrial sectors that the action may 
    most affect, either directly or indirectly. Affected Sectors are 
    identified by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) numbers.
 Analysis--agencies may indicate if a Regulatory Flexibility 
    Analysis, within the meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 
    U.S.C. 601 et seq.), is being prepared or if any other kind of 
    analysis or evaluation is being prepared (e.g., an environmental 
    impact statement).

    In addition, some agencies have used ``Additional Information'' to 
elaborate on the information they have provided.

    In addition to the Unified Agenda data elements that appear above, 
each entry that was designated a Regulatory Plan entry in the October 
1996 edition may contain the information listed below. Agencies are 
given the choice of reprinting this information in their April agenda 
entries. For those that chose to reprint it, this information will 
appear as part of their agenda entries:

 Statement of Need--a description of the need for the 
    regulatory action.
 Summary of the Legal Basis--a description of the legal basis 
    for the action, including whether any aspect of the action is 
    required by statute or court order.
 Alternatives--a description of the alternatives to be 
    considered or that were considered for analysis as required by 
    section 4(c)(1)(B) of E.O. 12866.
 Anticipated Costs and Benefits--a description of preliminary 
    estimates of the anticipated costs and benefits of the action.
 Risks--a description of the magnitude of the risk being 
    addressed by the action, the amount by which this risk is expected 
    to be reduced by the action, and the relation of these risks and 
    risk reduction efforts to other risks and risk reduction efforts 
    within the agency's jurisdiction.



Data Limitations

    Agencies prepared entries for this edition of the Unified Agenda to 
give the public notice of their plans to review, propose, and issue 
regulations. They have tried to predict their activities over the next 
12 months as accurately as possible, but dates and schedules are 
subject to change. Agencies may withdraw some of the regulations now 
under development, and they may issue or propose other regulations not 
included in their agendas. Agency actions in the rulemaking process may 
occur before or after the dates they have listed.

    The Unified Agenda does not create a legal obligation on agencies 
to adhere to schedules within it or to confine their regulatory 
activities to those regulations that appear in this publication. The 
information in this edition is accurate as of April 1, 1997, in the 
judgment of the submitting agencies, except as otherwise noted by the 
agencies. In addition, some agencies submitted updates after that date.

    Where applicable, individual actions will be subject to review for 
compliance with applicable Executive orders, the Regulatory Flexibility 
Act, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1988, 
and the Paperwork Reduction Act at appropriate points in the regulatory 
process.



List of Abbreviations

    The following abbreviations appear throughout this publication:

    ANPRM--An Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is a preliminary 
notice, published in the Federal Register, announcing that an agency is 
considering a regulatory action. The agency issues an ANPRM before it 
develops a detailed proposed rule. The ANPRM describes the general area 
that may be subject to regulation and usually asks for public comment 
on the issues and options being discussed. An ANPRM is issued only when 
an agency believes it needs to gather more information before 
proceeding to a notice of proposed rulemaking.

    CFR--The Code of Federal Regulations is an annual codification of 
the general and permanent regulations published in the Federal Register 
by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The Code is 
divided into 50 titles, and each title covers a broad area subject to 
Federal regulation. The CFR is keyed to and kept up to date by the 
daily issues of the Federal Register.

    EO--An Executive order is a directive from the President to 
executive agencies, issued under constitutional or statutory authority. 
Executive orders are published in the Federal Register and in title 3 
of the Code of Federal Regulations.

    FR--The Federal Register is a daily Federal Government publication 
that provides a uniform system for publishing Presidential documents, 
all proposed and final regulations, notices of meetings, and other 
official documents issued by Federal departments and agencies.

    FY--The Federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30.

    NPRM--A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is the document an agency 
issues and publishes in the Federal Register that describes and 
solicits public comments on a proposed regulatory action. Under the 
Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553), an NPRM must include, at a 
minimum:

 a statement of the time, place, and nature of the public 
    rulemaking proceeding;
 a reference to the legal authority under which the rule is 
    proposed; and
 either the terms or substance of the proposed rule or a 
    description of the subjects and issues involved.

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    PL--A Public Law is a law passed by Congress and signed by the 
President or enacted over his veto. It has general applicability, as 
opposed to a private law that applies only to those persons or entities 
specifically designated. Public laws are numbered in sequence 
throughout the 2-year life of each Congress; for example, PL 104-5 is 
the fifth public law of the 104th Congress.

    RFA--A Regulatory Flexibility Analysis is a description and 
analysis of the impact of a rule on small entities, including small 
businesses, small governmental jurisdictions, and certain small not-
for-profit organizations. The Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 
et seq.) requires each agency to prepare an initial RFA for public 
comment when it is required to publish an NPRM and to make available a 
final RFA when the final rule is published, unless the agency head 
certifies that the rule would not have a significant economic impact on 
a substantial number of small entities.

    RIN--The Regulation Identifier Number is assigned by the Regulatory 
Information Service Center to identify each regulatory action listed in 
the Unified Agenda and The Regulatory Plan, as directed by E.O. 12866 
(section 4(b)). Additionally, OMB has asked agencies to include RINs in 
the headings of their Rule and Proposed Rule documents when publishing 
them in the  Federal Register to make it easier for the public and 
agency officials to track the publication history of regulatory actions 
throughout their development.

    Seq. No.--The Sequence Number identifies the location of an entry 
in this publication. Note that a specific regulatory action will have 
the same RIN throughout its development but will generally have 
different sequence numbers in different editions of the Unified Agenda 
and The Regulatory Plan.

    USC--The United States Code is a consolidation and codification of 
all general and permanent laws of the United States. The USC is divided 
into 50 titles, and each title covers a broad area of Federal law.



Information About Additional Copies

    Additional copies of this edition of the Federal Register are 
available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government 
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325, (202) 512-1800.

    Copies of individual agency materials may be available directly 
from the agency. Please contact the particular agency for further 
information.

Dated: April 4, 1997.

Mark G. Schoenberg,
Executive Director.

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